Day: December 1, 2014

Top Links

• OmniSharp – Making cross-platform .NET a reality, and a pleasure (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Incredible Features in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Michael Crump)
• AutoMapper 3.3 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• An Introduction to Xamarin.Forms and Messaging (Derek Jensen)

 

Web Development

• Breaking Changes In Isolate-Scope Behavior In AngularJS 1.2 (Ben Nadel)
• SQL on Khan Academy enabled by SQLite, sqljs, asm.js and Emscripten (Brian Bondy)
• Some asynchronous JavaScript weirdness (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Publishing a Static AngularJS Application with Docker (Bob Nadler)
• The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 1: Relying on $scope and The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 2: Abusing $watch (Jeremy Likness)
• Using Firebase With AngularJS (Maciej Sopyło)
• Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: User Login (Samantha Zhang)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Updating Pop3 Integration (Simon Timms)
• The Absolutely Awesome jQuery Cookbook Released (Suprotim Agarwal)
• The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Taxonomies (Tom McFarlin)
• Get Up and Running With Node and Visual Studio (John Papa)
• Device Detection vs Responsive Web Design (Bruce Lawson)
• What’s So Great About Bower? (Chris Coyier)
• Configure a DNS server for an Azure Virtual Network (Martin Hinshelwood)
• REST as a debugging strategy (Jessica Kerr)
• Working with Non-Compliant OWIN Middleware (Ryan Riley)
• JSON# – Tutorial #1: Returning Embedded-Objects and JSON# – Tutorial #2: Serialising Simple Objects (Paul Mooney)
• SproutCore 1.11.0 Release Candidate 1 (SproutCore Team)

 

XAML

• Evolution of the F# Empty WPF Template (Daniel Mohl)
• Help I have a control that is automatically getting scrolled to. Is my WPF app haunted? (Marlon Grech)
• How to use WordPress to display remote notifications in your Windows Phone app (Marco Siccardi)
• WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Editing (Richard Carr)
• Goodbye BooleanToVisibilityConverter, welcome IsVisible! (Toni Petrina)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New Nuget Package for Neo4j Users – Neo4jClient.Extension (Chris Skardon)
• Updating Assembly Redirects with NuGet (Rick Strahl)
• Open-source Functional Language Extensions to C# 6 (Sergio De Simone)
• Visual Studio 2015 Features! (Tatworth)
• JavaScript Powered Macros in Visual Studio 2013 (Jeff Martin)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls: Collections of Types Other Than ICollection Are Ignored and Lesser-Known NHibernate Features and Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Serializable Values and NHibernate Pitfalls: HQL Queries With Joins (Ricardo Peres)
• Using Entity Framework With an Existing Database: Data Access (Jon Smith)
• Sample chapter: Decision and Loop Statements in Microsoft Visual C++ (Kim Spilker)
• The First Days of the New .NET (Pascal Laurin)
• Abusing CSharp 5 (Jon Skeet)
• Automatically Adding or Removing Fields from a Complex Type in Entity Framework (Rachel Hagerman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Different Ways of Scaling Agile (Jim Bird)
• Scrumdamentals 101: Sprint Backlog (Michael Burns)
• The New Agile–The beginning (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Laravel, BDD and You: The First Feature (Peter Suhm)
• Unit Testing Multi-threaded code (Robert May)
• Using issues to host GitHub Pages screenshots (David Ebbo)
• Don’t Give Partial Credit (Andrew Fuqua)
• Deploying Transparency and Self Regulating Management to Get Actions Done (Ben Linders)
• How Google Works (Matt Davey)
• Windows containers – package your apps and bootstrap your chef nodes with spoon.net! (Matt Wrock)
• Puppet–Managing Permissions on Windows with Access Control Lists (Rob Reynolds)
• What is Product Management? (Roman Pichler)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Studio Release Candidate (Mike James)
• How To Localize an Android Application (Cindy Potvin)
• Should You Develop for Android or iOS First? (Eric Zeman)
• Using Mocks to test Xamarin applications (Jesse Liberty)
• Xamarin Studio: Publishing to Device Fails (Jim Holmes)
• Resolving “The Android SDK Directory could not be found” building a Xamarin app via TFS build server (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Xamarin, Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Android Development and Emulators (Punit Ganshani)
• Visual Studio and Telerik Platform: Mobile App Development Awesomesauce (John Bristowe)
• Displaying the Device Compass in Unity (Bary Nusz)
• Free Video Training – Everything You Need to Know about Building Apps for the Fire Phone (Dave Isbitski)
• Unity 4.6 Finally Brings The Long Promised User Interface Creator (Greg Kumparak)
• Adding Shooting To My Endless Runner (Jesse Freeman)
• Getting into functional programming with Swift (Josh Smith)
• Swift: Create a login app with Parse.com PFUser & Keychain Locksmith (Mark Petherbridge)
• Comparison of Python and Apple’s Swift Programming Language Syntax (Michael Kennedy)
• Gradients (and screenshots) update (Peter-Paul Koch)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 9) and Seize the Opportunity of the Internet of Things (Rob Tiffany)
• Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 4) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Adding Search to Your Applications with Itamar Syn-Hershko (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 346 – Tim Benroeck on Advanced Azure Web Sites (David Giard)
• Episode 289 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Hendrickson and Jason Walker from Microsoft on Configuring Exchange With DSC (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 152 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Comics, Creativity, Computers and Secret Coders with Gene Luen Yang (Scott Hanselman)
• Video: Open Source Demo Xamarin.Forms App – VervetaCRM (Steven Yi)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #217: Simple Navigation in iOS (Peter Shearer)
• Connected Services | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 023 on Office 365 and Visual Studio news (Office 365 Team)
• SSW TV – How to make web applications with AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC | Dev SuperPowers Episode 7 (SSW Team)
• The Changelog 132: Buckets CMS on Node.js with Dave Kaneda (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• 135 JSJ Smallest Federated Wiki with Ward Cunningham (Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• What the Tech 237: Xbox One Year Later and Windows Weekly 390: Big Screen, Small Eyes (Paul Thurrott)
• Adventures in Angular 018 – Style Guides (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Adam West (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – App Design for Monetization with Atley Hunter (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics with Santosh Balasubramanian | Azure Friday (Azure Team)
• The Amp Hour #225 – Worktrips and Workspaces – Junket Jactation Jiltedness (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Get Up And Code 067: Weight Loss Plan for Charles (John Sonmez)
• SplunkTalk – #70 – New, Improved & Back for the Attack! (Michael Wilde)
• StarTalk Radio – Reporting on Science (Part 2) – extended with Elise Andrew of IFLS and Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Cynthia Gouw – Co-star of Star Trek V, Actress, Journalist and Spokesperson (Dan)
• Dev of the Week: Max Katz (John Walter)
• Leaving Mozilla and Joining Google! (Robert Nyman)

 

Database

• How many CPUs is my parallel query using in SQL Server? (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Inside Temp Table Object Creation and SQL SERVER – Identifying T-SQL Missing Parameter Data Types with SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Customization of New Query in SQL Server Management Studio and SQL SERVER – Inside Temp table Object Creation – Part II (Pinal Dave)
• Beyond RavenDB 3.0: The future road map for RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Debugging Natively-Compiled Stored Procedures Statements (Daniel Farina)
• Specifying Allowed Values, Sample Values and Descriptions For Function Parameters In Power Query–Part 1 (Chris Webb)
• Database Language Injection Configuration (Maarten Balliauw)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint References and The SPDataSource Control (Ricardo Peres)

 

PowerShell

• 6 Useful PowerShell Scripts to Help SQL Server DBAs and Developers (Tim Smith)
• DSC resource module for Microsoft Monitoring Agent install and configuration for Azure Operational Insights (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Emaroo 2.0.0 Released (Roland Weigelt)
• A Healthy Way of Living with a Sedentary Job (Michael Crump)
• paint.net 4.0.4 is now available (Rick Brewster)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, November 26, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 26, 2014 and Geek Reading November 27, 2014 and Geek Reading November 28, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1745 and The Morning Brew #1746 and The Morning Brew #1747 and The Morning Brew #1748 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #144 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 11/26/2014 and Daily News Digest 11/27/2014 and Daily News Digest 11/28/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #165 (Frank)
• Coding4Fun November 2014 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: November 24th – 30rd, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• Blog Post: Reblog: November 21 to November 27 (Jason Strate)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (11/10-11/23) (Dara Monasch)
• Weekly Programming Digest #84 (Jakub Chodounský)
• November 2014 Links (Kevin Logan)
• Friday Links #331 (Mike Ward)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)

 

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