Backward compatibility pain – Jon Skeet discusses the difficulties of backwards compatibility illustrating with three items from .NET 4.6 where there are breakages in backwards compatibility or bugs which are not being fixed to preserve backward compatibility
Clean Tests: Isolating the Database – Jimmy Bogard continues his series on clean tests discussing the use of his Respawn tooling to help isolate the database to allow you to get clean tests of functionality which uses the database
Securing Your Logins With ASP.Net MVC – Garry Pilkington kicks off a two part series looking at the different ways of securing ASP.NET applications, starting off with a look at login in MVC in this post.
BeckDesignRules – Martin Fowler highlights four simple rules from Kent Beck which will improve your code. Beck developed these rules as a part of his work defining Extreme programming in the 1990s but they are still as relavent now as ever.
Service Bus Explorer 2.6 now available! – Paolo Salvatori announces the release of Service Bus Explorer 2.6 updated to use Microsoft.ServiceBus.dll 2.5.3.0, intended for use with Service Bus instances hosted in the cloud.
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DDDSW 6 Sponsorship – The fantastic DeveloperDeveloperDeverloper South West conference is under threat for this year due to a lack of sponsorship – if you know of or work for a company who would be willing to help out, please get in touch with the organisers
