The Morning Brew

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• 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.

Information

• 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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• The Road to Akka.NET v1.0 – Andrew Skotzko

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• Clean Tests: Isolating Internal State – Jimmy Bogard
• NuGet Package of the Week: A different take on ASP.NET MVC Forms with ChameleonForms – Scott Hanselman
• Domain Routing and resolving current tenant with ASP.NET MVC 6 / ASP.NET 5 – Maarten Balliauw
• Redirect from http to https yes or no? – Ugo Lattanzi
• HTTP Strict Transport Security comes to Internet Explorer – Mike Bell & David Walp
• Visual Studio Time Saver – How can YOU request features in Visual Studio? – Susan Ibach
• How I Use Git On Windows – Setup and Tooling – Jesse Taber
• Refactoring code that accesses external services – Martin Fowler
• Adding WinJS to your website – Dave Voyles
• Using Bower with Visual Studio – David Paquette
• Calculating Optimistic Memory Footprint of Managed Object – Peter FF
• The Specialist-Generalist Balance – Garin Evans

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• OneNote is now (even more) free! – Brad Corob highlights the great news that more OneNote features are now available for free

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• Generators in ECMAScript 6 – K.Scott Allen takes a look at an example of the ECMAScript Generators syntax, looking at their declaration and use
• End-to-End Testing with Aurelia and Protractor – Rob Eisenberg shares a post from Vildan Softic, the Aurelia team member in charge of testibility, looking at the use of Protractor to test Aurelia applications
• What’s this Owin Stuff About? – Anders Abel gives an overview of the OWIN Interface, and why it has risen to prominence as the way of creating ASP.NET Web Applications
• ASP.NET Web Api: Understanding OWIN/Katana Authentication/Authorization Part I: Concepts – John Atten kicks off a new series looking at how Identity and OWIN play together, building from the ground up, and starting out in this post with a look at the key concepts
• Implement OAuth JSON Web Tokens Authentication in ASP.NET Web API and Identity 2.1 – Part 3 – Taiseer Joude is also writing about Identity and ASP.NET, building Simple Membership system using ASP.NET Identity 2.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and AngularJS, looking at OAuth to access APIS
• The Joel Test Updated For Programmers – John Sonmez discusses the original Joel Test, and shares his own ‘test’ for programmers to use to evaluate themselves rather than their organisation
• Break Away From XML Configurations with ConfigR – Rion Williams takes a look at the ConfigR libarary for managing and providing configuration to applications
• New ways to quickly create a Code Map – Jean-Marc Prieur shares a look at the Code Map features of Visual Studio Ultimate edition which provide a nice way to view and navigate the dependencies of your code.

Community

• ScottGu Azure event in London on March 2nd – Scott Guthrie joins the UK Azure User Group for a Morning of Azure Demos on Monday 2nd March at The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre, Blackfriars, London. The event is free to attend, but registration is required.

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