Today's Links

Azure

• Azure: 99.95% SQL Database SLA, 500 GB DB Size, Improved Performance Self-Service Restore, and Business Continuity
• Azure SQL Database Service Tiers and Performance Levels

DDD

• Domain modeling with Entity Framework scorecard
• Strengthening your domain: a primer

CSS

• List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

Today's Links

.Net

• Warnings vs errors
• Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool
• Why your ASP.NET MVC Application needs its own framework

JavaScript

• Understanding Javascript Promises

IIS

• Easily detect and block malicious HTTP requests targeting IIS/ASP.NET using “BLACKIPS”

Today's Links

Learning

• microsof tvirtual academy
• 12 ethical dilemmas gnawing at developers today

Azure

• Logging with the .NET backend for Azure Mobile Services
• Azure Websites and wildcard domains
• Point-in-time Restore in New Azure SQL Database

Today's Links

I will be on vacation tomorrow so no post tomorrow.

Identity

• ASP.NET MVC and Identity 2.0: Understanding the Basics
• ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Setting Up Account Validation and Two-Factor Authorization

Test Automation

• Using Page Object Models in UI Test Automation

Windows Apps

• Using the Windows App Certification Kit

Today's Links

Universal Apps

• Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML
• Resources for writing universal apps for Windows with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• WinJS on Windows Phone 8.1

Sublime

• Getting Sublime 3 To Launch your HTML page in a Browser with a Key Combo

Today's Links

BDD

• Are You Really Doing BDD
• A Simple Approach to BDD

HTML5

• RIP Flash: Why HTML5 will finally take over video and the Web this year

Azure

• Azure Web Sites New Basic Pricing Tier

Today's Posts

There will not be a post Friday since I will be on traveling.

Laptop Shopping

• Review: A tale of three Lenovo Laptops - X1 Carbon Touch, ThinkPad Yoga, IdeaPad Yoga 2 Pro
• Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful

Business Analysis

• Business Analysis – We’re Doing It Wrong

Public Speaking

• How to Give a Good Conference Talk

Xamarin

• Show us your apps!

Today's Links

Open Source

• Announcing Kendo UI Core
• Open Source Software
• Free Software and Services for Open Source Projects

TDD and Continuous Testing

• NCrunch and Continuous Testing: The Must-Have Setup

Azure

• Configure Azure Backup to quickly and easily back-up Windows Server

Today's Links

Azure

• -notification-hubs-storage-vnets-schedule-autoscale-and-more.aspx
• Create a Staging .NET Backend for Testing
• Building your Dream DevOps Dashboard with the new Azure Preview Portal

UI

• Is Cards UI the Future of Mobile

Scrum

• Scrum Hub

Today's Links

Azure

• How to create Universal applications with Azure Mobile Services that leverage push notifications and database insertion and data retrieval
• Reading from a queue in an Azure WebJob
• Information on Microsoft Azure and Heartbleed

jQuery

• jQuery - .bind(), .live(), .delegate(), .on() ( and also .unbind(), .die(), .undelegate(), .off() )

Visual Studio 2013 tips

• Configuring Code Information Indicators in Visual Studio 2013
• Changing Code Information Indicator Styles in Visual Studio 2013

Stack Overflow

• ASP.NET MVC Ajax Error handling
• ASP.NET MVC Ajax Error returning view instead of ajax

Today's links of Intrest

TDD

• TDD Chess Game Part 3: Stumbling and Refactoring

Azure

• How much Azure kit do you need to serve 2,000 requests per second?
• Creating an Azure Mobile Services .NET backend from scratch

Today's Links

Development

• How To Build A WinJS App In 10 Easy Steps
• Windows App Studio Beta: Build a Windows Phone AND Windows app in one session, no code required
• Improve your JavaScript with Web Essentials and JSHint

SQL Server 

• 10 great new features in SQL Server 2014

Build

• A run down of the Build 2014 keynote announcements

Today's Links

Build

• High-Performance Web Platform: Real-World Problems and Solutions
• Building Xbox One Apps using HTML and JavaScript
• Building Web APIs for Mobile Apps Using ASP.NET Web API 2.1
• HTML5 Platform from Web to Apps

Azure

• Push Notifications Using Notification Hub and .NET Backend
• Microsoft Azure Storage @ BUILD 2014
• Microsoft Azure Load Balancing Services

Heartbleed

• http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/heartbleed-in-eight-minutes-what-it-is.html

ASP.Net MVC 5

• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 1 - Overview and Enums
• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 2 - Attribute Routing with Custom Constraints
• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 3 - Bootstrap and JavaScript enhancements
• Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 - Part 4 - Web API Help Pages, BSON, and Global Error Handling

Other

• Xamarin vs Titanium vs Phonegap vs Native application development

Today's Links

Asp.Net

• Adding Two Factor Authentication To An ASPNET Application
• Designing Evolvable WebAPIs With ASPNET Now As A Free Ebook

Azure

• Management Libraries

Build

• Go Mobile with C# and Xamarin
• Visual Studio and .NET Overview
• The Next Generation of .NET for Building Applications
• Tips and Tricks in Visual Studio 2013
• Building Modern Web Applications with Visual Studio and Web Essentials

CSS

• Css Magic

Links for today

Azure

• Azure Web Hosting Plans
• Azure Management Libraries
• Mobile Services Managed Client SDK

Build

• Build conf Round up
• Build Keynote Announcements

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Extensions For Web Developers