The Morning Brew

Short edition today mostly due to the Thanksgiving caused shortage of posts ion my RSS reader this morning.

Software

• Announcing the F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop (from the Visual F# Tools Team at Microsoft) – The F# Team announce the availability of a code drop release of the F# 3.1 Compiler and libraries, along with tests

Information

• Accessing the Location header in a CORS-enabled AP – Aaron Powell shares a gotcha when working with CORS support in WebAPI, in that the number of headers returned by default is restricted somewhat, including the one he needed, location.
• Automatic camel casing of properties with SignalR hubs (SignalR v2) – Stuart Leeks takes a look at re-enabling the convention in SignalR 1.x which meant that casing of properties on the Hub was camel cased in JavaScript, meaning that the server side and client side have a different model (casing wise) to follow the conventions of each langauge.
• NHibernate.RunFaster() secret toggle – Ayende shares a useful hint to help improve the performance of NHibernate solutions, applying a default batching size for all requests.
• Mixing Command and Transaction Script Patterns – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at the mixing of design patterns combining the Transaction Script pattern with the Command Pattern, sharing a real world example.
• Repository Pattern and Unit of Work with Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC – Amir Hamza Md. Kayes shares a look at working with Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC using the Unit of Work pattern and Repository pattern in this CodeProject article.

Community

• NDC London – are you ready? – Sara Allison highlights the great speaker lineup from Microsoft at NDC London next week. A nice selection of sessions being delivered, and certainly some that will be well worth watching the recordings of (assuming they are made available as usual).

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Happy Thanksgiving to my American Readers!

Software

• Windows Azure Storage Release – Introducing CORS, JSON, Minute Metrics, and More – Windows Azure Storage Team announce the release of their 2013-08-15 version which includes support for Cross Origin Resource Sharing on Blobs, queues and tables, OData 3.0 JSON Support and minute granularity metrics.
• dotMemory 4.0 EAP: .NET Memory Profiler Resuscitation – JetBrains announce the release of dotMemory 4.0 a memory profiler for .NET, a new update to a product which hasn’t seen a new release since 2010

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• Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code – Cecily Carver shares some thoughts on things we as programmers should accept and understand.
• A peek into a performance issue of a .net 2.0 assembely – Nandeesh Swami discusses an interesting case of a badly performing application assembly, looking through tracing the problem, and the underlying cause due to security settings.
• Organize that Sass! – Tim Smith takes a look at organising your style sheets with SASS
• Minty: Sanity Check One – Rob Conery continues his series looking at building a blogging engine in Node.JS, taking the opportunity to stop and perform a sanity check that what he has so far is good and fit for purpose.
• Using Autofac as the DependancyResolver for SignalR – Derik Whittaker takes a look at hooking up AutoFac as a dependency resolver for use with SignalR

Community

• #AzureChat – AutoScale and Virtual Machines – The Windows Azure team are hosting a Twitter chat event on Thursday 5th December starting 9am PST where Corey Sanders and Stephen Siciliano will be available to answer questions on Virtual Machines and AutoScale.

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Software

• RTM Version of Visual Studio 2013 ALM Virtual Machine & Happy VM Day! The Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine is now available – Brian Keller and Greg Duncan highlight the RTM versions of the Application Lifecycle Virtual Machine images for Visual Studio 2013
• EF6.0.2 Beta 1 Available on NuGet – Rowan Miller announces the beta 1 release of Entity Framework 6.0.2, a patch release addressing some reported issues.
• NCrunch V2 Beta Is Now Available! – Remco Mulder announces the beta release of NCrunch 2, the second major version of this concurrent testing extension for Visual Studio, which includes a number of major new features.

Information

• Modified ASP.NET 4.5 CPU Throttling – Christy Henriksson takes a look at some of the changes to the ASP.NET CPU throttling feature made in .NET 4.5
• Not Crying Over Old Code – Craig Gidney discusses the idea of continuous improvement in software as developers, and considers if always improving actually means we never get to being good.
• Unit testing OWIN applications using TestServer – Praburaj Thiagarajan takes a look at the use of TestServer to allow testing of OWIN Pipelines with the Microsoft.Owin.Testing package
• Frameworkless JS – A module per widget – Rob Ashton continues his Frameworkless JavaScript discussion getting started working on building a minimalist implementation of the features needed for the project hiding behind a single function as jQuery does.

Community

• Presentations I’m doing in Dublin and London Dec 2nd->5th – Scott Guthrie is on the road visiting Dublin and London early in December, with two talks planned at each venue. The Dublin events are free to attend, and the London ones are part of NDC London.

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