Day: April 4, 2013

Top Links

• Angry Birds of JavaScript: White Bird – Linting (Elijah Manor)
• Tasks, Monads, and LINQ (Stephen Toub)
• Microsoft delivers Webmatrix 3 Web-development tool bundle (Mary Jo Foley)
• Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project (Ashleigh Rentz)
• Hello Blink (Bruce Lawson)

 

Web Development

• Using jQuery to POST [FromBody] parameters to Web API (Dave Ward)
• Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target (John Resig)
• Building Large, Maintainable, and Testable Knockout.js Applications (Jonathan Creamer)
• Introduction to Fabric.js (Juriy Zaytsev)
• Working with Windows Azure SQL Database in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Monoids in PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Getting data from Windows Azure Marketplace into your Office application (S. D. Oliver)
• CSS Masking (Dirk Schulze)
• Creating and Deploying Windows Azure Web Sites with Microsoft WebMatrix 3 (Shiju Varghese)
• Change Tracking and Committable data-binding using KnockoutJS and ASP.NET Web API (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Sizing images while preserving aspect ratios (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Node v0.10.3 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink (Stephen Shankland)
• Why What You’re Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong (Alex Russell)
• ElmahR – monitor errors in your app using a dashboard (Gregor Suttie)
• Building an OData parser in OMeta (Rob Ashton)
• Configuring Jobs Using Quartz.Net and The CloudConfigurationManager (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Enforcing toString() (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Logging SQL queries in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Pop Hovers (Chris Coyier)
• Update on Standardization of Next Version of HTTP/2.0 (Brian Raymor)

 

XAML

• Open Source NFC Emulator for Windows Phone 8 with Proximity Tapper (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #791 – Matrix Multiplication, Part I – Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Getting custom fonts to work in a Windows Store app (Loek van den Ouweland)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB: Part X–table building is all fun and games until… (Oren Eini)
• C# Static interfaces – Take 3 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Sending to ILDASM (the Intermediate Language disassenbler) (Tatworth)
• 2000 C# Things #815 – Named vs. Positional Arguments (Sean Sexton)
• Background Tasks in Async Methods Part 2 (Matt Hamilton)
• Reserve an Agent for a special build in Team Foundation Server 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Using Encrypted Connection Strings with Telerik OpenAccess ORM (Ralph Waldenmaier)
• Don’t deadlock with async and await (Filip Ekberg)
• Getting started with Kinect Interactions (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to use Moq and nUnit to write Unit Tests for Windows Runtime libraries (Denis Gladkikh)
• Structural Inspection (Mark Seemann)
• Quickly access Repositories you contribute to (Justin Palmer)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Decoding the iOS 6 SDK Available Now! (Joel Bankhead)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – David Pitcher Instruments Applications Internally at Microsoft (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 222 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones talks about the 2013 Scripting Games (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• RavenDB Course Snippet (Oren Eini)
• Defrag: Portable Office, Driver Bugchecks, C9 Win8 App | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Windows Store Weekly: Nook, National Zoo, Numbertap, Shark Dash, App Quilt | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• "It looks like you’re writing a service!" – "Do you want security with that?" (Clemens Vasters)
• Meeting the Customer Experience Challenge – Part 3 (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Top Secret Rosies Filmmaker Leann Erickson (Maanvi Singh)
• MVPs Mentor Next Generation of Technology Leaders (MVP Award Program)
• Glimpse Town Hall #2 (Nik Molnar)
• The GitHub Data Challenge II (Brian Doll)
• A Coder Interview With Hal Rottenberg (CodeProject)

 

Database

• Detecting Database Drift using SSDT (Jamie Thomson)
• DBCC CHECKDB scalability and performance benchmarking on SSDs (Paul Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Rolling out SharePoint 2013 apps to the enterprise – tenant scope and PowerShell installs (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• The truth about jobs at the Office (MS JobsBlog)
• Classic Visual Basic’s end marked a key change in software development (Chris Boss)
• Disney shuttering LucasArts, moving to licensed games model (Daniel Terdiman)
• Windows 8 Tips Part 15 – Take Back Control Of Your Settings (Dirk Strauss)
• Nokia’s Current Offerings for Developers (Kelly White)
• Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recreate classic photo from 1981 (Sam Byford)
• Recruiting developers: Perspectives from the startup front lines (Scott Porad)
• Introducing Kids to Java Programming Using Minecraft (Tori Wieldt)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: March 19th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, April 3rd (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1328 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1100 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 3 April 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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