Day: March 2, 2015

Top Links

•  Stephen Elop on new Lumia phones, super-lightweight universal keyboard, new offering with AT&T (Jennifer Chen)
•  A Look at ASP.NET 5: Part 2 – Startup (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Updates to ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators for beta 3 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Microsoft confirms that a Windows Phone flagship won’t arrive until Windows 10 ‘is ready’ (Harish Jonnalagadda)

 

Web Development

• HTML6 Ideas and HTML.Next (Andrey Prikaznov)
• Optimizing Responsive Design Using RESS with ASP.Net Web Forms (Ed Charbeneau)
• WebStorm 10 EAP, 140.2753: V8 profiling, TypeScript 1.4 and built-in TypeScript compiler (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Bootstrap for ASP.NET MVC Review (Joe Guadagno)
• Building a DataGrid using HTML, jQuery, Knockout.js and ASP.NET MVC & WEB API (Mahesh Sabnis)
• PhpStorm 9 Early Access Program Started (Mikhail Vink)
• What’s in a DecentCMS site’s folder? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Understanding Access Tokens in the Azure AD & Office 365 API Authentication Dance and Setup Node.js on Raspberry Pi 2 B (Andrew Connell)
• Introducing Azure for Developers (Adam Anderson)
• One week using Octopus Deploy (Gregor Suttie)
• Connecting To LightSwitch OData From An Outside Application (Michael Washington)

 

XAML

• Display HTML in WPF and CefSharp Tutorial Step 1 of n (Dirkster99)
• WPF Layout: Margins (Mahesh Chand)
• WPF Brushes – Tiled Visuals (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Lambda methods and implicit context (Oren Eini)
• Pro NuGet Book Review (Joe Guadagno)
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #4 (Paul Mooney)
• Visual Studio Online for Application Lifecycle Management (Jeremy Likness)
• PowerForms update – 0.3.4.16609 (Mitul Suthar)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Is An Agile Team and How Do You Form Them? and Bend the Spoon (Mike Cottmeyer)
• “Making Sense of #NoEstimates”–On Agile Connection (Gil Zilberfeld)
• More money, more problems (Eric Brechner)
• Build Command with Auditory Feedback (Jason Jarrett)
• Being More Productive with Todoist (Joe Guadagno)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation: Chapter Two (Jim Holmes)
• Fueling Delivery Teams (Rick Austin)
• 6 things everyone in tech should do before a meeting (Stacy Warden)
• Code Coverage with NCover and UFT / QTP (Kerry Meade)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova app in Visual Studio error with Windows Store deploy/debug: certificate specified has expired (Iris Classon)
• Swift from Scratch: Delegation and Properties (Bart Jacobs)
• Article: Mobile App Testing – The Secret to the Perfect App (Matt McComb)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 355: The Flock team on Flock (David Giard)
• MNR 536: PAX East Prep and we go a bit Old School (Larry Hyrb)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya Grigorik (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Get Up And Code 080: Overcoming Your Limiting Beliefs (Douglas Coleman)
• Glance and Go Radio 64 – The One With Marti (Andrew & Vernon)
• TWC9: Kinect, MWC, GDC, History of Xbox Live, Connect Live, Hololens and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Ben Lower)
• The Web Ahead 97: Archiving The Internet with Jason Scott (Jen Simmons)
• Microsoft @MWC 2015: Webcast replay (Luke)
• StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live! Evolution with Richard Dawkins (Part 1) (Neil de Grass Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Envisioning the future of work, and life, in 5-10 years (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

•  Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ricardo Serradas (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Interview: Mathias Brandewinder on F# for Data Science (Mathias Brandewinder)
• Renewed for the Microsoft Regional Director program (Bill Wagner)
• DirectX 12 at GDC 2015 (Matt Sandy)
• .NET Programmers Across the Globe (Vicky)

 

Database

• How to use a multi valued comma delimited input parameter for an SSRS report (Ghanesh Prasad)
• What You Need to Set Up the SSAS Connector in the Power BI Preview (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Script to Convert Date to Julian Dates and Interview Question of the Week #008 – Is GO T-SQL Statement? (Pinal Dave)
• Document Storage Gymnastics with Postgres (Rob Conery)

 

PowerShell

• Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 5 (Bartek Bielawski)
• Functional Levels and PowerShell (Dan Newton)
• Introducing Get-AzureVMDscExtensionStatus cmdlet for Azure Powershell DSC Extension (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• VLC for Windows RT is finally available for Surface RT and Surface 2 users (John Callaham)
• The Microsoft Surface Hub in all its glory (Richard Devine)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 27, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #157 (Pedro Botelho)
• Coding4Fun February 2015 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: February 23 – March 1st, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Daily News Digest 2/27/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1810 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #96 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 26th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 27th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Links of the month (February Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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