Day: May 12, 2015

Top Links

• Introducing Alive (Josh Varty)
• Xamarin.Studio 5.9 Enhancements (Craig Dunn)
• Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser (Crispin Cowan)
• Wizards and warriors, part five (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Learning Node.js: Building A Simple API Powered By MongoDB (Ben Nadel)
• Visual Studio Code and Azure App Service – a perfect fit (Nir Mashkowski)
• SVG as a submit button (Jakub Chodounský)
• Getting Started with Microsoft Azure (Dirk Strauss)

 

XAML

• Adding Custom Validation Messages in Silverlight (Ricardo Peres)
• WPF Animation – Key-Frame Animations (Richard Carr)
• Deployment in Universal Applications (Jonathan Allen)
• Adaptive Triggers, RelativePanel and DataTemplate in the Universal Windows Platform (Marco Minerva)
• Introducing AdaptiveTileExtensions for Windows 10 (Scott Lovegrove)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Back to Basic – string Vs. String in C# (Abhijit Jana)
• The Future of Visual Studio Extensions is Bright (and easier 🙂 (Greg Duncan)
• 3 misuses of ?. operator in C# 6 (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Application Insights: Public preview announced, iOS and Android Support, and Performance Counters and unhandled exceptions for Java apps, and fine time selection (David Lubash)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Mapping By Convention (Ricardo Peres)
• Solution to Little Puzzlers–Positive Integer to Roman Numerals (James Michael Hare)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD – Special scenarios, part 2 (Gabriel Schenker)
• How to Become a Better Performance Tester 101 (Jun Zhuang)
• Information architectures role in UX design (Mary Treseler)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Advanced WatchKit Interface Controller Techniques (Mike Swanson)
• Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift (samzenpus)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Exchange Podcast #64: Not Recorded in Ithaca (Abby T. Miller)
• .NET Rocks! – Azure and BizTalk with Sam Vanhoutte (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 64 Test Monkey (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
• Talk Python to Me #7 Robot Operating System (ROS) and ROSPy (Michael Kennedy)

 

Community / Events

• Pint of Science Festival Lands in Philly, May 18-20 (Christy Snyder)
• Women in tech: Advice from Pluralsight’s leading female technology pros (Lindsay Lauck)
• Microsoft Dev Camps in June 2015 (Shahed C)

 

Database

• Monitor SQL Server Transaction Log File Free Space (Mike Eastland)
• SQL SERVER – Identify Page Splits Using Extended Events in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 11, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 12, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1858 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-12 (Dan Rigby)

 

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