Javascript design patterns

An online book on Learning Javascript design patterns.

TM should not apply to single words

'Candy' trademark prompts protest

"Super candy handy mandy saga" sounds like an interesting game. It is daft to let companies trademark a single word.

How large companies innovate

It seems one way large companies innovate is to make their staff redundant.

Javascript games

Html5 and javascript games articles

E-books

Microsoft e-books landing page

MVC drop down list boxes

A nice example from Jon Galloway of using the new Enum Support in ASP.NET MVC Views and the “Html.EnumDropDownListFor” helper to create a drop-down list box.

What’s new in MVC 5.1

What’s new in MVC 5.1

Daniel Roth announces Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1

Daniel Roth announces Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1

Azure deep dive

A week-long series of live, interactive sessions from the experts who built Azure that will show you how to start using Windows Azure in your solutions today.

EF identity

K Scot Allen on Entity Framework and ASP.NET identity

Ex Nokia employees launch phone

Jolla:Ex-Nokia employees launch smartphone

Ex-Nokia employees launch a non-Windows smartphone.

I wish them good luck with this, if it is the phone Nokia would have made without the intervention of Microsoft then it deserves to succeed.

From the pictures it looks to be an attractive phone,the homescreen has none of the (IMHO) awful hideousness of the current Nokia phones. Great that it runs Android apps too.

BitTorrent

Interview with Bram Cohen on BitTorrent

EF6

Entity framework 6 RTM

VS2013

What’s new in Visual Studio 2013…

How to opt out of googles ads

Link to Naked Security article on how to opt out of Googles latest advertising scheme.

More entity framework stuff

Julie Lerman on the EF Designer.

Entity framework stuff

Link to EF Power Tools… “The EF Power Tools provide a preview of features that we are considering adding to the main Entity Framework tooling in a future release.”
Looks useful, worth trying now.

The race to the bottom

$10 an hour?  For a consultant. Really??

That’s £6.28 at today’s exchange rate.

UK National Minimum wage is £6.31 per hour.

How much do you value your business? I mean if it is not that important to you then great!

Asp.net mvc4 course

Jon Galloway – free ASP.NET MVC4 course

Online university courses

FutureLearn provides free online courses from UK Universities.
This one looks like a fun starter course for programmers who want to get into mobile games.