The Morning Brew

Closed the laptop too quickly again this morning, which meant it slept before it finished posting – still just about morning here though, so not a complete failure!

Software

• Glimpse 1.5.0 released – The Glimpse Team announce their latest release, Glimpse 1.5. This release includes improved configuration making it easier to turn options on and off within Glimpse, some improvements to layouts and linking between the HUD and Glimpse consoles
• Team Explorer Everywhere 2012 Update available – Brian Harry highlights the improvements to Team Explorer Everywhere which are shipped in the Update 3 , including support for TFS 2013 Preview, support for the latest version of Eclipse, improvements to file uploads and comparison
• CodeSHARPer: A code snippet – Frederico Regateiro highlights CodeSHARPer, a simple C# editor which draws on a number of other open source projects to provide an good editor experience including syntax highlighting and auto complete, useful for those times when you don’t need the full Visual Studio. The project is open source and available on CodePlex.

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• Browser Link – Refresh running application in every browser on Visual Studio 2013 – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at another Visual Studio 2013 features, the browser link between the Visual Studio IDE and all the browsers running your site in the development environment, allowing one click in the IDE to refresh all the browsers. This is an interesting use of SignalR to do the communication.
• Profiling Entity Framework Code First With MiniProfiler – Ricardo Peres takes a look at using the MiniProfiler to get a better understanding of what is going on with your Entity Framework Code First code, walking through its use in exploring the performance of your applications.
• The Basics of ASP.NET Performance Optimization – Tiago Pascoal discusses some key concepts in the optimisation of performance in ASP.NET Applications, looking at the use of profiling tools to identify problem areas
• Improve site load and cache time – ‘NewAmbition’ takes a look at a number of techniques to improve the performance of your ASP.NET applications, including automatic image resizing and compression along with bundling and compression of JavaScript and CSS

Community

• Working for free and what it taught me – Rob Ashton shares some of the experiences of his time spent working for free across a range of countries, teams and programming languages, sharing some important lessons we should all take heed of.

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• Visual Studio Performance – Providing Feedback – Nathan Halstead discusses the importance of those of you who are trying out the Visual Studio 2013 Preview release to give the team feedback, and particularly give them feedback on the performance of the IDE
• Running the Windows Phone Emulator on Windows 8.1 Preview – Cliff Simpkins shares important news about running the Windows Phone 8 emulator on Windows 8.1 Preview, highlighting the requirement for Update 3 for Visual Studio 2012 to avoid issues.
• PragPub Magazine for July, new Studio Courses – The Pragmatic Bookshelf announce the availability of PragPub magazines July Edition with insights on developing your career as a developer, the story of GitHub along with articles on Elixir, Closure and C++
• Internet Explorer 11: "Don’t call me IE" – Nicholas C. Zakas takes a look at Internet Explorer 11, disecting the User Agent string for Internet Explorer 11, discussing the changes, and looks at some of the changes to the JavaScript object model
• WPF Objects Model Poster – CodeProject – ntg123 shares a computer created poster of the the ‘Whole Picture’ of the WPF types and their relations over on CodeProject
• Mozilla Firefox 23 Will Block Mixed SSL Content – Anirudha gupta shares the news that the next release of FireFox will block content served up over HTTP when the page is HTTPS, something important to be aware of, meaning that now is the time to go fix any such issues in your sites
• await Task, Task.Wait and Friends – Mike Taulty sets about de-mystifying Task and Await, looking at which you probably want to use and when, illustrating simple code with examples to aid comprehension

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• One of Microsoft’s Best-Kept Secrets – Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) – Scott Hanselman highlights the oft forgotten (by MS developers) language Python and the rather excellent Python Tools For Visual Studio which gives a nice IDE experience for developing Python.
• Code Completion Improvements in ReSharper 8 – Dmitri Nesteruk shares more details of the Code Completion features of ReSharper 8, showing how the different improvements to code completion behave in use

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• The Git Command Line 101 for Windows Users – Kristofer Liljeblad shares a really nice introductory guide to the use of Git on Windows, looking at getting it installed (using the very cool Chocolatey), and explores some of the common queries and questions of its use.
• Modular Javascript Using Require.Js – Sacha Barber takes a look at the use of Require.js to create modular JavaScript code, looking at the motivation for the use of Require and exploring its use via an example in this CodeProject article
• Visual Studio 2013 Heap View – Sasha Goldshtein continues exploring some of the new debugging features of Visual Studio 2013 taking a look at the heap viewer, showing how it can be used to debug memory related issues in your applications.
• Manage CORS policy dynamically – Xueyuan Dai takes a look at how you can control the Cross Origin Request Sharing (CORS) policy in your ASP.NET Web API projects with soring the allowed hosts in either a configuration file or database.
• Windows Azure autoscaling now built-in – Grigori Melnik discusses the new Windows Azure AutoScaling features released last week, and compares the features of the built in offering to those offered by Wasabi
• Troubleshooting and Fixing Session Cookie Problems in IE11 – Chris Jackson highlights potential problems with Session Cookies in ASP.NET Applications when visited using Internet Explorer 11
• Rock Solid Quality – Paulo Zemek shares thoughts on creating quality in your code by having components be ‘Rock Solid Quality’, bu adopting encapsulation, immutability and a number of other approaches to help eradicate the places where bugs lurk.

Community

• 25 Secrets for Faster ASP.NET: the Eagle has landed!
  – Michaela Murray highlights the availability of the latest e-Book from Red Gate containing 25 community sourced tips and tricks for faster ASP.NET Applications. The e-book is a free download (though you will have to give your email) and is well worth checking out. Michaela also announces the winner of the competition for best tip in this post.

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