Day: April 2, 2013

Top Links

• Congratulations to the New and Renewed MVPs! (MVP Award Program)
• 3 Features You Absolutely Need in a SPA (John Papa)
• Announcing TypeScript 0.8.3.1 (Jonathan Turner)
• Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 Adds IntelliSense, Virtualenv and Windows Azure Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• ECMAScript Harmony features in Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Coming soon: Start Here! Build Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript (Devon Musgrave)
• How to place TabStrip at bottom of Android in Kendo UI Mobile (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Angry Birds of JavaScript: Yellow Bird – RequireJS (Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft: jQuery 2.0 Will Add Full Support For Windows Store Apps (Frederic Lardinois)
• Debugging node.js errors in Windows Azure (Glenn Block)
• Exploring JavaScript MV* Frameworks Part 1 – Hello Backbonejs (Nishanth Anil)
• jQuery Adds Support for Windows Store Apps, Creates New Opportunities for JavaScript Open Source Developers (Olivier Bloch)
• Why We (Me Included) Need to Stick To JavaScript Programming Style Standards (Peter Kellner)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services "Rent a Home" Sample, Part 1: Introduction and Windows Azure Mobile Services "Rent a Home" Sample, Part 2: UI and Data (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Simple Databinding and Templating using Knockout and ASP.NET Web API (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Windows Store app support in jQuery version 2.0 (Windows 8 Team)
• Three Undocumented Features of JSON (Ulrik Sandberg)
• SPDY Coming To Internet Explorer 11 & Windows Blue (Vygantas)
• SVG Patterns Gallery (Chris Coyier)
• mzPivotGrid: A pivot table for Ext JS (Adrian Teodorescu)
• Running Apache on Windows 8 with Python (M. Lang)
• Yet Another Reason To Drop __proto__ (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Glimpse Extensions Gallery (Nik Molnar)
• Configuring Firefox for Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)
• App Showcase with Grid Overlay (Mary Lou)
• A Thorough Introduction To Backbone.Marionette (Part 2) (Joseph Zimmerman)
• azure-scripty – Azure CLI scripting made even easier (Glenn Block)
• Sonic & The State Of Spinners (James Padolsey)
• Learning Bootstrap Part 2: Working with Buttons and Learning Bootstrap Part 3: Working with Image and Icons (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting started with AngularJS (Kris Schultz)
• CSS Disambiguation with WinJS and SPA (Jim Wooley)
• .NET and Node.JS – Performance Comparison (Updated) (Salman Quazi)

 

XAML

• How to Read XML Files in Windows 8 / WinRT (Geek Champ)
• Building Windows Phone Application using PhoneGap (Abhishek)
• Spinning a Record Like a DJ in Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Understand the projects. (Andrea Boschin)
• Windows 8 Store Applications Vs. WPF Applications (Jesse Liberty)
• Unity 4 open beta program for Windows Store apps and Windows Phone 8 (Lee)
• Binding without WPF (Nick Polyak)
• 2000 WPF Things #788 – Flipping an Element Using a Scale Transform and #789 – How a Scale Transform Works (Sean Sexton)
• Handling Sometimes-On Connectivity In Windows Phone Apps (Tim Murphy)
• Detecting Network Connection in Windows Store Apps (Lohith Nagaraj)
• How to change the Windows 8 Lock Screen Programmatically? and How to keep the Win8 Display ON during audio/video playback? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Binding Image with Picture Library Images in Windows Store Application using FileOpenPicker (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Lessons Learned In Using Microsoft Ads (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.5 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• My Passover Project: Introducing Rattlesnake.CLR (Oren Eini)
• Reviewing LevelDB: Part VIII–What are the levels all about? (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 6 – Browse Web App With IE (No Add-Ons) (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows 8–When Saving Isn’t Saving and Opening Isn’t Opening 🙂 (Mike Taulty)
• VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config) (Peter Kellner)
• Visual Studio 2010 Tooltip Assassin (Karl Shifflett)
• 2000 C# Things #812 – Defining an Extension Method for a Value Type and #813 – Defining an Extension Method for an Enumerated Type (Sean Sexton)
• A small, intra-app Object to String Serializer (Rick Strahl)
• [Sample Of Mar 30th] How to undo the changes in Entity Framework 4.1 and later (Philip Fu)
• Background Tasks in Async Methods (Matt Hamilton)
• Event: Building Windows Games with Unity (Dave Bost)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Change is Good (J.D. Meier)
• Antipatterns: What’s Wrong With This Code? — Answered! (Paul Ballard)
• Automated Testing is Cancer (Giorgio Sironi)
• Revisiting Prototyping With Indigo Studio (George Abraham)
• Using the GitHub for Windows app with BitBucket (David Burela)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Test Studio for iOS 2.0.1 Preview (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Android Development – Your First Steps (Andrey Prikaznov)
• iOS and Android Developers Can Build Windows Apps Too! (Dave Bost)
• Top Five iOS Development Resources (DevToolsGuy)
• How to list all Github Repository in Icenium to clone (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 087: The Art of Doing (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Amir Rajan Does Frictionless Development with Oak (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 259: Rachel Appel on Azure Mobile Services (David Giard)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 110 – “Tossin’ Cookies and Huntin’ Turkeys” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SharePoint 2013 Branding with Randy Drisgill and John Ross-Episode 79 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• The Tablet Show – Aaron Gustafson On Web Standards and Progressive Enhancement (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 3) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – ASP.NET Web API (Unknown Author)
• TWC9: Build 2013, Brew, Backbone, Git, YUI and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas & Greg Duncan)
• 053 JSJ Software Team Dynamics (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Vishal Joshi Introduces WebMatrix 3 | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Engadget Podcast 337 – 03.28.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Ping 173: IllumiShare, Worldwide Telescope, Play to Earn on Xbox, Developer Challenge to Down Under | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Microsoft DevRadio: How I’ve Made OVER $100k with My Windows 8 Apps (Michael Palermo, DevRadio & Chris Caldwell)
• Video: Get to Know the Interview Process to Land a Great Job (Paul Ballard)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for April 1st, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Introducing the new class at the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• April 2013 Technical Calendar and The Week Ahead – April 1, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Microsoft Office Hours Webcast- April 12, 2013 (MS Public Sector Team)
• 4 Great HTML5 Conferences to Attend in 2013 (DevToolsGuy)
• Pluralsight’s Aaron Skonnard Interviewed about Teaching Kids Programming (Paul Ballard)
• Technology has no limits – At Microsoft, you have the space to imagine (MS JobsBlog)
• New Ignite Webcast – Introduction to Office 365 Architecture (Josh T.)
• To the MVPs: Congrats to 885 new and renewed MVPs! (Devon Musgrave)

 

Database

• Using Policy Based Management for checking SQL Server database file extensions (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL Server – Saving Changes Not Permitted in Management Studio (Vishal Gajjar)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #022 and SQL SERVER – Three Important Documentation to download – Standards Support, Protocol, Data Portability and SQL SERVER – Three Efficiency Tools for SQL Server from Devart and SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 6 (Pinal Dave)
• BCP all tables into files from a database (Denis Gobo)
• MongoDB Gets Better Security, Text Search, Performance Improvements – What’s Next? (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Azure Table Storage versus SQLite (on Azure Blob Store) (Nathan Evans)
• Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting (Ian Stirk)

 

Miscellaneous

• Just how much do people hate Windows 8? (Ed Bott)
• My must have (short) list of programs/extensions etc… (Phillip Haydon)
• What sort of lessons can students learn in Small Basic? (Kodu Community Spotlight: Part 1) (Ed Price)
• I’m sick of being a Google+ lab rat (Joe Wilcox)
• How to increase write performance of bitmap indexes (Kelly Sommers)
• Take the first hour of any online developer course for free at LearningLine (Michael Kennedy)
• Paint.NET 4.0: Brushes and Shapes and stuff (Rick Brewster)
• Surface Pro battery replacement will cost you nearly $470, other components just as pricey (Ron)
• Microsoft’s Do Not Tracksuit, YouTube’s end game, and more April Fool’s ‘fun’ and No joke: Amazon hires Windows Phone vet Charlie Kindel for ‘something secret’ (Todd Bishop)
• Are You Worried About What Google Will Kill Next? (Walter Glenn)
• Apple application to trademark iPad Mini denied (Steven Musil)
• Everyone Should Learn To Program, But Not Everyone Should Be A Programmer (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 30, 2013 and Interesting Finds: March 31, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 03.15 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #1326 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 29th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 1st (Rob Caron)
• Friday Five – March 29, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #1097 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (March 29, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #57 (Mary Lou)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 30, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: April 1, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: April 2, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/1/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (3/29/2013) (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #88 (Frank)
• Weekly Digest 7 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Reblog: March 22 to March 28 (Jason Strate)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #60) (Craig Kitterman)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 March 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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