Day: January 6, 2015

Top Links

• Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits: EF7-Able Projects and Some Observations While Playing With EF7 Alpha Bits: Current vs On-Hold APIs (Julie Lerman)
• Using Cordova and Visual Studio to build iOS Mobile Apps (Rick Strahl)
• Integrating JavaScript with TypeScript (and Backbone and Knockout) (Peter Vogel)
• .NET Rocks! – The Google Cloud with Brad Abrams (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Event Delegation Performance vs. Linking Performance In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Open Source Angular Cloud Data Connector Now Available on GitHub (Eric Mittelette)
• Creating an Angular application end-2-end – Part 1 (Gabriel Schenker)
• Using HTML5 Speech Recognition and Text to Speech (Stephen Walther)
• ECMAScript 6: maps and sets (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Ajaxing for your SVG Sprite (Chris Coyier)
• A custom search command for Yelp (Glenn Block)
• It’s All About Performance (Stack Exchange)
• Everything You Need to Know About Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Part 3) (Max R. McCarty)
• Developer Reaction to Google’s OpenID Migration Varies (Patricio Robles)
• More With Arrow Functions in ES6 (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Basic Outlines and Examples ON MVVM pattern (Emiliano Musso)
• Using XAML Slider in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• Binding shapes to the Windows Phone 8.1 Here Maps control (Joost van Schaik)
• Interfacing the Novation Launchpad S with a Windows Store app (Pete Brown)
• How merge different source code generated by AppStudio (Sara Silva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Why your F# evangelism isn’t working (Eric Sink)
• Understanding symbol files and Visual Studio’s symbol settings (Andrew B Hall)
• Customizing Test Plan and Test Suite Work Items using Visual Studio 2013 and Microsoft Test Manager 2013 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Lots of VS Extensions installed? Visual Studio [2013] Auto Updater… (Greg Duncan)
• Indexing PDF in Orchard (and elsewhere.NET) (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Build & Load Test pricing changes are in effect (Brian Harry)
• Task and Await: Basic Exception Handling (Jeremy Clark)
• [Tutorial & Sample] ODataLib Custom Payload Format (Karata Liu)
• Introducing Semantic Types in .Net (Matt Perdeck)
• Adding a Relationship to the Azure Mobile Service Entity Model (Nick Randolph)
• More notes on calculating constants in SSE registers (Raymond Chen)
• Scheduling With Quartz.Net (Sacha Barber)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Resolving the conflict between software architecture and code (Simon Brown)
• Ron Jeffries on Hours Estimation (Kevin Dangoor)
• What It Takes to Develop an Agile Transformation Strategy (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Total Information Risk Management (Kay Ewbank)
• Modern Apps and Microservices (Bob Familiar)
• Why Isn’t Remote Work More Popular? (Scott Berkun)
• Stop solving problems (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Use Azure to Send Push Notifications to Visual Studio Cordova Apps (Glenn Gailey)
• The 300 ms Click Delay and iOS 8 (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 170 – “Universal Design” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Wayne Knight (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #122 – DebugDiag Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Married Gamers Episode 354: Bitwiser (Chris Brown)
• Free Video Training – Amazon Developer Day Workshop at GDC Europe (Dave Isbitski)

 

Database

• Script all Primary Keys, Unique Constraints and Foreign Keys in a SQL Server database using T-SQL (Percy Reyes)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Tables Created Last Week – DBA Tip and SQL SERVER – Schema Change Reports – SQL in Sixty Seconds #078 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Extracting Tables from PowerShell’s Invoke-WebRequest (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Healthcare and Health IT in 2015. What the world needs now is…….. simplicity (Bill Crounse)
• 24 Quick Tips to Boost Your Career as a Software Engineer, This Year (John Sonmez)
• Living with Microsoft Band Update 3 (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 5, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Top 5 MVP Monday Blogs of 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• The Morning Brew #1771 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/6/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 5th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 6th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• The Best Developer Articles of 2014 (Ryan Axford)

 

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