The Morning Brew

Update: I was in a rush this morning and one link crept into the post which I had not proof read – rather embarisingly this link was also to an article of ‘not brew worthy’ quality, as pointed out by a number of commenters on this post. I’ve de-linked the post, but retained the text (marked as strikethrough) for completeness. Apologies for the inclusion – serves me right for rushing things

Software

• Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub – Allison Linn
• DotNet APIs – A neat service which documents public Nuget Package’s public API

Information

• JSON Configuration in ASP.NET Core MVC & Strongly-Typed Configuration in ASP.NET Core MVC – James Chambers
• VeST Redux – Specification-driven development – Sebastien Lambla
• Microservices and Service Fabric – The Future Architecture? – Rick McGuire
• XSS’ing the security speaker panel via sli.do – Troy Hunt
• Syntactic Sugars are not always good performers!!! – K K Kodoth (Not recommended – included in error)

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• Shared Projects or PCL? – Miguel de Icaza discusses code sharing techniques for sharing code between products in Xamarin
• Common Aspects of ASP.NET Code: in Web Forms and MVC – Dino Esposito takes a look at the origins and uses of ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC Controllers
• Implementing a CI/CD pipeline & Micro service based architecture – Gabriel Schenker kicks off a series looking at continuous integration and continuous delivery, starting out with a look at CI and CD in Microservice delivery
• Semantic Logging in ASP.NET MVC – Sampath Kumar Kamati explores the concept of Semantic Logging and looks at its implementation in ASP.NET MVC applications using Event Tracing for Windows
• Use Data Structures and Algorithms Problems as TDD Katas! – Jaime González García shares thoughts on using Data Structures and Algorithms problems as Code Katas
• (Not so) Stupid Question 284-287: What is cyclomatic complexity, how do you calculate it and what does the score mean? – Iris Classon takes a look at the concepts behind cyclomatic complexity scores and how it relates to your code
• Starting the process of switching to a standard OSS license – Rockford Lhotka discusses moving CSLA onto a more standard Open Source license
• Generate C# Client API for ASP.NET Web API – Zijian takes a look at generating strongly typed C# client for ASP.NET WebAPI services
• The little known beauty of .ensure files – Leon Banbrick shares a though on a feature that would be usefiul in version control systems (And could be with pre-commit checks)

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Software

• Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8.2 for .NET – Brady Gaster introduces the latest version of the Azure SDK with improvements for App Service developments and improved validation in the UI.
• Tor.NET – A managed Tor network library – Chris Copeland shares a look at the Tor.NET library for connecting through the Tor network for obscured client connections and proxying
• Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5 – Linda Zhong and Jordan Matthiesen announce the latest update to the Visual Studio tools for Apache Cordova

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• Handling Request too large and identify limits in ASP.NET – Daniel Fisher explores the request size limitations in ASP.NET
• Configuration in ASP.NET Core MVC – James Chambers looks at the configuration mechanisms in ASP.NET Core MVC (and wins the prize for the first (that I’ve seen) none name change related post to use the new name)
• Microsoft renames ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0 & ASP.NET Core Naming History and Reaction – Rick Strahl, Simone Chiaretta and Steve Smith discuss the change in name of the ‘Core’ products
• Robert’s Rules of Coders: #8 Avoid Negative Conditionals And Method Names – Rob Kraft discusses a coding best practice about the structure of conditionals
• VeST Redux – The Tenets of Vertical Slice Technologies – Seb Lambla discusses his practices of designing systems using VeST
• Feature Toggles – Pete Hodgson shares the next part of this post on the use of Feature Toggles
• Lean UX, Atomic Design And Angular – A Flexible Front-End Architecture For Developing Web Applications: Part III – Jaime González García shares the next part in this series looking at lean User Experience practices in Angular

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