Update: So, the numbering slipped, and this post was incorrectly labelled as 1843 when it should have been 1844 – I’ve corrected the number but the links will remain
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- Announcing Azure Service Fabric: Reducing Complexity in a Hyper-scale World – Mark Russinovich announces the launch of Azure Service Fabric, a new cloud services platform which enables the building of mission critical cloud applications, and is the underpining of services like Azure SQL, DocumentDB, Bing Cortana and Skype for Business.
- Azure Service Fabric Announced – David Hardin also discusses the announcement of Azure Service Fabric
- General Availability of CodeLens in Visual Studio Online – Mathew Aniyan highlights the inclusion of CodeLens in the Visual Studio Online service offering, giving insight into your code right from the IDE
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- Long division, part two – Eric Lippert picks up a theme from a post from several years ago, and looks at why the compiler gives an error when rounding a division of an integer by another number, discussing how the underlying problem is often missed by developers.
- Little Puzzlers – Largest Square of ‘1’s in a Matrix – James Michael Hare sets another of his little puzzlers, this time about identifying a efficient (performance wise) way of finding the largest square of 1’s inside a matrix
- Using Basic Authentication in ASP.NET WebAPI – Robert Muehsig takes a look at using Basic Authenticiation to protect a Web API based API, giving an overview of the theory and looking at its implementation with the Web API using Attributes
- Using RequireJS with Visual Studio – Jordan Matthiesen shows how you can make use o Require.js to modularise your JavaScript applications while still getting good support from the Visual Studio IDE.
- Parsing command line arguments with F# – Jef Claes takes a look at parsing of command line arguments in F# to allow him to port one of his first Node.js applications to F#
- Rx Challenge #6 Solution – Bnaya Eshet shares his solution for his 6th Reactive Challenge, making use of a WeakObserver to weaken the reference to the subscriber.
- Visual Studio 2013 continuously repairs producing many small log files – Heath Stewart highlights a work around for an annoying issue with Visual Studio generating many 10’s of Gigabytes of MSI log files in the Temp Directory – I’m experiencing this issue so hopefully this workaround will solve my problems.