Day: December 2, 2014

Top Links

• Update to XML Notepad (Chris Lovett)
• OzCode Code Challenge – Test Your Knowledge and Enter to Win a Free License (OzCode Team)
• Analyze This, Analyze That, Writing .NET Code Analyzers and Fixers (Greg Duncan)
• When is an identifier not an identifier? (Attack of the Mongolian Vowel Separator) (Jon Skeet)

 

Web Development

• Canceling A Promise In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Broadcasting Database Changes Through SignalR (Ricardo Peres)
• Backing up your wordpress site to Azure Blob storage (David Voyles)
• Automating CSS Regression Testing (Garris Shipon)
• New Updates to DaaS – Diagnostics as a Service for Azure Websites and New Updates to Support Site Extension for Azure Websites (Apurva Joshi)
• Initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement (Ben Golub)
• 3 Useful Tools for Local Web Development & Testing (Brian Rinaldi)
• Five Essential Tools for Building REST APIs (Elton Stoneman)
• Windows containers – package your apps and bootstrap your chef nodes with spoon.net! (Matt Wrock)
• How to test your website with Internet Explorer on a Mac (Rag Dhiman)
• A JSON primer for administrators (Ravikanth C)
• Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On F12 Developer Tools (Vygantas)

 

XAML

• Thinking about developing for Windows Phone 8.1? Here’s a great learning roadmap for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Runtime: Roaming Data Between Windows Store Apps and Windows Phone Store Apps (Tony Champion)
• WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Row Details (Richard Carr)
• XAML Data Binding Faux Pas (Bonnie DeWitt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Multiple bindings in self-hosted WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Visual Studio 2013.2+ and 2015 Child Process Debugging Power Tool (Greg Duncan)
• Why the Community Edition of Visual Studio 2013 is Thrilling for You and Telerik DevCraft (Iana Tsolova)
• Creating multi-target NuGet Packages with vNext (Rick Strahl)
• Native Memory Leak Diagnostics with Visual Studio 2015 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The ConditionalWeakTable in .NET (Jason Roberts)
• Some of my favourite tools (Jeff Yates)
• Data Points: A Pattern for Sharing Data Across Domain-Driven Design Bounded Contexts, Part 2 (Julie Lerman)
• Automatically Adding or Removing Fields from a Complex Type in Entity Framework (Rachel Hagerman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Contract and End-to-End tests for Microservices (Martin Fowler)
• Unit test success using Ports, Adapters, & Simulators–kata walkthrough (Eric Gunnerson)
• Transactions are a figment of your imagination (Oren Eini)
• Focusing on a Team Workflow With Git (Ian Lollar)
• Inevitable conflict: Navigating difficult conversations professionally (Justin Thomason)
• Prioritize based on customer value too (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Polyglot Apps for iOS, Android and Beyond (Greg Shackles)
• Getting Started with Xamarin and IBM Worklight (Nish Anil)
• Unity: Developing Your First Game with Unity and C#, Part 4 (Adam Tuliper)
• Mobile Apps: Advanced Push Notifications and Mobile Analytics (Kevin Ashley)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 10) (Rob Tiffany)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Universal Apps with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Defrag Tools #117 – PerfView Part 5 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Vance Morrison & Chad Beeder)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 41 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Ping 229 – Microsoft Band, Comet Landing, HBO Go, Lumia 535, Xbox One Year | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & Joey Snow)

 

Community / Events

• .NET Foundation: Advisory Council (Miguel de Icaza)
• My Journey with the TEALS Program as a Microsoft MVP (Chris Givens)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Disable and Enable All Constraint for Table and Database (Pinal Dave)
• Specifying Allowed Values, Sample Values and Descriptions For Function Parameters In Power Query–Part 2 (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• 6 Useful PowerShell Scripts to Help SQL Server DBAs and Developers (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• What It Actually Means to Market Yourself as a Software Developer (John Sonmez)
• Microsoft acquires Acompli, provider of innovative mobile email apps (Rajesh Jha)
• Xbox One trumps PlayStation 4 on Black Friday (Taylor Soper)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1440 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #165 (Frank)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 24th – 30rd, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1749 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/1/2014 (Silverlight Show)

 

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