Top Links
- MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub (Rich Lander)
- Aurelia & Angular 2.0 Code Side by Side – Part 2 (Rob Eisenberg)
- Announcing the Splunk Developer Guidance (Grigori Melnik)
- Microsoft Band SDK + Xamarin (Craig Dunn)
Web Development
- Large JavaScript Frameworks Are Like Fast Food Restaurants (Chris Love)
- Rendering engine updates in March for the Windows 10 Technical Preview (Kyle Pflug)
- Simulating Network Latency In AngularJS With $http Interceptors And $timeout and ng-Template Requests Are Affected By $http Interceptors In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
- Which Angular Version Should You Learn? (Aaron Marisi)
- Is Separating HTML and JavaScript Harmful? (Cory House)
- New JavaScript techniques for rapid page loads (Marja Hölttä & Daniel Vogelheim)
- ASP.NET MVC Model Testing using NUnit and MOQ (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Using classic ADO.NET in ASP.NET 5 (Radenko Zec)
- Membership In a Box with PG-Auth (Rob Conery)
- Pluralization for JavaScript (Tingan Ho)
- DecentCMS module manifests and Writing a DecentCMS service (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Using docker at home (Denis Gladkikh)
- Azure Persistence for Developers (Adam Anderson)
- Amazingly Useful Chrome Developer Tips: #1 Inspecting dynamically created DOM elements (Alice Waddicor)
- Left Half and Right Half Layout – Many Different Ways (Geoff Graham)
- Docker Tutorial 1 – Installing Docker (John Willis)
- Announcing Azure Media Services integration with Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) (Manling Zhang)
- Running Katana (Mariange Marcano)
- Some More Inspiration for Text Input Effects (Mary Lou)
- Announcing Azure ExpressRoute connectivity to Office 365 (Julia White)
- Using a different New Relic application name per environment with Azure Cloud Services (Richard Kerslake)
- App Development using the Office 365 API – Part 1 (Senthil Kumar)
- Angular Basics Book (Chris Smith)
- Waiting for gulp Tasks To Finish in Visual Studio (David Paquette)
XAML
- Get to know C# and XAML by creating a Windows game (Athima Chansanchai)
- Go Xaml and ditch that code. (Jonathan Yates)
- It’s taken me 5 years to come to this realization about Windows Phone apps (Matt Lacey)
- Questions??? Answers: When will you shift your focus to developing strictly for Windows 10? (Atley Hunter)
- Develop Windows universal apps rapidly with the power of dynamic design time sample data (Lars-Håkan Jönsson)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Creating a Custom ETW EventSource for Debugging High-Performance Code in C# (Aaron Stannard)
- Visual Studio Tips (Ricardo Peres)
- Exploring .NET Core with ReSharper Ultimate (Matt Ellis)
- Getting wooed by F# (SneakyPeet)
- LLBLGen Pro v5.0 CTP 1 released! (Frans Bouma)
- JustMock is Getting a Facelift (Iana Tsolova)
- Using PVS to Find Bugs in .NET Core (Jonathan Allen)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- New book: Agile Project Management with Kanban (Kim Spilker)
- Overcoming Challenges of Agile Business Intelligence (Savita Pahuja)
- Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation Series: Chapter Five (Antonia Bozhkova)
- Creativity and Testing: Do They Go Together? (Ben Linders)
- Splunk MINT – Enhance Operational Intelligence with Mobile Data (Bill Emmett)
- Premature Scalability and the Root of All Evil (Dino Esposito)
- The Power of Procrastination (James Whittaker)
- Working from Home and Walking to Work: Surviving Remote Work (James Chambers)
- More Ways to Visualize Your Project Portfolio (Johanna Rothman)
- Definition of Done on the Boards – how, and my thoughts on why (Matteo Emili)
- Estimates and Our Brain (Jessica Kerr)
- A software engineers role traversal (Meghan Blanchette)
- Microspeak: Headcount, req, and related personnel terms (Raymond Chen)
- The five things successful people do in the morning (Rhea)
- Software should make recommendations to power users (Wes Higbee)
- GitHub – PDF Viewing (Mike Skalnik)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Android Parallax Made Easy (James Montemagno)
- Android Developer Story: Outfit7 — Building an entertainment company with Google (Leticia Lago)
- Microsoft is making a ROM that allows Android smartphones to run Windows 10 for phones (Harish Jonnalagadda)
- Xamarin.Forms: Segmented Control (Jesse Liberty)
- Localizing an iOS Application in Xcode 6 (Ryan Hodson)
- New Playgrounds Part 2 – Sources (Swift Team)
- Creating Better User Experiences on Google Play (Eunice Kim)
- Frolic2D Game Framework Reboot (Bill Reiss)
- Microsoft Band SDK Now Available (Matthew Leibowitz)
- Build Your First Google Wear App (Michael Crump)
- Pragmatic IoT on Azure Part 1: Introduction and Pragmatic IoT on Azure Part 2: Ingest (Rick Garibay)
- Azure Mobile Services for .Net Backend and Azure Mobile Services: How to change the database (Sara Silva)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Cross Platform Development with Marc Hoffman and .NET Rocks! – Space-Based Power Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Video: Getting started with Backlogs in Visual Studio Online (Esteban Garcia)
- SSW TV – Kendo UI with AngularJS with John Bristowe (SSW Team)
- 151 JSJ Getting Started with a Career in Web Development with Tyler McGinnis (Joe Eames, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
- AAWP Insight #131: Lumia 940, Microsoft Band, app selection (Rafe Blandford)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 071 | Office 365, Azure & Google Cloud News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
- RunAs Radio – How the Cloud Evolved Exchange with Tony Redmond (Richard Campbell)
- Countdown To Ignite: The One About Breaking In Shoes Now, Wrigley Field, Navy Pier and Buddy Guy’s Legends | Microsoft Ignite Countdown (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin McKinnon)
- The Mobile Tech Addicts Show 232 : All hands on the One (Gareth Myles)
- RiYL Episode 097: Alex Winter (Brian Heater)
- Java SDK for DocumentDB | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 223: Joram Barrez on the Activiti Business Process Management Platform (SE-Radio Team)
- SQL Unplugged Live Episode 3 | SQL Unplugged (Seth Juarez)
- The Azure Podcast Episode 69 – Free for all! (Sujit D’Mello)
- The Web Ahead 100: Designing the Web with Jeffrey Zeldman (Jen Simmons)
Community / Events
- Kick Off Build 2015 with Xamarin! (Joseph Hill)
- .NET Fringe, defining the future (Glenn Block)
- 6 Books I Recommended for TED 2015 (Bill Gates)
- Don’t miss these sessions at Ignite, May 4-8 in Chicago (Jake Siegel)
- Two Big Pictures for the Price of One at Ignite (Microsoft Azure Team)
- Interview with John Petersen (Paul Ballard)
Database
- Monitor Storage Constraints for SQL Server Data Files (Mike Eastland)
- Five Interview Questions to Ask SQL Server Developers (Doug Lane)
- Which Tables are Being Used in Oracle? (Jeremiah Peschka)
- How to use Elasticsearch with SQL Server (JP Toto)
- SQL SERVER – Backup on mapped drive failing with error – Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1 – Operating system error 3(The system cannot find the path specified.) and SQL SERVER – Adding a Master Data Services to your Enterprise – Notes from the Field #072 (Pinal Dave)
- What’s New In The Excel 2016 Preview For BI? (Chris Webb)
- How to Deploy Master Data Services Models Between Environments (Melissa Coates)
- Incomplete checkpoints and recovery (Paul Randal)
PowerShell
- What you need to know about foreach loops in PowerShell (Adam Bertram)
- Basic Monitoring with Batch PowerShell (Karan Batta)
- Unable to load task handler PowerShell for task VSBuild (Martin Hinshelwood)
Miscellaneous
- Windows 10 for phone supports USB Mass Storage, peripherals and hubs (Daniel Rubino)
- Celebrating 30 years of .COM and the future of .DOMAINS (Ben Fried)
- Microsoft details Windows 10 for Internet of Things and Microsoft will let you upgrade to Windows 10 for free, even if you’re running a pirated version (Harish Jonnalagadda)
- Microsoft Band is now available on Amazon’s US site for $199.99 and Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade path chart shows Windows RT is officially dead (John Callaham)
- DEAL: Get a free ‘Second Shot’ on your MCP exam (Expires May 31, 2015) (Kurt Shintaku)
- Microsoft Health and Microsoft Band: The Next Step in Our Journey (Matt Barlow)
- Skype for Business is here—and this is only the beginning (Zig Serafin)
- Lenovo’s first Windows Phone is launching mid-2015 (Harish Jonnalagadda)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading March 17, 2015 and Geek Reading March 18, 2015 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1489 and Double Shot #1490 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Mostly Cloudy – March 18th, 2015 (Mike Wood)
- The Morning Brew #1822 and The Morning Brew #1823 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-18 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-19 (Dan Rigby)
- Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 17th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 18th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
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