November 2014
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1732
Posted by Chris Alcock on 07 Nov 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Releases · nunit/nunit 3 – Charlie Poole and the NUnit Team announce the release of their second alpha release of NUnit 3.0. This is a major re-write of NUnit with breaking changes, so its well worth finding out what is changing and new and giving the team some feedback.
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- All About Angular 2.0 – Rob Eisenberg shares a huge article about Angular 2.0, the motivations behind the changes being made – a fascinating read, but be warned, its a long one
- Graph traversal, part three – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at Graph data structures and Graph Traversal, looking at how to establish all the traversals of a Directed Acyclic Graph from a specific start node
- MSDN Magazine – November 2014 – The November edition of MSDN Magazine is available online with articles on Async Programming, Windows Phone 8.1 development, MVVM and much more
- It will sell out quickly! Free Azure & Office 365 exams – Sarah Arnold highlights a world wide offer of free exams for Azure and Office 365 topics
- Use Data-Driven Test for Parameterized Tests – yingqin takes a look at parameterized tests and their use
- Why your code is so hard to understand – Stephen Young discusses 6 common problems which lead to your code being harder to read, understand and comprehend.
- Using Bootstrap 3 modal in ASP.NET MVC 5 – Kevin LaBranche shares a sample using ASP.NET MVC5 and BootStrap to implement the various different types of modal dialog
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The Morning Brew #1731
Posted by Chris Alcock on 06 Nov 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Using System.Numerics.Vector for Graphics Programming – Immo Landwerth announces the latest major update to the SIMD Vector Types, improving its capabilites for graphics programming
- Introducing EAPs for dotTrace 6, dotCover 3, dotMemory 4.2 – The Folks over at JetBrains announce the release of the latest batch of Early Access Previews of their Code Coverage and memory and CPU profilers
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- NuGet Package of the Week – Courtesy Flush to flush buffers earlier and optimize time to first byte – Scott Hanselman highlights Courtesy Flush, a NuGet package from Nik Molnar (co-creator of Glimpse) which aims to help improve your ASP.NET application’s time to first byte
- ETW Logging in IIS 8.5 – Tomas Restrepo shares a sample which takes advantage of the new support for Event Tracing For Windows in IIS 8.5 to have the IIS log entries written to ETW, and looks at hooking this and processing the events in code.
- Age of Ascent – An epic space game on Microsoft Azure – David Gristwood highlights the work that the Microsoft TED team and the UK Microsoft Technology Center have been undertaking with Illyriad in producing a massive multiplayer game on the Azure platform.
- ORTC – A New Protocol for HTML5 Web Apps – Rami Sayar highlights the Internet Explorer teams undertaking of an implementation of ORTC (Object Real-Time Communication) in Internet Explorer
- Tracking Technical Debt with TechDebtAttributes – Jason Roberts shares a NuGet package which allows you to decorate code with notes and scores of technical debt level to help you improve your code base over time
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The Morning Brew #1730
Posted by Chris Alcock on 05 Nov 2014 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Brackets 1.0 and Extract for Brackets (Preview) Now Available – The Brackets team announce the V1.0 release of their text editor designed for web design and development, with a number of neat features which help with the most frontend aspects of web projects, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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- RyuJIT CTP5: Getting closer to shipping, and with better SIMD support – Thomas Lai gives an update on the RyuJIT CTP with details of the work they have been undertaking recently, as well as a look at the results that the Bing team have encountered using it in.
- ASP.NET MVC 6 on Azure Websites – Gunnar Peipman continues his series looking at the use of ASP.NET vNext and ASP.NET MVC 6 with a look at hosting MVC 6 code on the Microsoft Azure Websites platform now
- Find Debug Assemblies using Glimpse – Steve Smith shares a useful tip about a feature in Glimpse which allows you to easily identify which assemblies are built in which mode in your ASP.NET application
- Part 2: Azure Mobile Services: What you need to know to get started with Storage Services – Adarsha Datta continues a series looking at Azure Mobile Services, and in this post gives a walk through of the use of the Storage Services.
- Design Principals in Practice: Source Code Formatting – Jason Roberts discusses how code formatting can actually give some hint at the design of your software, looking at a couple of cases where the formatting can imply additional meaning.
- Where in the Application Should Data Validation be Done? – William Sisson discusses where in the application you should site your validation code exploring some of the issues surrounding these decisions
- Web API Thoughts 1 of 3 – Data Streaming, Web API Thoughts 2 of 3 – Working with HTTPS & Web API Thoughts 3 of 3 – Extending Web API Documentation – Wonde Tadesse shares three different thought pieces exploring the implementation of various different features on top of the WebAPI platform.
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