Another week with some exceptional new features.
MicroKernel
Synchronize Facility [svn]: New facility providing synchronization support for components by implicitly implementing ISynchronizeInvoke and SynchronizationContext. This provides some convenient help for dealing with UI updates in multi-threaded applications. Check out this article for more details on ISynchronizeInvoke.
MonoRail
JSON DataBinder Extension [svn]: Databinding support for binding serialized JSON objects to [...]
This interview with Alex Payne of Twitter is an interesting read. Question number 2 is the most striking:
“All the convenience methods and syntactical sugar that makes Rails such a pleasure for coders ends up being absolutely punishing, performance-wise. Once you hit a certain threshold of traffic, either you need to strip out all the costly [...]
In the past week, there’s been a significant amount of blog chatter around the lack of documentation for Castle. There is information out there, it just doesn’t have a central knowledgebase. That information resides in blog posts on committer sites or posts to the developer’s mailing list. In an effort to make this documentation more [...]