Day: November 21, 2014

Top Links

• PostSharp 4.1 Preview 1: Support for Xamarin & Visual Studio 2015 (Gael Fraiteur)
• New Features in C# 6 (Mads Torgersen)
• One Week of Open Source (Immo Landwerth)
• Real-Time Code Iteration with Sketches (Mike Bluestein)

 

Web Development

• Using Plupload With Amazon S3 And Imgix In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Video: Functions in JavaScript and Video: Variables in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Ember.js – Programmatically Bind From a Handlebars Helper (Paul Cowan)
• Mountable.js : JSON content into a HTML table using jQuery and Justified.js : jQuery Plugin to create Justified Image Gallery (jQuery Rain)
• The JavaScript Overload and Micro Frameworks (Dino Esposito)
• Using the AngularJS $http Service inside a Kendo UI DataSource (Jonathan Tower)
• Introduction to JavaScript: Day 1 (Jeetendra Gund)
• PhpStorm 8.0.2 RC3 139.496 (Mikhail Vink)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Updating jQuery (Simon Timms)
• Tagging a fake Orchard content item (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Microsoft Announces OneNote Search API Beta Release (Eric Carter)
• Control Data Access in Azure Storage Services with Shared Access Signatures (Max R. McCarty)
• Azure : Blob Storage / Retrieval (Sacha Barber)
• Modern Debugging Experience: Part 2 (Umar Hansa)

 

XAML

• Blend Moves Closer to Visual Studio (Jeff Martin)
• WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Selection (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Special Offers from Visual Studio Partners (Brian Harry)
• Hey, there’s a Macro in my Visual Studio! (Well, there will be if you install this extension…) and Windows “Command Prompt Here” Generator – Now with VS2015 Support (Greg Duncan)
• ReSharper and Visual Studio: Where do We Stand (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Azure Resource Manager 2.5 for Visual Studio (Roger Best)
• Code Connect for Visual Studio 2015 (Josh Varty)
• Registering SQL Server Built-in Functions to Entity Framework Code First (Ricard Peres)
• Retrieving Multiple RecordSets in a Single Trip to the Database (Peter Vogel)
• Digging Into .NET Loop Performance, Bounds-checking, Iteration, and Unrolling (Ben M. Watson)
• Apps for Office: Building a Task Pane App (Josh Morales)
• GitLink – a port of SourceLink with a Command Line (Cameron Taggart)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Integration and Component tests for Microservices (Martin Fowler)
• Does Agile require cultural change? (Allan Kelly)
• CQRS as a Style of Thinking (Jan Stenberg)
• Becoming Software Craftsmen (Ben Linders)
• How Do You Estimate What You Don’t Know? (John Sonmez)
• The Fastest Way to Center Layers in Photoshop (Tom Kenny)
• Is this technology worth learning? (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Epic Saga Chapter 7: Wherein I Break Down and Go Hunting for an Android Device that Runs KitKat (Glenn Gailey)
• Expired certificate error with Cordova building for Windows (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Much Ado About Hamburger Icons (Burke Holland)
• Improving your ANGLE app’s performance: the basics and How to Install Cocos2d-x to Build Windows Store Apps (Eric Mittelette)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 022 with Suman Chakrabarti on Dev PnP (Office Dev)
• Hanselminutes – The Other Side of Diversity with Erica Joy (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! #1064 – Two Space Accidents in a Week Geek Out! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 017 AiA AtScript with Miško Heverly (John Papa)
• Windows Weekly 389: OneDrive Was My Ikea (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 215: Gang of Four – 20 Years Later (SE-Radio Team)
• SQL Server Radio Show 10 – Coolest Thing Ever (Matan Yungman)

 

Community / Events

• MVP Perspective – Connect () (MVP Award Program)
• Help shape the Microsoft Ignite event (Office Team)

 

Database

• Nonclustered indexes require the “lookup” key in the b-tree when? (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Common Sense Data Security – Notes from the Field #055 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.0 Release date: 25 Nov, 2014 (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• One Line PowerShell Solutions To Common SQL Server DBA Tasks (Jeffery Yao)
• PowerShell DSC Azure Extension 1.5 is now available (PowerShell Team)
• Using WMI Log File Event Consumer DSC resource (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone predicted to become the second popular OS for businesses by the end of 2016 (Sean Cameron)
• Microsoft wants a bigger cut of the revenue from Windows developers (Chuong H. Nguyen)
• Windows 10 will allow businesses to buy Windows Store apps in bulk (John Callaham)
• Yahoo! / Mozilla search partnership: What’s Marissa Mayer up to? (Kip Kniskern)
• “Have I been pwned?” – now with RSS! (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, November 20, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 20, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1436 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/21/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1742 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
• NEWS: Windows Phone in the News for 11/20/14 (Kurt Shintaku)

 

The Geek Shelf