The Morning Brew

Software

• Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10 – Gaurav Seth and Ed Maurer of the Internet Explorer announce the start of development on support for asm.js in the Chakra JavaScript Engine, a way of achieving near native speed running apps in the browser
• What#s new in Babylon.js v2.0 – David Catuhe discusses the latest features added to the Version 2 of Babylon.js, a 3D WebGL engine with rich features, and on the basis of some of the demos capable of producing some excellent end results
• MassTransit ]|[ – Chris Patterson discusses the planned features for the next release of MassTransit, currently under development
• Azure: Machine Learning Service, Hadoop Storm, Cluster Scaling, Linux Support, Site Recovery and More – Scott Guthrie announces a host of new features on the Microsoft Azure Platform, available as General Availability Features from this month.

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• Stories from the trenches: Sizing and penny pinching with Azure websites – Troy Hunt shares some learning on scaling a website and correctly sizing the hosting solution to the work required based on his experiences with his ‘Have I been pwned?’ site
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation: Chapter One – Jim Holmes kicks off a series of posts looking at UI Test Automation, drawn from a free ebook on the subject, and supported by a webinar on 25th March.
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Cookie Authentication – Simon Timms continues this series in updating ASP.NET Applications, looking at moving to the modern authentication mechanisms provided by the framework
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: JSON & Structs in Voron – Ayende shares another performance lesson learned in the building of Voron, discussing how a fairly innocent bit of code reduced performance by a factor of 4 due to repeated serialization
• Preventing XSS in ASP.NET Made Easy – Max McCarty takes a detailed look at the various techniques to prevent and avenues of attack for Cross Site Scripting in ASP.NET applications

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