Day: November 2, 2016

Today marks the 9th anniversary of my link blog posts. Thanks for continuing to visit!

Top Links

• SE-Radio Episode 273: Steve McConnell on Software Estimation (Sven Johann)
• Mind of the Speaker – The Most Important Thing To Remember On Stage (Matthew Jones)
• ASP.NET Core RESTful Web API versioning made easy (Scott Hanselman)
• Build an Amazing HTML Editor Using Visual Studio Code (Dave Johnson)

 

Web Development

• Considering Tree Shaking As An Influence On Application Architecture In Angular 2 (Ben Nadel)
• A Simple Way to OCR Images from a URL with Tesseract.js and Node.js (Greg Baugues)
• Hello World! in Angular 2 using Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 4 (Michael Washington)
• Getting Started With Aurelia And TypeScript on Visual Studio 2015 (Rajiv Popat)
• What’s New and What’s Changed in Bootstrap 4 (Annarita Tranfici)
• Computing tag functions for ES6 template literals (Axel Rauschmayer)
• BotFramework Exception Wrapping and Custom Error Message (Robin Osborne)
• Artsy Media Pop Up Effect (Manoela Ilic)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Computation expressions: Introduction | F# for fun and profit (Scott Wlaschin)
• C# 7.0 : Tuples to the Extreme! (Rion Williams)
• HTTP benchmark and pipelining (Oren Eini)
• Lazy async initialization for expiring objects (Filip W.)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 EAP 6 (Matt Ellis)
• Debugging Mouse Clicks and Dragging in C++ (Bartlomiej Filipek)
• Vcpkg updates: Static linking is now available (Eric Mittelette)
• What is programming? (Kim Spilker)
• CodeRush for Roslyn update, version 16.1.8 (Mark Miller)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dealing With Agile Implementation Problems (Anna Majowska)
• The Financial Risks of Ignoring Feedback (Elisse Lockhart)
• So You’ve Inherited a Legacy Codebase (Serge Baranovsky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Quick Tip – Changing the UISegmentedControl Text Color (Carey Payette)
• Comparing MVVM and Viper architectures: When to use one or the other (Rafael Sacchi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Chaos Engineering with Charles Torre (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – Web Accessibility with Aaron Gustafson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 163 | New Microsoft and Google Products and Update on what AC’s Up To (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros (Bertrand Le Roy)
• RiYL Episode 192: Jon Ginoli (Brian Heater)
• RunAs Radio – App Compat in Windows 10 with Chris Jackson (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• With Project Tokyo Microsoft plans to use AI for good (Surur)
• Developer Tea – Developer Career Roadmap Step 5: Cross Train (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Developer Events in November (Jayme Singleton)
• Save the Date: Git Merge 2017 (Brittany Walker)
• Game Off Theme Announcement (Lee Reilly)
• 10th Anniversary of SQL Authority – Thank YOU! (Pinal Dave) – Congrats, Pinal!
• What happens to CSLA .NET support if Rocky is hit by a bus? (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Database

• Overview of SQL Server sql_variant Data Type (Daniel Farina)
• Couchbase Server 4.1.1 CE is now available (Don Pinto)
• Why You Should Test Your Queries Against Bigger Data (Erik Darling)
• Getting Started with Golang and Couchbase (Nic Raboy)

 

PowerShell

• Azure Backup supports encrypted Azure virtual machines using Portal and PowerShell (Pallavi Joshi)

 

Miscellaneous

• Stuck between a rock and a hard place – An explanation of the disappointment of Apple’s new MacBook Pro (Ben Slaney)
• Minecraft: Education Edition available now! (Deirdre Quarnstrom)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-11-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-11-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 2, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #2213 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #260 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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