2014 October

October 2014

Monthly Archive

Posted by Chris Alcock on 20 Oct 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

Chocolatey: The Alternative Windows Store – Like Yum/Apt-Get – Rob Reynolds and the Chocolatey team are looking to take the project to the next level, and have started a KickStarter to raise funds for the project.

Measure, optimise then measure again: further refining ‘Have I been pwned?’ – Troy Hunt looks at further optimisations to his ‘Have I been pwned?’ site, explorinng reduction of requests to serve images
Types don’t substitute for tests – ‘ctford’ discusses the role of type systems and the view that sometimes is held about it reducing the need to unit test code.
ASP.NET MVC 6: What are KRE, KVM, KPM? – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at what three of the ASP.NET MVC / ASP.NET vNext components
Put yourself out there and publish that Open Source project today – Scott Hanselman discusses one of the factors which puts people off publishing their code, negative feedback, and what you can do to deal with that
Pointers In C# – Rusoaica takes a look at how you can drop down and work with pointers in C#. Update: Its likely that this article is re-hash of ‘What’s The Matter With Pointers?’ – thanks to Llewellyn Pritchard for letting me know
Manual JSON serialization from DataReader in ASP.NET Web API – Radenko Zec takes a look at Rick Strahl’s technique for JSON serialization of a DataReader.

Posted by Chris Alcock on 17 Oct 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC now Available – John Montgomery announces the release of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Release Candidate which includes a number fo fixes, improvements and new features.
Visual Studio and TFS 2013.4 (Update 4) Release Candidate – Brian Harry highlights the Team Foundation Server aspects of the Update 4 Release Candidate.
Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC – Xinyang Qiu looks at the Web Development features included in the Update 4 release candidate, including significant improvements for handling of JSON data, and much more
Chance to Connect(); on What’s Coming Next, November 12th and 13th – Somasegar announce the Connect() online developer event which will be taking place on 12th November, and looks back at the past year.

Docker and Microsoft: Integrating Docker with Windows Server and Microsoft Azure – Scott Guthrie announces the Azure Platform partnership with Docker, and the extended support for Docker containers which will now come to fruition on the Azure platform.
Producing combinations, part two – Eric Lippert continues discussion of generation of combinations with a look at combining immutable data structures, abstract classes with derived nested classes and recursion to more efficiently produce combinations meeting criteria.
Microsoft Asp.Net MVC Security Update MS14-059 broke my build! – Miguell highlights problems with ASP.NET MVC projects after application of a security patch, and shares a resolution
Chess TDD 19: DoesPieceExistAt and Housekeeping – Erik Dietrich continues his series looking at Test Driven Development through an example of a Chess Game, in this instalment looking at some of the housekeeping on the code
Top 5 Mistakes for First Time Tech Leads – Pat Kua shares some useful advice for Tech Leads
OWASP Top 10 Risks #2: Broken Authentication and Session Management – Max McCarty shares the second part of a series looking at the OWASP security risks, this part exploring problems with authentication and session management
Introducing the IE Platform Suggestion Box on UserVoice – Jonathan Sampson of the Internet Explorer Team highlights the existence of a User Voice site for feedback and suggestions on Internet Explorer, and discusses the rational for its creation.

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Posted by Chris Alcock on 16 Oct 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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

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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