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- September 2014 .NET Security Updates – The .NET Framework Team announce the latest round of patches fro the .NET Framework released as a part of the ‘patch Tuesday’ release cycle
- September 2014 updates for Internet Explorer – Gege Wang of the Internet Explorer team also highlights their contribution to the Patch Tuesday releases with patches which address over 25 reported vulnerabilities
- Seq 1.5 preview – Nicholas Blumhardt announces the release of the preview of Seq 1.5, his structured logging framework
- New CodeRush Plugin – Sort Format Tokens – Rory Becker shares a Code Rush plugin which addresses issues with mis-ordering of format tokens included in strings
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- Farewell, EnableViewStateMac! – Levi Broderick and the ASP.NET team announce a significant change released along with this Tuesday’s ‘Patch Tuesday’ patches which makes setting <pages enableViewStateMac="false" /> and <%@Page enableViewStateMac="false"%> forbidden – a protentially breaking change to address potential security issues.
- Tackling cross-cutting concerns with a mediator pipeline – Jimmy Bogard discusses the use of a mediator pattern implementation to provide a pipeline for message delivery / requests
- Building Hyper Scalable Web APIs Right in Your Browser — Fast! – Steven Edouard shares an interesting quickstart guide to setting up a WebAPI implemented in Node.js on the Azure Websites platform, and using the Monaco Browser based IDE.
- New Intellitrace article from Testing Experience: Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace – Charles Sterling highlights an article on IntelliTrace in Testing Experience Magazine, a publication to which you can obtain a free online subscription.
- JavaScript: Returning this or not returning this, this is the question! – David Catuhe takes a look at fluency of interfaces in JavaScript and discusses their implementation, and his experience developing Babylon.js
- C#: Building a Useful, Extensible .NET Console Application Template for Development and Testing – John Atten shares some common patterns an implementations for console applications as test harnesses to allow you to try out your code