March 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1570
Posted by Chris Alcock on 18 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- EF6.1.0 RTM Available – Rowan Miller and the Entity Framework Team announce the RTM release of Entity Framework 6.1, featuring consolidated tooling, index support on models, Public Mapping API, and mich more.
- Welcome to the OneNote service API! – Lots of chatter today about the OneNote releases of free clients on multiple platforms along with a REST based API for interacting with OneNote.
- We shipped a lot of OneNote today!
- OneNote and Microsoft’s quiet API revolution – Scott Hanselman
- OneNote for Mac! OneNote is Free! We have a Service API! – Chris Pratley
- OneNote API – finally! Now, about that Excel API… – Jamie Thomson
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- C# Feature I would love – Dynamic Types w/ Interfaces – Derik Whittaker discusses a feature he would love to see support for in C#
- The Four Deadly Sins of LINQ Data Access: Part 3 – Insufficiently Chatty Queries – Adam Anderson continues this series looking at some of the common problems with data access code which uses LINQ, looking at the oposite of overly chatty queries, and how they can also be a problem
- Building Better Models For AngularJS – K. Scott Allen takes a look at building richer models for working with in Angular applications, adding behaviour to the model to make the programming experience richer
- Going gaga for Google APIs Client Library for .NET (because it’s gone GA) – Greg Duncan highlights the General Availability release of the Google APIs Client for .NET, providing an easy way to work with the Google APIs from any .NET language.
- I put my Azure website in the wrong location, now what?! – Troy Hunt explores moving your Azure site between regions
- Microservices – Martin Fowler and James Lewis share the next part of their Micro Services article.
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The Morning Brew #1569
Posted by Chris Alcock on 17 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Walk Through Getting Started with ETW TraceEvent NuGet Samples package – Vance Morrison takes a look at the Samples package for the Event Tracing for Windows TraceEvent Package
- Debugging .NET Backend in Visual Studio & The .NET Backend Help Page and Test Client – Henrik F Nielsen takes a look at the debugging and testing of Azure Mobile Services services on the .NET Backend
- Exploring FAKE, an F# Build System for all of .NET – Scott Hanselman explores the world of FAKE, an F# based build tool which uses a Domain Specific Language to help you automate your builds.
- Getting to Full Screen – using the fullscreen APIs – Jay Munro takes a look at the Internet Explorer 11 Support for the W3C Full Screen APIs
- Obtaining Twitter Access Tokens with ASP.NET Identity – Joe Mayo takes a look at using the ASP.NET Identity package to authenticate against Twitter and obtain the access token required to access Twitter data.
- ASP.NET MVC – URL routing – Paul Cociuba takes a look at the suport for URL Routing in ASP.NET in this 7th part in a series looking at ASP.NET 4.5
- Five Reasons ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Node.js – Josh Lane shares thoughts on the rise of Node.js, and some of the key aspects which .NET developers should take a look at.
- Automate your development tasks using Grunt – Marco Franssen explores the use of Grunt to automate development and integration tasks in Node.js
- The death of agile? – ‘Reed Me’ shares some further thoughts on the possible death of agile, discussed by Mike Hadlow last week.
- Microservices – Martin Fowler and James Lewis share the next part of their article on Micro Services looking at End points and pipes
- The microservice declaration of independence – ‘ctford’ discusses some of the reactions to the MicroServices article
Community
- DDDSW 5 – Session Voting is now open! – The DDD Southwest team have opened the session voting for their 5th event. Voting remains open until 5th April, giving you your chance to shape the content of the event
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The Morning Brew #1568
Posted by Chris Alcock on 14 Mar 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Getting started with ASP.NET Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0 & webapi 2.2 and T4 release announcement – Javier Calvarro Nelson & LeoHu1 highlight the availability of Nightly Build Packages for ASP.NET Web API 2.2. This release includes major work around the OData 4.0 standard adding some interesting new features to the mix.
- Announcing General Availability of Oracle Software on Windows Azure and Updates to Windows Azure Traffic Manager – Steven Martin highlights the advancement of the Microsoft partnership with Oracle for Azure support of Oracle software, along with the news that the Azure Traffic Manager now supports Windows Azure Websites as endpoints.
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- Same Origin Policy Part 0: Origins – Eric Lawrence supplements his series of posts looking at the Same Origin policy with a look at what constitutes an origin in response to a simple sounding question
- Back to Basics: Assert your assumptions and diff your source code – Scott Hanselman shares another ‘Back to Basics’ post about debugging strange behaviour, urging you to always carefully compare your code, and test assumptions made when chasing that elusive bug.
- Tail Recursion and C# – Cellfish discusses Tail Recursion as an optimisation, and discusses how the F#’ compiler optimises tail recursion, where as C# does not.
- F#9 : Option types – Sacha Barber presses on with his series of posts looking at the F# language, looking at the definition and use of Option Types.
- The World’s Greatest Azure Demo – Troy Hunt shares a recording of a presentation he recently delivered whcih covers a lot of Windows Azure ground. This certainly loks like one to send to an infrastructure folks who have yet to realise the power and potential of the cloud.
- There’s no #antifragilesoftware – Ralf Westphal continues his discussion of the concept of Anti-Fragile software
- Microservices – Martin Fowler and James Lewis share the next part of this article on Microservices.
- Now that’s deep… Deep Learning! "Learning Methods and Applications"free eBook from MSR – Greg Duncan highlights a free eBook on Machine learning from Microsoft Research.
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