Day: February 13, 2013

Top Links

• The Role of Interfaces in TypeScript (Dan Wahlin)
• Simple golden rules for async / await (Nigel Sampson)
• Announcing Raygun.io: handle your app errors better! (John-Daniel Trask)
• Kanban for Process Improvement (JD Meier)

 

Web Development

• Using jQuery Event Delegation In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Building Sample Apps in Ruby, NodeJS and PHP (Derick Bailey)
• Need to search in large datasets? Don’t worry, Telerik’s ASP.NET SearchBox control has got you covered. (Dimitar Terziev)
• Parallel.js – A JavaScript Library For Parallel Computing Using Web Workers (Hirvesh Munogee)
• WordPress Theming – Partial Templates with get_template_part() (Grant Palin)
• Contracts: The Practical Side of Semantics (Denis Sokolov)
• The progress element (Ian Devlin)
• Realistic Squishy Toggle Buttons (Tom Kenny)
• Getting Into Context Binds (Jim Cowart)
• You Want To Build Web Software with C#? (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: NFC-Near Field Communication (Peter Kuhn)
• Free Wrox Ebook Professional WPF with C# and .NET 4.5 (Jim Minatel)
• Windows 8: Working with Semantic Zoom using C# and XAML (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Showing a Hyperlink Style button to Popup a New Window in RadGridView for WPF (Michael Crump)
• [Sample Of Feb 12nd] Host WPF control in VS ToolWindow (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #755 – Implementing Rotational Inertia during Touch Manipulation (Sean Sexton)
• How To: GroupBy with WCF Data Services and Telerik virtual collection for WPF (Vladimir Enchev)
• Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.1 (CodePlex)
• Windows 8–Storing App Data (Jesse Liberty)
• Invoking a Templated Control method from a DataTemplate (Loek van den Ouweland)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# 5.0 in a Nutshell (5th Ed) (Mike James)
• How to Return Dictionary As a Result From a LINQ Query in C#? (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Wrox ebook Getting Started with the new Visual Studio 2012 (Jim Minatel)
• Managed Extensibility Framework Improvements in .NET 4.5 (Eric Vogel)
• Going Mobile with C++ (Diego Dagum)
• ALM Rangers ship the ALM Readiness treasure map (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Update to VS Git tooling (Brian Harry)
• Entity Frame Performance Gotcha (Derik Whittaker)
• String Calculator kata with Autofixture exercise 5 (Mark Seemann)
• Mocking with Foq (Phillip Trelford)
• Seeding and Debugging Entity Framework (EF) DBs (Rick Anderson)
• 2000 C# Things #779 – Methods in struct that Modify Elements Can Be Dangerous (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: TransparentCompilation (Martin Fowler)
• Think Small: Five Tips for Agile Program Management Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Run CI builds in your Git team project (Andy Lewis)
• Refactoring and the Ubiquitous Language and Projections 1: The Theory (Greg Young)
• Heuristics for Building the Right Thing (Karl Scotland)
• Testing Tip #2: Varied network connectivity (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Objective C & iOS Weak Singletons (Andy Yardley)
• Mono Roundup: iOS, Mobile Profile, and Concurrent GC (Jonathan Allen)
• Create Nightly Builds of Your iOS projects from TFS (Stephen Zaharuk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET Web API Queryable with OData | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• ADP West 2012 – Karl Scotland – Visual Management and Kanban (Agile Toolkit Team)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Apple Tarts (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 036 – February 12th, 2013 (Dan Seifert)
• Engadget HD Podcast 336 – 02.12.2013 (James Trew)
• Ping 167: 4Afrika, Surface- Ask Me Anything, Microsoft on Privacy, Redbox on Xbox | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 022 – Gail Shaw (Denny Cherry)

 

Community / Events

• Roanoke Code Camp Coming March 9th! and Windows Phone Development JumpStart – Register Today (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Zombie 5k Coming This April, Developed By Two Philly College Students (Allie Harcharek)

 

Database

• SSRS Properties – NoRowsMessage (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Get SQL Server Version and Edition Information – SQL in Sixty Seconds #043 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Adding idle indexes to RavenDB (Rob Ashton)
• SSDT database projects were not always going to output T-SQL… (Jamie Thomson)
• Building SOLID Databases: Interface Segregation, or Keep Stored Procedures Simple (Chris Travers)
• When is DTEXEC installed? (Koen Verbeeck)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Azure Powershell 0.6.10 is out and check out $DebugPreference feature to get Request and Response on PS console (Avkash Chauhan)
• PowerShell Tools – Removing Orphaned Users from SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Deploying SSRS artifacts using PowerShell (Simply) (Dave Ballantyne)
• It’s Markdown, no, PowerShell. Wait its Markdown formatted PowerShell. (Jason Jarrett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Did Nokia accidentally reveal its new tablet? (Phone Arena Team)
• Stupid, Stupid xBox!! (Nat Brown)
• Stupid Question 148: Why the love for semicolons in so many programming languages? (Iris Classon)
• Chasing an active Social Engineering Fraud at Amazon Kindle (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 13, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1294 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 13, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/12/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Geek Reading February 12, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1065 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 13 Feb 2013 (Jax)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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