The Morning Brew

As a few of you pointed out to me, Monday was a public holiday in the US, hence my lack of content for yesterday’s edition.

Software

• CSLA 4 version 4.3.11 beta available – Rockford Lhotka announces the beta release of the latest update to his CSLA application framework. As is usual, this release addresses reported issues, along with adding a few of new features.

Information

• Visual Studio Dark Theme – Monty Hammontree, Director of User Experience for the Developer Tools division discusses the new Dark Theme for Visual Studio 11, showing what the dark theme will look like, and discussing the key UX features of the theme.
• Windows Explorer Preview Pane for .vb files – Kirill Osenkov shares a nice tip for adding previews of source code (VB) in the Explorer preview pane. I’m sure this technique could also be applied to C#, JavaScript and any other language you care too.
• Free eBook’ed guidance – "Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud" & Mighty Metro Morphing! – Design case study of morphing a HTML5 page into a Windows 8 Metro app – Greg Duncan highlights a new Patterns and Practices guidance e-book looking at developing Windows Phone 7.5 applications which interact with the cloud, and also highlights a case study which looks at migrating a HTML5 page into being a Windows 8 Metro style application.
• My take on Win8/Metro – John V Petersen shares his notes and thoughts on Windows 8 and Metro applications following on from a Developer Camp event focusing on Win8.
• Getting Started on Line-of-Business HTML5 App – Part 4 Using Modernizr, Polyfills, YepNope – Bruce Kyle continues this series on building LOB application in HTML 5 with a look at the use of Modernizr to assist with working with browsers with partial HTML5 support, and looks at the use of pollyfills to add in missing functionality.
• RabbitMQ for Windows: Headers Exchanges – Derek Greer wraps up his series looking at RabbitMQ with a discussion of using Header Exchanges, walking through an example of them in use.
• Using GitHub for Windows with non-GitHub repositories – Phil Haack discusses and shows how GitHub for Windows can be used with non-GitHub hosted git repositories.
• Creating an efficient HTTP Web Server for .NET Microframework (NETMF) – Laurent Ellerbach discusses the implementation of a very minimal HTTP server for use with the .NET Micro Framework where there is very limited memory available on the device (netduino)
• The Magic of Visual Studio 11 Page Inspector – Sumit Maitra gives a run through of the functionality included in the Visual Studio 11 Page Inspector, one of the best new features (for web devs) in Visual Studio 11.
• Synchronization Domains and Task Parallel Library in C# – Erol Esen takes a look at two different approaches to building multi-threaded applications available in the .NET Framework, exploring synchronization domains and the Task Parallel Library.
• She let me take the computer home. – How did you get started in computers and programming? – Scott Hanselman shares his story of how he got into computing at an early age, and urges you to share your story.

And Finally…..

• ClippyJS – Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia – Clippy (and friends Merlin, Rover and Links) make a return to your screen this time in the web browser with this neat little JavaScript based library for Smore to allow you to provide help and assistance to users in a retro way.

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