The Morning Brew

I’m expecting a busy blogging week this week with the // BUILD conference this week….

Software

• Package validation in NuGet Package Explorer – Marcin Miko?ajczak of SymbolSource.org shares a useful extension for the NuGet Package Explorer allowing you to validate your symbols packages for your projects ensuring that your packages contain all the correct symbols for your assemblies.
• "Mouse without Borders" utility from Microsoft Garage (Software KVM + Shared Clipboard + Files) – Greg Duncan highlights ‘Mouse without Borders’ a tool that allows you to share a single mouse and keyboard over multiple machines, as well as providing clipboard synchronisation and drag and drop file copy between machines.
• Chutzpah – Chutzpah 1.2.0 Released – Matthew Manela announces the release of Chutzpah 1.2.0, his JavaScript test runner which can be run from the command line and Visual Studio. This new release is available as NuGet packge, source on Codeplex, and also in the Visual Studio Gallery and provides a way of running JavaScript tests in command line and browser.
• Sync Framework Toolkit now available for download – Sreedhar Pelluru announces the release of the Sync Framework Toolkit which provides easy means for creating disconnected applications with data synchronisation supported over multiple platforms

Information

• New Release of SQL Azure – Shaun Xu discusses the latest update to the Sql Azure Platform, looking at the version increase and the new features of the management tooling.
• A Lap Around the New Amazon Web Services Toolkit for Visual Studio – Richard Seroter takes a look at the newly released Amazon Web Services Toolkit for Visual Studio which brings a number of great features for working with AWS services to the Visual Studio IDE
• Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript with ‘Promises’ – Matt Podwysocki and Amanda Silver take a look at the use of promises (or deferreds) in JavaScript to make asynchronous programming easier, exploring their implementation in jQuery and Dojo.
• Why I Prefer JavaScript Over CoffeeScript – Davy Brion shares his opinions on the use of CoffeeScript to write JavaScript versus writing JavaScript natively
• HTML5 Platformer: the complete port of the XNA game to <canvas> with EaselJS – David Rousset shares and discusses his efforts in porting the XNA 4.0 platformer game sample to HTML 5 using canvas for the rendering, discussing some of the interesting points in the code, and sharing the full code.
• Automating Azure 1.4 Packaging using MSBuild and CSPack- via Iain Hunter – Eric Nelson highlights a series of posts from Iain Hunter discussing his work migrating an ASP.NET MVC 3 application to the Windows Azure platform, discussing the decision to use Azure, working with SQL Azure, and looking at automating package creation for your application to make it easier to deploy to Azure.
• Writing Maintainable Code – Michael Williamson discusses the art and science of creating good maintainable code discussing some principles which can help, illustrating with examples.
• Mapping a Route with Directions using the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) – Brian Lagunas continues his exploration of the Bing Maps WPF control with a look at using the routing and directions web services and combining them with the map display, building a working sample.
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Lazy Properties and Closed Sessions &Entity Refresh – Ricardo Peres continues his series of posts looking at common pitfalls developers may fall into when using the NHibernate ORM, taking a look at problems using Lazy Loaded properties when the session is closed, and looking at refreshing entities with up to date data from the database.

Community

• First RavenDB webinar is now on YouTube – Ayende announces the availability of the recording of the first RavenDB webinar session on YouTube (in multiple 15 minute chunks)
• Functional Programming eXchange 2012: Call for abstracts – Rob Pickering announces the call for abstracts for the Functional Programming eXchange 2012 to be held at Skills Matter in London on Friday 16th March 2012

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