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• If you want to set a thread’s apartment model via Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState, you need to act quickly – Raymond Chen kicks off this year’s CLR week with a post discussing the threading apartment model, and how you can control it in code if you act quickly
• Effects of GZipping vs. minifying HTML files – Mads Kristensen follows up on yesterday’s post with a look at if it is worth applying minification before GZipping content or not
• Json.NET Updates: Merge, Dependency Injection, F# and JSONPath Support – Roopesh Shenoy highlights the latest release of JSON.NET, drawing attention to some of the recently added features.
• Thoughts on Angular’s Controller As Syntax – K. Scott Allen takes a look at the Angular ‘Controller as Syntax’ feature of Angular, sharing a look at how you use it before discussing the pros and cons of its use.
• AngularJS and Benefits to the Development Team – Dave Baskin shares his experiences of working with AngularJS, highlighting the benefits of the framework that they have experienced
• Accessing External APIs Using AngularJS’s Services – Maciej SopyÅ‚o takes a step by step view of how to interact with external APIs when working in AngularJS
• SlowCheetah is going into maintenance mode – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi gives an update on the SlowCheetah project, and his discontinuing work on the project.
• No waffling here… SideWaffle and a step-by-step guide to create Visual Studio Item Templates – Greg Duncan highlights the SideWaffle project which makes it easy to construct your own Visual Studio Project Templates
• A Stroll Through Node: Building a Recipe Website with Express – Steven Edouard shares a step by step guide to building a simple recipes website using the Node.JS Stack.

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• The BobbyTables culture – Jon Skeet discusses the importance of parametrizing your database queries, even in things as seemingly trivial as a StackOverflow answer
• Effect of tabs vs. spaces in HTML files – Mads Kristensen discusses one of the hottest topics in programming, the great Tabs vs Spaces debate, looking at what it means in HTML in terms of file size with the different means of sending HTML to the browser.
• Bing Streamlines Technical Searches – Shabbar Husain of the Bing Search team discusses some recent changes which make the Bing search engine better at dealing with programming and technical related queries
• Microsoft’s first web page and what it can teach us – Christian Heilmann highlights Microsoft’s recreation of their first web presence 20 years on, and discusses some of the practices and technologies used back then
• Migrating from Subversion to Git with svn2git on Windows (the tricky bits explained) – Troy Hunt walks through the somewhat convoluted path of converting repositories from SVN to Git when you are running Windows as your OS. A useful reference for anyone who may need to do this.
• Creating Custom OAuth Middleware for MVC 5 – Edward Charbeneau takes a look at the process and components which make up the authentication in Katana, looking at how you can implement your own custom providers for OAuth authentication
• Solving a Throttling Problem with Azure – Kirk Evans takes a look at how Azure Queues can provide a solution to throttling a system where it experiences dramatic peaks in load
• Node.js in Azure Web Sites and Service Bus – Installing tools and Reading Messages from Cloud-hosted Queues – Bruno Terkaly takes a look at working with the Azure Service Bus from Azure Websites hosted node.js code, walking through the setup and code required
• Composable Generators in Javascript – Jeremy D Miller discusses the improvements for asynchronous code in JavaScript that the ECMAScript6 Generators feature provides
• Getting started with AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC – Part One – JMK-NI shares the first part of a series looking at working with AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC

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• Moving to the .NET Framework 4.5.2 – The .NET Team announce their future support plans for the .NET 4.5.x series of releases, along with offering a hint that .NET vNext will be released next year (2015)
• Stay up-to-date with Internet Explorer – Roger Capriotti of the Internet Explorer Team discusses the importance of keeping up to date with your browser versions and outlines the plans for future support, giving the versions supported post 12 January 2016.
• IntelliTrace standalone collector is back! – Angelos Petropoulos highlights the re-introduction of a standalone collector for IntelliTrace which allows you to capture IntelliTrace information on machines without the full IDE.
• Getting traces for .NET apps when you cannot modify the application and don’t want to use more than one machine – Daniel Bagley is also looking at tracing, exploring how you can capture network tracing information using just .NET Traces and Fiddler
• Puppet: Getting Started On Windows – Rob Reynolds continues his look at Puppet, walking through getting it installed, set up and performing some operations via the puppet commandline.
• Creating animations with Bing Maps (JavaScript) – Ricky Brundritt shares a look at the Bing Maps API and explores the creation of animations within the map which are usable in both Windows Store and Web Applications.
• Learn how to create a queue, place and read a message using Azure Service Bus Queues in 5 minutes – Bruno Terkaly shares the first of two parts looking at the Azure Service Bus walking through the setup of a simple application to push and pull messages from the bus.
• Caffeinated Usability – Sharon Cichelli uses examples from a coffee machine to discuss usability and microinteractions in software

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• DDD East Anglia Registration – DDD East Anglia opens its registrations for the event on 13th September 2014 this afternoon (1pm UK 8th August)

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