Designing Evolvable Web APIs

An excellent free resource from O'Reilly...

Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

Sonic Pi

Sonic Pi audio synthesiser for the Raspberry Pi.

Eloquent Javascript

2nd edition of the Eloquent Javascript book online

Generating MS Office files

Article by K.Scott Allen on generating MS Office files from C#.

Crappy installer

Can't believe Visual Studio wants over 5GB of space on my C drive. This is after I've told it to install on D:

The boot drive is for booting. Currently this takes 17 seconds.

Ebook

Free ebook "Introducing Microsoft SQL server 2014"

Msdn magazine

March 2014 MSDN Magazine

ASP.NET MVC 5 Lifecycle Document

“A graphical representation of the ASP.NET MVC 5 lifecycle, but you will also see all the comprehensive details and explanations of the MVC pipeline that can help you make the correct decision on the what, when, and how of your ASP.NET MVC code development”

Tutorial Series for Entity Framework 6 MVC 5 Published

Tom Dykstra – MSFT has published a new Tutorial Series for Entity Framework 6 MVC 5

The details are here

The tutorials…

Handling concurrency Implementing inheritance Advanced scenarios
Creating an Entity Framework data model
Implementing basic CRUD functionality
Sorting, filtering, and paging Connection resiliency and command interception
Code First Migrations and deployment
Creating a more complex data model
Reading related data
Updating related data
Async and stored procedures

Web forms and mvc

An article by Dino Esposito on Mixing Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC.

Sql server 2012 replication

“Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication” by Sebastian Meine is a free PDF downloadable book, and introduction to the world of SQL Server Replication. The download is available from the RedGate website.

Maths in c#

Eric Lippert on Maths in C#

Tech weekly startups

The Guardian Tech-Weekly podcast on Start Ups.

Global game jam experience

RT @msdevUK The Global Game Jam, and why game developers should participate: http://t.co/9h141puP6K

Code clubs

Google backs Code Club Pro scheme to boost UK teachers' computing skills http://gu.com/p/3mgpt

Web testing tools

Testing tools for Web Developers from Microsoft, including an online web page scanner that gives all sorts of hints and tips on how to improve a web page.

MSDN magazine

The February issue of MSDN magazine is out

Modern web application development training

Scott Hanselman posted links to a day of training “Building Modern Web Apps with ASP.NET”

Javascript design patterns

An online book on Learning Javascript design patterns.

TM should not apply to single words

'Candy' trademark prompts protest

"Super candy handy mandy saga" sounds like an interesting game. It is daft to let companies trademark a single word.

How large companies innovate

It seems one way large companies innovate is to make their staff redundant.

Javascript games

Html5 and javascript games articles

E-books

Microsoft e-books landing page

MVC drop down list boxes

A nice example from Jon Galloway of using the new Enum Support in ASP.NET MVC Views and the “Html.EnumDropDownListFor” helper to create a drop-down list box.

What’s new in MVC 5.1

What’s new in MVC 5.1

Daniel Roth announces Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1

Daniel Roth announces Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1

Azure deep dive

A week-long series of live, interactive sessions from the experts who built Azure that will show you how to start using Windows Azure in your solutions today.

EF identity

K Scot Allen on Entity Framework and ASP.NET identity