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"One of the scenarios that I always demonstrate during an ASP.NET MVC class is how to create a mass assignment vulnerability and then execute an over-posting attack."

"This is going to be the first post in a new series that I'm doing on design patterns. [..] So, my idea here is to relate the design patterns in the context of a story rather than a stuffy-sounding taxonomy. Why do people do this? What problem does it solve? Why is my code potentially worse if I don't do this?"

"If you're afraid to look at your To-Do list, it's not working.  Your To-Do list should inspire you. One of the things that happens a lot with To-Do lists is they can get overwhelming.  It's easy to pile on more things.  Eventually, you're afraid to even look at your To-Do list.   What once started out as a great list of things to make happen, has now became a laundry list of things that hurts more than it helps."

"Let's look at this implementation through the lens of the Rule of Modularity. The above code fails the "simple parts, clean interfaces" sniff test."

"We've been working with, building, and evangelising message queues for the last year, and it's no secret that we think they're awesome. We believe message queues are a vital component to any architecture or application, and here are ten reasons why:"

Which is faster, QueryLightBulbFrobStatusEx() or __WGetBulbFrobberState2()? Hold it right there, buddy. Before answering that question I must give you my standard six-part rant about why I probably cannot sensibly answer questions that begin "which is faster".

If you are using the Entity Framework (EF), then you need to understand the best practices for improving its performance, or you will suffer the consequences!

Here's a short overview of four major user interface patterns in their original form, put together and illustrated. A bit of information is added to patterns (with notes to highlight these additions) to show a slightly different viewpoint and different ideas.

Having trouble getting into the Moq? Take a look at the examples found here.

"While Scrum's primary goal is organization and project management, Lean is more about optimizing processes in order to quickly produce quality products. It can be your first step toward adopting Agile principles, or it may be something that your team evolves to, when Scrum isn't enough. I invite you to read my team's story, and how we evolved from Scrum to a more Lean-ish development process."

A popular saying goes that programmers are machines that turn caffeine into code. And sure enough, ask a random programmer when they do their best work and there's a high chance they will admit to a lot of late nights. Some earlier, some later. A popular trend is to get up at 4am and get some work done before the day's craziness begins. Others like going to bed at 4am. At the gist of all this is avoiding distractions. But you could just lock the door, what's so special about the night? Read more: http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/3198#ixzz2q7HdMxaZ

"Today, we're on the brink of a new digital paradigm, where the capabilities of our technology are beginning to outstrip our own.  Computers are deciding which products to stock on shelves, doing legal research and even winning game shows.  They will soon be driving our cars and making medical diagnoses.  Here are five trends that are driving it all."

"If you were to look at a .Net project that I told you strictly followed SOLID principles, what would expect to see in terms of the project and code structure ?"

"Actually, I don't think defensive coding necessarily is better; I also don't think it's worse. As usual, there are different forces in play, so the short answer is the usual: it depends."

"Puzzled about why Google closes successful products such as Reader while backing others such as self-driving cars? A former Apple and Palm executive explains"

This article takes a closer than normal look at everyone's favourite data structure - the .NET dictionary. There are quite a lot of different dictionaries classes in .NET these days, so I'm going to explore how they work, what their differences are and where to use them.

At the 2013 Game Developers' Conference, Alon and I from Mozilla and Josh Adams from Epic Games presented a talk called "Fast and Awesome HTML5 Games". We surprised people by showing off Unreal Engine 3 running in Firefox - compiled from C++ source with Emscripten, running smoothly and efficiently.

For all proper nerds!