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• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 3 – Bootstrap and JavaScript enhancements – Jon Galloway continues his tour of the new features in the latest ASP.NET releases, looking in this part at some of the improvements which make supporting Twitter Bootstrap easier, and at a community sourced improvement to Unobtrusive Ajax.
• Managing Web Sites from Web Sites using the Windows Azure Management Libraries for .NET – Brady Gaster explores the programatic API provided for working with Windows Azure Websites to create a Web site which manages your Windows Azure websites.
• Killing Switch Statements With A Registry: An Example And Screencast – Derick Bailey takes a look at applying the open closed principle to some code, exploring a refactoring switch statements.
• Cleaning up promises with yield – Aaron Powell continues his series looking at generators in JavaScript with a look at how they relate to cleaning up callbacks with the use of promises, and how yield can make things even better.
• Technology Radar January 2014 – ThoughtWorks share their January 2014 edition of the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, an interesting (and now interactive) document which outlines their position on various technology and practices.
• The Failures of "Intro to TDD" – Justin Searls takes a look at some of the more common mistakes people make in educating people on Test Driven Development, and thinking about how to change the education process.
• Cloud Design Patterns now available – ‘Dan_eScience’ highlights the Cloud Design Patterns guidance for building application on Azure which provides details of 24 design patterns, sample applications, along with primers and guidance articles.
• Trigger, Bindings, and Route parameters in AzureJobs – Mike Stall continues looking at the Azure WebJobs SDK exploring the different triggering methods available for firing off the jobs.

Community

• Building Modern Web Applications – Today’s Windows Azure week event is all about building modern web applications supported by Windows Azure, with a great cast of presenters joining Scott Hanselman from the Windows Azure Application and Web Tools Platform team.
• Questions from Tuesday’s talk – Eric Lippert highlights his next webcast talk, and shares some answers to questions which they didn’t have time for at the end of the last one

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