.NET
PSA: There is an interesting discussion going on regarding the state
of OSS in the .NET community.
Perception is Reality – .Net OSS is DOA by Amir Rajan
Perception is Reality – .NET OSS Is Getting Better by Moi
Perception is Reality–The state of OSS in .NET by Jimmy Bogard
Reality is an Illusion – .NET OSS is hard by Mark Rendle
Visual Studio Automation With Leap Motion
Web Publish – How to Automate Multi-project Publish with File System
Glenn Block is leaving Microsoft
Microsoft Virtual Academy – Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications Jump Start
Test styles and avoiding setup/teardown
Instant Nancy Web Development – Book Review
Getting Started with Microsft Big Data
Immutable collections ready for prime time
Microsoft’s Mobile Platforms Suffer From Flagging Developer Interest
A quick refresher on x++ and ++x (C# version)
Introducing Microsoft Monitoring Agent
Unit Testing Improvements in ASP.NET Web API
Attribute Routing changes for ASP.NET Web Stack shipped in VS2013 RC
ADO.NET Entity Framework : Executing TSQL and DbContext under same Transaction
JavaScript
How Complex are TodoMVC Implementations
Webstorm 7 Has Been Released
Remember: Webstorm has moved to a subscription model so this is a free
upgrade for anyone who has paid in the past year.
Consuming REST APIs with Restangular
Ruby
Ruby on Rails 2.0 – 4.0 vulnerable to account hijacks
Are Ruby conferences taking us in the wrong direction?
Building a Platform API on Rails
Community / Engineering / Architecture
Lessions Learned in a Year of Freelancing
Agile is NOT a set of practices
References for “The Future of Programming”
REST / APIs / HTTP
The Secret to RESTful Services is RESTful Clients
API Providers: Build a Twilio-like Request Inspector in One Day with Runscope Embeds
Virtualization / Cloud
Docker: Using Linux Containers to Support Portable Application Deployment
Cloud PCI Compliance: The Checklist
SQL Server VM Disaster Recovery Between Azure and Amazon
How to Migrate an On-Premises SQL Server 2012 Database to Windows Azure SQL Database
Editors / IDEs
Fun
BeebSID – C64 SID chip for the BBC Micro in ‘The Internet’ case