Release of Lokad-CQRS for Windows Azure, Community Credits – Rinat Abdullin announces the release of Lokad CQRS for Windows Azure, a guidance framework for creating distributed and scalable enterprise applications on the Windows Azure platform.
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Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 1 – Sasha Goldshtein moves on from Lexing to look at parsing of C# code, and how it takes the output of the lexing stage and gives it meaning, exploring the use of the Backus-Naur Form to represent code.
Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL – Abhishek Sur explores the differences between Structs and Classes, looking at the key behaviours and illustrating them with some samples before digging into the Intermediate Language representations and comparing further
Better Rate Limiting in .NET – Jack Leitch discusses the creation of RateGate, a simple library for controlling the rate at which items are processed from a collection, discussing a number of strategies for achieving the rate limitation, sharing an implementation and looking at its use in LINQ and parallel code. Full source is available.
Free Books – Qink have a very wide ranging list of Fre Programmer related e-books covering a huge range of topics from Graphics Programming to VIM with lots of interesting stuff in between. There are also a number of other great resources mentioned in the comments.
Windows 7 Development Resources – Jennifer Marsman shares a huge collection of Windows 7 Developer resources, highlighting blogs of note, Hands-on labs, forums and SDKs
Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone – Karl Shifflett discusses the application lifecycle of Windows Phone 7 applications, exploring and sharing a sample application which logs the key method calls in the applications lifecycle. Karl also looks at using his port of the Ocean Framework to the Windows Phone 7 to provide validation, access to isolated storage, and additionally some helpers for tombstoning the application
Fiddler and the Windows Phone 7 Emulator – Eric Lawrence shares a workaround for getting the Fiddler HTTP Debugger working with the Windows Phone 7 emulator in the final RTM edition.
Benoit Mandelbrot – Luke Hoban remembers the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot and his most famous discovery the Mandelbrot fractals, and shares two implementations for calculating and displaying these fractals in F# and JavaScript.
Diverse.NET – Ian Cooper replies to Rob Conery’s post from last week on adopting open source projects with a discussion on Open Source Alternatives, and the Microsoft ‘habit’ of creating their own and stifling the open source pre-cursors. Ayende replies to this post sharing his own thoughts on this stifling in his post’re: Diverse.NET‘
Presentation: Intro to NoSQL – Ayende highlights the availability of the video recording of his NoSQL Introductory session delivered in Aarhus, Denmark for ANUG/Trifork.
