March 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1573
Posted by Chris Alcock on 21 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Announcing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.0.0 – Pranav Rastogi announces the RTM release of ASP.NET Identity 2.0, available now as NuGet packages and featuring Two Factor Authentication, account lockout, confirmation, password reset, and lots more.
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- Open Source and Microsoft Developer Tools & Changes in the Microsoft MVP Program – MVPs for Open Source Contributions – Somasegar and Scott Hanselman discuss the growing importance of Open Source at Microsoft, and some of the things they are doing to recognise community contributions to open source projects. This is great news for the .NET Ecosystem, and the development community.
- Successful IoC container usage – Jimmy Bogard discusses how IoC Containers, like any other tool, can be misused and make things worse, and discusses some things you should do to ensure that you are getting benefits out of the use of IoC.
- LINQ2TypeScript – Super Lloyd explores bringing some LINQ like behaviour into the JavaScript language, and via TypeScript how this can be strongly typed.
- ASP.NET Web API exception logging with Raygun.io – Filip W takes a look at the WebAPI IExceptionLogger interface, and looks at how you can go about hooking it up to capture exceptions in Raygun.io.
- When to use Tuples in C# – ‘Cellfish’ echos some of my thoughts on Tuple usage in C# discussing when he considers them to be useful, and where actual classes are better.
- Durandal and Object.defineProperty – K.Scott Allen discusses the Durandal project, looking at how his favourite part, the Observable plugin, makes use of Object.defineProperty under the covers
- Nancy and the case of the camel – Christiaan Baes highlights a significant (deliberate) breaking change made in the Nancy Framework in the 2.2 release – one to be aware of before updating those NuGet references.
- Want some interesting books? Check out Packt’s amazing Buy One, Get One Free offer & Microsoft Press 60% E-book deal – Tatworth and Vincent Maverick S. Durano highlight two great offers on technology books from publishers O’Reilly/Microsoft Press and Packt
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The Morning Brew #1572
Posted by Chris Alcock on 20 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Rethinking Biggy – K. Scott Allen discusses Rob Conery’s Biggy project, and looks at how some architectural restructuring of the project may give improvements to the extensibility, and simplicity of the design, if at the expense of adding increased static typing.
- More HTTP Flushing in ASP.NET MVC – Nik Molnar follows on from a previous post on Flushing and website performance with a collection of answers to questions he received and further tips.
- Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET now as a free ebook – Kris van der Mast highlights the availability of a Free ebook on Web API design using ASP.NET from Glenn Block and others at Microsoft
- Improving High-DPI support for Visual Studio 2013 – Art Leonard discusses some of the background, challenges and work done to help make Visual Studio ready for use with HighDPI screens.
- The Seven Parts of "HTML 5 Fundamentals" – Greg Duncan highlights a useful primer guide to the various parts of HTML5 from David Giard.
- Client-side Package Manager: How I Love Bower – Shawn Wildermuth discusses the use of Bower for providing Package Management for client side development libraries.
- Recommended patterns for CancellationToken – Andrew L Arnott discusses some good practices for working with Cancellation Tokens as a part of your API
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- AngleBrackets open web conference in Florida – April 2014 – Scott Hanselman discusses the AngleBrackets Web Conference, taking place in Florida in mid-April this year – highlighting the great range of content available in the sessions and pre-conference sessions.
- Developer Roadshow – Friend of the Brew Magnus Mårtensson is off out on a 4 stop tour of Sweden. Magnus will be joined by Anders Bratland, for the events, covering Windows Azure and Web Technologies. The venues are Skellefteå, Lund, Göteborg , and Stockholm – taking place during April.
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The Morning Brew #1571
Posted by Chris Alcock on 19 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- SQL Server 2014 released to manufacturers, will be generally available April 1 – Quentin Clark announces the Release to Manufacturing and General Availability dates of SQL Server 2014. Eron Kelly also discusses its release along with Hadoop 2.2 supporton Windows Azure HDInsight in his post ‘SQL Server 2014 Released to Manufacturing; Windows Azure HDInsight supporting Hadoop 2.2 Generally Available‘ over on the Azure blog.
- Introducing ElasticLINQ: New Open Source from CenturyLink – Jim Newkirk and Brad Wilson announce the relaase of ElasticLINQ a new open source project which combines the power of ElasticSearch and LINQ to give a good .NET development experience for working with distributed data.
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- Reassign JavaScript Function Parameters In Reverse Order, Or Lose Your Params – Derick Bailey discusses a subtle bug caused by the way in which JavaScript parameter are passed. Scott Koon follows up with a post Modern Javascript Development:The arguments object, overloads and optional parameters
- Use Enumeration types in OData – Tian Ouyang of the OData Team shares a look at how you can use Enumeration types within OData as of Version 4 of the standard, showing code samples to do this.
- Using Grunt to Update the AssemblyInfo.cs version number – Derik Whittaker takes a look at the use of Grunt to automate the process of updating version numbers on Assemblies in .NET applications as part of the build process.
- Reduce the Size of MongoDB Documents Generated from .NET/C# – Pragmateek takes a look at the storage of documents in MongoDB, and explores how the size of these documents can get larger than it needs to, looking at how the Mongo DB drivers for C# provide assistance in reducing document size.
- TDD and Modeling a Chess Game – Erik Dietrich kicks off a new series of posts looking at using Test Driven Development to model a Chess Game – this should be a great series, dealing with lots of interesting concepts and practices in a non-trivial problem space.
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