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• Released RequestReduce 1.8: Making website optimization accessible to even more platforms – Matt Wrock announces the release of RequestReduce 1.8. This release is focused on added support for more platforms, including support for Windows Azure Content Delivery Network endpoints, addressing issues with running on IIS6, and widening the range of .NET versions supported, along with removal of Entity Framework from the SQL synchornisation code.
• Pure HTML Templates with Cartographer – Alex Robson shares his experiments with pure HTML templating using a javascript library he created called Cartographer. The library aims to make use of standard HTML features to control the templating rather than having binding expressions in content.

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• There ain’t no such thing, the definitive entity definition – Ayende discusses the concept of a definitive entity definition, one implementation to be shared amongst them all, and how it violates a number of principles (Single Responsibility, Open Closed, and Interface Segregation) and can lead to versioning hell.
• There ain’t no such thing, the definitive entity definition – Ayende @ Rahien – Ayende discusses the concept of a definitive entity definition, one implementation to be shared amongst them all, and how it violates a number of principles (Single Responsibility, Open Closed, and Interface Segregation) and can lead to versioning hell.
• Windows Identity Foundation Tools for Visual Studio 11 Part I: Using The Local Development STS, Part II: Manipulating Common WIF Settings From the UI, Part III: Connecting With a Business STS (e.g. ADFS2) &
• Part IV: Get an F5 Experience with ACS2 – Vittorio Bertocci shares 4 walkthroughs of the new Windows Identity Foundation tools included in Visual Studio 11 Beta, showing how the new tooling makes it easy to work with STS implementations from inside the IDE.
• Series of Posts on Azure Security – Maor David-Pur highlights a series of posts from Bruce Kyle looking at security in Windows Azure. This 6 part series looks at the processes you can put in place to deal with a variety of security threats, looking at best practices for identification and resolution of security risks.
• Intro to Debugging a Memory Dump – Adam W. Saxton gives a nice walk through introduction to working with memory dumps in the debugger. The focus here is on SQL Server, but the concepts and principles used here are universal.
• Debugging JavaScript with Chrome – K. Scott Allen discusses the debugging of JavaScript using the tooling in Chrome Developer Tools, highlighting the various features of the developer tools to help you identify what is going on in the client side code of your web application.
• Debugging Javascript with Firebug – In a similar vein, Dan Maharry shares an extract from JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland which looks at the use of the FireFox developer tool FireBug to perform JavaScript debugging.
• JavaScript for the C# Guy: Scopes – Shawn Wildermuth continues his look at the art of Modern JavaScript from the perspective of a C# developer, exploring the concept of scoping in JavaScript, one of the features which often catches developers out.
• Load JavaScript Resources on-demand in ASP.NET – The All-In-One Code Framework are featuring a code sample every day, and yesterday’s one on loading JavaScript resources on demand, using asynchronous web service calls is an interesting one

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