The Morning Brew

Software

• What’s new in Git 1.8.5 – Nicola Paolucci takes a look at some of the new features in the latest release of Git, summarising the release notes and highlighting the most useful features from a developers point of view.
• A Few Other Template Additions and Changes of Interest – Daniel Mohl highlights the latest additions to the F# Templates project which brings F# project templates for a variety of application types, now including 9 templates for Nancy FX Projects.

Information

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 27 – Reader Question #3 – James Bender continunes with the wrap up of this series by answering another reader question on the encapsulation of DateTime.Now for the purposes of testing.
• Minty: Refactor 1 – Moving To a Document DB – Rob Conery continues his series of post on the development of Minty, a blogging engine, in Node.JS. In this post Rob takes a look at migrating from relational based database storage to document database using NeDB, a small simple document database.
• Easier Redis development with scriptcs and ServiceStack.Redis powered C# REPL` – Filip W takes a look at using scriptcs to provide a REPL for working with Redis for .NET Developers making use of Redis
• Immutable collections performance, take II – Ayende takes a look under the covers of the Immutable Collections to see why he got the performance results he experienced when testing them against the standard collection classes.
• .NET: Figuring out if your application is exception heavy – Abhinaba Basu discusses applications which use modules which throw lots of exceptions, and looks at some techniques to help track down the source of the exceptions.
• AngularJS – Part 1, Feedback – Gabriel Schenker responds to feedback on his initial post looking at Angular JS, and outlines some of the principles of learning behind the post.

Community

• Recap: #AzureChat – Virtual Machines and Autoscaling – Cameron Rogers shares a transcript of the questions from the recent #AzureChat event with Corey Sanders and Stephen Siciliano looking at autoscale.

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