Development Link Goodness 11th April 2008
I am still looking for a purely .Net based Persistent Hash table (like BerkleyDB), so if anyone knows of one let me know.
I finally managed to get the majority of my Laptop set-up last night. Only the Visual Studio SDK to go and I am done.
I have also managed to start a new codeplex for the LiveWriter plugin that I use for helping create these posts. I just need to make an installer and then I will publish the project.
- David Starr of Elegant Code writes: Modeling Wars. Great..[sic]
- A slightly satirical look at what will happen when Microsoft introduce Oslo. I can see where he is coming from, but I think we might already be most of the way there. We have DSL tools, that allow you to model your problems in terms that you and your business understand, so as standards go, why use them? My personal opinion is UML is a general purpose modelling language, much like C# is a general purpose programming language, there is a lot of hubris that I don’t need.
- ieblog of MSDN Blogs writes: HTML and DOM Standards Compliance in IE8 Beta 1.
- IE Beta1 was a big let down for me. Firefox 3 Beta 5 on the other hand…. Anyway, this post talks about some of the enhancements to IE’s handling of HTML and the DOM. Submit or vote on the bugs you want to see fixed in IE, it is the only way we can make it better.
- Charles of Channel 9: The Videos writes: Dan Reed: On the ManyCore Future and Parallelism in the Sky.
- Sounds good!
- Michael C. Neel of Devlicio.us writes: .Net routine file IO best practice.
- A post showing how to serialize and de-serialize objects to and from the file system. Personally I wouldn’t class this as best practice, but it does introduce the principle.
- Derik Whittaker of Devlicio.us writes: Simple extension methods to help with Asserting values.
- Something I don’t do engough of is use of predicates in methods to enusure what comes in and out is valid (I do in Unit Tests, but not as part of the code specification). Derik shows some love with extension methods, for cleaning up the assertions you make in your code. Combine this with Linq over your sets of data and you have some pretty expressive assertions.
- Shahar A of Dev102.com writes: How to Expose Your Collections Safely.
- I never really thought about this is an option, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense to a point. A Read Only collection is goof for consumption in .net and it stops people editing your collections, however, go over the wire and it no longer makes sense.
- Steve of Steve Sanderson’s blog writes: Improve scalability in ASP.NET MVC using Asynchronous requests.
- The new ASP.Net MVC appears to be very extensible, so much so that although it hasn’t been included in the release Steve has created an Aysnc MVC controller. Looks good!
- brian_d_foy of use Perl writes: Show your support for Perl on Google App Engine.
- Having just been accepted for the Beta of App Engine I am faced with having to learn Python, whilst I think it would be great to learn a new language, I can’t see the harm in asking for perl support.
- bursteg of MSDN Blogs writes: Slide Decks and Demos for Data Access Session @ Tech Ed Israel 2008.
- Greg of CodeBetter.Com - Stuff you need to Code Better! writes: DDDD 1 [When to Message].
- EltonStoneman of Geekswithblogs.net writes: Itinerary Processing: Overview.
- Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror writes: We Don’t Use Software That Costs Money Here.
- Always a good read even if you don’t agree with him.