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Top Links

• The 10 coolest things about Amazon’s new Fire Phone (Verge Staff)
• The Amazon smartphone is here: meet the Fire Phone (David Pierce)
• Amazon’s Fire Phone doesn’t include Bluetooth LE, and that’s bad news for wearables (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• Xamarin iOS Storyboards: Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)
• Download Visual Studio Express (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Shadowing Isolate Scope Behaviors In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• How to Declare Modules in Node.js (Luis Aguilar)
• Microsoft Azure cloud plugin for TeamCity (dabbling in Java code) and Using PHP Code Sniffer in PhpStorm and Announcing Grunt support in PhpStorm 8 EAP and Profiling ASP.NET vNext using dotMemory and dotTrace (Maarten Balliauw)
• W3C UPDATE: Putting the Final Polish on HTML 5.0 (Paul Cotton)
• A dynamic RequireSsl Attribute for ASP.NET MVC (Rick Strahl)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET vNext (Victor Hurdugaci)
• JavaScript Function Terminology (Deborah Kurata)
• Traversing the DOM (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• OWASP Top 10 Risks: #1: Injection (Max McCarty)
• Use Cases and Requirements for Element Queries (Chris Coyier)
• Adding Tabs with FiddlerScript (Eric Lawrence)
• Optimizing the Critical Rendering Path for fast mobile websites (Louis Gray)
• Ideas for Subtle Hover Effects (Mary Lou)
• Error logging and tracking done right with Raygun.io and Lessons in insecure SSL courtesy of Hoyts cinemas (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,096 – The RoutedUICommand Adds a Text Property and #1,097 – Getting Items in Context Menu to Correctly Use Command Binding (Sean Sexton)
• Globalization in WPF (Vipul Bhatnagar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to Contribute to the F# Compiler/Library Implementation (Visual F# Tools Team)
• BrowserStack Visual Studio 2013 Extension (Chris Skardon)
• Publish WCF Service in Local IIS on Visual Studio 2013 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C Runtime (CRT) Features, Fixes, and Breaking Changes in Visual Studio 14 CTP1 (James McNellis)
• Getting a service account for VSO with TFS Service Credential Viewer (Martin Hinshelwood)
• TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4 guidance landed … what’s next? and Visual Studio ALM Community Widgets (aka.ms/widgets) (Willy-P. Schaub)
• We should ban the phrase “thread safe” (Jared Parsons)
• How To Refactor for Dependency Injection, Part 2: Composition Root (Ondrej Balas)
• ATBG: Delegates and structural identity (Eric Lippert)
• Seq 1.4 preview is out! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Who would ever write a multi-threaded GUI program? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,120 – The Iteration Variable in a foreach Loop Is Read-Only and #1,121 – Modifying Elements in a Collection Using foreach (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Locking, Double-Checked Locking, Lazy and Proxy Design Patterns (Brian Mullen)
• Tips for Improving Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team (Johanna Rothman)
• Agile Is Not Dead (But Some Organizations Might Be Soon) (Jurgen Appelo)
• GLUTEN-FREE AGILE (Paul Sutton)
• 5 Ways Investing in Architecture will Save you Money (Larry Louisiana)
• 3 Best Vector Wireframing Tools for Designers (Anthony)
• The Product Owner’s Guide to the Sprint Retrospective (Roman Pichler)
• The Power of Anonymous Retrospectives (Rui Miguel Ferreira)
• When a Product Manager of legacy confronts UX. (Scott Barnes)
• Business Objects != Data Contracts (Terrence Sheflin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Porting a Windows App Studio Universal App to Android Using Xamarin (Josh Morales)
• Dart for Android: Why Google Should Embrace Dart over Java (Alec Noller)
• New ways to connect your app to the Cloud using Android Studio and Google Cloud Platform (Manfred Zabarauskas)
• Webinar Recording: Developing iOS and Android apps in Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
• Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Part 7 – Animations, Audio, and Custom Table View Cells (Jameson Quave)
• Telerik AppBuilder: WP8 Improvements, TypeScript Support, Kendo UI Updates, Mobile Chrome Apps, and More (Rob Lauer)
• Switching Activities in Android (Madhuka Udantha)
• Limitations of Abstraction, and the Code+Coder symbiosis (Jessica Kerr)
• CSLA 4 version 4.5.600 release with iOS support and Xamarin.Forms has some potential (Rockford Lhotka)
• Amazon Announces Mobile Associates API for iOS (Sergio De Simone)
• iOS Quick Tip: Create a UILabel Where Each Letter in the String is a Different Color (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Ruby Style Iteration in Swift (Ben Scheirman)
• FlatBuffers: A Memory-Efficient Serialization Library (Wouter van Oortmerssen)
• Creating Clean Looking Icons In Unity For Mobile (Jesse Freeman)
• Randomly shuffle a Swift array and Cross-join two Swift arrays and Create a Swift Dictionary from an Array (Josh Smith)
• How to use templates to style the different nodes of the Ignite UI Tree control (Marina Stoyanova)
• Free one year prime[31] Unity plug-ins (Jaime Rodriguez)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 151 (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Real World Single Page Apps with Cory House and .NET Rocks! – Nuclear Weapons Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget HD Podcast 402 – 6.18.14 (Jon Turi)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 034 | Discussing On-Premises SharePoint, SharePoint Online in Office 365 and the state of SharePoint with FPWeb.net’s Rob LaMear IV (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Getting Started with Unit Testing Part 3 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 215: Amazon on Fire (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Scott Ian Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #203 – Tesla, Checklists and Bullies – Emerging External Eupsychics (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 16 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Ushering in the Era of Programmable Hardware | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• RiYL Episode 058: Erik Friedlander (Brian Heater)
• 113 JSJ Community Dynamics with Reginald Braithwaite (woody2shoes)

 

Community / Events

• Boston Code Camp 21 Schedule (Michael Cummings)
• Dev of the Week: Zemian Deng (Alec Noller)
• Make Music Philly Returns This Saturday, June 21 (Mary E. Brickthrower)
• Exciting Speakers Coming to Xamarin Evolve (Joseph Hill)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) RS.EXE Utility and Microsoft® SQL Server® Data-Tier Application Framework (June 2014) (MS Downloads)
• Announcing the SQL Server Setup Checklist: Free eBook Download (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.7.3 – Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Change Fill Factor – SQL in Sixty Seconds #069 and SQL SERVER – Keeping MSDB System Database Lean and Fit – Notes from the Field #033 (Pinal Dave)
• Download SQL Server Express (Scott Hanselman)
• #Azure Storage Tables – DateTime.MinValue is not supported (Alexandre Brisebois)
• How to Create a Q&A Featured Question with a Custom Image in Power BI (Melissa Coates)
• Natively Compiled Procedures and Bad Execution Plans (Grant Fritchey)
• Poor Man’s SQL Data Generation (Daniel Fisher)

 

SharePoint

• The Changing Face of SharePoint Development & Extensibility (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• SQL Server Video Automating Flat File Imports using PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Passive voice activation is coming to Cortana (Brad Sams)
• Packt Publishing Anniversary Deal to 05:00 PT June 25th 2014 (Tatworth)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 17, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 18, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 17, 2014 and Geek Reading June 18, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1373 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 6/18/2014 and Daily News Digest 6/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 18 Jun 2014 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1632 and The Morning Brew #1633 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-18 (Dan Rigby)

 

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