The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the F# 3.0 Open Source Code Drop – Visual F# Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Don Syme announces the open source code drop of the F#3.0 source code, released under an Apache License. The code is included in the F# PowerPack CodePlex Project, and by releasing it open source it is hoped that it will assist tools vendors to create exciting tooling and libraries for working with F#
• jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Release Candidate 2 – The jQuery Mobile Team announce their second release candidate release of jQuery Mobile 1.2.0, addressing reported issues, and rounding out features prior to the next release which will be the final 1.2.0 release.
• CSLA 4 version 4.5 beta 1 released – Rockford Lhotka announces the first beta release of his CSLA 4 version 4.5 Application Framework, a release which supports .NET 4, .NET 4.5, WinRT, and Silverlight 5, and bei9ng a first beta introduces a number of new features
• Open Sourcing POSH-NPM, a set of Powershell scripts to enable tab-completion for NPM command – Claudio Caldato highlights a new open source release from Microsoft which adds better integration for npm into PowerShell, enabling tab autocompletion for npm commands

Information

• A Bug Report is a Gift – Scott Hanselman discusses the issues surrounding getting good bug reports from people using your software, looking at some approaches taken by larger software companies which you can adopt into your own software
• Control the Complexity of Your JavaScript Functions with JSHint – Elijah Manor takes a look at how you can explore the complexity of your JavaSCript code using JSHint to provide you with metrics about your code, and takes a look at what those metrics mean.

Community

• Windows Azure Community Conference CloudBurst 2012 will be streamed Live! – Magnus Mårtensson highlights the Community Windows Azure Conference CloudBurst 2012, which is now practically fully booked, and announces that the conference will be streamed live, giving those not able to attend access to 2 days of great Azure content.
• DunDDD – DunDDD is a DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper community event being organised in Dundee, Scotland on the Saturday 17th November. This is a free community conference, and the call for speakers is currently open, as too are registrations.

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