Day: May 11, 2015

Top Links

• JustDecompile Engine Becomes Open Source (Iana Tsolova)
• The Future of the Prism Library | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• MS Dev Show – Roslyn & Ignite News with Jason Bock (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• A look at new feedback-driven improvements to the network tool in our F12 Developer Tools (Ruben Rios)

 

Web Development

• The Future of JavaScript is (almost) Now (Andrew Connell)
• How Do I Evaluate JavaScript Libraries (Chris Love)
• jQuery validate and the comma decimal separator (Johan Danforth)
• Learning Node.js: Building A Simple API Powered By MongoDB (Ben Nadel)
• Cleaner Forms using Tag Helpers in MVC6 and Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Updating Simple Grids (David Paquette)
• 11 Things about JavaScript functions every .NET Developer Should Know – Join the webinar on 15th May 3 PM India time (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Building vorlon.JS with the help of the developer community and what’s next (David Catuhe)
• jQuery UI TextBox AutoComplete with Remote Data Source (Back to Basics) (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Emberjs – fillIn Test Helper With Key Events (Paul Cowan)
• A Developer’s View on Microsoft Edge (Abel Avram)
• Secure Cloud Data Processing (Bill Tsay)
• Docker Security Benchmark (Chris Swan)
• Announcing Ext JS 5.1.1: Improving Your Dev Experience (Gautam Agrawal)
• Trim All Strings In A WebAPI Response (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• How Docker is Proving Useful to Developers (Martin W. Brennan)
• Microsoft Edge: Hands-on with features you can use today and a glimpse into the future (Mauro Huculak)
• node.js – Transitions (Scott Hammond)
• node.js – Next Chapter (TJ Fontaine)

 

XAML

• Sprite Sheet Animations Using Only CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight Transform Markup Extension (Ricardo Peres)
• Microsoft answers the question, ‘Why Windows Phone?’ (Brad Sams)
• FreshMvvm – A Mvvm Framework designed for Xamarin.Forms (Michael Ridland)
• Creating a behavior or action to close a Flyout from a control within the Flyout (Shawn Kendrot)
• Deployment in Universal Applications (Jonathan Allen)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: LINQ Extensions (Ricardo Peres)
• Using Roslyn to build a simple C# interactive script engine (Christian Jacobsen)
• The Future of Visual Studio Extensions is Bright (and easier 🙂 (Greg Duncan)
• MSBuild with Atlassian Bamboo (Josh Eastburn)
• Don’t Forget Implicit Conversion Operators in C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Getting the types in an F# union type II — the perils of relying on undocumented implementation details (Steve Gilham)
• C# 6.0 – Saving Developers From Themselves (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Targeting the .NET Framework 4.6 RC (Rich Lander)
• 3 misuses of ?. operator in C# 6 (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Writing and distributing Roslyn analyzers with MyGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• Resizing an image with Win2D (Adam Kinney)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: How Agile Has Changed Test Management (Ben Linders)
• Designing patterns: the biggest web trend of 2015 so far (Benjie Moss)
• ebook deal of the week: Agile Project Management with Kanban (Kim Spilker)
• Prioritization: A Very Difficult Conversation (Disha Manikumar)
• To meet or not to meet (Paul Pagel)
• Reducing friction (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Insights – Get to know your fakes part 2- Different Behaviors (Alex)
• Initial Thoughts on Microservices (Andrew Siemer)
• Task Management for Teams (JD Meier)
• How to Become a Better Performance Tester 101 (Jun Zhuang)
• Backlogs Are Not Waste (Jurgen Appelo)
• Improving User Stories (Matt Davey)
• NCrunch and SQLite testing problem and solution (Miha Markic)
• Building a Highly Available, Durable in-memory Cache (Paul Mooney)
• A design consideration: Reporting Services on the Application Tier (Matteo Emili)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Tips: Hello AppCompatActivity, Goodbye ActionBarActivity (James Montemagno)
• First 10 Minutes with Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows 10 for IoT (Chris Pietschmann)
• WatchKit Image Tips (Mike Swanson)
• A vision of a decentralized IoT stack (Jenn Webb)
• Google Play Services: Using the Places API (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Windows 10: How to use IoT extension for Raspberry Pi 2 (part 1) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• On The Gaze as an input device for Hololens (James Ashley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #5 (Ron Gilbert)
• AAWP Insight #138: Lumia 540, Microsoft Band (Rafe Blandford)
• Coffee with a Googler: Chat with Ryan Troll about sign in and security (Laurence Moroney)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Greg Proops #4 and The Nerdist Podcast – Jon Cryer (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 090: Dieting and Weight Loss Discussion with Derick Bailey (John Sonmez)
• Compiling Objective-C Using the Visual Studio 2015 C++ Code Generation that Builds Windows, SQL, .Net, and Office (Salmaan Ahmed & Jim Radigan)
• Universal Windows Platform UI for Windows 10 (keantonc)

 

Community / Events

• TelerikNEXT 2015 Recap (Brian Rinaldi)
• Pint of Science Festival Lands in Philly, May 18-20 (Christy Snyder)
• Microsoft Ignite 2015–What’s Its Purpose? and Microsoft Ignite 2015–Microsoft’s Message (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Girls just want to code (Donna Tam)
• Women in tech: Advice from Pluralsight’s leading female technology pros (Lindsay Lauck)
• Book Giveaway (Michael Burns)
• Microsoft Dev Camps in June 2015 (Shahed C)
• .NET Developers Keeping Covered (Vicky)
• Open-source projects shine at workshop (Judith Bishop & Cédric Fournet)

 

Database

• Announcing Zumero for SQL Server, Release 2.0 (Eric Sink)
• SQL SERVER – Script: Current IO Related Waits on SQL Server and SQL SERVER – Introduction to Database Engine Tuning Advisor (a.k.a. DTA) and Interview Question of the Week #019 – How to Reset Identity of Table (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with Impala (Ian Stirk)
• Nested Calculations In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Introduction to Azure DocumentDB (Eitan Blumin)
• 11 updates to Power Query (Excel Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Don’t install the Windows 10 preview on the Surface 3, says Microsoft (John Callaham)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 8, 2015 and Geek Reading May 11, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #167 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #185 (Frank Boucher)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 11, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/11/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1857 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Week on Channel 9: May 4th – May 10th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Programming Digest #106 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #39 (Adam J Wolf)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)

 

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