The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing PostSharp 4 RTM – Gael Fraiteur and the PostSharp team announce the release of PostSharp 4, enabling the implementation of undo/redo, threading and other patterns, new platform support, and performance improvements over previous releases

Information

• VisualStudio 14 stopped working after upgrading to Windows 10 build 9860? – Alex Dresko highlights problems he encountered with the Visual Studio 14 CTP and Windows 10 Tech Preview’s most recent update, sharing a fix for te problems he encountered
• Caution installing Visual Studio CTP 4 – Cameron Taggart also highlights an issue with the Visual Studio 14 CTP and isues it causes with F# development, again with a repair installation fix.
• Career planning: What is your path? – Ayende follow on from his recent post on ‘Where do old developers go?’ with some more discussion of the career options as developers get older.
• .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") – nameof spec v4 & .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") – string interpolation: proposed design changes – Lucian Wischik and ‘nmgafter’ share interesting specifications for two features of the Roslyn platform
• Video: My non-technical partner tries Windows 10 for the first time – Scott Hanselman shares an interesting video of his partner trying out Windows 10 for the first time and discovering features as she goes.
• Five common mistakes when dealing with performance issues in your application – Gautham Prabhu K highlights 5 common mistakes developers make when investigating and resolving performance issues

Community

• DDDNorth 2014 Review – Ian Nelson gives a nice review of the recent DDDNorth Conference
• Xamarin Evolve 2014 Session Recordings Now Available – Joseph Hill highlights the availability of the session recordings from the recent Xamarin Evolve 2014 Conference with great looking sessions on a wide range of different topics

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