Day: August 6, 2014

Top Links

• RGRC is the new Red Green Refactor for Test First Development (Steve Smith)
• Codestyle.co – Coding Style Guidelines (Scott Dorman)
• Be More Productive with these New Xamarin Studio Features (James Montemagno)
• Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio– Building Office 365 Android Apps with Xamarin (Beth Massi)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript: using closure space to create real private members (David Catuhe)
• formatting-generator-asterisk (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

XAML

• Live Filter Design Pattern in XAML (Brian Mullen)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,130 – Localization XI – Satellite Assemblies (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Media Controls – MediaElement – Playing Media (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• O’Reilly Deal of the Day 6/August/2014 – Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1 (Tatworth)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello (Color) World (Mike Taulty)
• Setup multiple startup projects (Latish Sehgal)
• If you think you need to use an ORM, think some more. (Peter Ritchie)
• Telerik Data Access Deployment DOs and DON’Ts (Doroteya Agayna)
• MultiDictionary becomes MultiValueDictionary (Immo Landwerth)
• Use Reactive Extensions to merge KeyEvents and MouseClicks to close a window (Loek van den Ouweland)
• A Motivating Example of WinDbg Scripting for .NET Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #1,154 – Input Parameter Compatibility when Assigning to Delegate Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Accurate Project Estimation (Dan Radigan)
• The Power of Self-Fulfillment (J.D. Meier)
• How Agile Do You Have to be to be Considered Agile? (Peter Saddington)
• The Modern Application Architecture and The Demise of the Full Stack Developer (Chris Love)
• Microspeak: 1 – 1 is not zero (Raymond Chen)
• Article: Leading a Culture of Effective Testing (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating a basic list in Xamarin Forms (Patrick Dunn)
• Building an App from Your WordPress Site with AppPresser (Jeff Reifman)
• Boolean (Swift Team)
• Material design in the 2014 Google I/O app (Roman Nurik)
• Quick Tip: Scrolling animation – UIScrollView (Christopher Barker)
• Windows for IoT, continued (Valter Minute)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Mobile Web Apps with Rick Strahl (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 040 | Talking to Wictor Wilen about Hosting SharePoint VMs in IaaS (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Alicia Witt (Chris Hardwick)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: The Other One with Barcelona Dining Tips | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• The Amp Hour #210 – Risky Components and Hardware Innovation – Slipshod Shack Shutdown (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk SoundBite: The Day The Earth Smiled (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sergio A Romero and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Daniel Mann and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – José Freire Neto and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alex Belotserkovskiy and What happens when 13 Rangers meet on a weekend to discuss a framework? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Dev of the Week: Andreea Borca (Alec Noller)
• My career dream came true and yours can too! (Magdalena Słyk)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial (Armando Prato)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Memory Usage By Memory Optimized Objects Report (Pinal Dave)
• Reply to “What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL” (Frans Bouma)

 

PowerShell

• Creating an Easy PowerShell Uptime Monitor (Lee Holmes)
• Understanding Azure VM DSC Extension (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Virtual Box is TOO Small (Jason Brimhall)
• Small Basic – How to read error messages (Ed Price)
• Cerner to buy Siemens health IT business for $1.3B (Neil Versel)
• Microsoft’s second Windows 8.1 update isn’t a major one after all (Tom Warren)
• Google: No Plans For Chrome On Windows Phone (Vygantas)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, August 5, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 5, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 8/6/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 6, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1667 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-06 (Dan Rigby)

 

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