The Morning Brew

Software

• TestDriven.Net 3.0 – All Systems Go – Jamie Cansdale announces the official version 3.0 RTM release of TestDriven.NET. The RTM has many improvements over the previous betas and release candidates, along with a host of new features, including .NET Framework Target Version detection, support for MSTest, NCover integration, Keyboard shortcuts and much more.
• Mash, minify, and validate your javascript, stylesheet, and dotless files with Chripy. The VS Extension that not only has a cute mascot but provides easy access to Google Closure Tools or YUI Compressor… – Greg Duncan highlights Chirpy, a Visual Studio extension which compresses, validates and combines JavaScript, CSS, and dotless files.
• The Best Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, Power Commands and Extensions – Scott Hanselman shares some of his favourite VS2010 Addins and extensions, and asks his readers for other recommendations.

Information

• ToC for the Book Club RIA Services Application – Nikhil Kothari highlights the release of the RIA Services Essentials project on CodePlex, and details what the sample code in that project demonstrates
• My favorite Expression 4 features – Somasegar looks at some of the best features of Expression 4, including publishing SketchFlow to Sharepoint, Code Free UI Development, HTML and JavaScript based add-ins for Expression Web, and SEO diagnostics
• IClock: A Test-Friendly Alternative to DateTime – Al Gonzalez looks at creating a DateTime interface and implementations to support production and testing use cases in a more friendly way than direct use of the DateTime static members.
• Capturing Rhino Mocks arguments in C# 4.0 – Jimmy Bogard looks at how Command Query Separation can make the use of Rhino Mocks and the testing of Indirect inputs and outputs fall into two types of use, and shows how these two classifications can be tested.
• Experiments in Wackiness: Allowing percents, angle-brackets, and other naughty things in the ASP.NET/IIS Request URL – Scott Hanselman takes a look at allowing ‘interesting’ characters in the URL part of a request on ASP.NET and IIS, discovering that it is possible, but involves some configuration and carries a few warnings.
• MEF or Managed Extensibility Framework and Lazy<T> – Being Lazy with MEF, Custom Export Attributes etc – Anoop Madhusudanan takes a look at using the Lazy functionality of .NET 4 along with the Managed Extensibility Framework to provide lazy loading of MEF extensions, looking at the background of each and showing how the can be combined
• Don&rsquo;t Snub the Code Review – John Sonmez discusses the code review, and explains why he doesn’t like them, and how he prefers Pair Programming as a viable alternative to the traditional after the fact code review.
• Git: Oops. I Forgot To Add Those New Files Before Committing – Derick Bailey continues his look at common mistakes with Source Version Control Systems, and specifically how Git allows you to correct these common mistakes with a look at forgetting to add files to version control.

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event List – The NxtGenUG folks publish a substantial list of events for June and July across their various locations (Manchester, Hereford, Southampton, Coventry, Cambridge, Birmingham, Oxford) all with great speakers and topics. If you are near of the their groupd go check them out.
• In The Brain of Janet Gregory: Creating and Sustaining Agile Culture – Skills Matter continues their ‘In the Brain’ series of evening events with Janet Gregory talking on changing the culture of an organisation to adopt Agile. This Free event, to be held at Skills Matter’s London offices on the 16th June, starting at 6pm.

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