Top Links
- SQL Server Data Tools for SQL Server 2014 is available (Kevin Cunnane)
- Sorry Xbox fans, Facebook just bought Oculus for $2 billion (Sam Sabri)
- AutoView – the Missing Link for a Good ViewModel First Approach (András Velvárt)
- Linker Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 (Eric Battalio)
Web Development
- Case Study: Using $scope.$digest() As A Performance Optimization In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
- How to Create Common Screens Quickly (Kevin Mehlhaff)
- JavaScript Frameworks | How to Learn Them Quickly (Craig McKeachie)
- Event Source Base class for Typescript (James Curran)
- OneNote Dev isn’t dead by a long shot! The OneNote team opens up about their near-term API roadmap (Greg Duncan)
- Sublime is Sublime 9 and Sublime is Sublime 10 (Greg Young)
- Some stuff that doesn’t work between the DOM and Shadow DOM (Steve Faulkner)
XAML
- More on Search in WInRT: Search history (Iris Classon)
- 2000 WPF Things #1,037 – Entering Text Manually into a DatePicker (Sean Sexton)
- WPF Form Designer Prototype (MVVM) (Adolfo Perez)
- Testing for accessibility in Windows Store apps (Joseph Shum)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Solving fun puzzles with F# (Tomas Petricek)
- Asynchronous MSMQ Processing (Peter Vogel)
- F#11 : Sequences (Sacha Barber)
- Creating a self-contained test suite for WCF services using Microsoft Visual Studio Coded UI (Uma Malleshwari)
- Book Review: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook (Vincent Maverick Durano)
- IronPython 2.7.5 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
- “Point and Click” Cloud Push Notifications with Azure Mobile Services (Mike Taulty)
- Introduction to MonoGame 3.2 for Windows 8 (Michael Cummings)
- Entity Framework Gets Code First Model Generation Through Reverse Engineering (David Ramel)
- JustMock Lite Just Got Even Better (Elena Pundjeva)
- 2000 C# Things #1,061 – Explicit Reference Conversions (Sean Sexton)
- Seq is ready for prime-time (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Are Microservices the Future? and Open-Sourcing ThoughtWorks Go (Martin Fowler)
- Throw user stories away after they are delivered (Gojko Adzic)
- TDD Isn’t All About Testing (Dave M. Bush)
- Frontend & Backend: Gotta Keep’em Separated (Brad Carleton)
- Using BeyondCompare 4 with Tortoise HG 2.11.1 (and possibly all 2.x previous) (Chris Skardon)
- Domain-Driven Design Using a Functional Language (Jan Stenberg)
- How To Convince Your Boss To Try New Things (Scott Berkun)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Awesome Android with Xamarin (Marc LaFleur)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 124 (Richard Hay)
- Tech Flash Podcast: Halo, IE9, Delve; and guest Matt Hulett of GameHouse (Todd Bishop & John Cook)
- 250th Video Published on WintellectNOW – WintellectNOW Blog – 3/25/2014 (Sara Faatz)
- The Amp Hour #190 – Let’s Hear It For The Buoys – Vanishing Vessel Vexation (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
- The Verge Mobile Show 083 – March 25th, 2014 (Evan Rodgers)
- Radio TFS – Building up to Build (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)
- Facebook to acquire Oculus VR for $2 billion: 90 Seconds on The Verge (Verge Video)
Community / Events
- Boston Code Camp 21 (Michael Cummings)
- First State .NET User Group – 27-Mar-2014 – Intro to ASP.NET MVC with Andy Schwam (First State .NET)
- Dev of the Week: Troy Hunt (Alec Noller)
- Nokia will unveil #moreLumia to the world on April 2nd (Daniel Rubino)
Database
- Microsoft® OData Source for Microsoft SQL Server® 2012 (MS Downloads)
- SQL SERVER – SSIS Execution Control Using Precedence Constraints – Notes from the Field #021 (Pinal Dave)
- Differences in Map/Reduce between RavenDB & MongoDB (Oren Eini)
- How to Add Nonclustered Indexes to Clustered Columnstore Indexes (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Cast versus Convert: CAST should be first choice (Kevin Shyr)
PowerShell
- Collect Database and Table Index Grow Statistics for all SQL Servers Using PowerShell (Bernard Black)
- #PSTip Create your own DSC resource snippets in PowerShell ISE (Aleksandar Nikolic)
- Writing a PowerShell module in C#, Part 1: The basics (Carlos Perez)
Miscellaneous
- Minecraft Creator Cancels The Oculus Rift Version Because Facebook “Creeps” Him Out (Darrell Etherington)
- Buy your own Jet-Powered R/C Flame Breathing Dragon (You just have to take a 2nd on your house… but it’s a flying, jet powered dragon!) (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public (Jeffrey Meisner)
- 10 Things I Wish I’d Known About Giving Good Tech Talks (Marc Grabanski)
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, March 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading March 25, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- The Daily Six Pack: March 26, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 3/25/2014 and Daily News Digest 3/26/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1576 (Chris Alcock)
- Community Update 2014-03-25 – #webdev, #aspnet, #windowsazure, #nuget packages of the week (Maxime Rouiller)
The Geek Shelf
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ISBN: 0321884914 |
Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (3rd Edition) (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series): Zed A. Shaw: 9780321884916: Books
CSS3: The Missing Manual: David Sawyer McFarland: 9781449325947: Books
Dependency Injection with Unity (Microsoft patterns & practices) eBook: Grigori Melnik, Fernando Simonazzi, Mani Subramanian, Dominic Betts, Chris Tavares: Kindle Store