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- When is an identifier not an identifier? (Attack of the Mongolian Vowel Separator) – Jon Skeet discusses another instance of complexity caused by text encoding, discussing unicode identifiers in C#, with a look at how it should work, and how it actually does in the various C# compilers.
- Lies, Service Level Agreements, Trust and failure mores – Ayende shares a discussion he has been having with Kelly Sommers regardin reliability and service levels for distributed systems – an interesting read
- The ConditionalWeakTable in .NET – Jason Roberts takes a look at the ConditionalWeakTable type in the .NET Framework, discussing its use
- Working with Non-Compliant OWIN Middleware – ‘panesofglass’ discusses non-compliant OWIN middleware and shares some techniques for dealing with them in your code base.
- Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture – Martin Fowler shares the next part of the series from Toby Clemson looking at the test architecture for systems implementing microservices.
- 5 Incredible Features in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Michael Crump shares his thoughs on 5 (actually 6) of the most significant features in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview
- The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 2: Abusing $watch – Jeremy Likness shares the second part of his 5 part series looking at common Angular JS mistakes, taking a look at the misuse of $watch and its ability to monitor for changes
- Visual Studio 2013.2+ and 2015 Child Process Debugging Power Tool – Greg Duncan highlights the Child Process Debugging Power Tool from the ALM team which allows you to easily debug into child processes of your main debugee.
- .NET Foundation: Advisory Council – Miguel de Icaza highlights discussions on the .NET Foundation’s advisory council