Pick of the week: The Holy Grail is NOT Automation
General
- .NET 4 Cancellation Framework: A post by the Parallel FX team about how you'll be able to build cancellation-aware applications in .NET 4.0.
- Why Defer Loading in Entity Framework Isn't Going To Work: Ayende Rahien has first-hand experience as to why the approach being taken for lazy loading in the Entity Framework isn't going to work.
- Partitioning in PLINQ: The ParallelFX team shows what's going on under the hood when you are processing enumerable data.
- Adding Custom Search Providers to Windows 7 Plus Advanced Search Tricks: Scott Hanselman demonstrates how you can use simple OpenSearch-based connectors to add functionality to your Windows 7 search box!
- The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time: Lee Dumond shares an 'exceptionally' bad example of exceptions usage.
Web Development
- Five Ways to Speed Up Page Response Times: An excellent collection of simple ways to improve the client's experience on your web site.
- Google Ware: The Sky is Falling and Flash/Silverlight are Dead: Time Heuer looks into Google Wave and tries to figure out where all of the FUD is coming from.
