Day: October 6, 2014

Top Links

• Hunting for Unoptimized Images with Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)
• Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, Preview Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Confusing errors for a confusing feature, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Favorite Visual Studio Extensions (Scott Dorman)

 

Web Development

• Exciting Things About ASP.NET vNext Series: The Ultimate Guide and Debugging ASP.NET vNext Beta Builds with Visual Studio 14 CTP 3 (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• How to get the Current Controller Name, Action, or ID in ASP.NET MVC (John Bubriski)
• Cleaning up after yourself in Knockout.js (Ryan Niemeyer)
• You Have To Explicitly End Streams After Pipes Break In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Some challenges with Node.js on Windows (Bertrand LeRoy)
• WordPress Error Handling with WP_Error Class I (Agbonghama Collins)
• Installing Running ASP.NET vNext (Alpha 3) on Ubuntu Linux with Mono 3.8for real (Christian Weyer)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Dealing with Dependencies (David Paquette)
• Setting Up node.js with Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web (Doug Lampe)
• AngularJS Tip: Using a Filter with ngClass (Jeremy Likness)
• JavaScript unit testing: guiding principles and common excuses (Matt Harrington)
• Learn How to Create a Classic 2D RPG Using HTML5 (Mickey MacDonald)
• Migrating Your Enterprise App (And It’s Relational Model) to the Cloud – A Pragmatic Approach (Josh Lane)
• Twitatron: Building a production web app with Node (Scott K. Smith)
• Bootstrap Dropdown Menus Enhancement (jQuery Rain)
• ECMAScript 6 promises (2/2): the API (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Blame The Meta Keyword Tag (Duane Forrester)
• Rolling Your Own Framework: A Practical Example (Evgeny Poberezkin)
• Authentication, Authorization and OWIN – Who Moved My Cheese? (Jeffrey Fritz)
• A chatroom for all! Part 5 – Connecting the Chatroom with WebSockets (Rami Sayar)
• Can you trust your browser extensions? Exploring an ad-injecting chrome extension (Scott Hanselman)
• Building an Instagram Based Portfolio With Bootstrap (Steve Everett)
• Announcing Simple.OData.Client 4.0: support for OData V4 and JSON payload (vagifabilov)
• Building OS X Apps with JavaScript (Tyler Gaw)

 

XAML

• Helper class to handle In-App-Products (IAP) licenses on Windows Phone (SL) (Marco Siccardi)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,173 – Custom Panel, part V (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – MultiBindings (Richard Carr)
• Detecting orientation in Universal apps (Windows & Phone 8.1) (Andreas Hammar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Read an Event Store stream as a sequence of slices using F# (Jef Claes)
• CppDepend now Supports C and C++14 (Jonathan Allen)
• AutoUpdater.NET: An Easy to Use Alternative to ClickOnce (Jonathan Allen)
• Returning multiple values from a method (Paras Wadehra)
• Visual Gesture Builder – Kinect 4 Windows v2 (Peter Daukintis)
• Entity Framework 6 and Collections With DDD (Raffaele Garofalo)
• Why is 0x00400000 the default base address for an executable? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,197 – Iterator Can Generate Enumerable of Infinite Length (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making System Interventions with Kanban Thinking (Karl Scotland)
• Scrumdamentals 101: Developers (Michael Burns)
• The Greenfield to Brownfield Transition (Alexandre Brisebois)
• The Business Value of Short Branches (Dru Sellers)
• The Power of the Team (Vicky)
• Releasing Update 4 for Indigo Studio (v3) (George Abraham)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Preview: DataGrid for Xamarin.Forms (Eric Sink)
• Tips for Error Handling with Android Wear APIs (Wayne Piekarski)
• Beginner’s Guide to Android Services and Beginner’s Guide to Android Animation/Graphics (Peter Leow)
• NUCLIOS IGGridView: DataSourceHelpers (Stephen Zaharuk)
• WinJS – Adding a reference to an existing Universal shared project from your Windows Store / Windows Phone app (Davide Zordan)
• UITableViewCell, auto layout, and accessoryType (Steve Tibbett)
• PhoneGap GUI – R&D into developing a GUI for PhoneGap CLI (Herm Wong)
• Implementing the Presentation Model Pattern in Swift (Simon Gladman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 285 – PowerScripting Podcast – Simon May from Microsoft (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 147 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• SSW TV – Project Management with Visual Studio Online | Dev Superpowers Episode 5 (SSW Team)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rose McGowan (Chris Hardwick)
• Episode 156: Virtual Networks with Narayan Annamalai | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Hrvoje Benko on Bringing Your Living Spaces To Life with Augmented Reality | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• Episode #214: Swift and Objective-C: Better Together (Peter Shearer)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Pseudoscience (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Windows 10, drones and the future of shopping (Todd Bishop)
• Video: Getting Started with Visual Studio Online (Esteban Garcia)
• JeremyBytes – C# Generics – Part 5: Generic Constraints & “default” (Jeremy Clark)

 

Community / Events

• Download the Xamarin Evolve Conference App! (James Montemagno)
• Xamarin Evolve 2014 Speaker Spotlight: Brett Duncavage (Joseph Hill)
• Microsoft: 29 percent of our global workforce is now women (Mary Jo Foley)
• The channel9 game blog – Microsoft and indies and Two new gaming courses on MVA (David Voyles)

 

Database

• Cool NoSQL on Azure with DocumentDB (Jan Hentschel)
• SQL SERVER – How to Find Running Total in SQL Server and SQL SERVER – How to Catch Errors While Inserting Values in Table and MySQL – How to Create a Distributed Relational SQL Database (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Building Netcat with PowerShell (Jason Stangroome)
• Written in PowerShell, a HTTP API for Executing PowerShell Scripts (Jonathan Allen)
• PowerShell 5.0: Debugging Background Jobs (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft said to be planning Surface 3 and Surface mini launch in coming weeks (Andy Weir)
• Microsoft now pushing Lumia Cyan to even more Preview for Developer phones (Daniel Rubino)
• Destiny – Xbox One (Jason Weisberger)
• Good day for Satya Nadella: When Bill Gates is your mentor, this is what you want to hear (Rachel Lerman)
• Newly Discovered ‘iWorm’ Malware Can Control Macs Via Reddit, More Than 17K Systems Affected (Kukil Bora)
• How would you sell Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, October 3, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 3, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #157 (Frank)
• Collective #136 (Mary Lou)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 6, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/6/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1708 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (9/22-9/28) (Dara Monasch)
• Reblog: September 26 to October 2 (Jason Strate)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #76 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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