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- ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1 – Pranav Rastogi announces the release of ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1, a release which addresses issues reported in the 2.2.0 release
- Happy 10th Birthday Git! – Chris Missal and Ryan Rauh highlight and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first Git commit of Git.
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- What’s new in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6? – ‘Dev Tools Guy’ over on the Infragistics Blog shares a look at the new and exciting features of the .NET Framework 4.6
- Aurelia Hello World with ASP.NET 5 – K.Scott Allen kicks off a series of posts on Aurelia with a look at getting up and running with Aurelia in an ASP.NET 5 application
- Clean Tests: Database Persistence – Jimmy Bogard continues his series looking at writing clean tests with a look at writing tests against code which uses database persistence, and strategies for wirting good tests in this situation.
- Unit testing with Dates – Jerrie Pelser discusses strategies for working with dates in unit tests, including structuring code to pass dates in, expose system clock as a service and using libraries like Noda Time.
- Moment is quickly becoming my new jQuery! – Remy Sharp highlights Moment, a library which helps deal with dates in JavaScript code
- Fail fast when the cloud fails you – Troy Hunt discusses the dangers of retries when something goes wrong (in his case Azure SQL Databases going down in his region)
- CQRS revisited – Gabriel Schenker discusses the benefits of the Command Query Responsibility Segregation Pattern, giving an overview of its use and the benefits it provides in complex line of business applications.
- Little Puzzlers – Largest Puddle on a Bar Chart – James Michael Hare shares another ‘Little Puzzler’ to do with gathering water in the troughs created in a bar chart
- Solving puzzles at 30,000 feet [An iterative solution for the ‘Is this a binary search tree?’ programming problem] – David Anson shares his iterative solution to one of James Michael Hare’s previous puzzles regarding binary search trees.