Day: June 24, 2015

Top Links

• Announcing PostSharp 4.2 Preview 3 (Gael Fraiteur)
• The Journey of an Azure SDK upgrade (Frank Boucher)
• Android M Preview Now Available (Miguel de Icaza)
• MS Dev Show – Xamarin with James Montemagno (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)

 

Web Development

• Understanding How To Use $scope.$watch() With Controller-As In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• A Bug with ASP.NET MVC ValueProviders and Formatting (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Rebooting Database Localization for ASP.NET with West Wind Globalization 2.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Examining Application Startup in ASP.NET 5 (Steve Smith)
• A Fast, Accurate Way to Test Internet Explorer on iOS, Mac OS X, and Android (Rey Bango)
• Visual Studio Code and Docker (Sean McBreen)
• Add a CLI to Node Apps with Vantage (Alex R. Young)
• So. Many. States. (Chris Coyier)
• Docker and Microsoft announce more innovation to cross platforms and win hearts (Corey Sanders)
• Attach Google Drive files to Calendar events with the Calendar API (Iskander Akishev)
• Docker: Ready for Production (Scott Johnston)
• Angular 2 Demystified (Rafal Barowiec)
• Container Apps now available in the Azure Marketplace (Vybava Ramadoss)

 

XAML

• Build Office-Inspired UI with Infragistics WPF (Mihail Mateev)
• How to collect troubleshooting log in Windows Phone (Jialiang)
• Developers: Get apps ready now for July 29 release of Windows 10 (Athima Chansanchai)
• Use Triggers To Change Grid Column/Row Values in Universal Windows Apps (Scott Lovegrove)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Learning SOLID principles using C# – Webinar recap (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using Win2D to apply effects on your files (David Catuhe)
• Contextual logger injection for Autofac (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring Loops to Collection Pipelines (Martin Fowler)
• Effective Leaders Develop Multiple Future Outlooks (J.D. Meier)
• Scrum meets the pool – swimlanes in VSO’s backlog board (Matteo Emili)
• Lessons Learned: Effective Change Management, Part 1 (Bob Reselman)
• Placeit: App Demo Video Templates for App Marketing (Anthony)
• New Developments in Model Driven Software Engineering (Ben Linders)
• Finding the MMF and the MVP (John Mason)
• The Emperor Has No Clothes: A Theory of Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Are bugs on one device more serious than bugs on another? (Matt Lacey)
• Four Key Differences Between a Solution Architect and an Enterprise Architect (Paul Ballard)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Build Android App using Xamarin in Visual Studio 2013 – Part 2 (Arun Kumar)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Android Hacker’s Handbook – $24.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Fitness Apps on Android Wear (Joshua Gordon)
• Unity Asset – Kinect v2 with MS-SDK (Greg Duncan)
• IoT – Top Down (Jesse Liberty)
• Top 10 Tips to Speed up Swift Learning (Udemy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – .NET Everywhere with Rocky Lhotka and .NET Rocks! 1155 – Performance Tuning in Azure with Christopher Bennage (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• CodeChat 028 – Ryan Salva on Awesome Cordova Tooling | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• How to Add Excel Editing Capabilities to your WPF Applications (Infragistics Videos)
• SSW TV – AngularJS and keeping up to date with John Papa and Ward Bell (SSW Team)
• 20 ngAir – Angular 2 Forms (Kent C. Dodds)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 083 | Catching up on Azure and AWS News and Notes (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – Bringing Yammer to your Organization with Chris Poteet (Richard Campbell)
• Talk Python to Me #13 Flask web framework and much, much more (Michael Kennedy)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Docker Con keynote goodness | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SQL Unplugged Live Episode 7 | SQL Unplugged (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing DockerCon 2015 Europe (Adam Herzog)
• Geek of the Week: Microsoft Bing program manager Kassy Coan is always on the fly (Mariel Frank)
• Live Webinar: Why Mobile Quality Matters (Steven Yi)

 

Database

• How to Fix a Corrupt MSDB SQL Server Database (Daniel Farina)
• SQL Server Management Studio Query Designer Shortcuts (Babu Akkandi)
• New SQL Server Management Studio 2015/June – with Check for Updates! (Brent Ozar)
• Creating a Web App From Scratch Using Python Flask and MySQL: Part 4 (Jay Raj)
• SQL SERVER – FIX – Export Error – ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0′ provider is not registered on the local machine (Pinal Dave)
• New to DataViz? Here Are Our Top 10 Picks For Data Visualization Tips & Techniques (Mobile Man)
• Disaster recovery 101: fixing a broken boot page (Paul Randal)

 

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Kit flourishes as open source (Karol Kaczmarek)
• Some Useful Powershell commands for the Linux nerds out there (Tom Hearn)

 

Miscellaneous

• Making The Software Craftsmanship Calendar Images (Brendan Enrick)
• Full stack developers: Do they really exist? (Adam Bertram)
• Why you’re afraid of public speaking (Nicholas C. Zakas)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 23, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1888 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: 24 June, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 23rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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