A rather link filled, topic filled VBB. Not many direct coding examples but lots of great information.

LINQ Examples

I did share how to use Sum, Select Many, and Aggregate. The code was put into my learning csharp project in my learning solution on GitHub.

I plan on writing a couple of blog posts on these LINQ items so stay tuned if you want more LINQ goodness.

http://github.com/RookieOne/Learning

Wizards of Smart Podcast – Episode 5

More rails talk on this episode. But I did share the link with the VBB. http://www.theabsentmindedcoder.com/2010/06/wizards-of-smart-episode-5_01.html

Absent Minded Coder Posts

I shared my 2 posts from the last brown bag…

Structure Map 2.6 constructing the concrete type http://www.theabsentmindedcoder.com/2010/05/structure-map-26-constructing-concrete.html

Interface Segregation Principle http://www.theabsentmindedcoder.com/2010/05/interface-segregation-principle-in.html

I also shared George’s comment on the Udi InfoQ article : http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Making-Roles-Explicit-Udi-Dahan

Unlocker

Claudio shared a helpful tool to get rid of an annoying Windows error. http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

VS 2010 Step into .Net Framework

Claudio also shared a blog post showing how to setup Visual Studio 2010 to allow stepping into .Net Framework code. http://weblogs.asp.net/rajbk/archive/2010/04/21/setting-up-visual-studio-2010-to-step-into-microsoft-net-source-code.aspx

Why Your Code Sucks

This might be my favorite link Claudio shared. The blog post talks about why your code sucks… yes he is talking to you. (and me…) :D

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=71730

Resharper and Regions

Find out how to configure Resharper to remove regions http://bit.ly/wtjK3

You can also prevent Resharper from adding regions http://bit.ly/9QgLYe

Monads

Uncle Bob uploaded a WTF is a Monad presentation : http://bit.ly/aBMIaL <- I plan to look at this tonight ;D

Revamp Your Code Review

Ryan wanted me to share a blog post by Kyle Baley discussing the code review process : http://codebetter.com/blogs/kyle.baley/archive/2010/06/01/rietveld-or-how-to-revamp-your-code-review-process.aspx

Nine Things ie9 is doing Right

Ryan also wanted me to share : http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/five-things-ie9-is-actually-doing-right/

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

I think @TheCodeFoundary tweet’d this link earlier this week. It is an interesting video discussing how we are actually motivated by more than money. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Git + GitHub

Claudio was asking about Git so I shared some links and walked through a simple workflow into how I commit locally and then push to my GitHub repository.

Git Extensions can be found here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/

We also discovered this : http://learn.github.com/

Architecting TekPub

Great article on InfoQ. In the article they interview James Avery and Rob Conery about their experience with TekPub going from MVC to Ruby on Rails and the reasoning why.

http://www.infoq.com/articles/architecting-tekpub

Future Rails Hands-On Demo?

I tossed out the idea of having a rails hands on talk where as Claudio talks, I code the application in rails. The purpose is to showcase how rapidly we can build an application and deploy the application using rails.