The Morning Brew #1984

Chris Alcock

8 years ago

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Summoning Fundamentals: A Three Part Introduction to OOP in JavaScript – II – Prototypical Inheritance – Jaime González García continues this mini-series with a look at implementing prototypical inheritance, building on the previous posts look at encapsulation and data hiding.
Learn To Code, It’s Harder Than You Think – Mike Hadlow discusses the level of aptitude it takes to be a good Software Developer, and discusses the recent initiatives to increase the number of people skilled in this area – a well thought out and worth while reading piece
My Thoughts on Choosing and Using Persistence Tools | The Shade Tree Developer – Jeremy D Miller shares his toughts on the various persistence mechanisms available to developers toda
Relax, Everyone’s Code Rots – Erik Dietrich discusses how even the best code degrades over time, and that this not unusual, as well as sharing thoughts on keeping it in check.
Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Penny Pinching with Azure Automation – Dr Graham Smith discusses combining Azure Billing Alerts and the Azure Automation APIs to help you save money with cloud based services
ASP.NET Performance: 9 Types of Tools You Need to Know! – Matt Watson takes a look at some of the different classes of tools available to ASP.NET Developers to help performance test, diagnose and improve your applications
Brainstorming development workflows with Docker, Kitematic, VirtualBox, Azure, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio – Scott Hanselman walks through the setup and use of Docker in Windows using some of the Microsoft technology stack, taking you from nothing installed to having a containerized app running, and also thinking about some potential improvements to the tooling support.
What’s the time Mr Wolf? – Aaron Powell takes a look at consuming NTP time services from F# as a contribution to the F# advent calendar
Just a Reminder Internet Explorer Support Ends in 6 Weeks – Chris Love highlights Microsoft’s calling of time on support for older versions of Internet Explorer, helping advance web standards by ending the life of earlier versions of Internet Explorer
Azure WTF# – Richard Dalton takes us on a journey into building web services in F# as his contribution to the F# Advent Calendar
You suck at TDD #1: Rewrite the steps – Eric Gunnerson shares some thoughts on some of the things which can affect the effectiveness of your TDD efforts
The 2015 Christmas List of Best STEM Toys for your little nerds and nerdettes – Scott Hanselman offers help with your Christmas shopping with this nice round up of Science and Technology educational toys for your budding programmers.