The Morning Brew

Software

• JustMock Lite – Free and open source too… – Greg Duncan highlights the free and open-source edition of JustMock, called JustMock Lite, from the folks at Telerik.
• Open-Sourcing ThoughtWorks Go – Martin Fowler announces the release of ThoughtWorks Go as open source software under a BSD license
• Word For Windows 1.1a and Early MS-DOS Source Available (Really) – Greg Duncan also highlights the availability of early versions of MS-DOS and Word For Windows now available as part of an initiative with the Computer History Museum

Information

• Troy Hunt: The prophesied Windows XP and IE 8 crisis is nigh! (unless you’re in China) – Troy Hunt discusses the impending death of Internet Explorer 8 as supported software with the Windows XP end of Support, and discusses how websites support for IE8 is rapidly drying up as a result.
• Browser Compatibility Testing with Modern.IE Tools – Rachel Appel highlights the Modern.IE toolset which provides a great way to test web pages for compatibility with a range of browsers both desktop and mobile.
• ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework – Abhishek Kumar Goswami discusses the ASP.NET Web Optimisation Framework a set of framework behaviours which can be utilised to performance optimise your websites CSS and JavaScript resources.
• async/await does not “release the thread – ‘BenWilli’ discusses the way in which async/await actually works, and how its use of threads is actually handled.
• Microservices – Martin Fowler and James Lewis share the final part of their article on Microservices for Software Architecture, looking at if this way of working represents the future of our craft.
• Services, Microservices, Nanoservices – oh my! – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz shares some thoughts on the Micro Services article, and the architectural concepts it envelopes.
• JavaScript MVC Style Guide – Alex MacCaw shares some useful guidelines for writing Client Side MVC based code
• Surprise! JavaScript Guard Clauses – Howard Dierking takes a look at some slightly surprising behaviour of JavaScript, looking at redressing a guard clause to work as expected.
• Setting up a complete Node development environment. From scratch. For free – Marcus Hammarberg sets about building a fit for purpose Node.js Development Environment using, using Virtualisation to install a free operating system for development, and the required tooling.

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Software

• Project Siena Beta 2: Enabling business users to create apps connected to enterprise services, web and social – S.Somasegar announces the second phase of the Project Siena platform

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• NuGet Package of the Week: Canopy Web Testing Framework with F# – Scott Hanselman takes a look at Canopy, and F# based automated web testing framework which aims to be frictionless, allowing you to write good tests in F# which utilise Selenium.
• F#10 : Lists – Continuing our F# theme, Sacha Barber continues his series over on CodeProject which is looking at various aspects of the F# language – exploring the concept and use of Lists.
• F# Type Providers – Phil Trelford shares a look at the now mature feature from F#3 of Type Providers which add code completion support and typed access for different data sources.
• FsCheck + XUnit = The Bomb – Mathias Brandewinder takes a look at the combination of FsCheck and XUnit and explains why he considers it to be a great wayof testing code
• Dynamic Routes with AngularJS – K.Scott Allen looks at an area of confusion with AngularJS when creating dynamic flexible routes, and how the two phases of modules contribute to this confusion.
• Node.js and Visual Studio? Sure! & Choose Your Own Adventure with Node.js View Engines – Shawn Wildermuth takes a look at the tooling support for Node.js within Visual Studio, and discusses the different styles of view engine that there are available for Node.
• New Breeze Angular Service – John Papa discusses the latest changes in the Angular and Breeze frameworks and how they effect them working together
• What Every Developer Must Know About Fast Garbage Collection (+ more) – Alois Kraus discusses application performance, and the role the garbage collector plays in this, along with looking at how improvements have been made to the Garbage collector
• TDD Chess Game Part 2 – Erik Dietrich continues his series looking at building a chess game using Test Driven Development Practices

Community

• UK Tech Meets – Phil Trellfod shares a really useful list of UK based user groups for .NET, Functional Programming, Data Science – its good to see the usergroup community is alive and well, and I encourage you to checkout a local (or not so local) usegroup is you haven’t before.

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Rather late and brief today…sorry folks. Normal service should resume tomorrow.

Software

• Foq 1.6 – Phil Trelford announces the release of Foq 1.6, a unit testing framework which enables the use fo F# to test your code
• OData 6.1 and OData Client 6.1 are now shipped – Yi Ding announces tht relaese of the OData 6.1 Client Library
• OData core libraries now support OData v4 – Yi Ding also discusses support for OData 4
• ReSharper 8.2 is Released Along with dotTrace, dotCover Updates – The Resharper Team shares the nes of their latest releases

Information

• Find a simpler problem – Eric Lippert
• A Brief History of BASIC – Small Basic – Ed Price
• Investigating ASP.Net Memory Dumps for Idiots (like Me) – Doug Rathbone
• Sublime is Sublime 6 – Greg Young (Check abck for the earlier posts in the series)
• Chaining asynchronous JavaScript calls with Angular JS – Daniel Fisher

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