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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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• Event Sourcing applied – the Aggregate – Gabriel Schenker follows on from discussions of Event Sourcing as an architectural pattern with a look at how it is represented in a business domain
• C#: How to Record What Gets Written to or Read From a Stream – Mike Hadlow takes a look at working with streams in C#, looking at how you work with them, and how they can be wrapped to add useful capabilities.
• How to enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in IIS7+ – Scott Hanselman discusses HTTP Strict Transport Security, its use in keeping users on SSL Secured versions of sites, and how to implement it on IIS 7 and beyond.
• ChessTDD 37: Cleaning Up and Implementing Rook – Erik Dietrich continues his series looking first hand a Test Driven Development processes building out a Chess Game in live coding videos. This part looks at implementing the Rook piece and its acceptance tests, as well as addressing some bugs found.
• [ASP.NET 5] Production Ready Web Server on Linux. Kestrel + nginx – ‘Druss’ takes a look at fronting the ASP.NET Kestral Development Server on Linux with an Nginx proxy to allow it to serve a site to the outside world.
• What does a good agile environment give you? – Nathan Gloyn continues his discussion of agile, looking at the advantages that a true good agile environment brings to the development process
• Making the Case for using F# with Tomas Petricek,Domain Modeling in F# with Tomas Petricek, Type Providers in F# with Tomas Petricek & Deploying an F# Web Application with Suave – Seth Juarez is joined by Tomas Petricek in a series of 4 video interviews discussing the use of F# to develop software, how to do domain modelling in F#, the use of Type Providers, and building dynamic web applications using F#.
• Developing in TypeScript on a Mac with Sublime – Jonathan Turner shares a look at working with TypeScript on the Mac using Sublline, discussing packages needed, working in the editor and debugging.

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• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Null Conditional Operator in C# 6 – James Michael Hare
• It’s not magic – Eric Lippert
• Returning 403 or 404 – that is the question – Cellfish
• What is the Service Bus for Windows Server? – Herve Roggero
• What’s the deal with Windows 10 for the Non-Technical Friend – Scott Hanselman
• Understand how bitwise operators work (C# and VB.NET examples) – ‘ProgramFOX’
• A Non-Trivial Example of MediatR Usage – Bobby Johnson
• Getting Started With Always Encrypted – SQL Server Security – Raul Garcia
• Azure App Service: Logic Apps – mertunan

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