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• Announcing MVVM Light V5 for Windows and Xamarin – Laurent Bugnion announces the latest release of MVVM Light , with an incredible array of platfoms now supported this really is a run anywhere framework.

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• ChessTDD 18: RemovePiece and Housekeeping – Eric Dietrich continues his series looking at Test Driven Development using Chess as an example. This part implements removal of pieces, improves the board interface, and improves the level of abstraction to improve comprehension of the code.
• Announcing key advances to JavaScript performance in Windows 10 Technical Preview – John-David Dalton, Gaurav Seth and Louis Lafreniere of the Chakra JavaScript Engine Team discuss in detail some of the performance improvements going into the JavaScript engine for Windows 10.
• Understanding OWIN and Katana – Ashish Shukla shares a reasonably detailed introduction to the OWIN platform
• Identifying Image Bloat, Part Two – Eric Lawrence continues his look at how Fiddler can help identify larger than necessary images in your websites, looking at how an extension can report the image bloat directly in Fiddler.
• Building and Running Your ASP.NET vNext Application with Gulp – Tugberk Ugurlu continues his series looking at ASP.NET vNext with a look at using the Gulp build system along side ASP.NET vNext
• Latest Update for the Azure CLI – Ross Gardler of MS Open Tech discusses the latest improvements to the Azure CLI for cross platform use
• Designing for Big Scale in Azure – K. Dotchkoff discusses the architecture for building big scale applications in the Azure platform – this is a discussion of the general limits of hosting subscriptions.
• Configure Azure storage to return proper response headers for blob GETs
  – Elton Stoneman takes a look at some of the headers in the Azure Storage response, and discusses how and why you need to enable certain features of the platform.
• A chatroom for all! Part 6 – The Finale and Debugging Remote Node Apps – Rami Sayar rounds out this series looking at building a chatroom using Node.Js and hosting it on Azure
• Building a Better NuGet – Edward Charbeneau shares some thoughts based on his experiences on how to build better NuGet packages, sharing some of the things to consider when setting something up in NuGet.

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I’ve taken some counting lessons, so today we are back on the correct numbering 😉

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• Find crazy stuff in mobile app communications (and get free stuff!) – Troy Hunt discusses some of the crazy things that go in with the APIs behind rich client applications, and sets a chalenge to his readers to share real world examples.
• New PowerShell 0.8.9 released – Dan Rosanova highlights the release of an updated version of Microsoft Azure PowerShell available from the Web Platform Installer
• HTTP/2: The Long-Awaited Sequel – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Rob Trace and David Walp of the Internet Explorer Team discusses their implementation efforts for HTTP/2, discussing why they are so keen to include it.
• Visual Studio Tooling Guidance – Jeff Handley and the NuGet Team cnavas for opinion on the use of NuGet Packages as parts of tooling
• Barry’s Rules of Engineering and Architecture – Barry Briggs shares his own list of principles for engineering and architecture based on his years of experience.
• Dan Wahlin – What’s ‘Right’ with AngularJS? – Dan Wahlin weighs in on the debate about AngularJS sharing his throughts on what is good and right about the framework.
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Entity Mode Map – Ricardo Peres takes a look at a less well known NHibernate feature which provides the entities as a dictionary/map
• Not all browsers are made equal – The JavaScript console – Rory Primrose discusses the differences between the different browser implementations of the console, looking at a code solution to help bridge the gap.

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Update: Once again I seem to have lost the ability to count – today’s post was incorrectly titled as #1710, when it should have been #1711 – once again I’ve updated the number but the URL will remain the same. Thanks to those who pointed it out.

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• REST : Simple REST Framework – Sacha Barber shares the fruits of some time off (congratulations on the birth of your second child Sacha) during which he created a simple REST framework using only the core framework (and JSON.NET)
• Cool Preview eBook of the Day: "Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms" by Charles Petzold (Yes, that one) – Greg Duncan highlights Charles Petzold’s latest work, a free e-book on the Xamarin Forms framework.
• Part 4: Get started with Python: Object Oriented Approach – Adarsha Datta continues with his series looking at programming with the Python language, kicking off a section of the series looking at performing Object Oriented Programming using Python.
• Bridging between NSubstitute and FluentAssertions – Rory Primrose discusses two of his go-to libraries for unit testing, and look at the combination of the two, and a work around which gives increased power.
• Unboxing FP – Phil Trelford takes a look at how you can very quickly and easily get up and running with a range of Functional Programming languages.
• Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Part 7 – Creating a Unique Value Directive using $asyncValidators – Dan Wahlin continues his series looking at the use of Directives in AngularJS and the creation of your own Directives to help you encapsulate functionality.
• Why Does There Have to be Something Wrong with AngularJS? – John Papa responds to some of the common criticisms of AngularJS, looking at the reality of the claims, and some of the benefits he feels AngularJS brings.
• Microsoft Azure Web Site Cheat Sheet – Greg Duncan highlights a Windows Azure Cheat Sheet
• Returning a Partial View Only for XHR Requests in ASP.NET MVC – J.Tower looks at a technique for getting ASP.NET MVC to return partial views for Ajax calls allowing you to do partial render to substitute in page content.

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