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Tuesday, December 16, 2014 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com Advertisements Complimentary eBook: 50 performance tips for .NET & SQL Server. Want to speed up your .NET app? This eBook has 50 tips from the dev community for avoiding, finding and fixing .NET and SQL Server performance problems. Covers slow code & queries, their interactions, and more. Get your no-cost copy now Intel® Developer Zone for Android Maximize your app’s performance, increase productivity, and speed up time to market with Intel’s free Android tools. Learn more. Industry News Over 700 million people taking steps to avoid NSA surveillance Or one person took 700 Million steps Source: Bruce Schneier Microsoft’s new Office app, Sway, is now open to everyone Because... PowerPoint Source: Techcrunch Microsoft update blunders going out of control "When compared to software that has not been subject to the SDL, software that has undergone the SDL has experienced a significantly reduced rate of external discovery of security vulnerabilities." Source: ZDNet Microsoft mellows, embraces Windows leaks And I'm sure they will continue to feel that way after shipping Source: Computerworld IBM's Design Language is no Bootstrap killer When you think beautiful design, you think ... IBM Source: Infoworld Collaborate with your Team. Chookka is a new web and mobile tool for communication with both internal teams and external groups such as consultants, vendors and clients. Integrates with email, gdrive and dropbox. Free to use with an unlimited number of people. Get Started for Free Now. Developer News Natural course of refactoring – a refactoring workflow There's more to it than right-clicking? Source: InfoQ Functional programming piques Ruby founder, picks up Python compiler A stream-based programming language? That will never fly! Source: Infoworld We’ve put a worm’s mind in a Lego Robot's body "It's alive. It's alive!" Source: Smithsonian Developers want to be heard "And girls just want to have fun" Source: Java Code Geeks Five popular myths about C++ (Part 2) The extra "+" does not stand for "value" Source: ISO CPP Code Project Discussions - Your say! Which technological developments did you like most in 2014? I really think this new Internet thing might be big Source: CodeProject This week's survey For you, what's the most important next step in computing? Source: CodeProject