Day: April 10, 2013

Top Links

• Congratulations to Wikipedia by Rudy Huyn, Windows Phone Next App Star (Todd Brix)
• jQuery 2.0 Beta 3 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Say What? Incorporating Windows Phone 8 Speech Recognition into Your Apps (Michael Crump)
• Windows Azure Recovery Services – Now Available! (Ilija Injac)

 

Web Development

• Introducing HTML’s new template element (Peter Gasston)
• Release: Responsive Nav: A Simple JavaScript Plugin For Responsive Navigation (Viljami Salminen)
• NancyFX – Implementing your own routing! (Phillip Haydon)
• Modern Apps or Desktop? The Answer May be Spelled W-E-B (Andrew J. Brust)
• WebMatrix Git and GitHub Source Control (David Hayden)
• Simple trick to silently fallback when CDN’s unreachable (Nishanth Anil)
• Persona Beta 2 launch (Lloyd Hilaiel)

 

XAML

• Building Secure Windows Phone 8 Apps – APIs and Techniques (Mark Arteaga)
• ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers in Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)
• WPF Layout Controls – WrapPanel (Richard Carr)
• Determining Process Architecture at Runtime (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• "The Last Visibility Converter" (you’ll ever need) (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XIV– there is the mem table and then there is the immutable memtable (Oren Eini)
• Enable Tracing Logs with Coded UI Test (CUIT) in Visual Studio 2012 (Gouri Sohoni)
• The OData parser – applying modifiers to our query (Rob Ashton)
• Revisiting Value Types vs. Reference Types (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Two Firsts, one great taste… A "Database-First Code-First Entity Framework 5 Model" (Greg Duncan)
• Encrypting .NET configuration file (Jimmy Larkin)
• Spin wait timer for .Net Micro Framework (Joel Ivory Johnson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review: Intelligent Leadership and Leadership Development in a Box (JD Meier)
• IoC containers: where you define the seams of applications (Nathan Evans)
• Notes about testing the ink colors we added (John Guin)
• Experiencing Mobile Application User Experience (Kevin Richardson)
• Scaling Trunk Based Development (Paul Hammant)
• Enterprise Support in GitHub for Mac (Alan J. Rogers)
• Design Your Tablet Interfaces for Horizontal Swiping (Anthony)
• Why we need Coded Steps (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Tutorial: Using the ViewPager (Isaac Taylor)
• Android View Animations for 2.x and 3.0 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Building an RSS Reader for Android (Rob Hinds)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 223 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ashley McGlone talks about Active Directory and Premier Field Engineering (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Phone Next App Star WINNER (Laura Foy)
• Video: Make Android Dolphins Flip with App Inventor (Paul Ballard)
• Engadget HD Podcast 344 – 04.09.13 (James Trew)
• Open Source .NET Podcast #1 (Nick Berardi)

 

Community / Events

• Boston Azure Bootcamp – Saturday April 27, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Phone Next App Star Contest Winner: Wikipedia (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Philly Tech Week Spotlight: TEDxTempleU (David Goodman)
• LightSwitch All Day Training at DevTeach, Toronto in May (Beth Massi)

 

Database

• SSIS gotcha – Regional Settings can affect your expressions (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Enable SQLCMD Mode in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #048 (Pinal Dave)
• 3 Things You Need to Stop Doing to Your Database Server (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

PowerShell

• Microsoft Script Explorer – So long and thanks for all the PowerShell… (The Script Explorer is dead Jim) (Greg Duncan)
• PowerShell Mini-game: Equality (Jim Christopher)

 

Miscellaneous

• What Microsoft’s Blue is and isn’t (Mary Jo Foley)
• Nook launches Press, a self-publishing ebook platform (Carl Franzen)
• Some answers about Small Basic Education (Kodu Community Spotlight Part 2) (Ed Price)
• Melinda Gates: Tech’s Responsibility to the Developing World (Matt Petronzio)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 10, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1332 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Dose of Telerik Support Resources 04/09/2013 (Stefan Stefanov)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, April 9th (Rob Caron)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 April 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 9 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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