The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the Web Standards Update – HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor – Scott Hanselman highlights the release of the Visusl Studio 2010 Web Standards Update which brings lots of HTML5 goodness to the Visual Studio (both Express and Professional+ SKUs). The Web Platform and Tools Blog has in depth information about the features in the post ‘Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1‘ and Mads Kristensen, who headed up this work, also has some details on his blog post ‘Web Standards Update – behind the scenes‘
• Portable Library Tools Release – Krzysztof Cwalina – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Krzysztof Cwalina highlights the release of the latest edition of the Portable Library Tools which help you to build libraries in C# and VB.NE which can run on a variety of .NET platforms (XBox, Phone, Client Profile, etc) without recompilation.
• Orchard 1.2 Released – ASP.NET MVC CMS – The Patterns and Practices Guidance Blog highlights the release of version 1.2 of Orchard, the Open Source ASP.NET MVC based CMS. This new release is all about improving performance with a lot of changes in that area
• Project Silk Drop 11 – Karl Shifflet highlights the 11th drop of Project Silk. This drop contains more changes from the advisory board and a review of the JavaScript and increases the number of chapters of documentation available
• Composite Services Guidance – Release Candidate – Francis K. Cheung highlights the release candidate drop of the Patterns and Practices Composite Services Guidance. Additions in this release include improvements to the Inventory Catalog Explorer (ICE) tool along with Capability Composition, Canonical Versioning, and External Routing Configuration samples
• .Net 4 Update GDR (35 fixes and 6 new features) – Greg Duncan highlights the .NET 4 Update General Distribution Release which bundles up hotfixes, along with the portable library tools and HTML5 support into one convenient package.

Information

• HTML5 Web Socket in Essence – Wayne Ye gives a nice tour of the Web Sockets functionality provided in the HTML 5 Specification, explaining its uses, the theory behind it and looking at it in use in a nice example.
• 101 Questions to Ask When Considering a NoSQL Database – Todd Hoff shares a number of questions (not sure if there are actually 101) you should consider asking when you are considering the use of a NoSql Database in your applications.
• Use of a Private Constructor – Chris Eargle takes a look at the use of a private constructor, and discussing some of the myths about their use
• Single Responsibility Principle – discovering violations – Dzmitry Huba discusses the Single Responsibility Principle, looking at some of the common violations of the principle and looking at the solution using decomposition
• Binding A Backbone View To A Model, To Enable and Disable A Button & Solving Backbone’s "this.model.view" Problem With Underscore.js – Derick Bailey continues his exploration of Backbone, continuing with his example from the previous post, and looking at a solution to the “this.model.view” problem involving Underscore.js.

Community

• Microsoft TechDays 2011 event – videos of all the sessions are now live – Eric Nelson highlights the availability of the recordings from the UK Tech Days event held at the end of last month. With sessions ranging from web standards, cloud computing to Phone development there is plenty to see. A number of bloggers have been highlighting their favourites:
  • Don’t miss these two talks on Azure – Marin Beeby
  • UK TechDays – Whats New in Silverlight 5? – Mike Taulty
  • UK Tech Days – MVVM for Silverlight Development – Mike Taulty highlights a session from Laurent Bugnion
  • UK Tech Days – Gill Cleeren on WCF RIA Services
  • UK Tech Days – Rich Griffin on Expression Blend

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