So the weekend is already there.

If you missed it, don’t forget my post on SideWaffle. It’s a Visual Studio Extension that ships with lots of Open Source templates including templates to building templates (INCEPTION!).

Otherwise, have a good weekend and enjoy!

Must Read

Scott Hanselman’s Complete List of Productivity Tips - Scott Hanselman (www.hanselman.com)

Troy Hunt: The prophesied Windows XP and IE 8 crisis is nigh! (unless you’re in China) (www.troyhunt.com)

Web Development

JavaScript Frameworks | How to Learn Them Quickly | Funny Ant (www.funnyant.com)

By Value Versus by Reference (JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition) (docstore.mik.ua)

Critical render path and pagespeed: An in-depth look (www.feedthebot.com)

Using Bower and NancyFx together | Krzysztof Koźmic on software (kozmic.net)

ASP.NET

IIS and ASP.Net Authentication and Authorization - CodeProject (www.codeproject.com)

OWIN security components in ASP.NET: OpenID Connect! (blogs.msdn.com)

.NET

Task.Run vs Task.Factory.StartNew (blogs.msdn.com)

Get rid of deep null checks (geekswithblogs.net)

Nico’s digital footprint | Building a REST API and consuming it in WP8 (www.spikie.be)

Architecture and Methodology

So Long Scrum, Hello Kanban - Stormpath User Management API (www.stormpath.com)

Deployment

Octopus Deploy vs. Puppet/Chef - Octopus Deploy (octopusdeploy.com)

Search Engines (Solr, ElasticSearch, etc.)

How To Install Elasticsearch on an Ubuntu VPS | DigitalOcean (www.digitalocean.com)

Think Big | Solr vs ElasticSearch (thinkbiganalytics.com)