The future assets will be released under Apache 2.0 license. Importantly, we will continue to staff the project by the same Microsoft developers who build it today, and continue supporting it through the same mechanisms (a dedicated sustained engineering team and Premier Support).

WHY

The potential benefits for accepting community contributions are as follows:

• EntLib is a high-profile project with over 4M cumulative downloads and a huge user community. Making a contribution to something of this reach would be used by many thousands of people. This is quite an achievement !!!
• Development in the open, collaboration with Microsoft dev team and the ability to influence the direction of the project.
• More rapid code and guidance evolution.
• Better project decisions due to diversity.
• Bolstering your CV and proving your competencies.

ANNOUNCEMENT

• aka.ms/entlibopen
• Also, see the amplified message by MS Open Tech.

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Co-founder with PHP Developer Experience, Did you know?

• Azure Web Sites run PHP by default.
• Azure Web Sites can be launched with WordPress, Joomla, MediaWiki, CakePHP, and Drupal pre-installed.
• On Windows PHP developers can use the free yet fully functional WebMatrix IDE to edit PHP, HTML, and JavaScript.
• All of Azure’s primary services and storage API’s have PHP libraries.
• The Azure developer portal has a landing page specifically for PHP developers.
• Windows Azure runs MySQL. Azure subscriptions get one free MySQL Database.
• PHP developers can use their $150 per month Azure benefit to run production web sites built in PHP and run them as Azure Websites, or Virtual Machines running Windows or Linux.
• Example: A Startup can run its blog on WordPress, its developer portal on MediaWiki, and host a custom PHP mobile API using the Azure benefit.

Co-founder enthusiastic about cutting edge frameworks, web sockets, and JavaScript, Did you know?

• Azure Web Sites run Node.js and have the Node executable pre-installed and ready to use.
• Azure’s own mobile services are built on Node.js, and custom event coding in Azure Mobile Services uses Node.js style JavaScript.
• Azure’s own command line tools are delivered as Node.js packages ( % npm –i –g azure-cli ) allowing them to run on iOS, Linux and Windows.
• The $150 Azure benefit is more than enough to run 10 Node.js web sites 24/7 (Azure Web Site in Standard mode, with custom domain mapping).
• Node.js may also be run on Azure Web Roles, Azure Windows VM, or an Azure Linux VM.
• All of Azure’s primary services and storage API’s have Node.js libraries.
• The Azure developer portal has a landing page specifically for Node.js developers.
• Azure Web Sites support GIT publishing, either from github or a local repository.

Startup develops iOS Games and supported with JSON api’s

• Azure Mobile Services are JSON based.
• The $150 Azure Benefit would pay for more than 50GB of SQL data stored behind your mobile services api.
• Azure Mobile Services support the iOS notification service.

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TechBooks is a handy Windows 8.1 app that brings all the freely available MSDN and Patterns & Practices technical eBooks, in one place for your reading pleasure (online or offline). App is all about the technical content (ebooks) one can leverage to enhance skill sets.

App has the following features.

• Uses Windows 8.1’s new HubControl and template.
• Uses new Windows 8.1 PDF related API’s.
• Includes standard stuff – appbar, semantic zoom, pin-to-start, fly outs, caching books for offline use, and basic bookmarking capability.
• Includes privacy policy, about, support using new Windows 8.1 settings related FlyOut controls. - required for all apps.
• FilePicker functionality to save the book wherever the user desires.

Check it out!

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• Step 1: Understanding your goals
• Step 2: Planning and marketing your event
• Step 3: Preparing for the big day
• Step 4: The day of the event
• Step 5: Post-event follow-up

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Following with the launch of VS2013 ASP.NET a slew of frameworks were also updated and made available for general download.

Some of the changes include:

- MVC 5:

• Identity – updated to use ASP.Net identity for authentication and identity management.
• Bootstrap – provides a customizable sleek and responsive look and feel.
• Authentication filters – a new kind of authentication filter which allows per-action/controller or globally
• Filter Overrides – override which filters apply to a given action/method/controller

- MVC Web API 2:

• Attribute Routing – ability to have both HTTP verb and action based routing
• OAuth 2.0 – new authorization framework now supported.
• OData Improvements – support for $select, $expand, $batch, and $value
• Request Batching – combines multiple operations into a single HTTP POST request
• Portable ASP.NET Web API Client – create PCL’s that work across Windows and Windows 8 apps.
• Improved Testability – no more bootstrapping, etc…
• IHttpActionResult – encapsulates the result of Web API action methods.
• HttpRequestContext – tracks any state that is tied to the request but is not immediately available.
• CORS – full support for Cross Origin Request Sharing
• OWIN Integration – can be run on any OWIN capable host

- Web Forms:

• One ASP.NET – integrate seamlessly with the new One ASP.NET experience

- Authentication / OWIN and Katana: decouples the web application from the server, making web applications host-agnostic

• New server and host components
• Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener –uses HttpListener to listen for HTTP requests and direct them into the OWIN pipeline.
• Microsoft.Owin.Hosting – self-host an OWIN pipeline in a custom process, such as a console application or Windows service.
• OwinHost – self-host an OWIN pipeline without having to write a custom host application
• New helper libraries and middleware – the new Microsoft.Owin package provides a more user-friendly set of abstractions (e.g., Owin.Extensions, Owin.Types)
  
• New authentication middleware
• Microsoft.Owin.Security.ActiveDirectory – authentication using on-premise or cloud-based directory services.
• Microsoft.Owin.Security.Cookies – authentication using cookies. This package was previously named Microsoft.Owin.Security.Forms.
• Microsoft.Owin.Security.Facebook – authentication using Facebook’s OAuth-based service.
• Microsoft.Owin.Security.Google –  authentication using Google’s OpenID-based service.
• Microsoft.Owin.Security.Jwt –  authentication using JWT tokens.
• Microsoft.Owin.Security.MicrosoftAccount – authentication using Microsoft accounts.
• Microsoft.Owin.Security.OAuth – Provides an OAuth authorization server as well as middleware for authenticating bearer tokens.
• Microsoft.Owin.Security.Twitter – authentication using Twitter’s OAuth-based service.

- Scaffolding: Scaffolding is a code generation framework for ASP.NET Web applications. It makes it easy to add boileplate code to your project that interacts with a data model.

Checkout all of the latest bits here -> https://www.asp.net/vnext/overview

Release Notes -> https://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/release-notes#TOC11

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• MongoDB on Windows Azure for .NET Developers
• Connecting MongoDB with ASP.NET

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• Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition (second preview) [16.4 MB PDF; 12 chapters & 3 appendices; 750 pages]
• Companion content for the Second Edition (second edition) [132 MB ZIP; code samples, plus 20 videos]

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The official record of FIPS 140-2 validation certificates is kept at the NIST CMVP website. Here is the full list of certificates (the links are correct but you may get some errors when trying to open them, please retry):

• Kernel Mode Cryptographic Primitives Library (CNG.SYS)
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1891
• Cryptographic Primitives Library (BCRYPTPRIMITIVES.DLL)
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1892
• Enhanced DSS and Diffie-Hellman Cryptographic Provider (DSSENH.DLL)
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1893
• Enhanced Cryptographic Provider (RSAENH.DLL)
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1894
• Boot Manager
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1895
• BitLocker® Windows OS Loader (WINLOAD)
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1896
• Code Integrity (CI.DLL)
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1897
• BitLocker® Windows Resume (WINRESUME)
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1898
• BitLocker® Dump Filter (DUMPFVE.SYS)
• https://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val2013.htm#1899

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1. Robotics – The idea of robots working at DMV is well… maybe a welcome innovation for many citizens but to be fair my local DMV has improved 100 fold.
   • “The sense of a robot going around doing a task — we’ll see some of that, but I think we’ll see it be less overt,” Reichental said. “The mechanics and intelligence will be built into everyday tasks.”
2. 3-D Printing – everybody is doing 3-D Printing now a days, I wonder if the feds will soon start printing 3-D currency soon – well they are 3-D Printing already
   • “The federal government uses 3-D printing to keep manufacturing in-house and shorten the production cycle. A concept conceived by an engineer in the morning can be held in the hand after lunch.”
3. Online Electric Vehicles – This technology has been available for decades the question really is why was it used 10 years ago… oh wait… petroleum, I forgot!
   • Here is dumb idea: “embedded charging infrastructure under the roads” – yeah lets rip all the highways and implant charging devices! NOT! How about the skin for our cards collecting solar energy, sensors converting engine heat into electricity.
4. Remote Sensors – This is definitely a powerful tool. It is more than just readers it is us humans with our mobile devices also. The combination of sensors with human crowdsourcing can yield tremendous accuracy in data collection.
   • “… over a period of time, you’re going to see the same kind of mass decentralized sensing platforms for doing all kinds of different data gathering in cities.”
   • “Governments around the world are turning to remote sensing to perform old jobs more cheaply and do new jobs that hadn’t been previously conceived of.”
   • “And in San Francisco, researchers are experimenting with how to build an earthquake early warning system from a network of smartphones. — Colin Wood,”
5. Virtual Currency – Forget printing 3-D Money … Enters Bitcoin – Exits Bitcoin as the US Gov is already making sure it doesn’t make it.
   • “…and people just create more currency in an uncontrolled way …” Cockrill said.” – I want it NOW!!!
   • “Government leaders likely won’t support a payment system that allows secrecy and anonymity for suspect purchases.”
6. Video Facial Recognition – Fantacyland… but at the rate computing power is increasing these devices will be decorating our streets like light posts. When it works!
   • “An April 2013 Atlantic Weekly article claimed that the FBI’s partially developed video surveillance and facial recognition technology wasn’t helpful during the Boston Marathon bombing investigation. Investigators relied on traditional closed circuit TV surveillance footage and eyewitness accounts.”  -- Duh!!

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