The Morning Brew

Update: The HTML Gremlins struck this morning swallowing a closing quote, which resulted in Jon Galloway’s post about video training being merged with the article on Document Databases – Its all sorted now – thanks to Ed (@nufan1989) for letting me know

Software

• Announcing the Release of Web API OData 5.3 – Andrew Zhou announces the release of WebAPI OData 5,3 as packages on NuGet. This release adds 6 significant new features, along with samples of each of these new features.
• iOS 8 Bigger and Better with Xamarin – Miguel de Icaza announces the release of the latest version of the Xamarin platform, including support for the new APIs in iOS8, including the new Apple Pay API. This post also gives a useful overview of iOS8

Information

• Features Of ES6 Part 6: Destructuring – K.Scott Allen continues his series looking at the ECMAScript 6 language standard and the new features it introduces, exploring the new features for object and array decomposition
• Things you didn’t know about action return types in ASP.NET Web API – Filip W takes a look at the different return types you can have on actions in WebAPI, exploring what takes place under the hood with the different return types and how they can be used.
• Chess TDD 15 – Erik Dietrich continues his screen cast series on Test Driven Development creating a chess implementation. This post continues with the work on blocking pieces and looks at the implementation for the Knight which does not obey the same rules as other pieces.
• Two free video courses: Intro to ASP.NET MVC and Responsive UI with Bootstrap – Jon Galloway highlights two new video courses filmed with Christopher Harrison covering a basic introduction to ASP.NET MVC and creating Responsive UIs using the BootStrap library.
• DocumentDB vs Azure SQL vs Azure Table – Herve Roggero takes a look at the various data storage options for structured data in the Azure Platform
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: The studio & What is new in RavenDB 3.0: RavenFS – Ayende discusses two significant new features of RavenDB introduced in the very recent V3 release
• On Creating a Live Style Guide for MVC Application Development – Edward Charbeneau discusses the idea of creating a live style guide for your web application which outlines how the application should appear – this is a really good idea as it frees you from having to think visual appearance when developing new features.

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