Day: September 23, 2015

Top Links

• Introducing availability of Office 365 Groups in Outlook 2016 (Christophe Fiessinger)
• Office 2016 for Windows 10 (Terry Myerson)
• Using IoC and Design time support with MVVM Light and Template 10 (Marco Minerva)
• Herding Code 212: Steve Sanderson on Web Development in 2020 (Jon Galloway, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon & K. Scott Allen)

 

Web Development

• Building a Better MVC Helper (Peter Vogel)
• Customising Cross-Browser Range Inputs with CSS and JavaScript (Steven Estrella)
• Pro JavaScript Concepts for Enterprise Developers (Jeremy Likness)
• Angular Toolkits: Customizable Bootstrap Tabs (Shaun Xu)
• Debugging Memory Leaks in Node.js Applications (Vladyslav Millier)
• Node v4.1.1 (Stable) (Rod Vagg)

 

XAML

• Continuous Integration for UWP projects – Making Builds Faster (Oren Novotny)
• Using cross-app communication to make apps work together (10 by 10) (Rajen Kishna)
• We’ve Come a Long Way Baby – WriteableBitmapEx now on GitHub (Rene Schulte)
• How to Make your First Windows 10 App (Amanda Lange)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Online – output colouring by tag (Ruslan Albu)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Mocking Frameworks To Help With Unit Testing UI Controls (Jamie Dixon)
• Version Control Walkthrough (TFVC) Part 3 – Use the local workspace in offline mode and Version Control Walkthrough (TFVC) Part 4 – Explore the diff and merge tools (Anisha Pindoria)
• Using Strength-based Questions in Retrospectives (Ben Linders)
• Help Professional Developers Survive (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Build Customization in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 (Gouri Sohoni)
• If statements: Do you really need them in your code? (Samer Buna)
• Introducing Office 365 Planner (Howard Crow)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Hands on with Android Activity Lifecycle Events (Vipul Patel)
• #VS2015 – Do you need #Xamarin Forms Designer? This may help you 😉 (Bruno Capuano)
• Survey: Are you using the Tools for Apache Cordova? (Jordan Matthiesen)
• 52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 7 – First Unit Tests (Jesse Liberty)
• New Facebook SDK for Unity Now Available (Chris Lewis)
• Using Application Insights to Improve Mobile Beta Testing (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 057: Turning Your Idea Into a Business With Dan Martell (John Sonmez)
• .NET Rocks! – The New Web Dev Stack with Dan Wahlin (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Changelog 174: Metasploit, InfoSec, and Open Source with Trevor Rosen and James “Egypt” Lee (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• RiYL Episode 127: Anders Nilsen (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 038 | Alan Cooper – Sustainable Innovation (Dave Rael)
• Functional Geekery Episode 27 – Joe Barnes (Steven Proctor)
• Episode 11: Interview with Adam Tuliper | Level Up (Greg Duncan, Golnaz, Kaitlin McKinnon & Soumow)
• RunAs Radio – Windows 10 Recap with Paul Thurrott (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• CodeChat 040 – Zoe from Seeed Studio with a Plant Care Project | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Talk Python to Me #26 Deploying Python Web Applications (Updated) (Michael Kennedy)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Out and About – Ben Hindman, co-founder of Mesosphere | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Docker Swarm Clusters on Azure (RicksterCDN & Ahmet Alp Balkan)
• SSW TV – Going Hardcore on your Business Intelligence with Power BI – Adam Cogan (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Notes From Splunk .conf 2015 Day One (Andi Mann)
• Come Celebrate N3RD Street’s First Birthday! (Nicole Forrester)

 

Database

• Generate HTML Formatted Emails from SQL Server (Jeffrey Yao)
• SQL Server 2016 Query Store Example (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL SERVER – Scope of ERROR_MESSAGE (Pinal Dave)
• Pro T-SQL Programmer’s Guide 4th Ed (Ian Stirk)
• Finding Next Business Day in T-SQL (Sam Vanga)
• Using Hunk+Hadoop as a Backend for Splunk (Jonathan Allen)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Apache Cassandra – $13.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office 2016: The Empire strikes back (Ed Bott)
• What’s new (and still to come) in Microsoft’s Office 2016 for Windows (Mary Jo Foley)
• Bing brings some of its magic to help you achieve even more with Office 2016 (anfehe)
• Samsung’s SSD sets sick speed standard (James Vincent)
• Teachers, manage your courses with Classroom for GitHub (John D. Britton)
• Baseball legend Yogi Berra, known for his ‘Yogi-isms,’ dies at 90 (The Associated Press)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 22, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 23, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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