The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Final – The jQuery Mobile team announce the official release of jQuery Mobile 1.2. This release has been through various preview releases, and the team now feel it is ready to be classed as a final release including new controls, over 100 enhancements, all from a contribution team of almost 200 people!
• Announcing! Windows 8 Bing Maps SDK is Available! – Jerry Nixon highlights the release of the Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store applications, allowing your Windows Store (nee Metro) applications built using JavaScript, C#, C++ and Visual Basic to include mapping functionality.

Information

• Part 1 of 4: Introduction to Consuming Azure Mobile Services from Android , Part 2 of 4 , Part 3 of 4 & Part 4 of 4 – BrunoTerkaly shares another 4 part series looking at consuming Windows Azure Mobile Services from native Android applications, running through the server setup and creating an application to consume the exposed services.
• Extending Objects in Dojo – Chris Missal continues this series looking at the extending of JavaScript Objects using a variety of JavaScript frameworks, In this post Chris takes a look at the use of the Dojo framework which takes a different approach to object extension.
• Using Source Maps with TypeScript & PubSub in TypeScript – Aaron Powell discusses the purpose and use of Source Maps to help when working with obfuscated and minified JavaScript code, looking at the support for Source Maps built in to the TypeScript Compiler. Aaron also shares a short TypeScript Example of Publish/Subscribe, which he considers to be his ‘Hello World’ example.
• MSDN Magazine: October 2012 – The October Edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, featuring articles on iOS and Windows Phone Development, Task Parallel Libarary, OData, Cloud Numerics, along with the usual columns.
• Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012 – Sara Thomas takes a look at the Multilingual App Toolkit for Windows Store applications, and extension for Visual Studio 2012 for Windows 8 (which includes the Express Edition) and provides easy mechanisms to assist you in the translation of your application using Machine Translation Services and localizers.
• Scripting Web API self host with Roslyn CTP – Part 2 – Filip W returns with the second aprt of this series looking at combining WebAPI with Roslyn to provide scriptable use of WebAPI.
• Advanced Options of ASP.NET Bundling and Minification – Imran Baloch takes a look at some of the more advanced features and configuration of the ASP.NET Bundling and Minification features

Community

• NxtGenUG – Event: Lions and tigers and hackers, – Phil Winstanley visits the Manchester / Warrington / Daresbury NxtGenUG for a session looking at a variety of ‘cyber threats’ on the evening of Monday 15th October 2012
• Event: Umbraco UK Festival 2012 – 26th October 2012 – Sarah Lamb highlights third annual Umbraco UK Festival, being held on Friday the 26th October 2012 in London. Registration is required for this event, and there is a very small charge (£13.50) tpo register, but the event has a great speaker lineup and is sure to be well worth a visit if you do anything Umbraco.
• NxtGenUG – Event: Using Intellitrace to Fix Prod – Tarun Arora visits the Birmingham NxtGenUG for a session looking at performance problem debugging in the production environment on the evening of Tuesday 23rd October 2012.

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