Community Update for 2014-03-14 – #webdevelopment, #tdd, #rest, #dotnet, #aspnet, and much more

So last community update before the weekend! How was your week?

So this time around, yet another batch of awesome links for you! Before I let you enjoy your weekend, I want to mention the following:

Pranav Rastogi is looking for people who want to help out with the development and/or suggest things for the new Identity framework for ASP.NET. Go on Github to see what it’s all about.

Enjoy your weekend!

Web Development

Responsive & Accessible Data Table - CodePen (codepen.io)

Responsive Web Design Patterns | This Is Responsive (bradfrost.github.io)

Preserving Important Comments in Bundling and Minification (mikesmithdev.com)

Don’t Be a Jerk. Optimize Your Site. | Alan Crissey (alancrissey.com)

TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks (www.techempower.com) – This is the performance of webstacks on all OS/frameworks over delivering plaintext to your browser. ASP.NET still has a long way to go but we’re getting there.

ColorPicker - Packages - Package Control (sublime.wbond.net)

Architecture and Testing

What TDD Is and Is Not | DaedTech (www.daedtech.com)

Microservices (martinfowler.com) – Yep! Some more Microservices content!

REST is OVER! - Literate Programming (blog.steveklabnik.com)

.NET & ASP.NET

Back to Basics: Assert your assumptions and diff your source code - Scott Hanselman (www.hanselman.com)

Easy Background Tasks in ASP.NET « Blog – Stack Exchange (blog.stackoverflow.com)

Delegate-based strongly-typed URL generation in ASP.NET MVC (maxtoroq.blogspot.ae)

Information about ASP.NET Identity & Security (gist.github.com)

Where’s the ESB? (channel9.msdn.com)

Azure Identity 103 - Vittorio creates an application that will authenticate against Active Directory (channel9.msdn.com)

Migrate away from MSBuild-based NuGet package restore - xavierdecoster.com (xavierdecoster.com)

Visual Studio

8 Visual Studio debugging tips – debug like a boss » DamienG (damieng.com)

Windows Azure

Troy Hunt: The World’s Greatest Azure Demo (www.troyhunt.com)

Search Engines (Solr, ElasticSearch, etc.)

Dev Time: Building a Navigation from a Search Index (blog.florian-hopf.de)

Elasticsearch.org 1.0.1 | Elasticsearch (www.elasticsearch.org)

Nuget Packages

Release 1.1.0 · stefanprodan/WebApiThrottle · GitHub (github.com) – Tools that allow you to throttle your WebAPI