The Morning Brew

Software

• Peasy.NET – Aaron Hanusa shares Peasy.NET an open source (MIT licensed) Middle Tier solution for .NET
• Azure Billing Alert – Wriju Ghosh highlights a new much awaited preview feature of Azure

Information

• Mastering The Arcane Art of JavaScriptmancy for C# Developers: ES6 Destructuring – Jaime González García continues his JavaScript Series with a look at the ECMAScript 6 feature ‘Destructuring’ which allows you to more easily break apart objects into variables.
• The traversal order of object properties in ES6 – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses the ECMAScript 6 specifications handling of object properties and the order in which they are returned in operations which require them
• The Front-end Developer Handbook offers a handy field guide to resources – Michael Morisy highlights the Front-end Developer Handbook, available for free in a variety of formats and a great repository for learning about all the various skills and techniques for front end web development
• An open letter about the terms "F#" and "Visual F#" – Don Syme sets about clearing up confusion regarding ‘Visual F#’ and the F# language
• ccdschool/fsharpdaybyday – GitHub – Ralf Westphal shares fsharpdaybyday, a series of daily lessons to teach the various aspects of the F# language
• Using DataAnnotations and Localization in ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 – damienbod continues his look at localisation in ASP.NET 5 / MVC 6 with a look at how DataAnnotations and Localization can be handled together
• So You Need to Expose JSON Endpoints – Dino Esposito shares a real world problem he encountered in production returning JSON from an MVC Controller, highlighting some of the side effects and best practices along the way.
• Have a Moment(.js)? – Wojciech Hildebrandt discusses time manipulation in JavaScript and takes a look at the moment.js library
• VS2015 Remote Debugging JavaScript – Prakash Patel discusses and walks through the capabilities for debugging JavaScript remotely
• How to deploy an online Vorlon.js server with authentication – Etienne Margraff takes a look at securely deploying Vorlon.js remote debugging of Javascript.

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• Inferring from "is", part two – Eric Lippert continues his discussion of the need for casting after testing with the is operator, discussing how the compiler is unable to infer the type discussing some proposed solutions
• It’s happening – OpenSSH for Windows…from Microsoft – Scott Hanselman highlights the first release of OpenSSH for Windows from the Windows PowerShell Team, discussing how its progressing and getting involved in the community project by reporting issues.
• MSDN Magazine: Special Windows 10 Issue – Clint Rutkas highlights a special edition of MSDN Magazine entirely focusing on windows 10 Development, with development topics ranging from Visual Studio tooling through to game development
• 12 Rules for Professional JavaScript in 2015 – Cory House shares 12 ‘rules’ for JavaScript development from his point of view
• Know your Node.js (and VS Code) – Greg Duncan highlights three Node.js development topics when working with the Visual Studio Code lightweight cross platform IDE.
• Chrome Devtools Tips & Tricks – ‘molsson’ shares some useful tips for working with the Chrom Developer Tools, revealing the power of this browser tooling.
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) – Gautham Prabhu K shares an introduction to the use of the Reactive Extensions in reactive programming using observation to handle streams of events,
• Troy’s UK (and a bit of Norway) tour dates – Troy Hunt is coming to the UK (and Norway) in January, and is sharing dates looking for any potential User Group or meet and greet opportunities while he is here

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Software

• AutoMapper 4.1.0 Released – Jimmy Bogard announces the release of AutoMapper 4.1.0, a release which involved internal refactorings, and rounding out of the type map resolution work started in 4.0.
• Open Sourcing App Service Mobile .NET Server SDK – Donna Malayeri announces the news that the .NET Server SDK for App Service Mobile is following in the footsteps of the Node.js Server SDK in being released as an open source project.

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• ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 Localization – Damienbod explores localization techniques in ASP.NET 5 / MVC6, walking through the configuration of the various aspects of the configuration
• ASP.NET MVC 6 Dependency Injection – David Hayden gives a quick overview of the Dependency injection capabilities of ASP.NET MVC 6
• Postgresql as a Document Db for .Net Development – Jeremy D Miller discusses a new Open Source project which he has just begun which provides Document Database capabilities for .NET on top of Postgresql
• .Net + Nancy – parsing "multipart/form-data" requests – Peter Wójcik explores combining JSON body and file uploads in the same request under the Nancy web framework
• Introducing Microphone | Microservices with Service Discovery for .NET – Roger Alsing announces Microphone a .NET based Microservices framework which provides service discovery on Consul.io clusters with the service implementations being self hosted running code which is WebAPI or NancyFx based
• How to choose a build system for your JavaScript app – James K Nelson discusses the various options for JavaScript Build processes – something which is complicated and confusing for newcomers these tools
• Using JavaScript frameworks from your C#/UWP application – David Catuhe shows how the Edge JavaScript Engine Chakra can be included in C# / UWP applications using the ChakraBridge project allowing these applications to run JavaScript code.

Community

• Are you in the mood for HTTP? – Glenn Block announces the launch of a new podcast series in conjunction with Darrel Miller, discussing all things HTTP
• The Dev Bakery – November 2015 – The Dev Bakery .NET Usergroup based just outside Manchester welcome Ashic Mahtab for a session on 18th November 2015 looking at the use of Cassandra for .NET Development.

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