DevMavens

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n.  A person who has special knowledge or experience;
an expert.

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n.  An expert developer with great influence.

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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 24 May 2013 09:00

Raven Xyz: Trying out some ideasSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....One of the things that we are planning for Raven 3.0 is the introducing of additional options. In addition to having RavenDB, we will also have RavenFS, which is a replicated file system with an eye toward very large files. But that isn’t what I..."
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Raven Xyz: Trying out some ideas
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 24 May 2013 04:20

JavaScript is Web Assembly Language and that's OK.Subscribe to Scott Hanselman's Blog

Scott Hanselman writes "....Some years ago I said that JavaScript is the Assembly Language of the Web. In fact, lots of people said it, because it's true. Later, some folks disagreed, saying that this is an inaccurate analogy. Of course, it is inaccurate because it's an..."
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JavaScript is Web Assembly Language and that's OK.
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 24 May 2013 03:05

Reviews of Super Weird Mice:The Microsoft Arc Touch and Wedge MouseSubscribe to Scott Hanselman's Blog

Scott Hanselman writes "....I'm always on the lookout for the perfect mouse. I don't think it exists, yet, frankly, but we're getting close. I've got two notebook mice I'm bouncing between while using my new ultrabook, the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch. I'm using the Microsoft Arc..."
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Reviews of Super Weird Mice:The Microsoft Arc Touch and Wedge Mouse
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Dave Ward | Encosia | 23 May 2013 15:00

My favorite alternative to JavaScript’s switch statementSubscribe to Encosia

Dave Ward writes "....One of my least favorite parts of nearly every programming language I’ve spent much time with has been the ubiquitous switch statement. Though it does serve a useful purpose in some compiled languages, I think switch is a clunky eyesore in..."
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My favorite alternative to JavaScript’s switch statement
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Scott Guthrie | ScottGu's Blog | 23 May 2013 14:42

Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service BusSubscribe to ScottGu's Blog

Scott Guthrie writes "....For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech vendors, including Red Hat and VMware, and..."
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Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 23 May 2013 09:00

And that is why I wrote my own db…Subscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 23 May 2013 08:13

RavenDB Dynamic Aggregation WebinarSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

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Steve Smith | Blog | 23 May 2013 00:21

Walking While WorkingSubscribe to Blog

Steve Smith writes "....Staying in shape as a programmer can be difficult, but recent studies have shown that even if you’re among those in our profession who do work out regularly, sitting for long periods of time at work is detrimental to your health.  To be a..."
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Walking While Working
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Rick Strahl | Rick Strahl's Web Log | 22 May 2013 12:23

A first look at SignalRSubscribe to Rick Strahl's Web Log

Rick Strahl writes "....SignalR is the latest in a long string of new technologies pouring out from the ASP.NET team recently, when Microsoft rolled out version 1.0 of SignalR when Visual Studio Update 2 was announced.  In a nutshell, SignalR is technology for .NET..."
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A first look at SignalR
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 22 May 2013 09:00

Rhino Mocks' futureSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Well, it seems like Rhino Mocks has a new daddy . In particular, Mike Meisinger has kindly agreed to take the project as the project lead. You can discuss all about this in the mailing list for Rhino Mocks, or hear more about Mike’s plans, visit his..."
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Rhino Mocks' future
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Featured Maven

Scott Guthrie is a Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division. He runs the development teams that build the following products/technologies:

  • CLR and the core .NET Base Class Libraries
  • ASP.NET
  • Silverlight
  • WPF
  • IIS 7.0
  • Visual Studio Tools for ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) Sometimes people ask me why I'm not on Facebook or G+. I was already an AOL user once, why would I do that again? http://t.co/ncbuusrx 227 days ago from web


Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @fmanjoo no child, even my own, is enough to get me on Facebook. I'll go to my grave without an account. I'm Just Not That Into Zuckerberg. 227 days ago from web


Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @fmanjoo I don't have a Facebook account, no plans to start one. Or G+ for that matter. But, I do watch TV! Well, downloaded TV. Sort of. 227 days ago from web


Jeff Atwood (codinghorror)

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @fmanjoo looks like "log in - Facebook" to me 227 days ago from web


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Julia Gillard's Speech Over Opposition's Sexism, Misogyny: http://t.co/696ULgfy via @youtube 227 days ago from Tweet Button


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) Ha! http://t.co/ofThpizS 227 days ago from TweetDeck


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @wwahammy This is as if Creative Commons was preventing you from using Photoshop. 227 days ago from TweetDeck


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @wwahammy http://t.co/9Sf85PXD "CAD files must be provided, it must use formats unencumbered by closed licenses" 227 days ago from TweetDeck


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @wwahammy It's the case with lots of things the FSF does. I appreciate some of what they do for freedom of speech but man they're extreme. 227 days ago from TweetDeck


Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy)

Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy) @wwahammy It's according to http://t.co/QAdf1k2y 227 days ago from TweetDeck