The Morning Brew

Software

• DeprecatedAPI tool now available! – The Premier Field Engineering Blog highlights the availability of the DeprecatedAPI tool which provides an easy reference to the API calls and properties which have been depreciated in Windows 8.1
• Plan for Prism for Windows 8.1 – Blaine Wastell highlights the release of the Second Drop of Prism for Windows 8.1 on CodePlex and also lays out the plans for the actual release.
• Hello Umbraco 7 RC – Niels Hartvig announces the release of the Release Candidate of Umbracco 7, featuring new grounds up user interface built on ASP.NET 4.5 and AngualrJS

Information

• Making Web Development Wonderful Again with Web Essentials – Schabse Laks extols the virtues of the Web Essentials Visual Studio Extension, which adds valuable functionality for Web Developers to the IDE
• Building an Azure IaaS and on-premise hybrid environment Part 2: DC and servers in the cloud – Rik Hepworth continues his detailed series of posts looking at building a hybrid Azure / on-Premise infrastructure with a look at putting the key parts of the domain in the cloud.
• Philosophy of Programming: Introduction to Nodejs and Mocha – ‘Mike’ shares a useful post which follows on from one included a few days back looking at more ‘getting started’ topics with Node.js, exploring some TDD practices with Mocha
• Using Kudu to capture First-Chance dumps for Windows Azure Web Sites – Wei takes a look at capturing and retrieving memory dumps of your ASP.NET Web Applications hosted on Azure Websites, walking through the process.
• Using WebSockets with Windows Azure Web Sites – Larry Franks takes a look at getting Web Socket Support in Azure hosted Node.JS applications.
• Frameworkless JS – an example – Rob Ashton shares some code which illustrates his ‘Frameworkless-JS’ approach to JavaScript programming, avoiding getting bogged down in existing frameworks, illustrating how may of the features you need are easily implementable without their help.

Community

• Happy Anniversary! DevExpress is 15 years old – Julian M Bucknall highlights the 15th Birthday of DevExpress
• Modern Garbage Collection in Theory and Practice – Sasha Goldshtein shares a recent presentation looking at how garbage collection works in modern platforms.

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