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• Axiom v0.8.3327.12322 has been released! – Michael H.C. Cummings announces the release of Axiom v09.8, the latest version of this open source 3D rendering engine for C# and .NET. This release has been through a full beta, and RC cycle and adds Visual Studio templates and supports its inclusion via NuGet Packages.

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• Git Deployment To An Azure WebSite: Keeping Configuration Secrets – Scott Kirkland discusses keeping your more sensitive production application settings private when working with the Git deployment of ASP.NET Websites to Azure, looking at the facilities provide within Windows Azure to keep them in the cloud.
• How to make your Windows 8 app more … well … more Windows 8 – Ramez Debbas discusses several features you can consider for inclusion in your Windows 8 applications to make the application take better advantage of the Windows 8 environment.
• Windows 8 Notifications: Scheduled Notifications – Jim O’Neil is mid series on a selection of posts looking at implementing notifications in Windows 8 applications, having previously explore Local Notification he moves on to look at time specific local notifications
• 11 e-books gratis sobre JavaScript – Jhuess Villanueva Rodriguez highlights a selection of free JavaScript books available online in electronic format from a variety of publishers. Some are preview copies, and others are full finished books.
• Top 30 Agile Myths – True or False? – Telerik Team Pulse are offering a free e-book on Agile Myths for every person who follows their Team Pulse twitter account. The download link is provided in a direct message after your follow (note the link in the article to the twitter account appears to be broken).
• UPDATED HOWTO: SQLite with Windows 8 apps – Tim Heuer shares an updated look at including SQLite database support in your Windows 8 applications, taking a look at what has changed since the last version of his article, and looking at the use of the new NuGet package.

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• DDD North – Vote for Sessions – Session voting for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper North 2 has now opened with a great selection of sessions (and one from me). The conference takes place on Saturday 13th October at the University of Bradford, and this is your chance to shape the conference.
• Windows 8 virtual hackathon, August 2012 – Matt Harrington highlights a virtual Windows 8 Hackathon event running in the second half of August. The event is open to developers across the world, but unfortunately the prizes are only for US Residents

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• It’s a sweet suite! Windows Sysinternals Suite gets a summer refresh [August 3, 2012] – Greg Duncan highlights a recent update to the SysInternals Suite of diagnostic and utility tools, with an update to the Whois and AccessChk tools.

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• Configuration Tips For ASP.NET MVC 4 on a Windows Azure Website – K. Scott Allen shares some tips for getting ASP.NET MVC 4 applications up and running on the Windows Azure Websites , taking a look at some of the configuration you have to tweak to get things going.
• An Async Primer – Bill Wagner gives an introduction to the new world of Async / Await in C#5, exploring the basics of its use, and looking at handling of exceptions
• Deploying .NET Application To Appharbor Using Git – Prashant Khandelwal discusses the deployment of web applications to AppHarbor using Git, walking through the process of creating your Git Repository and pushing your application up to the server.
• Simple.Web and Nancy – Mark Rendle discusses why he chose to create Simple.Web, and takes a look at that both of these frameworks are and explores the differences between them both.
• PRG Pattern – Post Redirect Get – Pankaj Nikam discusses the Post Redirect Get Pattern, a crucial one for web developers to understand, and looks at how you can implement it.
• Where does ASP.NET Web API Fit? – Rick Strahl takes a considered look at where the new ASP.NET Web API fits in the ASP.NET landscape, discussing what problems it solves, and looking at where its use is most applicable.
• Social News – Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira takes a look at creating a Facebook like social news application using some of the exciting new web technologies, including SignalR and Knockout.js. Bonus points for using Big Bang Theory characters and scripts for the screen shots)
• 9 things you need to know about JavaScript – Dmitry Sheiko takes a look at 9 of the key concepts of the JavaScript language which you should be aware of if working with this language.
• How to develop a Windows Phone app in 30 days – Mohamed Yamama takes a look at 30 simple things you can do over the next month (one a day) to build your own Windows Phone application.

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• Edinburgh – Aug/Sept – Windows Azure, Windows 8 UX and Windows 8 Dev Camps – Criag Murphy highlights a series of developer events taking place in Edinburgh at the end of the month (30th August – 1st September) covering Windows 8 Development and Windows Azure
• Reminder: BUILD 2012 registration begins Wednesday at 8:00 AM PDT – Today sees the opening of registration for the second //Build / conference, taking place in Redmond between 30th October and 2nd November.

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• Introduction to MonoGame – John Somnez highlights the MonoGame project, an open source port of the XNA game development framework which allows .NET Developers to write XNA games to run across multiple platforms (Android, iOS, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Phone 7, MacOS, XBox 360, Linux and the new Playstation console)
• ILMerge v2.12.x released – Greg Duncan highlights an updated release of ILMerge, the official tool for merging multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. No details of what is new yet, but the release is available on Microsoft Downloads.

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• Plans regarding Website projects and Web Deployment Projects – Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi discusses how now that VS2012 is ready to ship the teams are now moving on to their next release, the first VS2012 update release, and discusses whtat the Website Projects and Web Deployment features they are hoping to include will look like.
• Task<T> vs IObservable<T>: when to use what? – Flavien Charlon takes a look at the similarities and differences between the use of Task<T> and the Reactive Extensions Observable<T> looking at the situations in which you would want to use each.
• CQRS Journey is Worth the Trip – Jon Wagner calls attention of the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Team’s CQRS Journey, discussing the projects aims and some of the key lessons to be learnt from the project.
• The consequence of a.NET Framework API design flaw – Patrick Smacchia discusses a design flaw in the .NET Framework regarding collection implementations and the requirement to implement an Add method even if they are read-only, highlighting the types of confusion it causes.
• Followup on ORMs for Batch Performance – Eli Weinstock-Herman has been taking a look at the relative performance of various Object Relational Mapper tools in performing bulk insertion, and in this post shares some results and conclusions of this experiment in this post.
• RabbitMQ – Implementing Scatter Gather in .net – Michael Stephenson takes a look at implementing the Scatter Gather pattern using RabbitMQ and .NET, looking at some of the performance scenarios and how the pattern responds, and how such events can be handled.
• Making your JavaScript garbage friendly, as in high-performance, garbage-collector-friendly! – Greg Duncan highlights an interesting post by Martin Wells discussing how ou can optimise your JavaScript code to ensure that you get the best performance out of the JavaScript garbage collector
• Windows 8 apps for the PhoneGap developer – Glen Gordon discusses some of the similarities between developing mobile applications using PhoneGap rather than native code, and the development of Windows 8 applications using JavaScript and HTML.
• Reflection vs. Metadata – Mike Stall shares a set of notes about the use of Reflection compared to the COM based IMetadata Import interfaces from the pre-.NET 4 era, looking at the key differences between the two
• Building your own Windows Runtime components to deliver great Metro style apps – The Windows 8 App Developer blog discusses the writing of custom WinRT components for use in Metro Style Applications allowing your applications to make use of high computation performance that unmanaged code gives.

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