Month: December 2015

Top Links

• Angular Material 1.0 Now Available! (Thomas Burleson)
• WebForms – How do I Unit Test Thee? (Jeff Fritz)
• Accelerate Mobile App Development with Over 500 Components (Bill Holmes)
• Signing into Windows 10 with your Face – Using an Xbox One Kinect with Windows Hello and 3D Printing is for so much more than just making brightly colored plastic pieces of crap (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

• Flagging up inconsiderate writing in Microsoft Office using JavaScript (Chris Heilmann)
• Modern JavaScript Development Environments and Choice (David Starr)
• HTML5 Mastery: DOM Mutations (Florian Rappl)
• The Trivia Awakens – SMS powered Star Wars trivia in 40 lines of PHP (Greg Baugues)
• Announcing RIMdev Releases Built With ASP.NET 5 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• JavaScript MaskedTextBox – Fast And Easy To Use (L. Milkov)
• Securing ASP.NET Web API using Token Based Authentication and using it in Angular.js application (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Creating a prototype chain in Javascript (Rohit Gupta)
• TypeScript + ASP.NET Web API + AngularJS Bootcamp – Week 6 (Stephen Walther)
• Mozilla Has Created A-Frame, a VR Framework (Abel Avram)
• Why is (0,obj.prop)() not a method call? and Installing past or future versions of npm packages and Tree-shaking with webpack 2 and Babel 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Click SVG Element to Focus (and Style) (Chris Coyier)
• The Power of 3: Force 3 + Splunk on ISE (Gregory Kushto)
• Free Full Course: How to Become a Web Developer (Joel Bankhead)

XAML

• WPF – How To Load XAML Files Asynchronously In .NET (Sid)
• How to apply custom color in #UWP apps Title Bar? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• What’s New in C# 6 (Paulo Morgado)
• Regular Expression Options (Richard Carr)
• Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio – Depth of Inheritance (Abhijit Jana)
• Name Decorations, Exported Functions, PInvoke Signatures (Mike Taulty)
• #VS2015–VS Touch useful extension to work in #TouchMode in Visual Studio (Bruno Capuano)
• Constraints on Type Parameters in Generics in C# (Abhi Jain)
• VSColorOuput – Version 2.0 Beta 1 Ready (Mike Ward)
• Using Azure Storage Queues from .NET (Chris Pietschmann)
• Extensions 101 – But it worked yesterday … now what?!? (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Using AutoMapper with Attributes (Spencer Schneidenbach)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• You suck at TDD #3–Design sensitivity and improvement (Eric Gunnerson)
• Agile Results for Year-End Reflection (JD Meier)
• The Career Changer’s Guide to Becoming a Software Developer (Natasha Postolovski)
• From Legacy Code to Testable Code #10: Getting Rid of Static Constructors (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Combining User Story Mapping with Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: UX Strategy – $14.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• What is a “Collaborative Organization” Anyway? (Angela Ashenden)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Performance Profiling Your Xamarin Apps (Greg Shackles)
• Introducing the (beta) IBM Watson iOS SDK! (Andrew Trice)
• iOS From Scratch With Swift: Table View Basics (Bart Jacobs)
• Using UI for Android with Instant Run in Android Studio 2.0 (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Remove Xcode Default Header Comment (Paul Zabelin)
• How to Create ASCII art in functional Swift (Josh Smith)
• Google Play Services 8.4 SDK is available (Laurence Moroney)
• Strawberries and Cream – Fusion and Boot Camp Windows (Richard Woollcott)
• Faking Band and Microsoft Band Tools (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #34 (Ron Gilbert)
• Yet Another Podcast #144 Pierce Boggan (Jesse Liberty)
• WinBeta Podcast 46: All of Microsoft’s 2015 crammed into one show! (Sean Michael)
• Xamarin Podcast – Building games for iOS, Android, Apple TV, PlayStation, and more! (Mike Bluestein)
• The Changelog 187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• AAWP Insight #164: Lumia 950, 950 XL, and Continuum (Rafe Blandford)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Alex Winter Returns and The Nerdist Podcast – Quentin Tarantino (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – Responsive Design with Karen McGrane (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Startup Success Podcast 3.12: Startup Thought Leader Steve Blank (Bob Walsh)
• Developer on Fire Episode 074 | Evelina Gabasova – Love of Data and Developer on Fire Episode 075 | Pavneet Singh Saund – Pushing Boundaries (Dave Rael)
• Episode 195: PowerApps with Stephen Siciliano | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)
• Get Up And Code 116: The accidental developer with Roland Sobrepena (Robert Navarro)
• How Lotus F1 Team implemented OneDrive for Business | Microsoft Mechanics (Zachary Cavanell)
• StarTalk Radio – The Science of Creativity, with David Byrne (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Windows Internet of Things development starts to sizzle – Learn the Universal Windows Platform | Chris Briggs (Sophie Belle)
• One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – The Windows 95 Ship Party (keantonc & Rosshe)

Community / Events

• Chocolatey Community Feed State of the Union (Rob Reynolds)
• .NET All-Stars (Vicky)

Database

• SQL Server Management Studio Performance Dashboard Reports Overview (Daniel Farina)
• MySQL – Date and Time Related System Functions and SQL SERVER 2016 – New T-SQL Functions – COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Get the Windows Installer PowerShell Module easier with WMF 5.0 (Heath Stewart)
• Hosting a .Net 4 runtime inside Powershell v2 (Matt Wrock)
• WMF 5.0 is RTM (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

• Syncfusion 2015 Tech Gift Guide (Graham High)
• 5 Star Wars Resources for Developers (Ed Charbeneau)
• Edge extensions make an appearance in latest Windows Insider build, sort of (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 18, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1608 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Today’s #FridayFives! (MVP Award Program)
• The Morning Brew #1994 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading Notes #214 (Frank Boucher)
• Office 365 news roundup (Office 365 Team)
• Collective #199 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 14th – December 20th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• GameDev News – Week Ending December 18, 2015 (Brian Peek)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #71 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #81 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #51, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 18th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• links of the week 12-20-15 (Chris Love)
• WordPress goes to NodeJs, Get to Know Visual Studio Code, Angular 2 Components Fri Dec 18 2015 (Jeremy Likness)

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