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• Framework for .Net Hadoop MapReduce Job Submission V1.0 Release – Carl Nolan announces the 1.0 release of his Framework for .NET Hadoop Map Reduce Job Submission. This release includes support for custom partitioners and comparators in the .net based jobs that this framework adds support for

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• Does Not Compute – Eric Lippert shares some deep and complex thoughts on the basis of a computer program which takes input numbers and creates output numbers, considering the case of a function which cannot be calculated even with an arbitrary amount of storage – this one is certainly a post to read more than once, fascinating stuff.
• Windows 8 Special Edition of MSDN Magazine – Michael Desmond highlights a special edition of MSDN Magazine focused on the release of Windows 8, and looking at all the developer aspects of this new OS release
• Simple TypeScript Example: Windows Store App using TypeScript with classes, inheritance and interfaces in 6 steps – Iris Classon takes a look at building a simple Windows Store application using the TypeScript language, taking advantages of the features it provides above and beyond standard JavaScript.
• Quick Tips for Browser Dev Tools – The Console – Carl Bergenhem takes a look at the power and features of the various browser implementations of the Console Window, looking at how you can use it to debug and try out your code directly in the browser
• Data attributes rock – as both CSS and JavaScript know them – Christian Heilmann takes a look at how the flexibility of the HTML5 Data Attributes gives you powerful ways to structure data associated with HTML elements, and how JavaScript and CSS makes it easy to work with them.
• The Architect’s Guide to Choosing Between HTML5 or Native Mobile Apps – Jason Roberts takes a very graphical look at the factors to consider when choosing between creating mobile applications using HTML5 or going native and writing directly against the specific mobile platform
• Zombie Explorer : A N-Tier application front top to bottom – Sacha Barber discusses the creation of a real world CRUD application using WPF with Prism and the MVVM pattern, which works against a hosted WCF service, throwing in some Reactive Extensions, custom service proxies, NHibernate and IOC for good measure

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• Geekswithblogs.net is Nine Years Old! – Jeff Julian highlights the 9th birthday of the .NET blogging site GeeksWithBlogs.NET – a site that is the home to many excellent bloggers, and one that continues to be a good resource for the community – congratualtions to all involved.

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• Important: Security Advisory 2749655 affects WCF DS – The WCF Data Services Team draws attention to a recent Security Advisory from Microsoft which affects the WCF Data Services 5.0.1 and earlier with regards to the generation of certificates by Microsoft. This is not a security Vulnerability, but is something which may cause problems, so its well worth getting the latest installer for WCF Data Services which addresses this issue.
• Updating Windows 8 for General Availability – Steven Sinofsky discusses the final push to the General Availability of Windows 8, and the issuing of a General Availability Cumulative Update which brings all the post RTM fixes for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 together into one update
• Now we know the dates for shipping Windows Phone 8 (was that so hard?) | LiveSide.net – Kip Kniskern discusses the likely release date for the first Windows Phone 8, with At&T looking like offering pre-orders on 21st October with the Launch Event taking place on the 29th October.

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• Improving Your App’s Performance with PerfView – Brandon Bray highlights PerfView, a tool from within the .NET Team at Microsoft which allows you to investigate application performance in .NET applications. In this post Brandon highlights a video introduction from Vance Morrison, the creator of PerfView, and takes a look at some fo the useful features of this tool.
• Help your users record and report bugs with the Problem Steps Recorder – Scott Hanselman also explores an useful tool, taking a look at the Problem Step Recorder, probably one of the easiest ways to capture the steps to reproduce issues in Windows based applications
• Why I’m so excited about Web Platform Docs – Paul Irish discusses his excitement about the Web Platform Documentation, the newly launched central repository for all things web development, across all platforms and coordinated by the W3C. Having seen a tweet yesterday highlighting some of the sites first day numbers, Paul isn’t the only one excited at this great resource.
• Telerik’s evolving platform guidance for .NET developers
  – Chris Sells updates a post issued last year discussing the best platform choices for the various different types of application, highlighting the benefits each of the choices gives in that area.
• IIS 8 What’s new – Application pool settings – Shinva takes a brief look at some of the new facilities provided for controlling and working with Application Pools in IIS 8, highlighting startup mode, new CPU Limiting options, logging and processor affinity settings
• When is my View too smart? – Kyle Burns discusses the importance of keeping your views simple in MVC MVVM and MVP implementations, looking at how you can identify logic in views which should be pushed to other parts of the application.
• HTML5 Off Line: Storing and retrieving Videos with IndexedDB – Joe Stagner discusses the importance of the HTML5 Offline experience features, taking a look at AppCache, HTML5 Local storage and Index DB before exploring an example

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• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP – Charles Sterling gives the details of the September CTP Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, which will be released as a RTM update in November. In this post Charles highlights the various improvements and new features in both Visual Studio and TFS.
• Json.NET 4.5 Release 10 – Portable Class Library on NuGet – James Newton-King announces an updated release of JSON.NET 4.5, which takes advantage of the new Portable Class Library support in NuGet
• dotCover 2.2: Early Access Program is Open – The JetBrains team announce the opening of the dotCover 2.2 Early Access Program, giving you a chance to try out and feedback on the new features which the team will be including in the next release.
• Prism for .NET 4.5 Released Today – Brian Lagunas highlights the release of the .NET 4.5 Build of Prism

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• Web Platform Docs Debuts with Developer Resources & W3C’s Web Platform Docs – Your "Go To" for All Things Web Development – Eliot Graff of the Internet Explorer Team and Jean Paoli, President of Microsoft Open Technologies highlights the announcement of a new W3C release. Web Platform Documents is a new community resource for developer and designers for all things web.
• Writing a ContinueAfter method for Rx – Phil Haack takes a look at creating additional methods for the Reactive Extensions to allow sequences to be evaluated after other sequences, discussing some of the intracies of working with the Reactive Extensions.
• Favor query objects over repositories – Jimmy Bogard discusses his preference for query objects over the use of repositories with specific methods, highlighting the benefits in terms of maintainability and testability.
• What are the 14 Keywords of Small Basic? – Ed Price discusses 14 of the keywords in the Small Basic language giving examples of their use.
• A Single Page App with Knockout.js, ASP.NET Web API, and F# – Daniel Mohl shares an example of a Single Page web application which has been built using F#, WebAPI and Knockout.JS

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