Top Links
- Congratulations to the New and Renewed MVPs! (MVP Award Program)
- 3 Features You Absolutely Need in a SPA (John Papa)
- Announcing TypeScript 0.8.3.1 (Jonathan Turner)
- Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud (Scott Hanselman)
Web Development
- Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 Adds IntelliSense, Virtualenv and Windows Azure Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
- ECMAScript Harmony features in Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Coming soon: Start Here! Build Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript (Devon Musgrave)
- How to place TabStrip at bottom of Android in Kendo UI Mobile (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Angry Birds of JavaScript: Yellow Bird – RequireJS (Elijah Manor)
- Microsoft: jQuery 2.0 Will Add Full Support For Windows Store Apps (Frederic Lardinois)
- Debugging node.js errors in Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
- Exploring JavaScript MV* Frameworks Part 1 – Hello Backbonejs (Nishanth Anil)
- jQuery Adds Support for Windows Store Apps, Creates New Opportunities for JavaScript Open Source Developers (Olivier Bloch)
- Why We (Me Included) Need to Stick To JavaScript Programming Style Standards (Peter Kellner)
- Windows Azure Mobile Services "Rent a Home" Sample, Part 1: Introduction and Windows Azure Mobile Services "Rent a Home" Sample, Part 2: UI and Data (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Simple Databinding and Templating using Knockout and ASP.NET Web API (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Windows Store app support in jQuery version 2.0 (Windows 8 Team)
- Three Undocumented Features of JSON (Ulrik Sandberg)
- SPDY Coming To Internet Explorer 11 & Windows Blue (Vygantas)
- SVG Patterns Gallery (Chris Coyier)
- mzPivotGrid: A pivot table for Ext JS (Adrian Teodorescu)
- Running Apache on Windows 8 with Python (M. Lang)
- Yet Another Reason To Drop __proto__ (Andrea Giammarchi)
- Glimpse Extensions Gallery (Nik Molnar)
- Configuring Firefox for Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)
- App Showcase with Grid Overlay (Mary Lou)
- A Thorough Introduction To Backbone.Marionette (Part 2) (Joseph Zimmerman)
- azure-scripty – Azure CLI scripting made even easier (Glenn Block)
- Sonic & The State Of Spinners (James Padolsey)
- Learning Bootstrap Part 2: Working with Buttons and Learning Bootstrap Part 3: Working with Image and Icons (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Getting started with AngularJS (Kris Schultz)
- CSS Disambiguation with WinJS and SPA (Jim Wooley)
- .NET and Node.JS – Performance Comparison (Updated) (Salman Quazi)
XAML
- How to Read XML Files in Windows 8 / WinRT (Geek Champ)
- Building Windows Phone Application using PhoneGap (Abhishek)
- Spinning a Record Like a DJ in Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
- Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Understand the projects. (Andrea Boschin)
- Windows 8 Store Applications Vs. WPF Applications (Jesse Liberty)
- Unity 4 open beta program for Windows Store apps and Windows Phone 8 (Lee)
- Binding without WPF (Nick Polyak)
- 2000 WPF Things #788 – Flipping an Element Using a Scale Transform and #789 – How a Scale Transform Works (Sean Sexton)
- Handling Sometimes-On Connectivity In Windows Phone Apps (Tim Murphy)
- Detecting Network Connection in Windows Store Apps (Lohith Nagaraj)
- How to change the Windows 8 Lock Screen Programmatically? and How to keep the Win8 Display ON during audio/video playback? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Binding Image with Picture Library Images in Windows Store Application using FileOpenPicker (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Lessons Learned In Using Microsoft Ads (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.5 (CodePlex)
Miscellaneous .NET
- My Passover Project: Introducing Rattlesnake.CLR (Oren Eini)
- Reviewing LevelDB: Part VIII–What are the levels all about? (Oren Eini)
- Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 6 – Browse Web App With IE (No Add-Ons) (Dirk Strauss)
- Windows 8–When Saving Isn’t Saving and Opening Isn’t Opening 🙂 (Mike Taulty)
- VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config) (Peter Kellner)
- Visual Studio 2010 Tooltip Assassin (Karl Shifflett)
- 2000 C# Things #812 – Defining an Extension Method for a Value Type and #813 – Defining an Extension Method for an Enumerated Type (Sean Sexton)
- A small, intra-app Object to String Serializer (Rick Strahl)
- [Sample Of Mar 30th] How to undo the changes in Entity Framework 4.1 and later (Philip Fu)
- Background Tasks in Async Methods (Matt Hamilton)
- Event: Building Windows Games with Unity (Dave Bost)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Change is Good (J.D. Meier)
- Antipatterns: What’s Wrong With This Code? — Answered! (Paul Ballard)
- Automated Testing is Cancer (Giorgio Sironi)
- Revisiting Prototyping With Indigo Studio (George Abraham)
- Using the GitHub for Windows app with BitBucket (David Burela)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Test Studio for iOS 2.0.1 Preview (Anthony Rinaldi)
- Android Development – Your First Steps (Andrey Prikaznov)
- iOS and Android Developers Can Build Windows Apps Too! (Dave Bost)
- Top Five iOS Development Resources (DevToolsGuy)
- How to list all Github Repository in Icenium to clone (Dhananjay Kumar)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 087: The Art of Doing (Mark Frauenfelder)
- .NET Rocks! – Amir Rajan Does Frictionless Development with Oak (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Technology & Friends Episode 259: Rachel Appel on Azure Mobile Services (David Giard)
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 110 – “Tossin’ Cookies and Huntin’ Turkeys” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- SharePoint 2013 Branding with Randy Drisgill and John Ross-Episode 79 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
- The Tablet Show – Aaron Gustafson On Web Standards and Progressive Enhancement (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 3) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – ASP.NET Web API (Unknown Author)
- TWC9: Build 2013, Brew, Backbone, Git, YUI and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas & Greg Duncan)
- 053 JSJ Software Team Dynamics (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
- Vishal Joshi Introduces WebMatrix 3 | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
- Engadget Podcast 337 – 03.28.13 (Joe Pollicino)
- Ping 173: IllumiShare, Worldwide Telescope, Play to Earn on Xbox, Developer Challenge to Down Under | Ping! (Laura Foy)
- Microsoft DevRadio: How I’ve Made OVER $100k with My Windows 8 Apps (Michael Palermo, DevRadio & Chris Caldwell)
- Video: Get to Know the Interview Process to Land a Great Job (Paul Ballard)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for April 1st, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Introducing the new class at the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
- April 2013 Technical Calendar and The Week Ahead – April 1, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
- Microsoft Office Hours Webcast- April 12, 2013 (MS Public Sector Team)
- 4 Great HTML5 Conferences to Attend in 2013 (DevToolsGuy)
- Pluralsight’s Aaron Skonnard Interviewed about Teaching Kids Programming (Paul Ballard)
- Technology has no limits – At Microsoft, you have the space to imagine (MS JobsBlog)
- New Ignite Webcast – Introduction to Office 365 Architecture (Josh T.)
- To the MVPs: Congrats to 885 new and renewed MVPs! (Devon Musgrave)
Database
- Using Policy Based Management for checking SQL Server database file extensions (Svetlana Golovko)
- SQL Server – Saving Changes Not Permitted in Management Studio (Vishal Gajjar)
- SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #022 and SQL SERVER – Three Important Documentation to download – Standards Support, Protocol, Data Portability and SQL SERVER – Three Efficiency Tools for SQL Server from Devart and SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 6 (Pinal Dave)
- BCP all tables into files from a database (Denis Gobo)
- MongoDB Gets Better Security, Text Search, Performance Improvements – What’s Next? (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Azure Table Storage versus SQLite (on Azure Blob Store) (Nathan Evans)
- Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting (Ian Stirk)
Miscellaneous
- Just how much do people hate Windows 8? (Ed Bott)
- My must have (short) list of programs/extensions etc… (Phillip Haydon)
- What sort of lessons can students learn in Small Basic? (Kodu Community Spotlight: Part 1) (Ed Price)
- I’m sick of being a Google+ lab rat (Joe Wilcox)
- How to increase write performance of bitmap indexes (Kelly Sommers)
- Take the first hour of any online developer course for free at LearningLine (Michael Kennedy)
- Paint.NET 4.0: Brushes and Shapes and stuff (Rick Brewster)
- Surface Pro battery replacement will cost you nearly $470, other components just as pricey (Ron)
- Microsoft’s Do Not Tracksuit, YouTube’s end game, and more April Fool’s ‘fun’ and No joke: Amazon hires Windows Phone vet Charlie Kindel for ‘something secret’ (Todd Bishop)
- Are You Worried About What Google Will Kill Next? (Walter Glenn)
- Apple application to trademark iPad Mini denied (Steven Musil)
- Everyone Should Learn To Program, But Not Everyone Should Be A Programmer (John Sonmez)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 30, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 31, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2013 03.15 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
- The Morning Brew #1326 (Chris Alcock)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 29th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 1st (Rob Caron)
- Friday Five – March 29, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
- Double Shot #1097 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Pie in the Sky (March 29, 2013) (Larry Franks)
- Collective #57 (Mary Lou)
- The Daily Six Pack: March 30, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: April 1, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: April 2, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 4/1/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (3/29/2013) (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #88 (Frank)
- Weekly Digest 7 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Reblog: March 22 to March 28 (Jason Strate)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #60) (Craig Kitterman)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 March 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
PhoneGap Essentials: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps: John M. Wargo: 9780321814296: Books ISBN: 0321814290 |
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