Day: March 11, 2014

Top Links

• Master time with Reactive Extensions (Phil Haack)
• NuGet Configuration File inheritance is awesome (Maarten Balliauw)
• Xamarin Welcomes iOS 7.1, with Day One Support! (Miguel de Icaza)
• The Ultimate List Of Developer Podcasts (John Sonmez)

 

Web Development

• WebStorm 8 Beta (build 134.1503) (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Event-driven application design with JavaScript (Patrick Mulder)
• Tutorial: Finding Virtual Machine Images for Windows Azure in VM Depot (Ross Gardler)
• Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices (James Gough)
• Create Image Server using WCF WEB HTTP Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Glimpse 1.8.4 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Filling the Space in the Last Row with Flexbox (Chris Coyier)
• New Article – Build End-to-End Apps with TypeScript (Gil Fink)
• Certificate reputation, a novel approach for protecting users from fraudulent certificates (Anoosh Saboori & Ritika Kapadia)
• Web Matrix Razor Documentation (Isaac Haynes)

 

XAML

• How to build a button based Windows Phone Pivot header with Telerik RadImageButtons (Marco Siccardi)
• Deploying Windows Phone apps for the Enterprise (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,026 – Horizontal and Vertical Sliders (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• F#8 Discriminated Unions (Sacha Barber)
• C#|.NET : Generic Concurrent Queue (1/6) (Sanjay Sharma)
• CodeSmith Generator – Creating Your First Template (Dirk Strauss)
• PaaSLane optimizes Java and .Net applications for the cloud (Ian Barker)
• How to use OData Client Code Generator to generate client-side proxy class (Layla Liu)
• Programmatically uploading a file to an FTP site (Raymond Chen)
• NHibernate Connection Resiliency (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #1,050 – Implicit Conversions between Nullable Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Test Structure (Dave M. Bush)
• Don’t Estimate Software Defects (Andrew Fuqua)
• Product Vision Tools Part 1: The Product Vision Board (Chris Spagnuolo)
• Resilience over strength (Glen Martin)
• Configuring TeamCity and YouTrack to use Office 365 for Email Notifications (Howard van Rooijen)
• Stop asking questions with “ok” or “cancel” answers (Matt Lacey)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences – $10.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Think Twice About Updating to the Latest Android Studio Canary Build (Michael Crump)
• Xamarin: Android Activities, Context, Intents and Views (Marco Siccardi)
• Android SDK For Wearables Coming In 2 Weeks, Says Google (Natasha Lomas)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SSW TV – How to expose your application’s data with Web Api – David Burela [FireBootCamp] and SSW TV – How to Build Great HTML 5 and JavaScript Websites and Apps Using Telerik’s Kendo UI – John Bristowe [FireBootCamp] (SSW Team)
• [SQL Snacks Video] The Basics of Joins (Ayman el Ghazali)
• Defrag Tools: #81 – Aaron Margosis | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 199: Bil Gates, Pixel Art, Windows XP, BeerRangers and Yoga | Ping! (Mark DeFalco, RicksterCDN & Simon May)

 

Community / Events

• PowerShell Summit North America (PowerShell Team)
• Getting ready for RavenDB Conf–Behind the scenes (Oren Eini)
• Announcing Windows Phone Day in Portland, OR (Paras Wadehra)
• Geekspace: Impact Hub Philadelphia [Launch Party Recap & Photos] (Colleen T. Reese)
• Who is Jeff Atwood? (DevToolsGuy)
• Get with the program: open source coding with Google Summer of Code (Emily Wood)
• Xbox MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• SQL Contest – Win Amazon Gift Cards – Learn How to Get Started with ClustrixDB (Pinal Dave)

 

Database

• Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 6th Edition (Kay Ewbank)
• SQL Server Best Practices (Ian Stirk)
• SQL Server – How to get last access/update time for a table (Vishal Harishbhai Gajjar)
• Upcoming (Mostly Free) SQL Server Training Events (Brent Ozar)
• Adding SQL Server Express 2012 Advanced Services to Existing Development Environment (Ming Man Chan)
• Entity Framework 6 & SQL Server Compact (6)–Entity Framework Reverse POCO Code First Generator (Erik EJ)

 

PowerShell

• Using Powershell to Monitor the SQL Server system_health Extended Event Session (Ben Snaidero)
• Website scraping to PowerShell module (Dmitry Sotnikov)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Surface Power Covers get a mid-March ship date (Mary Jo Foley)
• There’s one thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on: taking money from Comcast (T.C. Sottek)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 10, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 10, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1565 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 11, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #74 (Jason Strate)

 

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