The Morning Brew

Happy Independence Day to my US readers – enjoy your long weekend

Software

• ODataLib 6.5.0 Release – ‘LeoHu1’ announces the release of the latest version of the ODataLib, introducing a couple of bugfixes and a number of new features

Information

• Avoiding conditionals to improve code – ‘Cellfish’ discusses the idea of programming without (or with minimal) conditional expressions
• Catch up on all the videos from DotNetConf Spring 2014 – Scott Hanselman highlights the range of great recorded content from the dotNetConf event
• ASP.NET Session State using SQL Server In-Memory – Ken Kilty explores the in-memry features of SQL server 2014 to provide shared session backing for ASP.NET applications
• View Source in the CPU Usage tool – Dan J Taylor highlights another new and useful feature of the Performance and Diagnostic Hub in Update 2 of Visual Studio 2013
• Best Practices – Code Coverage Metrics – The NCover team kick off a 4 part video series looking at best practices for code coverage, starting with a look at code coverage metrics in this first part
• A design pattern for caching – two tier caching with strong consistency between servers | Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing – Paul Lou – Paul Lou takes a look at a pattern for working with non-scalable data sources with minimal data churn
• Cancelling Long Promise Chains – Karl Seguin continues looking at promises, exploring how you go about cancelling a chain or promises
• DOCTYPE Explored – Mohit Jain gives a useful reminder of the role of the DocType in HTML and how it affects rendering in this CodeProject Article

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