2016 March

March 2016

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The Morning Brew #2059

Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Mar 2016 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

Further thanks today for the barrage of comments on yesterdays post – it means a lot 🙂

The other administrative news is that tomorrow (Friday) and Monday are public holidays here in the UK for Easter, so as is traditional for The Morning Brew, I will be having a break from posting, returning with what is usually a bumper edition on Tuesday.

Software

Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio – John Lam shares a look at the preview release of R Tools for Visual Studio, bringing support for the the data science programming language to Visual Studio
Cross-Platform Messaging for iOS, Android, and Windows – Pierce Boggan announces a new plugin for Xamarin and Windows which makes working with messaging aspects of the platforms upon which your code runs easier to work with

Information

The role of logs – Ayende shares his thoughts on the different levels of logging, discussing the standard model of Debug-Info-Warn-Error-Fatal, and suggesting that perhaps fewer levels can work just as well.
How to *really* break the internet. – Dylan Beattie discusses the dangers of dependencies on external code following the removal of 250 modules from the NPM package manager by a package author, and the disruption this has caused
How to Left Pad, for real – Leon Bambrick also discusses the removal of packages, looking at the code to provide the functionality of one of the most used packages which was removed
Looking at JavaScript with "new" eyes: Digging into the specs to learn more about the new operator – Leo Balter takes a look at the specs for JAvaScript to learn more about the use of the new operator
SpecFlow 2 Cheat Sheet – Jason Roberts shares an updated edition of his Cheat Sheet for Specflow, updated for Version 2
The Monsters Weekly – Episode 17 – ‘Structured Logging with Serilog in ASP.NET Core’ – The ASP.NET Monsters share a look at the use of the Structured Logging Framework Serilog
Based on your project, we have identified extensions you may find helpful – Kevin Babcock shares a useful tip to disable the Clippy like ‘we have identified extensions you might find useful’ message when opening HTML files
Social TagHelpers for ASP.NET Core – Muhammad Rehan Saeed shares tag helpers for ASP.NET Core applications which provide the capabilities to output OpenGraph, Author, Twitter Cards, Google Plus, and Pinterest support on your pages
Get A Data-Attribute Value From The Selected DataList Option – Derick Bailey takes a look at associating additional information with the elements of a Data List in HTML based applications
Dam | Fabulous adventures in coding – Eric Lippert continues with his interesting series looking at the implementation of a Zork engine in OCaml, digging further into the implementation of instructions