Day: December 17, 2014

Top Links

• Farewell, Dr. Dobb’s (Andrew Binstock)
• Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio (Shabbar Husain)
• How to Update NuGet Packages for 64-bit (Matt Ward)
• SSW TV – The Changing Face of Microsoft and the Web with Scott Hanselman (SSW Team)

 

Web Development

• Not using JavaScript Promises? It is time to (Kevin Logan)
• Practical Functional Javascript with Ramda (Andrew D’Amelio)
• AngularJS – Sublime Template for Hello World (Ajitesh Kumar)
• Yeoman generators for ASP.NET 5 (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Getting Started with ES6 – Transpiling ES6 to ES5 (Dan Wahlin)
• Azure Backup – Announcing Support for Windows Client Operating System (Giridhar Mosay)
• Dart 1.8: An Interview with Seth Ladd of Google (James Chesters)
• W3C promotes Pointer Events to Proposed Recommendation (Olivier Bloch)

 

XAML

• Using XAML Grid in WPF (Mahesh Chand)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• It’s asynchronous all the way down (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Creating an inventory system in Unity, using C# (David Voyles)
• Continuous Integration With visualstudio.com and TFS (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Entity Developer Review, Part 3 (Ricardo Peres)
• Recursive Descent Parser for arithmetic expressions with real numbers (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Custom TraceSource and debugging using IntelliTrace (Angelos Petropoulos)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• APIs should not be copyrightable (Martin Fowler)
• In Praise of the Maintenance Programmer (Peter Vogel)
• Git While the Gittin’ is Good (Jeremy Clark)
• Creating a designer & developer workflow end to end. (Scott Barnes)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Go 1.4 gets Android support (Kay Ewbank)
• Interview: Infragistics Xamarin.Forms is Here (Jessica Skarzynski)
• New, Flexible Pricing Model and Calendar for Telerik UI for Xamarin (Nikolay Diyanov)
• PhoneGap Plugins for Mobile Application Projects (Saul Zukauskas)
• Extending The Kendo UI Mobile Flat UI (Burke Holland)
• ListView in WinJS based Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Swift: Tuples an introduction (Mark Petherbridge)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – SPA using Knockout with Steve Sanderson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Married Gamers Episode 352: All Day Everyday Gamers (Chris Brown)
• Azure SQL Database NextGen Release Preview | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• January 15th in Portland, Oregon: Agile Smack-Down (Debate) (James Shore)
• Jolt Awards 2015: Coding Tools (Andrew Binstock & Gastón Hillar)
• Dev of the Week: Steven Lott (John Walter)

 

Database

• Importing Mainframe Data with SQL Server Integration Services (Daniel Farina)
• Catalog SQL Server Services Installed on Servers (K. Brian Kelley)
• The Most Confusing Words, Phrases, and Acronyms in SQL Server (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Reverse String Word By Word – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: Power Pivot Update and Issue with Relationships Between Tables (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• Office 365 apps – deciding between the SharePoint app model and the Office 365 APIs (Chris O’Brien)
• Developing a Mobile SharePoint Solution with Infragistics – Part III: A Code Example (Mobile Man)

 

Miscellaneous

• Rethink Your Hiring Critieria (Jim Holmes)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1447 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading December 16, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 12/17/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1760 (Chris Alcock)

 

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