Tag: android

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• Mark your calendars: Announcing Build 2014 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Reflector 8.3 released (Roger Hart)
• Learning TypeScript: Hello World (Bill Wagner)
• Visual Studio and TFS 2013 List of Product Updates (Part 1) and Visual Studio & TFS 2013 – List of extensions and tools (Part 2) (Terje Sandstrom)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 5 and Bootstrap 3 CSS Framework (David Hayden)
• Learn JavaScript Part 3 – AngularJS and Langton’s Ant (Dave Kerr)
• Browser Link–Tracking Unused CSS (Dave Paquette)
• Securing your Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) with HTTPS and SSL (Mark Brown)
• Accepting Raw Request Body Content with ASP.NET Web API (Rick Strahl)
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Automating everything with the Windows Azure Management Libraries and .NET (Scott Hanselman)
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• Creating Advanced LightSwitch HTML Screen Templates (Michael Washington)
• A Deeper Look at Objects in JavaScript and Introduction to Objects in JavaScript and Event Capturing and Bubbling in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Create Custom Kendo MVVM Widgets (Basem Emara)
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• Do You Like Your Angular Controllers with or without Sugar? (John Papa)
• Interactive Vector Graphic Essentials (Marc Grabanski)
• Studying Go language (golang) (Rinat Abdullin)
• RxJS 2.2 Released (Rx team)
• Ajax Control Toolkit December 2013 Release (Stephen Walther)
• Mixing SPDY and Domain Sharding (John Graham-Cumming)
• Don’t Fear Directives In Angular.js (Nathan LeClaire)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #971 – Items Property is a Content Property (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1: Beaming Media via PlayTo By Reference (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Embedded 8 Handheld SDK (MS Downloads)
• Windows 8.1: Alarm and Lock screen call toasts (Andrea Boschin)
• Can an app control toast display time? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to enable “Fast App Resume” in your WP8 app? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Choosing a specific master page for each Windows Store App page (Loek van den Ouweland)
• Publish your apps now to take advantage of the biggest holiday season yet (Todd Brix)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft Git-TF for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (MS Downloads)
• Static Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2013: What’s New (Mickey Gousset)
• The Folder Browser Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
• Making sound using C# (Filip Ekberg)
• Virtual Academy write-up: Visual Studio Tips and Tricks, Debugging (Iris Classon)
• NDepend customizing rule: Avoid namespaces with few types and NDepend customizing rule: Declare types in namespaces (Daniel Fisher)
• Announcing Team Foundation Server Administration Tool (Charles Sterling)
• Code-first O/R mapping is actually rather silly. (Frans Bouma)
• “Learn to program with Visual Basic & .NET Gadgeteer” (Greg Duncan)
• New book: Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Nailing Down Generics (Patrick Lioi)
• EF6.0.2 RTM Available (Rowan Miller)
• 2000 C# Things #996 – UTF-16 Encoding, Part I (Sean Sexton)
• NDepend on a Real Project, Round 1.3: An Exception by Any Other Name… (Steve Wilkes)
• A handful of ALM Ranger solutions landed to close off another exciting VS ALM year (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Balancing Demand and Capability with Kanban (Ben Linders)
• Home Kanban for Domestic Bliss (Meri Williams)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 30 – Conclusion (James Bender)
• Unit Tests In VS2013, When It Makes Sense (Peter Kellner)
• Voron perf testing, part II (Oren Eini)
• Worst Practices Teams (Paul Hammant)
• Architecture, design, and the connected environment (Andy Fitzgerald)
• What are “Off-times”? (Brian Harry)
• Credits and Recognition (Geri Coady)
• 10 Emotional Intelligence Articles for Improving Your Effectiveness in Work and Life (JD Meier)
• A book review for a data analysis book I am using for testing OneNote (John Guin)
• SOLID: Part 1 – The Single Responsibility Principle (Patkos Csaba)
• Release: new Image inspector, huge leap forward in Mockups for Google Drive, and more! (Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni)
• Thoughts on Performance Culture (Nicholas Zakas)
• Ma­ture Opt­imiza­tion: An In­troduc­tion (Carlos Bueno)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Options for Testing Android Applications and Sprinkles: Boilerplate Reduction for Databases on Android (Alec Noller)
• Connecting to Google Drive* from an Android* App and Options for Releasing Native Android* Apps for Intel® Architecture (x86) (Android on Intel)
• PhoneGap 3.3 Offers Improved BlackBerry Support and an Android Resource Loading API (Jonathan Allen)
• How to Become a Lazy but Productive Android Developer (Paresh Mayani)
• Phonegap CordovaActivity Problem (Jakub Chodounský)
• Creating Slide-out Menu with UIDynamics (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Improvements to the Google Play Services Component (Tom Opgenorth)
• Building Native User Interfaces is the Right Way To Build Cross Platform Style Apps (Wally McClure)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 497: Peggle 2, Dead Rising 3 DLC and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Vblog – Dropping out (Iris Classon)
• TWC9: VS2013.1 RC 1, ALM VM’s, More *.1 RC’s, Mads on Future of C# and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Charles, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Edge Show 85 – Windows Azure Active Directory Premium Demo | Edge (David Tesar & RicksterCDN)
• Yet Another Podcast #117–Elijah Manor and John Papa on jQuery and other JavaScript Libraries (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Weekly 340: Can I Call You Steve? (Paul Thurrott)
• Nodecember on FWTV (Frank LaVigne)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Brendon Small (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 011 | AC’s and CJ’s 2014 Predictions (Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson)
• The Tablet Show – Monetizing Your Mobile Apps with Atley Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 087 JSJ TC39 with Alex Russell (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Countdown to Teched: The One With Things Not to Miss in Houston | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• The Vergecast 105 – Instagram Direct, Nexus TV, and Spotify (Evan Rodgers)
• Get Up And Code 32: Do You Know What Your MQ Is? (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Engadget Podcast 372 – 12.12.13 (Jon Turi)
• Inside the Microsoft Model Shop | Microspotting (Larry Larsen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 115 (Richard Hay)
• GeekWire Radio: Ride-sharing rules, our geeky gift guide, using the Nest Protect, and the Gigabit Seattle delay (Todd Bishop)
• Developer Tools Screencast 7: ConEmu (Latish Sehgal)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft announces the Surface Classroom Challenge (Brian Fagioli)
• Open Source Scan-and-Win Contest (Joseph Hill)
• Build announced for April 2-4: will a new CEO keynote? (Kip Kniskern)
• DeveloperWeek Launches Crowdsourced Awards Program (Mark Boyd)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Architecture and Data Storage (Arshad Ali)
• Document your SQL Server database with free tools: SQL Server Compact Toolbox and DB>Doc (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – How to Identify Datatypes and Properties of Variable and SQL SERVER – Monitor Database via a Heatmap, Alarms List and Realtime Diagnostics for FREE (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding the Limitations of MongoDB (Alec Noller)
• Ways to View Content Published to a Power BI Site (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• Setting up Security on sub sites in SharePoint 2010 (Mike Davis)

 

PowerShell

• Renaming files in a folder with incrementing number in PowerShell (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous

• Turning off the disco lights on the Start screen (Raymond Chen)

 

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2013 12.01 ~ 12.16 (yuanjian)
• Interesting Finds: December 14, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 15, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 15, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1259 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – December 13, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #94 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 12/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #120 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1507 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Friday Links #282 (Mike Ward)
• .NET Weekly Digest (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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