Update: So, the numbering slipped, and this post was incorrectly labelled as 1844 when it should have been 1845 – I’ve corrected the number but the links will remain
Software
- Caliburn.Micro 3.0.0-alpha – The Caliburn Micro team announce the release of their alpha release of Caliburn Micro 3.0.0 which adds in support for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Androis and Xamarin.Forms, along with sharing information about Windows 10 support which will com in the future.
- Microsoft Azure now free for Student Developers – Rami Sarieddine highlights some great news for Student developers – free access to the Azure Platform as a part of the DreamSpark programme
Information
- Precedence: ordering or grouping? | Jon Skeet's coding blog – Jon Skeet asks the community for opinion in this ‘Request for comment’ post discussing operator precedence in C#5 to assist with the official ECMA standardisation of C#5
- Mobile app privacy insanity – we’re still failing massively at this – Troy Hunt discusses some of the serious issues he finds when looking at the security of Mobile Applications and their APIs which they use to communicate with servers
- ChessTDD 31: Look, We Caught a Bug! – Erik Dietrich continues his video series on using Test Driven Development to create a chess game implementation. In this part continuing testing of the solution using integration tests, and fixing a detected issue.
- A Dev and Test Adventure on #Azure – Alexandre Brisebois discusses the use of Windows Azure as a development and Test environment to create environments on demand.
- Standardization and the Open Web – Jory Burson discusses the process of creating open standards , and the process of standardization
- Windows Performance Toolkit for Windows 10 – Alois Kraus highlights the latest updates to the Performance Tools for Windows 10, available in the Visual Studio 2015 and Windows / Phone SDKs.
- TypeScript and ECMAScript 6 in ReSharper 9.1 – Anton Lobov shares a look at the support for ECMAScript 6 and TypeScript in ReSharper 9.1, including templates, block scoped declarations, binding and destructuring assignments, and support for TypeScript 1.4 and 1.5
Community
- The first ever Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference – Francois Boucher highlights the first MVP Virtual Conference, a two day virtual event with sessions covering all aspects (IT Pro, Dev, Consumer) with sessions in English, Spanish and Portuguese, being delivered by the US MVPs.