The Morning Brew

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• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 Beta – The jQuery Mobile Team announce the release of jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 Beta, a release which is focusing on improving the libraries capabilities for responsive web design, and adding further widgets.
• Microsoft ASP.NET SignalR 1.0.0-rc2 – The SignalR team have released the second release candidate release of SignalR 1.0, available now from NuGet (don’t forget to look in the pre-releases packages)
• ANTS Performance Profiler 8 Beta Release – The fine folks over at Redgate are working hard on the next release of their ANTS Performance Profiler, and currently have a beta release out, from which they are looking to get user feedback, especially about some of the new features such as profiling of Windows Store applications and async code.
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-008 – Critical – Tyson Storey of the Internet Explorer Team highlights a critical out of band security update for Internet Explorer 6,7 and 8 on both Windows Client and Server SKUs

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• Starting Windows Phone Development: Lesson 2 of n – Access to Application Isolated Local Storage – Bandar Alsharfi continues a series exploring the different possibilities for data storage in Windows Phone applications, looking at storing data in the Isolated Local Storage of the phone.
• Building a Game With JavaScript: Start Screen – Christopher Bennage is in the early phase of a new series of posts looking at building a game in JavaScript, looking at the drawing to a canvas in this second part of the series.
• Using PhoneGap in Windows Store Applications – Mihail Mateev takes a look at building Windows Store application using the PhoneGap, looking at the similarities between building an application using pure PhoneGap and Standard JavaScript / HTML Windows Store applications, and looking at combining the two to build a PhoneGap WinJS application.
• YUIConf 2012 Talk: Tilo Mitra on Building Native Windows 8 Apps with YUI – Andrew Wooldridge shares a session from Tilo Mitra at the YUI Conf event, where he looked at using the the YUI libraries as a part of a Windows 8 Store application
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 – Brian Keller shares the news of a V2 release of OData based services for Team Foundation Server, along with a supporting and consuming Windows8 Store application, allowing access to data held in the TFS system
• Finding jQuery Event Handlers with Visual Event – K. Scott Allen takes a look at debugging event handlers attached to HTML elements, highlighting a useful bookmarklet which inspects the DOM and reveals what the events are that are attached to DOM elements, and where they came from.
• i00 Spell Check and Control Extensions, Stand alone, no third party components, offline… and free (and in VB too!) – Greg Duncan highlights an older, but still actively maintained library for adding spell checking to your Windows based applications, implemented in VB.NET (but can be used from other languages).

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Update: Looks like a couple of todays links got hit by the ‘rouge rogue r’ in the URL bug – actually its down to me manually removing the Google Reader added analytics referal, and ocasionally missing the last ‘r’ of reader. The Umbraco and Should Assertion Library links should now be working correctly – thanks to those who let me know

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• FubuMVC Turns 1.0 – Jeremy Miller announces the 1.0 release of the main FubuMVC libraries (FubuMVC.Core, FubuMVC.StructureMap, FubuMVC.AutoFac, FubuMVC.Core.UI, and the view engines)available now as a v1.0 on NuGet. This is a major milestone for the project, and marks a level of comfort with the internal architecture of the project.
• Meet the future of Umbraco: v6 beta – The Umbraco team give a sneak peek at the things to expect from their next major release, Umbraco v6, including new features and some breaking changes. The v6 product is now in beta and available for download to try out.
• The power behind PowerShell, "Wndows PowerShell Language Specification Version 3.0" – Greg Duncan highlights the availability of the PowerShell Language Specification v3 which includes all the details of the programmability of PowerShell, in a 334 page document.

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• Cooperatively pausing async methods – Stephen Toub takes a look at the pausing of async methods, looking at implementing a PauseToken which can e giving to methods to allow them to be signalled to pause, and looks at the implementation and use of this and the related types.
• Are your unit tests still hard to read ? – Should Assertion Library – Eric Hexter shares the Should Assertion Library, and a set of resources to detail its use in providing simpler more readable assertion methods for your tests by way of extension methods available on all types.
• Easy ASP.NET Web API resource updates with Delta<T> – Filip W takes a look at the Delta<T> dynamic proxy class included in the Microsoft ASP.NET WebAPI OData pre-release package, looking at how it provides an easy way of mapping between data and view models, and exploring how you can use it in more general contexts.
• ASP.NET MVC 4: What else? – Dino Esposito takes a look at the value of templates in your ASP.NET MVC web development, discussing what is available and how it can help you be more productive, and explores thoughts on how templates can be made even better and more interactive.
• What’s Hot in the World of JavaScript and SPAs? – Dan Wahlin takes a look at the range of and features of various data and script libraries used in Single Page Applications
• MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 4 (Fluent Import) – Bnaya Eshet continues his exploration of Version 2.0 of the Managed Extensibility Framework with a look a the Fluent Import API
• .NET: String Constants vs Static Readonly Fields – Ivan Krivyakov takes a look at the difference in meaning between a static readonly string and a const string.
• The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video – Scott Hanselman shares a 25 minute getting started with Windows8 video he created which may be of great use to anyone with non-tech family and friends making the jump to Windows 8

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• XDT (web.config) transform engine released on NuGet – Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi announces the release of the XDT Web.config Transform Engine available on NuGet and licensed to allow you to redistribute it in your own products.
• jQuery 1.9 RC1 and Migrate RC1 Released – The jQuery Team announce the release of the Release Candidate 1 release of jQuery 1.9, along with the release candidate of the jQuery Migrate plugin which helps with transitioning to 1.9 with its newly removed depreciated features.
• jQuery UI 1.10 Release Candidate (RC1) – Not to be left out, the jQuery UI team also announce the release candidate of their 1.10 release. The Release Candidate addresses some issues reported in the beta, but other than that is fundamentally the same with no new features added.
• Umbraco 4.11.2 Released – The Umbraco Team announce the release of Version 4.11.2 of Umbraco available now on CodePlex. The release is an easy upgrade to existing 4.10 and 4.11 users and addresses a variety of issues along with bringing some features in from the future V6 version.

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• Nullable micro-optimization, part five – Eric Lippert continues his series of posts looking at the optimisations that the C# Compiler is able to do when working with Nullable Types, looking at how the compiler can distribute the lifted operators as they are represented as a conditional expression.
• Hidden Pitfalls With Object Initializers – Phil Haack discusses the use of Visual Studio Code Analysis (FxCop) in helping you to write the best code possible, reminding you of all the strange and wonderful things that can catch you out, before moving on to look specifically at some interesting behaviour of Object Initializers.
• Automating the cloud with Windows Azure Command Line Tools – Glenn Block gives pointers to a number of great resources for working with Windows Azure from the command line in a number of different environments (bash, PowerShell, Visual Studio, Cloud 9, etc)
• p & p Data Access Guidance Survey is live! – Andrew Oakley announces a survey from the Patterns and Practices Team which will go towards shaping their new Database and Data Access Guidance Project. Get your feedback in to help shape what goes into the guidance.
• Using database in Windows Store apps (I) – Aaron Xue discusses a variety of techniques for attaching to data storage in databases in Windows 8 Store Applications in this new series exploring SQLite, Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), WCF, and remote database access.
• Using the VM Depot – Larry Franks shares is findings working with Virtual Machines from the VM Depot on Windows Azure, walking through the process of getting them up and running.
• Looking into the ASP.Net Web API – part 1 – Nikolaos Kantzelis kicks off another series of posts this time looking at the ASP.NET Web API, creating a simple application which illustrates its use in creating services.
• D3 crash course – Espen Harlinn takes a look at the interesting and powerful D3 (Data Driven Documents) JavaScript library for creating impressive visualisations of data, giving a nice overview of some of its capabilities
• Associating Windows Store Apps with Websites – Christian Nagel discusses how you can associate a Windows Store Application with your website, and showing how Internet Explorer provides the connection between the web page, store and application.
• 50! As in 50 "store ready" Windows 8 application templates (in both C#/XAML & HTML/JS)….(and free!) – Greg Duncan highligjhts 50 Windows Store application Templates, which are nicely designed and ‘Windows Store Ready’ giving you a great headstart in getting your own application underway.

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• No DDD South West In 2013 – Guy Smith-Ferrier announces the sad news that there will be no DDD South West in 2013. DDD South West has been a great conference, and the one at which I started my conference speaking. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Guy, Rob, Rachel, Martyn, Chris and Ross for all their hard work and effort arraigning a series of great events. I look forward to a possible return of DDD South West in future years.

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