Day: October 8, 2014

Top Links

• Building an application for Amazon Fire TV with Xamarin (Kristin Marks)
• Console Improvements in the Windows 10 Technical Preview (Adam Denning)
• Creating Reusable XAML User Controls with Xamarin Forms (Josh Morales)
• Satya Nadella: Windows 10 will be able to ‘run on everything’ (John Callaham)

 

Web Development

• Testing Node.js code that requires JSON files (Bertrand LeRoy)
• What’s “Right” with AngularJS? (Dan Wahlin)
• Why Does There Have to be Something Wrong with AngularJS? (John Papa)
• Deploying Your WCF Web Service to IIS (Dominic Burford)
• Markdown 2: The Second One (Alex Kessinger)
• Why you should learn WebGL (Alex Mackey)
• MGC Spam Filtering (Igor Rondel)
• The best developer tools, now free for students (John D. Britton)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,175 – Custom Panel, part VII (Using Attached Property to Arrange) (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – ItemsSource (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Bridging between NSubstitute and FluentAssertions (Rory Primrose)
• Visual Studio CodeLens Tweets of the Day(‘ish) (Greg Duncan)
• Programming Arduino in Visual Studio with Visual Micro (Sage Franch)
• Bing Ads SDK For .NET Beta (Lucy Black)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Entity Mode Map (Ricardo Peres)
• Can You Execute Code While Waiting For A Lock? (Alois Kraus)
• SuperSocket: Making Socket Programming in .NET Simpler (Jonathan Allen)
• Standard Modern C++ in a Nutshell (Josh Reuben)
• Unboxing FP (Phillip Trelford)
• 2000 C# Things #1,199 – Equality and Inequality with Nullable Types (Sean Sexton)
• New CodeRush Plugin – SplitTag (Rory Becker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bruce Lee on Scrum and Agile (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Domain-Driven Design: The Good and The Challenging (Dino Esposito)
• The Complete Guide to Treadmill Desk Walking While Working (John Sonmez)
• Deliver More Value With PIE (Michael Burns)
• Legacy Code To Testable Code #1: Renaming (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Microspeak: All-up (Raymond Chen)
• Maturity Model for Continuous Performance Improvement (Savita Pahuja)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Force assembly linking in Xamarin.iOS projects (Corrado Cavalli)
• Creating a Cross-Platform Application Bar for Xamarin Forms with Calcium (Daniel Vaughan)
• Azure Mobile Services Beta iOS SDK Released (Donna Malayeri)
• Why iOS Developers Still Need to Know Objective-C (Michael Crump)
• NUCLiOS IGGridView: Custom Header Cell for Sorting (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Building Your First Swift App Video (Swift Team)
• Updated Cross-Platform Tools in Google Play Game Services (Ben Frenkel)
• Splunk MINT—A fresh approach to mobile analytics (Bill Emmett)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Battling Technical Debt while Keeping the Lights On with Jim Holmes (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SSW TV – Xamarin University – How it Works with Glen Stephens & Alec Tucker (SSW Team)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 050 | Context Sensitive Help Options in Office 365 and SharePoint (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Amp Hour #219 – Get Smart About Automation – Caducous Cyborg Concerns (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk SoundBite: Is Earth Weightless? (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• CodeTV – Top Ten Security Tips Every Developer Must Know (CodeTV)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Vladimir Šor (Alec Noller)

 

Database

• Running SQL Server Databases in the Amazon Cloud – RDS Performance Monitoring (Part 4) (Sadequl Hussain)
• Blog Post: Required reading before upgrading SQL Server. (Kenneth Fisher)
• SQL SERVER – Reset the Identity SEED After ROLLBACK or ERROR (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.0–Release Candidate & Go Live (Oren Eini)
• Creating Histograms With Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Conditional Content in SharePoint Markup (Ricardo Peres)

 

Miscellaneous

• CEO Nadella to talk up what’s next for Microsoft’s cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Creating training virtual machines in Azure (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Getting value from your data just got really fast. Introducing Splunk Enterprise & Hunk 6.2 (Matt Davies)
• Introducing OneNote class notebooks—a flexible digital framework for teaching and learning (OneNote Team)
• New Lumia ringtones available on SoundCloud, you can download for free (Sam Sabri)
• O’Reilly Deal of the Day 8/Oct/2014 – Learning Chef (Tatworth)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, October 7, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 7, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1420 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1711 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 8, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/8/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 7 Oct 2014 (Jax)

 

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