February 2012
Monthly Archive
Posted by Chris Alcock on 16 Feb 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Modern Web Development – Part 5 – Shawn Wildermuth presses on with his series looking at the face of modern web development, looking in this part at the ‘joy and pain’ of jQuery Plugins, a great and sometimes frustrating way of getting rich functionality into your applications.
- Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure – Guidance – Bruno Terkaly highlights a new publications from the Patterns and Practices folks at Microsoft which covers the building of hybrid applications on th Windows Azure platform where parts of the application are not hosted on Azure. Greg Duncan has more details of the book in his post ‘"Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure" free ebook and code (RC) "
- NHibernate’s mapping-by-code – the summary – NOtherDev concludes an 18 part series looking at the new ‘mapping by code’ features in NHibernate 3.2, aproaching it from the point of view of a FluentNHibernate user, looking at all aspects of mapping data to objects in NH. Well worth a read.
- Foreach, IEnumerable, IEnumerator, and Duck Typing – Brendan Enrick looks at the use of types in for each statements and chalenges the dea that they have to implement IEnumerable and/or IEnumerator in order to be able to be used there.
- ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor-C#, and VB.NET WebForms – A Tale of Black Magic Voodoo – Matt Honeycutt kicks off a new series of posts looking at taking an existing application written in VB.NET using Web forms and looks at how you can turn it into a hybrid applications running a mix of WebForms and ASP.NET MVC.
- You’ve got your TPL in my MEF. No, you’ve got your MEF in my TPL… – Greg Duncan highlights and article from Jeffrey Juday over on CodeGuru which looks at combining the Managed Extensibility Framework with the Task Parallel Library
- WP7 Sample: A GPS-enabled Phone App in 5 minutes! – Jerry Nixon shares another of his ‘application in 5 minute’ posts looking at Windows Phone 7 platform functionality. This time its the GPS feature which is under the spotlight, with Jerry sharing a video of the application development.
- Understanding Association, Aggregation and Composition – Shivprasad Koirala takes a look at three key concepts in software development, discussing them and looking at how their use can be derived from requirement statements in this CodeProject article
- Hands On With MonoStudio 2015 – Rob Conery discusses a fictional IDE which allows his mind to go on a wander and discuss some of the features he wished he had in IDE’s today.
Community
Skills Matter : In The Brain of Andreas Ohlund, Putting your Events on a Diet – Andreas Ohlund will be presenting an ‘In the Brain of…’ session at Skills Matter on the evening of Monday 20th February where he will explore the concepts of the size of the events your service oriented application transmits, looking at an example from the world of ecommerce to illustrate. The event is free, however registration is required.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 15 Feb 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- WCF Extensibility – Wrapping up – Carlos Figueira wraps up his huge series of posts looking at all aspects of WCF extensibility. I’ve featured a few of Carlos’ 40+ posts on this subject, and now that the series is finished it is a great time to read the whole lot as a single work.
- Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option – Steven Martin announces new pricing for SQL Azure Databases, with significant reductions across all sizes of SQL Azure databases (savings >50%), and also the introduction of a 100MB database size to help people get started at a lower entry cost.
- Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 5.0 Performance Improvements – The Entity Framework Team give a taste of some of the performance improvements they have been making to Entity Framework which will be included in the 5.0 release.
- Quick fun with Mono’s CSharp compiler as a service – David Ebbo takes a look at a not too widely known feature of the Mono implementation of .NET – the fact that it contains a Compiler as a service implementation for C#, and has done for a while. David takes it for a spin in this post, and looks at where it currently holds the advantage over Roslyn.
- A List Apart No. 344: the new Webkit monoculture – Jeffrey Zeldman highlights the latest edition of A List Apart which looks at the recent discussions about vendor prefixes in CSS, with articles from Eric Meyer, Tantek Çelik and Lea Verou
- Build Your Own Slide Presenter: Part 2 – K. Scott Allen continues his series looking at creating a Slid Presenter using HTML5 and JavaScript, today looking at moving between slides using the keyboard.
- 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 14 Using the Windows Phone App Bar – Arturo Toledo continues his series of Windows Phone Metro Design discussion with a look at the use and design of features using the Windows Phone App Bar in its variety of forms.
- WP7 Sample: An Accelerator-based App in 5 Minutes – &
- Proven Marketing Strategies to Promote your Windows Phone App – Jerry Nixon shares another instalment of his Windows Phone 7 Samples series taking a look at building a simple application which uses the Accelerator sensor. Jerry also highlights a whitepaper from the folks at Telerik which discusses marketing your Windows Phone applications on the Marketplace.
- Threading in PowerShell – Oliver Mantl discusses some advanced PowerShell, looking at how you can take advantage of .NET 4 in PowerShell, and exploring threading within PowerShell.
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- Functional Programming eXchange 2012, March 16, 2012, London – Don Syme highlights the 3rd Functional Programming eXchange event to be held in conjunction with Skillls Matter. This event features many big names of the Functional Programming world and covers many different functional languages. Tickets are on sale now for the very reasonable £195
- Skills Matter : Agile Testing UK:Powershell Workshop – Skills Matter are also hosting a Free Evening Event with the Agile Testing Group where Chris Guest will be looking at the use of PowerShell in scripting on the evening of Monday 27th February.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 14 Feb 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Bad Metaphors – Eric Lippert discusses some of the bad metaphors which we all use to describe object oriented programming, discussing how the concept of classes and inheritance are actually quite different from the real world
- Introducing TryJoinads.org & TryJoinads (I.) – Asynchronous programming – Tomáลก Pet?í?ek introduces the new TryJoinads website. Joinads are a research extension of F# computation expressions, and the TryJoinads site makes use of the open source nature of the F# Compiler and its ability to run inside Silverlight to allow you to experiment with this extension directly in your browser.
- SignalR powered by Service Bus – Clemens Vasters discusses the concept of SignalR as a key value message bus, and discusses his contribution to the project, a Windows Azure backplane which allows SignalR to easily scale out over multiple nodes.
- Rx and Time related operators – Bnaya Eshet continues his exploration of the Reactive Extensions discussing the concept of time in relation to the extensions, looking at some of the methods from the framework.
- Parallel processing of concurrent Ajax requests in Asp.Net MVC – Stefan Prodan discusses the standard behaviour of processing ASP.NET MVC Ajax requests in serial due to locking on the session object, and discusses how with careful consideration and some attributes you can improve the performance and have calls processed in parallel.
- WP7 Sample: A Microphone-enabled Phone App in 5 Minutes! – Jerry Nixon continues his Windows Phone 7 series taking a look at the use of the Microphone included in all WP7 devices, sharing a video which shows the building of an application which uses it in 5 minutes
- "Open" for business: using OData in Windows Phone apps – Paul Laberge discusses the OData Protocol and shares the steps required to get up and running with consuming OData in your Windows Phone 7 applications.
- Performance Counter Collection – Christy Henriksson discusses performance counters as a great way of getting to the bottom of performance related issues, looking at how you can go about capturing the information from the counters using a variety of means.
- 6 on 8? Will VB6 be supported on Windows 8? Yep (mostly)! – Greg Duncan highlights two posts on the plans for continued support for the VB6 programming language and the runtime that the applications use on Windows 8
- Build Your Own Slide Presenter : Part 1 – K. Scott Allen kicks off a new series of posts looking at creating a HTML 5 based Slide Show presenter making use of both HTML5 structual markup, CSS and JavaScript. Full source is available on GitHub.
Community
- The Stack – Liverpool .Net User Group – March 2012 – The Stack Usergroup returns for its March event on Monday 19th March at Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool where MattSalmon will be giving a second session on the extensibility of ASP.NET MVC and Adam Burcher will be delivering a session looking at SharePoint Development.
- DDD South West – Call For Speakers – The Developer Developer Developer SouthWest conference is running for the 4th time in late May this year, and today (Tuesday 14th February) is the start of the call for speakers for the event. DDDSW is a nice friendly event and a great one to start speaking at, so if you are an old or new speaker and want to get involved, drop them a line.
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