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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
-- Aristotle

Testing

Should you write unit tests or integration tests?

Writing Unit Tests for Existing JavaScript

IDEs/Editors

PHP Mess Detector in PhpStorm

file-icons

Web Development

5 Libraries and APIs for Manipulating HTML5 Audio

Web Services (REST, HyperMedia, WebAPI, SignalR)

Guidelines for Creating a RESTful API

JavaScript

A JavaScript Constructor Problem, and Three Solutions

JSON Editor Example

Angular

Learn AngularJS : Hour 1

Migrating From ui-if To ng-if In AngularJS

Software Development

What I learned from working remotely with cross-cultural teams

Web Design

A Complete Guide to Flexbox

Please JS

How to get started with next-generation website prototyping

Database

Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it — Tech News and Analysis

.Net

Welcome to ReactiveUI 6.0

Formatting LINQ Statements

ASP.NET Advanced Web Frameworks Gets Better with New Features, Bug Fixes and Improvements

Implement Observer Pattern in .NET (3 techniques)

What’s new in ReactiveUI 6: ReactiveCommand

How I failed when I tried to implement C# Generics to enable serializing and saving a variety of C# object types to disk for Windows Store applications

Mobile Development

Rolling out the Windows Developer Program for IoT

Compatibility

Software

paint.net 4.0.1 is now available

Microsoft is looking for beta testers for OneNote

Podcasts, Conferences, Events

GET INVOLVED IN TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY with Scott Hanselman

Introducing the “Declaring My Independence” podcast!

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Links - 07/13/2014

Quote of the Day

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success"
-- Thomas J. Watson

IDEs/Editors

10 Essential Sublime Text Plugins for Full-Stack Developers

Business

Auth0 and the new pay to play

JavaScript

Getting Started with Browserify

lazy.js

Software Development

Semantic Versioning: Why You Should Be Using it

Scaling Agile Across the Enterprise

CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation Design Pattern

Web Design

Useful Compass Extensions That are Worth a Try

Podcasts, Conferences, Events

MNUG 2014.07.09 - Building JavaScript applications based on DDD, CQRS and EventSourcing

Three Great Talks from self.conference 2014

Pluralsight Enterprise

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Links - 07/12/2014

Quote of the Day

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Everyones got one…

JSON: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Testing

Capturing Traffic via Virtual Router

Security

Introduction to PoshSec

Builds

Introducing a simpler, faster GitHub for Mac · GitHub

Web Development

10 essential resources for front end web developers Google I/O 2014 - Polymer and Web Components change everything you know about Web development

Web Services (REST, HyperMedia, WebAPI, SignalR)

Building a strongly typed route provider for ASP.NET Web API

JavaScript

Patterns for Asynchronous Programming with Promises

Angular

Angular ng-grid Quick Tip

Software Development

CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation Design Pattern

Database

Async event loops in C#

.Net

Release Candidate for Katana 3 and the ASP.NET Security Components

Software

paint.net 4.0 is now available!

Gadgets

MondoHub: 28 USB Ports & One Hub To Rule Them All

Podcasts, Conferences, Events

Yet Another Podcast Show 126–Mike Bluestein from Xamarin

Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals

Friday, July 11, 2014

Links - 07/11/2014

Quote of the Day

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
-- Winston Churchill

I dont know where this goes but it is good

102 simple steps for installing and configuring a new Windows 8 machine

Testing

Guidelines for Resilient Automation of Windows Store XAML Apps using Visual Studio CodedUI

Security

Introducing CFSSL - CloudFlare’s PKI toolkit

IDEs/Editors

Kicking the Tires of VS14

Builds

Upcoming VS Online Licensing Changes

Business

Satya Nadella’s email to employees : Bold ambition and our core

Professional Development

Try.Fail.Learn.Improve

Web Development

You might not need a WebSocket

NodeJs, Azure and IIS

Web Services (REST, HyperMedia, WebAPI, SignalR)

Web API Tracing with SLAB and Elasticsearch

JavaScript

Autobahn

Software Development

On Programmers Productivity

Web Design

Apps for All - Book Review

One Sass Color to Rule Them All

Windows Azure

Running Kubernetes Example on CoreOS, Part 1

Welcome Microsoft, RedHat, IBM, Docker and more to the Kubernetes community

Database

To Sync or Not to Sync

.Net

Version 1.7.3 for ADO Released

It’s Tuples All The Way Down!

Mobile Development

Windows/Phone 8.1, Prism Universal Early Drop, Migrating a Demo to be Universal

Think before you truncate

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Links - 07/10/2014

Quote of the Day

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
-- Henry Ford

I dont know where this goes but it is good

The Elephant was a Trojan Horse: On the Death of Map-Reduce at Google

The Google File System

Everyones got one…

Redmond’s Remarkable Reversal

Testing

Test-Driven Development with Entity Framework 6

TDD Isn’t The Problem. TDD Douchebags Are.

TDD isn’t the problem

IDEs/Editors

Hello Windows

Vim for people who think things like Vim are weird and hard

Builds

Git from the Bottom Up

Business

Why Do I Keep Doing This?

Leadership/Management

10 Things Only Exceptional Bosses Give Employees

Web Development

Maximize Compression with Zopfli

Web Services (REST, HyperMedia, WebAPI, SignalR)

Resource/Action based Authorization for OWIN (and MVC and Web API)

JavaScript

tsironis/lockr · GitHub - A minimal API wrapper for localStorage

D3.js: Tips, Tricks and Tools for Creating and Working with Maps

Angular

Creating a plugin system in Angular JS with the $compile provider > | Tweetganic

Scope creep, a deep dive into Angular’s scope

Debugging AngularJS Apps from the Console

Software Development

Stop Using Story Points

Using VSTS to Stop Estimating

Functional Programming

Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming

Game Development

Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio

Bone-Based Unity 2D Animation: Creating the Actual Animations

Web Design

Day 0: Bootstrapping Mvc for the Next 30 Days

.Net

Semantic Logging Application Block

ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 2

Strong-typed Metadata

Visual Studio Design Patterns add-in

RoslynDom and Friends – Just the Facts

10 Good Practices for ASP.NET MVC Apps

Fun with Custom C# Collection Initializers

Mobile Development

Learning Xamarin–Persistence with SQLite

.NET Micro Framework Future? [Hint: Sure looks it like!]

3.2.1-beta1 - beta universal support

Xciles.MvvmCross.AsyncExtensions

Software

Agenda View for Windows Phone 8.1

Podcasts, Conferences, Events

Refactoring Fundamentals

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Links - 07/09/2014

Quote of the Day

"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."
-- Audrey Hepburn

Everyones got one…

I am Microsoft All-In

Why You shouldn’t Chase Money and Power (and What to Do Instead)

Testing

TDD, where did ‘I’ go wrong

Single Point Testing Using Fiddler AutoResponder

IDEs/Editors

GitIgnore–How to exclude Nuget packages at any level, and make re-include work

Extending Visual Studio with your new buddy, VsCommandBuddy

Github and Visual Studio and two factor authentication

Business

Do Software Developers Really Need Degrees?

Here’s the smartest way to train on your own time

Web Development

Speed Up Your WordPress Site

JavaScript

Safer TypeScript

Tutorial: HTML Audio Capture streaming to Node.js (no browser extensions)

Angular

Video: Quick Tip for Debugging AngularJS Applications

Structuring AngularJS Code: Injecting with Whitespace

Software Development

Examining Different Approaches to Scaling Agile

Do you really have a Scrum Team?

Kanban Thinking: The Canvas

[The “ideal” sprint length](http://www.deanhume.com/Home/BlogPost/The “ideal” sprint length/90)

I teach people how to draw pictures

Distributed big balls of mud

Agile vs Real Life

Game Development

Microsoft opens Xbox Music to all developers with full access to catalog, streaming and more

Visual Studio is preparing to be your complete cross-platform IDE with new Unity support

Bone-Based Unity 2D Animation: Mecanim and Scripting

Web Design

Dynamically Create CSS Classes With SASS

Database

Compression finale

.Net

Strong-typed Metadata

Visual Studio Design Patterns add-in

Better, New Zip Library for ASP.NET AJAX

F# Loan calculator

Detecting never-before-seen event types

The Working Programmer - Fun with C#

Public Annotations

Updates to RoslynDom 1.0.8 Alpha

Mobile Development

Awesome Samples to Jumpstart F# Mobile Development

ADAL Bindings for Xamarin Android Applications: The ultimate guide

Software

Posh-SSH: Open Source SSH PowerShell Module

A Product Design Question a Day: Introducing Tavern

Podcasts, Conferences, Events

Herding Code 193: Mark Rendle on Zudio, developing with Angular and Typescript, The History of Programming, and Simple.Data

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Links - 07/08/2014

Quote of the Day

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-- Scott Adams

Everyones got one…

Putting an Age-Old Battle to Rest

Business

What It Costs When You Don’t Hire

Leadership/Management

How to speak so that people want to listen

I’m Not Good Enough to Be an Impostor

Breaking the Ice

JavaScript

Cancelling Long Promise Chains

API Testing and Monitoring with Frisby.js - SF Node.JS talk by Garland Kan

Angular

Helper Functions for Doing Rx in Angular

MarlabsInc/webapi-angularjs-spa

Elegant token-based API access with AngularJS

Authentication to a RESTful web service in an AngularJS web app

Deal with users authentication in an AngularJS web app

AngularJS Sticky Notes Pt 1 – Architecture

david.antaramian / SO-21662778 SPA Authentication Example — Bitbucket

Angular Fullstack 2.0: Released

Game Development

Game Development – Tuts+ Tutorials

Web Design

Pixels are expensive

.Net

generate c# classes from json

The Facade Pattern in .NET

Top “Must Know” Frameworks for .NET web developers

Mobile Development

Contest: Build Your First F# Mobile App

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Links - 06/26/2014

Quote of the Day

"In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing."
-- Theodore Roosevelt