Day: April 26, 2013

Top Links

• Enterprise Library 6.0 (S.Somasegar)
• Just released – Microsoft Enterprise Library 6 (Grigori Melnik)
• #XboxReveal (Larry Hryb)
• Project-less scripted C# with ScriptCS and Roslyn (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Building Single Page Applications with Backbone.js and Express.js (Alexander Beletsky)
• Adding a Signature Control to the LightSwitch HTML Client (Beth Massi)
• How to Create a Responsive Centered Image in CSS3 (Craig Buckler)
• Using Visual Studio’s Javascript Memory Analysis tool to find memory leaks on your Windows 8 Javascript app (David Catuhe)
• How to profile a JavaScript Windows Store App for performance problems (Haseeb Ah)
• Simultaneous debugging sessions in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• PhpStorm 6.0.2 EAP started – build 129.362 (Mikhail Vink)
• Models and Services in Angular (Rob Conery)
• CSS3 Transitions: Thank God We Have A Specification! (Rodney Rehm)
• Handlebars.js in a Nutshell (Senthamizh Chelvi Kaliyaperumal)
• Deploying Windows Azure Cloud Services Apps (Shiju Varghese)
• Walk-thru Examples of Common Visual Studio LightSwitch JavaScript (Michael Washington)
• Playing with the EventStore and Pushing data into streams in the EventStore (Rob Ashton)
• Stealing the users back button with the History API (Ryan Seddon)
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: How to run a two day Virtual Conference for $10 (Scott Hanselman)
• Promise-Based Validation (Pavan Podila)
• AngularJS: Rendering Feeds (Alex Young)
• Chutzpah – A JavaScript Test Runner 2.4.0 (CodePlex)
• Enabling Professional-Quality Online Video: New Specifications for Interoperable Captioning (Sandeep Singhal)
• Getting Started with AngularJS (Jaco Pretorius)
• YUI 3.10.0 Released (Andrew Wooldridge)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Using the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to localize Windows Phone OS 7.1 projects (Adam Denning)
• Android to Windows Phone 8: Creating a Second Page (Adam Grocholski)
• Prism for Windows Runtime: Creating a basic implementation of the MVVM pattern and Prism for Windows Runtime and Prism for Windows Runtime: Creating and showing a Flyout using the FlyoutService class (Francis Cheung)
• 2000 WPF Things #806 – Setting ZIndex Values of Child Elements in a Canvas from Code and #807 – Setting the Position of Child Elements in a Canvas from Code (Sean Sexton)
• Using Different WMAppManifest Files for Release and Debug Builds (Toni Petrina)
• Notifications and Background Tasks in Windows 8 Store Apps (Sumit Maitra)
• When do I use data binding? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Build an Interactive Home Screen Experience with Telerik HubTile for WP8 (Michael Crump)
• Kona Guidance is now Prism for Windows Runtime (Blaine Wastell)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Disabling Namespaces on folders in Visual Studio (Phillip Haydon)
• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XVIII–Summary (Oren Eini)
• Producing permutations, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Use Code Maps to Understand Code Relationships (Mickey Gousset)
• Interrogating Printers with PrinterSettings (Richard Carr)
• Taking NuGet to the Enterprise (Alex Papadimoulis)
• Two More Ways for Diagnosing For Which Synchronization Object Your Thread Is Waiting (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #830 – The Problem with ICloneable and #831 – Implementing a Copy Constructor in a Derived Class (Sean Sexton)
• Code Digger Finds The Values That Break Your Code (Mike James)
• [Sample Of Apr 25th] Complex Type Objects demo in EF (Philip Fu)
• Dark corners of C/C++: The typedef keyword doesn’t need to be the first word on the line (Raymond Chen)
• Understanding .NET Using Read-Only Collections (Peter Vogel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: BusinessFacingTest and Bliki: StoryTest and Bliki: UserJourneyTest (Martin Fowler)
• Scrum Master: Servant Leadership in Practice (Ian Mitchell)
• Unity Singleton / Unit testing / Mocking (Sacha Barber)
• TeamPulse R1 2013 Beta is Here: HMTL5 UI, multi-project support & more (Konstantin Boev)
• Future of Testing and Quality (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Designing APIs for Humans (John Sheehan)
• Release Management with Team Foundation Server 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Social Engineering (Immo Landwerth)
• The Key to Agility: Breaking Things Down (JD Meier)
• Don’t reinvent the wheel; use the tools provided (Adam Storr)
• 5 Things the CEO Can Learn from the Project Manager (Brad Egeland)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android User Interfaces Resources (DevToolsGuy)
• Record and Playback Audio in iOS (Jaco Pretorius)
• Android DevBytes: ListView Animations and Android DevBytes: ListView Deletion (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Tablet Optimization Tips in the Google Play Developer Console (Ellie Powers)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – State of the Cloud at DevIntersection (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Miguel de Icaza: Mono, Open Source, Visual Studio, and Xamarin (Charles Torre)
• Episode 225 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mark Russinovich talks about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 114 – “My Brother From Another Mother” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Introducing Creative Coding and ProcessingJS With Windows | Creative Coding with Processing.js for Windows 8 JavaScript applications (Clint Rutkas, Matthias Shapiro & Rick Barraza)
• What the Tech 162: A TV Dreamland (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Scott Adsit (Chris Hardwick)
• The State of SOA – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
• AppBizDev Episode 15: James Owns Golf (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 009: Moscow Local Finals; Robot Baby; Social Media Team; and the KFC Russia Award | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Video Highlight #10: Graphic Improvements in Windows 8 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Cool Tools Show & Tell video podcast 002 (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 87 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Big change, No changes… (Alessandro Teglia)
• Get out to Seattle for AgilePalooza May 16th (Peter Saddington)
• Agile Interview with Joel Semeniuk (Vesselina Tasheva)
• The Microsoft ‘Most Valuable Professional’ Program (DevToolsGuy)
• Visit Telerik booth at GIDS 2013 and win tablets (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Pablo’s Fiesta is Back!! (John Teague)
• Geek of the Week: Kevin Ragone of Close to Good (Maanvi Singh)
• I hope to see you at a FREE Windows 8 Developer Workshop (Michael Cummings)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Return Specific Row to at the Bottom of the Resultset – T-SQL Script – Part 2 and SQL SERVER – UNION ALL and UNION are Different Operation (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB’s transaction merging (Oren Eini)
• 5 TSQL Features You’re Missing Out On (Video) (Kendra Little)

 

SharePoint

• Provisioning the Content Search web part with a custom Display Template (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Power[Shell]Kinect (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Seattle vs. Silicon Valley start-ups (Paul Sledd)
• Zen of delivering code oriented talks (Ariel Ben Horesh)
• Scratch – The Most Ingenious (and Simple) Programming Tool Ever Created! (Dara Monasch)
• Small Basic Curriculum (Ed Price)
• Microsoft to Android phone users: There’s a WP8 app for that (Mary Jo Foley)
• An Interview Question Too Many Developers Get Wrong (Karl Seguin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 25, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, April 24th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 25th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1115 and Double Shot #1116 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 25, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: April 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/25/2013 and Daily News Digest 4/26/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1343 and The Morning Brew #1344 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-25 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-26 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 25 April 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 25 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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