Day: January 3, 2017

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Markdown Monster with Rick Strahl (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Programming Holiday Lights Big and Small (Jeff Fritz)
• Writing Visual Studio 2015 Extensions? You’ll want these Templates… (Greg Duncan)
• 2017 Tech Predictions (Ted Neward)

 

Web Development

• CSS Grid is Coming (Rachel Andrew)
• Implementing an Angular 2 Table Filter (Fabian Gosebrink)
• Angular 1.4.8 strongly typed in TypeScript (Manfredzik)
• A lightweight ASP.NET profiler helping you write better software (Matt Watson)
• Is JavaScript still dead? (Matthew Adams)
• Backup WordPress Database And Filesystem Data On Linux With Scripts and Using Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile in the Same Project with Node.js (Nic Raboy)
• Sending Proactive Botframework Messages (Robin Osborne)
• Node shell scripting (Stoyan Stefanov)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What does this tidbit DO? (Oren Eini)
• C#7: Binary Literals and Numeric Literal Digit Separators (Jeff Yates)
• Ref Returns In C# 7.0 (Mahesh Chand)
• Testimonial on Using F# by Microsoft’s Project Springfield Team (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• Find Out What Your Entity Framework Query Is Really Doing (Peter Vogel)
• GitHub API: Create or update files (Robert Muehsig)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) – Part 8 – Timeouts (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Agile Journey with the Backpacking Retrospective Exercise (Ben Linders)
• Unit testing – It’s part of the job (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Desktop Zero: How To Manage Unproductive Digital Clutter (Ben Gremillion)
• Software Should Be Easier To Build, Not Harder – My Dream For The Future Of Development (David McCarter)
• Hack a Happy New Year! (JD Meier)
• What Software Developers Should Know About Testing and QA (John Sonmez)
• People vs. Resources (Riaan Nel)
• Top 5 Challenges in Test Automation (Thao Vo)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using Text to Speech in your Holographic App (Abhijit Jana)
• AlexaDev Tuesday: Amazon Is Hiring Alexa Developers & Related Staff (April Hamilton)
• Hitchhiking the HoloToolkit-Unity, Leg 9–Holes in the Walls (Mike Taulty)
• It’s not just a map any more. HERE evolves into an Open Location Platform (Peter Kürpick)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 318 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Central Podcast 30: Newly Leaked Builds (Zac Bowden)
• Merge Conflict 26: A Pinch of PHP and a Dash of JS (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 148 “We Did No Work This Week…” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Functional Geekery Episode 80 – Edgar Aroutiounian (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 172: Aisha Densmore-Bey (Maurice Cherry)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – Model Evaluation with Sebastian Raschka (Jonathon Morgan, Vidya Spandana & Chris Albon)
• Developer Tea – The Anatomy of Change (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the OzCode Team – Eli Dagan (Dror Helper)
• January 2017 Speaking Engagements (Jeremy Clark)

 

Database

• SQL Server Read Ahead Reads Example (Neeraj Prasad Sharma)
• SQL Server Database Mail Attachment Error (Ranga Babu)
• Quick Tip: How to Use Android’s Assist API (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• SQL SERVER – Fix Error Msg 13603 working with JSON documents (Pinal Dave)
• Checking DBCC CHECKDB (Arun Sirpal)
• What to Expect From MariaDB (Marko Makela)

 

SharePoint

• Blocking File Types In SharePoint 2016 (Waqas Sarwar)

 

PowerShell

• Starting with Chocolatey (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Talk Yourself out of your New Year’s Blogging Resolution… One Day At A Time (Jon Galloway)
• Review: Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac shows why a virtual machine matters (Daniel Rasmus)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1787 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting links of the week (12/19/2016 – 01/01/2017) (Mike Eaton)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 26th, 2016 – January 1, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: Jan 2, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

 

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