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• Json.NET 5.0 Release 7 – Immutable Collections – James Newton-King highlights the latest release of the JSON.NET Serializer whose main new feature is the support for serialisation and deserialisation of the new .NET Immutable Collection types.
• Announcing our third Windows Phone 8 update – plus a new developer preview program & Introducing Windows Phone Preview for Developers – Th Windows Phone and Windows Phone Developer blogs announce the preview release of the latest Windows Phone 8 update, and also launch a developer program which gets you early access to such preview releases
• Open Source Supporters – An interesting site which aims to get developers to show their support and use for Open Source projects upon which their product or project relies.

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• Math from scratch, part seven: division and remainder – Eric Lippert continues his series looking at the implementation of maths from scratch in C# using only the most basic of types. In this part Eric set out to implement division and by extension the remainder.
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 14 – ‘Simple’ Does Not Always Mean ‘Obvious’ Pt. 1 – James Bender continues his series looking at Test Driven Development from a beginners point of view, introducing a new seemingly simple test case which actually proves to be anything but.
• AngularJS vs Knockout – Modules and DI (6 of 8 ) – Eli Weinstock-Herman continues with his series comparing and contrasting two of the more major JavaScript single page application Frameworks, Knockout and Angular. In this part Eli explores the breaking down of code into modules and dependency injection.
• Refactoring to Functional – Getting Started – Hadi Hariri kicks off a new series looking at learning more about functional programming, kicking off with some of the basic principles of Functional Programming.
• Talks from DevConnections 2013: Advanced Debugging with WinDbg and SOS, Task and Data Parallelism, and Garbage Collection Performance Tips – Sasha Goldshtein shares slide decks from three more conference sessions he has delivered recently, with a look at some advanced debugging with Windbg, and a session each on the .NET Garbage Collector and Task and Data Parallelism.
• Video – Refactoring and Design Skills for Test Driven Development – Roy Osherove shares a recording of his recent session on Refactoring and Design in Test Driven Development presented at the London Software Architect conference.

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