The Morning Brew

Software

• RavenDB 2.5 is out, and a happy New Year – Ayende officially announces the v2.5 of RavenDB, another significant relaese with a bunch of new features included. There will also be a webinar about the 2.5 release on Monday, and this post includes a link to register.
• Toastr 2.0.0 rc 1 Now Available & HotTowel 1.1 with Durandal 2 Now Available – John Papa announces the release candidate of Toastr 2.0.0 his JavaScript UI notification library, along with an update to HotTowel, a framework for building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET, with Visual Studio template support.

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• 5 Days of Simple.Web: HATEOAS – Ian Battersby continues his 5 days of Simple.Web series with a look at Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS) support in Simple.Web
• AutoMapper 3.0, Portable Class Libraries and PlatformNotSupportedException – Jimmy Bogard discusses the use of Portable Class libraries in AutoMapper 3.0, and discusses the use of a Platform Not Supported exception where there are areas of the library which won’t work on specific platforms but he doesn’t want to take the feature out of the library.
• Self-Hosting SignalR in a Windows Service – Rick Strahl takes a look at hosing SignalR inside your own executable, and explores the implementation within a Windows Service, providing a nice way to host SignalR outside of IIS using OWIN.
• Hadoop for .NET Developers: Understanding MapReduce – Bryan C Smith continues his series looking at Hadoop from the point of view of a .NET Developer with a look at the use of Map Reduce as the main data processing mechanism
• Reducing the pressure on the garbage collector by using the F12 developer bar of Internet Explorer 11 – David Catuhe takes an interesting look at taming the JavaScript Garbage collector’s behaviour in his WebGL based 3D engine by using the Internet Explorer 11 Developer tools to help identify issues.
• All about http chunked responses – Gilly Barr takes a look at one of the less used aspects of HTTP, chunked responses which allow non-buffered content to be sent to the browser.

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