The Morning Brew

Information

• MSDN Magazine – The October Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, with article topics ranging from Azure to personal development, with a healthy dose of .NET and ASP.NET in the middle
• Visual Studio Online – Day 5 – Kris Lankford continues Falafel Software’s October series exploring the Visual Studio 2015 ecosystem with a look at the Visual Studio Online offering
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Your web app doesn’t need 64-bit – Scott Hanselman discusses how switching back to 32 bit web applications can save you money on Zure by using less memory resources
• Receive WebHooks from Azure Alerts and Kudu (Azure Web App Deployment) – Henrik F Nielsen discusses the WebHooks implementation for Azure Alerts and the Kudu web application deployment framework
• Enumerability in ECMAScript 6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses how Enumerability works in ECMAScript 6
• The State of JavaScript on Android in 2015 is… poor – Jeff Atwood discusses the state of play of JavaScript implementation in Android based platforms
• ESLint: The Next-Generation JavaScript Linter – Nicholas C. Zakas discusses the use of ESLint a Linting tool for ECMAScript

Community

• WPUGNW Tuesday 20th October 2015 – Windows 10 & the Universal Windows App Platform – The Windows Platform User Group in Manchester welcome Mike Taulty for a session on building applications in the Windows 10 Universal Windows Application platform

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Software

• Azure Redis Cache: Public preview of premium tier – Pranav Rastogi announce the public preview of the Azure Redis serivce
• Announcing Visual Studio Debug Engine Extensibility Samples – Patrick Nelson highlights a suite of new debugging extensibility samples, along with documentation of the Concord debugging engine used for both unmanaged and managed debugging in VS2015

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• Introducing ASP.NET WebHooks Receivers – WebHooks made easy – Scott Hanselman talks about the exciting developments still being made on the ASP.NET 4.6 platform, and explores the new ASP.NET WebHooks recently released as a preview release.
• Null-Conditional Operators – Day 2, nameof – Day 3 – VS 2015 Series & Auto Property Initializers – Day 4 – Visual Studio 2015 – The team at Falafel Software kick on with their month long series with articles from Josh Eastburn on Null Condiditional Operators, Tillman Dickson explores the nameof function and Steve Smith looks at Auto Proprerty Initializers
• Improving Message Throughput in Akka.NET with Routers – Jason Roberts continues his series of posts looking at the Akka.NET actor framework, exploring a little of the theory of Routers and Routing and illustrating with an example.
• The Roslyn Academy Community – The Roslyn Academy is an initiative from a group of MVPs which is dedicated to the writing of components on the .NET Roslyn Compiler Platform.
• Augmenting Types in Javascript – Abhi Jain takes a look at how JavaScript allows for types to be extended, meaning you can easily add new methods and members to objects at runtime.
• Support for Open Source technologies on Azure – Hanne Wulff continues a series looking at the Microsoft Open Source Strategy
• The Genius of Template Strings in ES6 – Chris Heilmann discusses the some of the recent improvements in string handling in JavaScript which are usable today

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Software

• Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova (aka TACO) v1.0.0 – Subhag Oak announces the 1.0.0 release of the Tools for Apache Cordova a suite of utilities and tools for Windows and Mac users to aid creation of Cordova based applications
• Code Completion Improvements in ReSharper 9 – The ReSharper team share a look at some of the latest improvements to the code completion in ReSharper 9 including Completion Filters, relevance based sorting and improved matching.

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• 31 Days of Visual Studio 2015 Tricks and Treats & Index Initializers – Day 1 – VS 2015 Series – Steve Smith kicks off a new series of posts throughout October looking at various aspects of Visual Studio 2015 and the latest .NET Framework and languages
• Prediction Markets for Software Estimates – Erik Dietrich discusses estimates in software development and the ‘No Estimates’ movement
• JavaScript Promises and Error Handling – K.Scott Allen continues his look at JavaScript Promises exploring error handling in this post.
• Concatenating Typed Arrays & ES6: methods versus callbacks – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares a useful tip for forkin with typed arrays and also looks at the differences between objects with methods and objects with call backs.
• Why did my package download count suddenly go up – Maarten Balliauw explains why package download counts may have dramatically increased with the latest updates to the NuGet Gallery.
• Windows 10 development for absolute beginners – Clint Rutkas highlights some resources which will help you get up to speed with building Applications for Windows 10
• Implementing Adaptive Toast with Actions in Windows 10 Universal Apps – Arun Kumar takes a look at some of the improvements in toasts and tile notifications in Windows 10

Community

• AzureCon 2015 – Sessions – Hema Senthilkumar shares a useful list of links to the session recordings from the AzureCon 2015 event which took place earlier in the week.

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