Posted by Chris Alcock on 22 May 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Information
- How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line) – Scott Hanselman gives a detailed walkthrough of setting up load balanced server farms on the Windows Azure platform, showing the process principally for Linux VM’s, but with notes for Windows VMs too.
- C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, Part Two – The second part of Eric Lippert’s TechPro article series on benchmarking mistakes is now available, in this post exploring the measurement of time and some of the anti-patterns
- Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Recommendations – Jatinder Mann of the Internet Explorer team gives an update on the status of the W3C standardization process for the various performance related W3C standards-to-be
- RavenDB, Victory – Ayende responds to a couple of the points raised in Jeremy Miller’s recent post on his experiences of working with RavenDB on a recent project
- The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript – Anthony Colangelo discusses the use of the module pattern, jQuery Plugins and options objects to help keep order in your JavaScript code
- Writing Testable JavaScript – Rebecca Murphey also has a nice A List Apart article on JavaScript, looking at writing client-side interactions which are easier to test, sharing some practices she uses to help ensure you can easily wrap code in tests.
- Cool Kid Training from Pluralsight, that’s free too! Because coding kids are cool kids, right? – Greg Duncan highlights a free series of courses from Pluralsight aimed at teaching kids to code, all made available completely free.
Comments Off on The Morning Brew #1361
Posted by Chris Alcock on 21 May 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
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.
Comments Off on The Morning Brew #1360
Posted by Chris Alcock on 20 May 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- YUICompressor 2.4.8 Released – Joey Smith announces the latest release of the YUICompressor, and the first since they shifted to a contributor model. As a result this release contains contributions from over 10 individuals, and includes updates to both CSS and JavaScript minification
- Just released – Prism for Windows Runtime – Blaine Wastell of the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft announces the release of Prism for the Windows Runtime, previously codenamed ‘Kona’ targeting the development of Windows 8 applications. The release is amde along with an AdventureWorks based reference implementation, three quickstarts and associated documentation.
Information
1 Comment »
« Previous Page — Next Page »