End of Month Research Roundup – March 2014
We spend quite a bit of time every week finding, consuming & sharing interesting content that can help us in our day to day work and we like to share & discuss internally on our Yammer account. Some of the links are new, some are old, but all are useful & interesting.
Microsoft Azure
- Windows Azure Storage In-Depth Course (Pluralsight)
- Play By Play: Azure Deployment with Scott Hanselman (Pluralsight)
- Top Support Solutions for Windows Azure Web Sites (Mary Hutson)
- Protecting Your Tables Against Application Errors (Jai Haridas)
- Windows Azure Tables: Introducing JSON (Sam Merat, Jean Ghanem, Joe Giardino, and Jai Haridas)
- Azure Traffic Manager can now integrate with Azure Web sites (Nir Mashkowski)
- A closer look at Titanfall's not-so-secret weapon: Microsoft's cloud (Timothy J. Seppala)
- Windows Azure Provisioning of Linux and Windows via Puppet (Ross Gardler)
Web Development
- Javascript without the this (Pete Hodgson)
- Front End Dev Reactions
- Auto Selecting Cultures for Localization in ASP.NET (Rick Stahl)
- ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework (Abhishek Kumar Goswami)
- AngularJS: A Retrospective (AJ Hekman)
- Angular.js Directives for nvd3.js, d3.js charts (Christian Maurer)
- The Web API v2 OAuth2 Authorization Server Middleware–Is it worth it? (Dominick Baier)
- High-Performance Browser Networking
- Cache busting in ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
- More HTTP Flushing in ASP.NET MVC (Nik Molnar)
- AngularJS 2.0
- What are the nuances of scope prototypal / prototypical inheritance in AngularJS?
- Javascript Char Codes (Key Codes) (Steve Lautenschlager)
- 10 golden rules for digital icons (Sandi Wassmer)
- A Good User Interface
- SEO Disasters: What Happens When Google De-Indexes Your Site (Kerry Butters)
- Spiffing CSS - The Queen's stylesheets
- Bootflat
- Cerberus - A few simple, but solid patterns for responsive HTML emails. Even in Outlook.
- Bulletproof HTML Email Components (SendWithUs)
- Leaflet is a modern open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
- Automating Layouts Bring Flipboard's Magazine Style To Web And Windows (Charles Ying)
- Easel
- Better CMS
Programming
- IP, TCP, and HTTP (Daniel Eggert)
- Elastic Search goes v1
- The Fool's Choice: A Tale of Two Types
- Design Principles for Data Pipelines (m.e.driscoll)
.NET Ecosystem
- The awesome XPlatformCloudKit
- Using R in Excel with FCell (Adam Mlocek)
- Instrumenting Your App for Telemetry and Analytics (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- Recommended patterns for CancellationToken (Andrew L Arnott)
- Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Mobile App Development Startup Xamarin
- akka.net
- Impromptu Interface (Jay Tuley)
- Tail Recursion and C#
- When to use Tuples in C#
- Collect IntelliTrace Data Outside Visual Studio with the Standalone Collector
- Designing with types: Introduction (Scott Wlaschin)
- Performance and Progress (Phil Brooks)
- MarkdownDeep (Topten Software)
- GA Release for Google APIs Client Library for .NET (Dan Ciruli)
Build, Deployment, Test & Automation
- ISE Steroids
- Google Launches Managed Virtual Machines, Gives Developers A Middle Ground Between Compute And App Engine (Frederic Lardinois)
- Checking NuGet package vulnerabilities with OWASP SafeNuGet
- Configuring TeamCity 7 With Git Revision Short Hash, Uploading to Amazon S3 and Sending Email With Release Link and Developer Commit Details (Kornelije Sajler)
Tools
- Ordering and Spacing for using directives (Ian Griffiths)
- Spritz – Speed Reading
- Canopy - f#rictionless web testing
- Ngrok - Introspected tunnels to localhost
- Can I Use
- SASS 3.3
Presentations, Courses & Groups
- F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group
- Luke Wroblewski'a Presentations
- A Functional Architecture with F# (Mark Seemann)
- Understanding Distributed Version Control Systems (Mark Heath)
- AngularJS In-Depth (Lukas Ruebbelke)
- Test Automation with CodedUI (Marcel de Vries)
- Building State Machines in .NET (Alexander Wechsler)
- C# Fundamentals with C# 5.0 (Scott Allen)
- Pragmatic Behavior-driven Design with .NET (Rob Conery)
- Build Your Own Application Framework with ASP.NET MVC 5 (Matt Honeycutt)
- C# Language Internals - Part 1 (Bart De Smet)
- Responsive Web Design (Ben Callahan)
- CSS3 In-Depth (Estelle Weyl)
- UX Engineering Process (Bill Scott)
- Windows Server 2012 Designing Virtualization Infrastructure (Mike Hammond)
Misc
- 6 inspirational examples of European "Tech for Good" (Dan Sutch and Ed Anderton)
- JLAB (John Lewis)
- 2014 Gates Annual Letter (Gates Foundation)
- Idealized Design: How Bell Labs Imagined — and Created — the Telephone System of the Future
- Cut-Away Leaf Art by Lorenzo Duran (Tomas Banišauskas)
- The death of agile? (David Reed)
- Cumulative Flow Diagram (Pawel Brodzinski)
- Kanban at Scale – A Siemens Success Story (Bennet Vallet)
