Day: January 8, 2016

Top Links

• Submitting your first Pull Request (David Paquette)
• The Laggard’s Guide to Getting Started with Asp.net 5 Using Yeoman. (Leon Bambrick)
• Task runners in Visual Studio 2015 (Mads Kristensen)
• Support Ending for the .NET Framework 4.0, 4.5 and 4.5.1 on Tuesday (Jonathan Allen)
• .NET Rocks! – Mature Open Source Projects with Jimmy Bogard (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• How Node.js Powers the Many User Interfaces of Netflix (C.K. Oliver)
• Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout (Rachel Andrew)
• Conditional Routing In AngularJS (Anubhav Chaudhary)
• How to Create a YouTube AngularJS Directive and How to work with Enums in ASP.NET MVC (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Formatting Changes in PhpStorm 10 (Gary Hockin)
• How to Take an Asp.Net MVC Web Site Down for Maintenance (Jon Smith)
• Thinking Out Loud: ASP.NET 5, MVC 6, and MVC Flash 3 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Javascript, every web developer knows about it. In today’s world, it is co… (Kimmi Kumari)
• Excel-like Filtering using Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Grid (Lohith Goudagere Nagaraj)
• Debugging Node.js applications using Node Inspector (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TabStrip In Kendo UI For ASP.NET MVC (Priti Ranjan Dash)
• Swiss in CSS (Robin Rendle)
• Cross-Platform support in Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC (Sam Basu)
• Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: Comments (Samantha Zhang)
• Integrating Facebook Login in AngularJS App with Satellizer (Son Nguyen Kim)
• Improving Error Handling in ASP.NET Web API 2.1 with OWIN (Tomas Lycken)
• locally-installed-npm-executables (Axel Rauschmayer)
• WP REST API: Setting Up and Using Basic Authentication (Bilal Shahid)
• Google Drive: Uploading & downloading files plus the new v3 API redux (Wesley Chun)
• Node v5.4.0 (Stable) (Jeremiah Senkpiel)
• Promise performance in Microsoft Edge (Jeremy Danyow)
• Processing in a RESTful World (John Vester)
• RELEASE: Azure Automation now generally available! (Kurt Shintaku)
• Introducing The Newly Updated Twilio Status Page (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Inspiration for Line Menu Styles (Manoela Ilic)

 

XAML

• Adding a modern spark to your WPF apps, with WPFSpark (Greg Duncan)
• A Fourth Experiment with the Visual Layer–One Line Effects on XAML (Mike Taulty)
• Now Available: Single age rating system to simplify app submissions (Bernardo Zamora)
• Navigation using BuildIt.Lifecycle and Declarative Navigation using BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Debugging and Profiling in Visual Studio 2015 (Manuel Meyer)
• What’s New with .NET Framework 4.6, Part 1: API Updates (Eric Vogel)
• Did you know – that you can get code samples from the Visual Studio itself ? and Did you know – In Visual Studio you can copy multiple code blocks together and paste them one by one ? (Abhijit Jana)
• NuGet API Survey – What projects are using the NuGet API? (Dave Glick)
• Visual Studio Team Services announces the newest release of our Eclipse Plugin: Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE) 14.0.2 (Jason Sholl)
• Introduction To The C# REPL (Jesus Morales)
• Escaping Text for Regular Expressions (Richard Carr)
• Announcing Azure Storage Data Movement Library 0.2.0 (Michael Curd)
• .NET Developers – Love Thy Command Line (Sam Basu)
• Win2D 1.13.0 – fixes Store certification failure (Shawn Hargreaves)
• Get table info for your entities in Entity Framework (Spencer Schneidenbach)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Workshops on Retrospectives and Increasing Agile Value and Test First Approaches With Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development and The State of Testing in 2016 (Ben Linders)
• Ditching Scrum for Kanban (Kevin Dangoor)
• Article: Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals. Part 6 (Michał Bartyzel)
• The importance of a data format: Part I – Current state problems and The importance of a data format: Part II–The environment matters (Oren Eini)
• Do We Need A New Word For ‘Velocity’? (J. B. Rainsberger)
• Value Stream Map (Andrew Siemer)
• Presentation: Avoiding the Big Crash (Bill Buxton)
• What is Microservices Architecture? (Chris Pietschmann)
• You Call Yourself a Guru (Derek Huether)
• Developers: Here’s why you should make yourself replaceable (Erik Dietrich)
• Receive an error when resolving a bug created by your build? (Ewald Hofman)
• Context Validation in Domain-Driven Design (Josip Medic)
• Are People Really Afraid to Change? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Where does leadership come from? (Seth Godin)
• Creating something new requires thinking about your customer (Wes Higbee)
• [Balsamiq Release] “Resize To…”, New Combo Box, Arrows Improvements, Easier Project Maps, and More! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Load Data Asynchronously in Android Apps Using Loaders (Vipul Patel)
• Changing iOS’s Back Button Text in Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
• Preparing iOS Devices and Testing Android Apps on Emulators (Noel Rice)
• iOS – Objective-C – C Style Arrays (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Swift overtakes Objective-C in TIOBE index (Alex Blewitt)
• Azure IoT Hub in Public Preview (Chris Pietschmann)
• Is a Snapchat Advertising API on the Way? (Eric Carter)
• Ionic and Material Design, what’s the story? (George Saadeh)
• Microsoft shows how the Internet of Things can actually be interesting (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• How to Use Generics in Swift (Matthew Kim)
• Using the Mobile Screen (Noel Rice)
• AT&T Announces New Developer Tools, and Other CES 2016 News (Paul Ballard)
• Swift 2 Contacts Framework Tutorial – Part 1 (yffaria)
• Adding Suggestions to Mobile Search with Azure Search (Mike James)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 215: Jon McCoy on .NET Security and Defensive Patterns (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente & Scott Koon)
• Episode 309 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Wrock on Vagrant and Packer (Jonathan Walz)
• Episode 079 on Matter Center— Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
• Stack Exchange Podcast #70 – David Was Wrong And Jason Was Right (Abby T. Miller)
• 004 jsAir – Unit Testing JavaScript with Christian Johansen, Joe Eames, and Ward Bell and 47 ngAir – How to become an open source contributor with Wesley Cho and Jesus Rodriguez (Kent C. Dodds)
• 075 AiA Pragmatic Future-Minded Angular with Dylan Johnson (John Papa)
• 193 JSJ Electron with Jessica Lord and Amy Palamountain (Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 39 (Mike Conley)
• Rocket 52: A Tank For Every Family (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 25: Stretch Database (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 081 | Esther Derby – Making More Humane Workplaces (Dave Rael)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Azure AD B2C: How to enable consumer logins and access management for your B2C apps (Simon May & Alex Simons)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 109 | Update on the Latest Cloud News from Microsoft and AWS (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• SE-Radio Show 246: John Wilkes on Borg and Kubernetes (Charles Anderson)
• The Amp Hour #281 – Crossovers and Call-ins (Chris Gammell & David L Jones)

 

Community / Events

• An Hour of Code with Splunk (Glenn Block)
• Empowering students with Genius Hour—Part 1: Accepting your genius (Tammy Brecht Dunbar)
• Female Founders: The State Of The Union (Shan-Lyn Ma)

 

Database

• Advanced JSON Techniques in SQL Server 2016 – Part 3 (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL Server Performance Test for Bit Data Type in a WHERE Clause (Dallas Snider)
• Use Stuff Function In SQL Server (Kml Surani)
• SQL SERVER – SSMA Error: System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater (Pinal Dave)
• What is U-SQL? (DevToolsGuy)
• When ALTER TABLE doesn’t work (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

PowerShell

• Version Control PowerShell Scripts with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services (Graham Smith)
• Get Last Reboot or Computer Up Time With PowerShell (Steve Parankewich)

 

Miscellaneous

• Remix OS is Android for the desktop, and it works with nearly any PC (Chris Welch)
• Top Developer Languages of 2015 (Dara Monasch)
• 22 Raspberry Pi Media Servers from Vintage to Modern (Jeremy S. Cook)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 6, 2016 and Geek Reading January 7, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1619 and Double Shot #1620 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 7, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #2004 and The Morning Brew #2005 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-07 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-08 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-08 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 6th, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 7th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• WordPress, Samsung Gear VR, Windows Memory on Wed Jan 6 2016 (Jeremy Likness)

 

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