Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• SQL Profiler Query Cleaner, a quick and dirty tool born of frustration has its first official pull request! So, I guess at least one person is using the darn thing besides me. It is one of the greatest things to get a useful pull request out of the blue, and thank you to Ruffin.
• Why don't more developers join ACM?
• Pixeling sensitive information may not always be effective.
• A recreation of Microsoft's website from 1994.

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Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• Here are 10 technology predictions that turned out to be false.
• What do you think about DRY parameter names?
• Remember "grammar" checkers in Word processors? Hemingway seems to be a more useful take on that.
• Generate Office Files (Excel, Word, etc) from C#

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Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• Are you watching AMC's Halt and Catch Fire? So far, a decent show. Lots of nerd meat in there: topical 80s computer industry references, Mythical Man Month contributing to a plot point, and so on. It's mostly fictional, but what makes it unique to me is that it's not a story about all the gleaming genius visionaries in Silicon Valley like Microsoft, Apple, Xerox, etc., but about hackers everywhere, scratching out market share, challenging IBM, and grinding out results.
• AMC posted a web version of Colossal Cave Adventure to promote the show. Why Colossal Cave Adventure? Because it's a plot point in the show. See? You should be watching.
• I've said it before, but one of the best things about this show is the intro credit sequence. Though I think it stands on its own, the music, colors, graphics, everything, also fit the tone of the rest of the show well.
• In a recent episode, Ada Lovelace (featured in a Brief Bio) was mentioned, as was Grace Hopper (subject of an upcoming Brief Bio).
• There's lots of stories and urban legends about the "Halt and Catch Fire" phrase. I'm sure most of them are apocryphal, but it's entertaining apocrypha.

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Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• 5 Things You Should Stop Doing With jQuery. It's a sensational title, but read all the way to the end before you judge.
• PostSharp 3.2 Preview 2 is available, with improvements that help you write multi-threaded code (among other things).
• Direct casting vs "as" casting in C#
• Check out the new and improved WordPress Code Reference.

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Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.

• You're doing everything wrong (NSFW language). But are you really? Or are you just doing it different?
• Some free icons from GitHub.
• An infographic about new syntax in C# 6.0.
• Did I do this one already? Well I'll list it again, because I like it so much. A dress that contains all the most commons passwords on it.

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