Software IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support Sandcastle Release - The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation [...]

Software

• IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support
• Sandcastle Release - The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation Generation tool that was used to build the VS2010 documentation

Information

• Pretty Code #1 - Building SelectListItems - K. Scott Allen launches a code beauty contest, this time looking at the most ‘pretty’ way of translating from a list of product objects into a list of SelectListItems
• Changing Windows Service Runtime Behavior with Typemock Isolator - Travis Illig talks about a rather unorthadox use of TypeMock’s Isolator product, which is typically employed as a mocking framework, but in this case is being used to change the internal behaviour of a windows service.
• HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC - Be Careful - David Hayden highlights some additional factors which might result in an action call being deemed to be an Unknown Action in ASP.NET MVC, which you may want to take into account in your HandleUnknownAction implementation
• Samples for the Undo Framework - Kirill Osenkov shares some samples for his recently released Undo/Redo framework providing a minimal implementation and a WinForms example
• Data Access Guidance Drops available - Michael Puleio announces the second public release of the Data Access Guidance from Patterns and Practices that he has been working on.
• Preventing SQL Injection Attacks with Visual Studio Team System 2010 - Habib Heydarian talks about how the Code Analysis features of Visual Studio 2010 help identify possible SQL Injection attacks in your code.
• Not blocking the UI in tight JavaScript loops - Stuart Langridge looks at a few techniques you can use to avoid locking up your users browser when your JavaScript is performing looping operations
• Firebug Network Monitoring Quick Reference Guide - Renso Hollhumer has a couple of posts on FireBug, the FireFox JavaScript (and more) debugger. This post looks in detail at the Network Monitoring aspects of Firebug, and be sure to check out his other post ‘Firebug Console Quick Reference Guide‘ for a reference of how to work with the console in FireBug
• Fluent NHibernate and Linq2NHibernate - Demo Project. - ‘emiaj’ shares a simple but complete sample to illustrate the concepts of using FluentNHibernate to easily map a domain to the database using NHibernate, and also looks at using Linq to query the model

Fun

• Looking For A Mental Challenge? Here It Is. - Jeff Blankenburg announces ‘The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever’, a 30 level puzzle aimed at software developers, geeks and nerds, and the perfect thing to while a way a few minutes on a Friday afternoon!