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• Troy Hunt: How to build (and how not to build) a secure "remember me" feature – Troy Hunt explores the patterns and anti-patterns of implementing the simple ‘Remember Me’ login feature, looking at how your implementation can go wrong.
• A string concatenation puzzle – Eric Lippert shares a simple but potentially surprising puzzle as a part of his look at string concatenation
• Glimpse Extension for Toastr – John Papa takes a look at Glimpse and its new Heads up display as well as sharing a Glimpse integration for his Toastr notifications library.
• The overhead of async/await in NET 4.5 – Chris Hurley explores the under the covers implementation of Async / Await and discusses how the additional work that goes on can have performance implications.
• On The Coexistence of ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI – K Scott Allen discusses the most common question about ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API – whcih should you use and when, taking a look at the particular reasons and use cases for each.
• DNC Magazine for .NET Developers – July 2013 Issue – DotNet Curry Magazine hits its 1 year anniversary (And 7th edition) with articles on Pex, ASP.NET MVC extensibility, Sharepoint, Azure SQL DB Reporting, and much more
• MSDN Magazine – THe July Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online with articles exploring Roslyn, MVVM development on Windows 8, mobile views on ASP.NET MVC and BDD using SpecFlow.
• Using HTML 5 SessionState to save rendered Page Content – Rick Strahl takes a look at using Client Side storage to store the rendered HTML in SPA like applications to provide improved performance and user experience.
• Capturing Dumps of Windows Azure Web Sites – Sasha Goldshtein highlights a new Windows Azure feature which allows you to easily obtain memory dumps of your Azure Wesbites just by hitting an endpoint in your browser.
• IE10 Passes IE9, Firefox Down but Chrome Up – The Next Web shares the latest batch of browser market share stats, which show encouraging results for Internet Explorer 10, with it being the most popular edition of Internet Explorer in current use.

Community

• DDD North 2013 Announced and Session Submission Open – Andrew Westgarth announces the plans for DDD North 2013 which will be taking place in Sunderland on Saturday 12th October 2013. Organisation of the conference is progressing well, and the session submissions are now open, so if you fancy speaking at the conference, get an abstract submitted.
• Congratulations to the New & Renewed MVPs! – Yesterday was the one of the MVP programme’s renewal / award day, and over 1000 Microsoft community folk were awarded or re-awarded, including a number of friends of the Brew. Congratulations to all.

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