Day: March 31, 2014

Top Links

• Session list for Build 2014 is now online (Kip Kniskern)
• Developing Enterprise SQL Server Features in Visual Studio database tooling (Kevin Cunnane)
• Rhino Mocks 4.0.0 Alpha Released (Mike Meisinger)
• Analysis Paralysis: Over-thinking and Knowing Too Much to Just CODE (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Years Later, I Still Love jQuery (Ben Nadel)
• Loading JavaScript Files from the Views Folder in ASP.NET MVC (Jonathan Tower)
• Smarter email templates in ASP.NET with RazorEngine (Venkata Koppaka)
• OWIN security components in ASP.NET: OpenID Connect! (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Understanding routing of expressJS in Node.JS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• PhpStorm 8 EAP 136.1382 (Mikhail Vink)
• Angular: The Modern HTML5 Answer to Silverlight’s MVVM (Jeremy Likness)
• When Primitives Behave Like Objects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Orchard 1.8 Released and Website Upgraded and Send Email Messages using Orchard Jobs Queue (David Hayden)
• Running scripts with npm (Anders Janmyr)
• Sublime is Sublime 11 (Greg Young)
• Firebug Internals I. – Data Providers and Viewers (Jan Odvarko)

 

XAML

• Fixing an Expand Control side effect in Windows Phone (Derik Whittaker)
• How to use Text to Speech to read text aloud on Windows Phone 8 (Marco Siccardi)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,040 – An Example of Dependency Property Inheritance (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store Apps: adapting to sizes instead of states (Iris Classon)
• WAQS UI features 2/4 (Matthieu Mezil)
• Analysing app store descriptions (Matt Lacey)
• Navigation Hierarchy (Sanjay Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Detecting Font Installation (Richard Carr)
• The Four Deadly Sins of LINQ Data Access: Part 4–Too Many Rows (Adam Anderson)
• 12 reasons to use the Jolt award winning Visual Studio Premium 2013 (Giles Davies)
• Iterators in C# – A Deep Dive (Karthik Chintala)
• F#12 : Arrays (Sacha Barber)
• Code Paste (Bnaya Eshet)
• Mobile Services .NET Backend: Initializers and Model Updates (Glenn Gailey)
• Logging “levels” in a structured world (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Aggregating Non-Nullable Numerical Values Without Records (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #1,064 – Getting Around Inability to Explicitly Convert Type Parameters (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The True Corruption of Agile (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
• How Great Leaders Build a Culture of Innovation and Change (J.D. Meier)
• Agile – Why its become a dirty word (Matt Davey)
• Basics: Benefits of Writing Unit Tests (Ravi Kiran)
• The Case for Test-Driven Development (Meghan Blanchette)
• Test Code Coverage: From Myth to Reality (Patkos Csaba)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap for the Enterprise (Raymond Camden)
• iOS Gesture Recognition and Animation with Xamarin (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Webinar Wrap Up: Build Cross Platform Apps with Telerik Platform and Visual Studio (Jeff Fritz)
• How to Accept Multiple Enum Values in a Property or Method (Martin Rybak)
• How to implement press and hold in Corona SDK (Matt Harrington)
• Draw Animated shapes with Bezier Path (Mehfuz Hossain)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 223: Alright M8? (Gareth Myles)
• Engadget Podcast 390 – 3.28.14 (Jon Turi)
• MNR 505 Pre-PAX and two out of three ain’t bad (Larry Hyrb)
• Ping 202: Office for iPad, Source code for DOS, .Net Google APIs, Build and Nokia, No more cheating in Titanfall | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• GeekWire Radio: Facebook + Oculus, Google Chromebook at college, and the meaning of Microsoft Office for iPad (Todd Bishop)
• Episode 136: WS-Federation and Microsoft OWIN Components with Vittorio Bertocci | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Azure WebJobs 102 – Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa | Windows Azure Friday (Windows Azure)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Eric Stonestreet (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 330: Interview with Mass Effect’s Manveer Heir (Chris Brown)
• Front End Developer Cast – Ember interview with Tom Dale, a Robust Framework | Episode 003 (Craig McKeachie)
• Get Up And Code 047: Miguel Castro Knows How To Stay Fit (John Sonmez)
• Edge Show 96 – Ned Pyle on when to use Scale Out FIle Server vs File Server Cluster | Edge (RicksterCDN)
• StarTalk Radio – Replay – Cosmic Queries: Viruses, Outbreaks and Pandemics (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Gillmor Gang Live 03.28.14 (Steve Gillmor)
• Little Girl Asks Wil Wheaton About Being Called A Nerd – Awesomeness Ensues [Video] (Steven)

 

Community / Events

• Office 365 for Developers at //build 2014 (Office Developer Team)
• Farewell, MVP Program … Hello, Google! (Schabse Laks)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Server 2014 Developer Training Kit and Sample Databases and SQL SERVER – How to Detect Schema Change Across Two Servers (Pinal Dave)
• Reduce ^ 2 in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• 6 Simple Performance Tips for SQL SELECT Statements (Mpumelelo Msimanga)

 

PowerShell

• How to build your own SSAS Resource Governor with PowerShell (Darren Gosbell)
• Managing Vsix Deployments with Powershell (Dave Kerr)
• ISESteroids – A Revolutionary PowerShell ISE Add-On (Tobias Weltner)
• DSC Resource Kit Wave 3 (PowerShell Team)
• Performing management tasks using CIM Cmdlets [4] – Files and Folders (Milena Natanov)

 

Miscellaneous

• Six clicks: Weird tricks that will actually make you happier with Windows 8.1 (Ed Bott)
• Is loyalty in the workplace dead? (Dan Appleman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 28, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1579 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1325 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (March 28th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #109 (Mary Lou)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 31, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/31/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #133 (Frank)
• Blog Post: Reblog: March 21 to March 27 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #297 (Mike Ward)
• .NET Weekly Digest #56 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Community Update 2014-03-28 – Learning #javascript frameworks, page #performance, #REST, #Kanban and more (Maxime Rouiller)
• Links of the month (March Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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