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

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• 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

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• 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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• Announcing Microsoft.AspNet.Facebook 1.1 beta – Kirthi – .NET Web Development and Tools Blog
• Updated Service Bus 1.1 for Windows Server 1.0.4 Client Assembly – Dan Rosanova
• WebApiContrib/CollectionJson.Net – Mike Amundsen / Glen Block

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• A Journey With Trusted HTML in AngularJS – K.Scott Allen
• Revisiting AngularJS with TypeScript – Jeremy Likness
• Overview of C# 6 language enhancements – Bill Wagner
• Video Series on C# 6.0, Visual Basic 14 and Visual Studio 14 – Kathleen Dollard
• The Sociology of Application Security: Less Can Be More – Peter Vogel
• Be Idiomatic – Erik Dietrich
• Bart De Smet: Rx and Cortana – Going Deep – Charles Torre
• Deleting Entities in NHibernate & NHibernate Pitfalls: HQL Delete Does Not Cascade – Ricardo Peres
• I wrote the original blue screen of death, sort of – Raymond Chen
• How Azure Mobile Services enable your Cloud First Mobile First World – AdarshaDatta
• Universal Win Apps: Shared Project vs Portable Class Library – Advantages and Disadvantages – Joelcitizen
• Part 1: Get Started with Python – Adarsha Datta
• Coding for Kids: Free platforms, tools, videos and games – @andee_marks

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• September 2014 .NET Security Updates – The .NET Framework Team announce the latest round of patches fro the .NET Framework released as a part of the ‘patch Tuesday’ release cycle
• September 2014 updates for Internet Explorer – Gege Wang of the Internet Explorer team also highlights their contribution to the Patch Tuesday releases with patches which address over 25 reported vulnerabilities
• Seq 1.5 preview – Nicholas Blumhardt announces the release of the preview of Seq 1.5, his structured logging framework
• New CodeRush Plugin – Sort Format Tokens – Rory Becker shares a Code Rush plugin which addresses issues with mis-ordering of format tokens included in strings

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• Farewell, EnableViewStateMac! – Levi Broderick and the ASP.NET team announce a significant change released along with this Tuesday’s ‘Patch Tuesday’ patches which makes setting <pages enableViewStateMac="false" /> and <%@Page enableViewStateMac="false"%> forbidden – a protentially breaking change to address potential security issues.
• Tackling cross-cutting concerns with a mediator pipeline – Jimmy Bogard discusses the use of a mediator pattern implementation to provide a pipeline for message delivery / requests
• Building Hyper Scalable Web APIs Right in Your Browser — Fast! – Steven Edouard shares an interesting quickstart guide to setting up a WebAPI implemented in Node.js on the Azure Websites platform, and using the Monaco Browser based IDE.
• New Intellitrace article from Testing Experience: Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace – Charles Sterling highlights an article on IntelliTrace in Testing Experience Magazine, a publication to which you can obtain a free online subscription.
• JavaScript: Returning this or not returning this, this is the question! – David Catuhe takes a look at fluency of interfaces in JavaScript and discusses their implementation, and his experience developing Babylon.js
• C#: Building a Useful, Extensible .NET Console Application Template for Development and Testing – John Atten shares some common patterns an implementations for console applications as test harnesses to allow you to try out your code

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