Modern is a header-only library designed to provide Standard C++ developers with first-class access to the modern Windows API. 

The Linux GNU C Library (glibc) versions prior to 2.18 are vulnerable to remote code execution via a vulnerability in the gethostbyname function. 

A new free extension for Visual Studio was released that enables developers to create cross-platform HTML5 applications exclusively using C# and XAML. 

public enum MyGrade { A = 20, B =15, C =10, }
        [UIHint("Enum")]
        public MyGrade Grade { set; get; }

In this post we are going to talk about two CSS properties that not a lot of web developers know about. They are called object-fit and object-position and both have to do with styling images and video. 

<system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="Enforce WWW" stopProcessing="true">
           <match url=".*" />
           <conditions>
                  <add input="{CACHE_URL}" pattern="^(.+)://(?!www)(.*)" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="{C:1}://www.{C:2}" redirectType="Permanent" />
       </rule>      
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

<system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
     <rule name="SEO - Lower case" stopProcessing="false">
       <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
       <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
  <add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
  <add input="{R:1}" pattern="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />
       </conditions>
       <action type="Rewrite" url="_{ToLower:{R:1}}" />
    </rule>
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

<!-- SEO rules (from: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-every-seo-should-know-about-iis#chaining) -->
<!-- SEO | Section 1 | Whitelist -->
<rule name="Whitelist - Resources" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(?:css/|scripts/|images/|install/|config/|umbraco/|umbraco_client/|base/|webresource\.axd|scriptresource\.axd|__browserLink|[^/]*/arterySignalR/.*)" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
  <action type="None" />
</rule>
<!-- SEO | Section 2 | Rewrites (chaining) -->
<rule name="SEO - Remove default.aspx" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.*?)/?default\.aspx$" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Remove trailing slash" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.+)/$" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Lower case" stopProcessing="false">
  <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
<add input="{R:1}" pattern="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Rewrite" url="_{ToLower:{R:1}}" />
</rule>
<!-- SEO | Section 3 | Redirecting -->
<rule name="SEO - HTTP canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_*)(.*)" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.*)" />
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
<add input="{SERVER_PORT}" pattern="80" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:2}" />
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - HTTPS canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_*)(.*)" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.*)" />
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
<add input="{SERVER_PORT}" pattern="443" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:2}" />
</rule>
<rule name="SEO - Non-canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^(_+)(.*)" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_METHOD}" pattern="GET" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="{R:2}" />
</rule>
<!-- // SEO rules -->

As a refresher, the Windows code base is approximately 3.5M files and, when checked in to a Git repo, results in a repo of about 300GB .  

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