Day: January 8, 2014

Top Links

• Last Chance to Back Durandal (Rob Eisenberg)
• Visual Studio Survey: How do you develop for multiple form factors? (Jessica Rich)
• Switch easily between VirtualBox and Hyper-V with a BCDEdit boot Entry in Windows 8.1 (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Minty: Wrapping It Up (Rob Conery)
• Keep Overflow Content Scrolling Unresponsive Until Clicked Using jQuery (Ben Nadel)
• TypeScript: A New Language for .NET and JavaScript Developers (Rachel Appel)
• Intro to AngularDart: The Best Angular Yet (Victor Savkin)
• jQuery Mobile Themes suitable for LightSwitch HTML Apps and LightSwitch Screen Template – Tablet List and Details and LightSwitch Screen Template – Mobile List and Details (Xpert360)
• ECMAScript 6: merging objects via Object.assign() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Introducing GitHub Traffic Analytics (Justin Palmer)
• Ember Components: A Deep Dive (Chad Hietala)
• When To Use The Button Element (Chris Coyier)
• Improving our SSL setup (Dirkjan Bussink)
• Client Callbacks in Action Part 2 : Self-filling Drop Down List (Ricardo Peres)
• Shape Hover Effect with SVG (Mary Lou)

 

XAML

• Boosting Reviews of your Windows Phone Application using the MarketplaceReviewTask Launcher (Nick Randolph)
• How to make TextBox Scrollable and Navigate to end of TextBox scrolling in Windows Phone (Pavan Pareta)
• Windows Phone Natives – How to Leverage Native Code on Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• 2000 WPF Things #982 – Executing Code When Selected Items in a ListBox Change (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Teaching: Learn to expose CRUD Operations as WCF Services (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using LINQ to Twitter with F# (Joe Mayo)
• BCL vs F#: lists (Jon Harrop)
• Which version control system should I use in Team Foundation Server 2013: TFVC and GIT Comparison (Zain Naboulsi)
• [Sample Of Jan 7th] How to detect arguments of another running process by using WMI (Philip Fu)
• Application Analytics – Exposing the Benefits of Tracking Feature Usage (Carey Payette)
• Code Debugging Topics on MSDN (Eric Battalio)
• Part 4: foreach and IEnumerable in Python for .NET Developers Series (Michael Kennedy)
• CSLA 4 version 4.5.500 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 C# Things #1,006 – Getting the Length of a String (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: BranchByAbstraction (Martin Fowler)
• Unit Testing 101: How to Start? (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• 5 Great Blogs for UX and UI Inspiration (Gradient Girl)
• Now available: Stand In (UI prototyping straight from Photoshop) (John Nack)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Samsung new Android UI looks a lot like Microsoft’s modern UI (John Callaham)
• How to manage the keyboard for a UITextField (Vasilica Costescu)
• Creating Single Frame animations using Unity 4.3 (Michael Cummings)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Webinar Recording: Backwards Compatibility in Xamarin.Android Made Easy (Rich Taylor)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dance of the Jedi (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #179 – Greg Charvat Returns With A Book! – Laboratory Literature Laureate (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

 

Community / Events

• Seattle user group, Feb 13: F# on iOS with Xamarin Studio and Mac (Don Syme)
• January 27-31 is Windows Azure Week! (Devon Musgrave)
• Mobile Web HTML5 Training with jQuery Mobile – January 28, 2014 (Wally McClure)
• Reminder: Orlando Code Camp on March 22, 2014 (Andy Warren)
• The Geek’s Guide to Dating Webseries: Matt & Stephanie (Eric Smith)
• How to run a tech conference (Joseph Eames)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Survive on Free Tools for Month – Enjoy Refactoring – ApexSQL Refactor (Pinal Dave)
• AliaSQL – the new name in automated database change management (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Provider Hosted Apps with Javascript – JSOM and Cross Domain Calls (Greg Galipeau)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell in a Month – Day 7 Adding Commands (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2013 (Andrew Binstock)
• Getting Started with Raspberry Pi (Andrew Terranova)
• Resume-writing tips to land your dream job (Colleen Canney)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 7, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 7, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1273 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1520 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 8, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/8/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup- December 2013 (Beth Massi)

 

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