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• Announcing 0.9.1 – TypeScript – Jonathan Turner announces the release of TypeScript 0.9.1, a release which aims to round out the product improving the performance of the compiler and ASP.NET integration as well as introducing a number of language improvements to this and typeof.

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• Cancellable "awaiting" on .NET events continued – ‘BenWilli’ continues his series on wraping and composing await-able events with the ability to cancel them with a look at the framework support for cancellation of tasks.
• Got a need for speed? .NET apps start faster & Wondering why mscorsvw.exe has high CPU usage? You can speed it up – Rich Lander discusses the work done to improve the start up and general performance of .NET applications with AutoNGen, and the role of mscorsvw.exe in optimising the performance of .NET code on the deployed to machine.
• Mob programming agile team – Marcus Hammarberg introduces the concept of Mob Programming, a sort of supersized pair programming where the whole team congregate around a single keyboard and screen.
• Browser Wars: Websockets vs. AJAX – Chris Missal kicks off a new series of posts which will explore real time application development using HTML5 , initially looking at the role of WebSockets in this first post.
• Feedback on the refreshed Microsoft Developer Network – Brian Harry shares some of the feedback received for the new MSDN site design and structure, and shares what they are going to be doing in response.
• The Leakiest Abstraction – Patrick Lioi discusses how a leaky abstraction crept into his Fixie project, sharing an interesting insight into how these things can occur in a code base.
• Azure Mobile Services & Portable Class Libraries – Part 1 Authentication – Shayne Boyer kicks off a series of posts looking at the use of Azure Mobile Services in portable class library projects looking at some of the considerations needed to get them to work.

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