Day: September 30, 2014

Top Links

• Inception-Style Nested Data Formats (Scott Hanselman)
• WinJS 3.0 Shows Industry Shift Towards JavaScript (Michael Crump)
• Confusing errors for a confusing feature, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Simple REST api for Executing PowerShell Scripts (Steve Lee)

 

Web Development

• 3 Essential Sublime Text Plugins for Node & JavaScript developers (Scott K. Smith)
• WordPress -> Ghost -> Harp (part 2) (Remy Sharp)
• Kendo Undocumented: Variables in Templates (Adam Anderson)
• Creating a Custom WordPress Registration Form Plugin (Agbonghama Collins)
• Three steps to use jQuery UI in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Get Started Building Your Blog with Parse.js: Working with Data (Samantha Zhang)
• Web Components: A Shiny New You (Basem Emara)
• Thoughts on Pagination (Chris Coyier)
• ModSecurity Web Application Firewall on Azure Websites (Nazim Lala)
• Modern Web Best Practice: Utility Frameworks (Tyson Cadenhead)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8.1 Email Compose – What’s changed for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• ScrollToBottom Behavior for ListView in MVVM based Universal Windows apps (Marco Minerva)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,169 – Custom Panel, part I (Sean Sexton)
• How to integrate Cortana in the Menu App (Sara Silva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Church numerals, .net and working around the value restriction (Carsten König)
• Advanced Memory Dump Debugging (Alois Kraus)
• Digging into .NET Object Allocation Fundamentals (Ben M. Watson)
• Simulating media controller buttons like Play and Pause (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,193 – yield Statement and try/catch Blocks (Sean Sexton)
• .NET Guides From Beginner to Pro (Kerry Meade)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile and Predictability (James Shore)
• Scale Agile With Small-World Networks Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• How to Spot a Scrumbag (Michael Burns)
• What I hate about BDD (Dror Helper)
• Front-end Driven Applications – A New Approach to Applications (Cody Lindley)
• From Legacy Code To Testable Code–Introduction (Gil Zilberfeld)
• If you can’t estimate, who can? (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• A Search Engine in Your Pocket – Introducing dtSearch on Android (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Native Performance in a Hybrid App with Native Page Transitions (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 197: Summer Stories, C# 6, Vim and Atom, Terrible Keyboards, Poorly Aged Hipster Code, React and the Apple Watch (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Scott Koon & Kevin Dente)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 146 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 42: Kate Gregory (Shawn Wildermuth)
• CodeChat 012 – James Lau (OneNote API) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Defrag Tools #108 – Sysinternals SysMon – Mark Russinovich | Defrag Tools (Mark Russinovich, Andrew Richards & Thomas Garnier)
• RiYL Episode 073: Art Spiegelman (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Geekoween: Indy Hall + Geekadelphia’s Annual Halloween Bash @ Tmoms (Chris Urie)
• Bill Gates praises work of Imagine Cup team that developed anemia-screening app (Suzanne Choney)

 

Database

• Advanced Options For Loading Data From SQL Server With Power Query (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – UPDATE From SELECT Statement with Condition (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Installing WMF 5.0 Preview September 2014 using DSC xWindowsUpdate and xPendingReboot resources (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft confirms plans to open Fifth Avenue New York flagship store and Why Microsoft’s engineering changes will be the real Windows Threshold story (Mary Jo Foley)
• Pluralsight gets a refresh: New website, same great training (Aaron Skonnard)
• The new MSN arrives (Brian MacDonald)
• HP really will release a $199 Windows 8.1 laptop and a $99 tablet in November (John Callaham)
• 25+ apps to make your everyday life easier (Sanjay Sharma)
• O’Reilly Deal of the Day 30/Sept/2014–Best of September (Tatworth)
• How to get your podcast published (David Voyles)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, September 29, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of September 22, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1417 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 9/30/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1705 (Chris Alcock)
• Coding4Fun Third Quarter 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)

 

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