Day: August 27, 2014

Top Links

• Roslyn SDK for Visual Studio 14 CTP 3 Now Available (Roslyn Team)
• Introduction to Android Material Design (James Montemagno)
• Announcing the Release Candidates for Web API OData 5.3 (Andrew Zhou)
• Rumor claims Threshold preview for ARM-Windows Phone devices due in early 2015 (John Callaham)

 

Web Development

• New book: Exam Ref 70-480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (Kim Spilker)
• The User Experience (UX) Of Custom Scrollbars (Ben Nadel)
• The Sordid Legacy of Browser Context Menus (Burke Holland)
• Why Responsive Web Design Is Right for Business (Ellie Fanning)
• ZeroMq #3 : Socket Options/Identity And SendMore (Sacha Barber)
• The Beginner’s Guide to Type Coercion: A Practical Example (Tom McFarlin)

 

XAML

• Essential Studio for Windows Phone and DVLUP (Marissa Keller Outten)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,145 – Using RenderSize in Custom Shape (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – Relative Sources (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• LINQ: Using Groups to Get Distinct Results (Rachel Hagerman)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello (BodyIndex, Infra Red) World for the .NET WPF Developer (Mike Taulty)
• Getting started with Code First Approach and Entity Framework Migrations Commands (Dhananjay Kumar)
• This is why you need to use IDisposable in .NET (Elton Stoneman)
• Kinect for Windows v2 SDK Updated (Now with Fusion!) (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 C# Things #1,169 – Lambdas Supersede Anonymous Methods (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: MaturityModel (Martin Fowler)
• Data-Driven Load Tests using Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure (Charles Sterling)
• So you want your Team to start using Git? – Part 3: More than just Committing (Doug Rathbone)
• Sending email to a Team Room (Brian Harry)
• Getting Started with Git and GitHub (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Git 2.1 Released: What’s New (Sergio De Simone)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Book review: iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook (Dimitris Tavlikos) (Marco Siccardi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Biology of UI with Mark Miller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SSW TV – Adventures of a C# Developer in a JavaScript World with Igor Gorelik | DDD Melbourne 2014 (SSW Team)
• The Amp Hour #213 -Travel Recaps and Altium Announcements – Artisinal Aussie Assemblage (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 27 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 208: Randy Shoup on Hiring in the Software Industry (SE-Radio Team)
• StarTalk SoundBite: Mayim Bialik, Neuroscientist And Actress (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Trisha Gee (Alec Noller)
• Announcing Austin Code Camp 2014 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Pluralsight Raises $135 Million At A Valuation Approaching $1 Billion (Jonathan Shieber)

 

Database

• Using indexed views on ANY core SQL server edition (Arthur Olcot)
• SQL SERVER – Query to Find Seed Values, Increment Values and Current Identity Column Value of the Table with Max Value of Datatype (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Introduction to Azure PowerShell Modules for the SQL Server DBA Part 1 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Time your commands [PowerShell nugget] (Jamie Thomson)
• #PSTip Replacing special characters (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• What if the Lumia 830 is Microsoft’s Nexus? (Taylor Martin)
• Creating the Ultimate Developer Keyboard–Part 2 (Mark Miller)
• Lumia Cyan update now live for AT&T Lumia 1020 and 1520 Preview users (Sam Sabri)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, August 26, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of August 11, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of August 18, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 8/26/2014 and Daily News Digest 8/27/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1681 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-27 (Dan Rigby)

 

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