Angry Birds of JavaScript: Orange Bird – Templating – Elijah Manor continues his web frontend architecture series with a look at templating, exploring how and why you should use it, and looking at underscore.js, Handbars.js, and highlighting some of the other templating libraries available.
HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1 – Pavan Podila covers what I consider to be a vital subject for any web developer – having a good understanding of the basics of HTTP, exploring the concepts of URLs, Verbs, Status Codes, Headers, the Request Response pattern, data formats, and tooling to watch HTTP traffic.
Try out ASP.NET Web API CORS support using the nightly builds – Yao highlights the availability of an implementation of CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) support in ASP.NET Web API, available now as a part of the Nightly builds of Web API, and in this post walks through its use.
WebAPI Tip #8: Working with Tasks – K. Scott Allen continues his WebAPI Tips series with a look at the role of Tasks in Web API Message Handlers
HMAC authentication in ASP.NET Web API – Piotr Walat takes a look at building HMAC authentication functionality in ASP.NET Web API, exploring the concepts behind HMAC and sharing an implementation
50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues: The Next Generation – Michaela Murray highlights the plans for a follow up to ‘ 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues’ a community sourced free eBook sharing 50 tips for ASP.NET performance, with submissions now open for a second edition
