Day: March 5, 2015

Top Links

• scriptcs – Introduces the ability to author, package, and consume Script Libraries (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft launches Xbox One SDK to let any developer build apps for its console (Tom Warren)
• Why Johnny Can’t do Test Driven Development (Dave M. Bush)
• Designing iOS apps inside Visual Studio with Xamarin | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• When Do You Need To Compile A Directive In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Control Builder Interceptors (Ricardo Peres)
• Carousel-3d : jQuery plugin 3D Carousel Slider (jQuery Rain)
• Quantity Queries for CSS and I like how percentage background-position works (Chris Coyier)
• Video : Create basic AngularJS custom directive in 5 minutes (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Create a Simple Popup Window HTML5 Dialog Tag (Learning JQuery)
• How to test AngularJS SVG directives (Mike Godfrey)
• Looking at the Different OAuth2 Flows Supported in AzureAD for Office 365 APIs and Azure AD, OAuth2 & OpenID Connect (Andrew Connell)
• Creating a new DecentCMS content item (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Announcing the Linux and Open-Source Computing Page (Karthika Muthuramu)
• Free download: 450 outline icons (Webdesigner Depot Staff)

 

XAML

• WPF: Using PasswordBox in MVVM (Brian Noyes)
• Display HTML in WPF and CefSharp Tutorial Part 1 (Dirkster99)
• Internet Connection Speed API for Windows 8.x, Windows Phone 8.x (Greg Duncan)
• Creating Your First Universal Windows App (Vivek Maskara)
• Using ImportMany For Lazy Initialisation With Reactive Extensions (RX) and WPF/Prism (Jason Hales)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Restsharp + WebAPI + F# (Carsten Koenig)
• Moving TFS to cloud cadence and Visual Studio Online (Buck Hodges)
• Holographic Window using Kinect V2 (Greg Duncan)
• Create a Build vNext build definition (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why are the dimensions of a maximized window larger than the monitor? (Raymond Chen)
• Async Await By Example – Part 1 (Jason Hales)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Moving ahead from Agile Testing 2.0 (Anand Bagmar)
• Unit Testing and Memory Profiling: Can They Be Combined? (Alexey Totin)
• When Will We Complete Our Agile Transformation? (Derek Huether)
• How To Simplify the Dreaded Task of Documentation Publishing with GitHub Pages (Terrence Dorsey)
• How eye scanning impacts visual hierarchy in UX design (Jerry Cao)
• Create Pull Requests in GitHub for Windows (Josh Vera)
• Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 1, Principles (Matthew Adams)
• How CI removes the pain (Neal Ford)
• Initiate a Load Test from Hosted Build work-around (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Tips: Faster Maps with Google Maps Lite (James Montemagno)
• Cordova and Visual Studio CODE Magazine Article (Rick Strahl)
• Implementing React.js in Swift (Colin Eberhardt)
• Security Risks Associated with Native Packagers (Nick Harlow)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Secure Account Management with Troy Hunt (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 149 JSJ Passenger Enterprise with Node.js with Hongli Lai and Tinco Andringa (Charles Max Wood & Jamison Dance)
• Lightweight software architecture – an interview with Fog Creek (Gareth Wilson)
• The Married Gamers Episode 361: Ubisofties (Chris Brown)
• The Amp Hour #239 – An Interview with Colin O’Flynn – Aspirated Adamantine Attacks (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Microsoft Developer (Denis KT)
• The Mobile Tech Addicts Show 230 : MWC 2015 (Gareth Myles)
• Making Your First App with the Intel® XDK (M. Hollenbeck)
• The Future of Gaming Across the Microsoft Ecosystem | GDC 2015 (Phil Spencer)
• RunAs Radio Show #410 – Free Dignostics Tools with Mike O’Neill (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)

 

Community / Events

• Party Celebrates 3 Years of Raspberry Pi (Dale Dougherty)
• What Microsoft revealed about Xbox and Windows 10 today at GDC 2015 (Daniel Rubino)
• Geek of the Week: Pam Selle, Coder, Writer, Speaker (Nicole Kline)
• Philly Takes PAX East by Storm (Robby Perdue)

 

Database

• Export SQL Server Data with Integration Services to a Mainframe (Daniel Farina )
• SQL SERVER – Using Raw Files in SSIS – Notes from the Field #070 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Test for a warning message using Pester (Jamie Thomson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft is bringing Xbox games to its futuristic HoloLens headset (Chris Welch)
• 6 must-read career books by women (Stacy Warden)
• Is Microsoft Trying to Take Over Android? (Paul Ballard)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 4, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 3/5/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1813 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 4th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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