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

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• 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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• Azure’s getting bigger, faster and more open – Jason Zander shares the latest announcements from the Azure Conference yesterday, discussing the new G-Series VMs, high performance storage, market place, the Microsoft Cloud Platform System, and industry partnerships

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• EF7 – What Does ‘Code First Only’ Really Mean – Rowan Miller discusses the retirement of EDMX format models in Entity Framework 7 and discusses what the new ‘Code First Only’ approach means in practice.
• .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") – Open source infrastructure work going forward – Matt Gertz discusses the progress and next steps of making Roslyn into a true Open Source project
• Compressing the Web – Eric Lawrence discusses the various different compression types available for improving the performance of Web Content
• Do we need a Tech Lead? – Pat Kua continues discussion of the role of a Tech Lead, and if teams should have one
• Modeling exercise: The grocery store’s checkout model – Ayende shares a nice domain modelling puzzle, a fun one to try if you have a bit of time to spare
• AngularJS and ES6 – ‘Collective~Garbage’ discusses migration to ECMAScript6 based code in an AngularJS codebase to aid conversion to Angular 2.0
• Various Domain modelling approaches in Entity Framework & Choosing the Right Entity Framework Workflow – Pallavi Praharaj takes a look at the types of domain modeling and workflow for working with Entity Framework

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Update: Corrected the broken link to Raymond Chen’s article on scripting Internet Explorer – thanks to those who let me know.

Software

• Microsoft Azure Websites WebJobs is now GA in the Microsoft Azure Platform – Magnus Mårtensson shares in the announcement of the General Availability of Microsoft Azure WebJobs
• [Announcement] ODataLib 6.8.1 Release – Layla Liu announces the release of the ODataLib 6.8.1, addressing a couple of issues, and two new features around dates and collections

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• Producing combinations, part three – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at combinations of numbers, continuing with the solution begun in the previous part
• Sacrificial Architecture – Martin Fowler discusses the concept of sacrificial architecture, and the lifetime of the code we are writing today
• Disabling SSL 3 in Azure websites (and why it doesn’t look like you have) – Troy Hunt discusses th POODLE vulnerability and how you can disable SSL3 on the Azure Platform
• Career planning: Where do old devs go to? – Ayende discusses the latter stages of a developers career and asks where the older more experienced developers are now – be sure to read the comments for interesting discussions
• Scripting an Internet Explorer window – Raymond Chen takes a look at the scripting interfaces to Internet Explorer allowing you to write script code to interact with webpages inside Internet Explorer.
• A basic Katana application – ‘amateurp’ takes a look at crafting a basic application on the Katana OWIN Server.
• Domain Modeling Around Deletes or ‘Using Cassandra as a queue even when you know better’ – Ryan Svihla discusses deletes on distributed databases such as Cassandra and how using this for a queue can lead to interesting effects

Community

• Watch AzureConf – Today (21st) is the 2014 Azure Conf, which is available to stream online with a great line up kicking off at 8am (PST)

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