Day: April 18, 2013

Top Links

• Microsoft.Bcl.Async is Now Stable (Immo Landwerth)
• Using LightSwitch ServerApplicationContext and WebAPI to Get User Permissions (Beth Massi)
• .NET Rocks! – Geeking Out on Thorium (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Getting Into Ember.js: Part 3 (Rey Bango)

 

Web Development

• Random Number Generation in JavaScript (Adam Hyland)
• Moving from Expression Web to Visual Studio 2012 for client-side HTML 5 Web Design by Don Burnett (Don Burnett)
• ASP.NET Web API parameter binding part 1 – Understanding binding from URI (Filip W)
• Article: Ember.js – Web Applications Done Right (Joachim Haagen Skeie)
• LightSwitch HTML Picture Manager Using WCF RIA Services (Michael Washington)
• Installing Helvetica Neue Fonts with Google Chrome on Windows considered harmful (Scott Hanselman)
• Responsive Full Width Grid (Mary Lou)
• What is Twitter Bootstrap? (DevToolsGuy)
• Introducing Ext JS 4.2 (Don Griffin)
• Web Page Clipping with PhantomJS (Ariya Hidayat)

 

XAML

• My essential tools and resources for Windows 8 & Windows Phone development (Nigel Sampson)
• Three Steps to work with RadDataGrid in XAML based Windows Store Application and Working with Columns width in RadDataGrid in XAML based Windows Store Application and How to set Column Header Style of RadDataGrid in XAML based Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Setting up a Command (MVVM) in Windows Phone 8 Video Tutorial (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #801 – Creating a Mirror Image Using a RenderTransform (Sean Sexton)
• WP Toolkit : Adding a item in the SelectedItems collection of a LongListMultiSelector actually adds 2… (Jonathan Antoine)
• Refactoring an existing Windows 8 Style App for Testability (Raj Aththanayake)
• Create and deploy Windows Store test packages (Loek van den Ouweland)
• Opportunities to use the Resuming Event (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• List of all Visual Studio ALM Virtual Machines (Brian Keller)
• Migration from TF Service to TF Server with the TFS Integration Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 2000 C# Things #825 – Shallow Copies (Sean Sexton)
• Unity – Part 1: Introduction (Ricardo Peres)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SOLID Agile Development (Peter Provost)
• Leadership for Self-Organized Agile Teams (Ben Linders)
• Adding Completed Work to Task work items in the Scrum 2.x template (including Reporting) (Colin Beales)
• Making Sense of Insane Software Requirements (Rinat Abdullin)
• Article: The Seven Information Smells of Domain Modelling (Kent McDonald & Chris Matts)
• The ultimate git bash prompt (Jimmy Larkin)
• Defining your app’s requirements for a great customer experience (Bernardo Zamora)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Thoughts on Parse (Jaco Pretorius)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 089: Marina Gorbis, executive director of Institute for the Future (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 224 – PowerScripting Podcast – Boe Prox talks about PoshWSUS and his other projects (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Video: Get a Birds Eye View of Your Threads in Visual Studio 2012 Parallel Stacks (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Natasha Leggero (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag: Uninstall leftovers, IE Crash, Watchdog Bugcheck | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Ask me: To blog or not to blog, and what if you are a junior developer? (Iris Classon)

 

Community / Events

• F# + GPGPU – Financial Services Developer Forum (.NET in the City) – Thursday 16th May 2013 (Don Syme)
• New England GiveCamp – Class of 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Refactoring Legacy Code Bases, Free Online Event May 8 (Robert Demmer)
• Geek of the Week: Lansie Sylvia of Philly Get & Give (Chris Urie)
• We need your questions for a Q&A session with Charles Petzold (Devon Musgrave)
• Escape the Walking Dead This Week In Philly (Chris Cummins)
• Spring Road Trip (James Bender)

 

Database

• Identify the cause of SQL Server blocking (Basit Farooq)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #12 : get the SQL Server Compact runtime version (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Using SSIS to Import CSV File into Salesforce Online Database with dotConnect for Salesforce from Devart (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Mini-game: Equality (Answer and Winner) (Jim Christopher)
• Release of the Microsoft Script Explorer Canceled (Jonathan Allen)

 

Miscellaneous

• New ‘Star Wars’ films to be released every summer, beginning with ‘Episode VII’ in 2015 (Dante D’Orazio)
• Introducing Verge Science (Katie Drummond)
• Microsoft enables 2 step verification for all services accessible via “Microsoft account” (Kip Kniskern)
• Precedence grouping, you first.. no you (Odata parser) (Rob Ashton)
• Nokia: new Lumia coming ‘later this quarter’ ahead of ‘a season of new product introductions’ (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 18, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 17th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1110 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 18, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1338 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 17 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 17 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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