Month: April 2015

Top Links

• Node.js Tools 1.0 on GitHub and VMs Available (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 (David Voyles)
• Post about the blog post – Visual Basic and Me (Jeff Fritz)
• Team Project Rename available on VS Online (Brian Harry)
• The Changelog 152: TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner from Microsoft (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)

Web Development

• Does The HTTP Response Stream Need Error Event Handlers In Node.js? (Ben Nadel)
• Amplitude.js : Javascript Html5 Audio Player (jQuery Rain)
• NPM for Everything (Alexander Beletsky)
• Plugin overview: Wallaby.js, continuous test runner (Artem Govorov)
• Patterns of JavaScript UI Widget Instantiation (Cody Lindley)
• ASP.NET MVC 6 formatters – XML and browser requests (Filip W)
• AngularJS + ASP.NET Web API: Building a simple grid in AngularJS with server-side paging, sorting, searching (Part 8) (Sangeet Agarwal)
• What’s New in ASP.NET 5 (Spencer Schneidenbach)
• Using jQuery to Show and Hide Columns in a Table using CheckBoxes (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET SignalR: Building a Simple Real-Time Chat Application and ASP.NET SignalR: FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Web Application Development in Fsharp using ASP.NET MVC – My Takeaways (Tamizh Vendan)
• Emberjs – Communication Between Components (Paul Cowan)
• Creating a Dating Application with Sinch: RESTful API (Carlos Cessa)
• Web Dev with Editors and IDEs (John Papa)
• Icons and Type (Jonathan Snook)
• Getting Started with Benchpress (Rabi Kiran)

XAML

• SQLite on Windows Phone 8.1: Part 2 (Carmelo La Monica)
• WPF Tooling in Blend and Visual Studio 2015 (Jonathan Allen)
• Build it Beta for Windows and Windows Phone and Compiled DataBinding in Windows Universal Applications (UAP) (Nick Randolph)
• Xamarin Guide 7. Add support for WinRT Apps and Xamarin Guide 9: Use MVVM Pattern (Sara Silva)
• WPF Triggers – Multi Data Triggers (Richard Carr)
• Get Ready for Windows 10: Learning Universal Windows App Development (Nick Landry)
• What is a Windows Universal App and why should I care? (DevToolsGuy)
• Accessibility Developer Hub: Making apps accessible (Adam Fraser)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Comparing covariance/contravariance rules in C#, Java and Scala (Igor Alekseev)
• Hosting LINQ to Twitter on GitHub (Joe Mayo)
• Using Lazy For Expensive Data in C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• C# Singleton Design Pattern: Part 1 (Prashant Koli)
• Introduction to Generics in .NET (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Why can’t I have variadic COM methods? (Raymond Chen)
• From VSTS 2005 to VSO Rename … time flies when you are having fun! (Willy-P. Schaub)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS recap, or “How to resuscitate” (Kyle Baley)
• Post-agile: microservices and heads-up development and Charting team course with a Seamap and Your Code as a Crime Scene: book review (Jessica Kerr)
• Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #5 (Paul Mooney)
• What is a HoloCoder? (James Ashley)
• Test Automation – Who Should be Involved? (Kenny Cruden)
• Two hours per team (Dan North)
• Mary Poppendieck Discusses Containers, Microservices and Contract Tests (Daniel Bryant)
• Domain-Driven Design the Wrong Way (Jan Stenberg)
• Article: Total Talent Management: A Systems Approach to Agility (Jas Chong)
• Thinking About #NoEstimates? (Johanna Rothman)
• The Future of the Software Testing Profession: An Interview with Mike Sowers (Josiah Renaudin)
• Lamentations of the OSS consumer: I’d like to read the $@#%ing manual but no one has written it (Matt Wrock)
• The Single Responsibility Principle under the microscope (Ralf Westphal)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms: Incremental Search (Jesse Liberty)
• Memory Safety: Ensuring Values are Defined Before Use (Swift Team)
• Windows IoT, Galileo, Azure, Event Hubs and Stream Analytics (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 363: Nick Landry on Universal Apps (David Giard)
• MNR 543 Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, What we are playing and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Agile Coffee Guys Brett Palmer and Jon Jorgensen – Agile Coaches Camp 2014 (Bob Payne)
• New Video: Deciphering the LINQ Join Method (Jeremy Clark)
• TWC9: Visual Studio for Game Development, .NET Foundation News, Building Cloud Apps ebook and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Jeremy Foster)
• MS Dev Show – News-A-Palooza (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Get Up And Code 088: Overcoming Fear – A Personal Story (Andrew Pasaporte)
• Countdown to Ignite: The One About the Attendee Celebration and Live Broadcast | Microsoft Ignite Countdown (D. Begley, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• StarTalk Radio – George Takei and the Legacy of Star Trek (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Inspired by science, clothes open new horizons for girls (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

• Check out our open source software projects at Build 2015! (Brian Benz)
• Microsoft will reveal info on new 3D printing file format during Build 2015 (John Callaham)
• IEEE Windows 10 Hackathons in Vancouver and Calgary (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Insider advice on surviving a tech conference (Stacy Warden)
• .NET Innovators and .NET Community Shout Out (Vicky)

Database

• SQL Server Database Snapshots for Data Comparison (Burt King)
• Cumulative Update – 7 for SQL Server 2014 RTM Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
• Analysing SSAS Extended Event Data With Power Query: Part 2, Storage Engine Activity (Chris Webb)
• Types of JOIN in SQL Server – Inner, Self, Outer and Cross JOIN (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – Generate Different Random Number for Each Group Using RAND() Function and SQL SERVER – Using “High Performance” Power Plan for SQL Server and Interview Question of the Week #017 – Performance Comparison of Union vs Union All (Pinal Dave)
• Non Parallelizable operations in SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
• The SSIS Object Variable and Multiple Result Sets (Tim Mitchell)

Miscellaneous

• Make Home & End keys behave like Windows on Mac OS X (Damien Guard)
• Windows 10 build 10061: Everything you need to know (Mauro Huculak)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 24, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #165 (Pedro Botelho)
• Mostly Cloudy – April 24th, 2015 (Mike Wood)
• Reading notes #183 (Frank Boucher)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 27, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Week on Channel 9: April 20th – April 26th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1848 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Weekly Programming Digest #104 (Jakub Chodounský)

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