Day: April 29, 2015

Top Links

• Leverage Azure When Building Enterprise Mobile Apps with Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• I’m Not Mocking You, Just Your AngularJS Tests (Jeremy Likness)
• Setting up a VPN server on a Mac and using it for #Xamarin.iOS development (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Web Development

• Exciting Things About ASP.NET 5 Series: Build Only Dependencies (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Building a Comparison Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Try on Desktop Button for Docker Hub (Sean Li)

 

XAML

• WPF Animation – Naming Conventions (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Technical Debt Management: Announcing SonarQube integration with MSBuild and Team Build (Stuart Kent)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• I’m hooked on test-driven development (TDD) and What Do You Care Most About When Reviewing Someone Else’s Code? (Jamie Munro)
• Book Review: Software Architecture for Developers (Patrick Kua)
• DDD applied (Gabriel Schenker)
• 3 Questions of Effective Daily Meetings (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What’s the Deal with User Stories (Michael Burns)
• Sharing TestComplete Stores Between Projects (Noel Rice)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• What’s new in SfChart for Xamarin, iOS and Android in the Essential Studio 13.1 release (Syncfusion Team)
• Xamarin.Forms: Dynamic Background (Jesse Liberty)
• Syncing Data Between Wearable and Handheld Devices using Xamarin in Android and Testing, Debugging and Deploying Android Applications using Xamarin across Wears and Handheld Devices (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Delivering High Quality Apps with Every Submission (Michael James)
• There’s a lot to explore with Google Play services 7.3 (Ian Lake)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 164 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• RunAs Radio – Tuning SQL Server Stored Procedures with Kim Tripp (Richard Campbell)
• Countdown to Ignite: Ignite 101 | Microsoft Ignite Countdown (D. Begley, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Talk Python to Me – SQLAlchemy and data access in Python (Michael Kennedy)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft rumored to announce Android apps support for Windows 10 at Build 2015 (John Callaham)

 

Database

• Display a fixed number of rows per page for an SSRS report (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Tables with Primary or Foreign Keys and SQL SERVER – Script: Knowing Data and Log Files Are On the Same Drive (Pinal Dave)
• Generating a Password in T-SQL from a Table of Words (Dallas Snider)
• RavenDB 3.5 Features: Data Exploration (Oren Eini)
• When DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS doesn’t work… (Paul Randal)
• Serialization Options With Azure DocumentDB (K. Scott Allen)

 

PowerShell

• Azure PowerShell DSC Extension v1.8 released (PowerShell Team)
• Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview April 2015 is now available (Krishna C. Vutukuri)

 

Miscellaneous

• Pocket Casts for Windows Phone: Now available to supercharge your podcast experience (Richard Devine)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 28, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1850 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 29, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 28th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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