April 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1590
Posted by Chris Alcock on 15 Apr 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Azure Updates: Web Sites, VMs, Mobile Services, Notification Hubs, Storage, VNets, Scheduler, AutoScale and More – Scott Guthrie formally announces the latest batch of updates from the Azure Team, including SSL on websites, Chef and Puppet extensions for Virtual Machines, enhancements for Notification Hubs, mobile services, the GA release of Read Access Geo Redundant Storage along with a couple of other things too!
- Announcing Multilingual App Toolkit v3.0 – Cameron Lerum announces the release of the Multilingual App Toolkit version 3. This release was actually announced at the Build 2014 conference and support now includes WPF, Winforms, ASP.NET MVC, Store applications, and Windows Phone all with a unified workflow.
- ODataLib 6.2 release – LeoHu1 and the OData team announce the release of ODataLib 6.2 available on NuGet. This release includes a number of new improvements for Model and Client use cases, along with a new method to generate ServiceDocuments from the EdmModel.
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- Standard and Daylight are different – Eric Lippert shares a bit of wisdom essential to anyone scheduling meetings across time zones, or telling a computer what the time actually is
- Enumerating subsets with binomial coefficients & The geeky thrill of discovering that two things are really the same thing, just with different labels – Raymond Chen takes a look at binomial coefficients in his posts this week, a set of (pun slightly intended) posts whcih will be of interest to those who are mathematically inclined
- Test Automation Framework Architecture – John Sonmez discusses Test Automation Frameworks, and how they are often difficult to work with and easy to fall into common traps, looking at the creation of a test automation framework architecture to learn more about making a good investment in testing.
- OSS Bugs and the Participatory Community – Jeremy D Miller discusses the Open Source Software development community, and the receiving of bug reports from the community of Structure Map, along with the new direction from Microsoft to embrace and support Open Source Development.
- Building Distributed Node.js Apps with Azure Service Bus Queue – Shiju Varghese takes a look at engineering a distributed application using the Node.js and the Windows Azure Service Bus to coordinate the work between instances.
- Angular and Durandal Converge – Rob Eisenberg discusses the exciting convergence of Durandal and AngualrJS, and how he has been working with the core Angular team for the last few months bringing some of the best bits of Durandal to Angualr 2.
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The Morning Brew #1589
Posted by Chris Alcock on 14 Apr 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- A new search experience on the Gallery – Andrew Stanton-Nurse and the NuGet Team discuss their recently deployed improvements to the search experience witih the NuGet Gallery
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- Open Source is a thankless job. We do it anyway – Scott Hanselman discusses the many difficulties of the open source community and the types of problems that are often encountered by the developers of open source software.
- How to create Universal applications with Azure Mobile Services that leverage push notifications and database insertion and data retrieval – Bruno Terkaly shares a labs session on the production of Universal Applications which make use of Microsoft Azure Mobile Services features
- Reading from a queue in an Azure WebJob – Jeff Putz discusses the use of Azure Queues from within the recently launched Azure Web Jobs framework, sharing the experiences he gained by building a sample.
- Write Less MVVM ViewModel Boilerplate Code with T4 – Jason Roberts discusses the use of T4 templates to generate much of the standard code required to perform MVVM behaviours
- Debugging Deeper through Reference Source – Rion Williams takes a look at the .NET Reference Source, and how it allows you to investigate down into framework code when you are debugging in Visual Studio
- jQuery – .bind(), .live(), .delegate(), .on() ( and also .unbind(), .die(), .undelegate(), .off() ) – Shemeer NS takes a look at the Event Handler support methods provided in JQuery and examines their uses.
- Escape from Windows XP, Now a Game – Jonathan Rozenblit highlights a light hearted game ‘celebrating’ the end of life of Windows XP
- Making Better Use of the NHibernate HiLo Generator – Ricardo Peres shares a look at some best practices for working with the NHibernate HiLo Identity Generator
- Heartbleed Explanation – XKCD provides the simplest and most straightforward explanation of the Heartbleed security vulnerability
- Information on Microsoft Azure and Heartbleed – Andrew Cushman gives an update on Microsoft Azure’s status with regard to the Heartbleed security vulnerability.
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The Morning Brew #1588
Posted by Chris Alcock on 11 Apr 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 Beta – Somasegar announce the release of the Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1, providing tool for use in Data Science, support for the Bottle and Flask web frameworks, and install support for installing within express editions of Visual Studio.
- RyuJIT CTP3 minor fix – Kevin Frei highlights a fix that addresses issues with the RyuJIT CTP3 and PowerShell, released by the team as CTP3b
- New Azure Websites Region – Southeast Asia – Nir Mashkowski highlights the inclusion of Azure Websites Support in the South-east Asia region
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- F#16 : Understanding Signatures – Sacha Barber presses on with this series looking at functional programming techniques and the F# Language with a look at the signature of functions
- TDD Chess Game Part 3: Stumbling and Refactoring – Erik Dietrich continues his series looking at building a Chess Game using Test Driven Development practices, sharing another bout of coding after a bit of a break, and discussing how TDD can help in this situation.
- ReSharper and Roslyn: Q&A – JetBrains discuss what the release of Roslyn as Open Source means to them, sharing a Q&A with some of the lead engineers on the product discussing their plans going forward.
- Intellisense for JSON Schema in the JSON Editor – anhphan takes a look at the schema support for JSON with intellisense in the latest CTP2 release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2.
- Creating an Azure Mobile Services .NET backend from scratch – Carlos Figueira walks through the setup and creation of an Azure Mobile Services .NET based backend from first principles, avoiding the currently non-RTM tooling
- FubuMVC Lessons Learned — “fubu new”, Standardization, and Polyglot Programming | The Shade Tree Developer – Jeremy D Miller continues with his series of posts looking at the lessons learned from the FubuMVC project, discussing the dangers of deviating from the orthodox .NET approaches, and some of the missed opportunities in FubuMVC.
- How much Azure kit do you need to serve 2,000 requests per second? – Elton Stoneman takes a look at scaling an API on the Azure Platform to a quite reasonable 2000 Requests per second, looking at a number of different approaches to achieve this with different virtual hardware and configuration.
- Building an API in Node.js Using Hapi.js and Azure Table – Shiju Varghese walks through the creation of an API using Node.js, the Hapi.js web framework and Azure Table Storage.
- Managed Code Browser Extensions – Eric Lawrence discusses the use of managed code to create COM components wuch as those required for IE Extensions, and muses on the possible future of IE extensions, and potential for them to be JavaScript based
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