daily reading list

Daily Reading List – Wednesday April 29th, 2009

kellyb — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:37:50 GMT

How to find blocked processes in SQL Server – Part 1 – required knowledge for developers of all caliber
From Reflective Perspective:

The asp.net <deployment retail=" true" /> attribute – interesting…. I need to look into this
What’s been happening in Fluent NHibernate land? This is a wonderful project for anyone using NHibernate
What developers should be doing in readiness for Windows 7 – I’m definitely into this. History (and my eval of it) suggests Win7 uptake is going to be huge… need to be ready
Validation - Part 3 - Server-Side – Another good post from Karl, but man does he abuse the var keyword… makes my eyeballs bleed
Singletons vs. Static Classes – dose of the classics

From Alvin Ashcroft’s Morning Dew

Introducing Dovetail Data Map – this looks interesting
Weak/Strong APIs (Mark Needham)
Why agile transitions initiatives might fail (Jeffrey Palermo)
Why Messaging #1 - Intro (Dru Sellers)
Don’t Worship at the Altar of Accuracy (Steve Rowe)

From Jason Haley

pdb2mdb and Mono.Cecil.Pdb, Jb Evain
At This Point, I’d Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers, Davy Brion
Yet Another XML Serialization Library for the .NET Framework, Sina Iravanian
Why Agile Development Requires Agile Architecture, Nick Malik
Create a jQuery Context Menu for Treeview, Ronald G. Carrigan
CSS3 Template Layout through jQuery, Ben Galbraith

Daily Reading List – Monday April 28, 2009

kellyb — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:30:04 GMT

Stayed up too late last night… tough getting up this morning

Ayende an interesting technique for testing NHibernate with in-memory databases
Dimecast.net just released a screencast covering the new Func and Action types in C# 3.0
JumpstartTV has a 4 minute primer on SSIS Expression Language Basics
From The Morning Brew #336, Karl Seguin starts a series on rolling his own validation framework. I like series like this (check out Danny’s series on building the Funq DI container) – you can learn alot from watching someone else code.

Validation Part - 2 – Client-Side

The 7 Phases of Unit Testing – very true
It’s time to start drinking in MEF – Glen Block’s post – Poco, Mef and custom type systems. Are you ready to take the red pill? – post looks interesting
Having a look over the SharpDevelop code base – this looks interesting. I’m sure there’s plenty to learn here from this not-small project

Daily Reading List – Monday April 27, 2009

kellyb — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:30:48 GMT

Not a lot out there today… or Friday for that matter. Here’s a few nuggets

Redgate is giving away from good ebooks – You can register at that link to download them.
Some interesting thoughts on Databases and Multi-Tenancy by Anne Epstein on Devlicious.
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update - Windows 7 Team announce to the world that the Windows 7 RC will be made available to MSDN subscribers on 30th April , and to the general public on 5th May.
To me, Model Binders in one of the really compelling features in ASP.NET MVC – K. Scott Allen gives some tips.
Scott talks about how finding a few hours a day can change your life

Daily Reading List - Friday April 24, 2009

kellyb — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Every morning I dig through various feeds of content and create a reading list for myself. I try to get through this list throughout the course of the day. Whatever spills over I tried to get to on the weekends. Maybe somebody else out there will find this useful.

Microsoft released CCI on CodePlex – this is the code inspection engine behind FxCop. This (or some version of it) is also the engine that Visual Studio Code Analysis tooling uses in their Team System SKU’s of VS. That’s pretty interesting… good that Microsoft is becoming more and more transparent, but bad because this, in my experience, is a horrible library. This release will probably cause more people to want to use it. I’d recommend checking out Cecil instead.
Jumpstart TV’s Grant Fritchey covers SQL Server Execution Plan Operators in 1.39 minutes
Scott Hanselman talks to the legendary Joel Spolsky – very interesting stuff.
Danny Cazzulino does an overview of his light and fast DI container Funq
He has a nice series of screencasts here on how he built it using a Test Driven approach. These take a while to watch, but if you’re interested in learning the advanced features of C# 3.0, Resharper, and/or Test Driven development – watching this guy code will be educational
Dimecast #104 – Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5
Warning: this screencast is done with a guy using the IntelliJ keyboard bindings. Most people there days use ReSharper with the ReSharper keyboard bindings. Watching this might be confusing if you’re trying to memorize keyboard short cuts, but it will be educational if you’re just interested in understand what ReSharper can do
Test Code is Just Code – useful tidbits on how to write good test code, pitfalls to avoid, and common anti-patterns