The Morning Brew

Software

• SharpDevelop 5 goes MIT and Beta 1 too! – Greg Duncan highlights the first beta release of SharpDevelop 5, a release which is a major re-architecting of the project, now along with a change of license to the more permissive MIT license.

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• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 2 – Attribute Routing with Custom Constraints – Jon Galloway continues his series of posts looking at the new features of the latest ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI releases. In this post Jon explores the routing improvements in both MVC and WebAPI.
• Extending System.Web.Optimization – Dean Hume takes a look at how you can extend the ASP.NET Web Optimisation, looking at how you can make the existing framework more aware of additional attributes made possible by HTML5.
• Azure will save you from unexpected Godzilla attack part 2: Red Gate will save you from yourself – Troy Hunt continues his look at protecting your data in Windows Azure and looks at the offering from RedGate to protect his Azure Table Storage data from him accidentally doing something silly.
• Fun with infinite sums – Haacked! – Tomas Petricek shares some elegant F# versions of the code from Phil Haack’s article featured yesterday about infinite sums
• Of Orcs and Software Craftsmanship – K. Scott Allen discusses the role of a ‘Software Craftsman’, and explores the behaviour he considers they should exhibit via writing some code to extract data from XML.
• Why isn’t People-Centric UI Design taking off? – Scott Hanselman discusses ‘People Centric UI’, contrasting it to the much more common document centric or application centric UI experiences, and asking why they aren’t more common.
• Getting a dashboard for local development with the WebJobs SDK – Mike Stall takes a look at the new WebJobs SDK alpha release and discusses how you can get access to the SimpleBatch dashboard for your local development environment.
• Quick FAILs in code questions – Ayende shares a look at some of the bad code smells he encounters in recruitment problem solutions from candidates.

Community

• mancjs: A monthly JavaScript meetup in Manchester – The Manchester JS usergroup are running an event next Wednesday (5th Feb) featuring two sessions, one from Joe Critchley looking at Facebook’s React library, and the other from Thom Seddon looking at Koa, a new web framework for Node.js.

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• Announcing Reduced Pricing on Storage – Steven Martin announces new reduced pricing for Windows Azure Storage taking its prices down to match the lowest Amazon S3 storage rates
• Release 2.0.2 – SignalR/SignalR – Damian Edwards and the SignalR team announce the release of version 2.0.2, a bugfix release which addresses a number of reported issues.
• ETWControler 1.0.0.0 Released! – Alois Kraus shares ETWController a utility to help debug distributed systems by enabling the capture of Event Tracing for Windows events from multiple machines.

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• Understanding HEAD, HTTP/204 and HTTP/206 – Eric Lawrence discusses three of the less well understood HTML request/Responses that you will see in Fiddler
• Azure will save you from unexpected Godzilla attack part 1: SQL Azure export will save you from yourself – Troy Hunt discusses the reliability and redundancy which makes your Windows Azure based applications safe for ‘Godzilla’ and looks at how you can make sure your application is safe from you by making the correct backups.
• Fun with infinite sums – Phil Haack goes all mathematical looking at infinite series of numbers, and exploring them via code and graphing
• Big Data Search: Sorting randomness – Ayende continues his experiments with working with large data sets exploring a sorting problem with 4GB of numbers.
• Demo SPA App for ASP.NET Web API 2 and AngularJS – Shiju Varghese shares another demo application from his team at Marlabs which demonstrates single page applications using AngularJS and ASP.NET
• Gallus, a slightly different dapper – Christiaan Baes takes a look at Gallus, a (better?) Dapper implementation which also includes support for loading collections
• Why In-Place Upgrades? – Kathleen Dollard shares her thoughts on the in-place vs side-by-side updates for the .NET Framework.

Community

• Live and in person – Eric Lippert and some of his Coverity colleagues are presenting three talks this week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday), two of which are being webcast so you can get a chance to hear about C# and Coverity’s analyzer.

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• Auto History Extension in Visual Studio 2013 – Mark Wilson-Thomas announces the preview release of a new extension from Microsoft which provides a history of your changes in Visual Studio, allowing you to rollback to earlier versions of your code within the IDE (not using version control systems)

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• Releasing SocialGoal – Reference Web App for ASP.NET MVC 5, EF 6 Code First, AutoMapper, Autofac, TDD and DDD – Shiju Varghese announces the release of a reference application by his team at Marlabs. This application is a Social Networking application running on ASP.NET MVC5, Entity Framework 6 Code First, AutoMapper, AutoFac, Twitter BootStrap, Nunit and Moq, and was developed with TDD and DDD principles.
• Big Data Search: Sorting Optimizations – Ayende continues discussion of his solution to his interview question on searching large volumes of data efficiently with a look at going beyond the original problem
• Chrome 32 Broke the Internet – Martyn Frank discusses issues he and others (my self included) are running into in the V32 release of Chrome.
• Chrome32 Update Causes Website Visual Issues – Shield UI also discuss some visual display issues with scrolling which cause issues for their menu component.
• Reflection and C# optional constructor arguments – Dan picks up an old project, and looks into adding support for optional parameters in constructors, exploring the reflection representation of optional parameters, and their use
• Debugging a Windows 8 Store App on a Surface RT – Garry Pilkington walks through the process of setting up remote debugging on a Surface RT to allow you to debug your Windows 8 Store applications running on a real device from your development machine
• Considerations for Logging in Hybrid Integration Solutions – Michael Stephenson explores the concept of logging in Hybrid Integration Solutions, outlining some requirements, and discussing the architecture of an implementation.

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