The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual F# has moved to GitHub – The Visual F# Team announce the completion of their move of project hosting from CodePlex to GitHub
• Out of hibernation [A new home and a bunch of updates for TextAnalysisTool.NET] – David Anson announces a new release of TextAnalysis.NET with a fresh batch of contributions, and some re-structuring of the project to make contribution easier for anyone who wishes to.

Information

• Generic variance in DI containers – Jimmy Bogard takes a look at the support for Generics and Variance in the most common Dependency Injection container implementations
• Iterators in ES6 – K Scott Allen kicks off a series of posts looking at the implementation of iterators in ECMAScript 6, kicking off with a look at the basics of iterators which will progress into looking at the more advanced techniques with them,
• How to map an Insert Key on your Surface Pro 3 Keyboard – Scott Hanselman discusses techniques to allow you to customise your keyboard, including highlighting a particular favourite tool (SharpKeys) which I make use of for this purpose.
• ChessTDD 24: Cleaning Up for Acceptance Testing – Erik Dietrich gets back to his Test Driven Development tutorial series looking at the construction of a Chess game
• Automating Windows environments – setup with Boxstarter and Chocolatey packages – Cesar de la Torre discusses using a number of great tools to automate the setup of your Windows Environments on new machines.
• Why Developers Need to Understand Execution Plans – Grant Fritchey discusses the importance of understanding what the database behind your applications is doing, and takes a look at how to read SQL Server Execution Plans

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• C# 7 feature request – extension attributes – Jon Skeet outlines some thoughts on a feature he would like to see in C# allowing you to assign attributes to existing methods
• NuGet Package of the Week: Polly wanna fluently express transient exception handling policies in .NET? – Scott Hanselman highlights Polly, a library from Michael Wolfenden which provides common transient exception handling policy implementations
• Your Job Is Not To Write Code – Ted Neward shares some thoughts on what software developers should actually be focusing on, and its not the code (directly).
• Dependency Injection, Angular and Node – Steve Wilkes takes a look at the concepts of dependency injection, exploring the different ways of achieving DI that Node and Angular use
• SQL Server 2014 Upgrade Technical Guide – Dejan Sarka highlights a comprehensive upgrade guide for SQL Server 2014 available as a free download
• <main> HTML5 Tag not working in Internet Explorer 9/10/11 – Rick Strahl discusses some of the pain in getting HTML5 elements to behave consistently across the different versions of Internet Explorer.
• ASP.NET: Understanding OWIN, Katana, and the Middleware Pipeline – John Atten takes a look at the future of ASP.NET and how OWIN and Katana together with the concepts of a ‘middleware pipeline’ make up a powerful evolution of the framework.
• Serve up Debug Symbols for your NuGet packages? Heck yeah! – BC3Tech takes a look at how you can share symbols for your NuGet libraries allowing users of your packages to receive better debug time information.

Community

• Tech Days online 5th of February 2015 3 days of online training – Lee Stott highlights the UK Tech Days Online event taking place 3rd to 5th February wiht the developer day being the 5th February, with a series of great talks being broadcast live

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• We’re moving to GitHub! – Kasey Uhlenhuth highlights the move from CodePlex to GitHub for the Roslyn compilers
• Writing an Angular JS application end-2-end – Part 2 – Gabriel Schenker continues his series looking at building an application with AngularJS. This second part builds on the first and looks at improving the domain model as well as storing the events raised in the GetEventStore repository
• A Case Study in JavaScript Code Improvement – Raymond Camden discusses a number of tools that help support JavaScript Coding best practices
• Anti Forgery Tokens with AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API – Phil Fresle shares a nice tip to give you anti-forgery token support in ASP.NET WebAPI and Angular JS applications.
• Teaching Functional Programming to Professional .NET Developers – Tomas Petricek and Don Syme share their current paper on how the F# language and libraries deal with the uncertainty of remote network services, and also share a recording of a talk on ‘Doing web based data analytics with F#’
• JSON# – Tutorial #4: Deserialising Simple Objects – Paul Mooney shares the next part in his series looking at the JSON# library, exploring in this par the deserialisation of simple objects
• The Azure Portal A to Z – Bruno Terkaly takes the opportunity to spin through all the aspects of the Microsoft Azure platform using the Portal as a guide to what is available.
• Hibernate: Performance Traps in Hibernate – Part 1, Hibernate: Performance Traps in Hibernate – Part 2 & Hibernate: Performance Traps in Hibernate – Part 3 – Ivan Korhner shares three short articles looking at features and performance of Hibernate (equally applicable to NHibernate) based code.
• How to consume SQL Spatial Data with Web API V2.2 for OData V4 – Sam_Xu takes a detailed look at the consumption of Spatial Data when working with OData Based services in ASP.NET WebAPI

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