Day: August 28, 2014

Top Links

• Chrome and Pointer Events – Its Not Over, but We Need Your Help (Chris Love)
• Stakeholder license is live (Brian Harry)
• Make ASP.NET Web Forms Feel Native with KendoUI Mobile (Jeff Fritz)
• Optional parameters considered harmful (in public libraries) (Marc Gravell)

 

Web Development

• Authorization and Protecting Web Resources in ASP.NET (Bill Morefield)
• Resolving Dependencies in ASP.NET MVC 5 using Unity Container (Dhananjay Kumar)
• On Creating a Live Style Guide for MVC Application Development (Edward Charbeneau)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (Kim Spilker)
• PhpStorm 8 Public Preview (Mikhail Vink)
• “A Stroll Through Node…” (Greg Duncan)
• ZeroMQ #4 : Multiple Sockets Polling (Sacha Barber)

 

XAML

• Cyan Developer Preview Update for Windows Phone 8.1 Enables SensorCore (Bary Nusz)
• Working with the StatusBar/SystemTray in WP (SL and WinRT) plus some guidelines (Iris Classon)
• Windows Phone 8.1 Screen Orientation – What’s changed for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 8: Creating Your First Application (Sani Yusuf)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,146 – Polar Coordinate System (Sean Sexton)
• WebView Javascript interop woes in Windows (Phone) 8.1 Universal apps (Andreas Hammar)
• Simple workaround for “Design view is unavailable for x64 and ARM target platforms” (Joost van Schaik)
• How we’re addressing misleading apps in Windows Store (Todd Brix)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 2000 C# Things #1,170 – You Can’t Unsubscribe from an Event Using a Lambda Expression (Sean Sexton)
• Monitoring your existing Applications (Vlad J.)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: Courtesy Implementation (Martin Fowler)
• Death by Planning in Agile Adoption (Ben Linders)
• It is called “Unit Testing” for a reason (Dave M. Bush)
• Distributed Systems (Matt Davey)
• Sencha Architect – Team Development in the Real World (Part 2 of 3) (Richard G Milone)
• Fun of PM.2 … Energi[s|z]ing the team (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Optionals Case Study: valuesForKeys (Swift Team)
• Tips for your First Wear App (Jérémie Laval)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Thinking Open Source with Phil Haack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Changelog 128: Lineman.js and JavaScript apps with Justin Searls (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Gone Mobile 15: Azure Mobile Services (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Grant Morrison (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 160 – “We’re Back” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• AAWP Insight #108: Archos, Spotify, Screen casting (Rafe Blandford)
• Edge Show 117 – Docker on Azure | Edge (David Tesar)
• Ping 220: ReddX, Skype update, White House dress code, Ballmer moving on, and more | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Nerds At Play 071: Playing Sick (Melisa Snyder)
• Boagworld – 10 reasons it is not your web designers fault! (Paul Boag)
• RiYL Episode 068: Sean Nelson (Brian Heater)
• Security Insanity with RunAs Radio (Troy Hunt)
• 123 JSJ Traceur with Erik Arvidsson (woody2shoes)

 

Community / Events

• Poll: Which is your favorite Windows Phone blog? (Joel Willans)
• “I have never seen this at Microsoft” (Michelle Feder)
• Become a Microsoft Ambassador, it could land you an internship! (Patrycja)
• If you dream about code that brings new ideas to life, come to Microsoft (Suzanne Choney)

 

Database

• SSRS report: Multi-value parameter going after Data-driven subscription (Rayis Imayev)
• Enabling SQL Server Trace Flag for a Poor Performing Query Using QUERYTRACEON (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – Detecting Corruption with Suspect Pages Table – Notes from the Field #043 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.0–Release Plans (Oren Eini)
• Could Cosmos be Microsoft’s next commercial big-data service? and Microsoft cuts Azure SQL cloud database prices (Mary Jo Foley)

 

PowerShell

• Use PowerShell DSC to Install DSC Resources (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• [Cool Feed Reader of the Day] rssheap – The web based feed reader for dev’s… (Greg Duncan)
• Sale: Save up to 55% on all books and eBooks (Kim Spilker)
• Here’s our Windows Phone 9 wish list (Taylor Martin)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 27, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 27, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1403 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1682 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (8/18-8/24) (Dara Monasch)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-28 (Dan Rigby)

 

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