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Friday Links #340

Programming

• Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Lo-Dash v3
• FieldVal
• A new library to display animated GIFs in XAML apps » Thomas Levesque’s .NET blog
• The Developer’s Guide to the New .NET -Telerik Developer Network

• [Microsoft confirms Windows 10’s ‘Spartan’ browser to get extensions

  ZDNet](http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-confirms-windows-10s-spartan-browser-to-get-extensions/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)

• Microsoft Puts Orleans Code On GitHub
• OneGet (it’s in the Windows 10 Preview!) - Garrett Serack: Senior Open Source Engineer
• Inside Microsoft’s New Rendering Engine For The “Project Spartan” - Smashing Magazine

• [PubCSS: Formatting Academic Publications in HTML & CSS

  Thomas Park](http://thomaspark.me/2015/01/pubcss-formatting-academic-publications-in-html-css/?utm_source=html5weekly&utm_medium=email)

• lodash-fp
• 4 Ways To Declare Your Angular Stuff
• What’s new in the latest Windows 10 technical preview
• Introducing Aurelia
• jtop-demo
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2 Released - The Visual Studio Blog
• Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 Tip: Enable Spartan’s Rendering Engine in Internet Explorer - Thurrott.com
• Symbols in ES6
• New UI Performance Analysis Tool for WPF Applications - WPF Team Blog
• shipitjs/shipit

• [Clean event handler invocation with C# 6

  Jon Skeet’s coding blog](http://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2015/01/30/clean-event-handlers-invocation-with-c-6/)

• JavaScript UI Library, HTML5 Widgets Framework for App Development - Webix
• Announcing Hound: A Lightning Fast Code Search Tool - Code as Craft

Applications

• Vivaldi Browser: a Quick Look at the Opera Successor
• Facebook Releases Facebook Lite, Drastically Reduces App Overhead

• [Microsoft Brings Outlook to iPhone and Android

  Re/code](http://recode.net/2015/01/29/microsoft-uses-accompli-buy-to-create-outlook-for-iphone-android/)

• NimbleText Data Manipulation, Text Manipulation, Code Generation and Automation

• [Free Mercurial and Git Client for Windows and Mac

  Atlassian SourceTree](http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/)

• Microsoft Releases Outlook for Android and iOS - Thurrott.com

Science and Technology

• Medical radiation may be reduced to one-sixth with new mathematical discovery – ScienceDaily
• Lensless space telescope could be 1,000 times stronger than Hubble
• Toyota looks beyond bigger batteries for EV range boost - SlashGear

On the Web

• ProWritingAid Checks for Clarity, Repeat Words, and Cliched Phrases
• FCC rules broadband Internet must be 25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up - SlashGear
• Lifehacker Faceoff: The Best Password Managers, Compared

Stuff I Just Like

• New animated ‘Jetsons’ movie in the works from Warner Bros - SlashGear
• Sneaky Leatherman multitool disguises itself as a bracelet - CNET

• [Watch A Drone Bombard Volunteers With Roman Candles

  Popular Science](http://www.popsci.com/watch-drone-strafe-volunteers-roman-candles)

• Question: Describe yourself in three words. Answer: Lazy - Ben