The Morning Brew

Software

• Version 0.8.2 (stable) – The Node.js team announce the release of version 0.8.2 (stable) which includes updates to npm, along with a variety of fixes for reported bugs. The release is available for all major platforms and also as source.
• More info on the availability dates of Windows 8 for education – Ray Fleming shares the news on the planned release dates for Windows 8 with RTM at the beginning of August, and general availability and Surface coming at the end of October.

Information

• Node.js development with WebMatrix 2 and Express – Steve Sanderson discusses the use of WebMatrix 2 as an IDE for working with Node.js and shares the first of three screencasts looking at building mobile single page applications using Node.
• JavaScript Data Binding Frameworks – Dan Wahlin highlights the multitude of JavaScript Data Binding frameworks which bring rich data binding capabilities to your client side code, discussing the approach needed when working with these types of framework.
• "JavaScript Succinctly" – Another free (reg-ware) eBook from Syncfusion – Greg Duncan highlights another free e-book from the folks over at Syncfusion which, in its 140+ pages, takes a look at the key basics of working with JavaScript, a great primer for the language.
• Integrating Knockout, JSRender, and Tweeter bootstrap with MVC4 – Slava Khristich walks through the use of JSRender templates in a Knockout.Js based ASP.NET MVC4 application, throwing in some use of Twitter’s BootStrap for good measure.
• Twitter Bootstrap styling conflicts with plug-ins like jqGrid and other third part libraries – Renso Hollhumer discusses the problem of having too generic CSS selectors like in Twitter’s BootStrap, and some of the problems it can cause with other libraries, looking at a solution to the problem.
• Implementing synchronous MediaTypeFormatters in ASP.NET Web API – Pablo M. Cibraro looks at the implementation of your own MediaTypeFormatters in ASP.NET WebAPI, discussing how the framework makes use of the Task Parallel Library to make them Asynchronous, and explores how you can take some synchronous work and make it fit this model.
• CLR Hosting – Customizing the CLR – Part 2 – Mattias Högström continues his look at hosting the .NET CLR in a custom process, looking in this part at how you can manipulate the CLR and provide your own exception logging, increased security, assembly loading, and memory handling.
• StreamInsight 2.1, meet LINQ – The StreamInsight Team discuss the use of LINQ, and delve behind the screen of magic to look at how it actually works behind the scenes, before exploring how they have introduced LINQ to perform operations in StreamInsight.
• How important is HTML5 Off Line ? – Joe Stagner discusses the role of Offline support in HTML5, especially how important it is in making good affordable mobile applications.

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