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• Bundling, minification and client-side compilation – Mads Kristensen shares two new Visual Studio extensions born out of the Web Essentials project, and is looking for people to test them against Visual Studio 2015. The Extensions provide features for compiling LESS / Sass and CoffeeScript and bundling and minification.
• What’s new in Babylon.js v2.1 – David shares the details of what is new in Babylon 2.1, the team’s most community based release to date

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• Action filters, service filters and type filters in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 – Filip W takes a look at the use of Filters in ASP.NET MVC 6 / ASP.NET 5, exploring the advantages and new features over and above the classic MVC and Web API filter pipelines
• Little Puzzlers – Fun With Random Number Generators – James Michael Hare sets another of his ‘Little Puzzlers’ with two problems based on expanding and narrowing random number generation
• Restival Part 4: Hello, World – Is It Me You’;re Looking For? – Dylan Beattie continues his series of posts looking at REST frameworks, moving on to discuss real world problem solving, and outlining the problem space he is going to use for the sample application.
• Interviewing candidates – Eric Lippert shares more thoughts on interviewing candidates, and the structure of Technical Interviews
• An easy way to use StackExchange.Redis – Ugo Lattanzi takes a look at using Redis from .NET Code using the StackExchange.Redis library, looking at the features it provides and showing some code samples of it in action.
• Using HDInsight & Storm to process 100 million events – Benny Michielsen takes a look at big data processing using the Azure HDInsight (Hadoop as PaaS) and the Storm Computation system to process streams of data.
• An End-to-End AngularJS Guide – Jeremy Likness brings together a collection of blog posts from the last couple of years looking at AngularJS Development.
• Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – June 2015 – The Premier Developer Blog highlights their many training and knowledge transfer events being held online in June.
• FOR JSON clause in SQL Server 2016 CTP2 – Jovan Popovic takes a look at the native JSON support in the SQL Server 2016 CTP2 release.

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