End of Month Research Roundup – February 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 Symbol/Icon Set (Microsoft)
- SkyLab Beta (Nimbo)
- Cloud Cellar
- Windows Azure HDInsight supports preview clusters of Hadoop 2.2 (Eron Kelly)
- Windows Azure Start-up Tasks Part 1 (Chris Clayton)
- Windows Azure Start-up Tasks Part 2 (Chris Clayton)
- Applied Windows Azure Course (Pluralsight)
Web Development
- Dive into HTML 5 (Mark Pilgrim)
- Creating Responsive Websites with Photo Backgrounds (Jake Rocheleau)
- Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 1 - Overview and Enums (Jon Galloway)
- Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 2 - Attribute Routing with Custom Constraints (Jon Galloway)
- Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 3 - Bootstrap and JavaScript enhancements (Jon Galloway)
- Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 4 - Web API Help Pages, BSON, and Global Error Handling (Jon Galloway)
- Improve User Experience with a Real-time Progress Bar (Sylvain Giuliani)
- Supplemental to ASP.NET Project "Helios" (Levi Broderick)
- Building A Simple File Server With OWIN and Katana (K. Scott Allen)
- Bootstrap accessibility plugin: making the popular web development framework better (Victor Tsaran)
- Writing efficient CSS selectors (Harry Roberts)
- StyleGuide (Yelp)
- Outdated UX patterns and alternatives (Brian Krall)
- An Event Apart: The Future of Responsive Images (Luke Wroblewski)
- Using Bootstrap the Right (Semantic) Way (Harish Chouhan)
- Replacing The -9999px Hack (New Image Replacement) (Zeldman)
- InstantClick
- The CMS ecosystem and Microsoft (Bertrand Le Roy)
- WagTail CMS
- Simplify Your Sitefinity Dashboard Experience (Ryan Axford)
Programming
- 8 Lines of Code Presentation (Greg Young)
- Secure Coding Guidelines (MSDN)
- Introduction to Secure Coding Guide (Apple)
- Open Source Computer Vision Library
- Haar Object Detector.NET
- Cyclic group (Wikipedia)
.NET Ecosystem
- metrics-net (Daniel Crenna)
- Partial function application in F# (Ivan Towlson)
- Immutability, Purity, and Referential Transparency (Wes Dyer)
- Math is Hard; Let's Go Shopping! (Eric Lippert)
- Exploring F# through modeling - Part 1
- Exploring F# through modeling - Part 2
- How does locking work in C#? (Eric Lippert)
- SpecFlow Tips and Tricks (Pluralsight)
- Deserialize to ExpandoObject with Json.NET (Tom DuPont)
- JSON Debugger Visualizer in Visual Studio 2013 (Avneep Dhanju)
- Playing with Constraints - FluentConstraints and FluentLayouts for Xamarin.iOS (Stuart Lodge)
- Json.NET 6.0 Release 1 - JSONPath and F# Support (James Newton-King)
- List of Visual Studio Project Type GUIDs (Yvan Rodrigues)
Build, Deployment, Test & Automation
- ProductionStackTrace (Lev Gimelfarb)
Tools
- Use Alt+Enter in Microsoft Word for spell checking quick-fixes (Alex Berezoutsky)
- .Net Fiddle – MVC
- Hello Biggy (Rob Conery)
- ESENT Managed Interface
- Webinar Recording and Q&A: ReSharper Secrets with Igal Tabachnik (Robert Demmer)
- Semantic Merge
- Android++
- Link Shell Extension
Misc
- Now (XKCD)
- Microsoft Word, Formatting Essentials (How to Geek)
- Pencil
- 3 Beards
- Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source (Peter Levine)
- Bootstrapped Weekly (Scott Watermasysk)
- Video Processing at Dropbox (Pierpaolo Baccichet)
- The Future of PIN Could Involve Color and Shape Buttons (Jamie Condliffe)
- Octoverse (GitHub)
- Interactive Mirrors Built from Arrays of Moving Objects by Daniel Rozin (Christopher Jobson)
