Day: January 7, 2015

Top Links

• Roslyn in a Nutshell (Michael Crump)
• Fixing a Dreaded Daily Scrum (David Starr)
• Update on Xamarin.iOS Unified API Release Plans (Miguel de Icaza)
• CES 2015 Day 1 roundup (Derek Kessler)

 

Web Development

• Link Function And $watch() Callback Timing In AngularJS Directives (Ben Nadel)
• JavaScript Code Coverage using Karma-Coverage w/ Grunt (Derik Whittaker)
• Using Gulp in a JavaScript Build Pipeline (John Papa)
• Selection Sort and Insertion Sort (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Indexing PDF: not so fast (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Generating GDI+ Images for the Web (Ricardo Peres)
• How to Scale SVG (Amelia Bellamy-Royds)
• IE test VMs on modern.IE get a refresh (Anton Molleda)
• Building With the Twitter API: Tweet Storms (Jeff Reifman)
• How to Provision and Deploy Multiple Websites from your Cloud Deployment Project (Roger Best)
• Exclusive: First look at Microsoft’s brand new ‘Spartan’ project for Windows 10 (Chris Smith)
• ASP.NET MVC 6 attribute routing – the [controller] and [action] tokens (Filip W.)
• PageObjects and Protractor (K. Scott Allen)
• MSDN: Building Web Apps on the MEAN Stack with OData in Microsoft Azure (Long Le)
• Using an alternate TypeScript compiler inside Visual Studio (Steve Ognibene)

 

XAML

• Using FontAwesome with WPF (Robert Muehsig)
• Using AutoHotKey.dll with C# (in a WPF application) (Iris Classon)
• Using XAML StatusBar in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• Using “AndContinue” methods in Windows Phone Store apps with MVVM (Marco Minerva)
• Selecting The Front Or Back Camera in Windows / Phone and Http Requests and POST for Windows Store Apps (Matthias Shapiro)
• Interfacing the Novation Launchpad S with a Windows Store app (Pete Brown)
• How Merge Different Source Code Generated by AppStudio (Sara Silva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• MSDN Now Includes Pluralsight Courses (Deborah Kurata)
• NetMQ : Documentation (Sacha Barber)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Using the Kanban Canvas for Driving Change (Ben Linders)
• How GitHub uses GitHub to document GitHub (Garen Torikian)
• Rewriting a Legacy App – Production Tests and Updates (Jeremy Clark)
• Why company culture matters (Keith Sparkjoy)
• Does Your Team Know What Done Is? (Leonor Ureña)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Telerik UI for Xamarin Now Supports Xamarin.Forms 1.3.0 (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Targeting Android with the C++ REST SDK (Steven Gates)
• We’ve reached the point where mobile developers shouldn’t have to think about battery usage any more (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The New Sharepoint Developer with Sahil Malik (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Happy New Year Relaunch of the SharePoint Podshow! Episode 88 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• SSW TV – The Vision of Xamarin – Miguel de Icaza (SSW Team)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Andrea Romano (Chris Hardwick)
• Episode 062 | Looking Back at 2014’s Predictions and Ahead to 2015 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 46.2 and Entreprogrammers Episode 46.1 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez)
• RiYL Episode 087: Mary Timony (Brian Heater)
• Building Big Data Apps with HBase | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Telerik Developer Experts (John Bristowe)
• Developers Going Beyond .NET (Vicky)
• NCover Webinar – Coverage Metrics That Make a Difference (NCover)

 

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 Master Data Services Add-in For Microsoft® Excel® (MS Downloads)
• Monitoring and Tuning SQL Server with SQL Diagnostic Manager (Greg Robidoux)
• Important change to VLF creation algorithm in SQL Server 2014 (Paul Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Identify and Filter In-Memory Optimized Tables – SQL in Sixty Seconds #079 (Pinal Dave)
• Execution Plans, Performance Tuning and Rum (Grant Fritchey)
• Introducing the Azure DocumentDB Java SDK (John Macintyre)

 

SharePoint

• Part 1 – SharePoint REST API Batching – Understanding Batching Requests and Part 2 – SharePoint REST API Batching – Exploring Batch Requests, Responses and Changesets (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Sample chapter: Using Windows PowerShell Remoting (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Dell’s ultra-thin Venue 8 7000 tablet is now available (Micah Singleton)
• Microsoft Band gets first official firmware/software update (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft expands Office on Android preview (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• The Best Developer Articles of 2014 (Ryan Axford)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 7th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Geek Reading January 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1456 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1772 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf