Day: January 9, 2014

Top Links

• Two great Kickstarter projects ending soon: Durandal JavaScript framework and bitCommander File Manager (Jon Galloway)
• Creating an instance of an open generic type without specifying a type argument (Kirill Osenkov)
• XAML Improvements in ReSharper 8.1 (controlflow)
• Author news: What would YOU like to see presented at //build this year? (Devon Musgrave)

 

Web Development

• Ember.js – Creating a Custom Handlebars if Helper (Paul Cowan)
• Use the Radial Menu Control in WinJS/HTML to Tidy Up Your Windows 8 App UI (Phil Japikse)
• Using Dependency Injection with ASP.NET Web API Hosted on Katana (Ravi Kiran)
• Get Better Acquainted with Azure (Mark Brown)
• Sticky Table Headers & Columns (Terry Mun)

 

XAML

• Application Analytics – Integrating Feature Usage Tracking in a WPF application (Carey Payette)
• Clipboard API in Windows Phone (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Querying data from the Windows Phone and Windows Stores (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #983 – Using a CollectionViewSource to Sort Items in a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• FutureAccessList (Windows.Storage.AccessCache) limit and updates (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Simple steps for publishing your NuGet package (Damien Guard)
• Teaching: Learn to expose CRUD Operations as WCF Services (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Top 5 Reasons to Use Visual Studio Online (Matt Mostad)
• [Sample Of Jan 8th] How to use RESTful WCF Service in .NET application (Philip Fu)
• How to use Python in Visual Studio 2013 (Rob Miles)
• Which version control system should I use in Team Foundation Server 2013: TFVC and GIT Comparison (Zain Naboulsi)
• Free Tool: ILSpy (Peter Vogel)
• Application Analytics – Segmenting the Solutions (Gabriel Torok)
• Prefixing ID columns with the table name in Entity Framework (Imar Spaanjaars)
• Part 5: Properties in Python for .NET Developers Series (Michael Kennedy)
• 2000 C# Things #1,007 – Getting Length of String that Contains Surrogate Pairs (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Workflows of Refactoring (Martin Fowler)
• Why Bronze Medal Thinking Wins Every Time – Agile Development Teams (Doug Rathbone)
• Is Your Business Model A Good Fit For Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Git’s Lightweight Merging (Paul Hammant)
• Building Better Acceptance Tests: A Look at the Test-driven Spaceship (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• Facebook makes Mercurial faster than Git (Alex Blewitt)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Annotated Screenshots for iOS Apps (Alex Curylo)
• How to make UITextField move up when keyboard is present (Vasilica Costescu)
• You MUST be Cross Platform (Wally McClure)
• RESTful API for Mobility Solutions (Sentha Mizhk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 128: 3D Printed, Science-Based, Mickey Mouse Color Sundays (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Javascript in the Enterprise with Justin Searls (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget HD Podcast 379 – CES Special #1 – 1.7.14 (Jon Turi)
• What You’ve Missed on the Hello World Podcast (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Sex Nerd Sandra – Sex on TV with Dr. Logan Levkoff & Monica Moon (Sandra Daugherty)
• Countdown to TechEd: The One With More Things Not To Miss in Houston | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin)
• Video from Passion Projects Talk #6 with Leslie Bradshaw (Julie Ann Horvath)
• Video: is and as operator in C-sharp (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Community / Events

• PhoneArena joins Nokia’s VP & GM of Developer Experience for dinner at CES 2014 (PhoneArena Team)
• Hacking meets Fitness: HackFit coming to Philly this April (Allie Harcharek)
• Interview: Gil Broza on Individuals and Interactions, Empathic Leadership and Growing solid Teams (Gil Broza)

 

Database

• Working with the FreeDB dataset in Voron and Voron & time series data (Oren Eini)
• Reporting Services Parameter Assumptions (Andy Warren)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell – Age of File Report – Local or Remote (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft forges ahead toward Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Equipping a kick-ass meeting room for less than £1500 (Howard van Rooijen)
• So where is the 64-bit version of Firefox? Mozilla gives us an update (John Callaham)
• Saving Regedit Favorites in a .reg file (Kirill Osenkov)
• Finding a low-memory browser (Scott Hanselman)
• Nokia’s Android phone UI comes in to the light, too bad you can’t buy it (Brad Sams)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 9, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 6 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 8, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 8, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1522 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 9, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/9/2014 (Silverlight Show)

 

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