The Morning Brew

I’m going to be at DDDNorth this weekend – really looking forward to catching up with friends old and new – if you see me come and say hello!

Software

• NLog 2.1 has been released – The NLog Team announce the release of NLog 2.1, a release which includes both bugfixes and a number of new features including better partial trust support, plugable time sources, Date based file archiving, easier rule disabling, and appsettings layout support.

Information

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 13 – More Stub Features – James Bender presses on with his series of 30 posts looking at Test Driven Development from a beginners point of view. This part continues discussion of the use of Stubs, looking at some techniques for verification of correct method calls.
• Put your controllers on a diet: redux – Jimmy Bogard kicks off a new series of posts looking at simplifying controllers in MVC systems, discussing the motivations for the reduction.
• Tracepoints – Brad Sullivan continues his series looking at breakpoints in Visual Studio with a look in this post at Tracepoints, something not precisely a break point but very similar and providing useful features when all you want is some information at that point in code execution for later review.
• AngularJS vs Knockout – Serialization (4 of 8 ) – Eli Weinstock-Herman continues his series looking at two of the mainstream Client Side JavaScript application Frameworks, looking at getting the applications data back into JSON format for round tripping to the server.
• Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less "Suspense" through .NET 4.5.1’s App Suspend Feature – Rion Williams looks at the new .NET 4.5.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 feature which allows ASP.NET applications to enter an leave a suspended state rather than be shutdown and restarted.
• Improving Unit Testing with FluentAssertions – Anders Abel takes us on a journey through the Fluent Assertions library exploring how it can help write better and more expressive tests, exploring some common uses and syntax.
• Web Development Trends: Mobile First, Data-Oriented Development, and Single Page Applications – Dan Wahlin shares the slides from a recent keynote he delivered on Web Application Development trends, a useful overview of the way applications are increasingly being created, and the technologies available to support.
• Talks from Software Architect 2013: Attacking Web Applications and First Steps in iOS Development – Sasha Goldshtein also shares 2 slide decks from his recent presentations at Software Architect 2013. The one looking at attacking Web Applications serves as a useful reminder of the key things you should be thinking about when creating any web application.

Community

• Emergent Design Tickets, Crafty Coders, Bromsgrove – The CraftyCoders have a session with Amit Dhotre on the evening of Thursday 17th October in which the concepts of Emergent Design though a pair coding experience in what sounds like a useful and interesting session.

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