Day: January 30, 2014

Top Links

• Help us grow the Splunk developer platform with your ideas and votes (Glenn Block)
• Why does Pluralsight exist? And what does it mean for you? (Aaron Skonnard)
• Tips to help get your app promoted in the Windows Phone Store (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• .NET Rocks! – The DC Revolution Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Html.AntiForgeryToken – Balancing Security with Usability (Doug Rathbone)
• Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 6: More Control! Customizing the app with JavaScript & CSS (Beth Massi)
• AngularJS Doesn’t Suck! (Raymond Camden)
• From the MVPs: Diagnostics and logging in Windows Azure Web Sites (Devon Musgrave)
• Book Review: Mastering HTML5 Forms (Dustin Marx)
• 10 Reasons Web Developers Should Learn Angular (Jeremy Likness)
• What’s New in ASP.NET MVC 5 that make your MVC web sites shine (Mahesh Sabnis)
• How to create a heatmap with jQuery Grid and jsRender (Marina Stoyanova)
• Searching and Sorting Without Loops (Ariya Hidayat)
• Repeating strings efficiently (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Apache Solr and Lucene 4.6.1 (Rafał Kuć)
• For your convenience, please disable security warnings (Troy Hunt)
• Using .NET HttpClient to capture partial Responses (Rick Strahl)

 

XAML

• Storage Permissions in WinRT (Nigel Sampson)
• Searchable WPF MVVM happy Treeview (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing the UserVoice WP8 library for user features (Marco Siccardi)
• Data Exchange for Application Extensibility on Windows Phone and Windows (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #998 – Orient a ListBox Horizontally (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New: Uber Profiler “appender only” nuget package is now available (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
• Pieter Gheysens on Visual Studio Release Management (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Installing Release Management Server for TFS 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• EasyNetQ: Publishing Non-Persistent Messages (Mike Hadlow)
• One of my favorite error codes: Optional parameter missing (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,022 – How to Use Return Values from All Delegate Instances (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Five years of Flaccid Scrum (Martin Fowler)
• Article: Kanban’s service orientation agenda (Mike Burrows)
• Failure Modes of Team Based Scrum (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Source Control considered harmful (Maarten Balliauw)
• SmartBear Launches TestComplete 10 (Eric Carter)
• Announcing Guides (Zach Holman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Develop Web, Hybrid, or Native Web Apps with Telerik’s New Development Platform (Blair Greenwood)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 131: Huggable Atomic Mushrooms (Mark Frauenfelder)
• What the Tech 199: iOS in the Car (Paul Thurrott)
• Ranveer Chandra on Whitespaces and Xbox One Controllers | Microsoft Research Luminaries and Defrag: Moving HDD during CHKDSK, Moving Vol Overlay, Mounting Drives with Scripts | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• RiYL Episode 038: Karen Green (Brian Heater)
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) A Developers Guide to Marketing Your App – Naming Your App (ChrisCaldwell & Stacey Mulcahy)

 

Community / Events

• President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at SharePoint Conference 2014 (SharePoint Team)
• A RavenDB Hackaton (Oren Eini)
• I’m Ready to Work for You! (Charles Petzold)
• Next Game Frontier: The first event around web gaming (David Catuhe)
• Python and .NET in Portland (Michael Kennedy)
• Geek of the Week: Short Stack, Nerd Girl and Stand-up Comedian (Mike Covers)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Virtualized SQL Server Performance and Storage System – Notes from the Field #013 (Pinal Dave)
• Voron & Time Series: Working with real data (Oren Eini)
• ZSS 1.1 (Eric Sink)
• How Big is Your MongoDB? (Chris Chang)
• UPDATE STATISTICS: the Secret IO Explosion (Kendra Little)
• Survey: using DBCC WRITEPAGE (Paul Randal)
• Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals (Ian Stirk)

 

Miscellaneous

• Process Explorer v16.0 is out and now cooking with VirusTotal! (Greg Duncan)
• How to shoot a time-lapse video with your Nokia Lumia: Part 1 (Joel Willans)
• Reports: Google to sell off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo (Shreyas Gandhe)
• The Official Windows Phone Central app for Windows 8.1 is now available (Jay Bennett)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2014 01.15 ~ 01.30 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 8 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 29, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1289 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 30, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/30/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1537 (Chris Alcock)

 

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