Day: March 28, 2014

Top Links

• A cloud for everyone, on every device (Satya Nadella)
• Microsoft launches Office for iPad and Microsoft Office for iPad: Here’s what you get for free (and don’t) (Mary Jo Foley)
• Scott Hanselman’s Complete List of Productivity Tips (Scott Hanselman)
• Semantic Logging Application Block now supports activity tracing and Elasticsearch (Grigori Melnik)

 

Web Development

• Using the jQuery Validate Plugin with HTML5 Data Attribute Rules (John Bubriski)
• Preloading Images In AngularJS With Promises (Ben Nadel)
• Announcing 0.2.0-alpha2 preview of Windows Azure WebJobs SDK (Pranav Rastogi)
• Setup Express and run first application in Node.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Converting Markdown to PDF with PHP (Matt Farina)
• JavaScript Events (Ricardo Peres)
• Auto Selecting Cultures for Localization in ASP.NET (Rick Strahl)
• #SideWaffle – Or why people are cheering every time it’s mentioned (Maxime Rouiller)
• Running scripts with npm (Anders Janmyr)
• Rotated Table Column Headers (Chris Coyier)
• 3D Grid Effect (Mary Lou)
• What Books Didn’t Tell You About ES5 Descriptors – Part 3 (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Some Useful IIS Rewrite Rules (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Grunt-Bump-WMAppManifest: Updating Version Information for Windows Phone via Grunt and Fixing an Expand Control side effect in Windows Phone (Derik Whittaker)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,039 – Intercepting Bad Date Strings Entered into a DatePicker (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Installing the Application Insights tools for Visual Studio could win you cool prizes at Build (Charles Sterling)
• Visual Studio Online Guidance for Consulting Teams and Systems Integrators (Ed Blankenship)
• Iterators in C# – A Deep Dive (Karthik Chintala)
• Future Direction of WCF Data Services (Michael Pizzo)
• C# Extension Methods Demystified (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• F#12 : Arrays (Sacha Barber)
• What is NuGet and Creating NuGet Packages (Timothy Klenke)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) – Part 5 – Awaiting Observables (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• dotMemory 4 Beta: Memory Profiling Better Than Ever Before (Olga Kosyreva)
• Functions that return GDI regions rarely actually return regions (Raymond Chen)
• New CodeRush Plugin – Add Data Contract (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,063 – Explicit Conversions and Type Parameters (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My Views On Test Driven Development (John Sonmez)
• The Case for Test-Driven Development (Meghan Blanchette)
• Fun with xUnit Assert Throws and App Domains (Mike Meisinger)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Gesture Recognition and Animation with Xamarin (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Structuring Hybrid Mobile Applications (Burke Holland)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 139: Choose Yourself! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 223: Alright M8? (Gareth Myles)
• Engadget HD Podcast 391 – 3.27.14 (Jon Turi)
• Hanselminutes – An Introduction to the Go Programming language with Andrew Gerrand (Scott Hanselman)
• Podcast: Wi-Fi security, Firesheep and Pineapples (Troy Hunt)
• Video Available: Developing High Performance Websites and Modern Apps with JavaScript and HTML5 (Doris Chen)
• Windows Weekly 355: Take It and Run (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Katie Allen (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Hannibal Buress (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag: Build’s coming, printers on Surface RT, dedupe OneDrive and much more | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Chance to get free Access to Dan Wahlin AngularJS jump start course worth 60$ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Amazon announces April 2nd event featuring an update on video (Alan Buckingham)
• Philly Beer Week Returns In 2014 With Hundreds Of Events On Tap All Across Philadelphia, May 30-June 8; Tickets For Opening Tap Now On Sale! (Kristina Jenkins)
• MVPs Host Global Cloud OS Roadshows (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Are you ready for SQL Server 2014? (Jeff James)
• MySQL – Generate Script for a Table Using SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Reduce ^ 2 in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Online Management Shell (MS Downloads)

 

PowerShell

• Testing your PowerShell scripts with Pester: Assertions and more (Jakub Jareš)

 

Miscellaneous

• OneNote Tip: Change the notebook display name to save screen real estate (John Guin)
• How To Market Yourself as a Software Developer Is LIVE! (John Sonmez)
• Microsoft Office for iPad sets the gold standard for tablet productivity and A closer look at Microsoft Office for the iPad (Ed Bott)
• Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad (John Case)
• Microsoft Office for iPad Isn’t Perfect, but It’s What We Needed All Along (Lance Ulanoff)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, March 27, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 27, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1578 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 28, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Community Update 2014-03-27 – #SPAHelper by Chris Love, #webdev, #aspnet, #swagger with #webapi and #git pull is bad (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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