The Morning Brew

Software

• Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source – Gaurav Seth and Adalberto Foresti announce the news that the core of the Edge Browser JavaScript experience, the Core of the Chakra Engine will be released as open source on GitHub under a MIT license, and accepting community contributions
• Azure WebJobs SDK 1.1.0 RTM – Pranav Rastogi announces the RTM release of the WebJobs SDK 1.1.0, with improved simplicity and a new extensibility model along with many other features and bugfixes

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• The dedoublifier, part two & The dedoublifier, part three – Eric Lippert continues this Fabulous Adventure looking at working with rational numbers looking at creating a type to store rational numbers and looking at the implementation of math operations on this type
• New feature to enable C# 6 / VB 14 – Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi discusses a new feature of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 which help make controlling which C# or VB.NET language version your solution uses easier
• Visual Studio Code – NEW FEATURES: 7 Debugging Improvements! – Ed Price highlights the improved debugging features of the latest releases of Visual Studio Code
• SQLite and UWP – Shen Chauhan discusses using SQLite in Universal Windows Platform application to provide a good offline experience for your applications
• Hunting Down and Killing Ransomware – Mark Russinovich discusses the Scareware and Ransomware which mimics antimalware software for financial gain, and looks at how you can go about removing it
• December 2015 – MSDN Magazine – The December 2015 edition of MSDN Magazine is available online featuring articles on Glup and Grunt, Azure and Microservices, Aurelia and DocumentDB, Babylon.js, Spark, Xamarin Forms, the MEAN Stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js) and much much more

Community

• Microsoft PowerApps engineering team invite you to AMA – The Azure PowerApps team are holding an AMA (ask me anything) event with Reddit on Wednesday, December 9, 2015 from 10:00 – 11:00 am PST

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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.

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• ListAndHash – Martin Fowler
• Get more awesome Pluralsight content than ever for zero dollars! – Troy Hunt
• Azure Redis Cache: General availability of Premium tier – Pranav Rastogi
• Announcing F# Support in Visual Studio Code with Ionide – Krzysztof CieÅ›lak
• Coded UI Test Extensibility V2 – Abhitej
• Babylonjs generator – Sebastien Pertus
• When Should You Use A Single Page Application? – Chris Love
• Overloading TypeScript Functions – Peter Vogel
• A quick reminder on how and why to use labels in forms to make them more accessible – Christian Heilmann
• Web service scale testing – Cellfish

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