Day: March 4, 2015

Top Links

• Aurelia – Status – March 2015 (Rob Eisenberg)
• How to run ASP.NET 5 Beta 3 or GoLang on a Raspberry Pi 2 (Scott Hanselman)
• ?. in C#: When properties might be null (Bill Wagner)
• Make Debugging Faster with Visual Studio (Andrew B. Hall)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Control Builders (Ricardo Peres)
• Carousel-3d : jQuery plugin 3D Carousel Slider (jQuery Rain)
• No promises: asynchronous JavaScript with only generators (Axel Rauschmayer)
• AngularJS and KendoUI – You’re Questions Answered (Cody Lindley)
• ASP.NET5 Advances in VS2015 CTP6 (Jeff Martin)
• Improving HTML Accessibility with Visual Studio Extensions (Jeff Petty)
• Using Grunt, Gulp and Bower in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 (Ravi Kiran)
• Adding settings to a DecentCMS theme (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Visual Website Optimizer: World’s Easiest A/B Testing Tool (Anthony)
• Extending Endjin.Retry with custom Retry Policies (Howard van Rooijen)
• Azure API Management Part 2: Safeguarding Your API (Stuart Leeks)
• Dropbox Sparks Controversy With API Design Decision (Patricio Robles)
• Bringing Native Games to the Web is About to get a Whole Lot Easier and Unity 5 Ships and Brings One Click WebGL Export to Legions of Game Developers (Mozilla)

 

XAML

• Communication and Synchronization using Background Tasks with Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• understanding Monoids using F# (Carsten Koenig)
• Introducing the Universal CRT (James McNellis)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Library patterns: Why frameworks are evil (Tomas Petricek)
• Agile Pick n’ Mix (Chris Roberts)
• Yuval Yeret talks about the Synergies of Kanban and Devops (Shane Hastie)
• Less is more when it comes to team size (Aaron Skonnard)
• 101 Proven Practices for Focus (JD Meier)
• Catch – multi-paradigm automated test framework for C++ (Dror Helper)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Sharing Data and Models in Software Engineering – $44.98 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Pros and Cons of some Android frameworks (Carl-Emil Kjellstrand)
• Xamarin joins Airwatch, Box and Salesforce in ACE Initiative (Jo Ann Buckner)
• Charting Weather Observations with Xamarin forms Syncfusion Essential Studio (Jonathan Yates)
• UI for Xamarin Q1 2015 is Here, Featuring ListView, SideDrawer and DataSource Wrappers (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Screens, Sensors and Engines (James Ashley)
• Microsoft Band Sensors – Accelerometer & Gyroscope (Bary Nusz)
• Swifter Swift Image Processing With GPUImage (Simon Gladman)
• First impression of Microsoft Band developing (Robert Hedgate)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mobile Testing Strategies with Karen Johnson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• CppCast Episode 1 – Jon Kalb loves the C++ Community (Rob Irving)
• SSW TV – Using TypeScript with AngularJS | Justin Schwartzenberger (SSW Team)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Short Pants (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 069 | Catching up on the Latest Microsoft Azure News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Functional Geekery Episode 20 – Eric B. Merritt (Steven Proctor)
• Episode 4: Illyriad Games’ James Niesewand, CEO and Founder | Level Up (Greg Duncan & Soumow)
• Ping 238: Microsoft Band update, experimental apps, Johnnie Walker gets smart | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

 

Community / Events

• Article: Interview with Mike McQuaid about Git in Practice (Alex Blewitt)
• CodeConf is Coming to Music City (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• Save $50 USD on TelerikNext by using Promo Code CRUMP (Michael Crump)
• Interview with Rob Tiffany (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• SQL Server Query Performance After Index Maintenance for Reorganization vs Rebuild Operations (Ben Snaidero)
• Make Network Path Visible For SQL Server Backup and Restore from within SSMS (Ahmad Yaseen)
• MySQL EXISTS() Operator Returns True Or False (Ben Nadel)
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Controlling Report Page Breaks (Scott Murray)
• How to Measure SQL Server Workloads: Wait Time per Core per Second (Brent Ozar)
• Submit Your Feedback On BI Features In SQL Server V.Next (Chris Webb)
• How to Fix Latch Problems when Working with Ascending Keys in SQL Server (Matan Yungman)
• SQL SERVER – Database Stuck in “In Recovery” Mode After Restart (Pinal Dave)
• The Top 3 Mistakes T-SQL Developers Make (Doug Lane)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013: Active Directory Import and known behaviors (Satheesh Palanisamy)

 

PowerShell

• Executing scripts on multiple servers by SQL Server version and edition using PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Keeping Your Next Developer Job (Peter Vogel)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 3, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1482 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1812 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 3/4/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 3rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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