The Morning Brew

Software

• Expected Objects Custom Comparisons – Derek Greer shares the 1.1.0 version of is Expected Objects library which provides an easy means of using the Expected Objects pattern. This version adds in support for custom comparisons.
• Nokia Imaging SDK v1.0 RTW now available, officially a "boatload of new features and functionality" – Greg Duncan highlights the release of the 1.0 of the Nokia Imaging SDK which provides Windows Phone developers with a number (boat load!) of useful image processing related features.

Information

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 22 – When is a Test Not a Unit Test? – James Bender presses on with his series looking at Test Driven Development from first principles, and in this part casts the net a little wider and looks at some of the other forms of tests tjeat we should have in our test suites.
• Using IDisposable to scope dangerous behaviour
  – Elton Stoneman takes a look at using the IDisposable interface as a way of applying scope to configuration changes where there may be a danger of a setting being left set (or unset).
• Model binding with Headers in ASP.NET WebAPI – Benny Michielsen takes a look at reading parameters from HTTP headers and binding them into objects using Model Binding in ASP.NET WebAPI
• Enterprise Library 6: Developer’s Guide Released – Grigori Melnik highlights the Patterns and Practices Team’s Developer Guide for Entity Framework 6, available as PDF and EPUB for free download, and also Kindle and Paperback formats.
• "Community [e]Book of PowerShell Practices" September 2013 edition – Greg Duncan highlights this 25 page eBook which focuses on best practices for writing PowerShell scropts
• 10 ways to get more productive in Visual Studio – Johan Ohlin shares some simple productivity tips for Visual Studio. I suspect many will be familiar to you already, however it never hurts to be reminded of some of the useful ones again.

Community

• Legacy Code Retreat Tickets, Bromsgrove – The Crafty Coders are running an all day Code Retreat on Saturday 14th December in Bromsgrove. The topic of the event is Legacy code and the event is being run as a part of the Global Day of Code Retreat.

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