Month: March 2014

Top Links

• Node.js and Visual Studio? Sure! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Unit Testing Json Result data in WinRT applications (Derik Whittaker)
• The JavaScript Minefield (Jeff Walker)
• ReSharper 8.2 is Released Along with dotTrace, dotCover Updates (Daria Dovzhikova)

Web Development

• Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me To Use Ember Was Wrong (Rob Conery)
• Do HTML5 apps have to be online all the time? (Chris Heilmann)
• WebStorm 8.0 Release Candidate (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Secure ASP.NET Web API with Windows Azure AD (Johan Danforth)
• Sending commands from a knockout.js view model (Jef Claes)
• Handling DOM events in Backbone.js and working with Collections (Mahesh Sabnis)
• WordPress Support in PhpStorm 8 EAP (Mikhail Vink)
• The Unstable Future of Angular.js (Sarah Ervin)
• LINQ2TypeScript (Super Lloyd)
• Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language of the Future (bashyal)
• Ignite Grids – Performance Tips and Tricks (Angel Todorov)
• Sublime is Sublime 7 and Sublime is Sublime 8 (Greg Young)
• Responsive Full Width Tabs (Mary Lou)
• What Books Didn’t Tell You About ES5 Descriptors – Part 1 (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Please pass the Salt! (Ross Gardler)

XAML

• Deep Dive into Windows Phone store (Adam Fraser)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,035 – DatePicker Basics (Sean Sexton)
• How does WAQS optimizes client – server data transfer 3/5 and How does WAQS optimizes client – server data transfer 4/5 (Matthieu Mezil)

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Open File Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
• Observable.FromAsync is it the right choice? (Bnaya Eshet)
• Multiple Versions of EventSource and One Version of SLAB (Kathleen Dollard)
• F# Type Providers and Foq 1.6 (Phillip Trelford)
• F#10 : Lists (Sacha Barber)
• C# : Properties and Serialization (Sanjay Sharma)
• Step by Step walk through of getting Application Insights Up and running (Charles Sterling)
• DirectX 12 (Eric Battalio)
• Find a simpler problem (Eric Lippert)
• Quick and Dirty Command Handlers, Event Handlers, Wiring it Up (James D’Angelo)
• EF Gets Public Mapping API, Ability To Handle Commit Failures (Roopesh Shenoy)
• 2000 C# Things #1,059 – Converting from Numeric to Enumerated Types (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Chapter 1: The Profitable Side Project Handbook (Rachel Andrew)
• Measure twice, cut once – or profile before optimizing your code (Maxime Rouiller)
• Refactoring Legacy Code: Part 1 – The Golden Master (Patkos Csaba)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Set a background image in your iOS Application (yffaria)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 389 – 3.21.14 (Jon Turi)
• Episode 262 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scott Muc on Testing with Pester (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR 504: ID at Xbox, GDC and Marc Whitten (Larry Hyrb)
• The Vergecast 116 – Getting in touch with Android Wear (Evan Rodgers)
• Episode 135: Getting started with Apprenda | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Edge Show 95 – Service Management Automation (SMA) with the Windows Azure Pack | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 17: Jim Wilson (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Will Arnett and The Nerdist Podcast – Arnold Schwarzenegger (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – CSLA 4.5.5 on Windows 8.1 with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Get Up And Code 046: Checking Back With Jessica (John Sonmez)
• StarTalk Radio – A Conversation with Laurence Fishburne (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Gillmor Gang Live 03.21.14 (Steve Gillmor)
• GeekWire Radio: Microsoft snooping, Zillow poaching, and how Etsy does engineering (Todd Bishop)
• 30th anniversary videos: Charles Petzold (Kim Spilker)

Community / Events

• Developing the Developer Community (Ondrej Balas)
• Nebraska Code Camp – see you there? (Iris Classon)
• The Importance of Community: You Can’t Do It Alone (John Sonmez)

Database

• How to recover a suspect msdb database in SQL Server (John Grover)
• Validate the contents of large dynamic SQL strings in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Turning On Graphical Execution Plan After Enabling ShowPlan Text and SQL SERVER – Does Use of CTE Change the Order of Join in Inner Join (Pinal Dave)
• Demystifying Windows Azure SQL Database Billing (Alexandre Brisebois)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Magazine » Writing a PowerShell module in C#, Part 1: The basics (Carlos Perez)
• Index Scripting with Powershell (Chim Kalunta)

Miscellaneous

• A Brief History of BASIC (Ed Price)
• Windows Store not working: error code 0x80072ee2 (Iris Classon)
• A tip for getting tagged tables working better in OneNote (John Guin)
• Microsoft and Xamarin: It’s all good (Bill Wagner)
• Microsoft to rebrand ‘Windows Azure’ as ‘Microsoft Azure’ (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (March 21st, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #108 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1323 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 3/24/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #132 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1573 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 24, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Friday Links #296 (Mike Ward)
• .NET Weekly Digest #55 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Community Update 2014-03-22 – #WebAPI and #WCF (Maxime Rouiller)

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