Day: December 22, 2015

Top Links

• The reboot of Coding4Fun (Windows Apps Team)
• F# Software Foundation Granted 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Status (F# Software Foundation)
• Enters ReSharper Ultimate 10.0.2 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Developers’ Guide to Windows 10 Version 1511 Update – new videos now available on Channel 9 (Windows Apps Team)

 

Web Development

• New Project Management Window in PhpStorm 10 (Gary Hockin)
• A Review of JavaScript Error Monitoring Services (Raymond Camden)
• A small jQuery Resizable Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• Visual Studio Code: Debugger for Chrome extension (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Certificates Matter (Eric Lawrence)
• The case for drag ‘n’ drop web design (Ezequiel Bruni)
• Using the Azure API Management REST API as workaround to RBAC functionality (Katrien de Graeve)

 

XAML

• Intense UWP Templates with the Intense Toolkit and some Logo help (Greg Duncan)
• Cross Platform Visual States (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Large file streaming using WCF (Ashish Kumar)
• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Regular Expression Comments (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 Technical Preview (MS Downloads)
• Sale alert: Save on all exam prep books & eBooks (Kim Spilker)
• Extensions 101 – Attempting to visualize the main processing flow (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Win2D 1.11.0 – text analysis, block compressed bitmaps, saving large images, and IBuffer pixel access and Win2D 1.11.0 – also adds glyph metrics, thanks to Adrien Guillerot (Shawn Hargreaves)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Service Fabric Concept, Guidelines and Patterns #2 – Singleton (Bnaya Eshet)
• 7 Steps to Successful Developer Onboarding and How to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Developer Program (Carlo Longino)
• What makes a PM a great PM? (Den Delimarsky)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Creating a Data-Driven Organization – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• How to vet self-taught developers (Callie Johnson)
• Continuous Testing – A practical guide with concepts and approaches (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Music Production vs. Code Production (Roy Osherove)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mobile Bootcamp Part II: Engage your users (Danielle Landress)
• What’s new in the IBM Swift Sandbox v0.3 (Patrick Bohrer)
• With Flutter, Google Aims Dart to Mobile App Cross-Development (Sergio De Simone)
• How To Increase User Retention In Mobile Apps (Sven Lenaerts)
• Using NSUserDefaults in Swift (yffaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Practical Reactive Extensions with Tamir Dresher (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 183 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Deep Dive ASP.NET5 (Jon Galloway)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Domhnall Gleeson (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 96 “Buy High Quality Yarn…” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• DefragTools #149 – Media eXperience Analyzer part 1 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• RiYL Episode 144: Chip Kidd (Brian Heater)
• Mustaches and it’s Stache-istics! (Jon Galloway & Mat Velloso)
• SSW TV – Windows 10 for IoT: What is it and how do you develop for it | Dave Glover (Sophie Belle)

 

Community / Events

• Learn Mobile Development Best Practices at Xamarin Evolve 2016 (Joseph Hill)
• Succinctly Series E-book Author Q&A with Simone Chiaretta (Jennifer Wright)
• Join us for the second annual hack.summit() (Pluralsight)

 

Database

• Understanding how DML and DDL changes impact Change Data Capture in SQL Server (Ahmad Yaseen)
• How to Compare Tables in SQL Server (Guy Glantser)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell News Roundup (There’s Been a Lot of it) (Don Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• How Microsoft deployed Windows 10 inside the company and Microsoft buys Ray Ozzie’s Talko mobile-messaging startup (Mary Jo Foley)
• NodeOS: The JavaScript Based Operating System (Danny Morabito)
• Exclusive renders: the Microsoft Lumia 650 brings metal to the mid-range (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1609 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1995 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 21st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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