Day: May 7, 2015

Top Links

• A break from the past, part 2: Saying goodbye to ActiveX, VBScript, attachEvent… (Charles Morris & Jacob Rossi)
• BUILD 2015 ASP.NET 5 Training Videos – Introduction and Deep Dive (Scott Hanselman)
• Getting Started with Aurelia and TypeScript (Mike Graham)
• Using Fiddler to monitor network traffic from the VS Emulator for Android (John Kemnetz)

 

Web Development

• Link and Script Tag Helpers in MVC6 (Dave Paquette)
• Wakanda + Kendo UI Core = WaKendo Widgets for the Masses (Jen Looper)
• Understanding $q in Angular.js (Shaun Xu)
• Using the WP-API to Fetch Posts (Andy Adams)
• Releases metadata for GitHub Pages (Ben Balter)
• Atom 1 Year Open Source Anniversary (Ben Ogle)
• Docker Tutorial 8 – Troubleshooting with Sysdig (John Willis)
• Guild Wars 2 API Drops OAuth2 Support (Janet Wagner)
• Let’s Get Technical: Splunk Enterprise 6.2 (Kevin Faulkner)
• The Code Project API – Part 2 – Getting Some REST (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Implementing a content security policy with NWebsec, Azure Table Storage and Raygun (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Making circular images in XAML (Tim Heuer)
• Spicing Up Universal Windows Apps with Per-Platform Views and Compiled Data Bindings (Jeff Prosise)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Getting the types in an F# union type (Steve Gilham)
• Different ways to get Distinct Values from a List<T> using LINQ (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Sign-in to Mobile Services using custom authentication from a Windows client (Glenn Gailey)
• Fun with DateTime: DateTimeKind.Unspecified (Jeremy Clark)
• Serializers in .NET. v.2 (Leonid Ganeline)
• CodeLens and Team Project Rename (Mathew Aniyan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• From Agile to DevOps at Microsoft Developer Division e-book (MS Downloads)
• Advantages of CQRS (Jan Stenberg)
• Say Goodbye to the Old School Corporate Software Developer (Tom Williamson)
• Who the Heck Is “The Business”? (Tim Wise)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms Grid Recipe (Adam J. Wolf)
• Top 10 Tips for Building an Apple Watch App (Michael Ridland)
• Creating a mobile app with Famo.us and ManifoldJS (David Voyles)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Patents, Copyright and Open Source with Jeffrey Strauss (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 298 – PowerScripting Podcast -Vaughn Stewart and Cody Hosterman from Pure Storage (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 27 (Victor Bonacci)
• 158 JSJ Roots with Jeff Escalante (Joe Eames, AJ O’Neal & Aimee Knight)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Matthew Weiner Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Glance and Go Radio 65 – Blue Moon (Andrew & Vernon)
• RiYL Episode 106: Joe Biel (Microcosm Publishing) (Brian Heater)
• CppCast – SQLpp11 with Roland Bock (Rob Irving & Jason Turner)
• Docker Overview for .NET Developers (Dan Fernandez, Dmitry Lyalin & Lan Kaim)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Ignite: Day 1 sessions now available on-demand (Richard Hay)
• Start planning for Google I/O! (Gary Lewis)
• Break into Code – Become a Technology Creator (Greg Duncan)
• Geek of the Week: Fred Siegel, Man of Mystery (Nicole Kline)
• Geekadelphia’s Panel Picks for Wizard World Philadelphia (Ross Currie)

 

Database

• Alternate Row Background Color in SQL Server Reporting Services Tablix and Matrix (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL SERVER – Using Package Configurations in SSIS 2012 and Beyond – Notes from the Field #079 (Pinal Dave)
• Combining SQL Server and MongoDB using NHibernate (Vladimir Khorikov)
• New DocumentDB SQL Keywords, Operators and Functions (Aravind Ramachandran)
• Forcing Join Order Without Hints (Erik Darling)
• Debug Managed Code and Stored Procedures Seamlessly (Guy Glantser)

 

PowerShell

• Monitor SQL Server Master Database Changes with WMI Alerts (Svetlana Golovko)

 

Miscellaneous

• Oculus Rift Consumer VR System Pre-Orders Start Later This Year, Ships Q1 2016 (Josh Constine)
• Xbox One will reportedly include TV DVR feature soon (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 7, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/7/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1855 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-07 (Dan Rigby)

 

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