Day: November 11, 2014

No Dew Drop tomorrow. I will be at Connect(); in New York, live tweeting. You can follow along here and here. Anyone know a good tool to aggregate tweets over a specified time period into Windows Live Writer? Copy/paste?

Top Links

• Save the date! Connect(“November 12 & 13”); is almost here (Visual Studio Blog)
• Back to the future: Windows Phone to be called Windows Mobile? (Kip Kniskern)
• Scrumdamentals 101: Sprint Retrospective (Michael Burns)
• ASP.NET MVC Tag Helpers – Web Controls 2.0? (Jeff Fritz)

 

Web Development

• Injecting Content in an ASP.NET Web Forms Page From a Module (Ricardo Peres)
• SVG Animation and CSS Transforms: A Complicated Love Story (Chris Coyier)
• APress Deal of the Day 11/November/2014 – Physics for JavaScript Games, Animation, and Simulations with HTML5 Canvas (Tatworth)
• Part 3: Azure Mobile Services: What you need to know to get started with Notification Hub (Adarsha Datta)
• Building With the Twitter API: OAuth, Reading and Posting (Jeff Reifman)

 

XAML

• Using the StatCounter API (C# example .Net and WinRT) (Iris Classon)
• Microsoft “Ad Mediator” for #WPDev, #WinDev to increase ad revenue (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Exploring Future Tools: Using .NET Native for Increasing Windows Store App Performance (Andrei Marukovich)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ILSpy, the Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
• Graph traversal, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Implementing an XmlUrlResolver (Jeff Yates)
• RyuJIT CTP5 Released to Mixed Reaction (Jeff Martin)
• Optimizing Conway’s Game of Life with Parallel.For (Jeremy)
• Extending Selection Embedding with CodeRush (Rory Becker)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How do I still write code as a Tech Lead? (Patrick Kua)
• Splunk 6.2 Feature Overview: Perfmon Delocalization (Adrian Hall)
• Why You Don’t Have Enough Time (And How to Have More) (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Utilities for C/C++ Android Developers: fplutil 1.0 (Stewart Miles)
• Xamarin: Questions and Answers–The Extended Cut from the DevCraft Q3 2014 Webinar (Michael Crump)
• The Tablet Turning Point (Jeff Atwood)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 3) (Rob Tiffany)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Web Apps using Dojo with Michael Van Sickle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Podcast: Developer Evangelism and Hackathons (Jennifer Marsman)
• The Changelog 129: Facebook’s Sara Golemon and the PHP Language Specification (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Monthly Catch-up: S73 and MVP Summit | Visual Studio ALM Rangers (Wiley P. Schaub & Anisha)
• Defrag Tools #114 – PerfView Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Vance Morrison & Chad Beeder)
• SQL Server Radio Show 9 – PASS Summit 2014 Recap (Matan Yungman)
• Ping 228 – Live from TechEd Europe 2014 | Ping! (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

 

Community / Events

• Connect() – Microsoft’s Virtual Event for developers happening this November 12th and 13th (Dilraj Singh)
• The Game Awards 2014 Broadcasts December 5th, Special Ticket Offer for Xbox Fans (Jeff Rubenstein)
• Developers Making the Most of Language (Vicky)

 

Database

• How to Sync SQL Server Data with Azure Search (Liam Cavanagh)
• SQL SERVER – FIX – Error: One or more files do not match the primary file of the database (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Custom XSLT Functions in SharePoint (Ricardo Peres)

 

Miscellaneous

• What Microsoft’s Sway says about the future of Office (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft announces the Lumia 535 and 535 Dual Sim (Kip Kniskern)
• Shipping Python with Windows 10 (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft bundles all of its best subscription services into a $199 deal (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, November 10, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 10, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1734 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-11 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 11/11/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #162 (Frank)

 

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