The Morning Brew

Update: Fixed the link to Scott Hanselman’s post -thanks to David for letting me know in the comments

Software

• Silverlight 5 Toolkit – September 2011 Released – Kunal Chowdhury highlights the release of the first version of the Silverlight 5 Toolkit which targets the Silverlight 5 Release Candidate release. The toolkit offers a number of components over 4 bands of ‘quality’ ranging from ‘Experimental’ to ‘Mature / SDK’

Information

• Full-height app layouts: A CSS trick to make it easier – Steve Sanderson discusses the difficulties in creating good application layouts which occupy the full browser window without scrolling, looking at some CSS to make it easier
• Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns – The Programmer’s Priorities – Scott Hanselman discusses why he feels it is important to spend well on your ‘Buns’ (chair), ‘Back’ (Bed), ‘Bytes’ (Hardware) and ‘Brain’ (learning and experience) in order to function at your best as a Software Developer.
• Silverlight 5 brings XNA 3D to the web – Shawn Hargreaves discusses one of the new features of Silverlight 5 which allows game developers to bring their XNA powered games to the web via Silverlight
• Chocolatey – The free and open source windows app store. – Jason Jarrett highlights the Chocolatey package manager for Windows Applications, built on top of NuGet brings apt-get style installations for applications, and gives an overview of how you use it.
• Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Cheat Sheet – Live Tiles – Kevin Ashley shares a cheat sheet for working with the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango SDK Live Tiles feature.
• A Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) MVVM Tombstoning Example – Colin Eberhardt explores the Tombstoning of an MVVM based Windows Phone Mango application, discussing how the application lifecycle has changed in Mango and exploring the Dormant state.
• Memcached for C# – A Walkthrough – Dean Hume shares a short introduction to using MemCached from your C# based applications, showing its setup / installation and how to consume MemCached services from your applications.
• What’s new in WCF 4.5 – generated client config cleaned – ‘Piyush’ takes a look at the improvements made in WCF 4.5 discussing how the team focused on making the configuration of WCF simpler, and how they have reduced the required config down.

Community

• FREE DDD North Geek Dinner Sponsored by Devexpress – Andrew Westgarth reveals the plans for the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper North Geek Dinner to be held at the Sunderland Stadium of Light after the event. The Geek Dinner is kindly being supported by DevExpress resulting in the dinner being free for 120 people.

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