12 Links for Cloud Readers

It's Friday again, did you have a happy Valentine's Day this week? Here's some non-romantic reading for your weekend:

• Ready, set, go download the latest release of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java: New release of the Eclipse plugin for Java developers. Check the link for details and documentation links.
• Understanding the JavaScript API for Office: I didn’t even realize there was a JavaScript API for Office, but there it is. If you’re a JavaScript developer that needs to work with Office, here’s a starting point for you.
• Peer Dependencies: Npm now supports peer dependencies. Follow the link to discover more about what peer dependencies are and why they are important.
• Getting Into Context Binds: If you’re using a lot of _.bindall in your JavaScript, you should probably read this.
• Why Discourse uses Ember.js: While this post is ostensibly about why Discourse decided to use Ember.js, there’s some good general design information in there also.
• Deferreds and Promises in JavaScript: If you’re trying to understand Deferreds and Promises, this is a good place to start.
• Can you help me understand the benefit of require.js?: Someone posts a question, lots of people answer. There’s good information here if you’re interested in learning about require.js and AMD.
• Rails 3.2.12, 3.1.11, and 2.3.17 released: More security updates for Rails.
• Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released: What’s new and links to introductory articles after the link.
• Windows 8: Be a good sharing citizen: Enabling context-aware sharing of content in an HTML/JS/CSS-based Windows 8 application.
• What’s coming in the Command-Line Tools for Windows Azure: Glenn Block gives a sneak peek at what’s coming in the new release of the command-line tools.
• Devices + Services:  Near Realtime Sensor Data with Windows Azure Mobile Services, .NET MicroFramework, Pusher and ASP .NET MVC: The article uses .NET for this, but you should be able to accomplish the same thing with FOSS languages and some hardware like Arduino. Sending data from a hardware device to Windows Azure Mobile services.