Pick of the week: Responsible Open Source Code Parenting

General

• Micro Optimization Decision Process: Oren Eini walks us through his process of identifying and addressing micro optimizations.
• Thoughts On EF vs. NHibernate Redux: Rob Conery shares his thoughts on the ongoing debate of which flavor ORM is better. (hint: it doesn’t matter!)
• Understanding Perceived Performance: Howard Dierking writes about users’ perceived performance, which can be more critical than if you can squeak another 10ms off your response time.
• The Common Principles Behind The NOSQL Alternatives: Nati Shalom discusses the common patterns behind the various NOSQL options available and shows how they address specific issues of database scalability.
• What Is The Difference Between An IoC Container And MEF: Jak Charlton explains the fundamental differences between an IoC container and MEF.
• .NET Serialization Performance Comparison: James Newton-King posts the results of some performance testing from the development of Json.NET – the results are quite impressive!
• 11 Strategies To Rock Your Startup’s Scalability In 2010: 11 fantastic tips on how to scale your application this year.

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010: Phil Haack explains why ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010 have continued to be out of sync.
• Making Sense of ASP.NET Paths: Rick Strahl has posted a fantastic reference of all the path information available in the current request.
• Dynamic Types and ASP.NET MVC: Hadi Hariri has a quick and dirty walkthrough on how to use dynamic types as your view model in ASP.NET MVC.
• Walkthrough Using Autofac As Your IoC Container In An ASP.NET MVC Application: Darren Neimke shows how easy it is to use Autofac as an IoC container in you ASP.NET MVC application.