Day: May 14, 2014

Top Links

• Unit Testing Roslyn-Based Extensions (Jason Bock)
• Help make Edit and Continue better! (VB Team)
• Splunk’s SDK for C# vNext: modern, scalable and portable (Glenn Block)
• A 30 Minute Look At ASP.NET vNext (Jon Galloway)

 

Web Development

• jQuery with CoffeeScript (Chris Coyier)
• AngularJS–Part 16, Forms (Gabriel Schenker)
• Improvements to ASP.NET Web Forms (Pranav Rastogi)
• Script Node.js from .NET using Edge.js (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Using D3 Controls in ComponentOne Studio for LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• ASP.NET vNext: the future of .NET on the Server (Xinyang Qiu)
• Here Come the .NET Containers (Josh Lane)
• YUI 3.17.0 Release Candidate 1 (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT (Filip Pizlo)
• Mapping objects to JSON with Fleece (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.0.1 (Ryan Cavanaugh)
• How not to “hide” sensitive data in plain sight with view state (Troy Hunt)
• Adaptive vs Responsive Design (Zachary Gardner)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,072 – Adding Custom Triggers Related to Keyboard Focus (Sean Sexton)
• Enhanced Windows Store app discoverability, refreshed user experience and policy updates (Bernardo Zamora)
• Windows App Studio Beta adds support for Instagram Search, Microsoft Advertising and more (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• WAQS: conclusion (Matthieu Mezil)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Debug Diagnolstic Tool v2 Update 1 (MS Downloads)
• Zendesk integration with VS Online (Brian Harry)
• Couchbase .NET SDK 2.0 Developer Preview 1 (Don Pinto)
• Update to SIMD Support (Immo Landwerth)
• Sequence-Point Coverage (Kerry Meade)
• 2000 C# Things #1,096 – Floating Point NaN Values (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day 14/May/2014–Pro .NET Performance (Tatworth)
• May 2014 .NET Updates (.NET Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: ParallelChange (Martin Fowler)
• Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier (Andrew Binstock)
• Where to Place Icons Next to Button Labels (Anthony)
• Algorithms in action – sorting (follow up) (Bob)
• Microsoft Engineering Stories – How We Build Software at Microsoft (Ed Blankenship)
• Coding forward: the opposite of coding backward (Jeffrey Palermo)
• A better domain events pattern (Jimmy Bogard)
• Better Management with Fewer Managers (video) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Everyone Starts With Simplicity, No-One Ends There and That’s OK (Steven Sinofsky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Started with Cordova and Multi-Device Hybrid App in Visual Studio (George Saadeh)
• iOS – Objective-C – Custom Paging with UIScrollView using the IGGridView (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Objective-C Builder Pattern (Alex Curylo)
• Mobility: Think Data, Not Devices (Nick Harlow)
• Introducing Telerik Platform Developer Edition for just $39/month (Ruslan Mursalzade)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Better Parts with Doug Crockford (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Amp Hour #198 – Mike Ossmann Returns! – Planetic Portalab Packaging (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Entreprogrammers-04 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• OdeToCode Videos (K. Scott Allen)

 

Community / Events

• 2014 Developer Salary Survey (Andrew Binstock)
• Devs of the Week: Andrew Lee Rubinger & Arun Gupta (Alec Noller)

 

Database

• Debugging a SQL Server query with WinDbg (Aschen Brenner)
• How to Configure Anti-Virus for SQL Servers (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – DMV to Identify Incremental Statistics – Performance improvements in SQL Server 2014 – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Getting the Topmost Hierarchical Parent in T-SQL (Ricardo Peres)

 

SharePoint

• Building SharePoint 2013 Web Parts using AngularJS and KnockoutJS (Pravinkumar Dabade)

 

Miscellaneous

• Delivering More Choices for Fans (Phil Spencer)
• Microsoft reportedly removing Xbox Live Gold requirement for Netflix and streaming apps (Tom Warren)
• Writing a Better Abstract (Rob Conery)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1355 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 13, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Daily News Digest 5/14/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 13 May 2014 (Jax)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1608 (Chris Alcock)

 

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