October 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1724
Posted by Chris Alcock on 28 Oct 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Announcing a simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience for Load Testing – Charles Sterling shares a look at the web based experience for developing, and configuring load tests on the cloud based load service
- Regular Expression Support in ReSharper 9 – Dmitri Nesteruk and the ReSharper Team show off new functionality in ReSharper 9 which provides insight into Regular Expressions, making reading easier with expression syntax highlighting, and authoring easier with code completion and error highlighting
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- Producing combinations, part five – Eric Lippert presses on with his series looking at creating combinations of values with a look at the ordering of the combinations produced
- Enumerating the ways of distributing n balls into k boxes – Raymond Chen is also taking a look at combinations of values exploring combinations of indistinguishable balls in distinguishable boxes
- Career planning: Mine – Ayende continues his series of posts discussing careers, sharing a look at his career over the past 15 years, sharing some of the things he has learned along the way
- 5 Ways Software Developers Can Become Better at Estimation – John Sonmez discusses some of the things we as developers can do do get better at the very important skill of estimation
- Software development must deliver on budget – always – Ralf Westphal discusses the importance in delivering software on budget
- AngularJS 2.0 Details Emerge – David Iffland shares some of the first details in a while of Angular 2.0 from announcements at the ng-europe conference.
- AtScript – Another Language to Compile Down to JavaScript? – Andrew Connell highlights news of AtScript, a stronger typed version of JavaScript much like TypeScript coming from the AngularJS camp
- How Google broke the OSS compact with Angular 2.0 – John V Petersen shares his frustrations with Angular 2.09 being developed somewhat behind closed doors with no communication about what the overall approach and product looks like
- Simple.Data 2.0 fundraiser – Mark Rendle discusses the development of Simple.Data 2.0 and his technique of motivation which is having something to look forward to when the work is done.
- TDD & Conway’s Game of Life – Jeremy Clark takes a look at Test Driven Development practices by creating an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life.
- .NET Binary Reverse Engineering: Part 1, .NET Reverse Engineering: Part 2 & .NET Reverse Engineering: Part 3 – Ajay Yadav takes a detailed look at reverse engineering in .NET working back from the compiled binary assembly, through MSIL and back to recognisable code in C# of VB.NET
- ".NET Serializers Comparison Chart" – Six Serializers compared – Greg Duncan highlights a useful comparison of the 6 most common serialisers used in .NET Code
- JavaScript unit testing: using the Chutzpah test runner in Visual Studio – Matt Harrington – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Matt Harrington takes a look at the Chutzpah JavaScript Test Runner extension which sits in Visual Studio making it easier to test JavaScript code.
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The Morning Brew #1723
Posted by Chris Alcock on 27 Oct 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Upcoming Changes in Visual Studio Architecture and Design Tools – Jean-Marc Prieur discusses plans for future changes to the Visual Studio Architecture and Design Tools
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- I’m stuck in someone’s for loop – Scott Hanselman shares his (and mine, and I suspect your) frustrations with applications across a wide range of platforms which don’t properly take advantage of the capabilities of async programming to avoid blocking the UI
- Chocolatey Now has Package Moderation – Rob Reynolds announces the new package moderation process for Chocolatey, meaning there is now a quality barrier for packages to ensure they meet the needs of the community
- Career planning: Disaster recovery – Ayende continues his series on career development with a discussion of some of the things that can go wrong in a career and what can be done to recover the situation
- Book Recommendations for a Tech Lead – Pat Kua shares some soft skills book recommendations for technical leads
- AngularJs and Promises with the $http Service – Rick Strahl takes a look at the support for promises in AngularJS looking at the standard deferred promises and those returned from the $http service, sharing how he has ended up working with them
- A Look at ETW – Part 1 & A Look at ETW – Part 2 – Kim Johnson takes a look at Event Tracing for Windows, and explores its use further with Entity Framework creating strongly typed events for IDbConnectionInterceptor and IDbCommandInterceptor interfaces
- The Simple-Talk Magazine
– Melanie Townsend highlights the Simple Talk magazine – available as a PDF (or print copy if you attend the right conferences)
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The Morning Brew #1722
Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Oct 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- ASP.NET Identity 2.2.0-alpha1 – Pranav Rastogi announces a preview release (at the alpha level) of the next version of the ASP.NET Identity Framework, a release which is dealing with bugs and performance issues primarily.
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- Violating the "smart enum" pattern in C# – Jon Skeet takes a look at a nice pattern, and explores some of the nastier aspects of the language, and holes in the language specification
- Producing combinations, part four – Eric Lippert continues his series on combinations of values with a look at compressing the data storage of his solution to fit the data into things like the int structure
- Package Manifests – Jeff Handley discusses proposed improvements to NuGet Packages handling of arbitrary artefacts through the package manifest
- Dependency Injection or Inversion? – Erik Dietrich discusses the difficulty in naming things, and looks at two different terms which are often interchanged and mixed
- CRUD Operations using ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js – Mahesh Sabnis looks at creating a simple Create Read Update Delete based application using AngularJS backing on to ASP.NET WebAPI services.
- The history of JavaScript, as told by Douglas Crockford – Dave Voyles highlights a nice talk from Douglas Crockford on the history of JavaScript filmed at Mix2010
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