Day: March 22, 2013

Top Links

• The demise of Google Reader: Stability as a service (Mike Loukides)
• BACKBONE 1.0 (Jeremy Ashkenas)
• 10 Tips for designing your mobile APIs (Matt Lacey)
• NuGet Package of the Week #13 – Portable HttpClient makes portable libraries more useful (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Master-Detail Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client (Beth Massi)
• Node.js Events (Christopher Roach)
• Shopping cart with SignalR, ASP.NET Web API and Knockout.js (Filip W)
• Introducing the RadGrid for Windows 8 HTML (Phil Japikse)
• Node v0.10.1 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• WebAPI Tip #1 and #2: HttpStatusCodes and Overriding Conneg (K. Scott Allen)
• Azure HDInsight and Azure Storage (Eron Kelly)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone ToggleButton with Custom Colors (Gary Ritter)
• Windows 8 / WInRT DataTemplateSelector: Change the color of ListBoxItem depending on condition (Josepe P.)
• 5 Things everyone should be Aware of in RadControls for Windows Phone (Michael Crump)
• Unit testing async Windows Phone 8 code on the UI thread with VS 2012.2 CTP4 (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #782 – A RenderTransform Has Better Performance than a LayoutTransform (Sean Sexton)
• Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.3 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB: Part III, WriteBatch isn’t what you think it is (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 supports 2010 Build Servers (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Infragistics Parsing Framework – Removing Ambiguities, Part 4 (Mike Dour)
• It’s alive and kicking! Implement animated live tiles in your WinForms application (Carey Payette)
• Monads, part nine (Eric Lippert)
• Attaching Disconnected Entities in NHibernate Without Going to the Database (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #806 – An Example of Mandatory Use of the var Keyword (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Being a leader, not a micromanaging editor: 3 patterns to avoid (Steven Sinofsky)
• A Great UI is Invisible (Patrick Cox)
• Prototyping Map Zoom in Indigo Studio (Ambrose Little)
• Should You Create User Stories for Technical Debt? (Ben Linders)
• MVP: Your Minimum Viable Product (Kelly Drill)
• A note on working hours and working at home (Rob Ashton)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Stanford Offers Free Introductory Course on iOS Programming (Ralph Winzinger)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: HTML5, JavaScript, Chrome and the Web Platform with Paul Irish (Scott Hanselman)
• GoingNative 15: VC++ turns 20, Ale turns 40, C9 turns 9 | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 109 – “@VBandi and Bandanas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Video: Find Your Way with the Android Location System (Paul Ballard)
• 052 JSJ Node & NPM with Isaac Schlueter (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Ratchet and the Geek: Clearly Feedly (Luvvie Ajayi & Scott Hanselman)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 84 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Jon Inspects ReSharper – Free Webinar Tuesday, April 9th (Robert Demmer)
• TechDays Belgium 2013 online: videos and slides now available! (Katrien de Graeve)

 

Database

• An Introduction to SQL Server IO for Developers (video) (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – Fix – Error: 1060 The number of rows provided for a TOP or FETCH clauses row count parameter must be an integer (Pinal Dave)
• How to read the error log on an Amazon RDS SQL Server instance and Turning on Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads, Ad Hoc Distributed Queries and more on a AWS RDS SQL Server Instance (Denis Gobo)
• Customizing SSMS – Bigger Queries (Steve Jones)
• SQL Sentry – Providing Performance and Knowledge (Ted Krueger)
• Considerations when starting a new SSDT database project (Jamie Thomson)
• Log Shipping FAQ (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

SharePoint

• Update to debugging SharePoint 2013 remote events using Visual Studio 2012 (Chakkaradeep Chandran)
• Cascading Filters in Performance Point Services dashboard using SharePoint 2013 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why Ruby? (Jeff Atwood)
• Kymeta: Is this Bill Gates’ next billion-dollar company? (Todd Bishop)
• Pandora for Windows Phone 8 is here—for free, ad-free until 2014, and with exclusive features (Michael Stroh)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, March 21st (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 21, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1091 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1321 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 22, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/22/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 21 March 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 21 March 2013 (Geek Champ)

 

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