Month: July 2014

Top Links

• Announcing the beta release of Web Pages 3.2.1 (Yishai G.)
• Casting: making a green sand mold (Eric Lippert)
• Expanding Open Source technologies on Windows (Adam Denning)
• Integrating “News” in the VS IDE … a cool extension update! (Willy-P. Schaub)

Web Development

• How Accurate are HTML5 Score Keeping Sites? (Chris Love)
• Preventing XSS in ASP.NET (Bill Morefield)
• CSS Triggers (Chris Coyier)
• JavaScript Event Madness! Capturing *all* events without interference (Matthias Christen & Florian Müller)
• AngularJS + TypeScript – how to setup a watch (and 2 ways to do it wrong) (Joost van Schaik)
• Kendo UI Grid Custom Columns: How to Show a List of Links (Rachel Hagerman)
• Understanding and Working with Data in WordPress (Rachel McCollin)
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 1: Introduction to Backbone.Js (Rahul Singh)
• The Web Manifest specification (Bruce Lawson)
• Using FiddlerCore to capture HTTP Requests with .NET (Rick Strahl)

XAML

• A Behavior to handle VisualState in Universal apps with MVVM (Marco Minerva)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,124 – Localization V – Extracting Localizable Content Using LocBaml (Sean Sexton)
• Handling file/folder pickers and the web authentication broker in universal Windows apps (Devon Musgrave)

Miscellaneous .NET

• What is the difference between Build and Rebuild in Visual Studio? (Dean Hume)
• 2000 C# Things #1,148 – When to Use a Generic Covariant Interface (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Agile Is Failing in Large Enterprises, And What You Can Do About It (Mike Cottmeyer)
• 3 Challenges to Help You Set New Benchmarks in Innovation and No Slack = No Innovation (JD Meier)
• Test Attribute #6 – Maintenance (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Secret Why All Developers Needs to Practice Qigong (Radenko Zec)

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Article Published about Mobile Connectivity in iOS Apps (Michael Crump)
• Image Detection in iOS 8 (Mike Bluestein)
• Interacting with C Pointers (Swift Team)
• Simplifying NSJSONSerialization in Swift (Josh Smith)
• An Introduction to Swift: Part 2 (Michael Musallam)
• Developer – Cross-Platform: Fact or Fiction? (Jeff McVeigh)
• Angry Birds Clone in Unity3D (source code included) (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος)
• Getting Rid of Buttons to Prevent Inadvertent Input (Bary Nusz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – ASP.NET vNext with Jeff Fritz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 279 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Johnson and Ben Ten on PoshSec (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Front End Developer Cast Episode 005 – Using AngularJS to build a Portal with Brian Woodward (Craig McKeachie)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 34: Dan Wahlin (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Gone Mobile 14: Building Apps on the Cheap (Greg Shackles)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Todd Glass Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Episode 003 – Ben Godard (Office 365 Red Team) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Defrag Tools #100 – Episode 100!!! – Campus Tour | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards, Golnaz & Chad Beeder)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 207: Mitchell Hashimoto on the Vagrant Project (SE-Radio Team)

Community / Events

• Philly Geek Awards Tickets On Sale Friday! (Chris Urie)

Database

• Why do we need UPDATE Locks in SQL Server? (Aschen Brenner)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Queries by CPU and IO (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: Rename or Change SQL Server Standalone Named Instance (Rohit Garg)
• Timestamps in Vertica (Steven Proctor)
• ApexSQL Provides Excellent SQL Tools For Free (Dirk Strauss)

PowerShell

• SQL Server Video to Pre-Validate Data with PowerShell Before Importing (Tim Smith)
• #PSTip Functions and SQL filtering, Part 1 (Bartek Bielawski)
• Testing the effectiveness of Get-Random (Matt Graeber)

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Survival Guide – Got anything to add? (Ed Price)
• OneNote tip – controlling the footer when printing (John Guin)
• The Experience Paradox–How to Get a Job Without Experience (John Sonmez)
• Fitbit for Windows Phone 8.1 is here (Daniel Rubino)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, July 28, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of July 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 28, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1392 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Common questions and answers about files and app data (links) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Daily News Digest 7/29/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1661 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 29, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-29 (Dan Rigby)

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