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• Simplest Thing Possible: Introduction to TypeScript
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 May/Jun
  Release Date: Saturday, April 06, 2013
  Quick ID: 1305051
  TypeScript is a new Microsoft offering that seeks to change the way we write JavaScript. As the name implies, TypeScript associates a strongly typed layer in conjunction with JavaScript. TypeScript also associates an object-oriented layer with JavaScript.
  
  
• Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and javaScript UNLEASHED - Chapter 1
  
  Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts
  Release Date: Monday, April 01, 2013
  Quick ID: 1304033
  In Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed, author Stephen Walther covers everything you need to build, test, and distribute outstanding Windows 8 software with JavaScript and HTML5. Walther clearly demonstrates the unique advantages Windows 8 offers to web developers. He guides you through using Microsoft’s new WinJS library to develop apps for Microsoft’s brand-new version of Windows--you learn how to use JavaScript templates, controls, and data binding. You’ll find in-depth coverage of everything from displaying data with a ListView control to supporting SkyDrive cloud storage, creating games to using IndexedDB and HTML5 forms.
  
  
• The Easiest Path to Windows 8: HTML + CSS + JavaScript
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Mar/Apr
  Release Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2013
  Quick ID: 1304051
  Sometimes it happens that a new version of an operating system introduces a new type of application completely incompatible with older versions of the same system. The last time it happened I think it was with Windows 95. More than 15 years later, Windows 8 comes with support for a completely new segment of applications named Windows Store apps.
  
  
• Simplest Thing Possible: Introduction to Knockout.js
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Mar/Apr
  Release Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2013
  Quick ID: 1304061
  It seems you cannot turn in one direction or another and not hear about a new JavaScript library or CSS framework that promises to be the silver bullet-to be THE thing that will make web-based application development a breeze. This article will introduce you to Knockout.js (http://knockoutjs.com/). Knockout.js is an open source library (under the MIT License) that is pure JavaScript that works with any existing web framework and every mainstream browser. Further, Knockout.js is fully documented with a complete set of online tutorials. What does Knockout.js do? It simplifies the task of building data-aware web UIs through the application of the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern. Regardless of the business problem your web applications are built to solve, all web applications, and just about every other application for that matter, shares the following characteristics:
  
  
• Chapter 7 from Murach’s JavaScript and jQuery.
  
  Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts
  Release Date: Monday, February 04, 2013
  Quick ID: 1301013
  Now that you have the JavaScript skills that you need for using jQuery, you’re ready to learn jQuery. So, in chapter 7, you’ll learn a working subset of jQuery that will get you off to a fast start. And in chapter 8, you’ll learn how to use the jQuery effects and animations that can bring a web page to life.
  
  
• Introducing Windows Azure Hosted Node.js
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Jan/Feb
  Release Date: Monday, December 10, 2012
  Quick ID: 1301051
  In a previous article, I wrote about how simple it is to deploy an ASP.NET MVC Web Application to Windows Azure using Team Foundation Service hosted at tfspreview.com. In this article, I will build on those concepts and show you how to build and deploy a simple Node.js website to Azure using Git as the source code repository. One of Azure’s core strengths is its openness. In addition to the .NET SDK, Azure has SDKs for Java, PHP, Python and for the purposes of this article, Node.js. That openness also extends to Azure hosted Virtual Machines where Ubuntu, openSUSE and SUSE Linux are supported in addition to core Microsoft server technologies such as Windows Server 2012/2008 and SQL Server. In this article, I’ll provide a brief primer on Node.js, Git and how those technologies are first class citizens in Azure. One technology you will not find in this article is Visual Studio! We’ll use Notepad as our sole developer IDE!
  
  
• Smartassets.io: Amazon Web Services by Example
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Jan/Feb
  Release Date: Monday, December 10, 2012
  Quick ID: 1301061
  My first experience with AWS was building a prototype for a website called Attachments.me. My friend Jesse Miller and I built the site over several weekends, and hosted it on a single EC2 instance. Two years, dozens of EC2 instances, and hundreds of thousands of users later, we’re still on AWS.
  
  
• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Nov/Dec
  Release Date: Thursday, October 04, 2012
  Quick ID: 1211041
  Microsoft has added an abundance of new features and functionality to ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012. This article provides an overview of many of those new features and enhancements ranging from improved editors for HTML, CSS and JavaScript all the way through to publishing your work to the web.
  
  
• Building Web APIs with Node.js and MongoDB
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Sep/Oct
  Release Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012
  Quick ID: 1210041
  Node.js by itself is a blank canvas. However, the Express.js web framework for Node.js provides programmers with a clear, concise development platform to build high performance Web APIs.
  
  
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Highlights - Part 2: Bundling and Minification
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jul/Aug
  Release Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012
  Quick ID: 1208071
  In the first installment of this series, I explored a few of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 4, including the new default project templates, mobile templates, and display modes. Since that article, ASP.NET MVC 4 has been released to beta. For brevity’s sake, when I refer to MVC the design pattern, I’m referring to the ASP.NET implementation of the pattern. In this installment, I’m going to focus on one of MVC’s most useful features: integrated JavaScript and CSS bundling and minification.
  
  
• Introducing a huMONGOus Database
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Mar/Apr
  Release Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012
  Quick ID: 1203071
  Nowadays archiving, searching and processing the explosion of data generated in applications means coming up with nontraditional ways of dealing with the data. NoSQL solutions offer intriguing and unique ways of handling the volumes of data available to us. Additionally, 10Gen offers an open source distributed document-oriented solution called MongoDB.
  
  
• Introducing jQuery Mobile
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jan/Feb
  Release Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011
  Quick ID: 1201041
  The newest member of the jQuery family of projects is jQuery Mobile. A good way to describe what jQuery Mobile is to think of it as jQuery UI for mobile devices. If you have wanted to write mobile-optimized UIs over your applications, jQuery Mobile is a library that you will want to add to your bag of tricks. Like jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile is themeable. This article makes two assumptions. First, you are familiar with jQuery and second, you are familiar with jQuery UI. If you are not familiar with jQuery or jQuery UI, I suggest that you take a moment to familiarize yourself with those libraries. Fortunately, the websites for these projects (jquery.com and jQueryUI.com respectively) are replete with comprehensive documentation and code examples. jQuery Mobile is no different. The official website for jQuery Mobile is jquerymobile.com. As of this writing, jQuery Mobile 1.0 Beta 3 has been released. Its beta status notwithstanding, jQuery Mobile is ready for primetime and has been incorporated into many applications already. In this article, I will cover what you need to get started with some simple examples that illustrate how to create one page and multi-page apps. In addition, I’ll touch upon the theming capabilities in jQuery Mobile.
  
  
• Developing a Metro Style App with HTML and JavaScript
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Nov/Dec
  Release Date: Friday, October 21, 2011
  Quick ID: 1112031
  Microsoft unveiled the Windows Developer Preview, a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers, at the Microsoft BUILD conference in September 2011. The most compelling new feature for developers and users alike is the new Metro style user interface.
  
  
• Build an HTML5 Offline Application with Application Cache, Web Storage and ASP.NET MVC
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Nov/Dec
  Release Date: Friday, October 21, 2011
  Quick ID: 1112051
  The modern web ecosystem is made up of many different types of scenarios of how users interact with online content. With the increasing popularity of mobile devices along with countless hours at Starbucks and on airplanes, users may often find themselves in a position of wanting to use web content while not being able to enjoy reliable and continual access to the Internet.
  
  
• Introduction to HTML5
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Jul/Aug
  Release Date: Sunday, July 03, 2011
  Quick ID: 1108071
  As the bedrock to the web, HTML has evolved in many ways from its birth in 1991. While the markup language has had its share of ups and downs, the advent of what’s being called “HTML5” is a welcome and much anticipated addition of new semantic capabilities and valuable APIs.
  
  
• Discovering MooTools
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 May/Jun
  Release Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011
  Quick ID: 1105051
  MooTools is an object-oriented JavaScript framework aimed at experienced web developers who need to write effective code quickly, effectively, and in a cross-browser manner. Dino walks you through how to use it and why you just might want to.
  
  
• An Introduction to node.js
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 May/Jun
  Release Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011
  Quick ID: 1105081
  Brian explores node.js and shows you the basic concepts needed to develop with it.
  
  
• Creating Wijmo: The New JavaScript Library in Town
  
  Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 May/Jun
  Release Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011
  Quick ID: 1105071
  Wijmo contains over 30 widgets built on jQuery and jQuery UI that can help you build a better Web.