Community Update 2014-04-29 – #nodejs, #elasticsearch, #javascript, #tdd, #sass and #owin

 

Must Read

Programming Sucks (stilldrinking.org) – Funny article of a guy that has probably drank too much Scotch. Funny. Last paragraph is worth it.

On the future of Web publishing in Unity – Unity Technologies Blog (blogs.unity3d.com)

Contract Killer Stuff & Nonsense (stuffandnonsense.co.uk)

Full Stack JavaScript: Backbone, Node, Express & More | Toptal (www.toptal.com)

Web Development

Check HTTP Byte Range Request Header With NodeJS And ExpressJS (derickbailey.com)

Velocity.js (julian.com)

DRY-ing Out Your Sass Mixins · An A List Apart Article (alistapart.com)

StrongLoop | Comparing Express, Restify, hapi and LoopBack for building RESTful APIs (strongloop.com)

Test Driven Development and CI using JavaScript [Part II] | Load Impact Blog on WordPress.com (blog.loadimpact.com)

Understanding Javascript Promises (openmymind.net)

.NET

Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool (blogs.msdn.com)

Executing PowerShell scripts from C# (blogs.msdn.com)

Calling Stored Procedures from Entity Framework – Visual Studio Magazine (visualstudiomagazine.com)

Domain modeling with Entity Framework scorecard | Jimmy Bogard’s Blog (lostechies.com)

ASP.NET

OWIN and Katana are awesome (www.ruben-j.com)

How to configure Custom Membership and Role Provider using ASP.NET MVC4 | Gora LEYE sur WordPress.com (logcorner.wordpress.com)

Westwind Application Configuration Updates - Rick Strahl’s Web Log (weblog.west-wind.com)

Use OWIN & Azure AD to Secure Both MVC UX and Web API in The Same Project | CloudIdentity (www.cloudidentity.com)

Use the OWIN Security Components in ASP.NET to Implement Web Sign On with ADFS | CloudIdentity (www.cloudidentity.com)

Building Enterprise Side-loaded apps with OWIN (blogs.u2u.be)

Search Engine

Elasticsearch.org Resiliency And Elasticsearch | Blog | Elasticsearch (www.elasticsearch.org)

Elasticsearch.org Where Is The World Is Elasticsearch? | Blog | Elasticsearch (www.elasticsearch.org)

Elasticsearch.org DRY - Keeping Search Requests Short | Blog | Elasticsearch (www.elasticsearch.org)

Parametrizing queries in Solr and Elasticsearch | Sematext Blog on WordPress.com (blog.sematext.com)