Day: March 10, 2014

Top Links

• Reusable async validation for WPF with Prism 4.2 (Brian Noyes)
• ECMAScript 6 Features Overview (Luke Hoban)
• A close-up look at Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Ed Bott)
• The Tablet Show – Building a Cross Platform Mobile App with Greg Shackles (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Node.js Infographic (Frank LaVigne)
• Per request tracing in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Working with Multiple Selection in PhpStorm 8 EAP (Maarten Balliauw)
• API Versioning in ASP.NET Web API 2.1 (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Creating Charts using HTML5 and SVG (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Event-driven application design with JavaScript (Patrick Mulder)
• WCF Web HTTP Service: why and how (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Extending Built-in Objects in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Untangle Your JavaScript with Browserify (Brandon Konkle)
• Mastering the DOM access (100 lines of JavaScript) (Krasimir Tsonev)
• Why In Sencha’s ExtJS or Sencha Touch Source is so Important (Peter Kellner)
• A Closer Look at the Identity Client Implementation in SPA Template (Ravi Kiran)

 

XAML

• Astrophotography with Windows Phone Part 1: The Hardware Interface (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Get ready for the ratings and getting going with the Windows Phone Rate My App (Greg Duncan)
• Reading and Writing to Excel files using WPF 4.5 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,025 – Small and Large Changes to the Value of a Slider (Sean Sexton)
• Silverlight available in the SDK Samples Browser (Vladimir Amiorkov)
• Extending your app theme into the SystemTray (Shawn Kendrot)
• High Performance Windows Store Apps (Eric Lippert)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Text-Based Box Generator (Richard Carr)
• Team Member IDE in the Cloud, more possibilities… Complete Team (Clemens Reijnen)
• Enhancements to Debugging Exceptions with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2013 (Nitin Choubey)
• Combining F# and Simple.Web to Break SqlEntityConnection (James D’Angelo)
• [Sample Of Mar 9th] How to bulk update the hyperlink field for TFS workitems (Philip Fu)
• Microsoft Point of Service for .NET v1.14 (POS for .NET) (MS Downloads)
• NCover Update March 2014 (Kerry Meade)
• Code generation pros and cons and T4 Template (Mehdi Khalili)
• Converting from a UTC-based SYSTEMTIME directly to a local-time-based SYSTEMTIME (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,049 – Full List of Implicit Numeric Conversions (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework – My Study Notes (Peter Saddington)
• Tests as part of your code (Jef Claes)
• Five Hidden Costs of Selenium (Jim Holmes)
• Visual design is nothing without UX design (Matt Lacey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Handle Memory Management in Android (Alec Noller)
• Barcode Scanner Sample, and New Repo for Cordova Examples (Raymond Camden)
• Android SDK For Wearables Coming In 2 Weeks, Says Google (Natasha Lomas)
• Using Google Fonts in a PhoneGap App and Installing the Best Android Dev Environment: Intellij IDEA and Genymotion Emulator (Troy Miles)
• iOS 7 in-line UIDatePicker – Part 2 (Vasilica Costescu)
• Windows Phone 8 native and Javascript interop (Alexander Persson)
• Experience developing a Windows Phone 8 app with Html5 and Javascript (Alexander Persson)
• SQLite on mobile devices – UNIQUE NULL (Eric Sink)
• What you test as part of your app and what people perceive as being your app (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 308 – Nick Landry on Windows Speech SDK (David Giard)
• Engadget Podcast 387 – 3.7.14 (Jon Turi)
• MNR 502: Xbox One System Update (Larry Hyrb)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 122 (Richard Hay)
• How to share your Windows Phone 8 Screen Over the Internet using Nokia Beamer (Michael Crump)
• The Alton Browncast – Sparks – Martin Lawrence Galleries, USA (Alton Brown)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 15: John Papa (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Neil deGrasse Tyson Returns Again and The Nerdist Podcast – William Katt (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 328: Changing Hearts and Minds (Chris Brown)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 9, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• Get Up And Code 044: Eric Smith Loses 90 Pounds (John Sonmez)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries with Bill Nye and Astro Mike (Bill Nye)
• GeekWire Radio: Filling the gap between college and the working world (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• The new developer tool chain for data, panel participation at DeveloperWeek (Glenn Block)
• Austin Has Highest Salaries For Tech Workers, After Factoring In Cost of Living (Timothy)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Association Rules Data Mining Example (Dallas Snider)
• SqlSmash: A productivity plugin for Sql Server Management Studio (Latish Sehgal)
• Example of SQL CLR in SQL Server (Paresh Prajapati)
• Handle conversion between time zones in SQL Server – part 2 (Aaron Bertrand)
• MySQL – Generating Row Number for Each Row using Variable and MySQL – Reset Row Number for Each Group – Partition By Row Number and MySQL – How to do Natural Join in MySQL? – A Key Difference Between Inner Join and Natural Join (Pinal Dave)
• Regular Expressions, Part 3: Business Intelligence Uses (Ondrej Balas)
• Conditional logic in Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Top 2 Features of Power Query (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• Office Web Widgets—Experimental (Office Developer Team)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell, help me to publish my SSRS reports to SharePoint! (Rayis I.)
• Compress SharePoint logs using PowerShell (Simon H.)

 

Miscellaneous

• A second (final?) “beta” of the text file importer for OneNote 2013 (John Guin)
• Neil Young’s high-fidelity iPod competitor will cost $399 (Sean Hollister)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 7, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1314 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – March 7, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (March 7th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #106 (Mary Lou)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 10, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1564 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Links #294 (Mike Ward)
• Reblog: February 28 to March 6 (Jason Strate)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-10 (Dan Rigby)
• .NET Weekly Digest #53 (Jakub Chodounsky)

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