I will miss the"Douglas Crockford of browsers" – Christian Heilmann highlights the news that Opera will soon be using the WebKit and V8 rendering engine and JavaScript engine, abandoning their own implementations in favour of standardisation across all their platforms.
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Mocking with Foq – Phil Trelford gives an introduction to Foq, a simple mocking framework for F# which can be consumed by other CLR languages to whcih can be included in your projects as a NuGet Package or just a single file include in your project.
HTML input types – Continuing with a modern HTML theme, Scott Dorman takes a look at the behaviour of the HTML5 input box type support, and how it changes the input types available on virtual keyboards on IE10 / Window 8
Functional Programming In A Nutshell – A slightly older article than I usual include here, from Luis Aguilar, which takes a nice introductory look at the concepts and practices in Functional Programming, illustrating the concepts with concrete examples.
NxtGenUG – Event: Windows Phone 8 + Windows 8 – Andy Wigley joins the Birmingham NxtGenUG for a session on Tuesday 19th February whcih will take a look at building applications for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, looking at how the similarities between the platforms helps make efficient development possible.