Day: January 5, 2016

Top Links

• Cake (C# Make) – A cross platform build automation system with a C# DSL (Mattias Karlsson & Patrik Svensson)
• DZone Refcardz – React.js Essentials (Hemanth Madhavarao)
• Coding4Fun Projects are Back! (Greg Duncan)
• Here’s a list of 221 free online programming/CS courses (MOOCs) with feedback(i.e. exams/homeworks/assignments) that you can start this month (Jan 2016) (dhawal)

 

Web Development

• Using Multiple Break Statements In A Single Case Block In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Angular 2 versus React (Cory House)
• 10 jQuery Plugins to Play With JSON (Learning jQuery)
• JavaScript Visitor Design Pattern (L. Milkov)
• jQuery-resizable and Table Column Resizing (Rick Strahl)
• JavaScript – the language of Chuck Norris | Joshua Wulf at DDD Brisbane 2015 (Sophie Belle)
• WordPress on Azure App Service backed by MySQL Virtual Machines (Sunitha Muthukrishna)
• private-data-classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
• New book: Modern Authentication with Azure Active Directory for Web Applications (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning React Native – $16.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML

• How to get the Device Information in #UWP apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Second Experiment with the Visual Layer and A Third Experiment with the Visual Layer–Images (Mike Taulty)
• Refactoring StateManager to StateManager Binding and Connecting Universal Windows Platform Visual States to the StateManager (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Asynchronous Everything (Joe Duffy)
• 10 Visual Studio tips to improve your development productivity (Abhijit Jana)
• Win2D 1.12.0 – bugfixes and error messages (Shawn Hargreaves)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Recognizing Change in Agile Projects (Ryan Hanisco)
• Lean, Toyota, and how it relates to agile. (Eric Gunnerson)
• Setting Up Octopus Build Task on TFS 2015 On-Prem (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Should We Even Debate Refactoring With Stakeholders? and A Farewell to #NoEstimates (JBrains)
• A Project Guide to UX Design And Content Strategy (GatherContent Team)
• Developer personal time management (Andrew Siemer)
• Architects as Servant Leaders (Johanna Rothman)
• New Year, new Git release (Michael Haggerty)
• Using Release Management for Test Automation (Vijay M.)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Preparing Android Devices (Noel Rice)
• iOS – Draw Arcs Using CGContextAddCurveToPoint (Stephen Zaharuk)
• An Introduction to Cordova: Basics (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)
• Native Code Is Bad For You (Burke Holland)
• Advanced Swift: Create Today Widget (Extension) (Mark Petherbridge)
• Get the DragonBoard Running Windows 10 IoT Core (Rob Tiffany)
• Lego’s classroom robotics kit goes wireless (Ross Miller)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Microsoft DevOps Stack with Brian Randell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 185 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Video: Introduction to Angular 2 and TypeScript (Jeremy Likness)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 98 “The Fear of Roller Coasters” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Developer on Fire Episode 080 | Jared Smith – Check Your Fear At the Door (Dave Rael)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin 4 Parties in January! (Jayme Singleton)
• Microsoft’s next Redmond expansion expected to go vertical (Matt Day)
• Inside Philadelphia’s dev boot camp for low-income adults (Juliana Reyes)
• Join us in congratulating MVP awardees! (MVP Award Program)
• .NET Developers – Old and New (Vicky)

 

Database

• Troubleshooting SQL Server Transaction Log Related Wait Types (Daniel Farina)
• Continuous Deployments for SQL Server – Part 1 (Gregor Suttie)

 

Miscellaneous

• Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction (Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anthony D. Barnosky, Andrés García, Robert M. Pringle & Todd M. Palmer)
• ebook deal of the week: Windows 10 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
• Attention nerds: The periodic table is getting four new elements (Miriam Kramer)
• Photos of cancelled Nokia smartwatch leak showing off its Metro watchface (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 4, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1618 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 28, 2015 – January 3rd, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• Best of 2015 (Brian Rinaldi)
• The Morning Brew #2002 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 4th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• links of the week 1-4-16 (Chris Love)

 

The Geek Shelf