Day: September 3, 2014

Top Links

• Introducing Gulp, Grunt, Bower, and npm support for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• Data Points: Git: It’s Just Data! (Julie Lerman)
• The Working Programmer: Fun with C#, Part 2 (Ted Neward)
• Technical debt 101 (Nils P.)

 

Web Development

• Managing Your Page States with Backbone Routers (Peter Vogel)
• HTML5 Page Visibility API (Avinash Zala)
• Centering in CSS: A Complete Guide (Chris Coyier)
• WebStorm 9 EAP, 138.1988: Meteor support, Gulp and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• How to Export Data to Microsoft Word with the LightSwitch HTML Client – Part 2 (Elizabeth Maher)
• Tab Styles Inspiration (Mary Lou)
• Features Of ES6 Part 5: The Spread (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,150 – Custom Arc Shape, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store: Creating a Location-Aware App with Geofencing (Tony Champion)
• Modern Apps: Build Universal Apps for the Windows Platform (Rachel Appel)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ReSharper 8.2.2 with JetBrains Account Support is Here (Daria Dovzhikova)
• First non-Microsoft C++ AMP Implementation Leaves Dock, Shows Glimpses of Future (Alex Voicu)
• 2000 C# Things #1,174 – Assigning a Lambda Expression to an Expression Tree (Sean Sexton)
• Be Sure With Azure (.NET): Blob Storage (Max R. McCarty)
• Running a .NET app on Galileo using Mono (Morten Nielsen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scaling Agile — a perfect method (Tobias Mayer)
• Continuous Value Delivery the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• Scaling Agile (Matt Davey)
• Dogfood sometimes doesn’t taste so good and What kind of problems you’ll find only when you are dog fooding (Oren Eini)
• Portability and Extensibility via Layered Product Design (Randal Hoff)
• Running Code Reviews with Confidence (Emma Jane Hogbin Westby)
• Git: The Safety Net for Your Projects (TOBIAS GÜNTHER)
• Marginally valuable projects have no place in custom software development (Wes McClure)
• Don’t Estimate Stories In Sprint Planning (Andrew Fuqua)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using the Windows Phone 8 Emulator with Hybrid Mobile Apps and Telerik AppBuilder (Rob Lauer)
• Marmalade adds support for new Windows Phone 8.1 features (Darcy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building IoS Apps Using Swift with Glenn Howes (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 142 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Real World IT – The App for That! 101 of SharePoint Apps (1st of 5) | Real World IT (Karuana Gatimu)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 39: Tim Heuer (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Snapsy (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 341: Seven Years and Still The Married Gamers (Chris Brown)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: One With Things To Do In Barcelona | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• The Amp Hour #214 – Charvat And Ossmann Join Forces – Recurring RF Remontados (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

 

Community / Events

• Come Speak at PowerShell Summit 2015! (Jim Christopher)
• Dev of the Week: Hébert Coelho de Oliveira (Alec Noller)
• How to win friends and influence people online (Kate Gillingham)
• The Philadelphia Honey Festival Returns For Its 5th Year With Beekeeping Demos, Honey Tastings, Tours, Crafts And More, September 5-7 (Kristina Jenkins)
• Don’t Get Me Started: A Girl’s Road to Geekdom (David Platt)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Encryption Key (Scott Murray)
• SQL Server column encryption (Enrico)
• SQL Server Integration Services XML Configurations Tips and Tricks (Dattatrey Sindol)
• Making MySQL Better at GitHub (Sam Lambert)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Curse of Version 6 (Andrew Binstock)
• You suck at technical interviews – Response (Jaco Pretorius)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 2, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of August 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 2, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Friday Five – August 29, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #1407 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (8/25-8/31) (Dara Monasch)
• The Morning Brew #1686 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-03 (Dan Rigby)

 

The Geek Shelf