jQuery 1.8.3 Released – The jQuery Team announce the release of jQuery 1.8.3, currently available from jquery, with updates expected to appear on the various CDN’s shortly. The release resolves a number of reported issues.
Update on Windows Phone 8 support for Rx v2.0 – The Reactive Extensions team give an update on the support for Window Phone 8, explaining why they have removed the Windows Phone 8 binaries due to issues with the signing of the assemblies.
ASP.NET Web API and dependencies in request scope – Fillip W takes a look at controlling the life cycle of objects which need to be request scoped (such as units of work) in WebAPI services, exploring the use of Inversion of Control container to achieve this.
Windows 8 Store Apps – Debugging Background Tasks – Mike Taulty highlights a some neat support in the debugger for working with WinRT based applications background tasks, allowing you to easily trigger them in your debugging session, and also taking a look at controlling the application in the debugger.