The Morning Brew

Slightly unusual links only edition today – but hopefully quantity will make up for it

Software

• ReSharper 8.0.2 is Released
• F# for Visualization 0.7 released
• Umbraco 7 alpha is here

Information

• 30 Days of TDD – Day Nine – Refactoring Basics – James Bender
• A quick refresher on x++ and ++x (C# version) – BillWagner
• Insides Of Async / Await – Tariq A Karim
• What’s in a Name? – Patrick Lioi
• Custom Resolution of Assembly References in .NET – Abhinaba Basu
• Beware of Mindless Automation – Erik Dietrich
• Ignoring Your Test Suite – Jesse Taber
• Dynamic per-controller HttpConfiguration in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W.
• An introduction into Glimpse and how to use it in your ASP.Net applications & Looking into Fluent API in an ASP.Net MVC 4.0 Code First application – Nikolaos Kantzelis
• Auto-sync JavaScript Intellisense in VS2013 RC – Mads Kristensen
• SharpDevelop 4.4 and the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC Developer Pack – Siegfried Pammer
• Web Essentials for Visual Studio: Open Data Made Simple – Mark MacDonnell
• The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer – Scott Hanselman
• Windows 8.1 Preview and ‘Alarm’/’Call’ Applications – Mike Taulty

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Software

• Windows Azure: New Virtual Machine, Active Directory, Multi-Factor Auth, Storage, Web Site and Spending Limit Improvements – Scott Guthrie shares the latest announcements of new features on the Windows Azure Platform, including a new high memory low CPU Virtual Machine option, Machine images for Oracle Software, performing management on stopped VMs and much more.
• Measuring Development Trends | Patrick Smacchia – Patrick Smacchia announces the RTM release NDepend 5 his software metrics analysis tool including the new UI and new features surrounding analysing systems over time, measuring and visualising the data over time.
• Introducing BrowserSwarm -Spend less time testing your next JavaScript project – The IE Team announce a the release of BrowserSwarm a open source project developed in conjunction with appendTo and Sauce Labs which provides tooling for automated testing of JavaScript frameworks and libraries.

Information

• Reality is an illusion – .NET OSS is hard – Mark Rendle shares some tangential thoughts on the recent Open Source Software for .NET, looking at something he considers to be a factor in why open source on .NET is harder than on other more command line tooling based platforms.
• Test styles and avoiding setup/teardown – Jimmy Bogard discusses testing styles, sharing a number of good resources on the subject, discussing his own preferred style
• "The Ultimate Agile Planning Handbook" Free [email address-ware] eBook from Teleri – Greg Duncan highlights a free e-book on Agile Planning from the folks over at Telerik, a short white paper discussing timeboxing, iterations the backlog and much more.

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Software

• Immutable collections ready for prime time – Immo Landwerth announces the release of the stable version of the Immutable Collections library from the .NET BCL team. The release, available as a portable class library via NuGet, has been built over the past 9 months and incorporates feedback from a number of preview releases, containing immutable implementations of the common collection classes. There has been quite a bit of community discussion about the limitations on production deployment on other platforms (See Phil Haack’s post Platform Limitations Harm .NET) and the Mono project have kicked off their own implementation of Immutable Collections over on GitHub (mono/ImmutableCollections)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.4 Beta – Jasper de Groot announces the latest jQuery Mobile beta release which includes a new default theme, changes to theme inheritance, performance improvements and new SVG based icons.

Information

• 30 Days of TDD – Day Eight – Dealing With Defects – James Bender presses on with his series on Test Driven Development with a look at how you can extend the Test Driven Development approach to provide a useful process for resolving software defects
• Perception is Reality – The state of OSS in .NET – Jimmy Bogard discusses the role and history of Open Source Software on the .NET platform responding to a piece from Amir Rajan – lots of comments on this one, which is well worth a read.
• Red Gate goes SQL Loco for OSS Projects… – Greg Duncan highlights two sites set up by Nik and Anthony (of Glimpse fame) one of which highlights some the benefits offered to Open Source Software developers by some of the major tools companies, and the other looks at the process of producing open source software.
• Converting Chars to Doubles in C# – Jason Roberts discusses an interesting bit of the framework for converting individual characters to their numeric value, and looks at why this method returns double as its is a bit cleverer than you might actually think.
• Setting up an Azure Virtual Machine For Developers with Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate and SQL Server 2012 Express – Bruno Terkaly walks through the process of setting up a Development Environment on the Windows Azure platform, configuring a VM with Visual Studio and SQL server.

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