Day: October 6, 2015

Top Links

• We have exciting news to share about Windows 10 devices (Microsoft Devices Team)
• Learn You Node with VS Code (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Next Generation of Dreamweaver and Update from the Adobe Brackets Team (Ryan Stewart)
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Your web app doesn’t need 64-bit (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Introducing ASP.NET WebHooks (Don Kiely)
• $location.search() Facilitates Independent Sub-Routing In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Stretchy : JavaScript Form Element Autosizing (jQuery Rain)
• #Video Deal/Day: Intermediate D3.js – $39.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Editor features (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Microsoft Azure SDK – Day 6 – Visual Studio 2015 (Kris Lankford)
• Modernizr 3.1.0 (Patrick Kettner)
• Orchard CMS Security and Extending Workflow Module (David Hayden)
• Microsoft® Azure Backup (MS Downloads)
• Receive WebHooks from Azure Alerts and Kudu (Azure Web App Deployment) (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• Routing with Raw React (no Node, no react-router, no JSX, no Flux) (James K. Nelson)
• How to Make Charts with SVG (Robin Rendle)
• Node v4.1.2 (Stable) (Node.js Foundation)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Creating C# classes from JSON (or XML) in Visual Studio 2015 (Shawn Kendrot)
• The Top 5 New Features in C#6.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#6: Collection Initializers (Jeff Yates)
• Step-by-step guide to setting up CucumberJS in Visual Studio 2015 (Matthew Adams)
• How Visual Studio gives Halfbrick ninja powers (Nicholas Cornelius & Miguel Pastor)
• Rights Management Service SDK 2.1 (MS Downloads)
• Taking Memory Snapshots by Condition in dotMemory 4.4 (Alexey Totin)
• New Construction Policies in StructureMap 4.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How do I obtain the comment for a share? (Raymond Chen)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Executable HQL (Ricardo Peres)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile team evaluation (Eric Gunnerson)
• Ever Increasing Need For Secure Programming (Edward Jones)
• Who’s responsible for managing work-life balance? Amazon, Nike and other execs weigh in (Jacob Demmitt)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• When a UX hack has unexpected consequences or “Why did my iOS app name get truncated when I used TestFlight?” (Chris Miller)
• DataForm for Xamarin.Forms and More in UI for Xamarin (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Rotatable: A Swift Protocol Extension to Rotate Any UIView (Simon Gladman)
• An Intern Battles the Monster App (Mark Bowytz)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jumping into Elixir with Rob Conery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Advanced Kendo UI (Session Recording) (Burke Holland)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Adam F. Goldberg (Chris Hardwick)
• The AMQP 1.0 Protocol – 1/6 – Overview (Clemens Vasters)
• Developer on Fire Episode 043 | Greger Wikstrand – Specializing in Generalizing (Dave Rael)
• Talk Python to Me #28 Making Python Fast: Profiling Python Code (Michael Kennedy)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 85 Interesting, If Not Beneficial (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)

 

Community / Events

• Get Paid to Blog on DZone – Become a Zone Leader (Allen Coin)
• Are You Wit It? The First Annual Cheesesteak Festival Arrives at The Linc (Christy Snyder)
• MVPDays Community Roadshow in Canada (MVP Award Program)
• Mark Your Calendars – Exciting #Windows10devices news starts on Tuesday (The Windows Team)
• What to expect on Windows 10 front at Microsoft’s new devices launch (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Database

• Cleanly Uninstalling Stubborn SQL Server Components (Aaron Bertrand)
• Drillthrough On Multiselect Now Works In Excel 2016 And SSAS 2016 (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Steps to Backup to Windows Azure storage (Pinal Dave)
• Identifying the Current SQL Server Login (Richard Carr)
• Rounding Numbers using the M Language (John Miner)

 

SharePoint

• Top Reasons Why Companies Decide to Develop Their Corporate Site Using SharePoint (Mobile Man)
• SharePoint 2013: Content Enrichment for Large Files and SharePoint 2013: Content Enrichment and performance of 3rd party services (Sergey Tihon)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft has a simulated Lumia 640 Windows 10 Mobile ‘experience’ on the web (John Callaham)
• Small Basic 1.2 Quick Review (Nonki Takahashi)
• Top teacher-requested features added to OneNote Class Notebooks (OneNote Team)
• How to kill it in a meeting when you’d rather be anywhere else (Stacy Warden)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 5, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1940 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (9/21-10/4) (Dara Monasch)
• A list of my favorite links this week (David Voyles)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-05 (Dan Rigby)
• .NET Tips and Tricks – Visual Studio, Windows Universal Apps, Application Insights – September 2015 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 5th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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