Day: August 1, 2014

Top Links

• The Mobile Web should just work for everyone (Adrian Bateman & Frank Olivier)
• What is up with transparent identifiers? Part one (Eric Lippert)
• Learning Xamarin: MVVM Light and Xamarin Forms (Jesse Liberty)
• Using ECMAScript 6 today (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

Web Development

• PHP Gets A Formal Specification (I Programmer)
• Developing for the Tessel with WebStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• How to manage Microsoft Azure Table Storage with Node.js (Mihail Mateev)
• Why Node.js is Ideal for the Internet of Things (Matt Robinson)
• Kendo Undocumented: Using data bindings in grid column templates (Adam Anderson)
• Creating a Custom Kendo UI Validator (J. Tower)
• As Azure Summits Competitive Mountain, Will .NET Devs Take a Longer Look? (Andrew J. Brust)
• Passing dates from Kendo UI to ASP.NET MVC (Jeff Valore)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-481 Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps Using HTML5 and JavaScript (Kim Spilker)
• External Auth in ASP.Net MVC/SPA/Web API apps (Oren Novotny)
• Understanding and Working with Relationships Between Data in WordPress (Rachel McCollin)
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 6: Understanding Backbone.js Routes and History (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• APress Deal of the Day 1/August/2014 – Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript (Tatworth)
• Cloud apps with Microsoft Azure–free ebook (Kris van der Mast)
• [Announcement] ODataLib 6.6.0 Release (LeoHu1)
• Proving to Myself that in ExtJS 5 ViewModel data does move Functionally (Peter Kellner)
• Node v0.10.30 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• How to create an Excel file using Silverlight and C#? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,127 – Localization VIII – Passing Comments On to the Translator (Sean Sexton)
• Picking your Challenges – Luminance for Points (Bary Nusz)
• Store Tidbits #1: Persisting data after uninstall and older app versions (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Building Unified Apps for Phone and Tablet (Rob Miles)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Getting Started with Castle Windsor (Steve Smith)
• 2000 C# Things #1,151 – The Func Delegate Type (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: ComposedRegex (Martin Fowler)
• Article: How Kanban Works (Amr Noaman Abdel-Hamid)
• A TDD Journey: 3- Mocks vs. Stubs; Test Frameworks; Assertions; ReSharper Accelerators and A TDD Journey: 4-Tests as Documentation; False Positive Results; Component Isolation and A TDD Journey: 5- Tests vs. Code; Refactor Friendliness; Test Parameterization and A TDD Journey: 6- Mini-Factory Pattern; Don’t Care Terms (Michael Sorens)
• Running Selenium In Parallel With Any .NET Unit Testing Tool (Dave M. Bush)
• Huge Retrospectives with Online Games (Ben Linders)
• Case Study: Google’s Team Approach to Coverage (Kerry Meade)
• So that shouldn’t be optional (Wes McClure)
• Integration Testing Entity Framework with Migrations (Steve Smith)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Multi-Device Hybrid Apps… Where are the iOS and Windows Simulators? (George Saadeh)
• Learn How UX Design can Make Your App More Successful (Nazmul Idris)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 009 with Vesa Juvonen and Steve Walker (Office 365 Team)
• Hanselminutes – Applying Improv to Agile and Lean Startup models with Jessie Shternshus (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 373: Sausage Fest (Paul Thurrott)
• Day 3: Hands-On Judging and Partner Awards | Imagine Cup World Finals 2014 and Day 3: Interviews with India, Canada and Korea Teams | Imagine Cup World Finals 2014 (Channel 9)
• 365 Days Later – Office 365 vs. Office 2013 on the Desktop Review | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• SSW TV – How to choose the best developer boot camp for you (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers (aka.ms/vsarindex) (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Beats Music for Windows Phone lives on, developer Justin Angel joins Apple (Sam Sabri)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Disk Usage Report (Pinal Dave)
• Production analysis and trouble shooting with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• [Sample Of October 1] How to delete a row from Windows Azure Table storage without retrieving it first (Bo Song)

 

PowerShell

• Introducing Simplex (Jim Christopher)
• #PSTip Functions and SQL filtering, Part 4 (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Using OneNote to repair a Camaro (John Guin)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, July 31, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 31, 2014 and Geek Reading August 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1664 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 1, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-01 (Dan Rigby)

 

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