The Morning Brew

Software

• StructureMap 3.0 is very nearly done (no, seriously) – Jeremy D Miller gives an update on the progress on StructureMap 3.0 the next version of this very popular Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection library for .NET

Information

• ASP.NET – A last look back at 2013, looking ahead to 2014 – Jon Galloway takes a look back at the improvements made to the ASP.NET Platform over 2013, looking at how it sets up the platform for a great 2014
• AngluarJS–Part 10, Intermezzo – Gabriel Schenker takes a slight deviation from the AngularJS series to take a look at the building of a RESTful service for consumption in such an application.
• Implementing a Flowchart with SVG and AngularJS – Ashley Davis explores and walks through the building of a FlowChart tool using SVG and AngularJS
• Notes on Writing Discoverable Framework Code – Erik Dietrich discusses the creation of framework code, and looks at best practices to aid the consumers of such a framework
• Setting up the Perfect Git Command Line Environment on Windows – Martin Woodward – Martin Woodward discusses Git version control, and walks through the setup of his ideal Git environment on Windows.

Community

• Bringing A Code Club to 9-11 Year Olds – Andrew Westgarth discusses his work as a STEMNet Ambassador, and starting his first School code club.
• Load Testing Webinar – Brian Harry highlights a free webinar with Chuck Sterling and Manas Maheshwari on using Visual Studio Ultimate and Visual Studio Online to load test applications

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• Windows Azure: Staging Publishing Support for Web Sites, Monitoring Improvements, Hyper-V Recovery Manager GA, and PCI Compliance & Announcing PCI DSS compliance and expanded ISO certification for Windows Azure, general availability of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager and other updates to Windows Azure – Scott Guthrie and Steven Martin announce the Mid January Windows Azure platform update, including the news that the Windows Azure Platform is now validated for PCI DSS Compliance, introducing staging support for Windows Azure Websites, along with improved monitoring and recovery.

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• Programmers, Teach Non-Geeks The True Cost of Interruptions – Erik Dietrich gives one of the best explanations I’ve seen about the cost of interruptions for developers – one to refer people to when the interruptions get too much. Also well worth remembering that this is not a problem that is unique to developers either.
• 10 Quick and Easy Fixes to Reduce Page Weight – Craig Buckler discusses the increase in average web page size in the past year, and shares 10 tips to help reduce the size of your web pages.
• Big Data Search – Ayende sets the scene for his latest interview question about working with big data volumes in native C#, the follow-up to this will be interesting where he will discuss his own solution to this problem.
• Scaling-out SQL Server disks and data files on Windows Azure Virtual Machines…a real-world example – Tim Wieman discusses some real world scaling performed on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine SQL Server instance, looking at ensuring that the disk subsystem provided is capable of the workload.
• Tiny Framework for Parallel Computing – Igor Ladnik discusses a framework he created to mange work through distributed processes, sharing code and demo applications.
• SegregatedDOM – Martin Fowler discusses another pattern, this time focused on Single Page Web Applications, and controlling, segregating and modularization the DOM to better organise the application.
• I’m pwned, you’re pwned, we’re all pwned – introducing domain wide searches – Troy Hunt discusses his latest feature introduced to "You’ve ben pwned", and along the way discusses a variety of interesting techniques for verification of the owner of a domain.

Community

• It’s all free! Here’s $500 for your user group, all the swag you want, and free Facebook advertising. No catch. Really – Jerry Nixon highlights the support that Microsoft make available to Microsoft focused User Groups

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• ASP.NET Identity and Windows Azure Table Storage – Stuart Leeks takes a look at the new ASP.NET Identity Framework and explores getting it up and running using Windows Azure Table Storage as its data store.
• Roslyn performance – Matt Gertz starts a series looking at the work of the teams in the Managed Languages organisation at Microsoft, looking at the role they have played in getting Roslyn to where it is. This post focuses on the Performance team.
• NewRelic reports on Azure and ignoring the Kudu fetch handler (or not) – Troy Hunt discusses the use of New Relic to monitor performance of a Windows Azure service (something you can get for free) and highlights a skewing of the results you can encounter if you deploy from Git.
• SQL Server 2014: Inside Hekaton Natively Compiled Stored Procedures – Igor Pagliai takes a look at the Hekaton in-memory engine in SQL Server 2014, and explores the compilation of stored procedures within the engine, along with providing plenty of links to further information.
• Debugging Internet Explorer – A Beginner’s Guide – Eric Lawrence shares some interesting tips he learnt from the developers on the Internet Explorer team regarding debugging the Internet Explorer Process.
• BoundedContext – Martin Fowler discusses the Bounded Context, one of the central patterns in Domain Driven Design
• Parsing Big Records with Json.NET – David Cox takes a look at a technique for parsing large (1 gigabyte) JSON messages using JSON.NET

Community

• Build 2014 Registration is Now Open – & Register now for Build 2014 – Steve Guggenheimer & Kevin Gallo highlight the opening of registrations for the 2014 Build Conference to be held in San Francisco on 2nd – 4th April 2014. Sadly the conference is already sold out, but there is an opportunity to join the waiting list.

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