The Morning Brew

My RSS Reader was surprisingly empty this morning, so we are a little light on articles today – this usually means that tomorrow will be a bumper day.

Software

• ReSharper Ultimate 10.0.1 | ReSharper Ultimate Blog – Jura Gorohovsky announces an update to ReSharper 10 which addresses a number of issues reported in the initial V10 release

Information

• Monitor madness, part one – Eric Lippert takes a look at the wonderful world of locking, and the use of Monitors, covering the basics before moving on to more complex scenarios where locks exited and re-entered
• Understanding Routing Precedence in ASP.NET MVC and Web API – Rion Williams takes a detailed look at the order of precedence for WebAPI and ASP.NET MVC routing declarations
• Kill .apply With The ….Spread Operator – Derick Bailey takes a look at the use of the spread operator, and how it can be used in a similar manor to the .appy method with arguments to a function.
• Expanding App Service Authentication/Authorization – Matthew Henderson discusses tthe merging of various authentication and authorization approaches into the improved Azure App Service authentication / authorization feature
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Yeoman – Sergiy Baydachnyy discusses the use of Yeoman and Visual Studio Code on the Mac Platform to provide a basis for working with ASP.NET 5 in a truly cross platform way.

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Software

• Update to Service Bus for Windows Server 1.1 for the .NET Framework 4.6 – Dan Rosanova

Information

• What’s in ECMAScript 2016 (ES7)? – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• How To Start Writing Your AngularJS Tests In ES6 – barbarian meets coding – Jaime González García
• Rob Eisenberg on Aurelia – DEVIntersection 2015 – Channel 9 – Seth Juarez talks to Rob Eisenberg
• Localized routes with ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 | StrathWeb. A free flowing web tech monologue. – Filip W.
• Simple Web API OWIN host using F# – Kevin Holditch
• Serving URLs with File Extensions in an ASP.NET MVC Application – Rick Strahl
• A comparison on SQL Server data access methods – FSharp.Data.SqlClient
• How do indexes work in MongoDB – Sharad Cornejo Altuzar
• Building Superior Code – Is It Achievable? – Erik Dietrich
• Firefox’s New Memory Tool – Dan Callahan

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Software

• First Major Update for Windows 10 Available Today – Terry Myerson announces the release of the first major update to Windows 10 with a number of reliability and performance improvements included

Information

• An ASP.NET 5 Overview Video – K.Scott Allen shares a detailed 40 minute video overview of ASP.NET 5 platform, recorded when beta 6/7 was the current version, but still quite applicable.
• Mastering ASP.NET 5 without growing a beard – Tess Ferrandez shares some quick tips and trivia about ASP.NET 5 as well as a useful glossary of terms for those trying to get familiar
• Back to the Future with a Tag Helper – Jeff Fritz shares a look at ASP.NET Tag Helpers, drawing on content from his recent Usergroup presentation on the subject
• Var For Life – Why Let And Const Don’t Interest Me In JavaScript – Ben Nadal discusses the different ways of declaring variables in ECMAScript 2015, and shares his thoughts on the need to use them
• Mads Mad Web Extension Pack – Greg Duncan highlights the WebExtensionPack from Mads Kristensen a collection of useful extensions for web developers using Visual Studio.
• Aurelia Binding Behaviors – Jeremy Danyow shares a look at Aurelia’s Binding Behaviors a way of declaratively affecting the binding behavior in your apps.
• Security Issues – Overview and Examples – Paulo Zemek discusses computer security and look at a number of examples of faults in security
• Hints for successfully managing an open-source project – David Catuhe discusses his experiences running an open source project, drawing on his and David Rousset’s experiences managing he Babylon.js project.
• BBC Micro:Bit – Lee Stott shares a look at the proposed BBC micro:bit, a programmable pocket sized computer aimed at getting children in schools interested in lower level computing and programming.

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