The Morning Brew

Software

• NCache Distributed Cache for .NET Gets Open Sourced – Michael Domingo (Visual Studio Magazine)
• Native Memory Diagnostics in CTP 5 – Adam Welch

Information

• Fun with ASP.NET 5, Linux & Docker, Part 2 – Mark Rendle
• The Road to C# 7 Has Begun – Jonathan Allen
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Validating Redirects and Forwards – David Paquette
• Understanding Azure website auto-scale magic – Troy Hunt
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Memory Comparisons, size does matter – Federico Andres Lois (via Ayende)
• A decade of unit testing – Karl Seguin
• Introduction to API Reviews – .NET Framework – Channel 9 – Dan Fernandez interviews Eric St. John, Immo Landwerth, David Kean, and Krzysztof Cwalina
• Using JavaScript Next Features in an ES3 Enterprise World – Cody Lindley
• If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript: Explained – Angus Croll
• MutationObserver in HTML5
  – Kevin Logan
• Tune, modernise and optimise your website – Martin Kearn
• Hacking Endeavours – A Tale About Having Fun – Jan Van Ryswyck

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Information

• .NET Core Open Source Update – Immo Landwerth shares an interesting update on the .NET Core moving to open source, discussing the successes so far, and looking at some of the metrics they use to monitor progress
• Microsoft Orleans now available on GitHub – Lee Stott highlights the availability of Project Orleans as an Open Source project on GitHub, looking at some useful resources for this Microsoft Research distributed high-scale computing applications framework
• Licensing changes – User acceptance testing and Agile plannings – Brian Harry shares further information on the changes to licensing for Visual Studio Online and On Prem
• Microsoft unveils Trill, a .NET library for super-fast streaming analytics – Jordan Novet highlights an interesting research project from MSR which is focusing on handling high frequency event streams
• The History of the For Loop – Ed Price looks at the orgins of the for loop construct
• Elasticsearch Bulk Insert – damienbod continues this comprehensive series looking at ElasticSearch in .NET applications with a look at how to get large quantities of data into ElasticSearch
• Discovering the Underlying Office Protocols Using Microsoft Message Analyzer – takes a look at the use of Message Analyzer to explore the protocols used by Office Applications
• TypeScript / ES6 classes for React components – without the hacks! – Dan continues his look at using TypeScript with React, looking at the latest beta release of React which brings with it support for ECMAScript 6 classes to represent React Components.
• AngularJS vs. Backbone.js vs Ember.js – DevToolsGuy shares a short comparison of three of the main JavaScript clientside application frameworks

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Software

• OneGet (it’s in the Windows 10 Preview!) – Garrett Serack
• Announcing PostSharp 4.1 Preview 4: Xamarin Support, and More – Gael Fraiteur
• Modern.IE Chrome Extension – Leon Liang
• Updates for the F12 developer tools in the Windows 10 January Technical Preview – Ruben Rios

Information

• Azure WebJobs are awesome and you should start using them right now! – Troy Hunt
• The Developer’s Guide to the New .NET FREE eBook – Michael Crump ( & Sam Basu)
• "Yet Another JS Framework" isn’t so bad after all – Judah Gabriel Himango
• I won’t be using Angular for my next project…and neither should you. – Robert Greyling
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Memory Comparisons, Digging into the IL – Federico Andres Lois & Ayende
• Avoiding the Perfect Design – Erik Dietrich
• Null Propagation Operator: A New Feature of C# 6.0 – Abhishek Arora
• HTTP 304 Not Modified – An Introduction – Robert Vandenberg Huang

Community

• DDDSW 6 Timeline – The DDDSW committee

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