February 2016
Monthly Archive
Posted by Chris Alcock on 19 Feb 2016 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- F5 – Developing in Docker Containers – version 0.10 of Docker Tools for Visual Studio – Steve Lasker highlights the latest update to the Docker Tools for Visual Studio, which now enable a number of scenarios for use with minimal change to development workflow, yet still have a number of known issues, also outlined in this post.
- Introducing: Elasticsearch with Azure File storage – Hans Krijger highlights some updates to the ElasticSearch Azure Quickstart templates which introduce capabilities for storing data in Azure File storage
- Service discovery – part 2 – Gabriel Schenker continues from hist previous post on Service Discovery as a part of his Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery series, in this part looking at the use of Consul for providing service discovery capabilities
- Avoiding the Service Locator Pattern in ASP.NET Core – K.Scott Allen discusses the Service Locator pattern (or anti-pattern in the context of this article), looking at how the ASP.NET MVC framework makes it a little too easy to start using Service Locator rather than embracing Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control.
- Managing SQL Server Express LocalDB Instances Through SqlLocalDB.exe Utility Tool – Tugberk Ugurlu shares a look at one of the less well known utility tools which enables management of LocalDB database instances on your machine
- Barbaric Development Toolbox: Automate Your Front-end Workflow with Gulp – Getting Started – Jaime González García continues his ‘Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy’ series with a look at improving your front end development workflow using the automation tool Gulp
- Building Efficient UI with React and Redux – Ivan Rogic takes a look at using the React library with the Redux implementation of the Flux Architecture and Immutable.js, giving a good taste of the use of this stack for front end development
- Go, maps and randomization – Cellfish discusses dictionaries, their implementation in .NET and Go, and how they manage the hashing of the keys, and potential for collisions
- Trie based routing – Ayende continues discussion of routing, continuing looking at the performance characteristics of MVC routing, and how for RavenDB they optimised, and how for Kestrel they implemented a better system.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 18 Feb 2016 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- FeatureToggle v3.3 Released – Jason Roberts announces the release of FeatureToggle 3.3, the latest version of his library for making it easy to toggle functionality in your application on and off. This new release introduces two new ways of toggling features
- Visual Studio Code – NEW FEATURES: 11 Funtastic Editor Updates (New Themes, Keyboard Accessibility, Screen Reader, Localization, Ligatures, Find Widget, Input Handling, Cursor Style, Auto Save, File Picker, & IntelliSense Documentation) – Ed Price highlights the new features included in the Visual Studio Code January release, focusing on the improvements to the editing experience
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- Azure Bites: Background tasks for your web site using Azure WebJobs – Jon Hilton takes a look at the Azure WebJobs feature, and looks at its use along with Storage Queues
- The Evolution of Interactive C# – Miguel de Icaza look back at the evolution of the Interactive C# shells which now exist
- The Joy of Live Coding – CodePen, REPLs, TOPLAP, Alive, and more – Scott Hanselman also discusses the joys of live coding in a REPL environment, and looks at some of the other environments which provide instant gratification for our coding efforts
- Equality and Equivalence – Bill Wagner picks up a Twitter conversation in more detail, discussing the differences in types of equality
- The cost of routing – Ayende takes a look at the performance of the routing system running under Kestrel, looking at where the time in a request is spent
- Remote Level Control in Serilog using Seq – Nicholas Blumhardt takes a look at a recent improvement to the Serilog Seq sink which allows for more easy dynamic control of the logging level within applications
- Tips for Speeding Up Visual Studio – James Chambers shares some tips on improving the performance of your Visual Studio instance, ranging from hardware changes (get an SSD) to tweaking features.
- Attic – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at implementing a Zork game engine, continuing exploring how the strings in the game are encoded
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 17 Feb 2016 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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