Day: September 21, 2015

Top Links

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10547 (Gabe Aul)
• Using MVVM in a Reusable UserControl (Brian Noyes)
• Learn Roslyn Now: Part 13 Keeping track of syntax nodes with Syntax Annotations (Josh Varty)
• Microsoft Band 2 leaked renders reveal new curved design and metallic finish (Daniel Rubino)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Basics: String Contains Function (Chris Pietschmann)
• Building Isomorphic JavaScript web apps with CRAAM (B. Clay Shannon)
• Custom MVC 6 Tag Helper Samples (Dave Paquette)
• Create a WordPress site on Azure using DreamSpark (David Voyles)
• Exporting HTML From Web App to Image (Ed Charbeneau)
• Using Tools for Quality WordPress Development (Tom McFarlin)
• Introducing ng-OfficeUIFabric: Angular Directives for Office UI Fabric (Andrew Connell)
• A Dead-Simple Todo List with RxJS (Edan Schwartz)
• Markdown Edit 1.11 Released (Mike Ward)
• Setting The State Based On Rendered DOM Elements In ReactJS and Attaching Dynamic Event Handlers To Proxied Child Elements In ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
• __proto__ in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• ORTC API is now available in Microsoft Edge (Shijun Sun, Hao Yan & Bernard Aboba)
• Custom pagination with Jekyll (Paul Bakaus)

 

XAML

• UWP: Profiling and debugging tools in Visual Studio 2015 (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Lumia Imaging SDK 3.0 (MSDN)
• 3D Rendering of MapControl in Windows 10 Universal App Development (Arun Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft Showcases Visual Studio Community 2015 (Mahesh Chand)
• Tools For Debugging In Visual Studio 2015 – Part 2 (Carmelo La Monica)
• Concurrency Visualizer for Visual Studio 2015 is now available on the gallery (Dan Taylor)
• #VS2015 – DebugStudio, You can Debug in GODMODE in Visual Studio (Bruno Capuano)
• Visual Studio Extension of the Week: Inline Color Picker (Mitul Suthar)
• Tasks are (still) not threads and async is not parallel (Paul Ballard)
• Polymorphism With Real Life Scenario In C# (Sujeet Suman)
• Regular Expression Anchors (Richard Carr)
• SonicFileFinder 3.1 released (Jens Schaller)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Updates, new Branch Policies, and more… – Sep 18 (Aaron Bjork)
• The Role of an Agile Manager (Ben Linders)
• Extracting Subversion Branch Mappings (Paul Hammant)
• How Can You Move From Manual Testing to Test Automation? (Alex Siminiuc)
• From Legacy Code to Testable Code: Introduce Parameter (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Using Test Metrics to Improve Test Planning and Design (Kyle Nordeen)
• GitHub implements Subresource Integrity (Ben Toews)
• The First Critical Steps Toward Scaling Your Software Organization (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The importance of mentors when you’re learning to code (Sally Moore)
• Version Control Walkthrough (Branching Strategies) Part 5 – Servicing & Release Isolation and Explore the “Surface Owner” VSO Extension – 1. Getting started (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Deliver the Perfect Experience on iOS 9 with Xamarin Test Cloud (Justin Raczak)
• Links and Code from 10 Awesome Xamarin.Forms Tips and Tricks (Michael Ridland)
• Advanced Touch Handling in iOS9: Coalescing and Prediction (Simon Gladman)
• 52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 6 – Starting xUnit Testing (Jesse Liberty)
• IoT from Build and Programming Robotic Systems with Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
• Adventures in Windows IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Controlling a fan using an UWP on a Raspberry PI2 (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 056: 9/11 Memorial NYC (John Sonmez)
• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #22 (Ron Gilbert)
• Technology & Friends Episode 384: Joe Eames on JavaScript Frameworks (David Giard)
• WinBeta Podcast 33: New Windows 10 Builds, Threshold 2 and more (Sean Michael)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 38 (Vic Bonacci)
• MS Dev Show – Touch Interfaces That Don’t Suck with David Washington (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• RiYL Episode 126: (Bonus) Alex Winter Talks Frank Zappa (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 036 | Reuven Lerner – Sharing Insight and Developer on Fire Episode 037 | Mads Kristensen – Just Ship (Dave Rael)
• TWC9: Windows 10 Hardware Ninja Cats with 10×10 and Housing Automation plus more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 186: EA Portal and API with Doug Lora and Jufeng Zhang | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai)
• Get Up And Code 109: Working Out While Traveling (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Rocket 36: The Wheel Works Better (Simone De Rochefort, Brianna Wu & Christina Warren)

 

Community / Events

• Philadelphia Meeting – October 1st 2015 » PowerShell.org (Lido Paglia)
• Xamarin Evolve 2016: Call For Participation (Joseph Hill)
• Orchard Harvest is happening October 5-6 in beautiful Alicante, Spain (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Docker Global Hack Day #3: How to Submit Hacks (Adam Herzog)
• ‘#ILookLikeAnEngineer:’ How a Kirkland company is helping to change STEM stereotypes (Ashley Stewart)
• The Visual C++ team is at CppCon 2015 (Eric Battalio)
• Dreamforce 2015: Strengthening the Microsoft and Salesforce Partnership (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Splunk .conf 2015 Stream Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss! (Stela Udovicic)
• Don’t miss the GeekWire Summit! Less than two weeks until Seattle’s top tech event (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• How to create a heat map graph in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – Edition Upgrade from Evaluation to Enterprise Core – AlwaysOn Warning! and SQL SERVER – Reading Statistics IO data with SQL Server and Interview Question of the Week #037 – What are the Properties of Relational Tables? (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• 3 Mistakes to Avoid When Mobilizing SharePoint (Mobile Man)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell: RSS feeds and credentials (Iris Classon)
• Azure DSC Extension v2.6 released (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Build Azure Desktop Wallpaper (Chris Pietschmann)
• Two early-release sample chapters from Windows 10 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• JetBrains Reconsiders Subscription Licensing Changes (Soulskill)
• A Microsoft Surface Phone Can Rival The iPhone 6s (Alcaraz Research)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 18, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #186 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1554 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #202 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: September 13th – September 20th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Daily Links 18 Sep 2015 (Jax)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #68 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 21, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• GameDev News – Week Ending September 19, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #58 (Adam J Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 18th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• F# Weekly #38, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Links of the Week September 20 2015 – Vegas Edition (Chris Love)

 

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