Day: March 20, 2014

Top Links

• Sublime is Sublime Part 1 and Sublime is Sublime 2 and Sublime is Sublime 3 (Greg Young)
• How to Turn Visual Studio into the Ultimate Mobile App Development Environment (Gabe Sumner)
• .NET Rocks! – Nuclear Accidents Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Bing Code Search | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Controls and Entity Framework 6 – Buttery Smoothness (Jeff Fritz)
• Maps made easier: GeoJSON in the JavaScript Maps API (Louis Gray)
• Create Drop-Down Menu Using CSS Only (Nikos Printezis)
• How To Add Images To A GitHub Wiki (Mike Hadlow)
• Of Pizza, Types, Primitives, and Objects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• reduce-index (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTTP/2 – “Nearing Completion” (Brian Raymor)
• Improving the Google Calendar API (Louis Gray)

 

XAML

• Coded Design Time Data using Mvvmcross for Windows and Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,033 – ProgressBar Can Be Horizontal or Vertical (Sean Sexton)
• How to automatically notify the user that it’s time to upgrade a Windows App (Scott Hanselman)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Understanding LINQ to Join Multiple Tables Where Null Match Are Expected (Sherlee Dizon)
• [Sample Of Mar 19th] How to enable checkout notification in TFS. (Philip Fu)
• C# Extension: Random Pastel Colors (Sanjay Sharma)
• Visual Studio Online Best Practices: Troubleshooting issues with the “Eligible MSDN Subscriber” license type (Trevor Hancock)
• Couchbase .NET Client 1.3.4 Released! (Don Pinto)
• 2000 C# Things #1,057 – Custom Explicit Conversions (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microservices: Infrastructure Automation (Martin Fowler)
• Kanban in Action – book review (Gojko Adzic)
• Psychology and the Agile Methodology (Zac Gery)
• The Safety Net of Retrospectives (Cory Foy)
• Three tips to making transitions (Angela M. Romei)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Wear: Details on the Developer Preview (Abel Avram)
• Xamarin.Android: Implementing An Input Filter (Ryan Alford)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 138: From Russia with Doubt (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Engadget HD Podcast 390 – 3.19.14 (Jon Turi)
• SSW TV – TFS ASAP! – Automate Your TFS Plugins with Sven Hubert (SSW Team)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Chris Kluwe Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag: Remotely Supporting Windows RT, Moving Program Files Folder, Office x86 or x64 and more | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• An interview with @AnDevCon on the Android Landscape (Michael Crump)
• Announcing Xamarin Evolve 2014 Ticket Sales Dates (Morgan Forsythe)
• Free and great value ALM training on the West Coast (Charles Sterling)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Index Fragmentation Next Steps – Notes from the Field #020 (Pinal Dave)
• A cause of high-duration ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION waits (Paul Randal)
• SQLite Performance and Prepared Statements (Kenny Kerr)

 

PowerShell

• Deploying Hadoop Rack Awareness with PowerShell (Carl Nolan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Featured Article – Grammar Basics (Ed Price)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, March 19, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1572 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading March 19, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1321 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 3/20/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Community Update 2014-03-19 – #webdev, #dotnet, #aspnet, #cqrs and some more #elasticsearch (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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