Month: February 2013

Top Links

• Prototyping for Windows 8: The Making of RecipeLater (Brent Schooley)
• Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express Routing Revisited (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Building Web API Visual Studio support tools with Roslyn (Filip W)
• Sending Keystrokes To Other Apps with Windows API and C# (Dennis Delimarsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Binary Heaps (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio Update 2 Team Foundation Server feature -Work Item Tagging (Charles Sterling)
• What’s Best for Unit Testing in EF? It depends, dude! (Julie Lerman)
• Debugging Code Efficiently in Visual Studio with the DebuggerDisplay Attribute (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Things I learnt reading C# specifications (#1) (Dror Helper)
• TFS Api to associate work item with check-in using comment tags (Ricci Gian Maria)
• C# .NET Hangman (Samuel Philip Blackford)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Color Coded Status Bar (Andy Schwam)
• TFS – Get List Of Software Installed On Build Agent (Tarun Arora)
• 2000 C# Things #772 – Initializing an Array as Part of a Method Call (Sean Sexton)
• KickStart Your .NET Mocking (Phil Japikse)
• Beware of Productivity Tools (Mark Seemann)
• .NET Weak Events for the Busy Programmer (FatCatProgrammer)
• EF Power Tools Bugs Fixed as Development Heads in New Direction (David Ramel)
• Obtaining the parsing name (and pidl) for a random shell object (Raymond Chen)
• Remove git-tf tracked branch after a move from standard TF Service project to Git enabled project (Ricci Gian Maria)

Web Development

• Using background clip for text with CSS fallback (Divya Manian)
• JavaScript: fixing categorization (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Creating a simple REST like service with OWIN – Open Web Server Interface (Fredrik Normen)
• Making HTML5 work with Firefox OS – an introduction talk at Appdays (Christian Heilmann)
• Functions in JavaScript : Beginner’s note (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introducing FubuMVC.AutoComplete (Josh Arnold)
• Simple Popup Gallery without jquery plugin (Mudit)
• ASP.NET DropDownList With Groups (Ricardo Peres)
• jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 RC1 Released (Todd Parker)
• Sencha’s Architect’s Perfect Storm, Easy To Use and Incorporates Hand Written Code Gracefully (Peter Kellner)
• Create a 3D Book Animation with CSS (Tom Kenny)
• Programmer Friendly CSS Frameworks (Travis Banks)
• Chrome Dev Tools: JavaScript and Performance (Umar Hansa)
• Using Controllers In Directives In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• The Importance of the DOM (Paul Hammant)
• modern.ie (Rachel Andrew)
• Team Foundation Server on Azure IaaS (Brian Harry)
• Using the main element (Bruce Lawson)
• Making Internet Explorer Testing Easier with new IE VMs (Rey Bango)
• Avoid this Obscure Error when Using the igGrid Control by Selecting the Right Root Element (Craig Shoemaker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strategy, State and Role Patterns in .NET (Peter Vogel)
• Customizable kanban swim lanes (Brian Harry)
• Improvements in Windows Store Unit Tests: Test Exceptions in Async Lamba Expressions, Run Tests on the UI Thread (Charles Sterling)
• Book Review: Stories that Move Mountains: Storytelling and Visual Design for Persuasive Presentations (J.D. Meier)
• Feature enabling when using Branch by Abstraction (Fredrik Normen)
• Test Studio for iOS 2.0 – New Project Organization (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely (David Fullerton)
• Raising events in commandhandlers (Jef Claes)
• Creating Test Case Documentation via Test Studio’s Storyboards (Jim Holmes)
• 12 Lessons Learned for a New Team Lead (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone / WinRT

• Building Android Apps with MVVM and Data Binding (Greg Shackles)
• WP8 New Location APIs: Part1 Get Current Location (Windows Phone Geek)
• Exploring WinJS.Class Patterns, Part 3: mixins (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Tips for Localizing Windows Phone 8 XAML Apps – Part1 (Adam Denning)
• Saving Data to MS SQL from WPF Application (Des Raj Chauhan)
• Working with Knockout.js part 2: Understanding MVVM (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Coding4Fun Toolkit v2 Released (fka Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit), now with Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7! (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #748 – Getting the Size of a Contact Point during Raw Touch (Sean Sexton)
• A WinRT TextBox control with a Dynamic AutoComplete Dictionary (Sumit Maitra)
• Using periodic notification to update the tiles (Andrea Boschin)
• A simple design time data example with Windows Store Applications for beginners (Iris Classon)
• Metro Elements Released! (Jason)
• Submitting your App to the Windows Store and Avoiding Common Submission Errors (Michael Crump)
• Implementing the Layout Guidelines in WinJS (Phil Japikse)
• Perspectives on WinRT app licensing (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 465: Skull of the Shogun (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 102 – “$30k a Month with Windows 8″ (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SharePoint Pod Show – Social Business with Symon Garfield – Episode 78 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Video: Don’t Let SQL Server Overestimates Slow Your Queries (Paul Ballard)
• SDU Show 54 with guest Grant Fritchey (Greg Low)
• The Tablet Show – Robert Evans Gets Apps in the Windows App Store (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Celebrity Turnstile and The Nerdist Podcast – Yvette Nicole Brown (Chris Hardwick)
• The JavaScript Show – Fluent 2013 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Defrag Tools: #26 – WinDbg – Semaphores, Mutexes and Timers | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• GeekWire Podcast: Why this app maker loves Windows 8 (Todd Bishop)
• TWC9: Five Years! TFS & VS Git, VS2012.2, Blend news, Hyper-V for Dev’s and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
• Video: The Coaching Architect (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for February 4th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• In the Community: Meet Nish Sivakumar (Eric Battalio)
• The Week Ahead–February 4th, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Last Thoughts on “Craftsmanship” (Ted Neward)

Database

• SSRS Properties – Hidden & ToggleItem (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #5 : rename a table (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Fix Error: 8111 – Cannot define PRIMARY KEY constraint on nullable column in table – Error: 1750 – Could not create constraint. See previous errors (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB: Exporting data into files and A couple of ways to convert an integer to an coordinate with SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• FLOAT datatype casting issue (Richard Douglas)
• NOEXPAND query hint returns wrong results – CU fix now available (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• SharePoint load testing made easier with Visual Studio 2012 Update (Charles Sterling)

PowerShell

• A Month of PowerShell – Day 1 (Getting Started) and A Month of PowerShell – Day 2 (Variables and Operators) and A Month of PowerShell – Day 3 (Security) (Wayne Sheffield)
• Get-Help for Modules you don’t have installed (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Text to Binary Converter – Small Basic Featured Program (Ed Price)
• 31 Great Days of iOS (Rob Bazinet)
• Create Your Own iOS Framework (Stephen Zaharuk)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 3, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 01.21 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 7th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Geek Reading February 4, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 4th (Rob Caron)
• Collective #49 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1058 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – February 1, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (February 1, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Daily News Digest 2/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Friday Miscellany #5 (Eric Battalio)
• Reading Notes #80 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1287 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #53) (Craig Kitterman)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 2, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: February 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama Top 10 for the week of January 27 – February 2, 2013 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 02, 2013 – #0142 (Dave Campbell)
• Reblog: January 25 to January 31 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Visual Studio ALM Links–Week 5 2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Coaching: Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley: 9781934356432: Books ISBN: 1934356433 ISBN-13: 9781934356432