The Morning Brew #1315
Posted by Chris Alcock on Thursday 14th March 2013 at 09:34 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Bad news this morning in the form of the Google Announcement that they will be discontinuing Google Reader in July. Google Reader is an essential part of my Morning Brew production process, and, judging from my feed stats, the single biggest means of people consuming The Morning Brew. Finding a replacement is going to be hard, and I encourage any of you who have a suggestion to let me know.
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- Preview of the new Managed Client for Windows Azure Mobile Services – Johan Laanstra highlights the news of a new preview release of the Windows Azure Mobile Services Managed Client library which adds support for Windows Phone 7.5 and portable class libraries along with a number of other additional features.
- Azure Mobile Services managed client – portable libraries and breaking changes – Carlos Figueira also discusses the increased platform support of the Managed Client for Windows Azure Mobile Services in the latest pre-release along with looking in detail at the various breaking changes introduced in this release
- Building a Game With JavaScript: Making Things Move – Christopher Bennage continues his series of posts looking at creating a game in JavaScript with a further discussion of moving elements around the screen
- Wrap inserts in a transaction for faster performance – SQLDenis shares a useful performance tip for any code which is executing multiple insert statements – wrapping them all in a single transaction will significanlty increase the performance of the insert versus implicit transactions round each insert.
- Learn CSS Layout – ‘Learn CSS Layout’ is a nice tutorial which covers all the key aspects of using CSS for layout, going right from the basics all the way through to the use of media queries and frameworks for responsive design.
- Using PowerShell to automate the build process of your Windows Phone app – Jeremy Alles explores the use of PowerShell scripts to automate the build process of a Windows Phone application, sharing an implementation he uses to build 2Day his Windows Phone application
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- Globalization: Know Your Enemy – Guy Smith-Ferrier will be presenting his latest presentation ‘Globalization: Know your Enemy’ for the first time at the Gloucestershire.NET User Group on Wednesday 8th May. The session will explore all of the important cultural differences to consider in software which are becoming increasingly important as the world shrinks (technologically speaking).
Looks like Feedly are stepping up to (seamlessly!) replace Google Reader, even creating a Reader compatible API for third parties.
http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
I’d hate to see the morning brew go…
I use Feedly as a google reader replacement http://www.feedly.com
Hello Chris,
I too was dismayed to hear about the demise of Google Reader – I’ve been using it now for 10+(?) years, as my daily digest of news. Ironically, since you started the fantastic “Morning Brew”, I’ve tended to not bother to read so much original .NET-related news, instead relying on you to curate the best bits! Also, I’m increasingly relying on Zite on the iphone to bring me news, which has the advantage of pushing content I’d not explicitly subscribed to, unlike RSS.
What about switching to a mailing list? It’s not very sexy, but does the trick.
Phil Murphy
Google Reader is only a RSS client. Firefox has RSS extensions, Chrome has RSS extensions.
https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+rss
https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+rss
And there are also standalone programs.
Feedly is pretty good, though I’ve not used it since moving to Windows Phone, as they don’t have a client for that.
http://www.feedly.com/index.html
Hello Chris,
Google Reader is my perfered way to browse the web.
I started using feedly as soon as I heard the bad new, it look very nice and offer a very smooth migration from Reader. Tooks me 10-15 minutes to be confortable with it but now it’s adopted 🙂
vote here
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/tell-google-not-discontinue-google-reader/ChtzMkLf
Let me second Feedly. I have been using it since Google removed Readers social features. It is a superior product to Reader in pretty much every way and it can automatically import all your feeds from Reader!
Reading the news on Google Reader made me switch to Live Bookmarks feature of FireFox that I actually like, but definitely it is dumb move on the Google part, this is what I guess is happening when the stock reaching sky high prices, on the Android side also a change.
I’ll also second Sacha’s recommendation – I switched to feedly last night after seeing it in one of the many “Google Reader Alternatives” posts which appeared (in Google Reader!), and it looks good. What’s more, they’ve said that they’ll provide a backend to replace Google Reader (it just links with it at the moment) and provide a seamless transition away from Google.
It third Feedly. Started today. Good going, people at Feedly. Could this be the biggest/fastest user migration ever?
Try feedly. Its not that bad. I just started using it again today after hearing about the google reader announcement.
It has an ios/android/web client.
I’m still shopping around for a new reader, but it’ll likely be either Feedly or Newsblur.
+1 for feedly. I tweeted for suggestions this morning.
Love the way they’ve stepped up to make the transition from Reader so seamless I thought I was missing something and that it was just a Google Reader API display tool.