Pick of the week: Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway

General

• Disk Based Data Structures: Mikael Svenson writes about utilizing memory-mapped files to access extremely large data structures.
• Lessons Learned (Part 2: Performance Testing and Garbage Collection): Patric Fornasier continues his series of posts about performance tuning with a good nugget about garbage collection.
• What Every Developer Should Know About Character Encoding: David T. explains the essential details of character encoding.
• PDC 2009 Videos: Didn’t make it to PDC this year? No problem.the sessions are available to download or viewing online!
• ReSharper Is Amazing, Take N: Ayende Rahien found a slick feature in the upcoming ReSharper 5.0.automatic pulling in the .NET Framework source code!
• The High Cost Of Losing a Developer: Dave Laribee points out how expensive it is to loose your best talent.
• I Just Cloned, Why Did Git Change My Files: Tim Barcz explains an important, but subtle, concept in Git that can be frustrating if you aren’t aware of it.
• Graffiti CMS Is Now Open Source: Telligent has done the right thing and Open Sourced Graffiti CMS!
• Git’s Guts – Branches, HEAD, and Fast-Forwards: James Gregory takes an in-depth look at branches in Git and how they are different from other popular VCS systems. He follows up with another post about merging and rebasing.

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released: Phil Haack announces the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 beta. It’s loaded with a bunch of new features and a go-live license, but unfortunately isn’t compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (curses!).
• Silverlight 4 Beta – A Guide To The New Features: Tim Heuer has a massive post covering the major new features of Silverlight 4 (didn’t we just get Silverlight 3?).
• Developing and Managing Services with Windows Server AppFabric: Cliff Simpkins outlines some details of AppFabric, which offers technologies to help your IIS-based applications scale.
• PDC09 – ASP.NET MVC 2 – Ninjas Still On Fire Black Belt Tips: Watch Scott Hanselman’s presentation from PDC on ASP.NET MVC. He also links to some solutions to automate downloading all of the available PDC session videos!
• Useful Tips Every Web Designer Should Know About SEO: A great list of SEO tips from Antonio Fullone.
• What’s The First Thing To Learn About ASP.NET MVC: If you’re just now making the switch to MVC from WebForms, K. Scott Allen highly recommends the simple, but powerful, HTML form.
• Faster Apps For A Faster Web – Introducing Speed Tracer: A sweet new tool from Google that gives you insight into how your web sites appear and perform as seen through the eyes of your browser.