October 2013
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1472
Posted by Chris Alcock on 28 Oct 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- dotCover 2.6 Early Access Program Launched – JetBrains announces the opening of the dotCover 2.6 early access previews giving you a chance to try out the new functionality in return for some feedback on the product.
- New version of OData Validator – The WCF Data Services team announce the release of a new version of the OData validator which now includes support for all three formats and all the features of the V3 feed format.
- Jesse’s got your number (of Insanely Essential Programmer Utilities)… – Greg Duncan highlights a new list of essential programmer utilities from Jesse Liberty – always interesting to see what another developer considers to be his indispensable tools
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- NeoLua – Dynamic language – ‘neolithos’ shares at look at NeoLua, an implementation on the .NET Framework of the Lua language, built on top of the Dynamic Languages Runtime and providing the functionality of Lua 5.2
- 30 Days of TDD – Day 17 – Specifying Order of Execution in Mocks – James Bender continues his series looking at Test Driven Development from a beginners point of view continuing with discussion of the use of Mock with a look at the ordering of execution
- My Definition of a Single Page Application – Jason Haley shares a short succinct description of what he considers to be a Single Page Web Application
- Learning AngularJS by Example – The Customer Manager Application – Dan Wahlin shares a look at the construction of a AngularJS sample application discussing the various aspects of the implementation.
- Sending Messages to SignalR Hubs from the Outside – Ricardo Peres takes a look at using SignalR Hubs to communicate with clients from other parts (non-SignalR) of your code base.
- High level overview of Visual Studio Extensibility APIs – Daniel Cazzulino discusses some fo the pain points of interacting with the Visual Studio Extensibility API, and shares a look at Clide a helper library which deals with working with the solution.
- Lessons learnt scaling a big mainstream RESTful AP – David Whitney shares a presentation he recently gave with a collection of really good advice for building and maintaining a public facing REST API.
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The Morning Brew #1471
Posted by Chris Alcock on 25 Oct 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- jQuery Mobile 1.4.0 RC1 released – Jasper de Groot announces the first release candidate release of jQuery Mobile 1.4.0, a release which focuses on performance improvements, along with introducing a new theme. This release represents quite a significant number of changes, enhancements and new features over the beta release.
- Windows Management Framework 4.0 is now available – The Windows PowesShell Team announce the release of Windows Management Framework 4.0, a release which allows the use of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 on some older operating systems.
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- Intro to Unit Testing 8: Test Suite Management and Build Integration – Erik Dietrich resumes his series looking at unit testing and the associated benefits and practices, in this part discussing the management of your test suite, some best practices for tests within the suite and looks at why you should get your tests running as part of your build process.
- Enhanced Rich Editing Experiences in IE11 – The Internet Explorer team share a look at some of the Rich Editing improvements made in Internet Explorer 11 giving a richer and more useful editing experience including improved pasting support, the ability to past images into HTML content and improved undo capabilities.
- Visual Studio 2013 Static Code Analysis in depth: What? When and How? – Hosam Kamel takes a detailed look at the static code analysis features of Visual Studio 2013 for native code
- Packaging Source Code With NuGet – Nik Molnar discusses some of the best practices , techniques and reasons for shipping source code in NuGet packages
- How to use XDT in NuGet – Examples and Facts – ”danliu-nuget’ takes a look at the use of XDT transforms to manipulate configuration files from within NuGet Packages.
- New SPA Resource Center on JasonHaley.com – Fellow Linkblogger, Jason Haley, shares a new resource collection of links and resources relating to Single Page Web Applications.
- How to install the nodejs Ghost blogging software on Azure Websites – Scott Hanselman takes a look at getting the Ghost blogging platform written in nodejs running on Windows Azure – a useful reminder that Azure is useful for more than just .NET.
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The Morning Brew #1470
Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Oct 2013 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Katana 2 is Available! – Brian Benz announces the availability of Katana 2.0.0 the latest version of the Microsoft Open Technologies server implementation of the OWIN interface for .NET web applications
- Durandal 2.0.1 Released. How You Can Help… – .NET & Funky Fresh – Devlicio.us – Just the Tasty Bits – Rob Eisenberg announces the release of Durandal 2.0.1, a bugfix release to this Single Page Web Application framework, In this post Rob hints at the plans for the next release 2.1.0, and appeals to the community to get involved with the project in a variety of ways.
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- Put your controllers on a diet: a survey – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at slimming down your ASP.NET MVC Controllers. This part discusses the surveying of the land of your controllers now you can see all the code they actually use, and discusses what you should consider before starting refactoring.
- 30 Days of TDD – Day 16 – Using Specific Parameters in Stubs – James Bender presses on with his 30 part series looking at Test Driven Development, and in this part looks at the implementation of stubs which can respond to parameter input allowing a further class of functionality to be tested.
- Barbarian Meets Knockout: Knockout.js Computed Observables – Jaime González continues his detailed series on Knockout JS with a look at the implementation of computed observables allowing you to bind UI to the result of calculations fro other observables.
- Free eBook of the Day: "45 Database Performance Tips for Developers" – Greg Duncan highlights a free eBook from Simple Talk / RedGate which looks at 45 things you can do as a developer to help improve database performance.
- Open static HTML files in the Visual Studio 2013 designer – Mads Kristensen highlights a change in Visual Studio 2013 regarding the editor for static HTML files, and shows how you can get the Design|Split|Source views back.
- Invalid Html Response and JS Errors when you open your Application in Visual Studio 2013 – Imran Baloch discusses how he started seeing JavaScript and HTML errors when accessing his local development site after upgrading to Visual Studio 2013, and shares the setting to disable Browser Link which resolved his issues.
- Useful PowerShell Profile Snippets – Danny Tuppeny shares a number of useful PowerShell Profile snippets which add useful functionality to his terminal windows.
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