2014 February

February 2014

Monthly Archive

Posted by Chris Alcock on 04 Feb 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

New open source Portable Class Library for SQLite – MSOpenTech announce the release of a portable class library for SQLite, the embedded database technology, under an open source license, making it ever easier to support SQLite on a range of platforms.
Released: Umbraco 7.0.3 – Hot on the heels of their 7.0.2 the Umbraco team announce the release of Umbraco 7.0.3 a small bugfix release addressing a number of reported issues.

Windows Azure Storage: Introducing CORS – The Windows Azure Storage Team discusses CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing), looking at what it is used for, and how it is now supported for Windows Azure Storage, allowing you to use Azure Storage to host shared resources across domains.
Deploying TWO websites to Windows Azure from one Git Repository – Scott Hanselman takes a look at how you can control what gets deployed to Azure when you make use of Git publication, and explores how you can have one repository which contains multiple websites, and have them both deployed on push.
The Sixth Level of Code Generation – Kathleen Dollard follows on from a post from a while back where she discussed the 5 levels of Code Generation, sharing a look at what she considers to be a 6th level, derived from looking at applications in an orthogonal way
How to become in polyglot in 5 hard steps. – Ryan Svihla discusses the notion of the polyglot programmer, and shares 5 tips / steps to becoming one
Polyglot Survival Guide: Erlang, Haskell, and F# & Rebuilding Haskell in C#: Functors – If all that sounds a bit hard, Calvin Bottoms shares a useful translation between three different languages, along with taking a look at implementing the Haskell Functors functionality in C#.

DDD South West 5 – The DDD Southwest series of conferences is set to return this year thanks to much reorganisation and effort by the committee. The event will take place at a new venue much more centrally in Bristol on 17th May.
Release Management with Team Foundation Server 2013 –
Smart Devs User Group – The Smart Devs user group based in Herefordshire welcome Matteo Emili for a session on Continuous Integration with Team Foundation server on Monday 10th February
Continuous deployment the Octopus way – Jimmy Bogard is visiting SkillsMatter for an ‘In the Brain’ session on Continuous Deployment using Octopus Deploy on Monday 10th February

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Posted by Chris Alcock on 03 Feb 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

Json.NET 6.0 Release 1 – JSONPath and F# Support – James Newton-King announces the latest major version of Json.NET. This new release enhances SelectToken with full support for JSONPath, adds support for serializing and deserializing F# discriminated unions, along with a vast array of other fixes and improvements.
Umbraco – Umbraco 7.0.2 – The Umbraco team follow up the success of the 7.0 release with a 58 fix maintenance release

Installing Express and How to use Node.js Packages with Visual Studio – Bruno Terkaly takes a look at getting started with Node.js, the Express framework and Node.js packages.
Fixie XML Reports – Patrick Lioi discusses the introduction of NUnit-style and xUnit-style XML reporting to the Fixie testing framework
Maximum addressable virtual memory – Ayende discusses some of the limits on Virtual Memory use on different operating system SKUs and platforms.
Debug / Inspect WebSocket traffic with Fiddler – ‘engineforce’ takes a look at using Fiddler to inspect the WebSocket traffic from SignalR (and any other web socket based implementation) in this CodeProject Article.
Use Mono.Cecil to Reflect Assembly Metadata with Better Performance – Shaun Xu takes a look at the use of Mono.Cecil to perform reflection and examing metadata, and how it performs in comparison to the standard .NET Reflection.

Re-introducing Community for F# – Mathias Brandewinder discusses plans to re-ignite Community for F#, (C4FSharp), and hopes to get the word out about this community to enhance its coverage of all things F#

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