Month: October 2013

Top Links

• Two Dozen Insanely Essential Programmer Utilities* and Essential Development Tools–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Team Rooms in Visual Studio (Brian Harry)
• Code Outlining for Visual F# in VS2010, VS2012 and VS2013 (Don Syme)
• dotCover 2.6 Early Access Program Launched (Daria Dovzhikova)

Web Development

• Knockout.js 3.0 Highlights (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Html Element search in Firebug 13 ! (Anirudha Gupta)
• [Sample Of Oct 27th] How to use Bing Translator API in Windows Azure (Philip Fu)
• Sending Messages to SignalR Hubs from the Outside (Ricardo Peres)
• The HTML5 Document Outline (Steve Faulkner)
• Live From HTML5DevConf (TJ VanToll)
• My Definition of a Single Page Application and Hands On Lab: Building a Multiple View Single Page Application (SPA) (Jason Haley)
• Using JayData to Consume the Visual Studio LightSwitch OData Business Layer in a AngularJs CRUD Application (Michael Washington)
• Don’t Forget To Cancel $timeout Timers In Your $destroy Events In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Browser support table – for responsive websites (Anders M. Andersen)
• Fontello: The Past and Future of the Icon Font Service (Chris Coyier)
• Learning AngularJS by Example – The Customer Manager Application (Dan Wahlin)
• Throttling Input in AngularJs Applications using UnderscoreJs Debounce (Jeremy Likness)
• How to Install Rails 4 on Windows (Including Windows 8 and 8.1) (Joey deVilla)
• Build Apps with Angular and Breeze (John Papa)
• Split Layout (Mary Lou)
• H.264, MPEG DASH, Media Extensions and Life After Flash (Nigel Parker)
• Angular UI: Making Bootstrap UI Accordion Work with Bootstrap 3 (Ravi Kiran)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #937 – Selecting Text in a TextBox from Code (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – Decorator (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8 app development: secure user passwords by using Credential Locker (Andrei Marukovich)
• New pubCenter reports to help you optimize ad revenue (Bernardo Zamora)
• Windows 8.1: Location-aware apps – Part #2: Working in background (Andrea Boschin)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Testing with Team Web Access using Visual Studio 2013 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Wriju’s TFS 2013 Book and Video Link Round-up and "Learning to Program in Visual Basic and.NET Gadgeteer" (Greg Duncan)
• How EF6 Enables Mocking DbSets more easily (Julie Lerman)
• TFS 2013 process templates get a name change (Kathryn E.)
• Crypto Logger For Net (Dirk Strauss)
• New version of OData Validator (OData Team)
• LLBLGen Pro v4.1 beta released! (Frans Bouma)
• My, those threads start up really fast nowadays (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #961 – Retrieving Command Line and Path to Executable (Sean Sexton)
• Troubleshooting Appfabric – Common configuration errors and fixes (Sunil)
• Analytics: a turnkey solution for development teams (Vassil Petev)
• Fluent Validation 5.0 (CodePlex)
• Who Moved My Cheese: RIA Services and Visual Studio 2013: Move Lines and Visual Studio 2013: Navigate To Improvements (Deborah Kurata)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Development: Art, Science or Both? (Aaron Bjork)
• Top 10 TDD Resources: TDD Checklist Expansion Pack (Allen Coin)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 17 – Specifying Order of Execution in Mocks (James Bender)
• Reading large codebases and What lies are you going to tell yourself now, dude? (Oren Eini)
• Cognizant on the Next Generation Enterprise (JD Meier)
• Event projections (Jef Claes)
• Messaging and event sourcing (Kelly Sommers)
• Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman: Book Review (Mark Needham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint in the Cloud with Neil Hodgkinson-Episode 84 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• 081 JSJ Promises for Testing Async JavaScript with Pete Hodgson (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• TWC9: Windows Azure SDK 2.2, Apiphan purchase, Bing Speech Recognition and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Using Fiddler to troubleshoot HTTP protocol issues on Windows Phone | Windows Store Developer Solutions (Prashant H Phadke)
• Windows Weekly 334: I Am Not A Tool (Paul Thurrott)
• The Changelog 109: Open Karma with Justine Arreche and Sebastian Gräßl (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 6, Season 4 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• Yet Another Podcast #110–Steve Smith on Software Development (Jesse Liberty)
• Get Up And Code 25: Dealing With Stereotypes (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Engadget Podcast 366 – 10.24.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 194 – 10.24.13 (Jon Turi)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 111 (Richard Hay)
• GeekWire Radio: The future of shopping, startups, venture capital, video games and more (Todd Bishop)
• The Tablet Show – iOS 7 vs. Windows 8 UI with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Upcoming User Group Sessions in Chicago and LA (Brent Ozar)
• Tackling Tech Trouble One Step at a Time… (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Performance Tuning Cookbook (Ian Stirk)
• Review: SQL Server Transaction Log Management (Brian Kelley)
• SQL Server Data Tools for SQL Server 2014 CTP2 is available (Jill McClenahan)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.6–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Download FREE PDFs from SQLAuthority.com and Big Data – Various Learning Resources – How to Start with Big Data? – Day 20 of 21 (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding the PIVOT function (Terry Choo)
• 10/26/2013: Transact-SQL Tip of the Week: Passing Tables as Parameters (Kevin Goff)
• Create Database Diagrams of Your Windows Azure SQL Databases (Alexandre Brisebois)

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 4.0 (PowerShell 4, PowerShell ISE, Management OData, WMI, etc.) now available (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• The Internet Archive puts Atari games and obsolete software directly in your browser (Adi Robertson)
• Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams’ Blogging Platform Medium Opens Signups To All (Matthew Panzarino)
• AT&T removed Qi wireless charging in the Lumia 1520 to make room for PMA (Rich Edmonds)
• Setting Up a Mac Dev Machine From Zero to Hero With Dotfiles (Simon Owen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 27, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 28, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup #74 (Mark Brown)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, October 25th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 25, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #87 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1230 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (October 25, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Daily News Digest 10/25/2013 and Daily News Digest 10/28/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #113 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1472 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 28, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reblog: October 18 to October 24 (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #052 (Pinal Dave)

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