SignalR v0.5.2 – The SignalR team announce the release of SignalR 0.5.2, a release which addresses a number of reported issues as well as adding a .NET 3.5 client, and improving connection tracking. Full details of the changes can be found in the Release Notes.
node v0.8 is out and it’s HOT! – Glenn Block highlights the release of Node.js 0.8, giving an overview of the new features and improvements made, many around performance and stability.
LightSwitch HTML Client Preview for Visual Studio 2012 Available! – The LightSwitch team announce the preview release of the HTML based client for LightSwitch applications, allowing you to build HTML5 and JavaScript based user experiences for your LightSwitch applications, and take advantage of touch capabilities
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Some more .NET/C# Generics Research Project History – Don Syme shares another post of details from the past looking back at the Microsoft Research involvement in the implementation of Generics in C# / .NET
Eventual consistency, CQRS and interaction design – Jimmy Bogard follows on from Gabriel Schenker’s series of posts on CQRS and Event Sourcing, taking a look at Eventual Consistency, the scenarios it arises in, along with how eventual consistency is presented to users.
Preparing for Windows 8 App Review – Sam Stokes shares his experiences of the Windows 8 Application Review process, sharing a list of things to consider before submitting your application for review.
Who says you can’t have fun at the IETF? – Terry Zink highlights a new draft from the IEFT for a HTTP status code to indicate that a resource / content is legally restricted, rather amusingly using the status code 451 (in reference to Fahrenheit 451).
Our password hashing has no clothes – Troy Hunt shares a detailed article looking at the salting and hashing of passwords using the SHA1 algorithm, discussing how this previously best practice is now vulnerable due to the computing power available in modern graphics cards, exploring cracking techniques and looking at mitigating such issues.
New .NET Diagnostic info added to Process Explorer – Brandon Bray highlights some new additions to the great Process Explorer tool from Sysinternals which now enables more diagnostics for .NET Applications, including viewing stack frames from the managed code within Process Explorer.
Understanding a Simple Async Program – Alan Berman shares a nice introductory post on the use of async / await in C#, giving simple explained examples to aid understanding.