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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 Open‐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.

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• ASP.NET MVC 6 attribute routing – the [controller] and [action] tokens – Filip W takes a look at how the [controller] and [action] replacement tokens help make attribute routing more reliable and resilient to refactoring.
• Roslyn in a Nutshell – Michael Crump shares a short introduction to the use of Roslyn to dynamically compile code on the fly, process source code through syntax visualizers, and represent code.
• 14 Top Features of Visual Basic 14: The Q&A – Michael Desmond highlights Lucian Wischik’s article for MSDN Magazine on the top features of Visual Basic .NET 14 and shares an interview with Lucian.
• How GitHub uses GitHub to document GitHub – ‘gjtorikian’ shares a look at how the GitHub Team use GitHub to manage their documentation, discussing how their old workflow worked, before looking at how they improved it
• Application Insights and Azure WebSites – VladJ takes a look at getting deep performance analysis information from your Azure Websites using Application Insights and the Application Insights Azure WebSite extension.
• [JavaScript] Should I have to cache my array’s length? – David Catuhe takes a look at a performance optimisation for looping code in JavaScript.
• Yoooman! 5 Awesome Yeoman Generators You Should Use Now (Part 3) – Rami Sayar continues hist series on Yeoman, exploring its setup and use on Windows, and in this part highlights 5 different generators which you may find useful.

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• IE test VMs on modern.IE get a refresh – Anton Molleda announces updated images for Internet Explorer Virtual Machines, including updated and patched base OS and changes to how the images are distributed.

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• Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits: EF7-Able Projects & Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits: Current vs On-Hold APIs – Julie Lerman shares a look at the latest bits of Entity Framework 7, taking a look at the project types that you can install Entity Framework 7 into, as well as taking a look at what is implemented an working in the alpha.
• An example of preparatory refactoring – Martin Fowler discusses the practice of Preparatory Refactoring, the art of tidying and restructuring the code ready for implementing a new feature.
• ECMAScript 6: maps and sets – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer takes a look at th Map and Set data structures along with WeakMap and WeakSet in ECMAScript 6, exploring their use through code.
• PageObjects and Protractor – K.Scott Allen discusses the use of the PageObject pattern when writing tests in Protractor, and shares some of his workflow for writing tests
• Everything You Need To Know About Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging Part 3 – Max McCarty continues the ‘Be Sure with Azure’ series with the third and final part of the mini-series of posts looking at Azure Service Bus
• JSON# – Tutorial #3: Serialising Complex Objects – Paul Mooney continues this tutorial series looking atthe use of his JSON# Library for serialisation of non-trivial objects.
• Modularizing TypeScript + RequireJS + AngularJS + OWIN (WebAPI + FileServer) – Andrei Macarie shares a look at using RequireJS and WebAPI hosted in OWIN to modularise a TypeScript based AngularJS application
• Roslyn Code Analysis in Easy Samples (Part 1) – Nick Polyak shares sample code for performing code analysis using Roslyn, and how it can be included in a Visual Studio Extension to provide useful functionality in the IDE.

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