The Morning Brew

Software

• Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio – Shahrokh Mortazavi and The Visual Studio Team announce the release of the Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio, available for VS2010, 2012 and 2013, as well as express edition web and desktop

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• Running ASP.NET MVC 6 on Linux – Gunnar Peipman explores the setup of ASP.NET MVC 6 a part of the ASP.NET vNext, and walks through the steps of getting it set up on a Linux machine.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Updating Search – David Paquette continues his series of posts looking at modernising legacy ASP.NET Application, exploring the implementation of better search using Lucene.NET
• Todo: Add tests … – Marcus Hammarberg discusses the downside of leaving your test writing until after you have written your code.
• Everything you need to know about the POODLE SSL bug – Troy Hunt gives a good overview and discussion of the latest online security threat.
• Quickly Generate XML List of Web Site’s Configuration – Eric Parvin shares a trick for getting your IIS websites configuration using WebDeploy – one of many useful tricks that this software can perform.
• Non-Properties of floating point numbers – Rico Mariani discusses the precision aspects of Floating Point numbers and takes a look if floating point numbers form a group in the mathematical sense.
• Solving Json discrepancies using a JsonConverter – Derik Whittaker discusses how the Json.NET serialiser allows for significant flexibility when deserialising and how JsonConverters allow you to do some of the tricky serialisation where necessary.

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