Day: July 15, 2014

Top Links

• Project Siena Beta 3: Enabling business users to create custom apps to transform business processes (S.Somasegar)
• Welcome to ReactiveUI 6.0 (Paul Betts)
• Third Party Dev Tools Strike Back (Rockford Lhotka)
• Microsoft Challenges Google’s Artificial Brain With ‘Project Adam’ (Daniela Hernandez)

 

Web Development

• Ensure You Are Not Adding To Global Scope in JavaScript (Steve Smith)
• Refcard Expansion Pack: Node.js (Alec Noller)
• Learn AngularJS : Hour 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Authoring Critical Above-the-Fold CSS (Ben Edwards)
• HTTP Debugging Tools: Buy, Borrow or Build Your Own Tools? (Terrence Dorsey)

 

XAML

• Handling VisualState in Universal apps with Behavior SDK and MVVM (Marco Minerva)
• Disable the Screenshot Functionality in Windows Phone 8.1 Apps (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8.1 Apps –Can’t Open a Shortcut (.lnk) File? (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,114 – Culture Codes (Sean Sexton)
• Tips for submitting apps in markets that require an age rating (Bernardo Zamora)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Message passing, performance–take 2 (Oren Eini)
• Multiline Regex Search and Replace in Visual Studio (Merrick Chaffer)
• Improvements to the F# Web Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• Enumerating integer compositions (the return of the binomial coefficients) (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,137 – Generic Methods in Non-Generic Classes (Sean Sexton)
• New Rating Control for Windows Forms (SyncFusion WinForms Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pernicious Scrum Anti-Patterns (Dwight Kingdon)
• Article: A Roadmap to Agile Documentation (Ester F. Gonçalves)
• The Other Half of Your Job (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Enter To Commit – GitHub Tips 1 (Brendan Enrick)
• Build Agent: Template vs Provisioning (Ariya Hidayat)
• Destroying Programmer Productivity (Dirk Strauss)
• The 4 Levels of Freedom For Software Developers (John Sonmez)
• Test Attribute #2: Readability (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Copying (branching and forking) should be the exception, not the rule (Wes McClure)
• The Last Step in UI Design: Scripting Interaction (Peter Vogel)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms and Azure Mobile Services (Josh Morales)
• Cordova Plugins Update, and New Contacts Demo (Raymond Camden)
• Using Custom Unwind Segues with Xamarin.iOS (Roger Peters)
• Diving Into Swift With Swiftest (Brian Pratt)
• Today in APIs: Microsoft Rolls Out Developer Kit for Internet of Things (Greg Bates)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Development Teams with Michelle Smith (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gone Mobile 13: Xamarin.Forms (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 32: Lino Tadros (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Alexis Ohanian (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #98 – Writing a Debugger Extension Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Episode 001 – Zhiyan Shao (CPlus for Craigslist) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Deep learning enables large-scale computer image recognition | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Meet Up With Me in London This Thursday (Shawn Wildermuth)
• If I Were Miguel De Icaza… (Jesse Liberty)
• Join us for Tuesday’s webinar: Understanding the Excel Data Model (Dave Ludwig)
• Let us re-iterate the family>job>rangers mantra and point to our dash / flight board for the ALM Rangers and community (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Database

• How to restore MSDB & MODEL database – SQL Server System Databases? (Rohit Garg)
• Backing Up an Oracle Database (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Server Data Tools July Update (Jill McClenahan)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Memory Consumption Report (Pinal Dave)
• What does it mean that a value is NULL? (Kenneth Fisher)
• Name Parsing for Result Sets with Different Name Formats (Rick Dobson)
• New Power BI Features Shown At WPC (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Creating a SharePoint Server Farm in Azure (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• Merge csv files – quick PowerShell snippet (Chris Taylor)
• #PSTip Automatically persist history (Jan Egil Ring)

 

Miscellaneous

• Project Adam’s visual search could make Bing and Cortana even smarter (Chuong H Nguyen)
• Starting up the Summer with a little Small Basic (Greg Duncan)
• The Three Hardest Words in the Job Interview (Tony Plank)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, July 14, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of July 7, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 14, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1384 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 15, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/15/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1651 (Chris Alcock)

 

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