Day: April 23, 2015

Top Links

• Windows 10 – The Fast Ring and BUILD 10061 (Scott Hanselman)
• TDD Gamification – Turning Test Driven Development into a Game (Dave M. Bush)
• Adding a splash screen to Xamarin Forms apps (Corrado Cavalli)
• IoT – Opportunity Knocks (Jesse Liberty)

 

Web Development

• Function Hoisting, Prototype Chains, Exports, And process.nextTick() In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Go’s error handling: good and bad (Karl Seguin)
• Application Insights – Synthetic Data Filtering, New Usage Experience for ASP.NET, and Daily Active User Calculations – Apr 22 (David Lubash)
• Use this HTML5 video player sample for your hackathon projects (David Voyles)
• Creating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase: Part 5 (Jay)
• Take Your ASP.NET MVC Application Offline via a Global Attribute (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Drawing Rectangles (and Squares) on the Canvas (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Web Components, accessibility and the Priority of Constituencies (Bruce Lawson)
• Docker Tutorial 6 – Dockerfile (Part 1) (John Willis)
• Ensuring Your Site is Mobile-Friendly (Krista)
• Does responsive web design make you more money? (Mark Runyon)
• A Glance at the New OpenCart 2.0 (Sajal Soni)

 

XAML

• WPF in .NET 4.6 (Jonathan Allen)
• Windows Phone OS version market share changes since January 2014 (Matt Lacey)
• WPF Triggers – Data Triggers (Richard Carr)
• How to verify internet access in Universal Apps (Alexander Persson)
• Microsoft confirms Windows 10 universal apps will work on HoloLens (David Curry)
• Windows RT is dead. What does that mean for Apps? (DevToolsGuy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Comparing date range handling in C# and F# (Tomas Petricek)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns: Dependency Injection (Bart Jacobs)
• To improve testing, snoop on the competition (Gojko Adzic)
• Article: Scrum Fundamentals and Advanced Live Lessons : Book Review and Interview (Savita Pahuja)
• The origins of Trunk Based Development (Paul Hammant)
• Why “No Source Control” Is Not A Problem (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms: Add content to TitleView in your iOS app (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Three iOS UX elements to use in your App (Gradient Girl)
• Implementing John Conway’s Game of Life in Xamarin Forms (Jeff Prosise)
• Using URL Schemes with Sencha Touch, iOS, and Cordova (Johnny Major)
• New Android Code Samples (Rich Hyndman)
• Xamarin.Android – Syncing data between Wearable and Handheld devices (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Game Performance: Explicit Uniform Locations (Shanee Nishry)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Moore’s Law Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Real-time Monitoring of Mobile Apps with Xamarin Insights | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Monthly Catch-up: S81 with special co-host Barry Paquet | Visual Studio ALM Rangers (WPSchaub & Anisha)
• 156 JSJ Soft Skills and Marketing Yourself as a Software Developer with John Sonmez (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Aimee Knight)
• The Amp Hour #246 – Robots are coming – Ominous Operational Overhaul (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Web Ahead 102: Understanding Apple Watch with Josh Clark (Jen Simmons)
• RiYL Episode 104: Brooks Wheelan (Brian Heater)
• SSW TV – Cloud-Based Machine Learning for the Developer | Peter Myers (SSW Team)
• Azure Podcast Episode 74 – Azure Data Factory (Sujit D’Mello)
• What’s New in VS 2015 Webinar (Joe Mayo)

 

Database

• Introduction to Team Foundation Server (TFS) Build for Business Intelligence (BI) Projects (Ray Barley)
• Review: Field Guide to Hadoop (Ian Stirk)

 

SharePoint

• Understand your SharePoint usage with Application Insights (Ketan Ghelani)

 

PowerShell

• Modifying SQL Server Agent Settings Using PowerShell (Johan Bijnens)
• Instances and Ports with PowerShell (Rob Sewell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Outlook for Android comes out of preview (Outlook Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 22, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1846 (Chris Alcock)
• My weekly newsletter is out (David Voyles)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 22nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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