Microsoft Corporate News
- Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s (new) CEO – After months of debate and discussion in the media, we now know who it going to be taking Microsoft forward
- Microsoft appoints Scott Guthrie new Cloud & Enterprise chief – Also good news for Developers, it sounds like Scott Guthrie is going to be taking the new CEO’s old job
Software
- Glimpse 1.8.2 released – Anthony van der Hoorn and the Glimpse team announce the release of version 1.8.2, enhancing the web forms support with databinding visualisations, the re-addition of the Server tab, along with a number of more minor changes and improvements across the various modules.
Information
- Intro to Unit Testing 10: The Business Value of Unit Tests – Erik Dietrich continues his series discussing Unit Testing with a discussion of the business value introduced by tests, and the importance of having tests to support what the business is trying to do.
- AngularJS – Part 11, Promises – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at AngularJS, discussing program structure, and the importance of not blocking, before looking at the use of promises in JavaScript and Angular to structure code and keep things responsive.
- Rendering ASP.NET content as PDF – Jimmy Bogard discusses the creation of PDFs from Web page content before looking at how you can hook such generation into the ASP.NET and MVC pipelines
- OWIN: Customizing the Web Server – Dino Esposito takes a ‘getting started’ look at the OWIN ‘platform’ discussing how it allows you to stand up a simple lightweight web based service on .NET and explores the use of Katana
- HTTP PUT or DELETE not allowed? Use X-HTTP-Method-Override for your REST Service with ASP.NET Web API – Scott Hanselman takes a look at overriding the actual HTTP method used using an additional header, and how to have ASP.NET Web API respond accordingly.
- Using Node.js To ETL Mongo Documents for Azure Table Storage – K.Scott Allen takes a look at using Node.JS to migrate documents from a MongoDB database to Windows Azure Table Storage
- Visual Studio Tips and Tricks: 5 great keyboard shortcuts – Susan Ibach shares another 5 Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts you may or may not already be aware of.
Community
- Sheffield .NET User Group – The Sheffield .NET Usergroup are meeting tomorrow (Thursday 6th February) for a session from Grant Crofton on Machine learning. Registration is free, but required for this one