The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio Code – NEW RELEASE: v0.10.2 (6 bug fixes) – Ed Price highlights the latest update to Visual Studio Code, addressing some critical defects for the beta release
• ReSharper Ultimate 10.0.2 EAP 2: unit testing, red code fixes – Jura Gorohovsky highlights the latest improvements made in ReSharper 10’s Early Access Programme release.
• How Vorlon.js helps you improve your web code – Etienne-Margraff takes a look at the use of Vorlon.JS to help you better understand and create better web code.

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• F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 – The F# Advent calendar kicks off for another year with and article ‘How Jet Build Microservices with F#‘ from Rachel Reese looking at the use of F# in a real world Microservices architecture
• Fundamentals to .NET Core 5 & How to create a "Hello World" console application using .NET Core without Visual Studio? – Manjunath Gururaja shares two articles looking at the use of .NET Core, starting out with a look at the key concepts behind .NET Core before moving on to look at creating a simple ‘Hello World’ application without using Visual Studio
• Summoning Fundamentals: A Three Part Introduction To OOP in JavaScript – Encapsulation – Jaime González García shares another installment of this series looking at JavaScript for C# developers, giving an introduction to Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript
• ES.stage3: Trailing commas in function parameter lists and calls – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer takes a look at the configuration of the latest version of the Babel ECMASript Transpiler and also discusses another language proposal for the ECMAScript language
• Software architecture diagrams should be maps of your source code – Simon Brown shares his thoughts on the use of architecture diagrams, and how they should help you to navigate code.

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A short edition today as my feed reader was quite empty this morning, mostly due to Thanks Giving celebrations yesterday in the US I suspect.

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• Hoisting in .NET Explained – Alexandr Nikitin takes a look at this compiler optimisation which takes code out of loops that doesn’t need to be inside the loop, as well as JIT optimisation and Common Subexpression Elimination optimisations
• MSDN Subscriber? Enjoy your free Pluralsight courses! – Kate Gregory highlights the inclusion of limited access to some PluralSight courses which is available for free as a part of the MSDN Subscriptions.
• ES.stage3: string padding – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer shares a look at another of the ECMAScript proposals, reviewing the call for string padding capabilities in the core language.
• Learn How to Build Web Apps With React JS and Flux with this Great Udemy Course – barbarian meets coding – Jaime González García discusses some of the background to React.js, and shares a link to a course by Stephen Grinder titled ‘How to Build Web Apps with ReactJS and Flux’, along with sharing a promo code which gives free access to the course.
• React (and Flux) with Bridge.net – Redux – Dan Roberts continues his explorations of React, Flux and the Bridge.NET C# to JavaScript ‘compiler’ with a detailed look at his ReactJS Bindings for C#
• UWP XAML: Simple Responsive Layout using Grid and AdaptiveTrigger – Mikael Koskinen shares a look at building responsive layouts in XAML based Universal Windows Applications

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Happy Thanksgiving to my US based readers.

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• The road to DNX – part 2 & The road to DNX – part 3 – Marc Gravell continues his series of posts looking at migrating to the .Net Corel, exploring the porting of an existing library to the framework, and looking running the .NET Framework under DNX
• RFC: Server-side Image and Graphics Processing with .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 – Scott Hanselman discusses image processing on the .NET Core and ASP.NET5, looking at some of the projects which have made a start in this area and calling on the community to help out with raising the importance of this work
• Running C# scripts and snippets in Visual Studio Code with scriptcs – Filip W. discusses Visual Studio Code and its new open source and extension supporting release, sharing details of the Language Services for C# and also a scriptcs runner extension allowing you to run snippets of C# inside the IDE
• The 5 Laws of Software Estimates – Steve Smith takes a look at the weird and wonderful world of estimates in software, sharing 5 laws to bear in mind when making estimates.
• Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Arrow and Spread Operator – Rami Sayar continues this series looking at the new features of ECMAScript 2015, exploring the use of the Arrow and Spread Operators
• Azure Sketchnote Collection: Part 2 – Tim Murphy shares a second collection of sketch notes which give a nice summary of various Microsoft Azure features
• Deep Dive: Windows App Studio NuGet packages for Windows 10 Apps – The Windows App Studio team discuss the use of NuGet to get hold of the Windows App Studio controls and data providers
• Re: Tyranny of NuGet – Paul Stovell responds to a post from Mitch Denny (linked in the article and well worth reading) about the use of NuGet repositories and packages for software installation

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