The Morning Brew

Software

• EtwDataViewer – Analyze, visualize, and make sense of your ETW logs – Mattias Högström follows on from his previous article on Event Tracing for Windows with another article this time sharing a custom ETW log viewer aplication, full source and download are available along side the article.
• Build Google Chrome Extensions in Visual Studio – Mads Kristensen shares a custom Visual Studio Project template for creating Chrome Extensions, created as part of his work with Sayed Hashimi on the Web Developer Checklist. Mads also shares a shoert video tutorial to show how to use the template.

Information

• JavaScript’s "super" Pattern – Derick Bailey takes a look at overriding methods in JavaScript and how there is a gap in the language which means that you can’t easily call to base implementation, and shows the ‘Super’ pattern which provides a means to work around this.
• The JavaScript Cheese is Moving: Data-Oriented vs. Control-Oriented Programming – Dan Wahlin – Dan Wahlin discusses two styles of JavaScript programming, Data Oriented where the underlying data is the key concept around which the code revolves, and Control based programming where the HTML controls are the key concept in the code, and looks at where data binding fits into this mix.
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Tips, Tricks &Coding Best Practices – Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed shares a slide deck from intern Namrah Khurram covering 24 different tips and tricks from a variety of areas of Visual Studio 2012
• Help us make TouchDevelop scripts run faster – Nikolai Tillmann highlights the TouchDevelop Benchmark suite put together by Rafael Auler and encourages you to run and share the results so they can optimise TouchDevelop’s Runtime further.

Community

• Skills Matter : London .NET User Group:Totaljobs Group’s journey from vbscript hell to continuous deployment nirvana – SkillsMatter host the London .NET Usergroup on the evening of Tuesday 27th August where TotalJobs will discuss how they migrated from a manual deployment process to an automated one using TeamCity and OctopusDeploy
• Re-Build – All the Highlights from Build in San Francisco – Black Marble are hosting a Re-Build event where topics covered at the official Build event will be covered in a morning session on Wednesday 25th September, with sessions from Mike Taulty

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