February 2016
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #2038
Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Feb 2016 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Cross-Platform 2D Graphics with SkiaSharp – Miguel de Icaza announces SkiaSharp, a new cross platform .NET Grapihcs library which uses the Skia graphics library from Google (used in Chrome, Firefox and Android)
- Announcing TypeScript 1.8 – Bowden Kelly announces the release of TypeScript 1.8 which brings with iy improvements to module augmentation allowing users to extend modules, import only a subset, String literal types which allow enum-like behaviour for strings used in configurations, improved unreachable code detection and implicit returns
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- Porting MSBuild to .NET Core – Daniel Plaisted discusses his work on porting MSBuild to the .NET Core runtime
- New Free eBook C# 6.0: What’s New Quick Start – Jason Roberts announces the availability of the first few chapters of his eBook which looks at the new and exciting features of C# 6. The ebook is available for free (or a user defined amount if you wish).
- VeST Redux – Test rigs and external APIs – Seb Lambla continues his series on his VeST (Vertical Slice Technologies) approach to building systems with a look at how creating a ‘test rig’ suite of tests against ‘in-memory’/mock service implementation whcih you then use against your real world implementation of that service.
- Visual Studio Team Services – NEW FEBRUARY RELEASE: Marketplace Extensions +17 New Improvements! – Ed Price hares look at the improvements included in the Visual Studio Team Services February update.
- Service Fabric SDK v1.5.175 and the adoption of Virtual Machine Scale Sets – The Azure Service Fabric Team announce an updated preview of the Service Fabric SDK which includes support for development on Windows 7, Improvements to the Reliable Actors framework for deletion of actors, querying actors and support for Cancelation Tokens in the Reliable Service and Reliable actors, along with a host of other improvements and bugfixes.
- Keeping POST and GET Separated – Dino Esposito takes a look at performing Command Query separation in ASP.NET MVC by keeping GET and POST methods separate.
- Better Hypermedia Through Obfuscation – Dylan Beattie suggests a slightly twisted idea to make people adopt the hypermedia aspects of an API rather than guessing parameters themselves.
- Speech Recognition and Identification with Windows 10/UWP and ‘Project Oxford’ – Mike Taulty flows on from previous posts about Project Oxford and takes a look at using the API to perform speech recognition and identification of people based on speech.
The Morning Brew #2037
Posted by Chris Alcock on 23 Feb 2016 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Win2D 1.16.0 – changing experimental APIs to stable – Shawn Hargreaves
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- The Basics of Web Application Security – Bind Parameters for Database Queries – Cade Cairns & Daniel Somerfield
- Dependencies management in a crisis – Ayende
- Using Let’s Encrypt with IIS on Windows – Rick Strahl
- Event Store Persistent Subscriptions Demo – Derek Comartin
- Switching from WCF OData to Web API – Maarten Balliauw
- VeST Redux – Components, mains, simulators and test rigs – Seb Lambla
- Keeping POST and GET Separated – Dino Esposito
- Batch Queries with Marten – Jeremy D Miller
- Using StructureMap 4 in a Console App – Steve Smith
- Binding Aurelia Routing Rules – K. Scott Allen
- Examples of name clashes in JavaScript’s standard library – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- Setting up a TypeScript + Visual Studio Code development environment – Wolk Software Engineering
- Incrementally Migrating JavaScript to TypeScript – Clay Allsopp
- Troll room – Eric Lippert
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The Morning Brew #2036
Posted by Chris Alcock on 22 Feb 2016 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Introducing Routemeister – Daniel Wertheim shares a new NuGet Package which simpliifies the process of handling messages and dispatching them to local process as well as cross process with RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ
- PerfView Version 1.9 Released to the Web, Analyzing CPU traces from Linux with PerfView, What is using up all my Disk Space? Using PerfView for Directory Size Analysis & Using PerfView on ‘External’ data (e.g. Other Profilers) – Vance Morrison announces the release of PerfView 1.9 which includes some great new features outlined in this post, before going on to look at its use on Linux traces, diskspace analysis, and data from other profilers
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- The SOLID Principles in Real Life – Erik Dietrich shares a nice back to basics post on the SOLID principles, looking at some real world analogies to help with understanding the concepts.
- Start Using ES6/ES2015 In Your Project With Babel and Gulp – Jaime González García continues his JavaScript series with a look at wirting in ES6 / ES2015 and using the Babel Transpiler to convert ECMAScript into ES5 JavaScript or TypeScript
- JavaScript Functions — In-Depth – Dave M Bush share a look at Functions in JavaScript, looking at some of the ways in which they are used within the language.
- The week in .NET – 2/17/2016 – Bertrand Le Roy shares last week’s .NET Newsletter featuring the .NET port of GitHub’s Scientist, the Barcelona .NET Core usergroup and a collection of interesting links on .NET topics
- Developing ASP.NET Apps in Docker Containers – Steve Lasker discusses the latest release of Docker Tools for Visual Studio, before sharing a number of resources on its use as well as his own step by step guide.
- Getting Started: A Microsoft Developer’s Introduction to Xamarin and Cross-Platform Development – Jason Hunt shares his experiences and thoughts on developing on the Xamarin platform
- Two Razor view errors you might be doing too – Simone Chiaretta shares two common gotchas when working with MVC Views implemented in Razor
- Using Azure Machine Learning to Predict Who Will Survive the Titanic – Jennifer Marsman shares a look at the Azure Machine Learning capabilities in these two recorded sessions looking at predicting those who would survive the Titanic disaster
- F# for Architects: Hitting the sweet spot – Chris Smith shares slides and notes from his talk on F# for Architects which looks at when and why you should consider use of F#
- Getting Started with the .NET Micro Framework 4.4 – Alexandr Surkov takes a look at getting up and running with the .NET Micro Framework using the framework emulator
- Cellar – Eric Lippert continues his exploration of the Zork game engine, and the current phase of re-implementation looking at the ztrings decoding.
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