Day: April 23, 2014

Top Links

• Dear developers: Please start using changelogs for Windows Phone 8.1 apps (Daniel Rubino)
• Migrating from NHibernate to Entity Framework (Jimmy Bogard)
• Amazon’s smartphone reportedly favors tilting gestures over buttons (Chris Welch)
• Windows Phone 8.1 Preview reportedly installed on over a million devices in one week (Sam Sabri)

 

Web Development

• httpi – A Lightweight $resource-Inspired Module For AngularJS and Posting Form Data With $http In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• JavaScript API for Office v1.1(wall poster) (MS Downloads)
• Learning Kendo? This is the book! (Jesse Liberty)
• Saving to Multiple Data Sources in the HTML Client (Stephen Provine)
• Single Page Application Demo With Hapi.js, AngularJS And Azure Table (Shiju Varghese)
• Unicode in URL changes for IE11 (Eric Lawrence)

 

XAML

• “Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers” series with 19 posts so far… (Greg Duncan)
• XAML ListView–Styling Items Based on Data (Windows 8.1 XAML) (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers – Multitasking and Background tasks and Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers – Application Data (Robert Hedgate)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,057 – Preventing a Grid from Clipping a Child Element (Sean Sexton)
• Step by Step Creating a Windows 8 app from Windows Phone App Studio (Susan Ibach)
• WPF Base Classes – TextBoxBase – Scroll Position (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• F#20 : Creating Types / Adding Members and F# 21 : Events (Sacha Barber)
• C# Vectorization with Microsoft.Bcl.Simd (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #1,081 – Bits, Bytes and Nibbles (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Coaching the Agile Architect – Creating Value, Ensuring Quality, and Empowering Change (Michael Robillard)
• What Is A Unit Test? (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Testing PhoneGap Apps on Devices without SDK, Compilation or Code Signing (Abel Avram)
• PhoneGap Developer App (Raymond Camden)
• Tips & Tricks for Highly Performing Android ListViews (James Montemagno)
• Cross Platform Application Analytics: Adding Meat to Pabulum (Sebastian Holst)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 143: The World’s Greatest Neurozine! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Developing for SmartGlass with Neil Black (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: A JavaScript Feed Reader in Under 10 Minutes Using Angular JS (Jeremy Likness)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Lewis Black (Chris Hardwick)
• Polymorphic Podcast – How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer (Craig Shoemaker)
• The Amp Hour #195 – Guns and Mobile Labs – Nuanced Nomadic Non-essentials (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Mobile Tech Addicts Show 20-04-14 (Gareth Myles)
• New Video: Getting Started with the xamRichText Editor (Jessica Skarzynski)
• RiYL Episode 050: Rhett Miller (Brian Heater)
• SSW TV – The History and Evolution of Entity Framework with Julie Lerman (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing IT Unity – Your New One-Stop Resource for All Things Office 365 & SharePoint! (Andrew Connell)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Shawn Mclean (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Dev of the Week: Eric Schabell (Alec Noller)

 

Database

• MongoLab offers new options for MongoDB Developers on Azure (Brian Benz)

 

PowerShell

• Adventures into Powershell and Learn PowerShell – Getting Started and PowerShell useful Tools (Gregor Suttie)
• Debug Mode in Desired State Configuration (Abhik Chatterjee)

 

Miscellaneous

• Market Yourself As A Software Developer By John Sonmez Reviewed (Dirk Strauss)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1341 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, April 22, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading April 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 23, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1594 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #80 (Jason Strate)
• Community Update 2014-04-22 – #angularjs, #unittest in #javascript, #ef6, #nhibernate migration and more (Maxime Rouiller)
• Daily News Digest 4/23/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• //build 2014 highlights #3: graphics, media, design, and the business of apps (Windows Apps Team)

 

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