The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio – Preview – Michael Zlatkovsky

Information

• Biggy Basics Part 2: Getting Relational – Rob Conery takes a look at the relational storage side of his Biggy project
• Can I skip the lock when reading an integer? – Eric Lippert looks at the use of Locks in reading integers in a readers question.
• Coconut Headphones: Why Agile Has Failed – Mike Hadlow discusses the failures of Agile
• Microservices – Martin Fowler and James Lewis share the second part of their article on MicroServices
• Do you LOB? Want to shape the future of Visual Studio? Got 30 Minutes? – Greg Duncan highligjhts a feedback programme for Line of Business app developers to help influence Visual Studio development
• Web at 25: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Invention of the Web – The W3C celebrate the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web with this special site.
• Why MessageBox.Show() = Fail! – Matt Lacey discsses the various UI failures generally indicated by the use of MessageBox.Show

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Another short description day today – normal service hopefully will return tomorrow

Software

• Glimpse 1.8.4 released – Anthony van der Hoorn
• Xamarin Welcomes iOS 7.1, with Day One Support! – Miguel de Icaza
• SQL Nexus 4.0 Released to codeplex – JackLi / CSS SQL Engineers

Information

• Official Google Blog: On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open – Google Celebrate the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web
• NuGet Configuration File inheritance is awesome – Maarten Balliauw on a useful and little know NuGet Feature
• Efficient querying with LINQ, AutoMapper and Future queries – Jimmy Bogard discusses an approach for querying using ORMs
• Baby Steps on Android with Xamarin Part 5 – Mike Taulty continues his series on building a cross platform application on Android.
• F#8 Discriminated Unions – Sacha Barber
• Roles-Based Access Control in Mobile Services and Azure Active Directory – Matthew Henderson
• Shutting down your Azure Virtual Machines during non-working hours – Russ Slaten shares a neat money saving tip
• "Attacking Web Applications" at O’Reilly Fluent – Sasha Goldshtein sares an informative slide deck from a recent presentation.

Community

• Sheffield .NET User Group – Meeting tonight, 12th March
• Donations, why I don’t need them and why I’m now accepting them for "Have I been pwned?" – Troy Hunt

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A links only edition today as I went for a run this morning, and have a busy day at work too.

Software

• A close-up look at Windows 8.1 Update 1 – Ed Bott

Information

• Overview of ECMAScript 6 features – Luke Hoban
• Master time with Reactive Extensions – Phil Haack
• Cache busting in ASP.NET – Mads Kristensen
• Azure Web Sites Deployment and Unit Testing – Eli Weinstock-Herman
• Microservices – Martin Fowler
• Azure Mobile Services in Project Siena – James Quick
• NHibernate Connection Resiliency – Ricardo Peres
• An MVP’s look at the Kinect for Windows v2 developer preview – James Ashley
• What is F#? – EastBancTech
• Delegates & its 5 Modern Flavors (Func, Action, Predicate, Converter, Comparison) – Ashwin. Shetty

Community

• The Ultimate List Of Developer Podcasts – John Sonmez

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