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The Land of 10,000 Links #89

HTTP APIs / REST

Five Reasons to Consider Linking in Your HTTP APIs

RESTful Web Services Framework Jersey 2.0 Released, Implementing JAX-RS 2.0 Specification

Your API Consumers Aren’t Who You Think They Are

MailChimp’s API, V2

Don’t Make Second Class APIs

Traffic and Weather Podcast Episode 13: “1-800-I-LOVE-BRAND-NEW-CARPETING”

.NET

Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview

NET 4.5.1 Is Bigger Than It Appears

Announcing a pre-release of F# 3.1 and the Visual F# tools in Visual Studio 2013

EF and Visual Studio 2013 Preview

Welcome. Sign in to Visual Studio.

Durable Task Framework (Preview) with Azure Service Bus

ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Release Notes

Code Information Indicators in Visual Studio 2013

Windows 8.1 Preview Product Guide for Developers

Introducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications

Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview and the refresh update

Is using OData\IQueryable in your Web API an inherently bad thing?

The RavenDB Indexing Process

Please Welcome ImmutableArray<T>

IHttpActionResult – new way of creating responses in ASP.NET Web API 2

Thoughts on Build 2013

Ruby

Rails 4 Released: Faster Pages With Turbolinks

What’s New and Awesome in Ruby 2?

Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 final

We Retire 1.8.7

Operating Systems

The best tip for using the Windows 8.1 Start button

Windows 8.1 Tip: Show More Tiles

A Week With OS X Mavericks

JavaScript

Callback Hell

Advanced Unit Testing Techniques in JavaScript

TypeScript 0.9 Generics: What? And How to use them

Cloud

Netflix unleash Genie, a Hadoop Platform-as-a-Service

Building Blocks of Great Cloud Applications

Software Engineering / Craftsmanship

Recruiter Spam

Procedural Polymorphism

Video Games

Asheron’s Call 2 prepares quality-of-life update

Avellone: Kickstarter has reignited publisher interest in RPGs

EA refocusing Origin to ‘service gamers better’

Beamdog Hoping For Baldur’s Gate III Despite ‘Legal Hell’

Table-top Gaming

11 Ways to be a Better Roleplayer

The 15 Best D&D Modules of All Time

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