Day: August 12, 2014

Top Links

• SlowCheetah is going into maintenance mode (Sayed I. Hashimi)
• Effects of GZipping vs. minifying HTML files (Mads Kristensen)
• How To Refactor For Dependency Injection, Part 4: Configuration Changes (Ondrej Balas)
• Appreciating Robin Williams: The Comedy Giant Who Made You Think (Chris Taylor)

 

Web Development

• Looking At Nested Event Timing And DOM Structure In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Authenticating Node.js Applications With Passport (Agraj Mangal)
• Pure CSS parallax scrolling websites (Chris Coyier)
• Learn AngularJS Hour 4: service in AngularJS and making HTTP call using $http (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Upgrading Cordova-Android Apps Outside Google Play Store with AngularJS (Gonzalo Ayuso)
• ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management Part I and ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management Part II (John Atten)
• WinJS in WebView (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Thoughts on Angular’s Controller As Syntax (K. Scott Allen)
• MVC and Azure for the MVVM/WPF Dev, Part 1 – Getting Started (Brian Mullen)
• Ghost 0.5 – MSR1 (Hannah Wolfe)
• Sketcher 1 of 3 (Sacha Barber)
• Sending emails from your LightSwitch application: the app-stitch way (Michael Washington)

 

XAML

• Now Shipping: xUnit support for Windows 8 and Windows Phone App 8.1 (Oren Novotny)
• WPF Media Controls – MediaElement – Media Information (Richard Carr)
• Universal Windows apps: cross-device compatibility (Adam Fraser)
• Remember SketchFlow? It’s still around and still a cool prototyping tool… (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Digging into MSMQ (Oren Eini)
• No waffling here… SideWaffle and a step-by-step guide to create Visual Studio Item Templates (Greg Duncan)
• Record Types & Pattern-Matching Coming in C# 6? (James Miles)
• How to Retrieve Contact ID and Update Contact Details in Microsoft CRM 2013 Contact Entity Using C# (Ming Man Chan)
• Json.NET Updates: Merge, Dependency Injection, F# and JSONPath Support (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello (Skeletal) World for the 3D WPF Developer (Mike Taulty)
• How do You Version Packages? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Updating XML files with MSBuild (Sayed I. Hashimi)
• Playing with Toasters (James Ashley)
• If you want to set a thread’s apartment model via Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState, you need to act quickly (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,157 – Contravariance and Generic Delegate Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agressive Decoupling of Scrum Teams (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Article: Project Inception – How to Use a Single Meeting to Achieve Alignment (James Bayer)
• Are developers good judges of User Experience? (Marshal Datkowitz)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 10 Xcode Plugins for iOS Development (Bart Jacobs)
• Sample chapter: Developing Mobile Apps for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 (Kim Spilker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Machine Learning in the Cloud with Seth Juarez (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 36: Tony Hunt (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jeff Bridges Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 339: Access Granted (Chris Brown)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Steve St Jean and ALM Rangers Triage #8 – What happened to your idea on UserVoice? (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Database

• Exception handling in SQL Server and Intersection command in SQL Server and Best practices for Database Programming (Vivek Johari)
• eBook deal of the week: Training Kit (Exam 70-461): Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Integrate Your Data with Skyvia – Cloud ETL Solution and Database – Beginning with Cloud Database As A Service (Pinal Dave)
• Comparers, Combiners, Replacers and Splitters in Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 1 (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Negotiate Your Salary (John Sonmez)
• Peering into the future of windows automation testing with Chef, Vagrant and Test-Kitchen – Look mom, no SSH! (Matt Wrock)
• Small Basic Game Programming – Vertical Scrolling Game (Nonki Takahashi)
• Going from computer novice to computer guru, with help from Microsoft Virtual Academy (Suzanne Choney)
• Dan Shapiro’s Robot Turtles board game that teaches kids to code now on sale at Target (Taylor Soper)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of August 4, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, August 11, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1397 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1671 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 12, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/12/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-12 (Dan Rigby)

 

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