Day: March 17, 2014

Top Links

• Update on Julie Horvath’s Departure (Chris Wanstrath)
• Exploring FAKE, an F# Build System for all of .NET (Scott Hanselman)
• It’s Official: OneNote is Now Free for Everyone (Paul Thurrott)
• Immerse Yourself in Angular, MEAN, ASP.NET, and Gulp (John Papa)

 

Web Development

• The Truth About False in JavaScript (Basem Emara)
• ASP.NET MVC Extensibility with MEF (Eric Vogel)
• Creating your first Angular program (Jesse Liberty)
• Ignite UI ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding Support (Angel Todorov)
• Building a live dashboard with some knockout (Jef Claes)
• How to troubleshoot web applications with tracing in ASP.NET (Manya Susoev)
• Revisiting JavaScript Minification (Rey Bango)
• My Baby Steps to OAuth 2.0 Hell (or Should I Call It Heaven) (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Twitter Bootstrap Themes (John Ptacek)
• Nested Layouts in HarpJS (Raymond Camden)
• Pixel Art Lighting Effects in Unity and More Unity 2D Lighting Effects (Jesse Freeman)
• I put my Azure website in the wrong location, now what?! (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Non-Store Windows Phone Apps: Integrate With the Settings Hub (Den Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,030 – Displaying an Indeterminate Progress Bar (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Text Input Controls – RichTextBox (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Four Deadly Sins of LINQ Data Access: Part 3–Insufficiently Chatty Queries (Adam Anderson)
• A Behavior Change in Visual Studio 2013 .NET Breakpoints (John Robbins)
• C# Feature I would love — Dynamic Types w/ Interfaces (Derik Whittaker)
• CodeSmith Generator Projects And Visual Studio (Dirk Strauss)
• An Introduction to Visual Studio 2013 (Alessandro Del Sole)
• Rhino Mocks NuGet (Mike Meisinger)
• Visual Studio Online Test Troubleshooting Guide (Trevor Hancock)
• Working with Basic Mapping Layers in the ArcGIS Runtime Map (Shawn Kendrot)
• Getting Started Guide using OGRE 3D on Windows 8.1 (Michael Cummings)
• Having fun with Kinect for Windows v2 sample applications (Zubair Ahmed)
• Using Git for .NET development part 3 – branching and pushing your changes (Alice Waddicor)
• How do I create an IShellItemArray from a bunch of file paths? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,054 – Implicit Conversions from Constant Expressions (Sean Sexton)
• Code Documentation in .Net Projects (Yunus Emre Keskin)
• Linq2IndexedDB – IndexedDBViewer 1.2.0 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Power of Three for Effective Communication (J.D. Meier)
• Cross Project TypeScript Unit Testing – Part 2 (Martyn Frank)
• More On Git Merges (Paul Hammant)
• Test the Untestable! We Dare You Not To! (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• Retrospective – Hats and Soup (Cory Foy)
• The Trap You Set For Yourself (Jeff Atwood)
• Dog-fooding Journal #1 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint Preparations (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Book Review: Learning Android Intents (Bill Jones)
• Infinite Scrolling UICollectionView with Asyncronously Loading (Jason Jarrett)
• Quick Look Debugging with UIView (Ben Scheirman)
• Mobile Debugging Tips (Jim Cowart)
• NSDictionary – Objective-C Class Reference (Nick Hanan)
• How HTML5 Apps Can be More Secure than Native Mobile Apps (Moran Shayovitch)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 388 – 3.14.14 (Jon Turi)
• MNR 502: Titanfall (Larry Hyrb)
• Glance and Go Radio Podcast Show Appearance and Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 123 (Richard Hay)
• SPC Wrap up and SharePoint Development with Mark Rackley-Episode 85 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• SSW TV – Visualization and Kanban Boards with TJ Gokcen [FireBootCamp] (SSW Team)
• TWC9: New CodeLens, TEE Update 1, VSO, Launching 325 WP8 apps and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 119: Toran Billups interview (Michael Kimsal)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Hostful After (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast – Episode 16: Lars Klint (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Tablet Show – Modern Web with Todd Morrisson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Married Gamers Episode 329: Grifballin’ (Chris Brown)
• Get Up And Code 045: John Sonmez’s Fitness Routine (John Sonmez)
• How to Get Your First Job as a DBA (video) (Kendra Little)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 202: Andrew Gerrand (SE-Radio Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries Science in Movies and TV (Neil deGrasse Tyson & Eugene Mirman)
• Evolution of JavaScript MVC: AngularJS and Backbone | Front-End Developer Cast Episode 2 (Craig McKeachie)

 

Community / Events

• Global Windows Azure Bootcamp (x2) (Jim O’Neil)
• 5 Questions With… Rob Keiser (Tony Verguldi)
• Falafel to help out at DVLUP Days 2014 North American Tour (Bary Nusz)
• Influential developer leaves GitHub alleging gender harassment (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• Mobile Expert Interview: Kevin Benedict and Rob Tiffany (Rob Tiffany)
• What I learned by coding with kids on my summer vacation at That Conference, an essay by Sharon (Sharon Cichelli)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Find Port SQL Server is Listening – Port SQL Server is Running and SQL SERVER – What is the Difference Between Latches and Locks and MySQL – Pattern Matching Comparison Using Regular Expressions with REGEXP (Pinal Dave)
• SQLite on Mobile Devices – Foreign Keys (Eric Sink)
• ERwin gets a new home at Embarcadero (Greg Duncan)
• Tip: COLLATE for “Cannot resolve collation conflict” error (Jen McCown)
• Introducing Biggy: An ORM-like Library for Document Databases (Jonathan Allen)
• When is a Data Management Gateway Needed in Power BI? (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• Implementing Hadoop Rack Awareness with PowerShell (Carl Nolan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Amazon game controller leak suggests a set-top box is coming (Aaron Souppouris)
• Mozilla abandons development of Metro Firefox for Windows 8 (Ed Bott)
• Windows Phone 8.1 may support USB on-the-go (Phone Arena Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 14, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1568 and The Morning Brew #1569 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading March 14, 2014 and Geek Reading March 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (March 14th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #107 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1317 and Double Shot #1318 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – March 14, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• Blog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #75 and Reblog: March 7 to March 13 (Jason Strate)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 17, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/17/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #131 (Frank)
• Friday Links #295 (Mike Ward)
• Community Update 2014-03-16 – Upgrading an #aspnet #webforms app to #MVC (Maxime Rouiller)
• .NET Weekly Digest #54 (Jakub Chodounsky)

 

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