Software
- jQuery 2.0 Beta 3 Released – Dave Methvin announces the release of jQuery 2.0 Beta 3, and appeals to the community to help out with the testing of this significant update the the jQuery library
- Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.3.1 – Todd Parker announces the release of jQuery Mobile 1.3.1, a maintenance release of 1.3 with nearly 50 improvements and bugfixes, along with the addition of Sourcemap support from the minified version.
- YUI 3.9.1 Released – Andrew Wooldridge announces the latest bugfix release of the YUI framework, which addresses an issue with the included version of Handlebars which has been causing problems with nested blocks in templates
- Updates (some API changes) to the Azure Mobile Services iOS SDK – Carlos Fugueira highlights an updated release of the iOS SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services which includes a number of changes to the interface based upon feedback from the community.
Information
- Revisiting Value Types vs. Reference Types – Sasha Goldshtein takes a look at the reasons why the .NET Framework and Framework languages have both reference and value type implementations
- Angry Birds of JavaScript: Big Brother Bird – Patterns – Elijah Manor continues his Front End Architecture series with a look at the use of development patterns in JavaScript, exploring and sharing the implementations of a number of common patterns implemented in JavaScript.
- IoC containers: where you define the seams of applications – Nathan Evans takes a look at the use of Inversion of Control Containers, looking at using them in the big ‘seam’ parts of the application, as well as their use in managing some of the little less significant parts, sharing some best practices along the way.
- Windows task manager shows wrong CPU Speed when using Hyper-V – Scott Hanselman discusses what appears to be the disabling of the variable CPU speed once you’ve enabled Hyper-V on Windows8, showing that actually its just the Hypervisor lying to the OS.
- Git Integration in Visual Studio 2012 after Update 2 – Suprotim Agarwal recaps the integration of Visual Studio with Git Version control, looking at its use once you have installed Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
- How can I use Visual Studio to create pure client-side web apps using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript? – Thomas Petchel highlights some work he an David Hsu have done to bring a pure HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript template to Visual Studio, making it easy for pure front end development to be done within a Visual Studio project type
- Say What? Incorporating Windows Phone 8 Speech Recognition into Your Apps – Michael Crump highlights his latest article in Visual Studio Magazine which looks at the use of Speech Recognition on the Windows 8 platform.
Community
- Learn F# – Hands On: This Thursday, London F# Meetup – Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Related Topics – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Don Syme highlights the London F# Meetup tonight (Thursday) at SkillsMatter where they will be running a ‘Learn F# Hands on’ session