October 2011

Monthly Archive

The Morning Brew #961

Posted by on 18 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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  • How To Produce Bug-Free Software – Derek Greer discusses the meaning of the term ‘bug’ offering a slight twist on the standard meaning and discussing development practices which can help you eradicate bugs as defined by his definition.
  • Actions in WCF Data Services – Alex James takes a look at the new OData Action feature included in the October WCF Data Services CTP, showing some of the things you can achieve with actions in this release, and some of the capabilities that will be available in the RTM time frame.
  • Using Geospatial Data – The WCF Data Services Team also discuss the inclusion of geospatial data support in the new CTP for non-entity framework providers (currently), showing how you can add geospatial data to your model classes and query against it.
  • Tips For Using Backbone.js Routers With HTML5 PushState – Derick Bailey continues his discussion of Backbone.js with a look at some of the problems he encountered with using Backbone Routers with HTML5 PushState, concluding that you don’t need routers if you are using PushState.
  • A day in the life of compiler bugfixing – Lucian Wischik gives a glimpse into the life of a compiler developer discussing the work that the VB/C# teams are doing now to ensure that the Async functionality of the new language versions works correctly even though the previews seem feature complete.
  • Challenging non-local session scope (session-per-request) – Jeffrey Palermo discusses how he has started to use an NHibernate Session per Transaction rather than request in his applications meaning giving tighter control of when database queries can occur, and is looking to start discussion and get feedback on this practice
  • Viewmodel extractors in ASP.NET MVC – Jef Claes shares a technique he has been using to keep his controllers as lean as possible by moving the mapping from model to ViewModel (and back again) out to a set of ViewModel Extractor classes.
  • Never Mind the Controller, Here is the Orchestrator – Dino Esposito is also looking at the size of his controllers and looking at using a modified Orchestrator component to move logic out of the controller.
  • Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns – Addy Osmani takes a look at some of the key patterns used in developing jQuery Plugins along with discussing practices which will make your plugins better. This is a long article with plenty of code, and jumping off points to further information.

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The Morning Brew #960

Posted by on 17 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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  • Announcing The New SQL Azure Data Sync CTP Release – The Windows Azure Team announce the release of the next SQL Azure Data Sync CTP, now available for trial via the Windows Azure Management Portal and brings improved configuration and management, improvements to filtering and syncing and general availability with no additional registrations.
  • Released: RequestReduce 1.2 with Javascript merge and minify – Matt Wrock announces the release of RequestReduce 1.2, a tool for combining and minification of JavaScript and CSS resources used in your page to help improve page load performance. This release improved a number of aspects of minification and combining process including improved PNG support, expansion of @import directives and better error handling.
  • The C# Yellow Book gets a 2011 refresh… – Greg Duncan highlights the 2011 update to Rob Miles’ C# Yellow Book. This update is a minor one, with some corrections to existing content in the book.
  • Upcoming Mono Releases: Change in Policies – Miguel de Icaza shares some of the details of what’s new in Mono 2.11 and discusses the team’s release plans including a change in focus towards quicker feature development.

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  • Meet the 10K Apart Winners – Jeffrey Zeldman highlights the winners of the 10K Apart competition where the challenge was to build a responsive and inspiring web application in under 10K of images, scripts and markup
  • The New Series of the Windows Azure Bootcamp UK Continues in London & Edinburgh! – Planky highlights the opening of registration for the next two Windows Azure Bootcamps to be run in the UK, in Edinburgh on Firday 11th November and London on Firday 25th November. These bootcamp events provide an excelent way to get up to speed on Windows Azure. Places are limited to register now if you are interested.

The Morning Brew #959

Posted by on 14 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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  • Announcing WCF Data Services Oct 2011 CTP for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 – Abhiram Chivukula of the WCF Data Services Team announces the October 2011 CTP release of WCF Data Services. This release targets .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 introduces new and updated features to the platform including Vocabularies, ODataLib .NET client and server, Actions and Spatial primitives
  • Nancy: v0.8.1 just out the door – Andreas Håkansson highlights a service release of Nancy which addresses some of the high priority bugs found in the 0.8 release
  • Windows Azure Autoscaling Block BETA is out – Grigori Melnik announces the availability of a beta release of the Windows Azure AutoScaling Block, available via NuGet as both binary and source distributions. This release adds new features and improvements including support for email notifications for scaling operations, Application throttling rules and improved configuration.
  • Web Workbench 2.0 – Faster, Minification and Pro – Mindscape announce the release of their second edition of their Web Workbench Visual Studio Extension which adds support for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript to the Visual Studio IDE. Version 2 introduces a pay for model with the ‘Pro’ edition along with a commitment to keeping all the previous V1 functionality available for free.
  • Woohoo! We’re pleased to announce the Microsoft acquisition of Skype has closed – Eric Ligman highlights the completion of the Microsoft acquisition of Skype, an almost 6 month in the making deal

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  • The Stack – Liverpool .Net User Group – November 2011 – The Stack Usergroup in Liverpool (UK) are hosting two sessions from Gill Cleeren on the evening of Monday 21st November. Gill will be delivering a session on Windows 8 Development and WinRT and will also be showing how to build a Windows Phone 7 application from start to finish.
  • Upcoming Free VS ALM Webcasts – Dave McKinstry highlights a series of web casts he will be delivering with Ed Blankenship and Anna Russo looking at the testing features of Visual Studio ALM. Sessions run at the end of this month and during December between 1 and 2 PM CST.

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