The Morning Brew

Clocks changing, and a bit of urgent gardening this morning means today is a links only edition….sorry.

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• Announcing Understanding ECMAScript 6 – Nicholas C. Zakas
• Analysis Paralysis: Over-thinking and Knowing Too Much to Just CODE – Scott Hanselman
• Why I Don’t Inherit from Collection Types – Erik Dietrich
• F#12 : Arrays – Sacha Barber
• Git for Team Foundation Developers – Merging – Kirk Evans
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Aggregating Non-Nullable Numerical Values Without Records – Ricardo Peres
• Introduction to Azure Mobile Services – Tim Benham
• Making it Yours: Configuring Mobile Services .NET Backend – Henrik F Nielsen
• Mobile Services node.js backend updates – Mar 30 2014 – Carlos Figueira
• Stand-up: Developing a node.js application using Monaco (Part 1) – Visual Studio Online "Monaco" – Benjamin Pasero
• Byte Sex – Paul Watt
• "What is Open Source…" the LEGO movie – Greg Duncan

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• Auto Selecting Cultures for Localization in ASP.NET – Rick Strahl takes a look at how you can go about setting the initial culture for users in ASP.NET to ensure that your applications send content in the correct language and cultural context.
• Don’t Make JavaScript Equality Look Worse Than It Is – Craig Gidney discusses the debate over the equalaity == operator in JavaScript, looking at how it gets a slightly worse than deserved reputation from the way people report its behaviour
• My New Free C# Tips eBook – Jason Roberts shares the first instalment of his latest LeanPub eBook containing C# tips – available for free, or any amount you consider it to be worth, with plenty more content to be added in the future
• Future Direction of WCF Data Services – Michael Pizzo of the OData Team sets out the future plans for the WCF Data Services
• Some Useful IIS Rewrite Rules – K.Scott Allen shares some useful rules for IIS URL Rewriting, along with some pointers to other useful resources
• Azure Traffic Manager can now integrate with Azure Web sites! – Jim Cheshire discusses the use of the Windows Azure Traffic Manager, and how it can be used with Windows Azure Websites sites
• Git for Team Foundation Developers – Branches – Kirk Evans shares the second part of a series exploring the use of Git, aiming to give sufficient understanding to allow users to use Git with Visual Studio online. This part explores Branching

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• Speaking JavaScript – Dr Axel Rauschmayer’s latest book, ‘Speaking JavaScript’ is available entirely on line, combining a mix of language and reference, along with historical context this looks like an interesting read. Print editions are also available from O’Reilly.
• JavaScript Frameworks | How to Learn Them Quickly – Craig McKeachie looks at various JavaScript MV* frameworks, decomposing them into the key features of such frameworks to make learning about them easier.
• Tips For JavaScript Promises – K. Scott Allen shares some advice for structuring your JavaScript code using Promises.
• Back to Basics: When allowing user uploads, don’t allow uploads to execute code – Scott Hanselman discusses an important security consideration when allowing user supplied content – don’t trust it ever, and don’t whatever you do allow it to run on your server.
• Get rid of deep null checks – Jakub Niemyjski discusses how extension methods can dramatically improve the readability of code when dealing with nested null checking
• Reordering optimizations – Eric Lippert follows on from his previous ‘Ask the Bug Guys’ article on how locks prevent optimisations with a look at when omitting locks leads to surprising results.
• F#11 : Sequences – Sacha Barber continues his series looking at the F# Language with an exploration of the concept and use of Sequences.
• Git for Team Foundation Developers – Kirk Evans shares a useful summary of Git Version control, providing you with enough information to get up and running with Giit on Visual Studio Online.

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