The Morning Brew

Software

• Application Insights SDK (0.9.0) – Crystal Maly highlights the latest release of the Application Insights SDK, supporting Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Store 8.1, JavaScript and Web Applications as well as logging adapters

Information

• Copy-paste defects – Eric Lippert answers a question from his webcast, discussing the dangers of copy paste of code.
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Baseline behavior – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at the generation of HTML in ASP.NET MVC with a look at defining the common baseline for the output HTML.
• Unusual Ways of Boosting Up App Performance. Strings – Alexey Totin continues this series from the team over at JetBrains looking at some of the things you can do to improve performance of your applications, this time exploring some of the things to do with strings which may be harming your performance.
• Switch statement alternative – CodeProject – Nitin Sawant takes a look at an alternative technique for use in place of Switch Statements which may be more readable.
• Web developers, Visual Studio could be a great free tool to develop with… – David Catuhe takes a look at how Visual Studio provides a very good experience for web developers even if they aren’t working on the .NET Stack, looking at some of the great features of the IDE which are available in the free Express Edition
• Flattening Groups for ListView – Ian Griffiths continues his series sharing experiences and technical challenges when writing his Agenda View Windows Phone application

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Software

• dotPeek 1.2 Is Released – Daria Dovzhikova and the team at JetBrains announce the release of dotPeek 1.2, their free decompiler and assembly browser which mimics the user experience of ReSharper for navigation. This release includes new features around acting as a symbol server, a process explorer window and improved searching.

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• When "safe by default", isn’t – Paul Stovell discusses some of the potential problems with strict opinions in software APIs, illustrating with an example regarding enforced record limits in RavenDB. Be sure to read the comments to see how Raven does allow the configuration to be altered.
• Passing arrays, key value pairs, and other collections to SQL stored procedures using table valued parameters – Keith Babinec discusses the support for passing tables of data to SQL Server Stored Procedures via Data Table Parameters, introduced in SQL Server 2008
• Tools for unit testing in JavaScript – Pam Selle takes a high level look at some of the testing frameworks for testing JavaScript code
• Avoid the pick-n-mix branching anti-pattern – Martin Hinshelwood discusses the pick-n-mix branching anti-pattern, discussing real world experiences of it, the problems it introduces, the reasons it comes about, and how you can get out of the anti-pattern.
• X things every JavaScript developer should know: Comparisons – Maurice De Beijer discusses one of the common areas of confusion with JavaScript development, the differences in ways of comparing values and objects. (Note: This site seems to be responding slowly this morning, so may appear down for some of you)
• When a race condition is what you want… – Ayende discusses the difficulties in maintaining a last accessed date when you have thousands of threads accessing a resource. Check out the comments for good discussion of possible solutions.
• Is it Really Better to ‘Return an Empty List Instead of null’? / Part 1 & Is it Really Better to ‘Return an Empty List Instead of null’? – Part 2 – Christian Neumanns discusses API design and looks at if returning an empty list or null is better in this CodeProject article series.

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I got stuck in a traffic jam this morning which cut my Morning Brew preparation time down considerably, so today is also going to be a links only edition I’m afraid.

Software

• NuGet 3.0 CTP 1 Released – Jeff Handley
• West Wind WebSurge – an easy way to Load Test Web Applications – Rick Strahl

Information

• TDD Chess Game Part 9: God Save the Queen – Erik Dietrich
• Analysis vs code review – Eric Lippert
• Ensure You Are Not Adding To Global Scope in JavaScript – Steve Smith
• An Overview of Structured Logging with Serilog – Jason Roberts
• Integrate NodeJS tools in Visual Studio/TFS – Vincenzo Chianese
• Windows Phone ListView and Grouping – Ian Griffiths
• Message passing, performance–take 2 – Ayende
• NServiceBus vs. MassTransit – Leonid Ganeline
• Understanding, Using and Customizing ASP.NET Identity System for Authentication and Authorization – Rahul Rajat Singh

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