Day: February 3, 2014

Congratulations to all of my followers in the Seattle area on the big Super Bowl win last night!

Top Links

• The Sixth Level of Code Generation (Kathleen Dollard)
• OzCode– 4 Star Help with Debugging (Jesse Liberty)
• Winning among friends (Eric Brechner)
• What would Satya Nadella be like as the new CEO of Microsoft? (Emily Parkhurst)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Web API: A REST perspective (Chander Dhall)
• Brownfield Windows Azure Solutions & Hidden Treasures (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Elegant token-based API access with AngularJS (Chris Clarke)
• PhpStorm 7.1.2 EAP 133.768 (Mikhail Vink)
• eddy.js goes promisish (Andrea Giammarchi)
• ASP.NET MVC Custom Action Filters (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Featured Item Slider for Orchard CMS 1.7 and More (David Hayden)
• Introduction to jsfiddle (B. Clay Shannon)
• Getting to know Bower: a package manager for the web (Bob Yexley)
• HTTP/2 – Closing on the Final Design (Brian Raymor)
• International box-sizing Awareness Day (Chris Coyier)
• Button click handlers, AJAX, and premature submission (Dave Ward)
• Why did Koding switch from Node.js to Go? (Quora)

 

XAML

• Intercepting DataContext Change in Windows and Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Build for both–a very simple wp8 style app bar hint control for Windows Store apps (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,000 – Displaying the Contents of a ListBox in a Circle (Sean Sexton)
• Using DataTriggers to control Visual State Change (Derik Whittaker)
• Disable WebView scrolling in Windows Store Apps (Farhan Ghumra)
• Connecting Windows Apps to SalesForce Chatter (Samidip Basu)
• Progress Indicator Plus (Sanjay Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Debugging in LINQ Hell (Adam Anderson)
• Obtaining the Executed Command Line (Richard Carr)
• Organizations that discard TFS in favor of Git are throwing out the baby with the bath water. (Nick Randolph)
• Smart Duration Class in C# (Sanjay Sharma)
• How to modify the UpgradeTemplate.xaml to enable releasing from a build (Leo Vildosola)
• Install Release Management 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• XmlSerializer : Serializing list of interfaces (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 C# Things #1,024 – Exposing internal Members to Another Assembly (Sean Sexton)
• ALM Rangers Ruck – Proposed innovations to the v1.2 guidance. Thoughts? (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The success of weekly releases and why we occasionally don’t release on a ‘Release Wednesday’ (Chris Smith)
• An easy way to generate sample data – Part 3 (Dennis Bourg)
• 5 ways to motivate your team (Manya Susoev)
• User Interface Standards And Why They Are Important (Not Just Computers) (Peter Kellner)
• The Self-Similar Software Development Process (Ralf Westphal)
• How to become in polyglot in 5 hard steps. (Ryan Svihla)
• Article: How to use Workshops to Boost Creativity, Team Commitment and Motivation (Ulf Eriksson)
• Fixie XML Reports (Patrick Lioi)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Modifying the PhoneGap Template in 3.3 (and Higher) (Raymond Camden)
• Create falling objects in your iOS Application (Mark Petherbridge)
• Process Stats: Understanding How Your App Uses RAM (Dianne Hackborn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 382 – 1.31.14 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 199 – 1.31.14 (Jon Turi)
• Episode 130: What’s New with in Azure Storage incl the Import Export Service CORS JSON Read from Secondary | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Video: Angular and the .NET World (Jeremy Likness)
• Video: Getting started with Node.js development (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Broken Bells and The Nerdist Podcast – B.J. Novak (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: Microsoft contributes hardware specs to the cloud, C9 gets captions, WAT and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller & Greg Duncan)
• The Tablet Show – Building Mobile Apps on LightSwitch with Beth Massi (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 094 JSJ BonsaiJS with Tobi Reiss (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 4, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• GoingNative 22: Superbowl! | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• Get Up And Code 39: Interview With Barry Burton From Fitbit (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Ping 194: Bing Search Coolness, OneDrive, Phone Tips, Money, Server Design | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• SSW TV – SSW’s FireBootCamp – Week 1 in review video (SSW Team)
• StarTalk Radio – A Conversation with God (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Keeping score of Super Bowl ads (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Free Webinar Scaled Agile Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Feb 4 11:30 AM PST (Charles Sterling)
• 20 Years of Speaking: VBITS/VSLive! (Deborah Kurata)
• Reaction to an Editorial I Didn’t Like (Kathleen Dollard)
• What … it has been 5 years already? Time flies when you are having fun 🙂 (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Database

• Increasing Buffer Pool in SQL Server 2014 (Daniel Farina)
• SQL Server Nested Sub Queries and Correlated Sub Queries (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• MySQL – Download MySQL Workbench Shortcut in PDF and SQL SERVER – 9 Things You Should be Doing with Your Backups (Pinal Dave)
• Voron & time series data: Getting real data outputs (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Power Query for Excel (MS Downloads)
• Automate Standard Comment Blocks For New SQL Queries (Dirk Strauss)
• Shortcut to Script Individual Columns from a Table-Valued Function in SSMS (Melissa Coates)
• Comparing Columns In Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Update on InfoPath and SharePoint Forms (Office Team)
• Office 365 Needs to Treat the UX as an API if Our Customizations are to Stay Off the Server and Now InfoPath is Dead – RIP InfoPath, but Now What? (Andrew Connell)
• Grab the latest version of GimmalPoint for free with exclusive WPCentral promotion (Rich Edmonds)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell in a Month Day 14 – WMI (Steve Jones)
• Tray notifications in C# and PowerShell (Iris Classon)
• Want to secure credentials in Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration? (Travis Plunk)

 

Miscellaneous

• Satya Nadella reportedly asks Bill Gates to help with ‘product problems’ at Microsoft (Anthony Tosie)
• Jesse Eisenberg is your new Lex Luthor in ‘Batman vs. Superman’ (Bryan Bishop)
• Gorgeous Map of the Internet: XKCD meets National Geographic (Cory Doctorow)
• OneNote.com gets an update, signs of Office Online coming soon? (John Hsu)
• Windows 8.1 Update 1 leaks online — This is what’s new (Wayne Williams)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2014 and Interesting Finds: February 2, 2014 and Interesting Finds: February 3, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1539 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading February 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1291 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – January 30, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #101 (Mary Lou)
• Pie in the Sky (January 31st, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Reading Notes #126 (Frank)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-03 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 3, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Friday Links #289 (Mike Ward)
• Reblog: January 24 to January 30 (Jason Strate)
• .NET Weekly Digest #48 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Coding4Fun January 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• Links of the month (January Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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