The Morning Brew

Update: Corrected today’s post number – looks like my backspaces I though were correcting the URL Slug actually ended up breaking the post title – I really must automate this bit of the process!

Software

• Announcing TypeScript 0.9.5 – TypeScript – Jonathan Turner announces the release of TypeScript 0.9.5, a release focused on improving quality and stability with a huge number of community reported issues resolved, including crashes, memory and CPU leaks.
• The MS Open Tech Hub releases Rx 2.2 – The Interoperability @ Microsoft blog highlights the release of the Reactive Extensions 2.2 which includes further support for Windows Phone 8
• Releasing TouchDevelop for Android: a companion app to receive notifications – Nikolai Tillmann announces the release of TouchDevelop for Android. The application wraps the Touch Dvelop Web Application, and provides integration for native notifications giving a more full featured experience on the Android Platform.
• Windows Azure Tables: Introducing JSON – The Windows Azure Storage Team make the official announcement of their new support for JSON formatted data in the 2013-08-15 release, as an alternative to the OData AttomPub format.

Information

• Working with 154 million records on Azure Table Storage – the story of "Have I been pwned?" – Troy Hunt discusses in depth his use of Windows Azure Table Storage for his new site ‘Have I been pwned?’, discussing the provisioning, use, data upload and querying performance of a large data set in the Table Storage service.
• AngularJS – Part 1 – Gabriel Schenker kicks off a series looking at AngularJS, starting out with the Hello World of Angular.
• Windows 8.1: Accounts, Settings, Authentication, Azure Mobile Services – Mike Taulty walks through the creation of a authenticated service based on top of the Windows Azure Mobile Services.
• Immutable Collections performance – Ayende compares the performance of the Immutable Collections Dictionary implementation with that of the standard dictionery
• Expandable IoC Container – Paulo Zemek explores the implementation of an Inversion of Control container from first principles for those times when you can’t take external dependencies, an shows that they don’t need to be as complex as people believe they are.

Community

• Project "Orleans" on Windows Azure TUESDAY December 10th, 6.30-9.30pm in London – Planky highlights an event looking at Project Orleans with a talk from Kristofer Liljeblad which looks at its uses across a range of industries.

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Not a particularly auspicious edition today due to time pressures….but another milestone reached!

Software

• Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource is now RC on NuGet.org – Cosmin Radu announces the release candidate release of the Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource NuGet Package. This release candidate builds on the feedback over the past months and includes a number of improvements including validation rules, format string handing and build time validation of projects.

Information

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 26 – Reader Question #2 – James Bender continues rounding up this post series on Test Driven Development answering a question from Emad Mokhtar looking at integration testing.
• Minty: Razing the Pyramid of Pain – Rob Conery continues with part 6 of is series looking at building a real world blogging web application using Node.js, looking in this part at building draft article functionality.
• Getting to the Content You Want, Faster in IE11 – Ritika Kapadia and Bogdan Brinza discuss Internet Explorer’s Page Prediction, Preload, and Prefetch features which help web developer accelerate their applications.
• What is Your Branching Model? – Paul Hammant takes a look at a couple of different branching models for version control
• Surveying the Big Screen – & Designing Offline-First Web Apps – A List Apart has two interesting articles , the first Mike Pick explores the process of responsive design for big screens, and Alex Feyerke takes a look at designing web applications for off line use.

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No descriptions on today’s posts I’m afraid, due to two road closures on my journey to work

Software

• The Newest Fiddle Sibling : .NET Fiddle! – Rion Williams highlights a neat little service which brings JSFiddle convience to the .NET world
• MS Open Tech releases updated Azure Node.JS SDK and Command Line Tools for Mac and Linux – Eduard Koller
• HDFS Explorer – Simon Elliston Ball
• TFS Upgrade Guide comes out of silent BETA release and ships v3 for TFS 2013 – Willy-P. Schaub

Information

• MSDN Magazine: December 2013
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 25 – Reader Question #1 – James Bender
• Model Based Testing at Red Gate – Phil Scrace
• Building ASP.Net Web API RESTful Service Part 1 – Taiseer Joudeh (first part of 11, 9 already published)
• Knockout Projections – a plugin for efficient observable array transformations – Steve Sanderson
• Two Simple JavaScript Dependency Injection Techniques – Chris Love

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