Day: October 24, 2013

Top Links

• How to install the nodejs Ghost blogging software on Azure Websites (Scott Hanselman)
• Durandal 2.0.1 Released. How You Can Help… (Rob Eisenberg)
• Ask the bug guys: null coalescing precedence (Eric Lippert)
• Windows Azure SDK 2.2 Release (Visual Studio Azure Tools Team)

 

Web Development

• Running JavaScript Unit Tests in Visual Studio with Jasmine & ReSharper (Phillip Haydon)
• How to migrate ASP.NET Membership users to ServiceStack (Adam Anderson)
• Open static HTML files in the Visual Studio 2013 designer (Mads Kristensen)
• "Chronicling America" with a little JavaScript, Windows 8.1 and VS 2013 (Greg Duncan)
• Conditional compilation behavior in JavaScript (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• A lower technology style of Angular for the enterprise (Paul Hammant)
• Microsoft buys API management startup to add to its Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Katana 2 is Available! (Brian Benz)
• Publishing Websites From VS.NET 2013 to Azure (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Tracking Errors In Production: I Panicked And Grabbed My Credit Card (Derick Bailey)
• Put your controllers on a diet: a survey (Jimmy Bogard)
• AngularJS CRUD Grid v6: Now with Filtering and Async Controllers (Jon Gallant)

 

XAML

• VirtualSurfaceImageSource and DPI Resolution (Charles Petzold)
• How to build XAML Doughnut Chart (Marina Stoyanova)
• WinRT : My First Impressions (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #935 – Setting an Undo Limit for a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• From the MVPs: “Getting started with Coded UI Testing for your Windows 8.1 Store Apps” (Mike Douglas)
• New advertising platform SDKs improve monetization for Windows 8.1 Store developers (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C++AMP Samples Updated for Visual Studio 2013 (Ade Miller)
• Visual Studio 2013 Adds New Project Templates with Improvements and Social Accounts Authentication (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• System Process is Locking .exe Files that Visual Studio Builds (Karl Shifflett)
• EasyNetQ: Publisher Confirms (Mike Hadlow)
• Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 2: Feel the Love – Defining Data Relationships (Beth Massi)
• How To Create Business Cards with QR Codes using RadBarcodeQR and RadRichTextBox (Carey Payette)
• System Center Performance Alerts and IntelliTrace (Larry Guger)
• Auto Async adds Template Dialog (M. Lang)
• Uneven Work Distribution and Oversubscription (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #959 – Don’t Use Double Underscores at the Start of an Identifier (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Truth About Agile | Top 30 Agile Myths- BUSTED (Vesselina Tasheva)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 16 – Using Specific Parameters in Stubs (James Bender)
• A Brief History Of Continuous Integration (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Transaction Script Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Pair programming (Keith Sparkjoy)
• Release: new color picker, tiny character counter, image rotation and more! (Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Create an App ID for Your iOS App (Jim Cowart)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Digging Deep on TFS with Martin Woodward (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Webinar Recording: Build Your Own Extension in ReSharper 8 (Robert Demmer)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 212: Everything you can think of (Gareth Myles)
• Engadget HD Podcast 372 – 10.22.13 (Jon Turi)
• Microsoft Researchers on 2013 ICFP Competition (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• #AppsWorld Coverage – Day 01 (Chris Walden)
• Geek of the Week: Lauren Hallden, Designer, Penn Squirrel Photographer, Dating Ipsum Creator (Eric Smith)
• Coding can’t be your only asset (Michelle Feder)

 

Database

• Write optimizations in Voron and DB Disassembly Kit: That Path to the New RavenDB Storage Engine (Oren Eini)
• MongoDB for .NET developers (Michael Kennedy)
• Big Data – Basics of Big Data Analytics – Day 18 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Grid User Post – How to open a SharePoint Online list in Access (Josh T.)

 

Miscellaneous

• Top 5 IT pro courses for devs now on Pluralsight (Gary Eimerman)
• Reclaiming Space after updating to Windows 8.1 (Howard van Rooijen)
• 1st Generation Surface Pro devices discounted $100 until end of this year (Richard Hay)
• Woz on iPad Air: No, thank you (Chris Matyszczyk)
• What don’t you get about Office for iOS? (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 23, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 24, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 10.09 ~ 10.23 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, October 23rd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 23, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1228 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 24, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/23/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1470 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-24 (Dan Rigby)

 

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