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.

It's Seth Petry-Johnson's birthday this weekend. That doesn't really tie into this week's Weekly Concerns, but I guess you could check out Seth's blog! It will also be David Giard's birthday as well: you should check out his excellent Technology and Friends podcast/TV show. Episode 144 is particularly good.

• If you've played around with game system emulators, you might be familiar with some of the image scaling filters meant to enhance pixel art. Microsoft has developed their own image scaling algorithm which yields surprisingly good results. They've even set up a comparison page with competitive image scaling techniques.
• #1014 of 2000 things you should know about C# - using the default operator in a generic class.
• Deploying an Azure Website and WebJob via Git, from Mark Greenway
• How to specify a Webpage Icon for for Web Clip - defining an apple-touch-icon in your markup.

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