The Morning Brew

Software

• JustMock Lite – Free and open source too… – Greg Duncan highlights the free and open-source edition of JustMock, called JustMock Lite, from the folks at Telerik.
• Open-Sourcing ThoughtWorks Go – Martin Fowler announces the release of ThoughtWorks Go as open source software under a BSD license
• Word For Windows 1.1a and Early MS-DOS Source Available (Really) – Greg Duncan also highlights the availability of early versions of MS-DOS and Word For Windows now available as part of an initiative with the Computer History Museum

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• Troy Hunt: The prophesied Windows XP and IE 8 crisis is nigh! (unless you’re in China) – Troy Hunt discusses the impending death of Internet Explorer 8 as supported software with the Windows XP end of Support, and discusses how websites support for IE8 is rapidly drying up as a result.
• Browser Compatibility Testing with Modern.IE Tools – Rachel Appel highlights the Modern.IE toolset which provides a great way to test web pages for compatibility with a range of browsers both desktop and mobile.
• ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework – Abhishek Kumar Goswami discusses the ASP.NET Web Optimisation Framework a set of framework behaviours which can be utilised to performance optimise your websites CSS and JavaScript resources.
• async/await does not “release the thread – ‘BenWilli’ discusses the way in which async/await actually works, and how its use of threads is actually handled.
• Microservices – Martin Fowler and James Lewis share the final part of their article on Microservices for Software Architecture, looking at if this way of working represents the future of our craft.
• Services, Microservices, Nanoservices – oh my! – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz shares some thoughts on the Micro Services article, and the architectural concepts it envelopes.
• JavaScript MVC Style Guide – Alex MacCaw shares some useful guidelines for writing Client Side MVC based code
• Surprise! JavaScript Guard Clauses – Howard Dierking takes a look at some slightly surprising behaviour of JavaScript, looking at redressing a guard clause to work as expected.
• Setting up a complete Node development environment. From scratch. For free – Marcus Hammarberg sets about building a fit for purpose Node.js Development Environment using, using Virtualisation to install a free operating system for development, and the required tooling.

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