The Morning Brew

Software

• Get dotMemory 4.1 Beta – The JetBrains team announce the beta release of version 4.1 of their dotMemory Profiler

Information

• Starting Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) Development 101 Series: Lesson 1 of n – Web Jobs – &
• Starting Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) Development 101 Series: Lesson 2 of n – Table Storage – ‘BALSHARFI’ kicks off a new series of posts looking at the use of Azure as a Platform as a Service provider, exploring the use of Web Jobs and Table Storage Services in these first two parts
• Calculating Standard Deviation with Array.map and Array.reduce, In JavaScript – Derick Bailey takes a look at the use of the map reduce pattern in JavaScript to generate Standard Deviations on sets of data
• The Art of Benchmarking – Matt Warren discusses the difficulties and complexity of performing Benchmarking
• Deploying multiple virtual directories to a single Azure Website – Tom Hollander takes a look at hosting multiple applications as Virtual Directories on a single Microsoft Azure Website host.
• ASP .NET Authentication : OWIN middleware component for browser based sign-on using WsFederation – Ganesh Shankaran takes a look at wiring in the NuGet for OWIN WSFederation Authentication
• New DocumentDB quotas – Ryan CrawCour gives some feedback on the Azure DocumentDB Service preview, and announces some increased quotas for the service.

Community

• F#unctional Londoners 2014 – Phil Trelford gives an overview of the happenings at the F#nctional Londoners, a very acitve F# community group in London.
• DevConnections 2014: IntelliTrace, Diagnostics Hub, and .NET Debugging – Sasha Goldshtein shares slides from his two talks at DevConnection 2014, a look at IntelliTrace and the Diagnostics Hub.

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Software

• EF6.1.2 Beta 1 Available – Rowan Miller announces the release of the beat of Entity Framework 6.1.2, a patch release addressing bugs and adding in a couple of community sourced features.

Information

• Features Of ES6 Part 7: Template Literals – K. Scott Allen continues his series looking at the EcmaScript 6 Standard, taking a look at the new string templating support which allows for literals, and placeholders which support expressions and identifiers.
• WinJS Everywhere – Rachel Nizhnikova officially announces the release of WinJS 3.0, discussing its use across multiple plarforms
• The Future of AngularJS – Shyam Seshadri takes a look at the process of moving towards a 2.0 release of AngularJS
• Jump-Location – A Change Directory (CD) PowerShell Command that reads your mind – Scott Hanselman highlights a useful PowerShell extension which makes navigating around the file system much more efficient by applying some intelligence to where you are heading
• Releasing Memory Pressure on Memory Intensive #Azure Roles – Alexandre Brisebois discusses the different modes for Garbage Collection in .NET and looks at how you can modify the mode in Web and Worker roles on the Azure Platform, sharing PowerShell scripts to help in the configuration.
• Implementing F#-inspired "with" updates for immutable classes in C# – Dan Roberts continues his experiments with immutable data structures taking a look at implementing F# like ‘with’ to allow multiple values to be set without generating intermediate objects
• Azure Diagnostics for Virtual Machines – Mike Wood discusses the monitoring and diagnostic capabilities for Azure Virtual Machines, looking at how it has improve and standardised.
• Updates to our platform roadmap – The Internet Explorer team give an update on their development roadmap giving an insight into which of the new browser features they are developing currently and which are for consideration

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• WinJS 3.0 is Here: Cross-browser| Cross-platform – Dr. Doris Chen highlights the first open source release of WinJS
• Windows now offers Developer lifetime developer accounts and benefits – Lee Stott highlights a change in the charging model for Windows Dev Center accounts, now featuring a one off fee and no renewal fees, along with the Dev Center Benefits program which offers app developers a number of supporting services to promote and market their applications.
• Application Insights tools in Visual Studio 2013 Summer Update – Dimah Zaidalkilani shares a look at the Application Insights Tools 2.1 which is included in the Visual Studio 2013 Summer Update
• Azure Websites Scale Better – Data Center Knowledge highlight new scalability options for Microsoft Azure Websites, allowing them to scale beyond 10 instances, and also to integrate with the Azure Virtual Networks

Information

• Spot the defect: randomness – Eric Lippert plays ‘Spot the Defect’ with a look at a seemingly reasonable implementation of Random.Next
• Container Usage Guidelines – Jimmy Bogard shares guidance and best practices for the use of Inversion of Control Containers in the style of the ‘Framework Design Guidelines’
• Over 100 ASP.NET Web API samples – Filip W. discusses the samples from his WebAPI book, and how they are all freely available on Gitub, providing a great resource
• Declarative Physics with PhysicsJS and AngularJS – K.Scott Allen takes a look at combining two successful JavaScript Libraries, and finding that the combination is actually really powerful.
• AngularJS Snippets for Sublime, Visual Studio and WebStorm – John Papa shares some AngularJS Snippets for a range of different IDEs making it ever easier to work with this framework.

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