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• Spot the defect: rounding, part two – Eric Lippert returns with the second half of his look at rounding, and looks into the detail behind the subtle bug in the previous post and the exciting (and troublesome) world of double precision decimals represented as binary fractions.
• .NET Security Part 3 – Simon Cooper continues his series looking at the security features of the .NET Framework, exploring running full trust code in its own sandboxed appdomain yet still allowing partially trusted code call it.
• Step-by-Step creating an app to find the nearest – Susan Ibach walks through the process of building a ‘Find the nearest’ type application for Windows 8 based upon an application template provided by Mark Arteaga.
• Looking at Kotlin – a few notes made – Rob Ashton shares some thoughts and notes made during a Kotlin workshop given by Hadi Hariri, giving a useful introduction to what Kotlin is and some getting started pointers.
• Game Development Using JavaScript – Shai Raiten shares a passion for building games with JavaScript in this CodeProject article, discussing some of the game development concepts, and looking at how they apply in JavaSCript and HTML5 development.
• How to customize Twitter Bootstrap to fit your web design – Sojaner takes a look at how you can go about customising the styling of Twitter Bootstrap to have it reflect your purposes, showing how browser developer tools can help you understand what is going on, and how the LESS CSS processor allows you to easily customise the styling.
• Where Is .NET Headed? – K. Scott Allen shares some thoughts on the future direction of the .NET Framework and associated platforms,. Well worth reading through the numerous comments on this one too.
• New Windows Dev Center release – Brian Harry highlights the new and improved Windows Dev Center website (something which his team is responsible for) which includes a new navigation structure based on the development lifecycle, new section landing pages, and a Windows look and feel.
• Red Gate Is Looking For Feedback On Its ASP.NET MVC Web Development Education Website – While on the subject of Websites, RedGate have a nice ASP.NET MVC resource site which they are looking for feedback on as Paulo Morgado highlights in this post.

Community

• What has The Next Generation User Group ever done for us? – Guy Smith Ferrier highlights the sterling work done by Richard Costall, Dave McMahon and John Price over the years running the NxtGenUG, and the evolution of some of the NxtGenUG chapters into fresh new Usergroups. I couldn’t agree more with Guy, the community owes them all a debt of gratitude for their efforts.

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• WCF Data Services 5.5.0 Prerelease – The WCF Data Services team announce the Release Candidate of their 5.5.0 release, which will be made via NuGet only. The major new features in this release are public data source providers and enhancements to their URL parsing support

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• OSS from the trenches – 7 Tips for Maintainers & Contributors – Anthony van der Hoorn continues the Open Source .NET discussions sharing 7 tips to help foster a good Open Source community around projects which you are a contributor or maintainer
• Saga patterns: wrap up & Eventual consistency in REST APIs – Jimmy Bogard wraps up his interesting post series looking at the implementation of the various saga related patterns. Jimmy then moves on to discuss some of the concerns around eventual consistency, and the construction of REST based APIs around systems which are eventually consistent.
• Announcing some new capabilities in Azure Active Directory Graph Service – Windows Azure Active Directory Graph Team announce some of the new features added to the Azure Active Directory Graph service in the release a few days ago
• Creating plugins for dotPeek – Maarten Balliauw digs into the creation of plugins for ReSharper’s dotPeek assembly browser tool, looking at obtaining and working with the framework provided by a NuGet package, and how you go about deploying/distributing a plugin.
• Hack yourself first – how to go on the offence before online attackers do – Troy Hunt discusses how ‘friendly’ hacking of your own systems is a great idea in learning about your weaknesses before actual ‘hackers’ do, discussing a number of attack vectors to consider.

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• F# UK ton of Meetups – Phil Trelford highlights the impressive array of F# related Usergroup sessions taking place in the UK, and a few further afield. One of the events is tonight in London, so if you are at a loose end in the city it might be worth checking out.
• NxtGenUG – Event: What is Devops anyway – Another event which is taking place tonight is NxtGenUG Coventry Usergroup, who will be entertained by Alex Papadimoulis of ‘The Daily WTF’ fame, discussing the DevOps revolution.

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• TouchDevelop v3.0 beta for Windows Phone 8 – Nikolai Tillmann announces the release of TouchDevelop 3.0 Beta, targeting Windows Phone 8, and includes its new execution engine based on TypeScript. Its a closed beta release which you can get hold of by emailing the team
• May 2013 Internet Explorer Updates – Ceri Gallacher highlights the latest security fixes for Internet Explorer released yesterday as a part of the regular Patch Tuesday
• Windows Keeps Getting Better – Brandon LeBlanc shares more news on the forthcoming Windows Blue (8.1) release which will be made available free of charge via the Windows Store.

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• Scripting ease with Script Packs – Glenn Block discusses the nature of Script Packs in scriptcs, discussing how they are intended to make the experience of working with scriptcs better and provide a neat way of extending.
• Deeper dive into ScriptCS – Scott Smith follows on from his introductory post on ScriptCS with a more in-depth look at ScriptCS and the use and creation of Script Packs.
• CLR Diagnostics with ClrMD and ScriptCS REPL – ScriptCS.ClrDiagnostics – Piotr Walat takes a look at using the CLR Diagnostics and ClrMD with ScriptCS, sharig a script pack which combines the two.
• Benchmarking mistakes, part one – Eric Lippert highlights an article he has written for TechPro looking at the common mistakes people make when attempting to benchmark their code, discussing first the concept of benchmarking, and looking in detail at the first 4 key common mistakes.
• Using Web Workers to Improve Performance of Image Manipulation – David Catuhe takes a look at the use of Web Workers to provide improved performance in HTML5 based applications, exploring their use in processing and manipulating images

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