March 2013

Monthly Archive

The Morning Brew #1319

Posted by on 20 Mar 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

Software

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  • Windows Azure Root Certificate Migration – Impact Scenarios – Kevin Williamson discusses the potential impact of the forthcoming change to the Windows Azure Root Certificate, discussing why the change is being made, and what areas of service might be effected by the change.
  • New! Deploy to Windows Azure Web Sites from Dropbox – Bradley Millington takes a look at the newly announced support for deploying to Windows Azure Websites from DropBox, sharing a short screen cast which shows the process.
  • Caching Web API Requests – Ugo Lattanzi discusses getting caching support in your ASP.NET Web API HTTP Client using the HttpRequestCachePolicy class.
  • Introduction to CQRS – Kanasz Robert shares a nice introduction to the concepts behind Command Query Responsibility Segregation, illustrating with examples in this CodeProject Article.
  • Getting Started with HDInsight – Shayne Burgess follows on from the preview release of the new HDInsight Service on Windows Azure allowing you to easily configure and manage a HDInsight Hadoop Cluster

The Morning Brew #1318

Posted by on 19 Mar 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

Software

  • Windows Azure: New Hadoop service + HTML5/JS (CORS), PhoneGap, Mercurial and Dropbox support – Scott Guthrie announces the latest additions to the Windows Azure feature list, including improvements to the Mobile Services clients (including PhoneGap, Windows Phone 7.5 and .NET Portable library support), deployment from Mercurial and DropBox and improved management of Hadoop instances on Azuire.
  • The latest Kinect for Windows SDK is here – The Kinect for Windows team announce the release of the Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7 which includes Kinect Fusion for body scanning and imaging, and Kinect Interactions gesture interactions.
  • Durandal 1.2.0 and Caliburn.Micro 1.5.0 Released! – Rob Eisenberg announces releases to two of his Open Source Projects, seeing the Durandal single page application framework reach 1.2, and Caliburn Micro hit a 1.5.0 release which includes async/await, Share and Settings Charm support and lots more

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  • Monads, part eight – Eric Lippert continues his Fabulous Adventures In Coding looking at the Monad pattern, in this post discussing the standard names for the methods and features derived in the past posts which make up the Monad implementation.
  • Various implementations of Rx – Rafael.F highlights the spread of the Reactive Extensions onto a range of different platforms by the open source community. Exciting to see how far a R&D project has spread
  • HTTP Status Codes – httpstatus.es – A nice little site which houses a community maintained guide to the various HTTP status codes – a useful reference, and well worth reading through if you want a better understanding of HTTP
  • Which ASP.NET MVC validation strategy should we use? – Brian Rosamilia takes a look at the various techniques available to ASP.NET MVC developers to validate the submitted data, sharing thoughts on which is the best approach
  • Handling Sometimes-On Connectivity In Windows Phone Apps – Tim Murphy discusses handling lack of connectivity and intermittent connectivity on Windows Phone devices within your application
  • Entity Framework Links #4 – Rowan Miller shares the 4th edition of Entity Framework Links, a collection of links to Entity Framework related articles published recently.
  • Imagining a More Engaging Web: 3rd Anniversary of IE Test Drive – The Internet Explorer Team celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the launch of the IE Test Drive site, providing interesting and exciting demos of the cutting edge features implemented in Internet Explorer, and still well worth checking out.

The Morning Brew #1317

Posted by on 18 Mar 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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  • The Open-Closed Principle, in review – Jon Skeet sets about discussing the Open Closed Principle highlighting the relevant original literature, learning what its intent is about, discussing the concepts, and how he feels the name is part of the difficulty in understanding it.
  • Leveraging Roslyn to author ASP.NET Web API without recompiling – Fillip W takes a further look at the wonderful world of Roslyn, highlighting the ScriptCS project, before moving on to look at implementing dynamic compilation of code in ASP.NET Web API to avoid the real recompilation process
  • Node 0.10 compat issues with the Azure SDK and CLI – Glenn Block highlights the significant release of Node.js 0.10 which brings some significant improvements to streams, domains and performance. The downside of this, as Glenn highlights, is that the Azure SDK and CLI Tools currently don’t work correctly with the new version. The team are working on fixes but recommend sticking with Node 0.8 for a little while longer if you need the Azure tooling.
  • Debug Diag Blog Post Series from my French IIS Colleagues – Finbar Ryan shares a series of posts from Emmanuel, Sylvain and Paul looking at the various uses of the DebugDiag tooling
  • Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 – Application Lifecycles – Mike Taulty compares and contrasts the application lifecycle of Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 applications, looking at the range of lifecycle events and states, examining what is subtly different between the two, and also what has changed in WP8 over WP7.5
  • Animating lists with CSS 3 transitions – Steve Sanderson takes a look at implementing and iOS Native grid re-ordering look and feel in HTML and JavaScript, showing how the technologies in CSS3 allow you to very closely mimic the rich native application look, feel and performance,
  • Where to put custom Knockout Binding Implementations – Derik Whittaker takes a look at implementing a custom binding in Knockout, drawing on community feedack as to how to stucture / organise the code
  • Hacking Up A Glimpse Plugin – K. Scott Allen gives a quick start guide to extending Glimpse and implementing your own plugin to expose data from the server side to the client

Community

  • Announcing Web Camps Spring Tour 2013 – Jon Galloway highlights the Web Camps series of events, taking place starting today (18th March) at a range of locations in the US and Europe, including London here in the UK. The events are free, although registration is required, and they are selling out fast, so if you are planning on attending get registered quickly.

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