Trumpi's blog

Our daily link (2007-12-11)

I'm replacing my del.icio.us feed with posts to this blog. That way they will appear on the website as well as in my feed.

ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC Design Philosophy - Eilon Lipton shares his thoughts on the design of ASP.NET MVC. [via you've been HAACKED]
• Using script.aculo.us with ASP.NET MVC - I really love the fact that these two libraries can work so well together. [via Christopher Steen]
• Writing unit tests for controller actions - Phil Haack takes a look at unit testing ASP.NET MVC controller actions that have hard-to-mock dependencies. [via Arjan's World]
• MonoRail Quickly - Screencast - Mwahaha! Very ALT.NET! [via Tales from the Sharpside]

ASP.NET

• Transparent cookie encryption via HTTP module - will this prevent sniff & replay attacks? Kids, don't use cookies for authentication unless over HTTPS. Useful if a non-secure cookie contains sensitive info, though. [via CodeProject]
• A list of Breaking Changes for ASP.NET 2.0 applications running in Integrated mode on IIS 7.0 - I don't know too much about IIS 7 or integrated mode, but this article should be useful if you want to run ASP.NET 2.0 applications under IIS 7 and Windows 2008. [via Hosam Kamel]

Misc

• Debugging Windows Service without deploying it - Very useful hint from Eric de Carufel [via CodeProject]
• Dependency Injection Objection - This blogger describes his stance on dependency injection. His arguments could apply to other technologies too. [via Tales from the Sharpside]
• Generate Charts On-the-Fly with Google's API - I'm gonna try Google Charts on the NUnit reports on our build server. Will post about it if I get it right.

Software

• NAnt 0.86beta 1 - After a long hibernation, NAnt is back!
• NDepend 2.6 - Now with a sexy UI and support for VS2 008. [via Christopher Steen]
• TreeSurgeon - Looks like a new release of this tool is coming out later this week.

Podcasts

• Demystifying Design Patterns Part 5 - Nothing is as exciting as a junior developer armed with a design patterns book. Now you can listen to the podcast.

Career stuff

• Becoming a credible developer - forward this one to the buzzword beater in your office. (And take the article's advice too -- I know I will.) [via Christopher Steen]
• How to index your paper notebooks - Always keen to improve my note-taking.