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• How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line) – Scott Hanselman gives a detailed walkthrough of setting up load balanced server farms on the Windows Azure platform, showing the process principally for Linux VM’s, but with notes for Windows VMs too.
• C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, Part Two – The second part of Eric Lippert’s TechPro article series on benchmarking mistakes is now available, in this post exploring the measurement of time and some of the anti-patterns
• Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Recommendations – Jatinder Mann of the Internet Explorer team gives an update on the status of the W3C standardization process for the various performance related W3C standards-to-be
• RavenDB, Victory – Ayende responds to a couple of the points raised in Jeremy Miller’s recent post on his experiences of working with RavenDB on a recent project
• The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript – Anthony Colangelo discusses the use of the module pattern, jQuery Plugins and options objects to help keep order in your JavaScript code
• Writing Testable JavaScript – Rebecca Murphey also has a nice A List Apart article on JavaScript, looking at writing client-side interactions which are easier to test, sharing some practices she uses to help ensure you can easily wrap code in tests.
• Cool Kid Training from Pluralsight, that’s free too! Because coding kids are cool kids, right? – Greg Duncan highlights a free series of courses from Pluralsight aimed at teaching kids to code, all made available completely free.

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