The Morning Brew

Software

• Knockout-ES5: a plugin to simplify your syntax – Steve Sanderson shares Knockout-ES5, a plugin for Knockout which takes advantage of modern browser’s support for ECMAScript 5 to simplify and give a more natural syntax for the model and binding code.
• ripple: Fubu-inspired dependency management – Josh Arnold highlights the Ripple Project which aims to provide an alternative to the standard NuGet Package Manager client whcih deals with Continuous Integration scenarios better, while using the standard NuGet feed and package format.
• 64 bits ought to be enough for everybody [TextAnalysisTool.NET update for .NET 2.0 and 64-bit enables the analysis of larger files!] – David Anson provides an update to his TextAnalysisTool.NET tool for reading, searching and navigating large files efficiently. This update brings it onto .NET 2.0 and adds 64-bit support allowing you even more memory space for loading and working with large text files.

Information

• What is lexical scoping? – Eric Lippert discusses the use of the word ‘Scope’ in development, and looks at the two different styles of scoping, dynamic scoping and lexical scoping
• Traversing the GC Heap with ClrMd – Sasha Goldshtein takes a look at working with the ClrMd library to programatically work with the CLR debugging API, exploring how you can walk across the Garbage Collection Heap and explore its contents.
• Some "Laws" of Software Development – Al Noel takes a look at some of the ‘enduring truths’ of software development encapsulated in a variety of named ‘laws’ including Ziv’s, Conway’s and Humphrey’s Laws, before sharing his own software development ‘law’
• Play with Packages, programmatically! – The NuGet Team give a taste of the API available for the NuGet package Manager allowing your code to easily interact with NuGet.
• Modern Art – Phil Trelford proves that F# isn’t just for scientists and financiers, turning his hand to recreating works of art using the F# Language

Community

• Humanitarian Toolbox Hackathon at DevTeach – Bill Wagner highlights the Humanitarian Toolbox Hackathon event being held at the DevTeach conference at the end of the month, and is a great opportunity to turn your development skills for the power of good.
• Windows 8 for Developers Online Camp – Joe Mayo highlights a Windows 8 Developer Camp Online event, with three hours of content on developing applications for Windows 8 from Joe and Greg Levenhagen on the 21st May.

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