The Morning Brew

This is the post which went missing – I think due to a Windows Update and a Browser session restore it got overwritten with a copy of edition 1474 in a draft state. Hopefully putting this post back won’t break anything else :-/

Software

• Code Refractor – MSIL/CIL to Native: Code Refractor 0.0.1 – First release is available – Ciprian Khlud announces te release of Code Refractor a tool which takes MSIL and converts it into valid C++ allowing it to be compiled natively – certainly sounds like an interesting project.
• .NET Framework setup verification tool and cleanup tool now support .NET Framework 4.5.1 – Aaron Stebner announces an update to his .NET Framework setup verification and .NET Framework cleanup tools which now support .NET 4.5.1
• A New Home for the F# Community Project Templates – Daniel Mohl announces a new location for the F# Community Project Templates which provide F# templates for a variety of common project types

Information

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 18 – Refactoring Revisited Pt. 1 – James Bender continues with his series looking at Test Driven Development from first principles. In this post James continues building out the sample with a look at some more refactoring, supported by tests.
• P2 Magazine – Thoughtworks have released the November edition of P2 Magazine, an online software development magazine. This month features articles on agile stories, continuous delivery, DevOps, the evolution of programming languages and much more.
• Shipping Visual Studio snippets in an extension – Mads Kristensen discusses the inclusion of snippets are a part of a Visual Studio Extension, showing step by step how to package up snippets into an extension.
• A High-Value, Undocumented LESS Editor Feature in Visual Studio – VKichline highlights a nice feature of the LESS support in Visual Studio from 2012 Update 2
• Playing around with JavaScript modules – Peter Provost discusses the modularisation of JavaScript with a look at the two different module techniques available.
• It’s now even cheaper to build apps for the Windows Store! &Windows and Windows Phone developer accounts merged – Jennifer Marsman and Rami Sarieddine highlight the exciting news that accounts for Windows Phone and Windows Store applications are being merged, meaning it is going to be ever cheaper to be a developer on both platforms.

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