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• The Mature Optimization Handbook – Carlos Bueno shares the ‘Mature Optimization Handbook’ a free eBook from FaceBook available in ePub, Mobi and PDF formats. The book is based upon an internal FaceBook training class on performance and optimisation and is sure to be an interesting read.
• Declare Don’t Tell – Phil Haack continues his discussion of declarative code and reduction of control statements with a look at an example using the Reactive Extensions to perform a simple sounding use case which is elegant when solved in a reactive / functional way, and surprisingly difficult in procedural code.
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 23 – Mocking – FROM THE FUTURE! – James Bender presses on with his series looking at Test Driven Development from first principles. In this post James continues to look at mocking, and delves into some of the premium features of JustMock
• Collection Asserts with NUnit – Jakub Chodounsky takes a look at the collection assert capabilities of NUnit
• Unit tests for HttpClient using HttpMessageHandler – Abhishek Anand explores writing tests for HTTP Client based code, looking at using capturing the messages and preventing them going over the wire.
• Discovering .NET Open Source: up-for-grabs.net – Keith Dahlby shares a simple site which aims to collect together links for ‘up for grabs’ bugs and feature request from .NET Open Source Projects. These ‘up for grabs’ issues provide the ideal way for a developer to get started and get involved with an Open Source project.
• Hello Minty, Minty: The First Steps & Minty: Defining the Model – Rob Conery kicks off a new series looking at building a Node.JS based blogging engine, sharing his process as he goes. The source accompanying the series is available, and Rob is keen to get others involved in the project.
• Properties vs. Methods – Abhishek Anand explores some of the issues and considerations surrounding the decision to use properties or methods for a particular piece of functionality.
• How much data can you put on VSOnline? – Brian Harry discusses the amount of data which you can successfully manage within Visual Studio Online, sharing some numbers from some of the biggest tenants of the service.

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• Time to get the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 RTM Tools – Glenn Gailey highlights the release of the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 RTM Tools, resolving an issue which prevented installation due to certificates, discussing why you should get the tooling in addition to the NuGet packages.
• Announcing FogJS for Windows Azure with Node.js – Daniel Mohl shares FogJS, a library based on Fog (for F#) which makes it easy to interact with the Windows Azure APIs for Blob Storage, Table Storage, and the Service Bus from JavaScript code.

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• Don’t trust the .NET web forms email regex validator (or most others) – Troy Hunt discusses the complexities of validating email addresses, looking at the default ASP.NET Web Forms Validation regular expression, and some possible improvements.
• Build your continuous delivery strategy – Mario Fontana highlights a white paper / eBook from Microsoft which looks at building a Release Pipeline using Team Foundation Server, and how that pipeline can be streamlined to give continuous delivery.
• Steps to Log all .net Exceptions to a Log file with Debug Diag 2.0 – Christopher Haun walks though the process of setting up DebugDiag to log all .NET exceptions, providing useful information when analysing problems.
• Lessons in Good Naming through Absurdity | DaedTech – Erik Dietrich discusses the art and science of picking good names, probably one of the hardest problems in software development.
• Frameworkless JS – encapsulation of views – Rob Ashton continues his series looking at frameworkless JavaScript development, exploring how much of a mess the view is in his sample project, and setting the scene for improving the mess.

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• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012 – The ASP.NET team announce the release of the ASP.NET and Web Tooling 2013.1 update for Visual Studio 2012, allowing developers using 2013 and 2012 to collaborate, and make use of ASP.NET MVC 5, WebAPI2, etc
• XUnit.PhantomQ v.1.2 Released – Tom DuPont announces the release of XUnit.PhantomQ 1.2, a NuGet package which allows your QUnit Tests in JavaScript to be run as though they were XUnit Tests.

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• RyuJIT .NET JIT compiler CTP1 FAQ – The .NET Team share a Frequently Asked Questions article on the RyuJIT Compiler, the new 64 bit JIT compiler for .NET
• Browser Link APIs in Visual Studio 2013 RTM – Reshmi Mangalore shares a detailed look at the BrowserLink functionality included in Visual Studio 2013, exploring the APIs which allow you to extend this functionality with your own custom behaviours.
• Managing the number of concurrent tasks using the TAP – Bill Wagner answers a customer question looking at controlling the number of tasks running at any given time using the Task Asynchronous Programming Model.
• Giving Clarity to LINQ Queries by Extending Expressions – Edward Charbeneau takes a look at making LINQ expressions more easily comprehended by adding your own extension methods which return queries.
• Disabling ARR’s Instance Affinity in Windows Azure Web Sites – Erez Benari takes a look at Azure’s use of Application Request Routing in and looks at some of the potential trouble spots in its use.
• Refactoring to Functional – Reducing and Flattening Lists – Hadi Hariri continues his series looking at refactoring code to a more functional programming style with a look at processing and working with lists.

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