Day: August 6, 2013

Top Links

• JavaScript’s “super” Pattern (Derick Bailey)
• Build Google Chrome Extensions in Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• Azure Mobile Services & Portable Class Libraries – Part 1 Authentication (Shayne Boyer)
• RTM’d today: Software Requirements, Third Edition (Carol Vu)

 

Web Development

• The World’s Simplest HTML5 WYSISYG Inline Editor (Barney Parker)
• CSS-Tricks – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• Updated Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – Kepler, new Windows Azure SDK, and less is more for deployment options (Brian Benz)
• Babylon.js: Creating a convincing world for your game with custom shaders, height maps and skyboxes (David Catuhe)
• The JavaScript Cheese is Moving: Data-Oriented vs. Control-Oriented Programming (Dan Wahlin)
• Sending Android Push Notifications from PHP to PhoneGap Apps (Gonzalo Ayuso)
• Add Social Sharing Links to your Blog without their widget JavaScript (Scott Hanselman)
• Getting started with Twilio on Google App Engine for PHP (Scott Knaster)
• APress Deal of the Day 6/Aug/2013 – Pro jQuery (Tatworth)
• Continuous Painting Mode in Chrome (Ariya Hidayat)
• Spacing The Bottom of Modules (Chris Coyier)
• Enabling Basic HTTP Auth on Rails (Jaco Pretorius)

 

XAML

• TextBox Validation Template for Windows Phone (Peter Kuhn)
• Using Existing DLLs in Store Apps (WinRT Components) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• 2000 WPF Things #879 – Positioning a Popup Relative to the Mouse (Sean Sexton)
• APIMASH CNorris Windows 8 VB Starter Kit (Dave Noderer)
• Charming ApplicationModel (Peter Foot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C++ IDE Performance Improvement in Visual Studio 2013 Preview (Li Shao)
• August DirectX Factor Converted to Windows 8.1 (Charles Petzold)
• Integrate reporting and analyses services with Team Foundation Server 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why does BitConverter.LittleEndian return false on my x86 machine? (Raymond Chen)
• Searching and Displaying C++ Heap Objects in WinDbg (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #903 – Wrapped Exceptions Can Be Several Levels Deep (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Complete Guide On How To Negotiate (J.D. Meier)
• An autoscaling build farm using TeamCity and Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Well, I like Team Foundation Server and I like Git, but which is better? (Giles Davies)
• Negotiation Skills for Work and Life (or How To Master the Art of Getting What You Want) (JD Meier)
• Dogfooding Isn’t Just For Posers (Jim Holmes)
• Ten Things You’ll Love About Test Studio (Steven Vore)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• help us make TouchDevelop scripts run faster (Nikolai Tillmann)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 125 – “Life Coach for Matt” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• .NET Rocks! – Testing in the Cloud with Chris Riley (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Stack Exchange Podcast #51 – The Return of CodingHorror (Jeff Atwood)
• Yet Another Podcast #103–Scott Hanselman (Jesse Liberty)
• Video Tutorial on Adding and Modifying Covered Processes with NCover (Kerry Meade)
• Defrag Tools: #50 – WPT – Memory Analysis – Heap | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Microsoft’s latest episode of "On the Whiteboard" talks about 3D Printing in Windows 8.1 (Michael Archambault)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 5th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Here’s the Lowdown on This Month’s Nerd Nite (Chris Cummins)
• Small Basic August Community Challenges!!! (Ed Price)
• Vermont and Boston Code Camp Milestones (Jim O’Neil)
• The Accidental Gamer (MS JobsBlog)
• Greater Cleveland PC Users Group Presents… Cleveland Consumer Camp (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: Data and Information in Businesses – Day 1 of 10 (Pinal Dave)
• The First Things I Look At On A SQL Server – Part 2 (Ian Stirk)
• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: Transactions & commits (Oren Eini)
• Scripting Reference Data with SQL Server Object Explorer and Creating a Merge Script for your Reference Data (Deborah Kurata)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 app hosting models (Gunnar Peipman)
• Why you should use Visual Studio for SharePoint Development (Manas Bhardwaj)
• Overview of SharePoint 2013 Multilingual Features (Benjamin Niaulin)

 

PowerShell

• New book: Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Breaking: Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250 million (Greg Sandoval)
• Computer Science, What Is It? (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: July 2nd, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, August 5th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 5, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1173 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Maker Geek Roundup 019 for 8/5/2013 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #1414 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 6, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #44 (Jason Strate)
• East Region Roundup (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

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