Day: April 30, 2014

Top Links

• These are the faces of ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ (Bryan Bishop)
• Prism 5.0 for WPF – Book Download (MS Downloads)
• Azure: 99.95% SQL Database SLA, 500 GB DB Size, Improved Performance Self-Service Restore, and Business Continuity (Scott Guthrie)
• When TDD doesn’t work. (“Uncle Bob” Martin)

 

Web Development

• Geolocation Tracking in Kendo UI Mobile and Google Maps (Basem Emara)
• CSS Shapes 101 (Chris Coyier)
• “Just My Code” for JavaScript (Pierson Lee)
• Creating type-safe properties with ECMAScript 6 proxies (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• ODataLib 6.3.0 Release (LeoHu1)
• Toastr 2.0.2 Now Available on NuGet, Bower and CDNJS (John Papa)
• How to Use Open Type in OData (Liang Wang)

 

XAML

• Hello, who is this? Controlling the context of a MVVM click handler (Adam Anderson)
• Windows Phone 8.1: LocalCacheFolder (Alec Noller)
• Universal Windows and Windows Phone Apps (Filip Ekberg)
• Kurt’s Tips, Tricks and Links for Windows Phone 8.1 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows/Phone 8.1–Roaming Settings Values Across Windows/Phones (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,062 – Scaling a Canvas Using a ViewBox (Sean Sexton)
• Brokered WinRT component project templates now available (Windows Apps Team)
• Dev center and app submission deep dive:Notes BUILD 2014 (Iris Classon)
• XamRichTextEditor: Build your own Office Inspired Contextual Rich Text Format Toolbar (Brian Lagunas)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Announcing the NuGet 3 Roadmap (Jonathan Allen)
• Reading a complex XML using LINQ in C# (Pavan Kumar Pabothu)
• WCF Performance Tuning – The Low Hanging Fruits (Tarun Arora)
• Calling Stored Procedures from Entity Framework (Peter Vogel)
• Reactive Extensions Observables Versus Regular .NET Events Part 2 (Mark Heath)
• Plug it in, plug it in [Sample code for two TextAnalysisTool.NET plug-ins demonstrates support for custom file types] (David Anson)
• Domain modeling with Entity Framework scorecard (Jimmy Bogard)
• Running NDepend Rules through NDepend.API (Patrick Smacchia)
• 2000 C# Things #1,086 – Converting Decimal Floating Point to Binary Floating Point (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile development races ahead of traditional testing (Savita Pahuja)
• SonicAgile Now with Dropbox Integration (Stephen Walther)
• Improved Object Oriented Design – Isolate and Model Business Processes (Kerry Jenkins)
• Turn your ideas into high-fidelity prototypes with the new Telerik AppPrototyper (Nikolay Atanasov)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• .NET on iOS really is as good as it sounds (Jim Wilson)
• Unity 2D Game Development – A Review (Simon Jackson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 144: Black Terror vs. Killer Robot (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Mobile Apps on Xamarin with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• MS Cloud Show Episode 027 | Announcing ITUnity, a new Office 365 and SharePoint Resource Site (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RavenDB Conf Videos: Modeling Tricks my Relational Database Never Taught Me (Oren Eini)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Eddie Izzard Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #196 – An Interview with Mike Engelhardt – SPICE Simulator Synteresis (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• GoingNative 25: Offline Analysis Graphics Tool | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• TechEd Countdown Show: The One with the Tech Expo | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• RiYL Episode 051: Chris Hayes (Brian Heater)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 203: Leslie Lamport on Distributed Systems (SE-Radio Team)
• SSW TV – Automated Deployment Using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell | DDD Brisbane 2013 (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Join Xamarin in Houston at Microsoft TechEd North America (Morgan Forsythe)
• Basic Turns 50 (Andrew Binstock)
• Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s VP of Windows and User Experience to hold an AMA this Friday on Reddit (Phone Arena Team)
• Dev of the Week: Valeri Karpov (Alec Noller)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Faster Application Performance with In-Memory OLTP: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and SafePeak Dynamic Caching (Pinal Dave)
• What is a Non-Clustered Columnstore Index? (Patrick Keisler)
• Data Source Connectivity for Scheduled Data Refresh in Power BI (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• Using Breeze and AngularJS in SharePoint 2013 (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Automating Flat File SQL Server Imports With PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• PowerShell 10k – PowerShell Script Browser and Analyzer v1.1 released (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Free Online College and University Courses (Dana Coffey)
• Take Our Survey and be Part of DZone’s New Guide to Mobile Development! (Alec Noller)
• Who Will Play What in ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’? (Chris Taylor)
• You Want Me to Splunk That? (David Maislin)
• Full cast for ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ announced, including original cast members (Kwame Opam)
• Why you shouldn’t participate in arguments on the internet (Scott Koon)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 4/30/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #1345 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1599 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-30 (Dan Rigby)
• Community Update 2014-04-29 – #nodejs, #elasticsearch, #javascript, #tdd, #sass and #owin (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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