Update: A missing quote on one of todays links merged Ron Conery and Jeremy Miller’s links – corrected now, and thanks to Alistair and Daniel for letting me know.
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- SignalR/ReleaseNotes – The SignalR Team announce the release of SignalR 1.1, a release which includes significant improvements to the scale-out story, along with a healthy number of other bugfixes and improvements.
- Introducing Backbone.js StarterKit – Kazi Manzur Rashid shares three NuGet packages which provide a basis for Knockout based Single Page Applications, with code written in JavaScript, CoffeeScript or TypeScript.
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- Applying Conway’s Law – Phil Haack discusses Conway’s Law on software reflecting the organisational structure which created it, discussing his experiences at Microsoft and also how GitHub organise themselves.
- Spot the defect: rounding – Eric Lippert shares a seemingly very simple piece of code, with a subtle but significant bug, and challenges his readers to find the bug – the answer is in the comments, and will be the focus of a later blog post too.
- Troy Hunt: Clickjack attack – the hidden threat right in front of you – Troy Hunt discusses in detail the anatomy and security risks exposed by Clickjacking exploits, and looking at what you can do to protect your ASP.NET applications from such attacks.
- SQL Server Performance Crib Sheet – Grant Fritchey has an updated version of his SQL Server Performance Crib Sheet, detailing a goodly number of things that are well worth knowing if you have to manage SQL Server at any level.
- Knowing More Programming Languages Will Make You Smarter – Rob Conery discusses the benefits with learning new languages, both spoken and more specifically programming.
- Would I use RavenDb again? – Jeremy D Miller shares his thoughts and experiences of using RavenDB as a backend database for an application, discussing some of the benefits and some of the limitations that his team ran into during implementation
- New Contributor? Jump In! – Nik Molnar shares thoughts on Open source projects having a ‘Jump In’ list of easier issues ideal for someone looking to get involved with an Open Source project but unsure of what to start work with – a great idea, and certainly well worth maintaining from a project lead point of view – the OSS world can only be better off from more contributors.