Day: December 16, 2014

Top Links

• Xamarin Android Player Update Brings New Features & Devices (James Montemagno)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 1 (MS Downloads)
• Open Source, Cross Platform .NET: Round One to Microsoft (Andrew J. Brust)
• My experience with Hour of Code (Bill Wagner)

 

Web Development

• Capture photo and save on the disk in WinJS based Windows Store App and Working with app bar in WinJS based Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting Started with Telerik Reporting and ASP.NET 5 (Iana Tsolova)
• Highlight a field with CSS (Josh Eastburn)
• Grunt and Gulp Intellisense in Visual Studio 2013 (Mads Kristensen)
• Improved TypeScript Support in ReSharper 9 (Anton Lobov)
• An update to the Jenkins Slave Plugin for Azure (Brian Benz)
• Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 4 (David Wesst)
• Reminder to migrate to updated Google Data APIs (Gary Lewis)
• Five things to love about modern.IE (Jeff Yates)

 

XAML

• HelloWorld Prism for Windows Runtime 2.0 (Brian Noyes)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• GitHub Issue Management Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Development on a Mac (Hector Gonzalez)
• Configuration File Transforms In Visual Studio Should Be Built In (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Incorporate “Big Data” Within Your Visual Studio App Using Azure HDInsight (Oliver Chiu)
• Entity Developer Review, Part 3 (Ricardo Peres)
• Using Entity Framework with an Existing Database: User Interface (Jon Smith)
• Application Insights – Metric Explorer (ME) – Part 2 (Ketan Ghelani)
• Uncorking the Seq API (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (Mike Hadlow)
• Team Competition is Not Friendly (Johanna Rothman)
• Creating a designer & developer workflow end to end. (Scott Barnes)
• How To Configure Git & GitHub On Your Mac (Andrew Burgess)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS iBeacon Background Region Monitoring (James Montemagno)
• Introduction to iOS Testing With UI Automation (Andy Obusek)
• Epic Saga Final Chapter: Success!! or How to Upload Images to Azure From a Cordova App (Glenn Gailey)
• Modern Windows support available with new Cocos2d-x 3.3 release (Eric Mittelette)
• Tile Map Editor + Object Pooling (Jesse Freeman)
• Swift NSTimer Tutorial – Lets create a counter application (Mark Petherbridge)
• Intel and the Internet of Things – What will you Make? (Renee S.)
• Extending The Kendo UI Mobile Flat UI (Burke Holland)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Writing Compilers with Phil Trelford (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 47: Steve Smith (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Defrag Tools #119 – Windows Management Instrumentation | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 43 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• What’s new in Office 365 ProPlus for admins and first look at shared computer support | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• RiYL Episode 084: Tom Scharpling (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Starr and Wondering who the ALM Rangers are? Start here… (Willy-P. Schaub)
• .NET Developers Who Keep Learning (Vicky)
• How I got Robert (Uncle Bob) Martin to write a foreword for my book (John Sonmez)
• CONFERENCE: Microsoft Ignite – Chicago, IL, May 4-8, 2015 (Kurt Shintaku)
• Countdown to 2015 + Deals with Gold (Larry Hyrb)
• On the Road with my Surface Pro 3 (Barb Bowman)
• Mathematical thinkers are key to our future (Michelle Feder)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Query Tuning & Optimization (Ian Stirk)
• Add a Date Range Dataset in SQL Server Reporting Services (Erin Youtzy)
• Rebuild or Reorganize? How to Set Up Index Maintenance in SQL Server (video) (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Proving that the Source of the Problems aren’t Tied to the Database (Pinal Dave)
• Does a clustered index sort the rows within a page (Kenneth Fisher)
• Blog Post: Create a clustered index and a primary key on existing tables (Jen McCown)

 

PowerShell

• Exploring and installing DSC resources published in PowerShell Gallery (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Band Tip: Use Cortana and Microsoft Band Tip: Keep Track of Runs, Walks and Similar Activities (Paul Thurrott)
• Sway Preview expands and delivers more feature improvements (Sway Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1446 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading December 15, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 8th – 14th, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• Daily News Digest 12/16/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1759 (Chris Alcock)

 

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