Day: October 23, 2014

Top Links

• Getting Ready to Declare Brackets 1.0 (The Brackets Team)
• Kinect SDK 2.0 Live! (James Ashley)
• Debug with the Xamarin Android Player from Visual Studio in VMWare or Parallels (James Montemagno)
• Announcing PostSharp 4 RTM (Gael Fraiteur)

 

Web Development

• WebStorm 9 released: Meteor support, React and JSX, Gulp integration, and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Building an EventStore with User Defined Projections on top of Postgresql and Node.js (Jeremy D. Miller)
• CRUD Operations using ASP.NET Web API and Angular.js (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Creating an API for a Rock-paper-scissors Game – using ASP.NET Web Api (Per Ökvist)
• Some Node pitfalls – 1. Global state (Bertrand LeRoy)
• WebJobs goes into full production!! (Jaime Espinosa)
• Mitigating the POODLE Attack in Splunk (Jose Hernandez)
• Migrate Azure Virtual Machines between Storage Accounts (Kenaz Kwa)

 

XAML

• Making the Application Bar display on of top of the UI in Windows Phone 8.1 Store Apps (Joost van Schaik)
• SVG to XAML conversion (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,185 – ItemsControl Customization Summary and #1,186 – Default ItemContainerStyle for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Caution installing Visual Studio CTP 4 (Cameron Taggart)
• 2000 C# Things #1,209 – C# 6.0 – Using the nameof Operator and #1,210 – C# 6.0 – Primary Constructors (Sean Sexton)
• New book: Adaptive Code via C#: Agile coding with design patterns and SOLID principles (Kim Spilker)
• Kinect SDK 2.0 and new adapter kit for Xbox to Windows (David Voyles)
• Preview no more! Kinect for Windows v2 SDK RTW’s and more! (Greg Duncan)
• How do I disable Windows 8 touch contact visualizations for my application? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Succinctly: Other Purposes (Marc Clifton)
• NUnit, Unity Dependency Injection, MOQ and Private Fields (Dave M. Bush)
• Designing Systems for Testability (Ben Linders)
• New Web Access Test features walk through (Charles Sterling)
• Front-end Driven Applications – A New Approach to Applications (Cody Lindley)
• Think a Series of Sprints, Not Marathons (JD Meier)
• Property tests don’t have to be generative (Jessica Kerr)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Microsoft RMS SDK 4.1 for Android and Microsoft RMS SDK 4.1 for iOS and Microsoft RMS SDK 4.1 for OS X (MS Downloads)
• Introduction to Testing on iOS (Andy Obusek)
• AppCompat v21 — Material Design for Pre-Lollipop Devices! (Chris Banes)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The James Webb Space Telescope with Dr. Amber Straughn (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Garage Series for Office 365: Crash course in PowerShell for managing Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• What the Tech 232: Apple Pay vs. PayPal (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Keanu Reeves (Chris Hardwick)
• Boagworld – 10 things to consider when building a responsive site (Paul Boag)
• RiYL Episode 076: Kevin Seconds (Brian Heater)
• Video: My non-technical partner tries Windows 10 for the first time (Scott Hanselman)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 212: Randy Shoup on Company Culture (SE-Radio Team)
• Azure Podcast Episode 49 – DevOps (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the Scrum at Scale Workshop from Scrum.org (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Succinctly Series Reaches 50th E-book (Graham High)
• Progress Software Announces Intent to Acquire Telerik (Erica Burns)
• Crossing the Road (Felicia Day)
• Exciting Times for Telerik (and You) (Todd Anglin)
• Microsoft Garage launches new Tetra Lockscreen for Windows Phone (John Callaham)
• Geek of the Week: Libby Reindell (Mike Covers)

 

Database

• Book Review: SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (4th Ed) (Ian Stirk)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell selecting from SQL Server and Powershell : Killing all processes of name (Sacha Barber)
• ForEach and Where magic methods (Kirk Munro)

 

Miscellaneous

• Don’t Frown on CSVs (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Creating Micro Screencasts, Hosted For Free (Cody Lindley)
• Redis for Windows 2.8.17 released (Doug Mahugh)
• Toggle between Outlook.com, OneDrive and Office Online with the new app launcher (James Shields)
• The editors I’ve been using – which one is your favorite? (Robert Nyman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, October 22, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 10/23/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1721 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-23 (Dan Rigby)

 

The Geek Shelf