The Morning Brew

Software

• Introducing Squirrel for Windows – Paul Betts announces the public beta release of Squirrel for Windows, a ‘simplest thing that actually works’ installer for Windows based applications created in any language.

Information

• Confusing errors for a confusing feature, part two – Eric Lippert shares the second part of his latest poser, looking at the solution to a name resolution challenge which is seemingly impossible until you understand one of the less well know rules of name resolution.
• Quote of the week – hard things – Bob looks at the origin of one of the most famous quotes in programming, and discusses caching, naming and off by one errors
• Performance Quiz #14: Memory Locality etc. Bonus Round! – Rico Mariani follows on from his previous post with a correction, and some revised code with better randomisations
• .NET Just in Time Compilation and Warming up Your System – Abhinaba Basu discusses the process of warming up a system when it is latency sensitive and some of the techniques for performing this before looking in depth at the way in which the CLR JIT actually works.
• Inception-Style Nested Data Formats – Scott Hanselman discusses some of the funkier data formats that exist, including a look at IBM’s JSONx format which takes JSON and turns it into XML.
• Taking the tax (and cost) out of app localization: Multilingual App Toolkit – Palle Petersen highlights a video looking at the latest features of the Multi Lingual App ToolKit
• Build, deploy, anonymize config, zip package, git commit, push from a single command – Omar Al Zabir shares a script which performs a number of project actions which are typically part of your development work flow in one single command.
• Finally… JavaScript source line info in a dump – Brad L highlights a useful new feature of the Windows 8.1 SDK debugger that allows you to investigate JavaScript code down to the line and column in the debugger making identifying performance problems much easier
• Getting Started with ASP.NET vNext by Setting Up the Environment From Scratch – Tugberk Ugurlu's Blog – Tugberk Ugurlu works through the setup of the ASP.NET vNext platform on your development machine, providing detailed notes, and giving you a great platform to build on learning about the framework.
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Specifying Property Types – Ricardo Peres continues his NHibernate Pitfalls series with a look at specifying the types of properties in code mappings.

Community

• One Week in F# – Phil Trellford stands in for Sergey Tihon with a post following the themes of Sergey’s F# Weekly, a great resource for anyone with a keen interest in F#

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