The Morning Brew

Software

• Go Get Brackets 1.5 – Ryan Stewart announces the release of Brackets 1.5, an editor designed principly for HTML, CSS and JavaScript work

Information

• Control how your bower packages are installed with a gulpfile in ASP.NET 5 – Scott Hanselman discusses the release of ASP.NET 5 Beta 8 and explores the use of Bower and Gulp in ASP.NET 5 projects to get an manage clientside dependencies
• ASP.NET 5 updating to beta8 from older beta versions – damienbod also discusses the ASP.NET 5 Beta 8 release, and looks at the steps needed to upgrade your earlier beta based projects
• Global route prefixes with attribute routing in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 – Filip W follows on from a previous post and answers some reader questions about implementing the same in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6
• PowerShell ConvertFrom-String: Serious Text wrangling – Doug Finke discusses some new text handling capabilities introduced in PowerShell 5.0
• Mastering The Arcane Art Of JavaScript-mancy for C# Developers: A Guide to Strings Finding The Right Words and Proper Spell Intonation – Jaime González García takes a deep look at strings in JavaScript before moving on to some of the latest enhancements in ES6
• NuGet 3 – Visual Studio User Interface Discussion – Jeffrey T. Fritz and the NuGet team discuss some of their changes to the User Interface of the package manager
• The Myth of the Software Rewrite – Erik Dietrich discusses the demand for rewriting software from developers , and thinks about the other view points on software from a busienss perspective.

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Another links only edition as I haven’t quite got the timings right on my new cycle route

Software

• Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8 – Daniel Roth
• EF7 Beta 8 Available – Rowan Miller
• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10549 – Gabe Aul
• September update for Web Apps and App Service Environments – Byron Tardif
• CodeRush for Roslyn, v1.0.6 – Mark Miller

Information

• .NET Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet – Muhammad Rehan Saeed
• Where does the Repository belong? – Cellfish
• Thoughts on Running an OSS Project – Jeremy D Miller
• Prism 6 for UWP, Prism 6 for WPF update + a new logo to adorn its new home – Brian Noyes
• Introducing ReSharper Build – Matt Ellis
• The Path to No Estimates – Amir Barylko

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Software

• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10563 Released – Clint Rutkas announces the release of the latest Windows 10 SDK Preview, which is intended to work alongside the Windows 10 Insiders Preview build 10565

Information

• Casts and type parameters do not mix – Eric Lippert takes a look at the weird and wonderful world fo the cast operator
• Maps and Sets in JavaScript – K.Scott Allen takes a look at the introduction of some ‘fancier’ data structures to the JavaScript language in ES2015, exploring the Map, Set, WeakMap and WeakSet types
• Details on dotTrace, dotCover, dotMemory licensing changes – Jura Gorohovsky discusses the licensing changes to the JetBrains dotTrace, dotCover and dotMemory products, with them moving to only be licensed within a ReSharper Ultimate license
• Git Protocol Considered Harmful (By Corporate Web Filter) – Derick Bailey shares a useful tip to have git protocil re-written to run over HTTPS, in situations where something is blocking ports
• Resx strings can be technical debt
  – Kevin Logan discusses another area of your codebase which can be a source of technical debt

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