Top Links
- Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK (Scott Guthrie)
- Free Video: SPA Primer with Durandal, Knockout and Breeze (John Papa)
- Next Xbox Code Named “Durango” To Be Officially Announced As The Xbox Infinity? (MBGW)
- Introducing ToolbarJS – A HTML5 JavaScript Library to Implement the Windows Phone AppBar Functionality (Chris Love)
Web Development
- Creating Computed Macros in ember.js (Paul Cowan)
- Zero friction parallel self hosting of ASP.NET Web API and static files using OWIN and Katana (Alexander Zeitler)
- Building Single Page Applications with Backbone.js and Express.js (Alexander Beletsky)
- Few Modern JavaScript Inconsistencies (Andrea Giammarchi)
- JavaScript quirk 4: unknown variable names create global variables (Axel Rauschmayer)
- ASP.NET Web API and greedy query string parameter binding (Filip W)
- Unit Testing an ASP.NET MVC 4 Controller using MS Test, Rhino Mocks, AutoMapper and Dependency Injection (Frez)
- Customizing a knockout validation message (Jef Claes)
- The Windows Azure SDK for Ruby (Larry Franks)
- How to Build an Instagram-like Photo Sharing App with HTML5: Part 2 (Rajasekharan Vengalil)
- CSS3 Transitions: Thank God We Have A Specification! (Rodney Rehm)
- Handlebars.js in a Nutshell (Senthamizh Chelvi Kaliyaperumal)
- Lifecycle of an ASP.NET Web API Message (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Basic projections in the EventStore (Rob Ashton)
- Virtual Network adds new capabilities for cross-premises connectivity (Venkat Gattamneni)
- Getting Web Platform installer working with SQL Express (Charles Sterling)
- Make Client Side Data Available Server Side (Chris Coyier)
- Publishing to Azure Web Sites from any git/hg repo (David Ebbo)
XAML
- Adding Keyboard Shortcut Support to the WPF XamOutlookBar (Brian Lagunas)
- WinRT Business Apps with Prism: App State Management (Brian Noyes)
- #Win8Dev Tutorial: Programmatically download a File in WinRT apps (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 2000 WPF Things #808 – How Shape Elements Are Positioned within a Canvas (Sean Sexton)
- Caveats with elements (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- Prism for Windows Runtime: Integrating a Dependency Injection Container (Francis Cheung)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Disabling Namespaces on folders in Visual Studio (Phillip Haydon)
- Reviewing LevelDB: Part XVIII–Summary (Oren Eini)
- Interrogating Printers with PrinterSettings (Richard Carr)
- WPF Layout Controls – Viewbox (Richard Carr)
- Visual Studio Tools for Git Update available (Brian Harry)
- .NET Gadgeteer Core gets VS2012 support in v2.42.700 (Greg Duncan)
- NuGet for C++ (Jennifer Leaf)
- What’s Wrong With This Code 2: Windows Forms Application (Paul Ballard)
- File New Now What? The SDK Examples From Telerik Will Ramp You Up Quickly (Phil Japikse)
- Another way to create a process with attributes, maybe worse maybe better (Raymond Chen)
- Unity – Part 3: Aspect Oriented Programming (Ricardo Peres)
- 2000 C# Things #832 – The Sequence in Which Finalizers Are Called (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development (Paul Hammant)
- How To Deal With Making Mistakes (John Sonmez)
- Queries, Patterns, and Search – food for thought (Udi Dahan)
- Do Trust and Faith belong in Software Development? Not Really! (Chris Pietschmann)
- Future of Testing and Quality (Mitch Pronschinske)
- You are doing it wrong if you are not using test first (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Open Data backed by Source-Control (Paul Hammant)
- Saga alternatives – routing slips (Jimmy Bogard)
- Unusual Microsoft Download of the Day: "Cancelling a project (without cancelling your career)" (Greg Duncan)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Hello Maps: A Five Minute iOS App with the Google Maps SDK and Using the Google Maps Android API (Eric Gregory)
- Using Multiple ViewControllers on a Single Screen in iOS (Jaco Pretorius)
- Setting the Default Emulator Image in Xamarin.Android (Michael Crump)
- Android DevBytes: RequestDuringLayout (Mitch Pronschinske)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 092: Cartoonist Lucy Knisley (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Technology & Friends Episode 263: Shawn Weisfeld on UserGroup.tv (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 473: #XboxReveal (Larry Hyrb)
- Video: Making A List And Checking It Twice in Java on Android (Paul Ballard)
- Windows Weekly 309: On the Catwalk (Paul Thurrott)
- The Tablet Show – Scott Allen Builds SPAs for Mobile (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Marc Maron #3 (Chris Hardwick)
- The Vergecast 075 – April 25th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 178 – 04.26.13 and Engadget Podcast 341 – 04.26.13 (James Trew)
- Defrag: Keyboard Fail, Search Auto-Suggest, Wider CMD Window | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Chad Beeder)
- Episode 1 – FailSafe Core Concepts, Part I | FailSafe: Building Scalable, Resilient Cloud Services and Episode 2 – FailSafe Core Concepts, Part II | FailSafe: Building Scalable, Resilient Cloud Services and Episode 3 – Scalability and Deployment | FailSafe: Building Scalable, Resilient Cloud Services (Ulrich Homann & Marc Mercuri)
- Countdown to TechEd: All about the Atmosphere | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
Community / Events
- Joe Belfiore planning something for the Windows Phone community (Rich Edmonds)
- Windows Azure – Discover the Cloud and Win Cash! (Jim O’Neil)
- Visit Telerik booth at GIDS 2013 and win tablets (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Test the Web Forward – Seattle 2013 (John Jansen, Kris Krueger, Arron Eicholz & Jacob Rossi)
- Launching AzureAustin user group May 13, 2013 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Database
- SQLAuthority News – Download PowerPivot or PowerView enabled Workbook Optimizer – Download SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop and SQL SERVER – Disable All the Foreign Key Constraint in Database – Enable All the Foreign Key Constraint in Database (Pinal Dave)
- Where to find the xtype info for SQL Server in a table (Denis Gobo)
- Raven’s Storage: Building a Sorted String Table (Oren Eini)
Miscellaneous
- Walking While Working (Steve Smith)
- How Microsoft is using Yammer inside the company (Mary Jo Foley)
- New Bing, Skype and Yammer logo design concepts revealed (damaster)
- The Art Of Teaching (Filip Ekberg)
- Test-Driving Shell Scripts (Patkos Csaba)
- Introduction To Go: Buffered Channels (Karl Seguin)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 27, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 28, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 29, 2013 (Jason Haley)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, April 26th (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading April 26, 2013 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1117 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Friday Five – April 26, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
- Collective #61 (Mary Lou)
- Pie in the Sky (April 26, 2013) (Larry Franks)
- The Daily Six Pack: April 29, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 4/29/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading list (Bruce Lawson)
- The Morning Brew #1345 (Chris Alcock)
- Reblog: April 19 to April 25 (Jason Strate)
- Weekly Digest 11 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #026 (Pinal Dave)
- Daily Windows 8 Development News 26 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 26 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
|
ISBN: 1118012682 |
Beginning Windows 8 Application Development (9781118012680): István Novák, Zoltan Arvai, György Balássy, David Fulop: Books
Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed (9780672336010): Adam Nathan: Books
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality: Brian Greene: 9780375727207: Books