New release – Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces) – Ross Gardler announces the release of a new open source project from Microsoft which provides events from logs and traces as a source for the use of Reactive Extensions and LINQ.
WorldWide Telescope celebrates new release – Jonathan Fay announces the version 5 release of the Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope, which is also celebrating its 5th year. This is a fun and interesting educational tool and well worth checking out.
JavaScript JSON Date Parsing and real Dates – Rick Strahl discusses the adoption of JSON as the main serialization format in development today and looks at the main pain point, the support for dates.
Small Basic Compiler – Phil Trelford continues with his discussion of the implementation of a Small Basic parser, interpreter, and now explores compilation.
Separating Concerns -Part 2: Services & CRUD is Not a Service – Chris Patterson shares two articles, one following on from a previous looking at separating concerns in service implementations, and the other discussing the implementation of Create Read Update Delete logic, and how Command Query Separation acts as a better structure.
MSDN Magazine – The January edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online with its usual selection of articles covering all aspects of .NET development and further afield as well.
Community
Sheffield .NET User Group – The Sheffield .NET Usergroup are meeting tonight (7th Jan) at Tribal in Sheffield for sessions on Testing in F# (from Daley Chetwynd) and Immutable Collections (from John Stovin)