The Morning Brew

Software

• C++11/14 Core Language Features in VS 2013 and the Nov 2013 CTP – Stephan T. Lavavej takes a more detailed look at the C++ 11/14 features included in Visual Studio 2013 RTM, and those added in the November CTP

Information

• Understanding JavaScript Object Creation Patterns – Colin Eberhardt explores the various different ways of constructing and creating objects in JavaScript, along with discussing the somewhat confusing issues of what ‘this’ represents.
• Re-discovering Microsoft Web API – Pavel Volgarev takes a look at the various key features of ASP.NET Web API, including OData, CSRF, Async, long running processes, and request throttling.
• Inside the Facebook Snapchat phishing scam – Troy Hunt picks apart another couple of phishing scams, looking at how they engineer themselves, and discussing some techniques which can be used to help protect your users from similar plights.
• Dealing With Optimistic Concurrency in Entity Framework – Bipin Joshi takes a look at enabling and working with optimistic concurrency using Entity Framework
• Scaling your Windows Azure Web Site – Benjamin Perkins discusses the various options for scaling and controlling the scaling of your Windows Azure Websites

Community

• Sheffield .NET User Group – The Sheffield .NET User Group are meeting this Thursday (5th) December for an event involving hands on programming of some of the Project Euler problems, in any .NET Language, including F#

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Software

• Getting started with the Seq preview – Nicholas Blumhardt builds on the success of Serilog, his logging solution with an early release of Seq a combined log viewing solution which makes it easy to give good visibility of the data being logged.
• Improved version of Service Bus Explorer 2.1 and new version 2.2 – Paolo Salvatori announces the release of and updated ServiceBus Explorer 2.1, and a new version (2.2) based around the Microsoft.ServiceBus.dll 2.2.1.1 containing a bunch of new features

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• Rebuilding 24 ways – It wouldn’t be Christmas for Web Developers without the advent calendar site 24 ways and this year it returns sporting a new look and new backend.
• Async, await, and yield return – Ian Griffiths takes a look at a common misunderstanding involving developer attempting to combine Async/Await with Yield Return, and explores ways of implementing similar functionality correctly.
• Instant Azure Caching with MVC – Rick Anderson takes a look at the use of the Windows Azure Cache service, working through hooking the service up to an existing ASP.NET MVC application in this detailed post.
• SPA and the Single Page Myth – John Papa takes a look at some of the myths and misconceptions surrounding the Single Page Application
• I See AnemicDomainModels – Steve Wilkes discusses the anti-pattern of the Anaemic Domain Model, discussing what it is, and some of the disadvantages of such an architecture.
• DailyJS: JavaScript Developer Survey 2013 – DailyJS are running a survey of the state of JavaScript development in 2013 – give them a hand and share your thoughts and experiences.
• How to troubleshoot HttpException Request timed out (ASP NET 2 0 64-bit) – The Microsoft APGC Internet Developer Support Team take us on an interesting journey into debugging Request Timeout exceptions in ASP.NET applications.

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