The Morning Brew

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• Refactoring Code to Load a Document – Martin Fowler looks at the patterns and strategies for handling data returned from services and manipulated before returning that manipulated data to modern rich client Single page applications
• Which F Is The IIFE? – Derick Bailey shares a look at IIFE, or Immediately Invoking Function Expressions , looking at their use in JavaScript
• 3 Ways to Speed up Visual Studio Code Extension Development – Doug Finke shares some PowerShell enhancements which can help making developing Visual Studio Code extensions easier (or just help you when working with TypeScript and NPM)
• Progressive Versioning – Drew McLellan takes a look at the Semantic Versioning version number strategy, discussing its application to software as well as the background to version numbers in software.
• Designing C# 7 – Lucian Wischik shares slides and a talk recording of a session on the design of the C#7 language, and the progress so far on the project.
• Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio & Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio – Line of Code (LoC) – Abhijit Jana takes a look at the use of the Visual Studio Code Metrics to help get an understanding of the code quality and maintainability of the codebase, taking a look at the overall offering, before diving into individual posts about each metric.
• Updateing<sic> the .NET target framework for many projects – Daniel Fisher shares a short PowerShell script to help update .NET version targets for situations where you have many projects.
• Actually porting something with Project Islandwood – ‘grantmestrength’ shares a look at the porting tools which make up Project Islandwood, which can take existing IOS applications and port them, with little manual alteration to the Windows platform.
• Session Loss due to Application Domain recycle- Basics & Session Loss due to Application Domain Recycle-Advanced – Chiranth Ramaswamy discusses steps to diagnose issues with session loss in IIS based applications,

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• ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 API documentation using Swashbuckle Swagger – damienbod shares a look at the process of generating documentation for your MVC 6 API using the Swashbuckle Swagger library
• Application contracts with Swagger powered APIs for .NET or Why SwaggerProvider – Sergey Tihon also discusses the use of Swagger, looking at the value it adds to the software development process
• White Tower Summoning: Mimicking C# Classical Inheritance in JavaScript – Jaime González García continues his series of posts looking at inheritance in JavaScript from the point of view of a C# Developer, exploring the ES6 Class syntax
• Babel 6: configuring ES6 standard library and helpers, Babel 6: loose mode & Babel and CommonJS modules – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer continues with a collection of posts looking at the use of the Babel 6 transpiler, exploring the configuration, syntax mode and support of modules.
• 3 Reasons .NET People Should Go Cross-Platform and Learn Linux – Elton Stoneman discusses a couple of factors which make now a very good time for .NET developers to make the move to cross platform development
• Paying the tab for .NET Native – Pedro Lamas discusses some of the pain points when dealing with the .NET Native compilation process, likening it to a expensive restaurant
• Solving the Santa Claus Problem in F# – Riccardo Terrell shares his contribution to the F# Advent Calendar with a look at a solution to "The Santa Claus Problem" in F#
• Building Stateful Services with Azure Service Fabric – Paul Mooney shares a look at creating stateful services using the Azure Service Fabric, walking step by step through the process to build a simple service
• Visual Studio Code: PowerShell Extension – Sergiy Baydachnyy takes a look at the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code, sharing a look at how it makes VS Code a good IDE for use with PowerShell scripts.
• Philosophy of science books every computer scientist should read – Tomas Petricek shares a few book suggestions or those interested in the more formal aspects of Computer Science

Community

• Rico Mariani Women in Computer Science Scholarship & Supporting Women in Computer Science (Part 2) – Rico Mariani discusses a new Computer Science scholarship he has created with the University of Waterloo aimed at helping women get into computing, and to get the support and advice of experienced industry contacts, and in the second post asks for others to join the #heforshe cause.

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• Visual Studio Code – NEW FEATURE: Improved Syntax Highlighting – Ed Price highlights the improved syntax highlighting in the latest builds of Visual Studio Code which bring compatibility with TextMate themes.
• Referencing CSLA 4.6.300 from ASP.NET 5 – Rockford Lhotka discusses the support for ASP.NEt 5 in his CSLA framework

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• The dedoublifier, part four – Eric Lippert closes out the year with a final post on rational numbers in C#, looking at generating approximations to the actual required number in the form of a fraction.
• You suck at TDD #2 – Mocking libraries – Eric Gunnerson continues his series looking at Test Driven Development / Design, discussing the use of Mocking libraries to support your TDD activities
• Have a Moment(.js)? – Bartosz Filipowicz takes a look at the Moment.js library for working with dates and times in JavaScript
• Do I need to remove the Server header from my HTTP responses? – Cellfish discusses the ‘Server:’ header in HTTP responses, and discusses the rationale for removing it from the response
• The .NET Journey: Recapping the last year – Ron Petrusha shares a nice review of the year in .NET from the point of view of the .NET Framework
• Upgrading from ASP.NET 5 beta to ASP.Net 5 RC – Wilson Reddy discusses the upgrade from ASP.NET 5 beta releases to the ASP.NET 5 Release Candidate, sharing the changes necessary to your project and environment
• NUnit 3 Brings Extensibility and Parallel Execution: Interview with Charlie Poole – Pierre-Luc Maheu shares an InfoQ interview with Charlie Poole, the project lead of the NUnit project, discussing NUnit 3
• HTML Developers: Please Consider – Steve Faulkner appeals to developers to remember to use ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Application) to improve the meaning of standard HTML features when used in the context of an application.
• Visual Studio 2015 Test Tools getting started content – Charles Sterling shares some useful getting started content for the Manual Testing, Test Automation, and Load Testing features of Visual Studio 2015

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