Tag: iOS

Top Links

• Stack Exchange API V2.0 Public Beta (Kevin Montrose)
• GUI REPL for Roslyn (Chris Sells)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Has Reached 50,000 Apps (Antonio Hernandez)
• Charlie Kindel, ex-Microsoft, posts thoughts on Windows Phone’s successes and failures (Chris Ziegler)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Cancelling Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Renaming Project Files in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly Into TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• VSColorOutput – Visual Studio Output Coloring Extension (Think "Adding color to the Build/Debug Output window text") and Virtual Postcard with Kinect and The Android Eye for the .Net Guy… The Android for .NET Developers Series by Dino Esposito (Greg Duncan)
• StyleCop 4.7.0.0. is out (Tatworth)
• Extending Unity (Robert May)
• Features Nuget Would Benefit From (Paul Stack)
• Why is the file size reported incorrectly for files that are still being written to? and Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dragging out (Raymond Chen)
• Yield Operator Fun (Sebastian Dau)
• ReSharper 6.1: Improvements in IntelliSense Options (Hadi Hariri)
• TPL – Continuation (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• Deploying a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 to Azure with SQL Server Compact (Al Pascual)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.41 (CodePlex)
• Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• Working with the JavaScript “this” Keyword (Dan Wahlin)
• CSS3 Images Pre-Last Call WD Published (Elika J. Etemad)
• Little HTML5 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• CSS3 Lightbox (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Field and Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft helps extend JavaScript (Sara Allison)
• Performance testing with Selenium and javascript (JP Castro)
• Packaging a JavaScript Library with Nuget (Sumit Maitra)
• Microsoft Developers finally get a .NET Framework for HTML5 Mobile Applications (Webgui)
• Binding And Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater and 30 Minutes To Grasp ASP. NET jQuery Repeater and Using jQuery Repeater to Mark a Multi-line EMail Message As Spam and Show Progress (zoyobar)
• Day 2 – GPU accelerate your DOM elements (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Windows Azure Trial Account Spending Limit and The New, Improved No-Risk Windows Azure Trial (Jim O’Neil)
• Knockout.js Observable Extensions (Josh Bush)
• Orchard Hands-On Lab available (Greg Duncan)
• Making the First Letter Stand Out (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Introducing filer.js (Eric Bidelman)
• Deployment of Applications with Infragistics Reporting in Windows Azure (Mihail Mateev)
• knockoutjs: Uncaught Error: ko.applyBindings: first parameter should be your view model; second parameter should be a DOM node (Alexander Zeitler)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.1 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github and The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• First Experience Building Something With Clojure (Gareth Rushgrove)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
• Introduction to bddify and Method name conventions in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• NOT Doing Scrum – Back to the Basics and Teams Over Processes – Don’t Be Insane (Peter Saddington)
• Example of Self-documenting Unit Test with Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Introducing the for-if anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 20: Refactoring a Monster Test, Part 2 and 31 Days of Testing—Day 21: Data Driving Your Functional Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test (Gautam Goenka)
• How-To: Returning a Class By Value with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Expanding your horizons: Actions (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Testing Windows Phone 7 Apps with Typemock (Avi Kaye)
• Silverlight & XNA – A Tale of Two Cities (Simon Jackson)
• Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
• 23 skins and counting with v1.1 of the Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.5.0 Now Available… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started (Senthil Kumar)
• Book Review: Fun with Silverlight 4 authored by Rajesh Lal (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Real World Windows Phone Dev Part 4: The Panorama (Matt Hidinger)
• Adding an Easter Egg to your WP7 Application (Michael Crump)
• My Top Frameworks for Windows Phone Development (Pieter de Rycke)
• 2000 WPF Things #458 – Properties to Set When Using a Horizontal or Vertical GridSplitter and #459 – Using Two (or More) GridSplitter Elements in the Same Grid and #460 – A GridSplitter Can Share a Cell with Another Control (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Final notes before the beta and Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Caliburn.Micro: RadTransitionControl custom convention (Mikael Koskinen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve McConnell Studies Development Practices and The Tablet Show – Richard Griffin Programs in WinJS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell and YOW! 2011: Martin Thompson – On Concurrent Programming and Concurrency Folklore and GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 189: Paul Litwin and Suzanna Moran on Geeks Giving Back (David Giard)
• What The Tech 99: Wishlists and Predictions For 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.28.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 118 – 12.26.2011 and Engadget HD Podcast 280 – 12.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #154: Save and Cancel… Done! (James Shore)
• Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go (Mark Frauenfelder)

Community / Events

• Changes, changes, changes and CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Ted Neward)
• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• OSS and .NET Year In Review 2011 (Phil Haack)
• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

• Dynamic Sorting in SSRS (Unknown Author)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 15138 – The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped and SQL SERVER – Target Recovery Time of a Database – Advance Option in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Effect of Compressed Backup Setting at Server Level on Database Backup (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Database Specification (SQLArcher)
• Free O’Reilly eBook "Oracle Essentials, 4th Edition" (Tatworth)
• Case Sensitive search with SQL (koolprasad2003)
• Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Why Management Studio forces you to know SQL (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

• Three Degrees of the SharePoint Community Challenge (Joel Oleson)
• Understanding Business Connectivity Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• 10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Developer Should Make (Andrew Burgess)
• Here are three Ruby functions… (Brian Marick)
• Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
• The Case For Developer Platforms (James Yu)
• Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny (Chris Sells)
• Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release Dates (Vygantas)
• Windows 8 Slate Review (Jeremy Likness)
• iOS Rich Text Editing : Sample Project (Josh Garnham)
• Learning Android: WebView character encoding (Mark Needham)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 and Kindel: Yes, Windows Phone is Superior, But Here’s Why It’s Not Selling (Paul Thurrott)
• So, just what IS the problem with Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
• My next year TOP5 wishlist for Windows media, WP7 and XBox teams in Microsoft (Gunnar Peipman)
• Results of the reverse engineering poll – people do it, whether you want it or not (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 26, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.20 ~ 12.28 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – #0016 and Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – 2 – #0017 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #781 and Double Shot #782 and Double Shot #783 (Mike Gunderloy)
• 2011 Yearly Link Roundup (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Daily News Digest 12/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 22-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1010 (Chris Alcock)
• Backbone Fundamentals, Three.js Boilerplate, zoom.js and Node Roundup: Clarinet, Sandbox, actionHero and jQuery Roundup: jQuery-inlog, -prefix-free, jquery.animate-enhanced (Alex Young)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Recently in Web Development (December Edition) (Siddharth)
• MVP Mondays: Popular Posts from 2011 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) by Jeremy Osborn