Tag: project spark

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• Extend Visual Studio with NuGet PowerShell commands basis and WAQS NuGet PowerShell command usage: init ViewModel using Roslyn (Matthieu Mezil)
• Anti-pattern: parallel collections (Jon Skeet)
• Xamarin 3.0 and Xamarin.Forms – Getting Started (Kevin Ford)
• Apple Launches Swift, A New Programming Language For Writing iOS And OS X Apps (Frederic Lardinois)

 

Web Development

• AngularJS and Kendo UI–Part 1–Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)
• Looking At How scope.$evalAsync() Affects Performance In AngularJS Directives and Spliced – A Version Of Splice() That Returns The Original Array In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• AngularJS – Introduction to Directives (John Ptacek)
• HowTo: create RSS Feeds with ASP.NET MVC (Robert Mühsig)
• Real-time with ASP.NET SignalR and Azure Mobile .NET Backend (Link) (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• Using AngularJS and TypeScript to Build Single Page Applications (SPA) (Ravi Kiran)
• AngularJs ng-cloak Problems on large Pages (Rick Strahl)
• APress Deal of the Day 3/June/2014 – Pro Windows 8 Development with HTML5 and JavaScript (Tatworth)
• How to configure a cluster with Node Js (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Using Encapsulation for Semantic Markup (Chris Coyier)
• Introducing the JetStream benchmark suite (Filip Pizlo)
• Speedometer: Benchmark for Web App Responsiveness (Ryosuke Niwa)

 

XAML

• The Last Mile: Fit and Polish for Your Windows Phone 8.1 Application (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,085 – Input Bindings Don’t Require that Element Binds to Command (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Date Controls Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Mixing Sync & Async calls (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2013 SDK Samples Released (Greg Duncan)
• Introduction Entity Framework Seeder (Dave Paquette)
• 2000 C# Things #1,109 – The Bitwise NOT Operator (Sean Sexton)
• What changes brought by C++14 could break a C++11 program? (Sergio De Simone)
• Azure Mobile Services .NET Backend Tips (Shayne Boyer)
• The Dew Review – Taking a Look at the Latest Release of Aspose.Email (Me)
• Obtaining information about the user’s wallpaper on multiple monitors (Raymond Chen)
• Survey Says…one more bump! (Eric Battalio)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scaling Agile Across the Enterprise (Aaron Bjork)
• Conway’s Law for the Mind (Kyle Szklenski)
• Lessons on Automated Browser Testing (Matt Davey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Developing iOS Apps Using Swift – Part 1 (Jameson Quave)
• iOS User Interface design in Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio (Mike Bluestein)
• Button Visual States in Xamarin.iOS (Pascal Arnould)
• Why Mobile Developers Should Care About Deep Linking (Ina Tontcheva)
• 26 Essential Metrics for Successful Mobile Apps (Vassil Petev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building the Internet of Things with Clemens Vasters (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Devnology Podcast 046 – Simon Brown (Pieter Joost & Arne Timmerman)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 27: John Robbins (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Defrag Tools: Live – TechEd 2014 – Paula Januszkiewicz Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• App Hack Monday #8: Unity | App Hack Monday (Martin Beeby)

 

Community / Events

• Celebrate Xamarin 3 at your Local Developer Group (James Montemagno)
• Bing Turns Five (Bing Team)
• Philly Beer Week: Fast Times at Percy Street this Thursday (Michelle Cryder)
• Tickets Still Available for WordCamp Philly 2014 this Weekend! (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• Looking Forward as the Coding Geekette (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Iridium I/O – SQL Server Deduplication that Shrinks Databases and Improves Performance and SQL SERVER – Repair a SQL Server Database Using a Transaction Log Explorer (Pinal Dave)
• Join Conditions In Power Query, Part 1 (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• Install Splunk with PowerShell (2014 Edition) (Adrian Hall)

 

Miscellaneous

• See what 10 users made with Project Spark, including a ‘Halo’ recreation (Athima Chansanchai)
• Piping in your long XML feeds to NewsBlur (Greg Duncan)
• How NOT to Market Yourself as a Software Developer (John Sonmez)
• This URL shortener situation is officially out of control (Scott Hanselman)
• Confirmed: Microsoft Bing will be default for Apple’s new Mac OS X Spotlight (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, June 2, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 2, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1621 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 6/3/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Top Reads For May (Jaco Pretorius)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Links of the month (May Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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