The Morning Brew

Links only today I’m afraid.

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• More pricing and licensing changes coming – Brian Harry
• AngularJS – Further with Directives – John Ptacek
• Mixing $http Promises and $q Promises for cached Data – Rick Strahl
• Clean Code – Is my code always readable? – Michal Warkocz
• Becoming an F# contributor – Mårten Rånge
• Finite State Machine Compiler – Phil Trelford
• Everything You Need to Know About Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Part 1) – Max R McCarty
• "SQL Server Execution Plans" free eBook from Red Gate – Greg Duncan
• Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition Azure Virtual Machines – Lee Stott
• WMF 5.0 Preview: Defining "experimental designs" and "stable designs" – John Lisco
• Tail/Feather – Snapshots – Ayende

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Software

• Announcing the redesigned F12 developer tools interface – The Internet Explorer Team announce the latest batch of user interface changes to the F12 Developer Tools

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• Arrow Function In ES6 – K.Scott Allen takes a look at the use of Arrow Functions in ECMAScript 6 to declare functions in a more succinct way
• Meta programming with ECMAScript 6 proxies – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses the new ECMAScript 6 feature for proxies, which allows you to intercept and customise operations being performed on objects
• ".NET Core is the future" but whose future is that? – Frans Bouma discusses the new world order that .NET Core brings about and what the impact of this new target framework means for developers of components and libraries.
• Replacing Throwing Exceptions with Notification in Validations – Martin Fowler takes a look at refactoring exception based validation to using the Notification pattern.
• SignalR + RX Streaming Data Demo App – Sacha Barber discusses the use of The Reactive Extensions and SignalR for stream processing applications (Note: follow the link at the end of the blog post for the full CodeProject article)
• Permissions in Azure DocumentDB – Neil Mackenzie follows on from his previous post with a look at the permissions model for Azure DocumentDB, looking at users, permissions and authentication.
• Tail/Feather – The client API – Ayende continues his look at Tail/Feather his weekend project to build a distributed Key value store, exploring the client API implementation in this post
• Composing Christmas with F# – Tomas Petricek joins in with the F# Advent Calendar, sharing a Christmas look at composition and abstraction in F# to create a Christmas Tree image.
• New Language Features in Visual Basic 14 – Lucian Wischik shares a look at the new features for VB Programmers in VB 14

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Update: I’ve re-pointed the link for ‘If Programming Languages Were Weapons’ below to point at the original – thanks to Alex for letting me know in the comments

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• Fluent asynchronous API 1: API requirements, Fluent asynchronous API 2: building an API, Fluent asynchronous API 3: the helper library &Fluent asynchronous API 4: Nope, Q won’t work – Bertrand Le Roy takes a look at the creation of a Fluent API in JavaScript / Node which includes asynchronous features as part of the fluent API, attempting to keep things as close to a synchronous API as possible
• What’s New in C# 6.0 inside Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Michael Crump shares a short introduction to the various C#6 features included in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview release
• A Tech Lead Paradox: Technical Needs vs Business Needs – Pat Kua shares thoughts on balancing the often very differing Technical and Business needs, and what Technical Leads should do in these cases.
• Tail/Feather – highly available distributed key/value store weekend project – Ayende shares some initial notes and code from his weekend project to build a distributed key value store
• Creating double-precision integer multiplication with a quad-precision result from single-precision multiplication with a double-precision result – Raymond Chen gets very precise, looking at the the multiplication of values of different precisions
• A Personal History of Microcomputing (Part 3) – Rico Mariani shares the next part of his series looking back at his own personal computing history, looking at the 1980s computing in this part.
• Status roadmap update: srcset, <main> element, and date inputs in development – The Internet Explorer team give another roadmap update on their progress on a number of features which are under way in implementation.
• ASP.NET vNext Project Creation using Yeoman – Shayne Boyer takes a look at using Yeoman to bootstrap your ASP.NET application development by creating projects and project items at the command line.
• If Programming Languages Were Weapons – Updated: re-pointed this link to the original A light-hearted look at what weapon various programming languages would be.

Community

• Ask me anything – Dec 11 – Udi Dahan is holding an ‘ask-me-anything’ session where he will answer questions from the community on SOA, DDD, CQRS, messaging, NoSQL databases, and anything else.
• UK Future Decoded Event Video: Martin Beeby on Visual Studio &amp; Apache Cordova, UK Future Decoded Event Video: Mike Taulty on Native C# Apps for Microsoft Devices & UK Future Decoded Event Video: Stuart Lodge on Visual Studio and Xamarin – Mike Taulty shares video recordings of three sessions (including one of his own) from the UK Future Decoded event

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