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• Comment commentary – Eric Lippert talks Code Comments, and using them to explain the meaning of code, drawing on examples of his code from the Roslyn code base.
• Troy Hunt: Solving the tyranny of HTTP 403 responses to directory browsing in ASP.NET – Troy Hunt discusses the 403 Forbidden error, and how it can leak information about your server setup, before looking at how to standardise the error response with other server errors to provide additional masking,
• (Cross-Post) Managing Concurrency in Microsoft Azure Storage – Jason Hogg of the Azure Storage Team discusses the techniques to manage concurrency available when working with storage
• An F# newbie using SQLite – Eric Sink shares some of his learning of F# in a post looking at working with SQLite databases, starting out with some C# code and working it into F#
• A .NET QueryString and Form Data Parser – Rick Strahl discusses the parsing of Query String and Form Post data in .NET, highlighting the cases where you might want to do this without references to System.Web, and sharing a parser implementation you can use.
• The Hidden Cost Of Estimation – Gil Zilberfeld shares thoughts on the art and science of estimation, discussing how and why we produce estimates
• Using Custom Directives in AngularJS – Jaco Pretorius takes a look at the use of AngularJS Directives to provide a powerful technique to clean up your Angular code.
• Angular Function Declarations, Function Expressions, and Readable Code – John Papa shares some techniques for cleaning up your Angular Controllers, Services and Factories which can make you code more readable.
• 5 Killer Productivity Features in Visual Studio 2013 – Michael Crump highlights his top 5 productivity improvements available in Visual Studio 2013
• Piping to notepad – Raymond Chen honours Notepad, and shares a neat little console application which allows you to pipe command output into a Notepad window.

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• New handy Visual Studio extensions – Mads Kristensen shares three little helper Visual Studio Extensions which you may find useful – one for identifying trailing white space, one for reporting of errors in the main editor window, and an add empty file extension.

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• ZeroMQ #7: A Simple Actor Model – Sacha Barber continues his series of posts ZeroMQ in a slightly different direction, taking a look at a simple actor model implementation in NetMQ.
• Want to Help Design C# 6.0 This Weekend? – Kathleen Dollard highlights a poll from the C# team who are working on some aspects of the design for C#6 and are looking for feedback on a couple of points.
• Optimizing static websites hosted on IIS – Mads Kristensen discusses getting static web content hosted well on IIS, and shares a NuGet package which accomplishes much of the setup for you.
• Intro to Git and GitHub Part 4: Merging and Rebasing overview – Tobiah Marks continues his series looking at the Git version control system and GitHub platform, giving an introduction to the techniques of merging and rebasing.
• Stack Overflow – performance lessons (part 2) – Matt Warren follows on from his previous outsider looking in post on StackOverflow’s performance strategy, with a discussion of their work on Garbage collection and Serialization
• Making the web "just work" with any input: Mouse, Touch, and Pointer Events – Jacob Rossi of the Internet Explorer Team discusses their work on the pointer events specification and implementation in Internet Explorer.

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• [Announcement] ODataLib 6.7.0 Release – layla liu announces the release of the ODataLib 6.7.0 on NuGet. This release adds in a pretty impressive array of new features including additional core vocabulary terms, metadata annotation in EDM, and default Uri parsing overrides.
• Driving IE with the Web Driver Tool and Code Sample too – Greg Duncan highlights the Internet Explorer 11 Web Driver Tool which allows you to easily create automated tests which simulate the interaction of a user with a webpage

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• Aha, I have found a flaw in the logic to detect whether my program is running on 64-bit Windows – Raymond Chen highlights how limitations in code may often be down to the answer to the question being posed not actually being significant.
• Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize – Erik Dietrich similarly shares thoughts on focusing in on the real goal as a developer to help make good decisions.
• Standard Markdown – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer discusses the new standardisation effort to turn Markdown into a standard – a worthy cause which seems to be making good progress.
• Real-time web functionality using ASP.NET SignalR – Susan Ibach takes a look at using SignalR for server to client and client to server communications in Web based applications.
• Creating AngularJS controller classes with TypeScript – Andrew Davey discusses the use of TypeScript as a language to power AngularJS giving the benefits of typing and other enhanced language features.
• Real World with AngularJS and Cordova / PhoneGap – P.J. Tezza shares a look at building applications for mobile using AngularJS
• Super Simple AngularJS Web App, Realtime vCard Creator – saadixl shares a sample application created using AngularJS which builds vCard business cards
• Custom AngularJS Directives for File Browsing and Dropping – CodeProject – Zhuyun Dai shares an implementation of Angular Directives for files selection and drag and drop which can be reused in applications.
• A chatroom for all! Part 1 – Introduction to Node.js – Rami Sayar kicks off a tutorial series aimed at beginners with Node.JS looking at building a Chat Room application.

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