Day: January 20, 2014

Top Links

• How to display a QR code in ASP.NET and WPF (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio Code Metrics Powertool for Visual Studio 2013 (MS Downloads)
• Cleaning up callbacks with yield (Aaron Powell)
• StructureMap 3.0 is very nearly done (no, seriously) (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Web Development

• Control Flow bindings in Knockout.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting Started with Node.js in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Orchard CMS with Azure Cache on Windows Azure websites (WAWS) (Mark Brown)
• jQuery UI 1.10.4 (Scott González)
• Why Should You Care About NodeJS? and New to Web API? Don’t Rush to Implementation (Shawn Wildermuth)
• JSON Web Token (JWT) with Simple.Web (James D’Angelo)
• Firefox, Fiddler and HTTPS (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Measuring all the things with Azure Web Sites and friends (Troy Hunt)
• Serving WebP images with ASP.NET MVC (Michael Friis)
• Emberjs – Creating a Timeago Helper (Paul Cowan)
• Dart 1.1 Pushes Performance Even Further (Abel Avram)
• AngluarJS–Part 10, Intermezzo (Gabriel Schenker)
• Chrome updated and now my site looks bad, HELP! (Jeff Fritz)
• Moving from iframe to webview, part 3: bits and bobs (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• NFL Drafts APIs Into Action for 2014 Playoffs (Michael Vizard)

 

XAML

• Reading a embedded content file in WinRT & C# (Derik Whittaker)
• WAMS WPF QS (Window Azure Mobile Services Windows Presentation Foundation Quick Start] (Greg Duncan)
• Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio – Part 1 (Lori Lalonde)
• How to get started with Windows UI Radial Menu for WinRT (Marina Stoyanova)
• How to authenticate users with the uservoice API on Windows Phone and How to integrate the feedback forum of uservoice into your Windows Phone app (Marco Siccardi)
• Data Validation and Visual States for Windows Phone and Windows (Nick Randolph)
• [Sample Of Jan 19th] How to display a series of photos with wipe effect in WPF (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #990 – Typing Text to Select an Item in a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• Building an Appointment Tracking App by using the Telerik WP Cloud Components – Part 5 (Michael Crump)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Online: What It Is, and Why You Should Care (Mickey Gousset)
• Clearing the Console (Richard Carr)
• Typemock Isolator v7.4.3 Adds FastFix, Improved SmartRunner and Visual Studio 2013 Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Visual Studio Online 2013 (VSO) – Developing in the Cloud (Gouri Sohoni)
• Installing TFS 2013 from scratch is easy (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Team Foundation Server Usage at Microsoft (Zain Naboulsi)
• Creating a single frame animation using Unity 4.3 2D workflows, the better way (Michael Cummings)
• Basic Tuples & Pattern Matching (Phillip Trelford)
• Psychic debugging: Why messages aren’t getting processed by your message pump (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,014 – Using default Operator in a Generic Class (Sean Sexton)
• Kinect for Windows v2 Deep dive–Part 2 (Zubair Ahmed)
• Book review: Learning Windows 8 Game Development (Andrei Marukovich)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 12 Steps to Achieve Success in Anything and 7 Days of Agile Results: Day 1 – Sunday (Getting Started) (JD Meier)
• A Maturity Model for Build Automation (Ariya Hidayat)
• Software Craftsmanship 2014 Wall Calendar Analysis (Steve Smith)
• If at first you don’t succeed: disrupting incumbents in the enterprise (Steven Sinofsky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Become a Lazy but Productive Android Developer, Part 2 (Paresh Mayani)
• ImmutableArray in Objective-C (Chris Cavanagh)
• How to sort NSArray with custom objects (Vasilica Costescu)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Devnology Podcast 044 – Tom Gilb (Freek Leemhuis & Arne Timmerman)
• Engadget HD Podcast 381 – 1.16.14 and Engadget Podcast 380 – 1.16.14 (Jon Turi)
• MNR 499: Titanfall controller and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 127: Windows Azure Scheduler | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• SSW TV – Building Highly Scalable HTML5 Web and Mobile Applications with Tribe – Dale Anderson (SSW Team)
• TWC9: Build Sold Out, Tower Game Starter Kit, WPF Tools and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Alton Browncast – Simon Majumdar (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – V Cards (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 9: Glenn Block (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 012 | First Episode of 2014 and Listener Questions (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Tablet Show – Mobile and Tablet Apps for Disaster Relief with Tony Surma (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 092 JSJ The MEAN Stack with Ward Bell and Valeri Karpov (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 2, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• The Vergecast 107 – Nest’s acquisition and net neutrality (Evan Rodgers)
• Get Up And Code 37: Food Politics With Marion Nestle (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• The Garage | Microspotting (Larry Larsen)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Space Tourism (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rajesh Podapati and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Wanderson Lima (Willy-P. Schaub)
• WebStorm is Going to O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference 2014 (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Windows Azure Week on Microsoft Virtual Academy (Jan Hentschel)
• Load Testing Webinar (Brian Harry)
• Become our FIRST Microsoft TechNet Small Basic Guru of 2014!! (Ed Price)

 

Database

• Reduce Time for SQL Server Index Rebuilds and Update Statistics (Norman Chan)
• SQL Server 2014 In Memory OLTP Durability, Natively Compiled Stored Procedures and Transaction Isolation Level (Arshad Ali)
• SQL SERVER – Identify Oldest Active Transaction with DBCC OPENTRAN and SQL SERVER – How to Validate Syntax and Not Execute Statement – An Unexplored Debugging Tip (Pinal Dave)
• Big Data Search: Setting up and Big Data Search: Binary Search of Textual Data (Oren Eini)
• Reliably Drop A Database With CLR Stored Procedure (Jeffrey Yao)
• SELECT * FROM StackExchange. There’s the easy way and the hard, yet much more data fun, way… (Greg Duncan)

 

PowerShell

• Manipulating the AppDomain of your PowerShell Session (Jim Christopher)

 

Miscellaneous

• Report: Ballmer likely to resign from Microsoft board when new CEO announced (Anthony Tosie)
• Project Spark Beta Impressions (Tim Murphy)
• Nokia Normandy: is Android really coming to Microsoft? (hint: maybe yes!) (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 18, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 19, 2014 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #1281 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – January 17, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• Geek Reading January 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (January 17th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #99 (Mary Lou)
• Reading Notes #124 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1528 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 1/20/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Friday Links #287 (Mike Ward)
• Reblog: January 10 to January 16 (Jason Strate)
• .NET Weekly Digest #46 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Links of the year (2013 Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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