[Announcement] OData Web API 5.4 RC – The OData Web API announce the release of their Release Candidate of the OData Web API 5.4 featuring a number of new features including Date-time and case insensitivity support
Announcing Azure Preview Portal Improvements – Leon Welicki shares news of the latest update to the Azure Preview Portal, introducing a new Essentials Panel, improving the resources blades and also general UI improvements.
Clean event handler invocation with C# 6 – Jon Skeet discusses some of the complexities of Event Handling code, and how C# 6 features make it easier to call event handlers, along with a discussion of Thread Safety
Clean Tests: A Primer – Jimmy Bogard discusses how his testing practices have evolved over time and been informed by working with long lived code bases, discussing his current framework of choice for testing.
Aurelia – Day one – ‘byteflux’ shares some more initial thoughts on Aurelia, and discusses tooling for working with ECMAScript 6 code.
Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 – Blake Williams takes a look at migrating from CoffeeScript to pure ECMAScript 6 code, using the 6to5 project to transpile the ECMAScript 6 down to ES5 for execution.
Azure VM Blues: Fighting a losing Performance Battle – Rick Strahl discusses making the switch from physical hosted server to the Azure Platform, discussing some concerning performance in comparison – be sure to check out the comments for some good discussions and suggestions as to why the performance is the way it is.
Challenge: How many memory leaks can you find? – Rainer Stropek shares a memory leaking sample application and asks ‘how many leaks can you find’ before digging down into how to use tooling like ANTS Profiler to identify memory leaks in your applications.