Day: September 23, 2013

Top Links

• PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio Beta v0.5 (Adam Driscoll)
• Announcing the Icenium Extension for Visual Studio (Rob Lauer)
• Unit testing resources and articles for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 (Terje Sandstrom)
• Refcardz: Getting Started with PhoneGap (Raymond Camden)

 

Web Development

• Kendo: How to get the model bound to an element (Adam Anderson)
• Building and Testing a Web API Service (Peter Vogel)
• CSS Property Usage > Popularity (Chris Coyier)
• Consistency Problems With APIs In JavaScript Promise Libraries (Derick Bailey)
• Improved JavaScript debugger in WebStorm 7 (Ekaterina Prigara)
• 384 Pages of CSS (Louis Lazaris)
• JetBrains becomes Drupal Technology Partner, supports Drupal Community with free PhpStorm IDE licenses for Open Source contributors (Mikhail Vink)
• Making Hyperlink colors specific to just one <UL> Unordered List with SASS and CSS (Peter Kellner)
• Hosting SignalR under SSL/https (Rick Strahl)
• LightSwitch: Passing Data Between Screens – Example 4: Passing a Database Item without JavaScript (Robert MacLean)
• Git Internals PDF Open Sourced (Scott Chacon)
• ChocolateChip-UI 3.0.3 Supports jQuery (Robert Biggs)
• Attribute Routing changes for ASP.NET Web Stack shipped in VS2013 RC (Xinyang Qiu)
• CSS Animation and Behaviors in Blend for VS2013 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS Book Review (David Hayden)
• OWIN Startup Class Detection (Praburaj Thiagarajan)
• Azure CLI Day 8 – site create with GitHub (Adam Grocholski)
• The ECMAScript Internationalization API (Axel Rauschmayer)
• A Visual Guide to Sass & Compass Color Functions (Chris Coyier)
• Fundamentals of Python: Functions, Formatting & Assignment Statements (Week 2) (Dara Monasch)
• Understanding Security Features in the SPA Template for VS2013 RC (Hongye Sun)
• Creating A Chrome Extension (John Sonmez)
• Prepending www to 2nd level domain names (Scott Forsyth)
• Web Publish how to automate multi-project publish with file system (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)

 

XAML

• MVVM with Windows 8 and Window Phone 8 (Aligned)
• 2000 WPF Things #912 – Expanding an Expander Will Trigger Layout (Sean Sexton)
• Handy Boolean value converters (Bea & Eric Stollnitz)
• [Sample Of Sep 20th] How to sort RSS feed in WP8 (Philip Fu)
• Windows 8 FlipView Looping Sample (Michael Scherotter)
• Developing secure apps (links) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Removing Diacritics from Strings (Richard Carr)
• Organizational Accounts in Visual Studio 2013 RC (Bhavesh Chauhan)
• TFS 2013 Power Tools are available (Brian Harry)
• Microsoft Lync 2013 SDK (MS Downloads)
• Basic Data Operations with the Entity Framework V6 RC1 (Rob Sanders)
• Modules Window Search support in VS2013 (Brad Sullivan)
• VS 2013 and PCL issues (Kjell-Åke Andersson)
• How to get rid of Exclude From StyleCop menu (Mike Fourie)
• Upgrading your car with .NET Micro Framework (Nicolas Dorier)
• Microsoft Pex Framework and its new cousin Code Digger (Raj Aththanayake)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Null Navigation Properties (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #936 – Visualizing Garbage Collection Generations (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD: Day Six – What Is Dependency Injection? (James Bender)
• Should designers be using agile? (Paul Boag)
• Fast-Forward Git Merge (Ariya Hidayat)
• What is a Product Owner? (Brian Harry)
• High-Performance Teams Happen When It All Hangs Together (JD Meier)
• How to produce a superb software design? (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Apple iOS7 is the Perfect Excuse to Re-evaluate Your Most Useful Apps (Gerry Carr)
• Xamarin Recipe Cook-off (Joseph Hill)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 131 – “Unapologetically Amateur” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Windows Weekly 329: Click-Clack (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Brad Neely (Chris Hardwick)
• 076 JSJ Meteor.js with Marcus Phillips and Fred Zirdung (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• TWC9: Kinect SDK, String Debug Visualizer, lots of CodePlex and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Martin Woodward)
• The Tablet Show – Consumer vs Business Apps with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #108–Lino Tadros Falafel Software (Jesse Liberty)
• Engadget Podcast 361 – 09.19.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• The Nothing Serious Podcast Where Hasselbeck Makes Our Brains Explode (Steven)
• The Vergecast 094 – September 20th 2013 (Verge Video)
• Get Up And Code 20: Gaining Mass (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)

 

Community / Events

• MSDN Subscribers: Windows Azure Aston Martin Sweepstakes through Sept 30th (Scott Guthrie)
• Former UX Designer for Windows Phone teams up with Nokia DVLUP Design Consultations (Daniel Rubino)
• Microsoft’s Surface 2 launch: What to expect (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Next Generation: Where are the female coders? (Chris)
• How 1 man switched careers with 340 books, 2 jobs and unlimited learning with Pluralsight (Dana Gagnon)

 

Database

• Backup and Restore SQL Server databases with Azure cloud services and SMO (Arshad Ali)
• Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2012 SP1 (Carla Abanes)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet #19 : migrate a SQL Server database to SQL Compact (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – How to Access the Previous Row and Next Row value in SELECT statement? and SQL SERVER – How to Access the Previous Row and Next Row value in SELECT statement? – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Hibernating Rhinos and Managed Designs announce enterprise partnership related to RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Tips for setting up TeamCity with SQLExpress (Michael Sync)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why CodeProject.com is Essential for Programmers (DevToolsGuy)
• Book Recommendations (Jim Wooley)
• Nokia reportedly using ‘Lumia 2520’ name for Windows RT tablet (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 21, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 22, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 23, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 09.10 ~ 09.21 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, September 19th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, September 20th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 20, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (September 20, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #82 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1207 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – September 20, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• The Morning Brew #1447 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-23 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 23, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/20/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #108 (Frank)
• Reblog: September 13 to September 19 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 31 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #047 (Pinal Dave)

 

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