The Morning Brew

Software

• Humanizer is now a Portable Class Library – Mehdi Khalili announces the news that the latest release of his Humanizer library is now a portable class library making it ever easier to consume from a range of platforms.
• Released LINQ to Twitter v3.0.1 Beta
  – Joe Mayo announce the release of the latest beta release of LINQ to Twitter, a library which makes working with the Twitter API as easy as a few Linq statements.
• NServiceBus Partial Update for 2013 – Udi Dahan gives an update on the progress with NServiceBus over the past year, the evolution of the ecosystem,

Information

• LINQ in JavaScript, ES6 style, for real this time – Aaron Powell revisits an old post with a look at actually using ECMAScript 6 Generators and Iterators to implement LINQ like behaviour in JavaScript.
• MassTransit and Interface Contracts – Dru Sellers demonstrates how you can actually use Interfaces for your messages in MassTransit rather that use classes.
• Algorithm: Find All Unique Combinations in a List – Kathleen Dollard takes a look at a different style of solution to an algorithm problem than she usually comes up with thanks to her son Benson Joeris.
• Searching the Snapchat data breach with "Have I been pwned?" – Troy Hunt highlights the first data breach of the year, this time phone numbers and usernames from Snapchat, discussing how the data was obtained, and what the implications of this particular blend of data is.
• Web scraping with Node.js – xioxu takes a look at scraping web pages, using node.js on the server side, and the cheerio library to provide jQuery like functionality on the server in this CodeProject article.

Community

• Congratulations New and Renewed MVPs! – Happy New Year – The Microsoft MVP Award Program celebrates the awarding (And re-awarding) of over 1000 Microsoft MVPs this January – congratulations to all involved.

2013 reflection and 2014 prediction

• Reactive Extensions 2013 Year in Review – The Reactive Extensions Team
• Windows Embedded: The Year in Review – Barb Edson
• A Very Haacked 2013 – Phil Haack
• 2013 was an amazing year, here’s a summary! – Filip Ekberg
• My 2013 F# Year in Review – Rick Minerich
• A Look Back on 2013’s Posts – Alfred Thompson
• Best of "The Moth" 2013 – Daniel Moth
• A Happy New Year 2014! – Christian Nagel
• What are your predictions for 2014 – See what the Telerik has to say! – The Telerik Team
• New Year Daily WTF Resolutions – An alternative set of New Years resolutions from The Daily WTF Team.

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