The Morning Brew

Software

• Time to get the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 RTM Tools – Glenn Gailey highlights the release of the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 RTM Tools, resolving an issue which prevented installation due to certificates, discussing why you should get the tooling in addition to the NuGet packages.
• Announcing FogJS for Windows Azure with Node.js – Daniel Mohl shares FogJS, a library based on Fog (for F#) which makes it easy to interact with the Windows Azure APIs for Blob Storage, Table Storage, and the Service Bus from JavaScript code.

Information

• Don’t trust the .NET web forms email regex validator (or most others) – Troy Hunt discusses the complexities of validating email addresses, looking at the default ASP.NET Web Forms Validation regular expression, and some possible improvements.
• Build your continuous delivery strategy – Mario Fontana highlights a white paper / eBook from Microsoft which looks at building a Release Pipeline using Team Foundation Server, and how that pipeline can be streamlined to give continuous delivery.
• Steps to Log all .net Exceptions to a Log file with Debug Diag 2.0 – Christopher Haun walks though the process of setting up DebugDiag to log all .NET exceptions, providing useful information when analysing problems.
• Lessons in Good Naming through Absurdity | DaedTech – Erik Dietrich discusses the art and science of picking good names, probably one of the hardest problems in software development.
• Frameworkless JS – encapsulation of views – Rob Ashton continues his series looking at frameworkless JavaScript development, exploring how much of a mess the view is in his sample project, and setting the scene for improving the mess.

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