Category: Daily Links

Top Links

• Overriding filters in ASP.NET Web API vNext (Filip W)
• Get an AGENT Smart watch and help them get to 1MM (Pete Brown)
• Advanced WP8 in easy steps: Speech (Iris Classon)
• Reactive Extension GroupBy Enhancements (Rohit Sharma)

Web Development

• My Recommendations For Windows Azure Literature (Alexandre Brisebois)
• PhpStorm 6.0.3 EAP 129.757 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• "The Essential HTML5 Mobile" DZone Refcardz Cheat Sheet (reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• [Sample Of Jun 14th] Implement resume download in asp.net (Philip Fu)
• Browser Busy Indicators (Steve Souders)
• Working With Inherited Collections In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Glimpse 1.4.2 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• JSbooks (Chris Coyier)
• Google App Engine Version 1.8.1 Released (Janet Wagner)
• Verifiable Messaging over HTTP (Manu Sporny)

XAML

• Android to Windows Phone 8: Working with Files and Android to Windows 8: Parse XML data (Adam Grocholski)
• Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Win as one with Share contracts (Andrea Boschin)
• Inside Windows Phone – Use Location and Mapping in your Apps (Larry Lieberman)
• Introduction To Data Binding for Windows and Windows Phone (part 1) and Introduction To Data Binding for Windows and Windows Phone (part 2) and Downloading data using a Portable Class Library for Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #843 – Text Justification in a TextBlock (Sean Sexton)
• MultiTouch Behaviors available on NuGet (Davide Zordan)
• Data Binding to Attached Properties (Chris Gardner)
• Creating Data-Driven Windows 8 Apps from Microsoft’s Grid Template using REST APIs for Designers (Don Burnett)
• Using ads and 12+ age ratings (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Thread-Safe Stacks with ConcurrentStack (Richard Carr)
• Deadlocking with the TPL, how to (Oren Eini)
• Inline Parameter Refactoring in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• .NET Shell Extensions – Shell Context Menus (Dave Kerr)
• Building your own .NET Gadgeteer module… (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 C# Things #867 – Including Several catch Blocks (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test SetUp and TearDown in Unit Testing using NUnit : Part 2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Evolution of coding (Boris Lipschitz)
• Refactoring Legacy Assets With Agile (Vijay Narayanan)
• Stealing From The Company (Steven Vore)
• The value of code reviews (Wes McClure)
• A Call To Drop "The Open Closed Principle" From The SOLID Design Principles (Adam Tibi)
• Does the language you use make a difference? – Code metrics for "functional-first" v. "object-first" code (Don Syme)
• Stupid Question 195-196: What is the difference between a framework, toolkit and library? (Iris Classon)
• Vaughn Vernon on the Actor Model and Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
• Code Review and it’s Importance (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Metric Mind Tricks (Gil Zilberfeld)

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 7 Development: Getting and Setting Up Xcode 5 and the iOS 7 SDK (Joey deVilla)
• Dave Mark’s list of iOS resources (jon)
• Mobile Services updates and Android support for Notification Hubs (Miranda Luna)
• Android Device Manager and SDK Location (Pascal Arnould)
• Article – Create a MapView in Google Maps for iOS (Wally McClure)
• Using Errorception with PhoneGap (Raymond Camden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 119 – “Travis Re-Pre-Orders” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Technology & Friends Episode 270: Russ Fustino on Responsive Design with HTML5 and Wijmo (David Giard)
• IWP 55 | Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8 | Inside Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro & Larry Lieberman)
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 7) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Authentication Tips and Tricks (Brian Hitney)
• TWC9: TechEd++, VS/TFS 2013, C4F Toolkit 2.0.6, Azure Updates and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Weekly 316: The Bing-ining (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joe Manganiello and Man of Steel Press Conference (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Building Tablet Applications with Laurent Bugnion (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 348: E3 and WWDC wrap-up – 06.15.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 006: Basic Weight Training (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• GeekWire Radio: Nick Hanauer and Rich Barton on investing, technology, open skies and big bets (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

• Join me on 22nd June to learn LINQ and Web API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence System Architecture – Part 2 (Arshad Ali)
• #0273 – SQL Server – IDENTITY columns – Myths – IDENTITY columns cannot be added to existing tables – Part 02 (Nakul Vachhrajani)
• How to use SQL Server CTEs to make your T-SQL code readable by humans (Andy Brown)
• The Accidental DBA (Day 15 of 30): Statistics Maintenance (Kimberly Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – Microsoft SQL Server 2014 CTP1 Product Guide and SQL – Migrate Database from SQL Server to NuoDB – A Quick Tutorial (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 2.5 Release Candidate is out (Oren Eini)
• Using Data Explorer and Geoflow to decide where to go for dinner! (Data Explorer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Telerik Control Panel Improvements – now with more products! (Carey Payette)
• Tuts+ Jobs is now free! (Joel Bankhead)
• Let’s Talk: Xbox One DRM – it’s not your worst enemy (Michael Archambault)
• Microsoft To Developers: Our Cloud is Ideal for Application Development and Testing (Richard Seroter)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 15, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 16, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, June 14th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 14, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (June 14, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #68 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1143 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five–June 14, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 6/17/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1378 (Chris Alcock)
• Reblog: June 7 to June 13 (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #033 (Pinal Dave)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 June 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 14 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #68) (Mark Brown)

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