Month: January 2014

Top Links

• I refuse to believe that the entire planets best idea of the day is JavaScript. (Scott Barnes)
• Telerik Platform 101 (Todd Anglin)
• Report: Satya Nadella to be named Microsoft’s next CEO, Gates out as Chairman (Daniel Rubino)
• Herding Code 185: Glenn Block on Splunk (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon & Co.)

 

Web Development

• Promise To Use jQuery AJAX Correctly? (Basem Emara)
• How to Keep Node.js Processes Running (Alexander Beletsky)
• Brownfield Windows Azure Solutions & Hidden Treasures (Alexandre Brisebois)
• You Might Not Need jQuery and CSS Regions Matter and Boxes That Fill Height (Or More) (and Don’t Squish) and veinjs (Chris Coyier)
• Playing With Laravel 4 (the PHP MVC framework) And Telerik UI (Derick Bailey)
• CSS Regions (glazou)
• How to Create 8 CSS Loading Spinners (Paul Underwood)
• Apache Solr 4 Cookbook by Rafal Kuc, Packt Publishing Book Review (Arthur Zubarev)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #999 – Using a Canvas as the Items Panel for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• Do you allow users to make in-app-purchases in your apps? Beware of the upcoming law change (Matt Lacey)
• Progress Indicator Plus (Sanjay Sharma)
• Free book from Microsoft on Prism for the Windows Runtime (Tatworth)
• A Helper Class to Print Text Box Content in a Windows Store App and Disable WebView scrolling in Windows Store Apps (Farhan Ghumra)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• LINQ From Scratch (Jesse Liberty)
• Maximum addressable virtual memory (Oren Eini)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library for C++ (Eric Battalio)
• Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource is now stable (Immo Landwerth)
• MSMQ Studio 1.0.3 Released (Kjell-Åke Gafvelin)
• Announcing preview of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control for Entity Framework 6 (Pranav Rastogi)
• 2000 C# Things #1,023 – Fields Are Initialized Before Execution of Constructors (Sean Sexton)
• How many 32-bit types might we want? (Jon Skeet)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• State of Agile™ is Out – Oh Fancy Lookin’ (Peter Saddington)
• If you’re going to use repositories, don’t have generic or base repositories… (Phillip Haydon)
• Test Automation for Web Applications (Filip Ekberg)
• Avoid The Drama (John Sonmez)
• NDepend.Path OSS Project (Patrick Smacchia)
• Article: How to use Workshops to Boost Creativity, Team Commitment and Motivation (Ulf Eriksson)
• Unrealistic Expectations – Their Problems, Causes, and How to Resolve Them (Wally McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android++ For Visual Studio (Alex Denham)
• Objective-C: Using NSTimer (yffaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 383 – 1.30.14 (Jon Turi)
• Hanselminutes – sass.js – An Emscripten Experiment with Rodney Rehm (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone Central 166 (Sam Sabri)
• [Webinar Recording] Refactoring Legacy Code with PhpStorm (Mikhail Vink)
• Azure Notification Hubs with Elio Damaggio – Part 3 – Templates and Internationalization | Windows Azure Friday (Windows Azure)
• The Alton Browncast – Scott Witherow – Olive and Sinclair Chocolate Co. (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Broken Bells (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 146 – “One Peach Cobbler Away from Cholesterol Disaster” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• The Vergecast 109 – January 30th, 2014 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• My Next Pluralsight Course (plus, I need your help) (Howard Dierking)
• WintellectNOW Authors on the Road Jan-June 2014 – WintellectNOW Blog – 1/30/2014 (Sara Faatz)
• GitHub Security Bug Bounty (Shawn Davenport)
• The Windows App Builder’s Blog (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Database

• Increasing Buffer Pool in SQL Server 2014 (Daniel Farina)
• Customizing SQL Server Status Bar – Know Your Connection (Dirk Strauss)
• SSDT and Visual Studio versions (Jill McClenahan)
• SQL SERVER – Synchronize Schema across Multiple Environment – How to Overcome Database Migration Challenge (Pinal Dave)
• Intro to Puppet, Installing your First MySQL Service in 5 Minutes (Sharone Zitzman)
• APress Deal of the Day – 31/Jan/2014 – Beginning T-SQL 2012 (Tatworth)

 

PowerShell

• Starting to Use Powershell (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• OneNote.com gets an update, signs of Office Online coming soon? (John Hsu)
• Amazon considering $20 to $40 price hike for Prime service in US (Josh Lowensohn)
• Lumia Black now available for the Nokia Lumia 920 on AT&T (Sam Sabri)
• Article – How to Advance Your Software Development Career: Sharpen Your “Soft” Business Skills (Wally McClure)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 8 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 30, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 30, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 31, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/31/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1538 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-31 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1290 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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