Day: April 28, 2014

Top Links

• Brokered WinRT Components Step-by-Step and Brokered WinRT Components Step One and Brokered WinRT Components Step Two and Brokered WinRT Components Step Three (Harry Pierson)
• A quick guide to getting going with Roslyn (Greg Duncan)
• Using OAuth, Twitter and Async To Display Data – Connect to Twitter from a mobile application using OAuth with the Xamarin.Auth library, along with Joe Mayo’s LINQ To Twitter library (Wally McClure)
• Legend Confirmed: Atari 2600 ‘E.T.’ Game Discovered at New Mexico Dig (Adario Strange)

 

Web Development

• Dirty Children and Kendo UI (Josh Eastburn)
• Securing Node.js Applications With OAuth2 and Azure (Josh Lane)
• Angular Part 5–Adding A Service (Jesse Liberty)
• Understanding Javascript Promises (Karl Seguin)
• Preventing default action for an element in AngularJS (Venkata Koppaka)
• JavaScript Unit Tests and Code Coverage Tracking using Venus.js (Ariya Hidayat)
• Using Bower in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Why your ASP.NET MVC Application needs its own framework (Matt Honeycutt)
• The interoperability of Web Component polyfills (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Enjoy Spring, and new updates to our Open Source Azure Storage Plugin for Jenkins (Brian Benz)
• Hosting interactive code in the Cloud (Mike Stall)
• WritingGauntlet.com: A Real world LightSwitch Application (Michael Washington)

 

XAML

• Sharing Resource Dictionaries in your Universal XAML Apps (Bary Nusz)
• Windows Phone 8.1 – LocalCacheFolder (Andrej Tozon)
• Migrating from the LongListSelector to the ListView in Windows Phone XAML Apps (Shawn Kendrot)
• Physics Helper for Universal Windows apps (Andy Beaulieu)
• Building Brokered LOB WinRT App’s, a quick guide and a few tips to help you keep your hair… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows/Phone 8.1 and the “Rolling Geofence” (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,060 – Clipping in Grid Happens Before Render Transforms (Sean Sexton)
• WAQS Patterns 8/11 (Matthieu Mezil)
• WPF Base Classes – TextBoxBase – Selection (Richard Carr)
• Background transfer API in universal Windows apps: what you need to know (Himadri Sarkar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ReSharper 8.2.1 Release Candidate Is Here (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Installing the Windows Embedded Compact Edition 2013 Update for Visual Studio 2013 (Werner Willemsens)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesper Fernström (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Explicit Wait. It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means. (Jim Holmes)
• Domain Modeling and Persistence in Entity Framework 6 (Dino Esposito)
• Leveling up your logging. (part 2) (Phillip Haydon)
• Date Types (Phillip Trelford)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) – Part 6 – Task ToObservable (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• 2000 C# Things #1,084 – Representing Numbers Using Scientific Notation (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Monagamous TDD (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
• Automating SproutCore Unit Testing with PhantomJS (Greg Fairbanks)
• Kanban Thinking Questions (Karl Scotland)
• Setting up Karma to run unit tests in PhantomJS and Chrome (Arun Mahendrakar)
• TDD Is Dead? Let’s Kill The Messenger Instead! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What to do when FakeItEasy throws System.BadImageException (Dror Helper)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Connect to a Bluetooth Serial Device with Xamarin.Android (Brian Peek)
• Create an iOS Flow Layout with Ease Using NucliOS (Obj-C & C#) (Torrey Betts)
• Android Studio 0.5.5 Released (Alec Noller)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 315 – Lance McCarthy on App Studio (David Giard)
• Engadget Podcast 394 – 4.25.14 (Jon Turi)
• RavenDB Conf Videos: Panel Discussion – The good & ugly of working with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• TWC9: More from Cortana, Windows Phone 8.1 Dev Series, a changelog plea and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Changelog 119: MEAN.js & Full-Stack JavaScript w/ Roie and Amos (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 22: Brad Wilson (Shawn Wildermuth)
• (Video) Hack: Camtasia Recorder endless loop when opening a program as an administrator (Iris Classon)
• Get Up And Code 051: Richard Campbell Climbs Mountains (John Sonmez)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: New Discoveries (Neil deGrasse Tyson & Eugene Mirman)
• GeekWire Radio: Streaming TV, startup investing, and singing in the studio (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• I’m Teaching Critical Path Training’s SharePoint 2013 Developer Course in Boston, June 2-6 (Andrew Connell)
• What a week. Code babes and douches, nerd dinners, sun and code (Iris Classon)

 

Database

• Improve SSIS data flow buffer performance (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQLAuthority News – Microsoft Whitepaper – Optimizing Your Query Plans with the SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator and SQLAuthority News – Two Microsoft Whitepaper on In-Memory OLTP (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Learn PowerShell – Piping (Gregor Suttie)
• Understanding Import-DscResource Keyword in Desired State Configuration (Fayza Sultan)

 

Miscellaneous

• How ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ turned awful B movies into comedy gold (Dante D’Orazio)
• Nate Silver’s advice to young journalists: Learn to code now (Taylor Soper)
• Software developers remain ‘life itself’ to Microsoft, Nadella says (Tracey Spenser)

 

More Link Collections

• //build 2014 highlights #4: so much more! (Windows Apps Team)
• Top 7 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, April 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading April 26, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (April 25th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #113 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1343 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1597 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 4/28/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #137 (Frank)
• Reblog: April 18 to April 24 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #301 (Mike Ward)
• Community Update 2014-04-25–#tdd, #underscorejs compared to #linq, #webdev bookmarks, and more (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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