Month: November 2013

Tomorrow will be six years since I posted my first bunch of links. No, they aren’t really that interesting six years later. Have a look.

Top Links

• Using a Surface 2 (RT/ARM) to get actual work done + Remote Desktop + Visual Studio + Azure (Scott Hanselman) – That was my plan. Already have a sweet dev VM set up on Azure that I can access from any machine I’m on. I’ll have my Surface 2 in a few weeks to try it out.
• Building great open-source libraries (Tomas Petricek)
• Math from scratch, part eleven: integer division (Eric Lippert)
• EventSource Improvements Include Better Diagnostics for Diagnostics (Kathleen Dollard)

 

Web Development

• The “SPA Tax” (Jason Haley)
• Tiny Test JS – An Exploration Of Unit Testing In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Perpetuating terrible JavaScript practices (Chris Heilmann)
• Using Node.js Steams to Massage Data into the Format You Want (Jerry Orr)
• Amazon Previews JavaScript SDK (Mitch Pronschinske)
• [Sample Of Oct 31st] How to call WCF services via Access Control Serivce (ACS) Token in Windows Azure (Philip Fu)
• Migration to AWS: part 2 (Giorgio Sironi)
• Exploring Web API OData Query Options (Ravi Kiran)
• How To Build an Office 365 Cloud Business App with Visual Studio 2013 (Andy Kung)
• Application Request Routing in CSF (Christain Maritnez)
• Email Domain Datalist Helper (Chris Coyier)
• Introducing ToTypeScriptD – Automatic TypeScript Definition files for C++/CX or .Net assemblies. (Jason Jarrett)
• JSON Schema discoverer (Javier Canovas)

 

XAML

• Extending Blend for Visual Studio 2013 (Chris Skardon)
• Visual Studio 2013: XAML Code Editing and XAML: Intellisense for Resources (Deborah Kurata)
• 2000 WPF Things #941 – Forcing Uppercase or Lowercase in a TextBox (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• VS2013 project templates fails to build on TF Service (Rory Primrose)
• Are you sold on ReSharper 8? (Robert Demmer)
• Updates to Editor Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013 (Ala Shiban & Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha)
• Announcing PostSharp 3.1 Preview (Gael Fraiteur)
• Using spatial data types with Entity Framework 5.0 (Anjani Singh)
• If there is no 16-bit emulation layer in 64-bit Windows, how come certain 16-bit installers are allowed to run? (Raymond Chen)
• EF6 Performance Issues (Rowan Miller)
• 2000 C# Things #965 – Indent Code to Improve Readability (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrumban – or How to get Leaner by Sprinting Less (Ian Mitchell)
• Patterns for Pushing Data to the Cloud (Jason Young)
• FAQ on Career Path of Scrum Product Owners for Management (Peter Saddington)
• Article: The Integration of Agile and the Project Management Office (Peter Schmidt)
• TechBooks Windows 8.1 app – Discover MSDN and Patterns & Practices eBooks (MS Public Sector Team)
• UX: Patterns, rhythm and melody. (Scott Barnes)
• Back To Basics: Hashtables (Karl Seguin)
• Courageous design (Eric Brechner)
• Project Teams Without Developers (Eric Minick)
• Project Management Lessons from “Duck Dynasty” (Esther Schindler)
• Command Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Searching For Nails: A Hammer’s Story (Zac Gery)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 6 Ways to Increase Productivity with Xcode (Alec Noller)
• Android 4.4 KitKat and Updated Developer Tools (Dave Burke)
• Sniffing Outgoing HTTP Traffic on an iOS Device (Matthew Turland)
• Intel® Android* Tools Series: Setting up the NDK & SDK (Jerry Makare)
• MonoAndroid: Writing ExpandableListView amd BaseExpandableListAdapter in C# (Alok Gupta)
• Making your App Content more Accessible from Google (Chaesang Jung)
• Google Play Services 4.0 (Android Developers Team)
• Updated Unity SDK for cross-platform games (Brian Jew)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 118: The Weirdo Years (Mark Frauenfelder)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ezra Koenig (Chris Hardwick)
• Edge Show 80 – Linux Integration with System Center 2012 R2 | Edge (David Tesar & Symon Perriman)

 

Community / Events

• Register for Visual Studio 2013 UK Launch (Colin Beales)
• Nokia DVLUP Day – Boston (Bob Familiar)
• Today was my last day at Microsoft (Dave Bost)
• Xbox Live Gold Members get “A World of Keflings” and “Iron Brigade” Free in November (Larry Hryb)
• SQLAuthority News – 7th Anniversary of Blog – A Personal Note (Pinal Dave)
• From average student to MSP to Microsoft Program Manager (Susan Ibach)

 

Database

• 10 common tasks for MongoDB (Andrew C. Oliver)
• MongoDB Indexing Tip #2: How to Implement Faceted Search (Antoine Girbal)

 

PowerShell

• PaaP: Windows PowerShell as a Platform – Part 2 (Indhu Sivaramakrishnan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Disassembling the privacy implications of LinkedIn Intro (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2013 10.24 ~ 10.31 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 31st (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 31, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 1, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/31/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1476 (Chris Alcock)

 

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