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Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM UTC

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 at 12:32 PM UTC

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