Day: January 14, 2014

Top Links

• Kickstarter Wrapup (Rob Eisenberg)
• Meet The AngularJS Injector (K. Scott Allen)
• Using the EventArgsConverter in MVVM Light, and why is there no EventToCommand in the Windows 8.1 version? (Laurent Bugnion)
• A Project Template Wizard Via NuGet (Daniel Mohl)

 

Web Development

• JavascriptLoader for MVC now on NuGet (James Curran)
• GUIDs VS. IDs on Windows Azure SQL Database (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Create Echo Server in Node.js and How to upload file in Node.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Myth Busting: CSS Animations vs. JavaScript (Jack Doyle)
• Create a JavascriptResult for ASP.NET MVC (imperugo)
• Announcing E-book version of Scott Guthrie’s “Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure” (Tom Dykstra)
• Demos from my CodeMash talk about TypeScript (Bill Wagner)
• Moving from iframe to webview, part 1: URIs, loading content, and raising events (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Hiding Implementation Details With Ecmascript 6 Weakmaps (Nick Fitzgerald)
• The future web development: where are we heading? (Peter Gfader)

 

XAML

• Tracking Your Windows Phone App Analytics with VSO’s Application Insights and Fiddler and Proxies for Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Free Tool: WPF Performance Suite (Peter Vogel)
• 2000 WPF Things #986 – Filtering a ListBox Using a CollectionViewSource (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Extended Datagrid 2.0.0.14 (CodePlex)
• WPF Information Controls – ToolTip (Richard Carr)
• Windows Dev Center: What’s new for developers in Windows 8.1 (Devon Musgrave)
• 5 steps to publish a “Project Siena” app to the Windows Store (David Washington)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Without strings, it is a dark, cold place… (Oren Eini)
• Exploring F# through modeling (Per Ökvist)
• Have you registered it with the container? (Nigel Sampson)
• Introducing FubuCsProjFile for Project & Solution File Manipulation (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Creating a listview with checkboxes on some items but not others (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,010 – Checking to See Whether a String is Null or Empty (Sean Sexton)
• Learning Windows 8 Game Development – A Review (Simon Jackson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Challenge of Changing Culture (Peter Saddington)
• On C++ Operator Patterns (Terje Sandstrom)
• My current preferred continuous integration build script–psake (Jeffrey Palermo)
• High ratings – cause and effect (Matt Lacey)
• Browser Testing in the Cloud Redux (Rey Bango)
• Why Early Usability Testing? (Tobias Komischke)
• Why Pull-to-Refresh Isn’t Such a Bad Guy (Nick Arnott)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Background Audio Streaming with Xamarin.Android (James Montemagno)
• Auto-Indent Lines of code in Xcode. (Mark Petherbridge)
• Developing for Android with Xamarin (Marco Siccardi)
• An Overview of Mobile Debugging Techniques – Part Two (Raymond Camden)
• How to Create an Executive Dashboard Using Sencha Touch, Part 1 (Jorge Ramon)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Business Accelerators with Stephen Forte (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 379 – CES Day Four – 1.10.14 (Jon Turi)
• My appearance on the Home Tech Podcast Show 150 (Michael Crump)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Richard Madden (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 144 – “Leisure Suit Lance” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• YUIConf 2013 Talk: Tilo Mitra on The State of Gestures (Andrew Wooldridge)
• 30th anniversary videos: Father-daughter authors Steve Lambert and Joan Lambert, part 2 (Kim Spilker)
• Defrag Tools: #73 – Message Analyzer – Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Paul E. Long & Chad Beeder)
• Get started with Google Cloud Platform video guides (Scott Knaster)

 

Community / Events

• I’m Presenting at the SharePoint Conference 2014 (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Saturday – Year 6: Look How Far We’ve Come… (Becky Isserman)
• Pluralsight 2013-2014: A look back and what you can expect this year (Aaron Skonnard)
• [Webinar] Refactoring Legacy Code with PhpStorm, January 28th (Mikhail Vink)
• Announcing the 2nd Annual Global Windows Azure Bootcamp Phoenix! (Rick G. Garibay)
• Watch Angular’s ngConf Live Streamed (John Papa)

 

Database

• Big Data – Real-Time Analytics Performance with ClustrixDB (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• The Powershell Challenge–Day 9 The Pipelines, deeper (Steve Jones)
• WMI Explorer 1.0.0.8 and UI Automation PowerShell Extensions 0.8.7 Beta 1 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous

• Quick news: Microsoft Press is hiring (Devon Musgrave)
• How To Get a Jump Start In Your Programming Career (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2014 01.01 ~ 01.14 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Finds: January 14, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 8 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, January 10, 2014 and Top 8 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 13, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 13, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1525 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #66 (Jason Strate)
• Double Shot #1277 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 14, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/14/2014 (Silverlight Show)

 

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