Client-side Messaging Essentials – Jim Cowart shares 6 key ideas when working with and on Client Side Messaging, exploring two common patterns Observer and Mediator, looking at their use and which scenarios you should use them, along with sharing a number of other bits of best practices advice.
Managing Events As Relationships, Not Just References – Derick Bailey discusses an alternative view of event handlers, considering them as a relationship rather than just an object reference, discussing the shift in thinking, and looking at an example of using them in JavaScript with Backbone.
Nancy.Testing – executable specifications through the full stack, in memory – Marcus Hammarberg continues his series looking at the types of testing that are made possible on the Nancy Web Framework, in this post discussing how you can take functional specifications written in human readable language, and implement them as tests against a Nancy Web Application using Specflow
ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: URL Mapping – Ricardo Peres takes a look at another classic and oft forgotten feature of ASP.NET, URL Mapping, the precursor to Routing which still provides a simple way of mapping human readable URLs to pages with query strings, etc.
Closures and asynchronous chaining in Office JavaScript – MarkBrew takes a look the concepts behind JavaScript Closures, one of the more confusing concepts of JavaScript, and explores how misunderstandings of them can result in issues with some Office JavaScript API methods
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1: Understanding Code Map – Zain Naboulsi takes a look at the new Code Map (not source maps, this one is something different) functionality in the Visual Studio 2012.1 update, discussing what they give you and looking at theirr use.
Sorting big files using k-way merge sort – Chaker Nakhli takes a look at sorting the contents of huge files, looking at a technique that helps, and sharing an implementation of the K-way merge algorithm
