Month: May 2013

Top Links

• CLR Diagnostics with ClrMD and ScriptCS REPL – ScriptCS.ClrDiagnostics (Piotr Walat)
• Checkout New Prism Knowledge Base (Blaine Wastell)
• ReSharper 8 EAP: NuGet based Extension Manager (Matt Ellis)
• Sharing Code Part III: Conditional Compile and Sharing Code Part IV: Portable Class Libraries (Mark Arteaga)

Web Development

• CSS3 line height is important for drop caps (Julian M. Bucknall)
• JavaScript history: undefined (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Code School – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• Happy 10th Birthday CSS Zen Garden (Craig Buckler)
• Typescript Bundler Issue – Not transforming to JavaScript and TypeScript references not being created correctly during drag-n-drop (Derik Whittaker)
• JavaScript Makes Browsers Behave (Elisabeth Robson)
• Practical Azure #18 – Windows Azure Service Bus (Jim O’Neil)
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services – Part 3 (Larry Franks)
• Redirecting ASP.NET Legacy URLs to Extensionless with the IIS Rewrite Module (Scott Hanselman)
• Consuming Windows Azure Mobile Services REST API from ASP.NET Web API App (Shiju)
• Using XPath to set environment variables in ServiceDefinition.csdef (Tom Hollander)
• Clickjack attack – the hidden threat right in front of you (Troy Hunt)
• Trying Out Redis via NuGet and AngularJS Abstractions: Controllers (K. Scott Allen)
• SignalR Isn’t Working on Samsung Galaxy 3 (Shai Raiten)
• @model and beyond (Peter van Ooijen)
• Evented Github Adventure – Crossing the streams to gain real insights and Evented Github Adventure – Temporal averages (Rob Ashton)
• Media Manager and Image Editor in Orchard CMS 1.7 (David Hayden)
• Paul Irish on Chrome Moving to Blink (Mat Marquis)
• scriptcs and using Azure Mobile Services from your scripts (Filip W)
• RESTful Api and UI for Typed Views and Typed Lists with LLBLGen and ServiceStack (Matt C.)

XAML

• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Writing C# components for the Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)
• Okay, Okra! Windows Store Templates that make MVVM apps, and pages, easier and quicker (Greg Duncan)
• Quick Tip: Getting Device ID on Windows & Windows Phone (Mark Arteaga)
• TouchDevelop v3.0 beta for Windows Phone 8 (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 4–updating the tests, fixing the final issues (Joost van Schaik)
• Latest Windows Phone app submission improvements (Rushmi Malaviarachchi)
• 2000 WPF Things #818 – Previewing Installed Fonts and #819 – Previewing TrueType Fonts in Windows Explorer (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store App Template to Live Data in 3 Easy Steps and Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Authentication Tips and Tricks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Testing Tip #8: Double-check your graphics, tooltips, and other manifest information and Thoughts on Monetization #1: Trials and Trial Conversions (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to Capture a Screenshot as File in Microsoft Surface? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using SendKeys and Obtaining a List of Running Processes (Richard Carr)
• LINQ Tutorial for Beginners (d.ban)
• Method Overloading in WCF: WCF Interview Series #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Let’s Talk ASM – XOR-ing a String (Dennis Delimarsky)
• LLBLGen Pro v4.0 feature highlights: Visual Studio integration (Frans Bouma)
• Configure Test Plans for web access in TFS 2012.2 and TFS Integration Tools – Issue: unable to find a unique local path (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Commit, Push, Consume: continuous delivery of ReSharper extensions (Xavier Decoster)
• 2000 C# Things #842 – The Stack Data Type and #843 – Using the Generic Stack Class (Sean Sexton)
• [Sample Of May 13rd] Object persistence in Windows Forms (Philip Fu)
• If you want to use a name for your file mapping, don’t just use the name of the file itself and How can I display a live screenshot of a piece of another application? (Raymond Chen)
• Spot the defect: rounding (Eric Lippert)
• Programming Windows with Charles Petzold (Jeff Koch)
• The Neural Network Input-Process-Output Mechanism (James McCaffrey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project FAIL (John Sonmez)
• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity (Ben Nadel)
• Don’t assign a field from many methods (Patrick Smacchia)
• JustMock Adds Event Handling to Automocking (Phil Japikse)
• Go read “Implementing domain driven” design (Rohit Sharma)
• Enabling seamless integration with Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Professional and HP ALM with Opshub v5.3 (Charles Sterling)
• Amend Multiple Commit Messages with Git and How to Create a Patch with Git (Jaco Pretorius)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Nokia Asha A New Mobile SDK (Lucy Black)
• Mum makes an app with Icenium and Kendo UI Mobile + GitHub Part 1/2 (Iris Classon)
• All Google Play Developers Can Now Reply to User Reviews (Ellie Powers)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Marc Mercuri and Mark Simms Build Resilient Cloud Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 265: Chris Love on Touch Interfaces for Mobile Web Applications (David Giard)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 116 – “Take a Chanse on DVLUP.com” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Introducing The Get Up And Code Podcast! (John Sonmez)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Uses the Portable Class Library (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SDU Show 59 with guest Reza Rad (Greg Low)
• TWC9: 100MM licenses, Blue at build, VS2012.3 Go Live CTP, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rod Roddenberry and John Champion and The Nerdist Podcast – Steven Yeun (Chris Hardwick)
• 058 JSJ Building Accessible Websites with Brian Hogan (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• MissionControl – A Flexible API for Remote Device Control (Clint Rutkas & Den Delimarsky)
• The Vergecast 077 – May 9th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Get up and code podcast with Iris Classon and John Sonmez (Iris Classon)
• Defrag Tools: #40 – WPT – WPR & WPA | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Open Source Podcast #2 (Nick Berardi)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for May 13th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Using source data from an SSRS report in PowerPivot for Excel (Siddharth Mehta)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL and CONCAT in SQL Server 2012 onwards and SQL SERVER – Puzzle and Answer – REPLICATE over 8000 Characters and SQL SERVER – How to use xp_sscanf in Real World Scenario? (Pinal Dave)
• 10gen Introduces Incremental Backup Service For MongoDB (Roopesh Shenoy)
• RavenDB & Locking indexes and RavenDB Clusters & Write Assurances (Oren Eini)
• Would I use RavenDb again? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Data Explorer May update is available now! (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• Test Lab Guide: Configure eDiscovery for SharePoint Server 2013 (MS Downloads)
• Rename SharePoint Content Database (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Product Analysis: The Next Generation harmon.ie 4.0 Enables True SharePoint Mobile Enterprise (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Resume Power Words Part II: 5 ways to strengthen a weak CV (MS JobsBlog)
• Scratch 2.0: programming for kids, now in the browser (Cory Doctorow)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson’s remake of Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ headed to Fox in 2014 (Jeff Blagdon)
• Chasing Wi-Fi as a Remote Worker: AT&T Unite LTE Mobile Hotspot Review (Scott Hanselman)
• Nokia ‘amber’ Windows Phone 8 update coming in July, enables FM radio and more (Tom Warren)
• Knowing More Programming Languages Will Make You Smarter (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 12, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 13, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 14, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 05.01 ~ 05.14 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 206 (Scott Banwart)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: April 24th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 10th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, May 13th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 10, 2013 and Geek Reading May 13, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1126 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – May 10, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (May 10, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #63 (Mary Lou)
• Reading Notes #94 (Frank)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 11, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: May 13, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: May 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/10/2013 and Daily News Digest 5/13/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1354 and The Morning Brew #1355 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Digest 13 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65) (Mark Brown)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 May 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 13 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #028 (Pinal Dave)

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