The Morning Brew

Software

• Machine.Specifications for ReSharper 6 now available – Hadi Hariri highlights the release of the ReSharper runner of Machine.Specifications (MSpec) for ReSharper 6 allowing you to run your Machine.Specifications tests right within the IDE using the ReSharper test runner.
• DotNetNuke 6 Released, big thangs – Chris Hammond highlights the release of DotNetNuke 6, the latest incarnation of the widely used Web Portal implementation now written completely in C#, with significant changes across the board including improved UI, SharePoint Integration, full cloud support and much more.
• "Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games" preview released – Toolkit to help you Social your .Net or HTML5 games… – Greg Duncan highlights a new toolkit to aid with the implementation of Socail aspects of modern games, providing support for Windows Azure hosted services which can be consumed in your game applications

Information

• Using MSBuild to deploy your AppFabric Application – Justin Beckwith takes a look at improving and automating the deployment of AppFabric Applications using MsBuild, the June update of the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK CTP and the REST API of the Application Manager.
• The Current State of Parallel Computing – Keyvan Nayyeri shares his thoughts on the current state of Parallel Computing, looking at the background to parallel computing, the differing approach to algorithms, and how programming languages are evolving to enable parallel computing.
• A Spelunking Exercise In The Finer Points Of ASP.Net MVC 3 Model Aware Data Annotations – Doug Rathbone takes a look at implementing custom MVC 3 Validation Attributes, discussing their use, and looking at how some of the built in ones are implemented.
• Continuous Integration and Delivery – Antonio Paes discusses the various software parts of the continuous integration process, highlighting some of the options available and discussing how a CI solution hangs together.
• Delivering Software to a Global Audience – Chad Z. Hower aka ‘Kudzu’ takes a look at the Localisation Process, discussing translations, some of the trickier translations issues such as text in images, some of the issues surrounding Right to Left and Top to Bottom reading directions and much more.
• A CultureInfo switcher with Fluent syntax – Idalgo Cantelli shares a small utility class to make switching culture for localisation testing into a nice Fluent experience allowing you to write more expressive tests of your localisation.
• Site Map Provider using custom business objects – K. G. Sreeju Nair takes a look at implementing a custom site map provider drawing its structure from your own business objects
• Understanding Basics of UI Design Pattern MVC, MVP and MVVM – Avtar Singh Sohi takes a look at the common presentation patterns, exploring the differences between the different patterns

Community

• DevDirective a new kid on the block – Christiaan Baes highlights a new community site aiming to do what Stack Overflow has done for questions for articles. The site is very new at the moment, but could well be one to watch in the future. As soon as the RSS feed are working I will be monitoring the site for interesting articles

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