The Morning Brew

Software

• jQuery 1.9 Beta 1 Released – As an early Christmas present the jQuery Team announce the release of jQuery 1.9 beta 1. This release is in part a clean up release removing depreciated functionality, but all is not lost, the jQuery Migrate plugin will bring back many of them to allow you to begin transitioning.

Information

• ‘Paste JSON As Classes’ in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC – Anand Paranjape discusses a neat feature added in the Web Tools 2012.2 Release Candidate Update which brings the ability to paste a JSON object into your web project and have it converted to a ,NET class – no more manual creation of classes for deserialisation purposes 🙂
• Elevation of Privilege: Drawing Developers into Threat Modeling – Adam Shostack shares a whitepaper discussing the principles and motivation for the creation of the Elevation of Privilege card game from the Microsoft SDL Team linked to a few issues back
• Understanding the Decorator Pattern – Abul Kayes shares a good writeup of the purpose and use of the Decorator design pattern in this CodeProject article
• Key qualities of a good unit test – Kenneth Truyers has a short series on effective unit testing – this is part two which looks at the key properties of a good unit test, something which is always worth reminding ourselves. Be sure to check out parts 1 and 3 as welll which look at writing effective tests, and testing and refactoring legacy code.
• A sample real-time web application using Ember.js, REST API, and SignalR – ‘quiit’ shares an article on The CodeProject walking through the creation of a web application using Ember.js with a REST like API and using SignalR persistent connection for realtime updating.
• Conditional loading of resources with mediaqueries – Christian Heilmann discusses some techniques for ensuring that only the CSS files needed for the particular resolution of your site are loaded when working with Responsive Web Design practices.
• CSS Click Events – Hugo Giraudel takes a look at some techniques for working with Click events in HTML pages using only CSS techniques, and no JavaScript.
• Using HTML5/Javascript in Windows Store apps: Data access and storage mechanism (I) – Windows Store apps development support – Robin Yang discusses some techniques available for storage of data in Windows Store applications, briefly covering Application Data, File API , HTML5 Web Storage, Indexed Database API and remote data access

Community

• CraftyCoders – CraftyCoders is a new principles focused usergroup running out of the West Midlands here in the UK. Their first meeting will be a session on Taming your Dependencies with Ian Russell looking at the practices surrounding Dependency Injection, taking place on Thursday 17 January in Bromsgrove. Signup on the Eventbrite page

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