The Morning Brew

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• .NET Micro Framework now supports Visual Studio 2013 – The .NET Micro Framework team announce a new beta release of the SDK which adds in support for Visual Studio 2013
• JetBrains Makes its Products Free for Students – JetBrains makes a pricing adjustment which brings in free personal licenses for students and teachers for their IDE and .NET Tools

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• Supporting Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 – Jeff Handley and the NuGet Team share their plans to support SemVer 2.0.0, and highlight the significant features that this will add to the platform.
• Towards a better console – PSReadline for PowerShell command line editing – Scott Hanselman shares another post about making a better console with a look at PsGet package manager, and PsReadline package for improved command line editing with a bunch of great features including syntax highlighting, Bash-like and zsh like features and undo/redo,
• "Learning to Master Cross-Platform Mobile Development With Xamarin" Free (Name-Email-ware) eBook – Greg Duncan highlights a new e-book from Falafel which available for free, which consolidates Jesse Liberty’s blog posts on Xamarin and Xamarin Forms.
• ECMAScript 6 promises (1/2): foundations – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares the first of two parts on ECMAScript 6 promises, covering the foundations of asynchronous programming in JavaScript
• Unit testing AngularJS with Visual Studio, ReSharper and TeamCity – Mike Larah walks through getting set up with integrated tests as part of your TeamCity build process for your AngularJS Code, making use of Jasmine and PhantomJS
• Writing React components in TypeScript – Dan Roberts takes a look at using TypeScript with Facebook’s React Framework, to gain the benefits of strong typing when working with the framework
• NHibernate Pitfalls: One Shot Delete and Inverse Collections – Ricardo Peres takes a look at the way in which NHibernate performs clearing of child collections, and how it subtly differs from the documented behaviour.
• Be Sure With Azure .NET – Azure Table Storage (Part 1) – Max McCarty continues his series of posts on the Azure Platform which aims to give an overview of the features of the different areas of the platform. This post takes a look at the use of Table Storage, with this first part taking a look at working with NoSQL databases,a nd designing table storage.

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• Announcing the 1.0.0-rc1 of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK – Pranav Rastogi announces the release candidate release of the Azure Web Jobs SDK available as a pre-release package from Nuget
• New D-Series of Azure VMs with 60% Faster CPUs, More Memory and Local SSD Disks – Scott Guthrie announces the new series of Azure Virtual Machine sizes, featuring increased memory allocation, faster CPU and SSD backed disks for increased performance work loads.
• New D-Series Virtual Machine Sizes – Kenaz Kwa also discusses the new Virtual Machine instance sizes
• Git Diff Margin extension – Laurent Kempé shares the latest update to Git Diff Margin, a Visual Studio Extension to show changes against Git controlled files directly in the IDE. This release includes community contributions which increase the supported versions from 2010 to 2014 CTP.

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• Troy Hunt: Your Azure website CPU is going nuts and it’s not your fault – Troy Hunt continues his series sharing his experiences with running a large data, high traffic service on Azure Websites, with a discussion of a strange bit of CPU behaviour he experienced recently.
• The value proposition of Hypermedia – Jimmy Bogard discusses the architectural merits of Hypermedia in terms of REST based APIs and beyond, discussing how the concepts work, and where the value is in such a system.
• Opening Word is Software Development Fail – Erik Dietrich discusses the importance of documentation, and how Word Docs and Wikis are not the ideal way for it to be created.
• Design and document your RESTful API using RAML – Bryan O’Connell discusses a technique for creating documentation for RESTful APIs
• Visual Studio Online Update – Sept 23th – Brian Harry announces the latest batch of features released on the Visual Studio Online platform.

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Today marks another century in the Morning Brew 🙂

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• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 2 (And More) Available – John Montgomery announces the release of the second Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 2 (And More) Available – John Montgomery announces the release of the second Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
• Visual Studio and TFS 2013.4 CTP2 is available – Brian Harry highlights the TFS features included in the latest CTP of the Visual Studio Update 4
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 2 Available – Eric Battalio discusses some of the C++ feature improvements in the Visual Studio Update 4 CTP
• Now Available: Update 3 refresh of Visual Studio 2013 ALM Virtual Machine – Brian Keller announces the availability of ALM Virtual Machine Images for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
• Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 2 is now available – Will Smythe highlights the release of Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 3 which provides interaction with TFS Servers for those on non-Windows Platforms.

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• Ultimate Guide & FAQ to Setting-Up a Windows Phone Development Environment – Nick Landry gives a detailed overview of the setup of a development environment for Windows Phone development
• Ninja Immutable Databases – Robert Young dicusses the concepts of Immutability from a database standpoint
• C# 6.0 What’s New – Filip Ekberg gives a detailed overview of the C#6 language and its new features in the latest edition of DotNetCurry Magazine.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Evaluating the Code – Simon Timms continues his series on evolving existing legacy ASP.NET applications with a discussion of evaluation of the existing code.
• A trip down memory (footprint) lane [Download for the original TextAnalysisTool, circa 2001] – David Anson shares the source to the original version of TextAnalysisTool, discussing it in relation to the .NET version.
• The Caffeinated Coder: Is Caffeine Good or Bad? – John Sonmez discusses the role of caffeine in the life of developers

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