Month: May 2015

Top Links

• SQL Authority News – SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Available for Download (Pinal Dave)
• Build preview, updated backlog navigation, branch policies, and more… – May 15 (Aaron Bjork)
• Is it time to go SPA only? Did Google-bot put a nail in the server rendered coffin? (Dion Almaer)
• A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial) (Mozilla Dev Network)

Web Development

• Exposing Promise / Deferred Functionality On Streams In Node.js and Programming JavaScript Applications By Eric Elliott – Revisited (Ben Nadel)
• Ionic Releases 1.0, Next Version to Support AngularJS 2.0 (Abel Avram)
• 155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• MVC 6 TextArea Tag Helper and MVC 6 Label Tag Helper (Dave Paquette)
• Server-side Responsive Design with ASP.NET MVC and Interchange (Ed Charbeneau)
• Node.js and io.js leaders are building an open, neutral Node.js Foundation to support the future of the platform (Mike Dolan)
• Diagnostic logging in DNX/ASP.NET 5 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• CSS Grid Layout: The modern way of doing layout on the Web (Jenn Webb)
• Moving WordPress: Moving a Site Into a Multisite Network (Rachel McCollin)
• The Node.js Foundation benefits all (Scott Hammond)
• JavaScript Loop Optimization (Tom McFarlin)
• Editing Markdown in Xamarin Studio (James Montemagno)
• Querying DecentCMS, part 3: a paginated list of results (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Enterprises Should Stop Wasting Money with Internet Explorer 8 (Chris Love)
• Everlive API Swagger (Yosif Yosifov)
• Woah, I Can Test Edge & IE on a Mac & Linux! (Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with Azure Notification Hubs (Jason Farrell)
• The Transition to Ember 2.0 in Detail (Yehuda Katz)

XAML

• WPF Animation – Path Animations (Richard Carr)
• Getting Signal/R clients to work on Windows 10 UWP apps (Joost van Schaik)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Why RavenDB isn’t written in F#, or the cost of the esoteric choice (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio Online Update – May 15th (Brian Harry)
• Is Visual Studio Online Online? VSO Status Indicator Extension (Greg Duncan)
• Consumed: Handling commands (F#) (Jef Claes)
• C# Futures: Method Contracts (Jonathan Allen)
• EF7 Beta 4 & LINQ Queries: Be sure you have the right LINQ package (Julie Lerman)
• Asynchronous Programming in ES6 Using Generators and Promises (Ravi Kiran)
• Hidden command line in Visual Studio (Timmy Kokke)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Calculated Properties (Ricardo Peres)
• Introducing Code Contracts – Writing Better Code (Dirk Strauss)
• Benefits of Code-Only Mapping and How to Get Them (Doroteya Agayna)
• Return the most specific type, accept the most generic type (Vladimir Khorikov)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS Demo (Sacha Barber)
• Retrospective Prime Directive in nine languages (Ben Linders)
• Improving Your Craft with Static Analysis (Erik Dietrich)
• Writing Your First Mercurial Extension (Leon Bambrick)
• Rock SOLID! (Michael Burns)
• How to conduct a Design Sprint (Mary Treseler)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms CarouselPage Recipe (Adam J. Wolf)
• TouchDevelop: Create apps and games on your Lumia (Adam Fraser)
• Microsoft Band SDK Release and Band Studio Introduction (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 10: How to use IoT extension for Raspberry Pi 2 (part 2) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #6 (Ron Gilbert)
• Technology & Friends Episode 366: Steve Woodward on SkySync (David Giard)
• MNR 544 The Witcher III (Larry Hyrb)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 28 (vBonacci)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Timothy Simons (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – Azure vs AWS with Kevin Wittkopf (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 154: All Things Ruby with 2015’s Ruby Heroes (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Get Up And Code 091: Get Fit or Be Hacking with Rob Underwood (John Sonmez)
• Web Components with Cory House | Front-End Developer Podcast Episode 9 (Craig McKeachie)
• Microsoft Hyperlapse Unleashed (Larry Larsen)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries Potpourri (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• Getting started with Angular 2 developer preview (AngularJS Team)

Community / Events

• Announcing the 2015 World Semifinalists! (Pablo Veramendi)

Database

• Allow NULL value in Multi Value Report Parameter in SQL Server Reporting Services (Ghanesh Prasad)
• Blog Post: SQL Server 2016 to include R and Blog Post: How To Remove the Identity Column in SQL Server (Dinesh Asanka)
• Iterate over a collection in Cronacle (Jamie Thomson)
• A design consideration: SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Mode for TFS (Matteo Emili)
• sys.dm_os_sys_info SQL Server Hardware Information (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Service Pack Error – The User Data directory in the registry is not valid. Verify DefaultData key under the instance hive points to a valid directory and Interview Question of the Week #020 – What is the Difference Between DISTINCT and GROUP BY? (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: How to Move MSDB & Model SQL Server system Databases ? (Rohit Garg)
• Continuous delivery and Azure SQL Database achieving the impossible (Simon Sabin)
• RavenDB Sharding: Enabling shards for existing database (Oren Eini)
• Blog Post: Extending your metadata with Extended Properties (Kenneth Fisher)
• [Ecosystem] Microsoft Power Query for Excel Releases Support for OData V4 (Yi Ding)

PowerShell

• Azure PowerShell DSC Extension v1.10 released (PowerShell Team)

Miscellaneous

• With the launch of its Edge browser, Microsoft ends an antitrust era and Microsoft says it’s taking over updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices (Ed Bott)
• Small Basic – New Line (Nonki Takahashi)
• Windows 10 seems to run smoother and faster than OS X on new MacBook (Raymond Wong)
• Rust 1.0 Released (Soulskill)
• Windows Phone Developers report suspicious drop in Google ad revenue after BUILD 2015 (Samantha Jou)
• NSFW: Microsoft doesn’t suck, and you don’t have to hate it (Peter Cohen)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 15, 2015 and Geek Reading May 18, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #168 (Pedro Botelho)
• The best of last week – May 16, 2015 (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Last Week on Channel 9: May 11th – May 17th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Double Shot #1503 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1862 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 18, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-15 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #40 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

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