Day: July 9, 2013

Top Links

• ".NET Technology Guide for Business Applications" .Net gets a little whitepaper dev love… (Greg Duncan)
• Knockout v2.3.0 released; v3.0.0 beta available (Steve Sanderson)
• Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 RTM Availability to OEM Partners in Late August (Richard Hay)
• The psychology of C# analysis (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Essential Knockout.js (Kelly Adams & Mark Michaelis)
• Visual Studio 2013 will support only MVC4 and MVC 5. (Anirudha Gupta)
• Practical Azure #24: Windows Azure Mobile Services (Jim O’Neil)
• HTML5 and CSS3 Editing in Windows Live Writer (Rick Strahl)
• New Content Definition Menu Item in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• The Extend Concept (Chris Coyier)
• Richer access to Google services and better OS integration in Chrome packaged apps (Mike Tsao)
• Cassandra and .NET (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Example of a full-width bleed using Bootstrap (Matthew Adams)

 

XAML

• Android to Windows Phone 8: Working with a SQL Database (Eric Genesky)
• Push notifications introduced to Telerik Cloud Services, native Windows Phone SDK available (Lyubomir Dokov)
• [Sample Of Jul 8th] Windows Phone 8 Background Agents (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #859 – Changing the Amount of Time That a ToolTip Is Shown For (Sean Sexton)
• Creating XAML Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2013 (Tim Heuer)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #5: Device Access (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Selecting Items from a Collection using Another Collection with LINQ Joins (Peter Vogel)
• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: Partial (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook (Damir Arh)
• Issue [ TFS 2013 ] TF50309 when configuring features in Team Foundation Server 2013 and Create a Portfolio Backlog hierarchy in Team Foundation Server 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The TicTacToe Kata in C# – A TestDriven approach (Peter Gfader)
• MFC support for MBCS deprecated in Visual Studio 2013 (Pat Brenner)
• Looking Back: My First C# Program (K. Scott Allen)
• Visual Studio 2013 Preview: CodeLens aka Code Information Indicators (Zain Naboulsi)
• Instrumenting Your Application to Measure its Performance Part 4 Using EventKeywords for Event Filtering (Dan Moyer)
• .NET Compilation – Part 1: Just-In-Time Compiler. (Ilya Verbitskiy)
• 2000 C# Things #883 – Re-throwing an Exception (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Health Metrics for Predictability (Andrew Fuqua)
• Retrospectives as tools for change (Patrick Kua)
• Constraining Design (Ambrose Little)
• What’s in a Good Commit? (Jaco Pretorius)
• Code reviews on the test team (John Guin)
• How Religion Destroys Programmers (John Sonmez)
• Limiting WIP? Or Containing the Work? (Karl Scotland)
• Survivorship Bias and Product Development (Mark Needham)
• Improved SVN Here to Stay, Old SVN Going Away (Nick Hengeveld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building your First App with Xamarin.iOS (Michael Crump)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Google DART with John Sonmez (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 171: Magnus Martensson talks Continuous Delivery on Windows Azure and the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Video: How to Create an Array and Populate it with Values in Javascript (Manya Susoev)
• Day 0 Imagine Cup Finals | Imagine Cup World Finals 2013 (Channel 9)
• The Society Of Devices (Larry Larsen)
• Defrag Tools: #46 – WPT – Driver Analysis | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 (Steve Clayton)
• Xamarin Drinkup in Houston Tuesday, July 9 (Jo Ann Buckner)
• Minneapolis, MN Drinkup (Kyle Daigle)

 

Database

• Think virtualizing SQL Server is evil? Here’s a 94 page PDF from the SQL Server team that might have you thinking otherwise… "Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing SQL Server 2012" (Greg Duncan)
• Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (Kelly Sommers)
• SQL – Download Database Cheat Sheet for MongoDB, NuoDB, MySQL for FREE (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell for SSAS to check service status and database availability (Daniel Calbimonte)

 

Miscellaneous

• Nokia Lumia 1020 branding confirmed via Joe Belfiore’s Flickr photos (damaster)
• Navigation and Data Entry in Clinical Computing—Five things you’ll love about Windows 8 and Surface Pro (Bill Crounse)
• Stupid Question 218: What are T-shaped, Pi-shaped and Comb-shaped skills, and which one should I aim for? (Iris Classon)
• Learn functional programming with me – functional difficulty levels (Rob Ashton)
• Juggling multiple platforms and the bumpy road ahead (Steven Sinofsky)
• Nokia’s cancelled 10-inch Windows RT tablet allegedly pictured (Tom Warren)
• User Experience Design Competency coming to the Microsoft Partner Network (Orlando O’Neill)
• World of Warcraft Realm Status available in the Windows Phone Store (Dave Isbitski)
• Gaining Early Access to Windows Phone Apps (Ryan Lowdermilk)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 07.01 ~ 07.08 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, July 8th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 8, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1158 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1394 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 9, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/9/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #40 (Jason Strate)

 

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