The Morning Brew

Back to the usual morning publishing slot today 😉

Software

• New Compiler and Moving to GitHub – TypeScript – Jonathan Turner announces a new improved compiler for the TypeScipt project, along with their migration to hosting the project on GitHub
• Visual Studio Online Update – July 21 – Brian Harry announces the deployment of the latest bunch of changes and improvements to the Visual Studio Online platform, including Active Directory integration, licensing changes, account deletion and reporting enhancements.

Information

• Analyzing test code – Eric Lippert continues his series of posts answering interesting quiestion which arose from his recent webcast. Today’s question loks at the application of ‘checkers’ to Unit Test code.
• Stop checking-in binaries, instead create self-bootstrapping scripts – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi discusses the use of scripts to provide a way of getting executables needed by site extensions without packaging them in with the extension
• Collection Pipeline – Martin Fowler discusses the Collection Pipeline, a pattern which involves gathering and bringing together the results of one operation and passing it to the next.
• How to remotely debug and profile the performance of your HTML5 websites & apps on Windows Phone – David Rousset takes a detailed look at performing profiling of HTML5 content in Windows Phone browsers, walking through the steps required.
• Creating Cool WPF Charts using the ModernUI Chart Library and WebAPI – Mahesh Sabnis takes us through producing charts in WPF applications
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 3: More about Backbone Models, BackBone Tutorial – Part 4: CRUD Operations on BackboneJs Models using HTTP REST Service & BackBone Tutorial – Part 5: Understanding Backbone.js Collections – Rahul Rajat Singh continues this CodeProject article series looking at the the use of Backbone, exploring the Model, collections and performing network operations using REST based services.
• How can I get the URL to the Web page the clipboard was copied from? – Raymond Chen discusses an interesting feature of the HTML clipboard in Windows which gives rise to a useful feature in OneNote.

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