The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 Released – John Montgomery announces the third CTP release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, an update focused on addressing bugs in Visual Studio
• NETMF 4.4 Beta out on GitHub – Colin Miller highlights the move and clean up associated with the move onto hosting the .NET Micro Framework project on GitHub, as well as their beta 4 release.

Information

• Securing Web.API Requests With JSON Web Tokens – Garry Pilkington continues his series of posts looking at securing ASP.NET applications, taking a look at the use of JSON Web Tokens to secure ASP.NET WebAPI services
• Lazy Evaluation of Generators in ES6 – K.Scott Allen digs deeper into ECMAScript 6 Generators looking at the behaviour of Generator functions and their lazy evaluation provided by the capability to execute on demand from the iterator functions.
• Dan Wahlin – Getting Started with TypeScript – Classes, Types and Interfaces – Dan Wahlin highlights last week’s Angular 2 announcements, and takes an introductory look at the use of TypeScript to provide strong typing to your JavaScript.
• Advancing JavaScript without breaking the web – Christian Heilmann shares notes and slides from his recent talk discussing how it is a challenge for the web to kep backwards compatibility with the (good and much needed) developments to the ECMAScript language
• Fun Basic Preview – Phillip Trelford shares a preview of his Windows App Store app ‘Fun Basic’ which implements an extended version of Small Basic, and discusses how it was created.
• C# 6.0: Language features and its internals Part 1 – Abhishek Sur kicks off a series looking at the various language features of C#6 and how they are implemented under the covers
• Real-time Meetup.com data crunching using Azure Stream Analytics – Claus Sørensen takes a look at using Azure Stream Analytics in a real world way, looking at extracting information from the stream of Meetup.com event registrations, walking through the process step bt step.
• Little Puzzlers: First Non-Repeating Character & Predict the output challenge (C#) – James Michael Hare and K Bonneau share some little puzzles to get you started, James’ is a coding Kata exercise, and K Bonneau has some output prediction questions based on a short code snippet,
• Searching for text with DocumentDB – Ryan CrawCour discusses concepts behind searching for records using text based data in DocumentDB
• Indexing DocumentDB with Azure Search – Kirk Evans delves deeper into Azure Search looking at using it as a solution for searching with DocumentDB, walking through the process step by step.

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