Stuff that Jeremy do like

• http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2008/12.aspx
  
  How does this guy get the time to read and try all this stuff.
  Excellent and cool list.
  
  
  
  1. New Architectural Guidance coming from patterns and practice.
  
  
  2. The general direction of xUnit
  My Comment: I will stick with MSTest right now.
  
  3. AAA syntax and mocking styles in Rhino Mocks and Moq.
  My Comment: Loved it. I liked more Moq for its simplicity but keep Rhino Mocks as back up.
  
  4. Nate Kohari's approach to convention based setter injection in Ninject
  http://dojo.ninject.org/Conventions-Based%20Binding.ashx
  My Comment: Interesting. I am okay with Configuration or Custom Attributes approach for AOP. Convention approach sounds little backward but can be handy in certain situations.
  
  5. Autofac’s extensibility Model
  http://code.google.com/p/autofac/wiki/GettingStarted
  My Comment: Another DI framework
  
  6. StructureMap
  
  
  7. New Language features in .NET 3.5
  1) Lambda expression
  2) Var
  3) Object Initializer
  4) Collection Initializer
  5) Extension Methods
  6) Anonymous Types
  7) Auto Implemented Methods
  8) Partial Methods
  
  8. Expression Tree
  
  9. JQuery
  http://jquery.com/
  My comment:- I am going to buy a book to master this javascript framework.
  
  10. MassTransit
  http://code.google.com/p/masstransit/wiki/BatchMessaging
  
  http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/06/04/Reviewing-Mass-Transit.aspx
  http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/09/nservicebus
  My Comment:- It sounds more like command pattern. There may be more. I need to investigate more into this.
  
  
  11. Linq to NHibernate and Linq in general of course
  My Comment: Since Generics in .NET2.0, LINQ is best thing that has happened in .NET3.5
  
  12. More powerful Auto Mapping and convention support for Fluent Nhibernate
  http://code.google.com/p/fluent-nhibernate/
  My Comment:- I will stick to LINQ for SQL time being. I hated the XML configuration for Nhibernate as it was error prone. Active record was a compromise.
  
  
  13. Bellware's SpecUnit assertion extensions
  My Comment:- Makes unit test more readable and maintainable.
  
  14. Fluent Fixture
  http://blog.eleutian.com/2007/09/29/FluentFixtures.aspx
  
  15. Prism Project
  Composite Application Guidance for WPF
  
  16. MVC
  My Comment- MVC rocks
  
  17. Common Service Locator
  
  18. Any Tool written by Jet Brains
  Resharper Rocks
  
  19. AutoMocker and Interaction Context base Classes
  
  20. Dino Esposito's latest book on .Net architecture
  My Comment:- I did a quick reading at book store. My rating 5 out of 5.
  
  21. Ben Scheirman's new fluent API for testing routes in MVC
  
  22. Rake Build Tool
  
  24. DotNetRock Guest List