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• Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 1 is available – Brian Harry highlights the release of the TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 1 and VS 2015 Update 2 CTP1, focusing on the announcement of the TFS 2015 Update 2 RC1
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP – Similarly John Montgomery shares a look at the improvements included in the CTP for Update 2 of Visual Studio 2015 over on the Visual Studio blog.

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• You suck at TDD #3 – On Design sensitivity and improvement – Eric Gunnerson discusses the levels of ignorance and applies them to developers experiences and system/software design
• New Features and Improvements in Marten 0.7 – Jeremy D Miller announces the release of Marten v0.7, and discusses the roadmap for future developments
• Master The Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy On Video! Waaaat!? – Jaime González García shares a first video to support his JavaScript series of posts, based upon his usergroup presentations on the subject.
• ServiceStack and Razor Forms – Patrick Steele takes a look at using Service Stack with Razor views to implement a full web application in this Visual Studio Magazine article
• Encrypted JavaScript in ASP.NET MVC Core – Ricardo Peres discusses the use of Data URLs to inline scripts, and how that process provides some level of obfuscation
• Readability matters – Ayende discusses the importance of code readability, and how the modern compilers help us out in many cases meaning that the more readable version is not any more expensive than a manually optimised version
• Easy "PureComponent" React performance boosts for Bridge.Net – Dan Roberts discusses the performance of React based components and how you can improve performance, and shares a look at how he has implemented support for this into his Bridge.React bindings for use with the Bridge.NET c# to JavaScript compiler
• Software Development Book Giveaway! – Cycligent are giving away three (good) books – entry is via mailing list signup

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