The Morning Brew

Software

• Release Explorer for Visual Studio Beta – John R. Spinella shares the latest beta of his Deployment Explorer Visual Studio Extension which focuses on release management

Information

• Introducing NUnit.Specifications – Derek Greer shares his base class which provides a context/specification style of API for NUnit based testing
• Nancy and localization: Testing – Christiaan Baes continues his series of posts looking at the Nancy Framework, and its localisation capabilities, exploring concepts of Testing in this post
• Understanding Filters in MVC – Suraj Sahoo takes a look at the capabilities provided by Filters in ASP.NET MVC and explores their use
• Subcutaneous Testing a Developer UI – David Starr discusses the purposes of Subcutaneous testing in ensuring your application is working correctly when it is composed of multiple API layers
• The Compromise Between Development Time and Performance in Data-Driven ASP.NET MVC – Jon Smith discusses what we as developers optimise for, be it developer productivity or overall performance, and some of the trade offs which must be considered.
• RWD, Mobile-first, JavaScript and Performance – Dino Esposito discusses some of the concepts of Responsive Web Design, and how it fits in with the development process and aims
• How to Write Sane, Reusable Grunt Tasks – Nick Heiner takes an look at the use of Grunt, sharing some of the best practices he has acquired over 18 months of working predominately with Grunt.
• Resistance Against London Tube Map Commit History (a.k.a. Git Merge Hell) – Tugberk Ugurlu discusses one of the dangers performing too much branching and merging – focusing on Git, but equally as applicable for any

Community

• dotnetConf – The .NET Community Virtual Conference – .NET Conf is returning with a full virtual conference programme on 18th and 19th March, once again streaming live

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