Month: September 2014

Top Links

• TWC9: WinJS 3.0, Dev Center Lifetime Registration, the .NET Universe Poster and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• JavaScript for OS X Automation by Example (Michael Crump)
• Ultimate Guide & FAQ to Setting Up a Windows Phone Development Environment (Nick Landry)
• Now available Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 ALM Virtual Machine and how to connect it to Visual Studio Online (Charles Sterling)

Web Development

• Bind Check Boxes in MVC and Bind Check Boxes to a Collection in MVC (Paul Sheriff)
• TextTailor.js : jQuery Responsive Text Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• Using and Over Abusing CSS (Catalin Red)
• Adding a TimePicker to Kendo UI Grid Date Columns (Rachel Hagerman)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Evaluating the Code (Simon Timms)
• Responsive Web Design: The Downsides (Dino Esposito)
• A chatroom for all! Part 3 – Building a Backend with Node, Mongo and Socket.IO (Rami Sayar)
• ‘Reactive’ Development Turns 2.0 (Timothy)
• Dropbox Announces New Features In Its Datastore API (Candice McMillan)

XAML

• Win2D: Accelerated 2D Graphics for C# But Not WPF (Jeff Martin)
• Windows 8 Xaml Behaviors on Github w/ Video (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Fortumo teams up with AdDuplex for new Windows Phone developer incentive program (John Callaham)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,163 – Make an Image Clickable with a Control Template (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – Value Converters (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Now Available: Update 3 refresh of Visual Studio 2013 ALM Virtual Machine (Brian Keller)
• C# 6.0 What’s New (Filip Ekberg)
• ALM with TFS: From the Drawing Board to the Cloud (Jeremy Likness)
• Generating F# code using its AST (Cameron Taggart)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Mouse, Pen, Fingers, Hands (Mike Taulty)
• Saving and Restoring a Form’s Window Position (Jonathan Wood)
• Get dotMemory 4.1 Beta (Olga Kosyreva)
• FsiBot: Assorted Tweets (Phillip Trelford)
• I marked my parameter as [optional], so why do I get an RPC error when I pass NULL? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,187 – Using a Lambda Expression When Adding to an Invocation List (Sean Sexton)
• Use Types from a Project without Referencing It (Steve Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Estimation – The Guessing Game (Matt Davey)
• Scrumdamentals 101: Product Owner and Patches for Pirate Day (Michael Burns)
• Release Planes versus Release Trains (Derek Huether)
• Change is Learning: No Silver Bullets or Quick Fixes (Johanna Rothman)
• Using git to version stamp chef artifacts (Matt Wrock)
• The Measure Of Success (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Don’t chase quantity (Wes McClure)
• ALM Rangers Triage #9 – the first of the rolling triages (Willy-P. Schaub)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Add Some Punch to Your Apps with iOS 8 (Bryan Costanich)
• Accessing Native Features with Xamarin.Forms (Derek Jensen)
• Managed Galileo Arduino-ish Stuff (Jeremiah Morrill)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 523: Minecraft, Destiny and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 162 – “Choke Hold” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Windows Weekly 380: Call of Minecraft and What the Tech 227: Paul Goes Mac (Paul Thurrott)
• Episode 154: DocDB with Ryan CrawCour | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #211: Intro to Swift Programming – Part 2 and Episode #212: Intro to Swift Programming – Part 2b (Peter Shearer)
• StarTalk Radio – X-Prize – Beyond Space (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Gillmor Gang: Slight of Hand (Steve Gillmor)
• GeekWire Radio: The connected car, and the future of your dashboard (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

• Save The Date: Philadelphia Open Studio Tours Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary October 11-12 And October 25-26 With Free Tours Of 300+ Philadelphia Art Studios (Kristina Jenkins)
• Dropbox Joins Xamarin Evolve 2014 (Jo Ann Buckner)
• F#unctional Londoners 2014 (Phillip Trelford)
• MSR Mountain View and Kinect (James Ashley)

Database

• Change All Computed Columns to Persisted in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• Tuning SQL Server Code with T-SQL Commands (Ben Snaidero)
• What is a project? (10 days of SSDT – Day 3) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Connecting to Azure Storage with SSMS and SQL SERVER – A Question on SSMS Prompt about Connect to Server and SQL SERVER – SSMS: Performance Dashboard Installation and Configuration (Pinal Dave)
• Resolving SSDT-BI Installation with IsVisualStudio2012ProInstalled() error (Tim Mitchell)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0: SQL Replication and What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Operations–the pretty pictures tour and What is new in RavenDB 3.0: Operations–production view (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• MongoDb BinData to Guid (UUID) options (shell, PowerShell & GUI tools: MongoVue, RoboMongo) (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous

• Inside the Wolfram Language (Bashyal)
• Cortana gets another feature, word definitions (Brad Sams)
• Cradle to Coder: It’s a Kid Coder Week – Post three, Maker Kids! (Greg Duncan)
• Students Save 75% on a Yearly Tuts+ Subscription (Nicole Bowes)
• Small Basic – Shortcuts (Nonki Takahashi)
• Bing makes it easier to find information about sexual assault prevention, resources (Suzanne Choney)
• Ex-Amazon payments vet leaves to ‘drive the future of commerce at Microsoft’ (Taylor Soper)
• Windows 9 build 9841 screenshots and details leak (Wayne Williams)
• Windows Technical Preview to arrive early October, not September 30th (Zac Bowden)
• Hey iPhone Users…You Can Now Get 30 GB of Free Storage with OneDrive! (Douglas Pearce)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, September 19, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 19, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #74 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1699 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 22, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #155 (Frank)
• Reblog: September 12 to September 18 (Jason Strate)
• Friday Links #321 (Mike Ward)

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