The Morning Brew

Software

• Now available: Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3 – Jordan Matthiesen announces the latest update to the Apache Cordova tools for Visual Studio, a release which improves stability and addresses a number of reported issues

Information

• Microsoft Azure SDK – Day 6 – Visual Studio 2015 – Kris Lankford continues the Falafel Software October series looking at all things Visual Studio 2015 with a look at the latest Azure SDK
• Authorization Policies and Middleware in ASP.NET 5 – K.Scott Allen takes a look at the use of Authorization Polices and OWIN Middleware in ASP.NET 5 to secure a directory of static assets
• ASP.Net Insufficient Session Timeout – James Jardine discusses the differences between the ASP.NET Session Timeout and the lifetime of the ASP.NET Authorization cookie
• Using Effort – Entity Framework Unit Testing Tool – john_1726 takes a look at an interesting library which allows you to test Entity Framework based code without hitting an underlying database in this CodeProject article
• How To Learn a New Programming Language – Rob Conery shares some useful advice when considering whether to learn a new programming language, and tips on how to go about it
• Using Varnish as front end cache for Azure Web Apps – Sunitha Muthukrishna discusses the use of Varnish on the Azure platform as an front end cache to assist in improving performance of you Azure based applications
• DocumentDB: To create, or not to create, that is the question – Ryan CrawCour announces new functionality for DocumentDB which allows you to free yourself of the worry of if you should create or update, instead allowing you to ‘upsert’ the document.
• Building a Router with Raw React – James K Nelson explores the implementation of a Router in pure React, going back to basics on what routing really is all about

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