The Morning Brew

Information

• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Replacing form helpers – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at building HTML input forms via a set of HTML5 form helper methods, exploring the implementation of the simpler HTML5 input types
• Short questions – Eric Lippert rounds out his short series of posts answering questions raised during his recent webcast, in this post answering some of the shorter questions
• Chess TDD 10: A Knight’s Tale – Erik Dietrich continues his series looking at the implementation of a chess game using Test Driven Development practices, mostly exploring the implementation of the Knight piece.
• Node to Microsoft SharePoint / Project Online via Edge.js – Dan Hounshell shares an interesting look at how LeanKit make use of the magic of Edge.JS to bridge Node and .NET worlds
• Collection Pipeline – Martin Fowler shares the second part of his article on Collection Pipelines
• 8 ways to improve ASP.NET Web API performance &Replace JSON.NET with Jil JSON serializer in ASP.NET Web API – Radenko Zec has two posts looking at ASP.NET Web API, sharing tips on enhancing the performance of your WebAPI applications, and a second looking at replacing out the JSON.NET Serialiser for an alternative implementation.
• Tracking Unusable Virtual Memory in VMMap – Sasha Goldshtein takes a look at the VMMap tool from SysInternals and explores its use in understanding the memory use of applications.
• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Extensible Template Projects – John Atten shares the next part in his series looking at the customisations and extensibility of the ASP.NET Identity System.

Community

• 5 years of DDD Melbourne – Aaron Powell discusses his experiences getting involved with the developer community as a speaker at community conferences in Australia.

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Back to the usual morning publishing slot today 😉

Software

• New Compiler and Moving to GitHub – TypeScript – Jonathan Turner announces a new improved compiler for the TypeScipt project, along with their migration to hosting the project on GitHub
• Visual Studio Online Update – July 21 – Brian Harry announces the deployment of the latest bunch of changes and improvements to the Visual Studio Online platform, including Active Directory integration, licensing changes, account deletion and reporting enhancements.

Information

• Analyzing test code – Eric Lippert continues his series of posts answering interesting quiestion which arose from his recent webcast. Today’s question loks at the application of ‘checkers’ to Unit Test code.
• Stop checking-in binaries, instead create self-bootstrapping scripts – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi discusses the use of scripts to provide a way of getting executables needed by site extensions without packaging them in with the extension
• Collection Pipeline – Martin Fowler discusses the Collection Pipeline, a pattern which involves gathering and bringing together the results of one operation and passing it to the next.
• How to remotely debug and profile the performance of your HTML5 websites & apps on Windows Phone – David Rousset takes a detailed look at performing profiling of HTML5 content in Windows Phone browsers, walking through the steps required.
• Creating Cool WPF Charts using the ModernUI Chart Library and WebAPI – Mahesh Sabnis takes us through producing charts in WPF applications
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 3: More about Backbone Models, BackBone Tutorial – Part 4: CRUD Operations on BackboneJs Models using HTTP REST Service & BackBone Tutorial – Part 5: Understanding Backbone.js Collections – Rahul Rajat Singh continues this CodeProject article series looking at the the use of Backbone, exploring the Model, collections and performing network operations using REST based services.
• How can I get the URL to the Web page the clipboard was copied from? – Raymond Chen discusses an interesting feature of the HTML clipboard in Windows which gives rise to a useful feature in OneNote.

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A rather late one today, and certainly not morning here in the UK. The explanation is rather unexciting – after a long charity bike ride yesterday I had a rather lazy morning, and half convinced myself it was Sunday still. Thanks for all the messages of concern…here is today (links only) edition.

Software

• Introducing PSBuild – an improved interface for msbuild.exe in PowerShell – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

Information

• Micro Optimization – The Suprising inefficiency of readonly fields – Jon Skeet
• Grunt & Gulp – an overview – Nathan Gloyn
• 8 ways to improve ASP.NET Web API performance – Radenko Zec
• Your Old Crappy Code – Chris Missal
• Semantically Speaking… – Alex Homer
• A TDD Journey: 1-Trials and Tribulations – Michael Sorens
• Open complex type step by step with Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0 – Sam Xu
• Mixed ListView Item Templates for Store Apps – Ian Griffiths

Community

• England Swing of the WilderWorldTour – Shawn Wildermuth

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