Month: September 2013

Top Links

• Announcing the availability of Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools (Charles Sterling)
• Math from scratch, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v3.1: Bluetooth, pin to start, Radio, debugger, profiler, insights, tutorials, videos (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Casting vs "as" – embracing exceptions (Jon Skeet)

 

Web Development

• Just My Code for JavaScript Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 (Andrew B. Hall)
• Improved JavaScript debugger in WebStorm 7 (Ekaterina Prigara)
• "Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript" – a Review (Juri Strumpflohner)
• Using jQuery Upload Control and HTML5 Video Player to create Video Gallery (Marina Stoyanova)
• [Sample Of Sep 19th] How to use WCF to implement Reverse Ajax in ASP.NET (Philip Fu)
• Making JavaScript Intellisense work in Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• A Complete Guide to the Table Element (Chris Coyier)
• Understanding Security Features in the SPA Template for VS2013 RC (Hongye Sun)
• Something you should know about LightSwitch Screens – Part 1 and Something you should know about LightSwitch Screens – Part 2 (Xpert360)
• Dependency Injection in Node.JS (Joshua Holbrook)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone Fast App Resume (Adam Denning)
• 2000 WPF Things #911 – Use ItemTemplate to Control Content on Tabs (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1–Resource Packages and App Bundles (Mike Taulty)
• Risks and Reasons for the Use of Exit Guards (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Resource Management in the Windows API (Kenny Kerr)
• JustCode! Now in .NET 4.0! (James Bender)
• Working with Assemblies in the GAC (Marin Bratanov)
• How to get rid of Exclude From StyleCop menu (Mike Fourie)
• When a program is launched via DDE, and there are multiple servers, which one is used? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #935 – Large Objects Are Allocated on the Large Object Heap (Sean Sexton)
• New Release of StyleCop (Tatworth)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Developer – Best Practices for Daily Stand-Up or Daily Scrum – Rules and Regulations (Pinal Dave)
• The first book on NServiceBus is now out! (Udi Dahan)
• Delaying Non-functional Stories (Paul Hammant)
• Monster set of FREE resources for game design (Simon Jackson)
• The Brave New World of Mobile Testing (Steven Vore)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating a custom flip view controller transition (Colin Eberhardt)
• Getting Started with jQuery Mobile and Icenium (TJ VanToll)
• Objective-C Guide For Developers: Part 4 (Matteo Manferdini)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 112: Chip Kidd, rockstar of graphic design (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Hanselminutes: The Agile Mindset with Linda Rising (Scott Hanselman)
• IWP63 | Easily Adding Auth and Push to your WP App with Windows Azure Mobile Services | Inside Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro & Larry Lieberman)
• What the Tech 181 (Paul Thurrott)
• Part 1 of 4 – Announcing Intel® Parallel Studio XE and Part 2 of 4 – Announcing Intel® Parallel Studio XE and Part 3 of 4 – Announcing Intel® Parallel Studio XE and Part 4 of 4 – Announcing Intel® Parallel Studio XE (James Tullos & Ron Green)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 106 (Richard Hay)
• Edge Show 75 – Proactive Datacenter Monitoring using System Center Advisor | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• The Uninitialized Show 2: Input and display (G. Andrew Duthie & Pete Brown)

 

Community / Events

• MSDN Subscribers: Windows Azure Aston Martin Sweepstakes through Sept 30th (Scott Guthrie)
• Kendo UI & DataViz training (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Azure Developer Camps 2013Q4 (David C. Chou)
• Ten Minutes With…Kunal Chowdhury (Dirk Strauss)
• Today is my last day at Microsoft (Dave Isbitski)

 

Database

• Extract Hour and Minute from a Date in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Get SQL Command Compile time (James Xu)
• Raven Storage–Voron’s Performance (Oren Eini)
• You Can’t Kill Transactional Replication (Kendra Little)
• Real world story of DBCC PAGE saving the day (Paul Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Use the SharePoint hidden list to store configuration data for an app part instance (Tony Liu)

 

PowerShell

• Practical PowerShell: Merge SQLSaturday Speaker SpeedPASSes Into One PDF (Kendal Van Dyke)

 

Miscellaneous

• Ballmer regrets not redeploying more talent to Windows Mobile in early 2000s (Daniel Rubino)
• Life Hacking – Fun with NFC (Jeffrey Fritz)
• For your security, please email your credit card and driver’s license (and what PCI has to say about that) (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, September 18th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 19, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1206 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 20, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/20/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1446 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-20 (Dan Rigby)

 

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