The Morning Brew #1015
Posted by Chris Alcock on Thursday 5th January 2012 at 09:32 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- FrazzledDad: 31 Days of Testing – Day 22: Why Collaboration Matters (A Real World Example)` – Jim Holmes returns from the holidays with the next part of his series on Testing. This post is a repost of an article from Jon Kruger discussing the role and importance of collaboration between QA and Development
- Your First Metro style App in JavaScript
& Metro style JS Apps in Visual Studio 11 – Chris Sells kicks off a series of posts looking at building Metro style applications using JavaScript and HTML, looking at the basics of the application, packaging the application, and the Visual Studio tooling so far. - Mango Sample: 5 Must-Have Animations: Part 1, Part 2 &Part 3 – Jerry Nixon continues his series of posts looking at samples and concepts for Windows Phone 7.1 Mango development. This mini-series of three parts looks at the importance of animation in Windows Phone applications and exploring the use of the various animations.
- Why my CI server gives me a false sense of security – Mark Pearl discusses a situation which arose where his Continuous Integration server started giving false results due to tests running against old versions of assemblies, and outlines two key practices to ensure you don’t fall foul to this type of error.
- Four Philosophies behind Technology Choices – Paul Stovell discusses the 4 different philosophies which underpin most people’s decision making, looking at what they might mean in the .NET / Development arena.
- Web Development Recipes now in print; January magazine – The Pragmatic Programmers give an update on their latest titles and announce the availability of PragPub magazine’s January edition, discussing the importance of writing tests first, Agile practices, and Scala
- ALM Summit 2011 recordings available on Channel9 – Nick J Trogh highlights the availability of the recordings of the sessions from the ALM Summit 2011 held in November now available for your viewing pleasure on Channel9
- IE6 usage in the US has now officially dropped below 1% – Bruce Kyle highlights the significant news that Internet Explorer 6 usage in the US, Czech Republic, Mexico, Ukraine, Portugal and the Philippines has now dropped below that magic 1% level.
Thanks for the mention.
Great list of resources there.
// Jerry Nixon