The Morning Brew

Update: As highlighted in the comments (thanks James) I’m speaking tonight at the ChesterDevs Usergroup, giving a session on Web Sockets and SignalR. I believe all the spaces are taken for the event and have been for a while, which is why I’ve not really mentioned. Really looking forward to it – now if only I can convince the Windows Phone 8 emulator to work correctly on my laptop for one of the demos.

Update2: Yes, I broke the HTML, and everything went bold, should all be back to normal now

Software

• SQL Server 2014 – Another of the TechEd announcements this week was the announcement of the next version of SQL Server. SQL Server 2014 will include improved performance and availability over 2012 and will add in memory database capabilities along with improved backup and disaster recovery features
• dotTrace 5.5 EAP: Introducing Subsystems – The team over at JetBrains announce another Early Access Preview programme, this time for dotTrace 5.5. This new version includes subsystem analysis, bookmarking functionality, improved hotspot identification and integration with ReSharper 8 EAP. Check it out, and give feedback to the team.
• What’s New in Fiddler 2.4.4.5 – Eric Lawrence has been working away on Fiddler and announces the release of version 2.4.4.5 which contains some significant performance improvements, some useful improvements to the session list and timeline tab, Web Sockets support and much more.

Information

• An integer division identity – Eric Lippert takes a look at an algebraic identity, which is true in mathematics, and explores if that is the case in performing the same with integer arithmetic in C#, discussing some of the immediate possible failure cases, before looking at a specific case.
• The Top 10 Things to Know When Running SQL Server Workloads on Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Roger Doherty discusses the use of the Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks for running SQL Server instances, sharing a number of important things to be aware of when planning and working with SQL Server in such an environment.
• Building an HTML5 Web Sockets Server with Node.js – Dan Wahlin shares a look at the Node.js Web Sockets server capabilities, constructing a sample which sees a webpage calling to a node based Web Sockets server to retrieve images from Flickr.
• Barbarian Meets Knockout: Knockout.js Observables – Jaime González is on part 2 of a 13 part series looking at the various aspects of using the Knockout client side MVVM framework. This part digs into the use of the Observable type within knockout.
• Scripting .NET Applications with IronPython – Jerome Terry explores adding scripting capabilities to your applications using IronPython as the scripting language, looking at hosting the script engine and running scripts inside an application in this CodeProject article.
• Bing it on, Reactive Extensions! – story, code and slides – Andrei Rinea walks through the creation of the demo app from his recent talk on using the Reactive Extensions, providing a nice introductory sample, along with sharing the completed code and slides from his session.
• Keeping sensitive config settings secret with Azure Websites and GitHub – Phil Lee shares a technique for keeping configuration settings secret when working with GitHib hosted projects which are deployed to Windows Azure Websites

Community

• Skills Matter : Progressive .NET Tutorials May 2013 29-05-13 – All the session recordings from the Progressive .NET Tutorials are now available online, giving you access to some excellent sessions from some great speakers covering all aspect of the cutting edge development technologies, with a focus on single page applications.
• Build and Deployment – CraftyCoders – The CraftyCoders usergroup based in Bromsgrove are hosting an event on the evening of Thursday 20th June, where there will be three mini-sessions from group members sharing how they go about the build and deployment process.

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