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• Angular App Structuring Guidelines – John Papa shares thoughts and guidelines on structuring AngularJS applications, discussing the LIFT guidelines, and looking at applying them to an Angular app.
• How do we know if mobile apps are secure? – Scott Hanselman discusses the state of not-knowing that mobile applications leave us in wondering how they are doing communications to their server side resources.
• Ember.js and accessibility – Steve Klabnik shares a video on Ember;js and making applications accessible, discussing the importance of conforming to the ARIA standards
• Some advanced AngularJS concepts & Writing E-2-E tests for AngularJS using Protractor – nmarun shares two videos on Angualr Development, looking at some of the more advanced features, focusing on directives, and also explores end to end testing of Angular applications.
• Visualizing Data with D3 – Dan Schaefer shares in introduction to D3, a very powerful data visualisation framework.
• On NHibernate Performance – Ricardo Peres takes a look at NHibernate’s performance characteristics, sharing some performance benchmarks.
• A Lua Test Adapter and Framework for Visual Studio & Some things I learned while building my Visual Studio Test Adapter – Danny Tuppeny shares his first Visual Studio Extension, a test runner for Lua code (which can be extened to other languages too), and shares some of the lessons he learnt about Visual Studio Test Adapters.

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• February 2014 .NET Updates – Th .NET Framework team highlight their recent security patch, released as a part of the standard ‘Patch Tuesday’ cycle, which addresses an Elevation of Privilege issue.

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• Interface Segregation Principle: A Practical Example – Erik Dietrich discusses the Interface Segregation Principle, with a practical tale which illustrates its use and importance as one of the less used parts of the SOLID Principles.
• Cost of Delay Due to Technical Debt, Part 4 – Johanna Rothman discusses the role of technical debt as something which can introduce delays and therefore costs into your product development cycle
• Troy Hunt: The Tesco hack – here’s how it (probably) happened – Troy Hunt discusses the latest security incident, with a look at how Tesco may have been compromised, exploring best practices for credential management, login, and associated actions.
• Listening to Leaves – Patrick Lioi discusses the importance of gettin the right abstraction for your application, discussing a situation in the runner part of his Fixie test framework.
• re: Create benchmarks and results that have value – Frans Bouma responds to Kelly Sommer’s piece on benchmarks linked to yesterday.
• Recursively descending test-driven development aided by thinking &Informed TDD – Using Mocks to Allow for True Stepwise Refinement – Ralf Westphal discusses a proces for designing and implementing software using TDD and takign time to think before coding, sharing a dialog based example, before talking about it in a more theoretical standing.

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• Glimpse 1.8.3 released – Insights removed – The Glimpse Team announce an updated 1.8 release which, based upon community feedback, removes the Insights functionality which was introduced in 1.8.2 as a way of getting better insight into how users used Glimpse.

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• How does locking work in C#? – Eric Lippert blogs over on the Coverity Blog, presenting a simplified yeet useful view of how locking works in C#
• Create benchmarks and results that have value « kellabyte – Kelly Sommers discusses the art and science of benchmarking, talks about how benchmarks can be bad, before discussing how she goes about benchmarking.
• Per request lifetime management for UserManager class in ASP.NET Identity – suhasbj discusses the role of the UserManager class in the latest preview release of ASP.NET Identity, walking through its use in an example.
• Leak shows Microsoft unifying Windows Phone and Windows RT app development – Todd Bishop highlights news, sourced from a leak (so how accurate it actually is remains to be seen) about work at Microsoft to unify Windows Phone and WinRT development – this certainly sounds like good news
• Struggling with unit tests (again) & Struggling with unit tests (what happened next) – tilovell09 discusses the tradeoffs between code coverage and testing code that doesn’t really need testing in these two posts on the subject.
• Inspiring the next generation of programmers – developer tools from Microsoft – Lee Stott discusses the variety of development languages, schemes and programmes for getting the next generation of developers interested.

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