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Top Links

• Revolve is Microsoft’s upcoming ‘conversation starter’ app for Windows Phone (John Callaham)
• Getting Started with ASP.NET 5 on OSX (John Papa)
• Debugging Tips and Tricks (Andrew Hall)
• 10 Awesome Features of Visual Studio Code (Sam Basu)

 

Web Development

• Anonymous Functions, Assigned To References, Show Up Well In JavaScript Stack Traces (Ben Nadel)
• Customizing the Axis in the Essential Studio for JavaScript Chart Control (Michael Prabhu M.)
• Full Circle – From Hating to Loving JavaScript (Andrew Connell)
• In CSS, the Only Wrong Answers are Definitive Ones (Chris Coyier)
• WebStorm 10.0.3 Bug Fix Update Available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• JavaScript Front-End Web App Tutorial Part 1: Building a Minimal App in Seven Steps and JavaScript Front-End Web App Tutorial Part 2: Adding Constraint Validation (Gerd Wagner)
• Microsoft Forks Node.js to Support ARM (Jeff Martin)
• Understanding AngularJS Isolated Scope (Jeremy Likness)
• Automatically Restarting ASP.NET on OSX with DNXMON (John Papa)
• WordPress School: HTML and CSS – Identifying IDs and Classes (Lorelle VanFossen)
• ASP.NET MVC Custom Validation using AngularJS Custom Directive (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Postfix Code Completion for PHP in PhpStorm 9 EAP (Mikhail Vink)
• Magic in Chrome JavaScript Debugger (Peter Kellner)
• Right To Left (RTL) Text Display in Angular and ASP.NET (Rick Strahl)
• On API Gateways (Howard Dierking)
• Nodal: An ES6 API Server (Alex R. Young)
• 3 key lessons for websites that work (Emma Grant)
• Using JsonConverters To Get the JSON Output You Want From WebAPI (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• 5 Things to Consider When Using RESTful APIs and OAuth 2.0 and How APIs and Mashups Could Replace Patient Portals (Martin W. Brennan)
• Web Development with Docker, Docker-Machine, Docker-Compose, Tmux, Tmuxinator, and Watchdog (Nick Lang)
• Amazon Releases SDKs for Login and Pay with Amazon (Patricio Robles)
• Using Make with React and RequireJS (Tyler Treat)
• Node v0.12.4 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• CSS3 Cheat Sheet (Robert Mening)
• We have a problem with promises (Nolan Lawson)
• Why Backbone.js? (Mike Pennisi)

 

XAML

• WPF Control Templates – Creating a Template (Richard Carr)
• Universal Windows Platform: Speech recognition (part 2) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Converting to/from Unix Timestamp in C# (Daniel d’Agostino)
• Bug Fix Update to ReSharper Ultimate is Available (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Create PDF from Images using VB.NET (Fahmi Noor Fiqri)
• Consumed: Queries and projections (F#) (Jef Claes)
• Cross-Platform App Development in Visual Studio (Om Talsania)
• Visual Studio: How to Resolve TestWindowPackage.Initialize Failure (OmegaMan)
• Microservices with C# and RabbitMQ (Paul Mooney)
• TGIF Episode 3 – CodeIt.Right (David McCarter)
• First VSCode Tasks in less than 5 minutes (Frank Boucher)
• New C++ experimental feature: The tadpole operators (Raymond Chen)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS: Configure Application Insights (Graham Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns: Delegation (Bart Jacobs)
• Article: Dealing with Politics in Agile or Lean Teams (Ben Linders)
• Is a CQRS Command = GOF Command? (Daniel)
• Extending, Defining and Evolving the Understanding of Agile (Shane Hastie)
• Best Practice: Check-Ins, Like Minions.. (Caleb Jenkins)
• DDD – The aggregate (Gabriel Schenker)
• 2nd Part of “The Actual Cost of Tests” (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Are You an Integration Specialist? (JD Meier)
• Some Advice On Becoming a Lead Developer (John Sonmez)
• git: handy alias to find the repository root (Jessica Kerr)
• Interview: Rachel Davies on Whatever Happened to Being Extreme (Rachel Davies)
• Are You Listening To The Stories Your Failures Tell? (Rajiv Popat)
• Addressing Organizational Debt (Savita Pahuja)
• How to convince someone to refactor their code? (Tarun Kohli)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Sitecore SDK for Xamarin (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Android’s VectorDrawable Class (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• What to do with your new Raspberry Pi 2 B (Andrew Connell)
• Setting up a 7-inch Touchscreen on a Pi 2 with Windows IoT Core Insider Preview (Carey Payette)
• Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat (Peter-Paul Koch)
• Game Performance: Geometry Instancing (Shanee Nishry)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #7 (Ron Gilbert)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Your Apps on Azure with Mark Brown (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 299 – PowerScripting Podcast -Warren Frame on Invoke-Parallel and PoshRSJob (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR 545 More on The Witcher 3 and we get ready for E3 2015 (Larry Hyrb)
• WinBeta Podcast 16: Windows 10 build 10122, Snapchat, Xbox One and more (Sean Michael)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – Scrum is a method to understand how the system behaves | Jeremy Jarrell and Scrum Master Toolbox – Scrum has a huge impact on the organization | Tim Bourguignon and Scrum Master Toolbox – Stories of change and the change team | Tim Bourguignon (Vasco Duarte)
• SSW TV – Kendo UI DataViz and Building for the Mobile Web with John Bristowe and SSW TV – Polishing Up Your Web Development Process with John Bristowe (SSW Team)
• The Changelog 156: Modern WordPress using Bedrock and Sage with Ben Word and Scott Walkinshaw (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 179 – “VS Code” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• MS Dev Show – Project Centennial (Win32 in appx) with John Sheehan (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Get Up And Code 092: Hating Exercise Less With Greg Mumm (Andrew Pasaporte)
• The Vergecast 154: Sony Music, Spotify, iTunes and the state of streaming music (John Lagomarsino)
• SQL Server Radio Show 22 – Niko Neugebauer (Matan Yungman)
• How to swear British-style (Rob Beschizza)
• 50 – BeerIT from Chicago | Patch And Switch (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• StarTalk Radio – The Science of Music with Josh Groban (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• Check out the Build Day 2 Keynote for a Great Introduction to the Universal Windows Platform (Windows Apps Team)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 66 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Charles Max Wood)

 

Community / Events

• Lessons Learned and Personal Reflections on Teaching a .Net Programming Course at a University (Latish Sehgal)
• What IT pros need to know after Microsoft Build & Ignite (Marco Shaw)
• Geeks and Introverts – The World Needs You. (Rajiv Popat)
• .NET Developers Making Waves (Vicky)

 

Database

• Converting and Using Text Dates as SQL Server Dates (Rick Dobson)
• System Stored Procedures for SQL Azure Linked Servers (John Miner)
• SQL SERVER – CREATE TABLE Failed Because Column ‘C1024′ in Table ‘myTable’ Exceeds the Maximum of 1024 Columns and Interview Question of the Week #021 – Difference Between Index Seek and Index Scan (Table Scan) (Pinal Dave)
• Query Folding in Power Query to Improve Performance (Koen Verbeeck)
• Fast Data Processing with Spark (2nd Ed) (Ian Stirk)
• Working With International Date And Number Formats In Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• From the MVPs: Create a SharePoint Production Farm on Azure (Inderjeet Singh Jaggi)

 

PowerShell

• SQL SERVER – Identify Disk Latency on SQL Server Box Using PowerShell (Pinal Dave)
• Get the latest WMF5 (Emin Atac)
• Import-DscResource Warning Message in WMF 5.0 April 2015 Preview (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Emaroo 2.5.0 Released (Roland Weigelt)
• Windows 10, Xbox Controller and Drones (Oh yeah) (Greg Duncan)
• Bill Gates’ ‘Personal Agent’ project for Microsoft might be called Office Now and Microsoft shows off possible UI revamp for Windows 10 Music app on Xbox support site (John Callaham)
• OneNote welcomes three new partners—cloudHQ, Equil and WordPress (OneNote Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 22, 2015 and Geek Reading May 25, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #169 (Pedro Botelho)
• Office 365 news roundup (Office 365 Team)
• Double Shot #1508 and Double Shot #1509 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Mostly Cloudy – May 22nd, 2015 (Mike Wood)
• Reading Notes #186 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: May 18th – May 24th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1866 and The Morning Brew #1867 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 22, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: May 25, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: May 26, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading list (Bruce Lawson)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-25 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-26 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #41 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 22nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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