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Leveraging Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7 (Mango)
Earlier this month at DevConnections, I gave a presentation on Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7. The next week, I got to join Jesse Liberty on his podcast interviewing Peter Torr, a Prinicpal Product Manager on the Windows Phone team who's written a lot of great content about this exact subject.
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15 Pragmatic JavaScript Tips for ASP.NET Developers
The goal here is pragmatic tips - things you can use right away. Three or four are specific to ASP.NET Web Forms, the rest are pretty cross-cutting and in some cases apply to any web development platform. These are pragmatic tips, not advanced JavaScript development or coding practices, although I did sneak in a bit of SignalR, Node.js, and CoffeeScript at the end. If you're looking for coding practices, I'd highly recommend Elijah Manor's MIX11 talk: Good JavaScript Habits for C# Developers.