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Software

• NCrunch 1.37b Released! - Remco Mulder announces the release of NCrunch 1.37b, containing a raft of fixes for reported issues, along with some interesting new features regarding debugging, performance metrics, code coverage, keyboard shortcuts and much more.
• Fluqi - Ease using jQuery UI with ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC - Fluqi is an interesting library which straddles the server and client, providing APIs for applying jQuery UI widgets to your application in a fluent manner. The library is open source, and hosted over on GitHub
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro - Jason Jarrett is continuing his series of posts looking at some of the hidden gems of the NuGet packages feed. Today’s post looks at Burro, a project to parse build output. Be sure to check back through Jason’s posts for the rest of his hidden gems.
• Rename Visual Studio Window Title extension for Visual Studio 2010 - The ‘Visual Studio add-ins, extensions and tools’ blog highlights a useful looking Visual Studio Extension for anyone who, like me, often has more than one copy of a project open in different Visual Studio Instances - this extension adds more path information to the window title allowing you to beterr distinguish between IDE instances.

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• [Special Edition] It’s Kinect day! The Kinect For Windows SDK v1 is out - Dan Fernandez and Greg Duncan highlight the release Kinect For Windows and the 1.0 release of the SDK, before Dan goes on to walk through Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor and discusses Setting up your Development Environment, both in video
• Kinect for Windows now available! Information and resources for you. - Eric Ligman shares a nice collection of links relating to resources about the Kinect for Windows product and SDK.
• Await, SynchronizationContext, and Console Apps: Part 3 - Stepjhen Toub continues his series looking at SynchronizationContext and its use with async methods, in this part looking at using it to run async methods which return void rather than Task
• Coding in Marble - Rico Mariani looks at the coding style of code which uses Promises, exploring different ways of representing such code to make it more elegant.
• Rx - DistinctUntilChanged - Bnaya Eshet continues his series of posts looking at the various methods of the Reactive Extensions. This post explores the DistinctUntilChanged operator
• WP7: CLR Managed Object overhead - Abhinaba Basu discusses the memory overhead of objects on the Windows Phone platform looking at the structure of objects in memory and looking at how different types of object are stored.
• New Tools in My TDD Arsenal - Alexander Beletsky highlights some of the recent additions to his tools used for Test Driven Development, highlighting NCrunch, NSubstitute and FluentAssertions.
• CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 - Jennifer Yu of the Internet Explorer team discusses 3d Transformations in CSS3, discussing how the effects are implemented in IE10, and highlighting some demos.
• JavaScript File & Folder Structures: Just Pick One - Derick Bailey takes a look at the various different approaches to managing the files that make up your JavaScript, discussin a few and showing how he structures his client side MV* code.
• Node.js, Require and Exports - Karl Seguin is also discussing the organisation of JavaScript, in this case how you structure code in Node.js, and its module per file approach, looking at the use of Require and Exports.
• Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available - Eric Nelson highlights the availability of recordings, slides and notes for the first two weeks of 6 weeks of Azure, a series of virual events for UK ISVs to gett them up and running on the Windows Azure Platform.

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Apologies for the rather short edition this morning, having some internet connectivity issue, combined with a required early start has resulted in a short one today.

Software

• Kinect for Windows is now Available! - The Kinect for Windows team announce the release of Kinect for Windows, along with the version 1.0 of the Kinect for Windows SDK and runtime. These new devices have close focusing capabilities and will work with Windows 7 and 8, with the SDK providing for raw sensor streams, skeletal tracking, speech and audio and also offering an improved API.
• Why Serenade.js? - Jonas Nicklas introduces Serenade,js, a new client side MVC implementation in JavaScript. In the post Jonas discusses why he created the library, and looks at some of its key features
• Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0 - Mark Otto introduces the next major release of BootStrap, the Twitter front end toolkit for developing websites. V2 responds to the feedback on the previous version, updates documentation completely, introduces a 12 column grid system, adds new JavaScript plugins, and much more.
• jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released - The jQuery team announce the first beta release of jQuery 1.7.2, which addresses bugs reported in previous versions. This latest beta is available via the jQuery CDN.

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• The Web is the new Terminal: Are you using the Web’s Keyboard Shortcuts and Hotkeys? - Scott Hanselman discusses the use of keyboard shortcuts in web based applications, showing how you can add hotkeys to your web application, and looking at how a number of well known sites have implemented their hotkeys.
• Get Started with Node.js + Windows Azure: Resources - Peter Laudati shares a nice collection of resources about all aspects of working with Node.js on the Windows Azure platform, covering getting up and running with Node,js on Azure, the sue of online IDEs, MongoDB, IISNode, and a number of more general Node.js resources.
• MSDN Magazine - February 2012 - The February edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, featuring articles on Async Programming in C++ using PPL, Building consumer device applications using Windows Azure, ASP.NET MVC Model Binding, HTML5, Windows Workflow 4.5, Nuget, Knockout.js, and much more
• February’s PragPub magazine - The Pragmatic Programmers have released their February edition of PragPub magazine, with articles this month looking at tips for agile leaders and freelancers, Scala, and all the usual editorial content
• Prompts and Directories - Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell - Scott Hanselman also looks at how you can improve your use of command line version control systems using Powershell, and some community extensions.

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• Umbraco 5.0 RTM is on CodePlex, ready for download - The Umbraco team announce the RTM release of V5.0. This release is a major milestone for the project, taking the key features of 4.7 and re-writing on the ASP.NET MVC stack, allowing use of Razor, along with the core CMS functionality.
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 is Released! - Kael Rowan announces the 1.1 release of the Debugger Canvas extension for Visual Studio. The release addresses a number of bugs, improves performance and also includes some new features including the ability to turn the canvas on or off during debugging, view multithreaded code on canvas, navigate more easily through code and view recursive calls side by side.
• StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released - Tatworth highlights the release of StyleCop 4.7.7.0 which includes compatibility with the Visual Studio 11 preview release and ReSharper 5.1, 6.0, 6.1 and 6.1.1, along with addressing further bugs.

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• One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell - Scott Hanselman highlights some of the cool improvements coming in the various aspects of the ASP.NET platform, focusing on some of the exciting things happening for WebForms.
• Modern Web Development - Part 3 - Shawn Wildermuth continues his series looking at modern web development, exploring CSS in this post. Shawn discusses how CSS can be awkward, and how CSS can be made better by using dynamic stylesheet languages like SASS and LESS to enhance the generation of CSS rules via nested styles, mixins and variables.
• How to force Nuget not to update log4net to 1.2.11 - Krzysztof Kozmic talks about the updated Log4Net release which uses a new signing key, and how this is causing issues with lots of projects which have used Log4Net in the past via NuGet and are now having problems, exploring how to tell NuGet to use a specific version of a package.
• Ngen or not? The rules haven’t changed very much since 2004 - Rico Mariani gives a very nice concise explanation of the situations where you will gain performance by using ngen to generate native images for your applications assemblies.
• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (second DRAFT preview) - Microsoft Press share the second draft preview of a forthcoming title on SQL Server 2012 which includes 6 out of the 12 chapters that will be in the final book - a great resource to have, and free.
• Announcing the SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book - Roger Doherty highlights the SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book TechNet wiki whcih contains links to a variety of information on SQL Server 2012 from both teams at Microsoft and their partner organisations.
• Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension - Giles Davies shares a Visual Studio extension which adds the Gang of Four design pattern to the UML Toolbox in Visual Studio, and then goes on to discuss how the extension was created.
• CodeBuild: 15 Best Practices for Exception Handling - Cagdas Basaraner shares 15 best practices for handling exceptions in code - the post has is a bit Java based but a lot of the principles apply more generally, some interesting discussion in the comments.
• Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5 - Pete Brown discusses the use of events in your code, focusing specifically on their use in WPF applications, and how they can be a cause of memory leaks, before discussing one of the new features in WPF4.5 makes implementing a solution much easier.
• Installing Mono on Windows - Paul Stack discusses his desire to get TeamCitySharp working on Mono, and to that end takes a look at getting a Mono environment up and running on a Windows machine.

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• Beta release of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone - Lee Stott highlights the release of the Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone allowing you to consume the range of Amazon Services (S3, SimpleDB, SQS Cloud Services) from the comfort of a sensible Windows Phone compatible API. Lee highlights a good set of resources for getting up and running with the library including video content from Channel 9.

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• Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two - Eric Lippert continues his discussion of anonymous types within assemblies, and the unification of types which contain the same definition.
• Currying vs partial function application - Jon Skeet discusses the differences between the functional programming concepts of currying and partial application, looking at doing both in C# when programming in a more functional programming style.
• Hazards of Converting Binary Data To A String - Phil Haack picks up on an interesting group of questions on StackOverflow discussing how you can represent binary data as a string, and looking at the implications of the encoding used as to what it does to the data being encoded, and how it can result in changes to the actual bytes being written.
• About Orchard Governance and Microsoft - Bertrand Le Roy discusses the recent change to the Orchard project, and how the project which was initiated by Microsoft has now been formally handed over to the community in a more complete way than many company created open source projects have been in the past.
• The new OpenEverything organization - While on the topic of Open Source project involvement, Sebastien Lambla discusses some of the organisation changes for the OpenEverything (OpenWrap, OpenRasta, OpenFileSystem,…) projects and how he is now focusing his involvement.
• From Concept to Code in 6 hours: Shipping my first Windows Phone App - Scott Hanselman walks through the creation of his very first Windows Phone 7 Application, from concept to application in 6 hours, sharing the key bits along the way.
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design - #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages. - Arturo Toledo is into week 5 of his 31 post series looking at all aspects of Windows Phone Metro design. This post takes a look at the three key UI concepts beginning with ‘P’ - Panorama, Pivots and Pages, looking at their use and how they are similar to other more familiar design concepts.
• The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources - Bil Simser shares a great collection of Windows Phone development resources, ranging from articles, frameworks, design concepts, training, to marketing and monitzation of applications.
• Winning on the Marketplace: The differentiation game - Paul Laberge discusses how you can make your applications stand out in the Windows Phone Marketplace, including how some application feature will make users love your application all the more.
• Introducing Apache Hadoop Services for Windows Azure - Roger Jennings discusses the use of Apache Hadoop Services on Windows Azure, looking at and highlighting some posts on the concepts and product, before walkig through two tutorials, and highlighting plenty of further resources.
• Find the jQuery Bug #3: Give Me Truth - Elijah Manor is running a series of posts looking at common bugs found in jQuery consuming code, and discussing what the problem is, and how you can resolve the issue.
• Testing a jQuery Plugin with ExpectThat and Mocha - Dan Mohl continues discussion of his ExpectThat library for CoffeeScript / JavaScript assertions, looking in this post at the application of the library in testing a jQuery Plugin
• Using SpecFlow to drive Selenium WebDriver Tests - Eli Weinstock-Herman discusses the use of SpecFlow combined with the Selenium WebDriver to provide a way fo executing tests derived from human readable requirements, running through the process from scenario to working test

Community

• SQL Bits X - The Biggest SQL Event in Europe - Sara Allison highlights the SQL Bits X SQL Server event and the associated training days. SQL Bits is a great conference, with SQL experts from all over the world, and this event is particularly special as it also doubles as the UK launch event for SQL Server 2012. Spaces are limited (although it is a large limit) and registrations for both the ‘pay for’ conference / training days and the Free Community Day are currently open.
• NxtGenUG - Event - Straighten Spaghetti with C# 5 - Jon Skeet takes a trip to Microsoft Research in Cambridge on Thursday 16th February for the NxtGenUG where he will be delivering a session on how C#5 and the new async functionality can help straighten out complex spaghetti code. Be sure to register early for what is bound to be a very popular event.

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• jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released - The jQuery Mobile team announce the release of jQuery Mobile 1.0.1, their first maintenance release which brings support for the Samsung bada platform and UCBrowsers on the Android platform, along with a number of other bugfixes and enhancements.
• IcedCoffeeScript - IcedCoffeeScript is a fork of the main CoffeeScript which adds a number of additional features, most notably await and defer keywords which extend the power of the language with respect to asynchronous control flow, implementing continuation passing style, much like C#5.
• Umbraco CMS - Download: Umbraco CMS 5.0 RC 3 - The 3rd Release candidate of Umbraco CMS V5.0 is now available on CodePlex. This release candidate is likely to be the final one before a production release later this week, so is a great opportunity to get your hands on the new stuff first.
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released - Nathan Totten announces the release of 1.2.2 of his Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. There are no new features over the 1.2.0 beta, but this release is considered to be a stable one, and includes some perforamcne tweaks and improved use of AutoFac for dependency injection.

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• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs of Software Development - Scott Hanselman turns psychologist and discusses the hierarchy of needs looking at applying them to the practices of software development
• Don’t Rely Solely On jQuery’s "keyup" Event - Derick Bailey discusses how relying on the keyup event for change detection in browser input boxes can get your in to trouble when the browser’s auto complete kicks in.
• Perils Of Lambda Capture - Artur Laksberg discusses some of the confusion which arises from the capture of local variables in lambda expressions, especially when the lambdas are used for async code.
• Creating Files through BlobBuilder - Sharon Newman of the Internet Explorer Team discusses the implementation and use of the File API in Internet Explorer 10 which allows developers to read and write files on the client.
• MSDN Magazine February Issue Preview - Michael Desmond gives a teasing taste of what is coming in next month’s MSDN Magazine, due out online shortly.
• Found: Windows Azure Document Treasure Trove! - Peter Laudati highlights a collection of real world Windows Azure Guidance which covers a wide range of Azure topics, from Authentication to storage, via use of PowerShell, Dynamic scaling, and much more.
• Action, Func, void and unit - ‘Flatlander’ discusses the different types of Standard Delegate types which are included in the .NET Framework, looking at the lack of interchange-ability between the types, and looking at how F# provides a contrast to this.
• Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - A fascinating post on Quora discussing via analogy why it is that estimation in software development (and travel by foot over long distances) can be so inaccurate.

Community

• Manchester Meetup. V5 presentation by @mattbrailsford from @Umbraco. - Manchester Umbraco Meetup - The Manchester Umbraco Meetup welcome Matt Brailsford of Umbraco to their February event, taking place on the evening of Wednesday 29th February, which will explore the new features of V5 of Umbraco.

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Update: Some broken HTML merged Derick Bailey and Davy Brion’s links in todays edition - thanks to Oded for letting me know.

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• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh - The Windows Azure Team announce the release of a refresh to the preview of the SQL Azure Data Sync. SQL Azure Data Sync provides a means for you to synchronise data between your on premise databases and those in the cloud, and this refresh addresses a number of issues customer raised, including making it available in all Azure datacentres
• Rockford Lhotka - CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available - Rockford Lhotka announces the alpha release of his CSLA 4 v4.3.0 application framework. The major feature for this release, in addition to the usual bugfixes, is some significant performance improvements to the MobileFormatter which supports serialisation on Silverlight and Windows Phone platforms.
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Anna - Jason Jarrett continues his series of posts looking at interesting projects hosted on the NuGet Feed. This post gives a short introduction to Anna, a HTTP Server library based around the Reactive Extensions,

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• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion - James Michael Hare continues his ‘Little Pitfalls’ series with a look at how a constant zero value can be converted to result in the use of an overload of a function you might not expect
• Modularity And Security In Composite JavaScript Apps - Derick Bailey discusses securing client side applications and preventing users from accessing functionality they are not allowed on the client by making clever use of the module pattern to control the functionality delivered to the client.
• (Ab)Using Conventions To Enforce Good Practices - Davy Brion shares a neat trick using Fluent NHibernate conventions which will help force developers to specify the lengths of strings in the mapping ensuring optimal database performance.
• 3. Pattern Matching - Be Explicit - Dorian Corompt continues this series looking at the various aspects of Functional Programming, in this post exploring the use of Pattern Matching, illustrating its use in F# and discussing some best practices for its use.
• SqlBulkCopy for Generic List<T> (useful for Entity Framework & NHibernate) - Jarod Ferguson discusses the use of SQL Bulk Copy to provide a quick and efficient way of getting large volumes of data into SQL Server data tables
• MVVM on MVC: HTML is not XAML - Jeremy Likness discusses the MVVM pattern, some of its benefits and explores how well it fits with HTML development using libraries like Knockout.js
• Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic - Scott Klein discusses the throttling behaviour of SQL Azure and looks at how you should handle throttling and the retry capabilities you need to bake into your data access to account for it.
• One reason why HTML5 gaming is limping along - Christian Heilmann discusses the disservice that the conversion of games from other platforms to HTML5 based implementations, discussing the disadvantages of this conversion approach rather than writing on the platform from the start, illustrating with discussions of the plight of Commodore 64 games in their later years.
• Happy birthday Commodore 64 - Marcin Dembowski highlights the 30th birthday of the Commodore 64, the computer which started it all for me, and for many others I suspect.
• The HTML5 History API and ASP.NET MVC - Dan Maharry shares an extract from the Manning book HTML5 for .NET Developers which discusses the use of the HTML5 History API.

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• PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code - Jeff Wilcox shares a library for Window Phone 7 Mango which allows you to have your application use the light theme even if the device is set to dark theme, allowing you to give you applications a contrasting look, much like the built in Mail application does. The library is available on NuGet in both source and binary format, and code is also available on GitHub.
• NuGet Project Uncovered: NFeature - Jason Jarrett continues his series of posts looking at some of the interesting recent additions to the NuGet package feed, highlighting NFeature, a library which provides support for Feature Toggles.

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• Event Centric: storing and consuming events - Daniel Cazzulino continues his series of posts discussing the various aspects of event sourcing, taking a look in more detail at the storage of the domain events in an event store and how you can go about consuming them.
• Structure your code by feature - Urs Enzler discusses an alternative approach to structuring your code, looking at structuring it based on feature / requirement, building more structure on top of the standard layered approach and easing maintainability in the long term.
• Implementing resource oriented controllers in ASP.NET MVC - Pablo M. Cibraro discusses the tendency for ASP.NET MVC controllers to be used as a grouping of actions to share URL structures, and looks at an alternative which allows your controller to be simpler and better observe the SOLID principles.
• Solving Real-world Theming Challenges with MVC4 and Sass - Harvey Kandola discusses the lack of theming support in native ASP.NET MVC, and shares his solution to this building upon Sass and utilising some useful IDE extensions to make working with Sass and CSS better.
• Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 - Simplified Configuration Feature - Melissa Amanna highlights one of the key improvements made to WCF in .NET 4, an improvement to the amount of configuration required for your services.
• MicroFinance App, Creating the Front End - Sara Allison shares a piece from Matt Robinson discussing a proof of concept application using HTML5 Canvas, Modernizr and Knockout.js which he was involved in the creation of.
• Debugging IndexedDB Applications - Israel Hilerio discusses and shares the IDBExplorer tool that the Internet Explorer team use to help debug client side code which makes use of the IndexedDB data storage features.
• Software Release Management - Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version - Rob Reynolds discusses the variety of factors which you need to consider when dealing with versioned software releases, looking at the many reasons why people may choose not to use your latest and greatest version.
• Rant: That’;s Not Rest - Derick Bailey wades into the world of REST, a topic which has more than its fair share of confusion about what it actually is and how it should be correctly implemented. Derick shares a collection of resource (and has updated the post with addition ones people suggested).
• Building a large text file editor - Part I - Costin Boldisor kicks off a two part series looking at some of the concepts behind the creation of a text editor which can handle large files, discussion the concept of a revision stream in this first post.
• Deploying "Cloud Numerics" Sample Applications to Windows Azure HPC Clusters - Roger Jennings walks through the process of deploying a sample application of the new Microsoft ‘Cloud Numerics’ platform onto Windows Azure in this step by step post.
• Now, more than ever, you need a designer - Pete Brown discusses the value that a good UX designer can bring to your project, looking back at the history of UX design in software development and highlighting the importance of getting designers involved early in a project.

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• Json.NET - Download: Json.NET 4.0 Release 6 - The JSON.NET Team announce their latest release - 4.0 Release 6. This version adds line numbers to deserialization errors, additional BinaryReader/BinsaryWriter constructor overloads on BSON Readers / Writers, along with fixse for a number of issues.
• Introducing Dragonfly &#8211; another .NET HTTP server - Louis DeJardin introduces a new .NET HTTP Server implementation which provides the OWIN functionality to allow it to act as an application host. The intention of this projects is to provide another reference implementation to validate OWIN and the Gate implementation.
• dotTrace 5.0 Performance Early Access Program - Hadi Harari announces the openign of the Early Access Program for dotTrace version 5.0. This is an opportunity for you to get your hands on the latest pre-release version of dotTrace, and for you to help feedback on the product and assist the development team.

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• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentQueue - Simon Cooper continues his series of posts looking at the internal implementations of the various Concurrent Collections introduced in .NET 4.0. This post explores the Concurrent Queue, looking first at the non-concurrent queue, and seeing how the concurrent one differs, before deriving some key concurrency principles from the implementation.
• Advanced APM Consumption in Async Methods - Stephen Toub discusses how you are able to consume an existing Asynchronous Programming Model implementation without first wrapping it in a task, an advanced approach which reduces some of the overheads of the task wrapping approach.
• NuGet Project Uncovered: PineCone & NuGet Project Uncovered: xizzle - Jason Jarrett highlights two NuGet packages as a part of his NuGet Project Uncovered series which aims to look at interesting and less well known projects which have recently been released as NuGet Packages.
• Picking a domain for CQRS Journey RI - Grigori Melnik feeds back some of the initial findings and thinking following the Patterns and Practices CQRS questionnaire, discussing one of the key questions - what domain should the reference implementation cover.
• Windows Azure and Cloud9 IDE at Node Summit - Glen Block highlights the work undertaken in getting Node.js running as a platform on Windows Azure and summarises the goings on at the NodeSummit, giving particular attention to the use of the Cloud9 web based IDE which can be used to develop and deploy Node.js based applications straight to Windows Azure, as demonstrated by Scott Guthrie.
• Some Thoughts On Functional JavaScript - Derick Bailey shares some of his experiments writing Functional Style code in JavaScript, looking at how some of the key fundamental principles of Functional Programming can be implemented using JavaScript.
• Resources for getting started with Backbone.js - Jarod Ferguson shares a great collection of resources about Bakbone.js which will help you go from zero to hero with this client side framework.
• Get involved in Open Source today - How to contribute a patch to a GitHub hosted Open Source project like Code 52 - Scott Hanselman highlights the Code52 project which is aiming to develop a new application each week of the year, and with 3 interesting projects under their belt already is certainly one to watch. Scott discusses how you can get involved with open source projects like this by running through the process of submitting a patch to a project hosted on GitHub.
• Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC views - Rachel Appel discusses the use of the Bing Maps API in your ASP.NET MVC views, walking through the getting started and consuming some of the basic features of the API
• "A Lap Around Windows Phone 7.5" webcast now available on-demand - Paul Laberge highlights the availability of the video recording of his ‘A Lap Around Windows Phone 7.5′ webcast from last week. This is 3 hours of content looking at how to build applications on the Windows Phone 7.5 platform, from idea to marketplace.
• If I can build a phone app anyone can: Changing the keyboard and IsNumeric - Susan Ibach continues her Windows Phone Development series which is exploring some of the common questions which arise in Windows Phone development. This post looks at adding validation to inputs and controlling which mode the onscreen keyboard appears in.

Community

• SQL Server 2012 launches March 7th… with a free virtual launch event - Greg Duncan highlights the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event which is taking place on Wednesday 7th March, offering range of learning opportunities with SQL server team members and partners, along with the change to engage with the community and win some prizes.

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