The Morning Brew #2059
Posted by Chris Alcock on Thursday 24th March 2016 at 09:18 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Further thanks today for the barrage of comments on yesterdays post – it means a lot 🙂
The other administrative news is that tomorrow (Friday) and Monday are public holidays here in the UK for Easter, so as is traditional for The Morning Brew, I will be having a break from posting, returning with what is usually a bumper edition on Tuesday.
Software
- Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio – John Lam shares a look at the preview release of R Tools for Visual Studio, bringing support for the the data science programming language to Visual Studio
- Cross-Platform Messaging for iOS, Android, and Windows – Pierce Boggan announces a new plugin for Xamarin and Windows which makes working with messaging aspects of the platforms upon which your code runs easier to work with
Information
- The role of logs – Ayende shares his thoughts on the different levels of logging, discussing the standard model of Debug-Info-Warn-Error-Fatal, and suggesting that perhaps fewer levels can work just as well.
- How to *really* break the internet. – Dylan Beattie discusses the dangers of dependencies on external code following the removal of 250 modules from the NPM package manager by a package author, and the disruption this has caused
- How to Left Pad, for real – Leon Bambrick also discusses the removal of packages, looking at the code to provide the functionality of one of the most used packages which was removed
- Looking at JavaScript with "new" eyes: Digging into the specs to learn more about the new operator – Leo Balter takes a look at the specs for JAvaScript to learn more about the use of the new operator
- SpecFlow 2 Cheat Sheet – Jason Roberts shares an updated edition of his Cheat Sheet for Specflow, updated for Version 2
- The Monsters Weekly – Episode 17 – ‘Structured Logging with Serilog in ASP.NET Core’ – The ASP.NET Monsters share a look at the use of the Structured Logging Framework Serilog
- Based on your project, we have identified extensions you may find helpful – Kevin Babcock shares a useful tip to disable the Clippy like ‘we have identified extensions you might find useful’ message when opening HTML files
- Social TagHelpers for ASP.NET Core – Muhammad Rehan Saeed shares tag helpers for ASP.NET Core applications which provide the capabilities to output OpenGraph, Author, Twitter Cards, Google Plus, and Pinterest support on your pages
- Get A Data-Attribute Value From The Selected DataList Option – Derick Bailey takes a look at associating additional information with the elements of a Data List in HTML based applications
- Dam | Fabulous adventures in coding – Eric Lippert continues with his interesting series looking at the implementation of a Zork engine in OCaml, digging further into the implementation of instructions
Thanks for putting this list together every day. I’d say it’s the most important daily source of .Net related news anywhere. Enjoy your Easter break.
Hey Chris, you’re my morning bru. Thanks!
Thanks for your work, that starts my work. Been following some years now, I suspect 😉
Happy easter!
Like many others, reading your blog is part of my morning routine. Thank you so much for putting it together!
This site is my first port of call when I get some free time at work. Thank you!!
Thanks for the tip on disabling “Clippy for Visual Studio”
Chris, thank you so much for putting this list together every day, reading it is one of the first things I do every day. The highlight of blogging was making this list (that was also the highlight of that month). Thank you again!
Chris, thanks for this. I try to make a point of saying thank you to people when they do things like this but The Brew has become so much part of my routine that I’d forgotten how much effort must go into maintaining it and curating content. Much appreciate and I hope things are going well for you.
Ryan
Chris,
I’ve also never said thank you either but like all the others your site is my first read in the morning. I can’t tell you how many things I’ve found out about through your site.
Thanks for all the hard work.
Dave
Chris, your blog has helped me so much throughout my career. Since I was just getting started with .NET, struggling in my home country, to growing and learning enough to lead several teams and having way better working conditions. Thank you so much for this.
Yes agreed with everyone. Never post here, but read this every day in the morning. Thanks for putting it all together.
Chris,
Wanted to say as others have that we really appreciate this site. First thing in the morning I’m checking everything out. Gets me in the technical mindset and gets me excited about the day.
We appreciate ya man
Hi Chris,
I just wanted to stop by to tell you that I really appreciate the work that you are doing each day.
I’ve been subscribed to your rss feed for a very long time now and I’ll usually read it in my lunch time.
I bet I speak for the silent majority when I say that:
1) we notice every holiday in the UK 😉 and
2) thank you for the time you invest in aggregating all those links for us.
Take care,
Martin
Chris – A huge thank you for the work you do putting this together. There’s not a brew that goes by that I don’t gain something from.
Thank you!!!!
– Colin
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Another thanks here Chris. It’s my go-to source of information for the latest developments in the .Net community. Thank you for all the effort you put in, making our lives easier!
Thank you for your daily effort, Chris. I started visiting The Morning Brew ~600 posts ago and I learned a lot thanks to your perseverance. I’m not sure I can express how helpful it was.
Big kudos to you!
I read you every day. Thank you!
Thanks, Chris. The Morning Brew has been a regular part of my morning here in Arizona for a couple of years now. I’ve learned so much!
Thank you Chris!!!!
You do an awesome job gathering all these super helpful and interesting articles every single day! 🙂
Kudos! Keep up the good work! ^_^
Awesome service Chris! I would actually sign up for a monthly subscription
because the work you put in is invaluable.