Day: January 22, 2014

Top Links

• The right way to restore NuGet packages (David Ebbo)
• SSW TV – Scott Hanselman on Windows Azure and Visual Studio 2013 (SSW Team)
• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks: Enhanced Scroll Bar (Susan Ibach)
• Integrating the Client and the Server with TypeScript (Peter Vogel)

 

Web Development

• A Dive Into Plain JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• An Epic Report/Dashboard With Keen.io And Kendo UI DataViz (Derick Bailey)
• Remote.js (Jamie Kosoy)
• WinJS ListView Q&A and Positioning ListViews inside zoomed-out Semantic Zoom (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Profiling PHP applications with PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Private instance members with weakmaps in JavaScript (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Custom Routes in ASP.NET MVC (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Fixing a webkit-only effect using Sublime Text (Chris Heilmann)
• testardo – A Browser Agnostic JS Web Driver (Andrea Giammarchi)
• New HTTP/2.0 Katana Prototype Available (Parashu)
• 10 Examples of Effective Developer Portals (Patricio Robles)
• With great Azure VM comes great responsibility (which is why you really want an Azure Web Site) (Troy Hunt)
• Working With LESS and the Chrome DevTools (Umar Hansa)
• Using the Leap Motion Controller with Sencha Touch (Carl-Johan Elger)

 

XAML

• How to integrate tickets from uservoice into your Windows Phone app (Marco Siccardi)
• 2000 WPF Things #992 – Scrolling an Item in a ListBox into View (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Information Controls – Popup (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Arithmetic Overflow in C# (Jakub Chodounský)
• New Book on TFS 2013 Customization (Brian Keller)
• Upgrading Visual Studio 2013 Update to a newer Update may be slow and Uninstalling Visual Studio 2013 with VSUpdate error: Element not found (Heath Stewart)
• Parsing C# (Phillip Trelford)
• Control + Click GoTo Definition in CodeSmith Generator 7.0 (Blake Niemyjski)
• STL Resources on MSDN (Eric Battalio)
• Function call performance on .NET (Jon Harrop)
• Windows Embedded Compact 2013 Tools – Managed Code Versions of Apps V3.0 (CodePlex)
• 2000 C# Things #1,016 – Retrieving the Length of an Array (Sean Sexton)
• [Sample Of Jan 21st] How to implement deep clone/duplicate entity objects using serialization and reflection (Philip Fu)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Head First Design Patterns – Part 1: Observer Pattern (Jonathan Wood)
• Day 4 of 7 Days of Agile Results – Wednesday (Daily Outcomes) (JD Meier)
• How do you normalize your velocity estimation? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Why is Software Architecture Important? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Small Stories Reduce Variability in Velocity, Improve Predictability (Doug Brophy)
• Going open source at work: How to convince your boss (Jack Wallen)
• Successfully crafting a mail app using the Lean Startup methodology (Kinson Liu, Todd Mackey & Tony Liu)
• How do you decompose complicated system into components? (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin: Resources of an Android App Project (Marco Siccardi)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Android: Develop Mobile Apps Using Java and Eclipse – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 145 – “$1,000 Socks” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• The Amp Hour #181 – An Interview with Dave Vandenbout – Xceptional XESS Xenagogue (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Twitter Cards launch for Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
• CES2014: Oculus VR Crystal Cove In-Depth and Hands-On (GavinGear)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Wouter de Kort (Willy-P. Schaub)
• AngularJS Training (K. Scott Allen)
• 9 Ways To Survive The Shit Storm of Developer Evangelism (Adron Hall)
• Dev of the Week: James Sugrue (Alec Noller)
• Upcoming Classes from Girl Develop It Philly (Sarah Galbraith)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to Survive on Free Tools for Month – Database Comparison Done Easily with ApexSQL Diff – The ApexSQL Diff Tool (Pinal Dave)
• Free eBook: 45 Database Performance Tips for Developers (Red Gate)
• Five Things About Scaling MongoDB (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Quarter Century of Tcl (Andrew Binstock)
• DIY – Add Qi Wireless charging to your AT&T Lumia 1520 Part 2 (Mark Guim)
• The reason everyone should learn to code (Mike Loukides)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 6 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading January 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: December 17th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Double Shot #1283 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1531 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 22, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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