The Morning Brew

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• JSON Debugger Visualizer in Visual Studio 2013 – Avneep Dhanju announces the inclusion of a JSON Debugger Visualiser as a part of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 which allows you to take a string representation of JSON and view it as nested ‘objects’ in the debugger.
• All the pieces of a feature – Ayende discusses all the ‘other’ (often annoying) bits involved in completing a feature – a list that is well worth remembering next time you think you are done on something.
• Marcus Node Bits: Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge – Marcus Hammarberg is mid way through an interesting series discussing various aspects of Node development, and other associated development topics, in this post discussing the use of git, and previously exploring packages, test runners, callbacks and much more. There are still a few posts to come in the series.
• .NET Memory Analysis: Object Inspection – Andrew Chan discusses another Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 feature whcih enables additional stories with analysing memory use and diagnosing issues
• Response 400 (Bad Request) on Long Url – Amy Dullard discusses issues with long URLs on IIS and HTTP.sys, along with some settings which may help resolve the issues.
• Boot Time Analysis – Alois Kraus discusses system boot time, and looks at how you can help improve it with some settings
• Windows Azure Storage Analytics SDP Package – Kevin Williamson shares a post looking at the Windows Azure Analytics SDP package which provides diagnostics on your Azure instances, helping diagnose storage issues.
• modern.IE Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary and 1 Million Hours Saved – The Internet Explorer Team celebrate the 1st Anniversary of the Modern.IE site which provides testing tools to help you ensure that your applications function correctly across a range of browsers

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Software

• VS/TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) CTP Released – Brian Harry announces the release of a CTP of the second update to Visual Studio 2013. This update is more substantial than update 1, and the CTP is not yet feature complete and does not have a a go-live license, but is available if you want to see what is coming, including lots of ALM related features.

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• MSDN Magazine: February 2014 – The February edition of MSDN Magazine is available online, featuring articles on .NET 4.5.1, JavaScript Performance in Windows Store applications, AOP, Async and much more
• P2 Magazine – The 8th, and 1st of 2014, edition of ThoughtWorks P2 Magazine is also available online, with features on converting from SVN to Git, working at higher levels of abstraction, Continuous Delivery on Windows, and automated development workstation setup.
• Using Entity Framework 6 with PostgreSQL – Rob Conery takes a look at using Entity Framework 6 in conjunction with PostreSQL, walking through the set up required, and exploring its use in performing common EF related tasks.
• Dynamic action return with Web API 2.1 – Filip W highlights a less well know feature of the ASP.NET Web API 2.1 release whcih added support for a dynamic return type in actions, showing an example of it in use.
• Building Modern Web Apps with ASP.NET – A new day of free ASP.NET Training for 2014 – Scott Hanselman highlights a series of online training which fills a whole day created by the members of the teams who create the products and made available online
• Barbarian Meets Knockout: Introduction to Knockout.js Observable Arrays – Jaime González García continues his series looking at Knockout, with a look at the concepts and use of Observable Arrays

Community

• LIDNUG: Architecting Cross-Platform Applications – The Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) have a virtual session taking place on Wednesday 12th February at 6PM where Ross Dargan will be looking at creating a cross platform application in C# across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Windows Modern Apps and WPF

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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.

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• 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

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