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static async Task<string> DownloadAllAsync(IEnumerable<string> locations)
{
    var client = new HttpClient();
    var downloads = locations.Select(client.GetStringAsync);
    var downloadTasks = downloads.ToArray();
    var pages = await Task.WhenAll(downloadTasks);
    return string.Concat(pages);
}

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private static async Task<string> DownloadStringWithRetries(string location)
{
    using (var client = new HttpClient())
    {
        var nextDelay = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1);
        for (int i = 0; i != 3; i++)
        {
            try
            {
                Console.WriteLine("trying to download {0}.", location);

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private static async Task<string> DownloadStringWithTimeout(string location)
{
    using (var client = new HttpClient())
    {
        var downloadTask = client.GetStringAsync(location);
        var timeoutTask = Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3));

        var completedTask = await Task.WhenAny(downloadTask, timeoutTask);

        if (completedTask == timeoutTask)

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USE [Medium]
GO

DELETE FROM [Post_Tag_Junction]
DELETE FROM [Posts]
DELETE FROM [Tags]


INSERT INTO [Tags]
VALUES 

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public class AddPostCommandHandler : IRequestHandler<AddPostCommand, string>
{
    public string Handle(AddPostCommand command)
    {
        var param = new
        {
            PublishDate = DateTime.Now,
            Slug = SlugConverter.Convert(command.Title),
            command.Title,
            command.Body,

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public ActionResult AddPost(PostCommand command)
{
    var response = mediator.Send(command);
    if (response.Success) {
        return RedirectToAction("Index", "Post", new { slug = response.Data.Slug });
    }
    ModelState.AddModelError("", response.Message)
    return View(command);
}

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Capability Red - Requirements at Scale by Liz Keogh
http://www.ndcvideos.com/#/app/video/2111
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Beyond Rectangles in Web Design - CSS Shapes and CSS Masking by Razvan Caliman
http://www.ndcvideos.com/#/app/video/2121
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Coding Culture by Sven Peters
http://www.ndcvideos.com/#/app/video/2131
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The Ultimate Logging Architecture - You KNOW You Want It by Michele Leroux Bustamante

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1. Meanwhile... on the command side of my architecture
2. Meanwhile... on the query side of my architecture
3. Returning data from command handlers
4. Put your controllers on a diet: GETs and queries
5. Put your controllers on a diet: POSTs and commands
6. Tackling cross-cutting concerns with a mediator pipeline

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class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        // The message you want to send accross the network
        var outboundMessage = new ChatMessage { Body = "Hello" };

        // Serialize the outbound message
        byte[] outboundMessageData;

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using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Data.SqlTypes;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography;

namespace Uhu
{
    public class Program