The Morning Brew

Update: Once again I seem to have lost the ability to count – today’s post was incorrectly titled as #1710, when it should have been #1711 – once again I’ve updated the number but the URL will remain the same. Thanks to those who pointed it out.

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• REST : Simple REST Framework – Sacha Barber shares the fruits of some time off (congratulations on the birth of your second child Sacha) during which he created a simple REST framework using only the core framework (and JSON.NET)
• Cool Preview eBook of the Day: "Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms" by Charles Petzold (Yes, that one) – Greg Duncan highlights Charles Petzold’s latest work, a free e-book on the Xamarin Forms framework.
• Part 4: Get started with Python: Object Oriented Approach – Adarsha Datta continues with his series looking at programming with the Python language, kicking off a section of the series looking at performing Object Oriented Programming using Python.
• Bridging between NSubstitute and FluentAssertions – Rory Primrose discusses two of his go-to libraries for unit testing, and look at the combination of the two, and a work around which gives increased power.
• Unboxing FP – Phil Trelford takes a look at how you can very quickly and easily get up and running with a range of Functional Programming languages.
• Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Part 7 – Creating a Unique Value Directive using $asyncValidators – Dan Wahlin continues his series looking at the use of Directives in AngularJS and the creation of your own Directives to help you encapsulate functionality.
• Why Does There Have to be Something Wrong with AngularJS? – John Papa responds to some of the common criticisms of AngularJS, looking at the reality of the claims, and some of the benefits he feels AngularJS brings.
• Microsoft Azure Web Site Cheat Sheet – Greg Duncan highlights a Windows Azure Cheat Sheet
• Returning a Partial View Only for XHR Requests in ASP.NET MVC – J.Tower looks at a technique for getting ASP.NET MVC to return partial views for Ajax calls allowing you to do partial render to substitute in page content.

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