Day: January 29, 2014

Top Links

• Telerik Launches Cross-Platform Development Environment (Michael Vizard)
• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 3 – Bootstrap and JavaScript enhancements (Jon Galloway)
• 24 Ways To Tell You Don’t Understand Work-Life Balance (Luke Bailey)
• Quick news: Videos for programmers from Wintellect (Kim Spilker)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET web API 2 OData enhancements (Brian Noyes)
• CSS Basics Part 1: Work with Selectors (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introduction to jQuery for App Customization (Kevin Mehlhaff)
• Adding Queryable Support to ASP.NET Web API Controller Action Methods (Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan)
• Simple Scaffolding with the Ignite UI Yeoman Generator (Ambrose Little)
• Play and Pause Buttons for YouTube and Vimeo Videos (via Their APIs) (Chris Coyier)
• Trigger, Bindings, and Route parameters in AzureJobs (Mike Stall)

 

XAML

• Getting Started with Design for Windows, Windows Phone, iOS and Android and Much needed updates to the Windows Store (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #997 – Possible Problems with ItemContainerGenerator (Sean Sexton)
• Driving Route Path Direction with Bing Maps in C#/XAML in a Windows 8 App (Farhan Ghumra)
• WPF Base Classes – RangeBase (Richard Carr)
• The layout of an ExtensionSDK (Morten Nielsen)
• How a #WPDev can identify whether shutter was pressed Half or Full? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Dynamic Dispatch in C# (Jakub Chodounský)
• Visual Studio Add-In of the Day: File Nesting Extension and Community Driven XNA Game Studio Installer for VS 2012 and soon VS 2013 (Greg Duncan)
• Confidentiality and ETW Content (Kathleen Dollard)
• net magazine: Pro Ways to Launch a Product (Rachel Andrew)
• Modernize Your .NET Software Development Environment (Doguhan Uluca)
• The Dew Review – Plantronics Voyager Legend and the Spokes SDK (Alvin Ashcraft)
• C++ in MSDN Magazine (Eric Battalio)
• 2000 C# Things #1,021 – What Happens to a Delegate’s Return Value (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simple sketches for diagramming your software architecture (Simon Brown)
• Article: Kanban’s service orientation agenda (Mike Burrows)
• Who Dictates Software Quality: Client or Coder? (Cory House)
• Developing Good Software is Damn Hard (Filip Ekberg)
• If Managers Don’t Give Performance Reviews, What Happens? (Johanna Rothman)
• Successful REST API Design (Fernando Doglio)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing for Behavior Change – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Run Chrome Apps on mobile using Apache Cordova (Andrew Grieve)
• SB VIZ: Creating a New Visualization and iOS App in under 3 Days using NUCLiOS (Stephen Zaharuk)
• A New Way To Re-Engage Your Existing Mobile App Users (Greg Schechter)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Reporting in Production: SQL Server (video) (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Video: How to work with Selectors in CSS and Video: How to work with CSS Styles Priorities (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Williams Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #182 – Manufacturing By Wire And Skipping Testing – Calefacient Cuculine Cash (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• SSW TV – Sneak Peek: VSO Enhancer with Tiago Pascoal (SSW Team)
• The Verge Mobile Show 077 – January 28th, 2014 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• Helping Victims of Typhoon Haiyan – with SharePoint MVP Jennifer Mason (MVP Award Program)
• Jolt Awards: Coding Tools (Jolt Judges)
• Dev of the Week: Alex Curylo (Alec Noller)
• ALM Rangers Mission Statement … tweaked for the first time in 7 years (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Windows Azure Week Deep Dive Live (Kris van der Mast)

 

Database

• Different ways to get random data for SQL Server data sampling (Derek Colley)
• SSIS #116–What is the variable value at runtime? (Sherry Li)
• Easily Generate Table Change Scripts In SQL Server Management Studio (Dirk Strauss)
• SQL SERVER – How to Survive on Free Tools for Month – SQL Data Compare Software – The ApexSQL Diff Tool (Pinal Dave)
• Just use Version Control (Steve Jones)
• Blog Post: [SQL Snacks Video] Importance of COPY_ONLY Backups (Ayman El-Ghazali)
• Disaster recovery 101: restore master or rebuild master (Paul Randal)

 

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.6 Supports VS 2013 (Jim Christopher)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Portal – Featured TechNet Wiki article (Ed Price)
• OneDrive and Office Online: naming done right? (Kip Kniskern)
• Nokia Black update: your questions answered (Luke)
• Blizzard Releases In-House Design Tools To Starcraft Modders (Timothy)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 29, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 28, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 28, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1288 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 29, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/29/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1536 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-29 (Dan Rigby)

 

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