Day: December 29, 2014

Top Links

• More Plugins for Xamarin: Vibrate, Device Info, Connectivity, & Battery (James Montemagno)
• Task and Await: Consuming Awaitable Methods (Jeremy Clark)
• The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 5: Failing to Test (Jeremy Likness)
• Handling Device add/remove in Universal Apps (MIDI in this case) (Pete Brown)

 

Web Development

• Compiling Transcluded Content in AngularJS Directives and Passing $q Defer Methods Around As Naked Function References In AngularJS and Injecting Sibling Nodes During The Compilation Phase Of AngularJS Directives (Ben Nadel)
• How to create a Container in Azure Storage from MVC application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Route Resolve and Controller Activate in AngularJS (John Papa)
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC Web Site on Windows Azure (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Implementing RoleManager in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Markus Pope)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Constructing Your WordPress Widget and Building the Form for Your WordPress Widget (Rachel McCollin)
• Book Review : AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints (Sampath Lokuge)
• Using the Strategy Pattern to Reduce Complexity in Your JavaScript (Sean Biefeld)
• Building, signing and deploying click-once and Azure web sites without Visual Studio installed (Matt Wrock)
• Using Bower with Visual Studio 2013 (Dave Paquette)
• Kendo Editor with a Disabled Binding in MVVM (Rachel Hagerman)
• Symbols in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

XAML

• WPF TabControl Focus Behavior with Invisible Tabs (MVVM) (HeWillem)
• Create the Ultimate Fan Universal App using Windows AppStudio – Part 2 1/2 (Lori Lalonde)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Nuget Packages – solution level versus project level (Gregor Suttie)
• SemanticMerge and C# (Josue Yeray Julian Ferreiro)
• What’s new in C# 6.0? – Expression-bodied function (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Roslyn based Simulated Multiple Inheritance Usage Patterns (Part 1) (Nick Polyak)
• Microsoft Unity Succinctly (Ricardo Peres)
• Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD as the crack cocaine of software (Jef Claes)
• Don’t API All The Things … The Downside of Public APIs (Michael Mahemoff)
• Accidental vs Deliberate Context (Jessica Kerr)
• Naming Things is Hard: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction (Steve Wilkes)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Make a Custom Camera in Android (Ravi Sharma)
• TouchDevelop to Arduino (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – What You Need to Know about the Internet of Things (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Windows Weekly 394: Best Moments of 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sam Raimi (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 071: Geek Fitness with B.J. Keeton (Douglas Coleman)
• StarTalk Radio – Season 5 Time Capsule (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Experiences and Good Practices from Hackathons (Ben Linders)
• Should we have a Small Basic International Summit? (Ed Price)

 

Database

• Backing up your SQL Server to Amazon’s Cloud in Three Easy Steps (John Grover)

 

SharePoint

• AngularJS Posting To SharePoint Newsfeed Using Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Peek at this Holiday’s Top Tech Sellers at Amazon.com (Paul Thurrott)
• Learn to Program with Scratch (Lucy Black)
• Featured Article: The Small Basic Environment (IDE) (Ed Price)
• How to use npm global without sudo on OSX (John Papa)
• My first 24 hours with Microsoft Band (Richard Hay)
• MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language (Soulskill)

 

More Link Collections

• Collective #148 (Mary Lou)
• Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2014 (Michael Burns)
• Double Shot #1450 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading December 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 22nd – 28th, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• Must follow “Daily Links” for .NET Developers (Abhijit Jana)
• The Morning Brew #1766 (Chris Alcock)

 

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