Day: February 7, 2014

Top Links

• JSON Debugger Visualizer in Visual Studio 2013 (Avneep Dhanju)
• Application Insights Visual Studio Add-in preview (Brian Harry)
• Recruiting: There is no such thing as a developer shortage (Sara Chipps)
• Some ETW Basics (Kathleen Dollard)

 

Web Development

• The Power Of Kendo UI And Straight Up HTML (Burke Holland)
• ASP.NET Forms Authentication in 4 Easy Steps (Jonathan Tower)
• Taming Asynchronous Tasks in JavaScript with Zone.js (Jeremy Likness)
• Book Review: Dependency Injection with AngularJS (Mark Rendle)
• Why is a 32bit Windows Azure WebSite running as 64bit? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Browser Compatibility Testing with Modern.IE Tools (Rachel Appel)
• A discussion on API Documentation and Hypermedia (Glenn Block)
• modern.IE Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary and 1 Million Hours Saved (IE Team)
• Go Node Without Code (Simon St. Laurent)

 

XAML

• Building a heatmap with WPF Grids (Marina Stoyanova)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,004 – Setting CanContentScroll Disables Virtualization (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Triggering Prefetch for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and .NET Memory Analysis: Object Inspection (Andrew Chan)
• Mystery exception with DataWriter.storeAsync (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• If an asynchronous I/O completes synchronously, is the hEvent in the OVERLAPPED structure signaled anyway? (Raymond Chen)
• Visual Studio 2013 arriving soon for Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (Windows Embedded Team)
• Lab Management Guide … v3 update is available! (Willy-P. Schaub)
• 2000 C# Things #1,028 – Generic Types vs. Generic Methods (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• UX is for humans and not for cyborgs (Mitch Harpur)
• Fixing Github with Chrome Plugin – GitHub.Expandinizr (Phillip Haydon)
• Software Gardening: Using the Right Soil (Craig Berntson)
• A User Interface For Any Approach (Elena Pundjeva)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin and built.io get together to aid end to end mobile development (Ian Barker)
• Create your first iOS 7 Hello World Application (Mark Petherbridge)
• Calling Twitter API v1.1 From PhoneGap (Preview) (Troy Miles)
• Objective-C: Variable Property Attributes or Modifiers (yffaria)
• Resources to Start Developing for Firefox OS (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 186: Paul Betts on three cross-platform libraries: splat, ModernHttpClient and punchclock (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon & Co.)
• The Alton Browncast – Todd Bailey (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Robert Kirkman Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag: Finding Win8 Key, UI Hang in Games, Modern App Update Log | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Edge Show 89 – vRSS and Networking With Gabriel Silva | Edge (RicksterCDN & Simon May)
• The Vergecast 110 – February 6th, 2014 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Developer Group Growth and Sponsorship (Joseph Hill)
• Share Your “Dash”, Win Some Cash – #NCoverDash (Kerry Meade)

 

Database

• Using SQL Server’s Table Valued Parameters (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Didja know, RavenDB include a proxy server (Oren Eini)
• Mapping Relational Databases and SQL to MongoDB (Ashish Trivedi)
• SQL Puzzle – A Quick Fun with Bit Wise Operator (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Learn to code: Code Fellows launches intro to programming courses (Taylor Soper)
• Windows Phone 8.1 ‘Cortana’ personal assistant will be powered by Foursquare (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 7, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1543 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 7, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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