January 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1538
Posted by Chris Alcock on 31 Jan 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource is now stable – Cosmin Radu announces the RTM release of the EventSource NuGet Package, outining the new features added, including support for .NET 3.5, and gives an overview of its use.
- Announcing preview of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6 – Pranav Rastogi announces a preview release of an updated Dynamic Data package which adds support for Entity Framework 6
- Azure Cloud Services: 8 virtual cores with 56 GB of RAM, and 16 virtual cores with 112 GB of RAM. – Lee Stott highlights the news that big on Azure just got bigger with the introduction of two new server sizes available on the Azure Platform, featuring increased CPU and RAM resources.
- CoffeeScript 1.7.0 and 1.7.1 – The CoffeeScript team announce an updated release (and subsequent bugfix release) which adds a significant number of new features.
Information
- How many 32-bit types might we want? – Jon Skeet discusses the use of ‘Tiny Types’ for code clarity, and considers what other 32bit types we might find useful in our programming.
- Create your own CLR Profiler – Calvin Hsia looks at implementing your own CLR profiler, sharing the C++ Code to perform a very basic profiling operation on your application.
- Estimations in budgets and costs – Jimmy Bogard discusses the art and supposed science of estimation in software development, suggesting that we abandon the abstract ‘points’ based measures and actually start talking in real time, and real money
- For your convenience, please disable security warnings – Troy Hunt discusses the security threat from mixed HTTP and HTTPS content, and what the browser warning is trying to tell you and protect you against, as well as why as developers we need to be aware of the threat and ensure that we don’t mix content modes.
- Analyzing Windows Azure Storage Logs – Brian Swan discusses the process for exploring and analysing Azure Storage Logs, something which is particularly important when working with ‘Big Data’ in HDInsight
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The Morning Brew #1537
Posted by Chris Alcock on 30 Jan 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- jQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released – Slightly behind the curve with this announcement from last week, but it is singnifican, with two new versions of jQuery being released. I’ve seen reports that the content delivery networks and NuGet packages have been updated to reflect.
- Process Explorer v16.0 is out and now cooking with VirusTotal – Greg Duncan highlights the latest release of Process Explorer. Version 16 includes a new feature which provides verification that running progams are clean of viruses with the use of VirusTotal – a neat idea, especially when process monitor is such a common tool for investigating strange processes on your machine.
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- Using .NET HttpClient to capture partial Responses – Rick Strahl looks at trying to make partial HTTP requests where he only reads some of the response, and controls the bandwidth used, exploring the best possible with HttpClient and moving on to look at a variety of other techniques.
- The Domain Discontinuity – ‘Uncle’ Bob Martin responds to the recent post from Justin Searls on teaching test driven development, and both disagrees and agrees with the content of the post, depending on which side of the Domain Discontinuity you stand upon.
- 10 Reasons Web Developers Should Learn Angular – Jeremy Likness gives 10 reasons why you as a web developer should take a look at AngularJS. Many of the reasons also apply to other frameworks which are similar, but all are good justification to give it a try.
- Developing Good Software is Damn Hard – Filip Ekberg discusses why the process of building good software is hard in his experiences
- From the MVPs: Copying a virtual machine from one Windows Azure subscription to another with PowerShell – Devon Musgrave shares a post from MVP Ido Flatow which takes a look at migrating a Virtual Machine from one Windows Azure subscription to another by the power of the Powershell management interface for Azure.
- URL Rewrite vs. Redirect; What’s the difference? – Scott Forsyth discusses the difference between URL Rewriting and Redirecting, sharing a useful table iterating the differences.
- Beginners Guide To Regression Testing – How to regress test a project – Geeta Rawat takes a look at the processes involved in regression testing an application, sharing a useful look into he tester discipline.
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The Morning Brew #1536
Posted by Chris Alcock on 29 Jan 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 3 – Bootstrap and JavaScript enhancements – Jon Galloway continues his tour of the new features in the latest ASP.NET releases, looking in this part at some of the improvements which make supporting Twitter Bootstrap easier, and at a community sourced improvement to Unobtrusive Ajax.
- Managing Web Sites from Web Sites using the Windows Azure Management Libraries for .NET – Brady Gaster explores the programatic API provided for working with Windows Azure Websites to create a Web site which manages your Windows Azure websites.
- Killing Switch Statements With A Registry: An Example And Screencast – Derick Bailey takes a look at applying the open closed principle to some code, exploring a refactoring switch statements.
- Cleaning up promises with yield – Aaron Powell continues his series looking at generators in JavaScript with a look at how they relate to cleaning up callbacks with the use of promises, and how yield can make things even better.
- Technology Radar January 2014 – ThoughtWorks share their January 2014 edition of the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, an interesting (and now interactive) document which outlines their position on various technology and practices.
- The Failures of "Intro to TDD" – Justin Searls takes a look at some of the more common mistakes people make in educating people on Test Driven Development, and thinking about how to change the education process.
- Cloud Design Patterns now available – ‘Dan_eScience’ highlights the Cloud Design Patterns guidance for building application on Azure which provides details of 24 design patterns, sample applications, along with primers and guidance articles.
- Trigger, Bindings, and Route parameters in AzureJobs – Mike Stall continues looking at the Azure WebJobs SDK exploring the different triggering methods available for firing off the jobs.
Community
- Building Modern Web Applications – Today’s Windows Azure week event is all about building modern web applications supported by Windows Azure, with a great cast of presenters joining Scott Hanselman from the Windows Azure Application and Web Tools Platform team.
- Questions from Tuesday’s talk – Eric Lippert highlights his next webcast talk, and shares some answers to questions which they didn’t have time for at the end of the last one
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