The Morning Brew

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• OneNote is now (even more) free! – Brad Corob highlights the great news that more OneNote features are now available for free

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• Generators in ECMAScript 6 – K.Scott Allen takes a look at an example of the ECMAScript Generators syntax, looking at their declaration and use
• End-to-End Testing with Aurelia and Protractor – Rob Eisenberg shares a post from Vildan Softic, the Aurelia team member in charge of testibility, looking at the use of Protractor to test Aurelia applications
• What’s this Owin Stuff About? – Anders Abel gives an overview of the OWIN Interface, and why it has risen to prominence as the way of creating ASP.NET Web Applications
• ASP.NET Web Api: Understanding OWIN/Katana Authentication/Authorization Part I: Concepts – John Atten kicks off a new series looking at how Identity and OWIN play together, building from the ground up, and starting out in this post with a look at the key concepts
• Implement OAuth JSON Web Tokens Authentication in ASP.NET Web API and Identity 2.1 – Part 3 – Taiseer Joude is also writing about Identity and ASP.NET, building Simple Membership system using ASP.NET Identity 2.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and AngularJS, looking at OAuth to access APIS
• The Joel Test Updated For Programmers – John Sonmez discusses the original Joel Test, and shares his own ‘test’ for programmers to use to evaluate themselves rather than their organisation
• Break Away From XML Configurations with ConfigR – Rion Williams takes a look at the ConfigR libarary for managing and providing configuration to applications
• New ways to quickly create a Code Map – Jean-Marc Prieur shares a look at the Code Map features of Visual Studio Ultimate edition which provide a nice way to view and navigate the dependencies of your code.

Community

• ScottGu Azure event in London on March 2nd – Scott Guthrie joins the UK Azure User Group for a Morning of Azure Demos on Monday 2nd March at The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre, Blackfriars, London. The event is free to attend, but registration is required.

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• Announcing Limited Preview for Visual Studio Online Code Search – Biju Venugopal announces the limited preview of Code Search on the Visual Studio Online Platform, featuring more than just full text searching, the Code Search Preview understands the structure of your code allowing you to better direct your searches

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• JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with Fayde – Scott Hanselman highlights what may be the final nail in the Flash (and Silverlight) plugin’s coffin – the ability to run SWF and Silverlight applications using only JavaScript.
• Cross-Platform AutoMapper (again) – Jimmy Bogard talks further about cross platform support for AutoMapper, looking at getting it working with the new style refereces in CoreCLR and vNext projects
• Roslyn Code Gems – Performance Goals – K.Scott Allen highlights some of the wonderful things you can learn from reading the Roslyn Source Code
• Using JavaScript in WebForms apps? Have I the webinar for you – Julian Bucknall discusses the use of ‘Strict’ mode in JavaScript to help write better less error prone JavaScript, and highlights a Webinar event he is hosting on the subject too.
• Condition Coverage Explained in IL – The NCover team dive down to the IL level to discuss how code coverage works with contirional statements
• Tasks, Monads, and LINQ, New Task APIs in .NET 4.6 & Async/Await Limitation – ‘igolovkine’ shares a look at Task based programming, the use of Monads and Async / await in these three CodeProject articles

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• EF6.1.3 Beta 1 Available – Rowan Miller announces the availability of Entity Framework 6.1.3 Beta 1, a bugfix release which is expected to RTM next month
• It’s out! The first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones – Ahmed Waheed highlights the release of the first technical preview of Windows 10 for Windows Phone, available for Windows Insiders
• Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones – Kyle Pflug discusses the Internet Explorer component of the Windows 10 Technical Preview for Windows Phone

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• Overriding filters in ASP.NET MVC 6 – Filip W takes a look at the changes in ASP.NET MVC 6 with regard to overriding filters, something which used to have built in (if limited) functionality to perform the task.
• Conditional Access Operator in C# 6.0 – K. Scott Allen resumes his series looking at the features of C#6, taking a look at the conditional access operator
• Long Lived Codebases: Architecture Gardening, Rewrites, and Automated Tests – Jeremy D Miller continues his series discussing experiences gained from maintaining StructureMap over the past decade, sharing thoughts on evolving the architecture, performing re-writes of a code base and the power and false sense of security of automated tests
• Aurelia – Day Two – Byteflux continues sharing experiences and thoughts on the use of Rob Eisenburg’s new Client side JavaScript Framework Aurelia
• Barbaric Basics: Web Workers – Jaime González García takes a look at the use of Web Workers in JavaScript to perform background tasks
• Introducing GitFlow for Visual Studio – Jakob Ehn shares an Extension for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 which helps improve tooling for working with Git using the GitFlow approach
• Dotnet by Example: Starting an OWIN ASP.NET server on Raspberry PI 2 automatically at boot up – Joost van Schaik takes a look at using a Raspberry Pi as a web server running ASP.NET via OWIN
• .NET Rocks! – Making a Thousand Podcasts with Carl and Richard – Congratulations to Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin on their 1000th podcast together under the .NET Rocks banner, (and for the 1100th show – an impressive milestone).

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• TouchDevelop – TouchDevelop goes open-source – Michał Moskal announces the news that the Microsoft Research Project ‘TouchDevelop’ is now an open source project
• Microsoft Research makes Touch Develop open source – Susan Ibach also shares the news of the further opening up of this tool

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• Improve performance by optimizing queries for ASP.NET Identity and other Membership Providers – Pranav Rastogi shares two database indexing suggestions to help improve the performance of ASP.NET Identity and ASP.NET Universal Providers
• To Repository Or NOT – Sacha Barber takes a look at unit testing of code which makes use of Reporitories versus code that directly uses Entity Framework
• Some considerations on asynchronous execution – Paulo Zemek delves down below the different implementations behind asynchronous execution and looks at some of the common truths in async programming
• 9 New Visual Studio 2013 Extensions – Terrence Dorsey highlights 9 new or nearly new Visual Studio 2013 extensions which provide useful functionality within the IDE in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
• 11 Things About JavaScript Functions that .NET Developers Should Know: Part 1 – Dhananjay Kumar kicks off a series looking at similarities and differences between JavaScript Development and C# Development
• GitHub Language Correlation for Jan 1 2014 – Feb 1 2015 – Matt Sampson takes a look at some statistics for Programming Language use from GitHub

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• CoffeeScript 1.9 is Available, Introduces Generators Support – Sergio De Simone highlights the 1.9 release of CoffeeScript, the language which compiles down to JavaScript, which now includes support for ECMAScript 6 Generators

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• Back to Basics: UTC and TimeZones in .NET Web Apps – Rick Strahl tackles the complexities of storing and working with Times in .NET applications, exploring the slightly scattered APIs in the Framework which cater to these needs for conversion and representing
• Thoughts On End to End Testing of Browser Apps – K.Scott Allen discusses the costs and benefits of End To End Testing of web/browser based applications
• Why Single Page Application Views Should be Hydrated on the Client, Not the Server – Chris Love joins the debate on server vs client side rendering of single page client side MVC applications
• Implementing Interfaces in F# Using Object Expressions – Jonathan Wood explores the implementation of interfaces in F# looking at the implementation of IDisposable
• Add context to IEnumerable<> elements – Alex Siepman takes a look at enhancing IEnumberables with context like current, previous, next, preceding, etc

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• ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 3.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Release – Yishai G announces the latest batch of releases from the ASP.NET Team, addressing 13 issues
• Automatic code formatter released to GitHub – Immo Landwerth shares a post from Jared Parsons looking at a tool based on Roslyn which applies the .NET Team’s code style to code automatically formatting it in line with their policy.

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• Announcing: Running Ruby on Rails on IIS8 (or anything else, really) with the new HttpPlatformHandler – Scott Hanselman takes a look at HttpPlatformHandler and how it allows other languages and frameworks to be hosted under IIS.
• Security Headers using OWIN – Ugo Lattanzi discusses some of the common and less common security headers, and explores setting those to provide security features in your OWIN based applications
• Why building highly scalable applications is hard – Part 2 – Richard Florance continues this series looking at application scalability, in this part looking at hot the attributes and resources in current computer systems can affect latency, throughput and concurrency
• Creating Iterables In ECMAScript 6 – K.Scott Allen takes a look at how you go about implementing Iterables using ECMAScript6 with a simple worked example
• How Actors Recover from Failure – Andrew Skotzko discusses the use of Actor Frameworks and providing supervision to help recover from failures

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• Git 2.3 has been released – ‘mhagger’
• [Announcement] OData Web API 5.4 Release – Congyong
• [Announcement] ODataLib 6.10.0 Release – Layla Liu

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• TypeScript and RequireJs – Kevin Logan
• Typescript Support in Atom Editor for Windows – Derik Whittaker
• How I Decide which Web Front-End Framework to Use – Rami Sayar
• No Bugs Journey Episode 1: Inventory – Eric Gunnerson
• Authorization As a Service,the coolest thing for LOB – ‘petsablog’
• Writing a F# Type Provider – Aaron Powell
• Programmer IS A Career Path, Thank You – Eric Dietrich
• Data Access using ServiceStack – Daniel Santillanes
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #2 – Paul Mooney
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Do you copy that? – Federico Andres Lois via Ayende
• GitHub for the Roslyn Team – Immo Landwerth sharing a training video from Jared Parson

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• Umbraco – Security alert – Update ClientDependency immediately – Umbraco Team

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• Ways and Advantages of Migrating JavaScript Code to TypeScript – Vadim Lomshakov
• FizzBuzz TDD kata – using Reactive Extensions – Dror Helper
• Rx Challenge #2 – Bnaya Eshet
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Filtering an Unloaded Collection – Ricardo Peres
• .NET Rocks! – Announcing Aurelia with Rob Eisenberg – Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (PodCast)
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Compare – Conclusions – Federico Andres Lois (Via Ayende)
• Visual Studio Unit Testing Examples – Dan Hellem
• Genetic Algorithms in C# Part 4 – The Travelling Salesman – John Newcombe,
• Using advanced diagnostics to debug issues in Cloud Load Test – Prashasti Gupta
• What Will Save Us from the Dark Side of CSS Pre-Processors? – Lyza Danger Gardner

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