The Morning Brew

Another (very) late edition today, and as is Brew tradition there will be no edition on Wednesday 1st January (tomorrow). Also this year there will be no ‘year in review’ post, although I’ll probably link to some from elsewhere on Thursday.

Software

• A Glimpse into Windows Azure & A new year’s present: introducing Glimpse plugins for Windows Azure – Maarten Balliauw highlights the release of a Glimpse Plugin for Windows Azure which brings various useful pieces of information back regarding the Windows Azure infrastructure your site is running on

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• OWIN/Katana in-memory integration testing – Filip W takes a look at testing HTTP based services which sit on top of the OWIN framework (of which there are an ever growing number) allowing you to test them in memory.
• AngularJS – Part 8, More choice when testing – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at AngularJS development with a further look at testing Angular Applications, exploring the use of the testem test framework agnostic test runner.
• Portable databases: using SQLite with .NET & Portable databases (II): using SQLite with Entity Framework – Daniel Garcia takes a look at the use of the SQLite database engine win .NET Applications, exploring its native use, and then looking at using it with Entity Framework.
• Continuous Integration & Delivery For GitHub With TeamCity – Mehdi Khalili walks through in detail the process of setting up Team City with GitHub for continuous delivery of his Humanizer project.
• Visual Studio Installations: The 15 minutes you will never see again. Don’t do it. Have Chocolatey do it for you. – Matt Wrock shows how the use of Chocolatey can make re-installation of your Visual Studio IDE a much less painful processes.
• Windows 8.1 on high DPI – Derek Fowler discusses his experiences of using Windows 8.1 on a High DPI machine, and some of the hurdles still to be overcome with applications for this type of screen resolution.

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• URL rewrite and the www subdomain – Mads Kristensen discusses the importance of a canonical url for your websites, and looks at how the IIS URL Rewriter can help ensure that this is the case for your ASP.NET IIS Hosted sites.
• C# for Systems Programming – Joe Duffy starts discussion of his recent work looking at brings a set of extension to C# for Systems programming, aiming to find the sweet spot of both performance and safety and productivity.
• AngularJS – Part 6, Templates – & Part 7, Getting ready to test – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at the use of AngularJS exploring templating, examining static, recursive and dynamic templates and also exploring the testing practices to support AngularJS development.
• Back To Basics: COM Interop and No-PIA – Sasha Goldshtein discusses the importance of COM even in modern development, and how it underpins so much of the ‘modern’ .NET Development Stack.
• JVM Minimal Survival Guide for the .NET Developer – Hadi Hariri provides an interesting guide to the Java Virtual Machine for developers coming from a .NET background – something that is always important is to look outside of your favoured technology platform and this is a good opportunity to learn a little about the Java world.
• Understanding Unity Lifetime Managers – Tom DuPont takes a look at the various lifetime management classes available in the Unity Framework, exploring each and their uses.
• Is use of default parameters/optional arguments a bad practice in C#? (Q263) – Iris Classon shares some thoughts on the use of optional and default parameters and arguments in C#, and whether this is a good practice.

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A short (and slightly late in the day) post Christmas edition today…but the good news is I now have internet connectivity at my new house, so things should be easier from now on in!

Software

• Durandal Next Gen Sneak Peek and Herding Code Podcast – Rob Eisenberg shares a taste of what is to come in Durandal’s next major revision, including lots of neat features and embracing a number of ECMAScript 6 features.

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• Managing Client-Side Objects Using TypeScript: It’s a Breeze – Peter Vogel discusses the use of TypeScript for Client Side JavaScript, looking at how to work with data retrieved from the server in this Visual Studio Magazine article.
• A Beginner’s Tutorial on ASP.NET WebApi Hosting(IIS Hosting and Self Hosting) – Rahul Rajat Singh takes a look at hosting ASP.NET WebAPI services in both IIS and in your own applications as self hosted
• A Custom Model Binder for Passing Complex Objects with Query Strings to Web API Methods – CodeProject – Shenwei Liu explores custom model binding in ASP.NET Web API, looking at binding complex objects from querystring data.
• Featured Articles: "Visual C#: Thread.Sleep vs. Task.Delay" and "Various Media Objects for Windows Phone and Their Roles" – Ed Price highlights two interesting articles, the first exploring two different ways of introducing delays into your application, and the second looking at the various media related classes on Windows Phone.
• How to run old but awesome games from the 90s on your new computer with DOSBox – Scott Hanselman takes a trip down memory lane, looking at getting old school PC games up and running on modern hardware (and operating systems) using DOSBox.

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