February 2015
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1791
Posted by Chris Alcock on 03 Feb 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- The new Raspberry Pi 2 will run Windows 10 and run Universal Apps – & Windows 10 Coming to Raspberry Pi 2 – Scott Hanselman and Kevin Dallas highlight the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 2, a device capable of running Windows 10
- AutoMapper support for Xamarin Unified (64 bit) – & AutoMapper support for ASP.NET 5.0 and ASP.NET Core 5.0 – Jimmy Bogard announces two updates to AutoMapper increasing the number of frameworks upon which it will run
- Announcing: xUnit Device Runner RC1 – Oren Novotny announces the release of the xUnit Device Runner RC1 which adds support for Xamarin.iOS Unified profile to those it can run tests for.
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- Static Members in ES6 – K.Scott Allen continues his series looking at ECMA Script 6 with a look at the new ‘static’ keyword
- New Task APIs in .NET 4.6 – Stephen Toub discusses some of the API improvements to Tasks in the .NET Framework 4.6 which is included in the Visual Studio 2015 CTP
- TypeScript Developer Survey Results – Ryan Cavanaugh shares the results from the recent TypeScript Developer Survey
- React.js: Introduction and Hello World with ASP.NET MVC 5 – Brij Mohan Dammani takes a look at the React Framework and looks at building a app backed by ASP.NET MVC on the server side.
- Function Scope And Variable Hoisting In JavaScript – Derick Bailey discusses one of the common pain points of JavaScript development – Scoping and Hoisting of Variables.
- Using user mark to analyze performance of your JavaScript code – David Catuhe looks at performance analysis of JavaScript Code using the F12 Developer Tools in Internet Explorer
The Morning Brew #1790
Posted by Chris Alcock on 02 Feb 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- [Announcement] OData Web API 5.4 RC – The OData Web API announce the release of their Release Candidate of the OData Web API 5.4 featuring a number of new features including Date-time and case insensitivity support
- Announcing Azure Preview Portal Improvements – Leon Welicki shares news of the latest update to the Azure Preview Portal, introducing a new Essentials Panel, improving the resources blades and also general UI improvements.
- ServiceBus Client 2.6 Nuget is now live on Nuget.org – Dan Rosanova announces the release of the an updated client for the ServiceBus available now on NuGet
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- Clean event handler invocation with C# 6 – Jon Skeet discusses some of the complexities of Event Handling code, and how C# 6 features make it easier to call event handlers, along with a discussion of Thread Safety
- Clean Tests: A Primer – Jimmy Bogard discusses how his testing practices have evolved over time and been informed by working with long lived code bases, discussing his current framework of choice for testing.
- Barbarian Meets Aurelia: First Contact And Building Athena, My Very Own Jarvis – Jaime González García kicks off a new series looking at te new JavaScript Client Side Framework Aurelia from Rob Eisenburg, discussing some of the set up and getting started topics in this first post.
- Aurelia – Day one – ‘byteflux’ shares some more initial thoughts on Aurelia, and discusses tooling for working with ECMAScript 6 code.
- Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 – Blake Williams takes a look at migrating from CoffeeScript to pure ECMAScript 6 code, using the 6to5 project to transpile the ECMAScript 6 down to ES5 for execution.
- C# Design Notes for Jan 21, 2015 – Issue #98 -· dotnet/roslyn – Mads Torgersen shares notes from the First Design meeting for C#7
- Azure VM Blues: Fighting a losing Performance Battle – Rick Strahl discusses making the switch from physical hosted server to the Azure Platform, discussing some concerning performance in comparison – be sure to check out the comments for some good discussions and suggestions as to why the performance is the way it is.
- Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Optimizing Compare, Don’t you shake that branch at me! – Federico Andres Lois (via Ayende) continues discussion of some performance aspects of RavenDB, looking at comparisons and digging down to the IL layer.
- Challenge: How many memory leaks can you find? – Rainer Stropek shares a memory leaking sample application and asks ‘how many leaks can you find’ before digging down into how to use tooling like ANTS Profiler to identify memory leaks in your applications.
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