Day: March 5, 2014

Top Links

• Upcoming .NET NuGet Releases (Richard Lander)
• Knockout.js 3.1 Released (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Implementing CRUD Activities in a TypeScript ViewModel (Peter Vogel)
• Repositories On Top UnitOfWork Are Not a Good Idea (Rob Conery)

 

Web Development

• The JavaScript Alternatives (Andrew Binstock)
• ASP.NET MVC 5 Lifecycle Document Published (Cephas Lin)
• Add a touch gamepad to your HTML5 game (David Washington)
• Node.js on Azure Websites- in minutes – deploying with GitHub (Iris Classon)
• Scheduling work on the UI Thread with the WinJS Scheduler API (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 6 Code First using MVC 5 tutorials (Kris van der Mast)
• Flushing in ASP.NET MVC (Nik Molnar)
• Javascript without the this (Pete Hodgson)
• Flexbox Bar Navigation Demo and Thoughts on Media Queries for Elements (Chris Coyier)
• Remote Desktop Client with AngularJS and Yeoman (Minko Gechev)
• Rewriting A WebApp With ECMAScript 6 (Addy, Sindre, Pascal & Stephen)
• Introducing Reading View in IE 11 (Jane Liles, Bonnie Yu & Marty Hall)
• HTTP API Versioning Using Nancy (Jim Liddell)
• Simple Stack Effects (Mary Lou)
• Memory Tooling In Firefox Developer Tools In 2014 (Nick Fitzgerald)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,022 – Render Tick Marks in a Different Color (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Cross platform development with C# (Loek van den Ouweland)
• TFS for cross team and cross business line work item tracking (Martin Hinshelwood)
• F#5 : Operators (Sacha Barber)
• dotCover 2.7 EAP is Open (Olga Kosyreva)
• New CodeRush Plugin Templates – NewCodeProvider and NewRefactoring (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,046 – Implicit vs. Explicit Conversions (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Five things every developer should know about software architecture (Simon Brown)
• Tracking Agile Velocity (George Dinwiddie)
• Distributed counters feature design (Oren Eini)
• Defactoring In Action (Wolfram Kriesing)
• Use Singleton to define your special entity (Zoe Luo)
• Netflix: How ‘Separation of Concerns’ Can Benefit Your API Design (Daniel Jacobson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• What do Super Heroes and The Telerik Platform Have in Common? (Michael Crump)
• Sencha Converts Microsoft Azure into BaaS Platform (Michael Vizard)
• Objective-C: Property Attribute Reference Guide (Nick Hanan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 136: Zombie Jughead (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 14: Julie Lerman (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Andy Daly (Chris Hardwick)
• YUIConf 2013: Reid Burke on Testing YUI Everywhere (Andrew Wooldridge)
• The Amp Hour #187 – An Interview with Elecia White – Wirewove Worshipping Wookieist? (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• SSW TV – Error Analytics with John Bristowe – TechEd New Zealand (SSW Team)
• The Verge Mobile Show 082 – March 4th, 2014 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• Update on the Forms Story from the SharePoint Conference 2014 (Update on the Future of InfoPath) (Andrew Connell)
• Dev of the Week: Matt Butcher (Alec Noller)
• Nokia DVLUP Day NYC – Register to Attend (Bob Familiar)
• Craziest Entrepreneur Challenge: Can 3 Devs Make $100 Each In 24 Hours? (1 of 3) (John Sonmez)
• Join Us Thursday, March 6, 2014 for “Your top-5 .NET challenges, solved” (Phil Japikse)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data Encryption Options (Derek Wilson)
• Creating a Kerberos Delegation Table for SQL Server Access (Brian P. O’Dwyer)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Report Builder in dbForge Studio for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: SSAS Tabular: Calculating the actual compression rate (Chris Schmidt)
• Blog Post: ROLLBACK damn you! (Mark Broadbent)

 

SharePoint

• BreezeJS Makes Client-Side SharePoint 2013 REST Development a… BREEZE! and Understanding Challenges Using Breeze & SharePoint Out-Of-The-Box and Getting BreezeJS to Work with the SharePoint 2013 REST API (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• 7zbackup – PowerShell Script to Backup Files with 7zip – 7zBackup v1.9.5 Stable (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous

• Making pages with tables load faster in OneNote (John Guin)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, March 4, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 4, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1561 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1311 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 4 Mar 2014 (Jax)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 5, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/5/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-05 (Dan Rigby)
• LightSwitch Community and Content Rollup–February 2014 (+March Update Released!) (Beth Massi)

 

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