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- .NET Code Contracts are now OSS & GitHub:CodeContractsDotNet/CodeContracts – Greg Duncan highlights the news that thr Code Contracts tooling for .NET are now open source with the source hosted on GitHub
- Microsoft is Openâ€Sourcing WorldWide Telescope in 2015 – Another interesting announcement of an interesting project moving to an open source model.
- Largest VM in the Cloud – Drew McDaniel announces the launch of the largest Cloud Virtual Machines currently available, with 32 processors almost 0.5TB RAM and over 6TB of SSD backed local storage on the Azure Platform.
- [Announcement] RESTier – A turn-key solution to build OData services – Yi Ding of the OData Team announce the release of RESTier, a library which makes the process of implementing an OData Service even shorter and simpler
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- API review process for .NET Core – Immo Landwerth shares the now formalised and agreed API review process for the .NET Core libraries in their new Open Source development state.
- Protecting against the SSL 3.0 vulnerability – Perry Skountrianos of the Azure Storage Team shares an update on plans to disable SSL3.0 on the Azure Storage platform to help mitigate the POODLE vulnerability
- The I have no idea what I’m testing anti-pattern. – Cellfish rallies against the use of service locators in tests, urging use of constructors to make it obvious what is being tested
- Is This Problem Worth Solving? – Erik Dietrich discusses solving the common case, and getting software released over shipping with all the possible complexities addressed in the first release.
- Barbaric Tip of the Week: Improve Your Code Typing Skills with Typing.io – Jaime González García highlights a useful service to help you practice, improve and monitor your typing skills which will directly help improve your ability to express yourself through code
- Why you should learn F# in 2015 (and how)? – Tomas Petricek shares his thoughts on why you should pick F# as your language to learn for 2015
- Naming Things is Hard: Keeping Context in Mind – Steve Wilkes continues his series looking at the complexities of naming things in code discussing the concept of context and how it should influence your naming of things.