The Morning Brew

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• Math from scratch, part one – Eric Lippert kicks off what promises to be an interesting series looking at implementing mathematics in C# using only object and bool types, no built in numeric types!
• Creating a MongoDB replica set cluster w/Windows Azure Linux VMs – Jeff Wilcox shares a very detailed post looking at the setting up of a MongoDB cluster on Windows Azure Linux Virtual Machines, sharing background on MongoDB, some details of the architecture of such solutions and Azure considerations before walking through the actual construction of the cluster.
• The complete guide to loading a free SSL certificate into an Azure website – Troy Hunt recaps some of the myths and bad practices about HTTPS before walking through the process of setting up an SSL Certificate on Windows Azure Websites
• 30 Days of TDD: Day Four – Making Your First Test Pass – James Bender continues his month long TDD series with a look at the actual implementation code, getting from that initial test to some implementation which satisfies the tests requirements
• Immutable collections should not implement mutable interfaces – Jonas Gauffin discusses his initial reaction to the immutable collections library from Microsoft implementing the Mutable list interface, and looks a little deeper at what the interface’s conventions actually are and debates if this is actually a good thing
• Notifications in Visual Studio 2013 – Cathy Sullivan discusses the various sources and types of notification present in Visual Studio 2013 and polls for community feedback.
• How to set CurrentCulture for all threads in a domain in .NET 4.5 – Morteza Sahragard highlights a useful change in .NET 4.5 which makes ensuring that your application runs in the correct culture when your application is multi-threaded much easier.

Community

• DunDDD – DunDDD returns for its 2013 incarnation on Saturday 23rd November at the University of Dundee. The call for speakers is open now, so if you are interested in giving a talk get your proposals in now.

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