Day: September 8, 2015

Top Links

• Test Generator NUnit extension (VS Gallery)
• Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview and Integrating with Slack Using ASP.NET WebHooks Preview (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• MVVM Light V5.2 is live! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Preview v2.0 Refactoring Essentials now… (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Using Scope.$watchCollection() To Watch Functions In AngularJS and Rending ReactJS Components In AngularJS Using AngularJS Directives (Ben Nadel)
• Dependency Injection in Angular 2 (Pascal Precht)
• HTML5 vs Native Apps – Which one is Better? (Chris Love)
• JavaScript Basics: How to create a Dictionary with Key/Value pairs (Chris Pietschmann)
• Hint.css : A tooltip library in CSS (jQuery Rain)
• Free Course: Easy Node.js Development Environment With Vagrant (Andrew Blackman)
• Cycligent.js: A micro-library for async script loading and classic OOP (Brian Whipple)
• How to work with the Ignite UI Chart in an AngularJS application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Sass Style Guide: A Sass Tutorial on How to Write Better CSS Code (Matias Hernandez)
• Node.js Foundation Elects Board of Directors (Mikeal Rogers)
• Using Elixir’s Pattern Matching And Case Statement To Handle Errors (Rob Conery)
• Use TypeScript to Prepare for Angular 2 (Deborah Kurata)
• Gulp and Visual Studio: Getting SASSy (Edward Ridge)
• New React Developer Tools | React (Ben Alpert)
• Markdown Edit 1.10 – GitHub Flavored Markdown (Mike Ward)
• Typed Arrays in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• The anatomy of responsive images (Chris Coyier)
• Typescript Announces Sypport for React (James Chesters)
• Build an MP3 Player With AV Foundation (James Tyner)

 

XAML

• Blend for Visual Studio 2012 by Example Review (Ricardo Peres)
• Intense Toolkit for UWP (Koen Zwikstra)
• Using MVVM in a Reusable UserControl (Brian Noyes)
• Windows 10 UWP–Migrating a Windows 8.1 App (Part 8 of N) (Mike Taulty)
• State triggers and Blend (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• [WPF] Prevent the user from pasting an image in a RichTextBox (Thomas Levesque)
• Easy drawing and inking using new InkCanvas Control for Universal Windows App (Abhijit Jana)
• Implementing Adaptive Toast with Actions in Windows 10 Universal Apps (Arun Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New Build Features in TFS 2015 and Visual Studio Online (Gouri Sohoni)
• PCL, Shared Projects, and NuGet (Rockford Lhotka)
• A Proposal to Add Option Types for References to C# 7 (Sergio De Simone)
• IntelliTrace Standalone Collector (MS Downloads)
• Rx minimal time accuracy (Bnaya Eshet)
• #VS2015 – Code Lens Health Indicator, code metrics in the source code editor (Bruno Capuano)
• Using Predicates in Akka.NET Receive Actors (Jason Roberts)
• Price Drop and Extension Marketplace for VS Online (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Playing Games with the Agile Essentials (Ben Linders)
• Two Ways to Lead: Detailed Command vs. Mission Command (J.D. Meier)
• Supplying Run Time Parameters to Tests (Atin Bansal)
• Reach Out and Grow with Professional Networking (Kevin O’Shaughnessy)
• The basics of AOP (Steve Widinghoff)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Course: Android Design for Developers (Nick Butcher)
• watchOS 2: Preview and Updates (Miguel de Icaza)
• Reading temperatures & controlling a fan with a RP2, Azure Service Bus and a Microsoft Band (1) (Joost van Schaik)
• How to Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Development Server (Pablo Villoslada Puigcerber)
• Spending the day using Swift; it’s the future for sure. Swift feels like a… (Rob Bazinet)
• Publish a Windows 10 Game with Construct 2 (Shahed C)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 050: Iceland – Simple Programmer European Tour 2015 and Simple Programmer Podcast 051: Help! I Don’t Know What To Focus On (John Sonmez)
• .NET Rocks! – Developing using ASP.NET vNext with Rick Strahl (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 382: Jason Young on IoT, Microsoft Band, and PowerPoint (David Giard)
• Herding Code 211: James Mickens on The State of Computer Security and Bitcoin and Thomas Jefferson and Internet of Terrible Things and Prawns and Oslo’s Terrible Secret (Jon Galloway, Kevin Dente, K. Scott Allen & Scott Koon)
• MS Dev Show – SQL Server and Azure SQL Database with Neeraj Joshi (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 37 (Vic Bonacci)
• The Changelog 172: GitUp, Git UX, and More with Pierre-Olivier Latour (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Married Gamers Episode 374: Renew Our Vows (Chris Brown)
• Rocket 34: Fine Piece of Machinery (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
• Developer on Fire Podcast – David Heinemeier Hansson – The Pareto Principle and Stoic Philosophy and Developer on Fire Podcast – Scott Wlaschin – Learn from Diverse Sources (Dave Rael)
• TWC9: IFA Hardware Blast, Cortana Speaking in Tongues, Sewing up Office UI apps and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Petri Wilhelmsen & Nikola Metulev)
• Cloud Cover Episode 185: DocDB Updates with Ryan CrawCour | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• New Video: Task.IsCompleted Doesn’t Mean What You Think (Jeremy Clark)
• Get Up And Code 107: Talking about Injuries with Jesse Taber and John Sonmez (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Defrag Tools #140 – Larry Osterman – 31 Years | Defrag Tools (LarryOsterman, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• SQL Server Radio Show 29 – Architecture, Microsoft APS and Azure SQL Datawarehouse with Bradley Ball (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• My Life for the Code Episode 11: Topgun, Prism, Aurelia, and More With Brian Noyes (Shawn Rakowski)
• SSW TV – The Power of a Great API – the case for writing API-first applications | Damian Brady at DDD Melbourne 2015 (SSW Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: “Are You Out of Your Mind?” with Oliver Sacks (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• WaterOx Podcast 018 – Learn Like A Pro! – WaterOx Consulting (Chris Bell)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – The right questions to ask to understand the system | Gil Zilberfeld (Vasco Duarte)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 81 “Snake Oil” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• AAWP Insight #152: updates, store rants and Acer’s Continuum demo (Rafe Blandford)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Dev Days Keeps on Rolling! (Krystin Stutesman)
• Microsoft reveals little new at IFA keynote (Kip Kniskern)

 

Database

• Compare SQL permissions using SQL Server Data Tools (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Best Practices for Performance and Maintenance (Ghanesh Prasad)
• Introducing JSON for SQL Server 2016 (Babu Akkandi)
• Plan Forcing with the Query Store in SQL Server 2016 (Marios Philippopoulos)
• SQL SERVER – How to Enable or Disable All the Triggers on a Table and Database? and SQL SERVER – Identify Time Between Backups Calculation and SQL SERVER – Column Alias and Usage in Where Clause (Pinal Dave)
• General Availability of Work Item Trend and Rollup Reporting in Power BI (Jeff Levinson)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Using PowerShell runspaces to find unassigned IPv4 addresses (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Money Won’t Make You Happy: Programmer Edition (John Sonmez)
• Amazon could be launching a $50 Fire tablet later this year (Shreyas Gandhe)
• Nokia’s first true Android phone, the C1, leaks out in pretty renders (Phone Arena Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 4, 2015 and Geek Reading September 7, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #184 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1549 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #200 (Frank Boucher)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 07, 2015 (Bumper Edition) and The Daily Six Pack: September 08, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 31st – September 6th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-07 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-08 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-08 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #56 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 4th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• F# Weekly #34,#35,#36, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Links of the Week Sept 6 2015 (Chris Love)
• Links of the month (August Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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