April 2015
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #1836
Posted by Chris Alcock on 09 Apr 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Chutzpah 4.0 – Batching, Inheritance and more – Matthew Manela highlights some of the new features of Chutzpah 4.0 including new features around batching of files, inheritance of settings, and more.
- New Fiddler Offerings – Eric Lawrence highlights some of the other resources, features and software that surrounds the Fiddler 4.5 release
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- Consistent or not that’s the question – Gabriel Schenker follows on from his previous post on CQRS with some further discussion of eventual consistent read models following up comments and feedback on the original post.
- Annotated Version of the Original jQuery Release – John Resig shares an early version of jQuery with addition of annotations discussing some of the reasoning and rationalle behind the code, making for interesting reading.
- Deploying ECMAScript 6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses some of the options available to allow you to deploy ECMAScript 6 code now
- Introducing Azure Resource Explorer for the Azure Resource Management APIs – Scott Hanselman highlights the Azure Resource Explorer from David Ebbo whcih allows you to explore the breadth and depth of the Azure Resource Management API in a visual and interactive way.
- How we deploy Visual Studio Online using Release Management – Buck Hodges discusses how the Visual Studio Online tool use the Visual Studio Release Management Features to deploy Visual Studio Online.
- Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Styles of Web Forms – Simon Timms continues his series about updating legacy ASP.NET Web Forms applications with a look at the different approaches taken with building web forms.
- Your First Angular Project in Visual Studio – Aaron Marisi shares a nice introductory walk though looking at the AngularJS template in Visual Studio and how it makes getting up and running easier.
- Multilanguage AngularJS apps – Arian Celina discusses the creation of multi-lingual front ends to applications in Angular JS sharing the technique he has used in projects to enable this capability
- Keeping it simple: coding a carousel – Christian Heilmann urges us all to keep things simple, and walks through the creation of a carousel in HTML, CSS and JavaScript adhering to this principle.
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The Morning Brew #1835
Posted by Chris Alcock on 08 Apr 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1 – Pranav Rastogi announces the release of ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1, a release which addresses issues reported in the 2.2.0 release
- Happy 10th Birthday Git! – Chris Missal and Ryan Rauh highlight and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first Git commit of Git.
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- What’s new in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6? – ‘Dev Tools Guy’ over on the Infragistics Blog shares a look at the new and exciting features of the .NET Framework 4.6
- Aurelia Hello World with ASP.NET 5 – K.Scott Allen kicks off a series of posts on Aurelia with a look at getting up and running with Aurelia in an ASP.NET 5 application
- Clean Tests: Database Persistence – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at writing clean tests with a look at writing tests against code which uses database persistence, and strategies for wirting good tests in this situation.
- Unit testing with Dates – Jerrie Pelser discusses strategies for working with dates in unit tests, including structuring code to pass dates in, expose system clock as a service and using libraries like Noda Time.
- Moment is quickly becoming my new jQuery! – Remy Sharp highlights Moment, a library which helps deal with dates in JavaScript code
- Fail fast when the cloud fails you – Troy Hunt discusses the dangers of retries when something goes wrong (in his case Azure SQL Databases going down in his region)
- CQRS revisited – Gabriel Schenker discusses the benefits of the Command Query Responsibility Segregation Pattern, giving an overview of its use and the benefits it provides in complex line of business applications.
- Little Puzzlers – Largest Puddle on a Bar Chart – James Michael Hare shares another ‘Little Puzzler’ to do with gathering water in the troughs created in a bar chart
- Solving puzzles at 30,000 feet [An iterative solution for the ‘Is this a binary search tree?’ programming problem] – David Anson shares his iterative solution to one of James Michael Hare’s previous puzzles regarding binary search trees.
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The Morning Brew #1834
Posted by Chris Alcock on 07 Apr 2015 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- NuGet 2.8.5 Released – The NuGet Team announce the release of NuGet 2.8.5 an update which addresses the change in moniker of the ‘K utilities’ to DNX, as well as addressing an issue with package installation in F# projects.
- A Journey Through Open Source: The Trials & Triumphs in Roslyn’s First Year of Open Source – Kasey Uhlenhuth takes a look back on 1 year of an Open Source .NET with an interesting look at the project stats.
- An open engineering birthday for Visual F# – The F# Team celebrate a year of being a full open source project with community contributions
- Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview 2 – The Visual Studio Team announce the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview 2 which brings official support for Unity 5
- Microsoft at 40 – Paul Thurrott looks back on 40 years of Microsoft as the company celebrates its birthday
- Akka.NET v1.0 is Code Complete – Aaron Stannard highlights the news that V1 of Akka.NET, a toolkit and runtime for building event based distributed applications is complete and now has a stable release.
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- Aurelia’s Adaptive Binding – Rob Eisenberg shares a post from Jeremy Danyow looking a the adaptive and extensible bindings system works in Aurelia
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Getting the Name of an Identifier & C#/.NET Little Wonders & Little Pitfalls: The Complete Collection – James Michael Hare continues his series of Little Wonders with a look at techniques for getting the name of a member or variable without hard coding it as a string, and shares a complete index to his Little Wonders and Pitfalls series.
- Lowercase Keywords Revisited (not an April Fools’ Day joke this time, I promise) – Anthony D. Green follows on from an April Fools post with a look at what VB.NET would be like with lower cased keywords, as well as a way of making it happen in your IDE.
- agis-/git-style-guide – Agis Anastasopoulos shares a useful basic Git Style Guide
- Rx Challenge #4 (More Solutions) & Rx Challenge #5 – Bnaya Eshet shares further solutions to his previous RX Challenge and also shares the next puzzle, taken from a forum question.
- ChessTDD 29: Finishing up the ASCII Board Builder – Erik Dietrich continues his series on Test Driven Development, completing the implementation of his ASCII representation of the Chess board to help illustrate tests.
- Changing the server time zone on Azure Web Apps – Tom Hollander shares a useful tip for anyone attempting to get a legacy application up and running on Azure which depends on the local timezone of the machine.
- Getting started with Grunt, SASS and Task Runner Explorer – Visual Studio – Colin Bacon takes a look at the process of getting up and running with with Gulp and SASS using the Task Runner Extension
- Dynamic Repeating Sass Colors – Elijah Manor shares a look at implementing dynamic colours using SASS
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