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When Google started giving a little bump to secure sites, we figured "why not?" and made the switch. Not too long after that, we noticed in Bing Webmaster Tools that our indexed page count had crashed down to zero. Coincidence? We think not.
 
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TypeScript 1.4 saw the introduction of the const enum type. Enumerations have been around since version 0.9, but we're just seeing constant enumerations for the first time. So how do they differ? Well, maybe not in the way(s) that you expected, so let's take a look.

Here's a quick one for you.

There are times when you want to require a page be transmitted over TLS (transport layer security) using SSL (secure sockets layer). Anytime you are transmitting sensitive information over the wire, requiring HTTPS is a good idea. We actually require SSL sitewide now because Google encourages it. We'll assume that you already know about the reasons for encrypting traffic and when to do so. However, there are times when you want just the opposite- you want requests to a page to *not* use TLS, just plain old HTTP.

So what are the reasons that you would want to to this?

You may have noticed something like this popping in the referers list of your Google Analytics reports lately:

If you are suspicious, good; you should be.