The Morning Brew

Software

• .NET Foundation – Live Writer is now Open Source – Rob Dolin guest posts on the .NET Foundation blog announcing the release of Open Live Writer, an open source version of Windows Live Writer, released as open source through the .NET Foundation
• Announcing Open Live Writer – An Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer – Scott Hanselman – Scott Hanselman also shares in the announcement of Open Live Writer, discussing the project, and how it has been worked on by volunteers, some of the features that had to be removed, and the open source model being taken with the project, urging community contributions
• Release Management Workflow Migrator – Willy-P. Schaub highights the ALM Rangers Release Management Workflow Migrator tool which helps take workflows up into Visual Studio Team Services

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• Support Ending for the .NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1 – Stacey Haffner highlights the new support policy for .NET Framework Versions starting in January 2016 meaning that only the latest versions of each major release will be supported.
• Summoning Fundamentals: A Three Part Introduction to OOP in JavaScript for C# Developers – III – Polymorphism – Jaime González García continues his series of posts looking at Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript, exploring the concepts of Polymorphism
• C# 6 Feature Review: Auto-Property Enhancements – Jimmy Bogard takes a look at the new features of C# 6, exploring the improvements to auto properties
• Website Debugging with Vorlon.js – DREW5.net – Joshua Drew takes a look at using the Voron.js remote debugger which helps you debug issues with remote JavaScript.
• Understanding JavaScript Modules – Aaron Marisi discusses the use of Modules on JavaScript in this first post in a series , discussing the benefits and some of the key concepts in modularising JavaScript code
• Choosing an HTTP Status Code – Stop Making It Hard – Michael Kropat shares an excellent post which easily explains the differences between different HTTP Status codes, and help you tom choose the correct one for your use case using simple to follow flow charts
• Free Red Book: Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition – Todd Hoff highlights the free eBook ‘Readings in Database Systems’ which has just been updated to its 5th edition

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