Tag: remote working

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Top Links

• xUnit for Xamarin is dead, long live xUnit for Devices! (Oren Novotny)
• The Channel 9 Xamarin Invasion Advances (James Montemagno)
• Aurelia & Angular 2.0 Code Side by Side (Rob Eisenberg)
• dotnetConf is back, this Wednesday (The .NET Team)
• Announcing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview (Kirk Koenigsbauer)

 

Web Development

• PhpStorm 9 EAP 141.176 (Mikhail Vink)
• Read Config file in ASP.NET 5 (Radenko Zec)
• A Look at ASP.NET 5: Part 3 – EF7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Angular First and Foremost (Aaron Marisi)
• Writing DecentCMS modules (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Media Services in Azure Government Datacenters! (Adarsh Solanki)
• Scaling #Azure Cloud Services to Zero (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Strategies for Staying on Top of Web Performance (Chris Coyier)
• React Introduces Support for ES6 Classes (James Chesters)
• Adobe Announces Document Cloud Service and APIs (Janet Wagner)
• 11 Tips to Become a Better Front-end Developer (Lubos Kmetko)
• Powerful Development & Test Environment in the Cloud (Magnus Mårtensson)
• Error Handling inside Node Promises (Mehfuz Hossain)
• My new free eBook is out: OWIN Succinctly by Syncfusion (Simone Chiaretta)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8.1 Tile Icon Size Guide (Andreas Hammar)
• WPF Transforms – Skew (Richard Carr)
• How to update Live Tile in Universal Windows apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Automatically update packages using NuGet (Kevin Logan)
• It’s that time again; get ready to upgrade to TFS 2015 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 Beta Released (Steve Dower)
• Retrieve and Update Entity Framework with Dynamic Queries (Peter Vogel)
• Project, project, project, creating multi-project Solutions (Greg Duncan)
• String Extension to use instead of String.IsNullOrEmpty (Mitul Suthar)
• Does the really CLR call CoInitializeEx on the first call to unmanaged code, even if you don’t deal with COM at all and are just calling native code via p/invoke? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Sprint Review Blog: The Big Scrum Series (David Starr)
• Using Games to Make You a Better Tester (Erik Davis)
• Releasing Update 3 for Indigo Studio (v4) (George Abraham)
• Personas: Finding imaginary friends for web designers (Jerry Cao)
• 11 Rules All Programmers Should Live By (John Sonmez)
• One month of mini habits (Mark Needham)
• Slide view / splitview / side draw and a hamburger are not necessarily the same thing (Matt Lacey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Add Charts to Your Android App Using MPAndroidChart (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• NGraphics in a Xamarin Sketch (Mike Bluestein)
• Chuck Norris and the Internet of Things (Jim O’Neil)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Managing an IT Codebase with Steve Evans (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Brian Michael Bendis (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #128 – Networking – Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• EntreProgrammers Episode 56 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
• Ping 240: Games, Iron Man lends a hand, world’s largest growler | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Tuesdays With Corey: Virtual Machine Size Update | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Video: An Early Demo Of WebGL 2.0 (Vygantas)
• Local Variables vs. Parameterized Stored Procedures in SQL Server (Video) (Kendra Little)

 

Community / Events

• Free Webinar on Professional Scrum Development by Richard Hundhausen March 18 2:00 PM PST (Charles Sterling)
• Now we are nine (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Tragedies of the Remote Worker: “Looks like you’re the only one on the call” (Scott Hanselman)
• Sins and Virtues of the Remote Worker (Sam Basu)
• Say Hello to These .NET Developers (Vicky)
• Google Summer of Code now open for student applications (Gary Lewis)
• Microsoft unveils new business products, with Russell Wilson cameo and jabs at Apple and Google (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• Passing SQL Server Agent tokens to an Integration Services package (Koen Verbeeck)
• New Features in Bing Developer Assistant March Release (Jialiang)
• SQL SERVER – Marking Filegroup as ReadOnly with SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• “Thing IS NOT NULL” isn’t the same as “Thing != NULL” (Jen McCown)
• Power BI preview is now available (Jennifer Chen)

 

PowerShell

• Verify SQL Server Backups Existence in the File System with PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• Basel PowerShell User Group Meeting: March, 2015 (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• No, John Gruber, Apple did not ‘basically invent’ USB-C (Mark Wilson)
• Office Delve—discover exactly what you need, when you need it (Julia White)
• Get ready for Skype for Business (Giovanni Mezgec)
• How to Become a Web Developer Part 5: Web Application Architecture (Stephen Young)

 

More Link Collections

• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (3/9-3/15) (Dara Monasch)
• The Morning Brew #1821 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 16th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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