February 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1552
Posted by Chris Alcock on 20 Feb 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Hello Biggy – Rob Conery shares ‘Biggy’, a simple file based document store for .NET, in some ways similar to NeDB on Node, making use of JSON, dynamic types and Linq
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- Gulp.js : A Better Alternative to Grunt.js – Shiju Varghese takes a look at the use of Gulp.js, a task automation framework, similar to Grunt.js, giving an overview of its use in automating the build process for a Single Page Application using Angular.
- Converting AutoMapper to a Portable Class Library – Jimmy Bogard discusses his journey to having a Portable Class Library for AutoMapper, sharing what he learnt along the way in turning a traditional class library into a PCL.
- "Everybody Lies" – Eric Lawrence discusses the lies that software sometimes tells regarding its version, focusing on some of the lies that browsers tell, and how API methods which return a version are sometimes wrong.
- Distributed Automated Browser Testing with Selenium and BrowserStack – Scott Hanselman shares a look at performing browser testing in a wide range of browsers using the BrowserStack service and Selenium.
- A Method Object Helper – Putting More Class in Method Refactoring – George Henry discusses refactoring of methods with large numbers of parameters, replacing them with a single parameter object, walking through the steps of such a refactoring in this CodeProject article.
- It Was 2001, and I Had a Decision To Make – Darcy Lussier follows on from Rob Conery’s post, ‘PHP or ASP.NET: Did I Do The Right Thing?‘ discussing how he decided on a Microsoft technology path to set the tone for his career, sharing his story.
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The Morning Brew #1551
Posted by Chris Alcock on 19 Feb 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Exceptionless Error Reporting Service Goes Open Source – Blake Niemyjski announces the news that Exceptionless is now an open source project, allowing you to get your hands on the code and add to it and improve it.
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- Introducing ASP.NET Project "Helios"Â & Supplemental to ASP.NET Project "Helios" – Levi Broderick discusses the ASP.NET Team’s ‘Helios’ project, which allows the hosting of a managed we application directly on IIS, skipping the standard ASP.NET pipeline, discussing how this fits in with OWIN and Katana, nad much more.
- Getting started with OData v4 in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W takes a look at working with OData 4 in ASP.NET WebAPI, with the new support added (yesterday) in the latest nightly builds
- Azure Storage Bindings Part 1 – Blobs & Azure Storage Bindings Part 2 – Queues – Mike Stall shares two posts looking at two of the different forms of Azure Storage, and how you go about connecting to them using the Azure SDK, and exploring the diagnostics available.
- .NET: NGEN, explicit loads and load-context promotion – Abhinaba Basu continues his discussion of NGEN and native images on .NET with a look where NGEN images can be used when loading assemblies in certain ways
- What’s the Role of the Server in Single Page Applications (SPAs)? – Dan Wahlin discusses the part the server still has to play when writing Single Page Applications (regardless of the framework used)
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The Morning Brew #1550
Posted by Chris Alcock on 18 Feb 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Introducing Bing Code Search for C# – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Ala Shiban highlights a new Visual Studio Dev Labs project which brings the power of Bing into the IDE providing code search inside the IDE, and using some of the Roslyn technology under the covers.
- Need a Bulk Solution Scoped Assembly Version Editor? AsmVer! – Greg Duncan highlights a useful little tool for updating the version numbers of multiple projects that are part of a solution – a viable alternative to a shared and linked assemblyinfo file, and ideal when you need different versions on different projects.
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- Thoughts On JavaScript Generators – K.Scott Allen discusses the pain of callbacks, looks at promises to improve on them, and then moves on to explore ECMA Script 6 Generators
- JavaScript Promises: A Journey To The "Promise Land" – Derick Bailey is also discussing promises, and sharing a freely available screencast video whcih he produced on the subject.
- Evergreen Browsers – Rob Eisenberg discusses what he considers to be the most significant feature of the latest crop of browsers, their auto update capability. Rob discusses how this is a significant feature, and considers how different the world would be if IE6 had had this ability.
- Does Garbage Collection Hurt? – Alois Kraus discusses the pain and performance and responsiveness problems which garbage collection can be at the root of, discussing techniques to help identify the problems,
- Segregate your code commits into tiny topical changes. – Jason Jarrett discusses the way you should structure your commits when working with source code control, explaining the reason for doing many small commits to ensure that your changes are clear.
- StructureMap 3 is gonna tell you what’s wrong and where it hurts – Jeremy D Miller discusses the diagnostic features of StructureMap 3, sharing a look at how it will help you identify problems in your configuration and setup in ways better than other Inversion of Control frameworks.
- JavaScript time values: dates as milliseconds since 1970-01-01 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer takes a look at the representation of dates in JavaScript, looking at the internals, and how you can interact with value.
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