The Morning Brew

Software

• We’re Renaming NuPack – Phil Haack highlights the decision to rename the NuPack project due to a naming clash with another software project. The project team have a number of suggestions, and you can vote on the name you think is best.
• Dolphin Deploy: Deploying ASP.net applications using IronRuby – Ben Hall discusses and shares Dolphin Deploy, a Prototype IronRuby based Domain Specific Language for handling the deployment of ASP.NET Applications. Full source is available, and Ben is looking for people to get involved in the project.
• New Components and Contributors for IronPython and IronRuby – Jason Zander announces some changes to the leadership and model for the IronPyton and Iron Ruby projects, with the aim of increasing the ability of the community to contribute to the projects.

Information

• Continuation Passing Style Revisited, Part One – Eric Lippert kicks off a new series looking at Continuation Passing Style programming, starting in this post with a recap and the background on CPS, looking at creating a CPS conditional operator in C#
• Creating a new project with OpenWrap – Sebastien Lambla continnues his series exploring his OpenWrap project, looking in this post at its use in a new development project, showing how easily you can use the package management to satisfy your library dependencies, and illustrating the integration with the IDE/ReSharper, and showing how you can then package up this project into an OpenWrap package.
• Creating a NuPack package using a Build File – MsBuild Series – Mark Kemper continues his series on MsBuild, looking at how you can create a NuPack package from your project as a part of your MsBuild process
• Hosting Your Own Local and Remote NuPack Feeds – Phil Haack gives blow by blow instructions for setting up your own NuPack package feeds, looking at local file system based feeds and published Url remote feeds.
• RavenDB – The Image Gallery Project (XIV) – Implementing a real-time tag search – Rob Ashton presses on with his realworld Image Gallery project using RavenDB, showing the implementation of the tag based search in this post
• NoSql No Problem – NoRM and MongoDB Tutorial – Querying – Tadeusz Wójcik takes a look at Querying in the MongoDB NoSql database and the NoRM .NET Driver, showing queries in the MongoDB Shell and how they are represented in .NET using NoRM.
• The F# Asynchronous Programming Model, PADL 2010 (pre-publication draft) – Don Syme shares a draft of his paper on asynchronous Programming in F#, looking feedback on the paper which discusses how F# supports reactive, concurrent and parallel programming.
• There’s only one ThreadExceptionHandler – Simon Cooper discusses a bug that has been present in the .NET Framework (caused by a typo) which means that there can be only one ThreadExceptionHandler, and talks about the effects of this.
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ToDictionary() and ToList() – James Michael Hare makes his ‘C#/.NET Little Wonders’ series a more regular feature of his blog, exploring the LINQ extension methods ToDictionary() and ToList()
• Extending MVC Views with DynamicObject – Javier G. Lozano looks at the use of DynamicObject in the MVC Razor View Engine looking at how @View and @Service can be extended using Dynamic objects to resolve methods and properties at runtime.
• Showing Open Source maps on Windows Phone 7 with the Bing Maps Control – Joost van Schaik looks at how the Windows Phone 7 Bing Maps control can be used to display alternate mapping imagery, illustrating with a look at using OpenStreetMap imagary.

Community

• Agenda (With Videos) – NHibernate Day – The NHibernate Day Conference organisers have got the video footage and slides from most of the sessions at the the recent NHibernate Day Conference on-line now, so you can view all the sessions across both tracks on demand
• Sessions (With Videos) – SQL Bits 6 – The SQL Bits team have released the video footage from the SQL Bits 6 conference from May this year, providing a valuable resource of detailed SQL Server knowledge, and the opportunity to see the sessions you missed
• FREE workshop on using Bing Maps with SQL Server and SharePoint on November 2nd in Reading – Eric Nelson highlights a Free event to be held at Microsoft’s Reading campus which will be looking at the use of Bing Maps with SQL Server and Sharepoint, exploring the integration of these three technologies in a workshop format. The event is free, and registration is required.
• "Modern Windows 7 Applications" (UK Steve Ballmer Event Recording) – Mike Taulty highlights the video of his session on Modern Windows 7 Applications, exploring the WPF Ribbon, Application Restart/Recovery
  , Taskbar integration, Chromless Windows and a bunch of other great features, from the recent Steve Balmer UK event.

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