The Morning Brew

Software

• ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Beta releases – Yishai G shares the news of the latest releases on the MS Web Platform which include some notable performance enhancements as well as new functionality.
• MediatR hits 1.0 – Jimmy Bogard’s Mediator Pipeline project hits the 1.0 milestone and provides a variety of ways to implement calls into the pipeline, including asynchronously.

Information

• Web API OData V4 Lessons Learned – David Hardin shares some lessons derived from his experiences implementing OData V4 services using Web API.
• How to Update NuGet Packages for 64-bit – Matt Ward discusses the need for 64-bit packages for creating iPhone applications and discusses the process for the creation of such packages.
• Adding New Items to Your ASP.NET 5 Project with Yeoman Subgenerators & Yeoman generators for ASP.NET 5 – Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi shares two posts, one from Shane Boyer and the other from Sourabh Shirhatti taking a look at the support for using Yeoman and Generators and SubGenerators to add project items
• Squeezing the Most Into the New W3C Beacon API – Nik Molnar explores the use of the W3C Beacon API for transmitting telemetry and other information back to the server
• You Don’t Need jQuery! – Free yourself from the chains of jQuery by embracing and understanding the modern Web API and discovering various directed libraries to help you fill in the gaps. – An interesting blog from Ray Nicholus which looks at how you don’t necessarily need to use jQuery for many of the things you may think you do.

Community

• Farewell, Dr. Dobb’s – Andrew Binstock shares the sad news that Dr Dobb’s journal is being ‘sunset’ by its (now online only) publisher. I’ve been a fan of Dr Dobbs for many years and was a subscriber to the print edition until it ceased publication, so very sorry to hear that it is going for good.

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