The Morning Brew

Short edition today due to hellish traffic.. should be back to normal tomorrow.

Software

• Bug Fixes: Glimpse 1.0.1 – The Glimpse team follow up the recent V1.0 release, with a release which targets reported issues with updates for all thei NuGet packages.
• Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes guide …"shipped"! & Updates to the Test Tooling and Upgrade guides …"shipped"! – Willy-P. Schaub announces the release of 2 new guidance packages, one looking at the use of the Microsoft Fakes for imporving the isolation in unit tests, and the second giving a guide to the Coded UI Testing tools in Visual Studio / TFS.
• JSON Debugger visualizer in Visual Studio 2012 – Serge van den Oever highlights a useful little Debug Visualiser which gives an overview of JSON data in a tree form

Information

• Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption – The Windows Azure team give the full details of the recent outage which affects Windows Azure Storage Blobs, Tables and Queues across all regions, explaining the root causes, the recovery, and things that will be done in the future to avoid it happening again.
• SignalR, Filters and ServiceStack – Filip W takes a look at applying the same techniques from his recent post looking at SignalR, exploring how you can do the same kind of thing to integrate other web frameworks
• ASP.NET Web API Logging and Troubleshooting – Pablo M. Cibraro discusses the ASP.NET Framework’s built in mechanisms for logging and troubleshooting, taking a look at Error Detail Policy and Tracing.
• Automated code quality testing using Roslyn – Claus Asbjørn Sørensen takes a look at how the Roslyn framework can be used to write automated code quality rules, allowing you to easily test for compliance to guidelines such as Injection, naming conventions, etc.

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Software

• AngularJS support for ReSharper – Matt Ellis highlights the availability of a plugin which adds support for AngularJS to ReSharper with auto complete for all the attributes and HTML5 data prefixes, along with snippets and Live Templates.
• Parallel.js: A JavaScript Multicore Processing Library Using Web Workers – Devon Govett highlights Parallel.JS a wrapper round the JavaScript Web Workers which brings easier parallel programming to your JavaScript based applications. Also check the comments for some links to other similar frameworks

Information

• Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start – 8 Hours of FREE Training Videos & Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start – Over 6 hours of free ASP.NET video training – Scott Hanselman and Jon Galloway highlight the availability of the recordings of their 1 day introduction to building web applications in ASP.NET session recorded last week. The video series looks at the range of technologies in the ASP.NET stack, ranging from Web Forms to SignalR, and featuring a guest appearance from Damien Edwards.
• Monads, part three – Eric Lippert continues his series on Monads reviewing the functionality provided by monad types, and establishing rules for Monads, exploring the commonalities between the types
• scriptcs – Living on the edge in C# without a project on the wings of Roslyn and Nuget – Glenn Block looks back on his recent Node.js experiences and looks at what parts of that development style can be brought back to C#/.NET, discussing how Roslyn changes the game for implementing scripting like behaviours.
• Want to learn HTML5 Game Development – Lee Stott highlights Yeti Bowl a teaching siolution which covers Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Web looking at the building of a game
• HMAC authentication in ASP.NET Web API – Piotr Walat discusses the use and concepts of HMAC authentication, and looks at how it can be implemented in ASP.NET Web API
• Mapping an Angular Resource Service to a Web API – K. Scott Allen continues his AngularJS series with a look at backing a WebAPI Service onto the higher level abstraction for getting data using $resource Services

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event: TDD, where did it all go wrong – The NxtGenUG in Oxfordshire welcome Ian Cooper for a session on Tuesday 5th March reflecting back on the last 10 years of Test Driven Development, and some of the problems which have crept into test suites all across the land

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