The Morning Brew

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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