The Morning Brew

Ian Obermiller has crafted a rather nifty mobile version of The Morning Brew, using NodeJS, Express, FeedParser, request, Jade, and Stylus, all hosted on Windows Azure at http://mbmobile.azurewebsites.net/. Ian has made the source available on GitHub at https://github.com/ianobermiller/morningbrewmobile, so I plan to have a little read this weekend and learn a bit more about Node.

Software

• SignalR 1.1 beta – David Fowler highlights the release of SignalR 1.1 Beta which features some significant performance improvements along with a number of new features, and a substantial re-engineering of the Scale out story
• Recent NuGet Gallery Updates – The NuGet Gallery Team share the details of the latest changes they have made in the past couple of fortnightly releases

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• Collaborative route planner with SignalR, Knockout.js and Google Maps – StrathWeb – Filip W shares an article he has written for Tech.Pro which looks at the building of a collaborative route planning application based on Google Maps, using SignalR to handle the real time collaboration and Knockout.js for client side data binding
• Angry Birds of JavaScript: Mighty Eagle – Automation & AngleBrackets Sessions and Slides – Elijah Manor shares the final part of his Angry Birds inspired series looking at front end architecture. This post looks at the Grunt task-based command line tool which allows you to script and automate your processes. Elijah also shares the slides from his AngleBrackets conference presentation based on the series of posts.
• Slides and Code from my AngleBrackets/DevIntersection Talks: AngularJS, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and JavaScript – While we are on the subject of AngleBrackets, Dan Wahlin shares the slides from his three sessions looking at AngualrJS for Single Page Applications, JavaScript patterns for clean code, and end to end ASP.NET MVC 4 with Entity Framework and jQuery
• Working with Promises in Windows Store Apps – Bipin Joshi takes a look at the use of promises in JavaScript based Windows Store Applications
• SymbolSource support for NuGet Package Source Discovery – Maarten Balliauw highlights a recent improvement to NuGet Package Source Discovery, a NuGet Package which locates the source for the package, and now adds support for configuring Visual Studio to find the published symbols for the package too.
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Handlers – Ricardo Peres takes a look at the use of HttpHandlers to extend ASP.NET Web Forms application functionality.
• Judged by its Cover – Friend of The Brew, Mark Nijhof has been hard at work on a LeanPub book on CQRS, which focuses on the building up of an example application which illustrates some of the key concepts of CQRS

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• 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.

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• 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

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• April 2013 Internet Explorer Updates – The Internet Explorer Team highlights the April security updates for Internet Explorer, one addressing critical security issues in IE6-10 on both client and server SKUs, the other a security advisory/update for Flash in IE10

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• Walkthrough #3: Developing Multi-Tenant Web Applications with Windows Azure AD – Vittorio Bertocci highlights another Walkthrough which takes you through the use of Windows Azure AD, looking at how you can use the new functionality to support multi-tenancy in your applications
• How to use Windows Azure Table Storage in Windows Azure Mobile Services – Paolo Salvatori takes a look a plugging in Windows Azure Table Storage into Windows Azure Mobile Services, replacing the use of SQL Azure, illustrating with a sample application.
• Building Secure Windows Phone 8 Apps – The Platform & APIs and Techniques – Jonathan Rozenblit shares two guest posts from Mark Arteaga looking at the security features of the Windows Phone Platform and some of the APIs present whcih enable you to write secure applications.
• Multiple WCF EndPoints are not only about having Multiple Addresses Dude! | debug mode…… – Dhananjay Kumar discusses the use of end points in WCF services, highlighting the various components which make up and end point
• Asynchronous programming in C# using async and await – Motti Shaked gives an introduction to the concepts of async/await in C#5, looking at the basic use cases, and exploring exception handling.
• Beginning Distributed Version Control with Mercurial – Tom Fischer gives an overview of Distributed Version Control, using Mercurial as the example, illustrating how distributed version control differs from traditional centralised version control, and discusses the use of Mercurial in performing common Version Control tasks.
• NancyFX – Implementing your own routing! – Phillip Haydon takes a look at the upcoming routing re-write in NancyFx 0.17, showing how easily you can now implement your own routing

Community

• NxtGenUG Event: Pragmatic Dependency Injection – The Oxford NxtGenUG welcome Ian Russell for a session on dependency injection, looking at the concepts, the reasons you should consider using it, and looking at how you go about implementing it in your projects. The event takes place on the evening of Tuesday 16th April
• Open Source .NET Podcast #1 – Nick Berardi highlights his first podcast with Justin Rusbatch in what he hopes will become a new podcast series looking at Open Source development in .NET and also looks to the community for suggestions for a name, logo, additional podcaster, and intro/exit music

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