Day: November 17, 2015

Top Links

• Microsoft unveils new Minecraft coding tutorial for students (Rich Edmonds)
• Microsoft CEO: Why Minecraft is key to getting girls involved in computer science (Jacob Demmitt)
• ReSharper Ultimate 10.0.1 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Community Megaphone and a Post-INETA Future (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Web Development

• Resize to Scale With d3.js (Paul Cowan)
• ASP.NET 5 View Components (Ricardo Peres)
• Spying on James Bond with Node.js (Brian Rinaldi)
• Introducing EdgeHTML 13, our first platform update for Microsoft Edge (Kyle Pflug)
• Simple Web API OWIN host using F# (Sergey Tihon)
• Getting Started with Docker Toolbox and Compose (Aanand Prasad)
• Azure Event Hubs Primer (Paul Ballard)

 

XAML

• Increase your app’s reach with Windows Store for Business (Bernardo Zamora)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 3-steps to programmatically restart #Outlook using #CSharp code (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Monitor madness, part one (Eric Lippert)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Frameworks and Template Zombies (Derek Huether)
• The Core Idea of Agile (Rick Freedman)
• Article: The Right Way to Scale Agile: Scaling Value Delivery over Process (Suzie Prince)
• How team diversity enables continuous improvement (Ben Linders)
• Scheduling Load Tests (Charles Sterling)
• Defining big wins (Jef Claes)
• The Chicken and The Pig – Part 1 (Jesse Taber)
• Creating Great Estimates as a Team (Johanna Rothman)
• Impostor Syndrome: How I Fool My Bosses, and You Too (Kate Scheer)
• GitHub – A new look for repositories (Mark Otto)
• Former Apple designers say the company has lost ‘the fundamental principles of good design’ (Micah Singleton)
• Routinized retrospectives are worthless (Wes Higbee)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Microservice Design with Paul Mooney (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 178 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Video: Software architecture as code (Simon Brown)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – 3 anti-patterns of dysfunctional teams | Sean Dunn (Vasco Duarte)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Justin Theroux (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 90 “Josh ‘Cha-Ching’ Earl” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Defrag Tools #145 – Living Computer Museum | Defrag Tools (Chad Beeder)
• Get an early look at Microsoft Ignite 2016 with Mark Russinovich (Azure Team)
• Away From the Keyboard – Michael Glukhovsky and Slava Akhmechet Rethink DBs (Richie Rump)

 

Community / Events

• How I got started in technical evangelism, part 2 (David Voyles)
• MVPs from around the world come together again for MMS 2015 in Minnesota! (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• How To Interpret SQL Server DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS Output (Daniel Farina)
• SQL Server error BACKUP detected corruption in the database log (Ahmad Yaseen)
• First Look At SSAS 2016 MDX On DirectQuery (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Looking Inside SQL Complete – Advantages of Intellisense Features (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Book Review – Storm Applied (Kay Ewbank)
• Hands on with Pi-Top, the Raspberry Pi Powered Laptop (Alasdair Allan)
• Lumia 950 XL sales begin at US Microsoft Store for $649, with free Display Dock offer (John Callaham)
• ebook deal of the week: Windows 10 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Small Basic – Controls and Challenges (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Reading Notes #209 (Frank Boucher)
• Geek Reading November 16, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1585 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 16 Nov 2015 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1970 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (11/3-11/15) (Dara Monasch)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 9th – November 15th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 16th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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