The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 Released – John Montgomery announces the third CTP release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, an update focused on addressing bugs in Visual Studio
• NETMF 4.4 Beta out on GitHub – Colin Miller highlights the move and clean up associated with the move onto hosting the .NET Micro Framework project on GitHub, as well as their beta 4 release.

Information

• Securing Web.API Requests With JSON Web Tokens – Garry Pilkington continues his series of posts looking at securing ASP.NET applications, taking a look at the use of JSON Web Tokens to secure ASP.NET WebAPI services
• Lazy Evaluation of Generators in ES6 – K.Scott Allen digs deeper into ECMAScript 6 Generators looking at the behaviour of Generator functions and their lazy evaluation provided by the capability to execute on demand from the iterator functions.
• Dan Wahlin – Getting Started with TypeScript – Classes, Types and Interfaces – Dan Wahlin highlights last week’s Angular 2 announcements, and takes an introductory look at the use of TypeScript to provide strong typing to your JavaScript.
• Advancing JavaScript without breaking the web – Christian Heilmann shares notes and slides from his recent talk discussing how it is a challenge for the web to kep backwards compatibility with the (good and much needed) developments to the ECMAScript language
• Fun Basic Preview – Phillip Trelford shares a preview of his Windows App Store app ‘Fun Basic’ which implements an extended version of Small Basic, and discusses how it was created.
• C# 6.0: Language features and its internals Part 1 – Abhishek Sur kicks off a series looking at the various language features of C#6 and how they are implemented under the covers
• Real-time Meetup.com data crunching using Azure Stream Analytics – Claus Sørensen takes a look at using Azure Stream Analytics in a real world way, looking at extracting information from the stream of Meetup.com event registrations, walking through the process step bt step.
• Little Puzzlers: First Non-Repeating Character & Predict the output challenge (C#) – James Michael Hare and K Bonneau share some little puzzles to get you started, James’ is a coding Kata exercise, and K Bonneau has some output prediction questions based on a short code snippet,
• Searching for text with DocumentDB – Ryan CrawCour discusses concepts behind searching for records using text based data in DocumentDB
• Indexing DocumentDB with Azure Search – Kirk Evans delves deeper into Azure Search looking at using it as a solution for searching with DocumentDB, walking through the process step by step.

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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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Software

• TypeScript <3 Angular – Somasegar discusses the work from the last couple of months with the Microsoft TypeScript Team working with Google’s Angular team on Angular 2, which will be built in TypeScript
• Angular 2: Built on TypeScript – Jonathan Turner shares the TypeScript Team’s perspective on this combined work with the Angular Team and shares a look at using TypeScript to write AngularJS v2 applications in the form of the standard TodoMVC demo app.

Information

• On Interfaces and Perceived Harm – Eric Goebelbecker highlights and discusses an piece from (‘Uncle’)Bob Martin discussing how interfaces work round the protection against multiple inheritance, and the lack of distinction between interfaces and abstract classes.
• All you need to know about Redis – Ugo Lattanzi shares a good overview of Redis, looking at its use on the Azure Cloud platform
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Control Builder Interceptors – Ricardo Peres follows on from yesterday’s piece on Control Builders with a look at Control Builder Interceptors, a recent addition to the ASP.NET Framework.
• Simple TypeScript type definitions for AMD modules – Dan Roberts takes a look at producing TypeScript Type Definitions for existing libraries of code and having them in such a way that they can be loaded for AMD modules
• Adding gulp to Visual Studio Online Builds – Nick J Trogh walks through the process of getting front-end build tasks working in the Visual Studio Online Project build process using Gulp.
• Getting started with semantic logging – Richard Kerslake takes a look at the concepts behind Semantic Logging, and how you can use Event Tracing for Windows to record logging events.
• Should bugs be user stories – Cellfish discusses the use of Agile processes and the handling of bugs within the process.
• Quick overview of CAP Theorem – Gyan Jadal shares a very simple overview of the CAP Theorem governing how for Consistency, Availability, and Partitioning tolerance can be handled in computer systems.

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