The Morning Brew

Software

• BDDfy V4 – Mehdi Khalili announces the release of BDDfy version 4, based on the existing project, and with over 300 commits this new version includes a substantial number of new features including Cucumber-like examples on both Fluent and Reflective APIs, self contained HTML reports, scenario Tags, along with a few breaking changes.
• Announcing codestyle.co
  – Scott Dorman announces the launch of CodeStyles.co a website dedicated to odeing style guides, maintained by the community via GitHub.
• No further development on Simple.Web – Mark Rendle announces his plans to cease development on Simple.Web, explaining why the projcet existed in the first place, and why he no longer feels it is useful as the core framework includes much of what Simple.Web added.

Information

• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Building larger primitives – Jimmy Bogard shares the next part of his series looking at implementing forms markup using HTML5 and clean convention based code, this time looking at building on the earlier work and implementing Bootstrap forms markup
• How To Put Your Favorite Source Code Goodies on Nuget – Erik Dietrich discusses and walks through the process of using NuGet Packages to share soruce code between your own projects increasing the maintainability of your code, and reducing the need to copy and paste between projects.
• ASP.NET MVC 6: New HttpContext – Gunnar Peipman discusses the changes to HttpContext in ASP.NET MVC6, looking at the new interface and why this change has been made.
• Windows for IoT, First Impressions – Valter Minute shares a first look at the Intel Galileo board and WindowsIoT version
• New blog hosting & Micro-optimization: the surprising inefficiency of readonly fields – Jon Skeet has been having problems with his blog, and has migrated to new hosting, meaning articles like this on on micro-optimisation linked recently are now accessible again.

Community

• Announcing the 2nd Web European Conference, next Spring, in Italy – Simone Chiaretta announces the plans for the next European Web Conference, to be held in the spring of 2015. The call for speakers is out, and if you are interested in speaking you can submit your proposal via GitHub pull Request

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• Unusual Ways of Boosting Up App Performance. Lambdas and LINQs – Alexey Totin shares the next part of this series exploring some of the more unusual ways of increasing your applications performance, looking at the hidden costs of Lambda expressions and LINQ Queries, and what you can do to offset them.
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Validators – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at re-forming standard HTML components in ASP.NET MVC, with a look at the implementation of validators.
• What is React.js? Another Template Library? Like Web Components? A Framework like AngularJS? – Craig McKeachie takes a look at the React.js library, comparing it to other frameworks and libraries to give a feel for what it is all about.
• Collection Pipeline – Martin Fowler shares the 4th part of his article on Collection Pipelines
• Application State, part 1 – The Caliburn.Micro blog kicks off a discussion of th state management features of the forth coming major release of Caliburn.Micro
• Fundamentals of Machine Learning – Bruno Terkaly discusses some of the concepts of Machine Learning, and how it relates to the capabilities provided on the Azure Platform.
• Azure Automation: What is running on my subscriptions – Benjamin Guinebertière takes a look at using Azure Automation Scripts to get a regular report of what is running in his Azure Subscription.
• Spell Check, Hyphenation, and Thesaurus for .NET with C# and VB Samples – Part 1: Single Threading – & Spell Check, Hyphenation, and Thesaurus for .NET with C# and VB Samples – Part 2: Multi Threading – Thomas Maierhofer takes a look at the use of the NHunspell spell checking (and related) library in both Single and Multi-threaded applications
• Using Markdown for Effective Logging – Stuart Wheelwright shares a library for logging which makes use of the MarkDown format to allow your logs to be beautifully formatted with ease.

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Software

• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2 Available – Shahrokh Mortazavi announces the release of the second beta of the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0, providing a rich experience for developing Node.js applications, incuding intellisense, debugging. This release brings a new analysis and IntelliSense engine, better UI for NPM, improved testing support both for custom frameworks and Mocha based tests.
• Mono Performance Team – Miguel de Icaza discusses the creation of a performance focused team within the Mono Project to work solely on improving performance of the framework.

Information

• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Data-bound elements – Jimmy Bogard continues his look at re-implementing HTML5 versions of the Form Helpers, taking a look at building a better implementation for controls like drop down lists which rely on supporting data, be it static, sourced from a database, or contextual based upon selections
• Commodore 64 Emulator – Mladen Janković shares an implementation of a Commodore 64 Emulator implemented in C#, an interesting project which encompasses emulation of each of the components which made up the C64.
• Collection Pipeline – Martin Fowler continues with the 3rd instalment of his article on Collection Pipelines.
• JavaScript dependencies that work with Brackets, Node and in-browser – Dan Roberts shares a look at JavaScript Dependency Management discussing how he arrived at the solution he did, and sharing his learning along the way.
• The Full Stack Developer – Nathan Gloyn discusses the concept of the ‘Full Stack Developer’, with a look at what that term means to him.
• Using Unsigned Integers in OData – Lewis Cheng discusses the number types supported in OData, and looks at how the protocol provides for implementing custom data types, allowing the addition of support for unsigned integers.
• Ten CSS One-Liners to Replace Native Apps – Håkon Wium Lie shares a look at some simple snippets of CSS which are gaining support, and provide features on the Web that many expect can only be achieved with native applications.

Community

• DDD East Anglia Sessions – The Session Voting for DDD East Anglia (to be held in Cambridge on Saturday 13th September) has a couple more days to run, so this is your last opportunity to influence the sessions which will be featured on the day – get your votes in.

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