Day: November 23, 2015

Top Links

• Aurelia Beta Week – Day 1 – The Beta is Here! and Aurelia Beta Week – Day 5 – Aurelia Interface (Rob Eisenberg)
• TWC9: Connect();’ing to Dev’s, A Bridge to iOS, Early Ignite, Minecraft Code.org, Windows is 30 and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Mark DeFalco)
• pttrns – UI Design Patterns for Mobile Platforms (pttrns Team)
• .NET CLR Explained (Paul Mooney)

 

Web Development

• Scattering Letters Based On Mouse Movements In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Using JavaScript Frameworks inside C# with ChakraBridge (David Catuhe)
• ASP.NET 5 Node Services (Ricardo Peres)
• Notie.js : Simple Notification Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• Free Course: What’s New in ASP.NET 5 (Andrew Blackman)
• Creating Node.js Command Line Utilities to Improve Your Workflow (Brian Rinaldi)
• Database Tool Improvements in PhpStorm (Gary Hockin)
• Creating an Animated Menu Indicator with CSS Selectors (James Nowland)
• Using ASP.NET WebHooks with IFTTT and Zapier to Monitor Twitter and Google Sheets (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• Must-Know Techniques for HTML5 Responsive Design (Jeff Reifman)
• What I Want From An ASP.NET 5 Development Environment (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• The 10 best jQuery video plugins (Learning JQuery)
• Upload Files using Node.js (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Using map instead of a for loop in ECMAScript 5 JavaScript (Peter Kellner)
• Book Review : Kendo UI Cookbook (Sampath Lokuge)
• Closures are not magic — Rendered Text (Igor Šarčević)
• Death by thousands partial views (Hrvoje Hudo)
• (JS) Regular Expression to replace “require” statements with “import statements” (AngelEyes)
• Simple Routing with Redux and React (James K. Nelson)
• Profiling IIS and Collecting Code Coverage on .NET Web Apps (Kerry Meade)
• Azure Machine Learning: From Experiment To Deployment (Matthias Shapiro)

 

XAML

• InTheHand.UI v9.0 (Peter Freeman Foot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview for Visual Studio 2015 (MS Downloads)
• Shopping in the Marketplace with Visual Studio Team Services (Matteo Emili)
• A Framework in C# for Fingerprint Verification (Octavio Loyola-González, Miguel Angel Medina Pérez, Andres Eduardo Gutierrez Rodriguez & Milton García Borroto)
• Automated Installation Options for Visual Studio 2015 (Tim Sneath)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Composite Primary Keys and Packt Publishing – 5$ Skill Up Year in Review (Ricardo Peres)
• Deploying an Entity Framework Database into Production (Jon Smith)
• FakeItEasy and EntityFramework (Kevin Logan)
• Awaiting RX (Bnaya Eshet)
• #VSTS – New #CodeSearch app in #VisualStudio Team Services (Bruno Capuano)
• Preparing for dotnet cli (Shayne Boyer)
• User Voice site for Team Services has moved to its own area (Ewald Hofman)
• Save up to 55% on all books & eBooks (Kim Spilker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Developer’s Path to Freedom Through Apps (Robert Bogue)
• Stop Being Lazy, and Test Your Software (with the Help of Docker) (Daniel Bryant)
• Continous Deployment – Free Code Coverage tools Part 2 (Gregor Suttie)
• Test Studio Scheduling is Back and Better Than Ever (Iliyan Panchev)
• The Burden of Features in Software (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Access the Current Android Activity from Anywhere! (James Montemagno)
• 52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 16 – Creating an iOS Application Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• iOS 9 Betas And WatchOS 2 For Developers (Nermin Hajdarbegovic)
• Contest: Show Us Your Favorite Xamarin 4 Feature! (Pierce Boggan)
• Using SignalR to Create Mobile Applications (Christos Matskas)
• Application Insights – Real Time Telemetry for your Cross Platform Application (Abhijit Jana)
• Core Data and Swift: Concurrency (Bart Jacobs)
• There’s nothing basic about Lego Mindstorm EV3 Basic (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #31 (Ron Gilbert)
• Eat Sleep Code Podcast: We discuss ReactJS (Ed Charbeneau)
• Herding Code 213: Sean Trelford on Composing 3D Objects with F# and OpenGL (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, K. Scott Allen & Kevin Dente)
• Agile Coffee podcast – Nov 2015 interstitial (Vic Bonacci)
• The Changelog 183: The Offline First Revolution and Speech Recognition With Tal Ater (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Developer on Fire Episode 062 | Maya Posch – Courageous Presence and Developer on Fire Episode 063 | Scott Nimrod – Craftsman or Prima Donna? (Dave Rael)
• SQL Server Radio Show 35 – What the Hell is DPM? (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• The Lumia Continuum | Pocketnow Weekly 175 (Michael Fisher)
• Rocket 45: Terminated in Adele’s Mouth (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• SSW TV – From Devs’ Oops to DevOps | Danijel Malik (Sophie Belle)
• StarTalk Radio – The Science of Family Guy with Seth MacFarlane (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Radio TFS – Connecting on Connect (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• ASP.NET 5 Webinar (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Join the DZone Content Team – Become a Zone Leader (Allen Coin)
• A brief look at 10 years of the Xbox 360 (Matt Brown)
• Guest blog post for Women 2.0 (Karoline Klever)
• 20 Years of GIMP (samzenpus)
• Erik Meijer’s Hacker’s Way (Sergio De Simone)
• MST3K Successfully Crowdsources Its Comeback (Soulskill)
• .NET Microsoft MVPs (Vicky)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Compare Showplan Option (Brady Upton)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Express and Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Service Pack 3 (SP3) (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Inserting into ColumnSet with SPARSE Columns and SQL SERVER – New features in SQL Server 2016 Setup Wizard and Interview Question of the Week #046 – How @@DATEFIRST and SET DATEFIRST Are Related? (Pinal Dave)
• Preview of Upcoming E-book: SQL on Azure Succinctly (Jennifer Wright)

 

PowerShell

• Doing a SQL Server Healthcheck via PowerShell (Omid Afzalalghom)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft yanks latest Windows 10 release from its download server (Ed Bott)
• The Microsoft Lumia 950 review (Daniel Rubino)
• Windows 1.0 officially turns 30 years old today and Windows 10 Mobile preview build 10586 now available for Slow Ring Windows Insiders (John Callaham)
• Drawing Pictures with Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• Getting off the ground in Elm: project setup (Jessica Kerr)
• You can finally download all the ‘Harry Potter’ audiobooks on Audible (Proma Khosla)
• Surprise fan review: Lumia 950 (Tiina Jaatinen)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 20, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #195 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1589 and Double Shot #1590 (Mike Gunderloy)
• #FridayFives! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1974 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading Notes #210 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 16th – November 22nd, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• GameDev News – Week Ending November 20, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #67 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 20th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #77 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Links of the Week 11-22-15 (Chris Love)
• F# Weekly #47, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Weekend Reading: Microsoft devices news and stories you may have missed (Microsoft Devices Team)

 

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