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- Using System.Numerics.Vector for Graphics Programming – Immo Landwerth announces the latest major update to the SIMD Vector Types, improving its capabilites for graphics programming
- Introducing EAPs for dotTrace 6, dotCover 3, dotMemory 4.2 – The Folks over at JetBrains announce the release of the latest batch of Early Access Previews of their Code Coverage and memory and CPU profilers
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- NuGet Package of the Week – Courtesy Flush to flush buffers earlier and optimize time to first byte – Scott Hanselman highlights Courtesy Flush, a NuGet package from Nik Molnar (co-creator of Glimpse) which aims to help improve your ASP.NET application’s time to first byte
- ETW Logging in IIS 8.5 – Tomas Restrepo shares a sample which takes advantage of the new support for Event Tracing For Windows in IIS 8.5 to have the IIS log entries written to ETW, and looks at hooking this and processing the events in code.
- Age of Ascent – An epic space game on Microsoft Azure – David Gristwood highlights the work that the Microsoft TED team and the UK Microsoft Technology Center have been undertaking with Illyriad in producing a massive multiplayer game on the Azure platform.
- ORTC – A New Protocol for HTML5 Web Apps – Rami Sayar highlights the Internet Explorer teams undertaking of an implementation of ORTC (Object Real-Time Communication) in Internet Explorer
- Tracking Technical Debt with TechDebtAttributes – Jason Roberts shares a NuGet package which allows you to decorate code with notes and scores of technical debt level to help you improve your code base over time