The Morning Brew

Had a fantastic weekend at DDD East Anglia, enjoyed some excellent sessions, and got to trade war stories with friends old and new. Many thanks to the organisers for the excellent job they did.

Software

• Announcing TypeScript 0.9.0.1 – The TypeScript Team follow on from their 0;9 release with a small update which addresses the highest priority user reported issues with 0.9
• WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Alpha – The WCF Data Services Team announce the release of an Alpha of the WCF Data Services 5.6, an early (and not yet feature complete) look at some of the new features including Visual Studio 2013 Support, complete Portable Class Library support for client libraries, and serverside inclusion of the URI Parser.
• Announcing TouchDevelop v3.0 for Windows Phone 8: unified experience, new language features, NFC, speech and tile APIs – Nikolai Tillmann announces the 3.0 release of Touch Develop for Windows Phone 8, a major update which brings feature parity with the Wweb application, and also includes Near Field Communication (NFC) support, Speech API access and improved tile features.
• RavenDB 2.5: What is new here? – Ayende shares the list of new features whcih are being included in RavenDB 2.5 , and links to the details of them
• Google .Net API’s go portable… The v1.4.0 Google APIs .NET library is now a Portable Class Library (PCL) And now uses TPL and the new HttpClient lib too – Greg Duncan highlights the latest update to the Google .NET Client libraries which bring with them support for their use as Portable Class Libraries, and making use of the Task Parallel Library and new HTTP Client implementations,

Information

• To be precise – ‘I. M. Wright’ discusses the expectations of accuracy in estimation and delivery of software projects, and compares this to the accuracy achieved by landing a space probe on another planet, showing how the two do actually share a lot in common, but not immediate precision, just iteration and course correction.
• Making a Case For The Command Line – Jesse Taber discusses the importance of internal tools with applications, and discusses the idea of starting simple, and building a command line tool before moving on to creating web interfaces for the tool.
• IHttpActionResult – new way of creating responses in ASP.NET Web API 2 – Filip W takes a look at the newly introduced IHttpActionResult included in ASP.NET Web API 2, providing a new and easy way to return a response from an API action
• 300 for 320 – 320 Windows 8.1. app and code samples, C++, C#, JavaScript, in a 300MB download… (Or get language level download or pick and choose singles) – Greg Duncan highlights the huge number of samples for Windows 8(.1) development available in the 300MB samples pack
• LINQ to ASCII Art – Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya takes a look at converting images using LINQ, exploring the conversion to text and the wonders of ASCII Art.

Community

• NDC Videos online – Jimmy Bogard highlights the availability of his sessions from the recent NDC conference. All the sessions from the conference are now available online on Vimeo on the NDCOslo on Vimeo account, so check them out as there is an incredible amount of good technical content there.
• Talk: The Complete Async — three talks from TechEd Europe 2013 – Lucian Wischik shares Video, Slides, demo code and speaker notes for his three sessions on Async presented at the TechEd Europe conference last week. The content here takes you from beginner level through to advanced topics.
• Ask Udi 1: Alternative Architectures – Preaching to the Unconverted – Udi Dahan shares the first episode of his Ask Udi series addressing the top two questions he received, discussing standard architecture, and the motivations that can be used on those less inclined towards publish subscribe and message bus architectures.
• Glimpse Town Hall #3 – The Glimpse Team are holding their next ‘Town Hall’ meeting on Tuesday, July 2nd at 4:00 PM (UTC-5:00). This is an opportunity to discuss a variety of aspects of the project including project roadmap and questions and answers

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