Category: friday links

Friday links 88

  1. Async/Await – Best Practices in Asynchronous Programming
  2. AsyncLazy – .NET Parallel Programming – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
  3. "Invoke the method with await"… ugh! – .NET Parallel Programming – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
  4. Cooperatively pausing async methods – .NET Parallel Programming – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
  5. Asynchronous action filters in ASP.NET Web API – StrathWeb
  6. How Much Does it Cost to Build the World’s Hottest Startups?
  7. A Comprehensive Guide to Testing Web Apps
  8. Amazing Shadow Sculptures by Tim Noble and Sue Webster | Marvelous
  9. VS 2010 Package Development – Chapter 1: Visual Studio Packages – DiveDeeper’s blog – Dotneteers.net
  10. CodeBlog: Writing a Blogging Extension for Visual Studio 2010
  11. jeresig – Gratipay
  12. Motherfucking Website
  13. APIs
  14. Resigning from my own business. Reasons and lessons learned | adelinapeltea.com
  15. Cutting the Crap: Real Advice for Creating Epic Content – socialmouths
  16. The Most Valuable Lessons I Learned From Managing a Virtual Team
  17. Troy Hunt: Working with 154 million records on Azure Table Storage – the story of “Have I been pwned?”
  18. Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling Presented with Film Stil | Indiewire
  19. Getting to the Content You Want, Faster in IE11 – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Friday links 87

  1. FPDF
  2. Create PDF With iText Java Tutorial
  3. oop – PHP: The Reflection API – Great Addition To PHP With Little Use – Stack Overflow
  4. Web Developer Checklist – ASP.NET Performance
  5. Web Developer Checklist
  6. OpenPGP.js
  7. Creating Web API Help Pages : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
  8. Building Performance Metrics into ASP.NET MVC Applications
  9. Creating a Business Intelligence Dashboard with R and ASP.NET MVC: Part 3
  10. What’s New For Parallelism in .NET 4.5 – .NET Parallel Programming – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
  11. AngularJS: 0 – Bootstrapping
  12. You Can Easily Learn 100 TED Talks Lessons In 5 Minutes Which Most People Need 70 Hours For
  13. Easy Responsive Tabs to Accordion

Friday links 86

  1. HBR Blog Network
  2. Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive – NYTimes.com
  3. Why You Should Never Use MongoDB « Sarah Mei
  4. Font Awesome Icons
  5. A Cold War Fought by Women – NYTimes.com
  6. The Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself Today | Mark Manson
  7. Bootswatch: Free themes for Bootstrap
  8. Mothereffing animated gif
  9. Autoruns for Windows
  10. Working at home – | Gunnar Peipman – Programming Blog
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  12. The 50 pictures in perfect timing
  13. Offices For All! Why Open-Office Layouts Are Bad For Employees, Bosses, And Productivity | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
  14. Writing Better jQuery Code – Modern Web
  15. readwrite.com/2013/11/26/are-open-source-developers-too-demanding#awesm=~oot8XyroeZ1Wts
  16. SCORM Tip: Use an onunload handler | pipwerks
  17. Anonymous Recursion in C# – Yet Another Language Geek – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
  18. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wesdyer/archive/2007/02/02/anonymous-recursion-in-c.aspx

Friday links 85

  1. Gamasutra: Dave Baggett’s Blog – My Hardest Bug Ever
  2. littlesparkvt/Flatstrap-for-Bootstrap-3 · GitHub
  3. IronSummitMedia/startbootstrap · GitHub
  4. thomaspark/bootswatch · GitHub
  5. Raise money fast to START A BUSINESS now >>
  6. How to use a T4 template for View Generation – ADO.NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
  7. Learn The 15 Minute Female Orgasm Practice, Discover Slow Sex & Better Relationships | OneTaste
  8. Programming ASP.NET MVC 5
  9. An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility
  10. 9 Things Extremely Successful People Do After Work
  11. What Is Agile? (10 Key Principles of Agile) | All About Agile

Friday links 84

  1. GCompris Free Educational Software
  2. 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World «TwistedSifter
  3. 8 Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day And How To Prevent Them – Business Insider
  4. Presentation Skills Considered Harmful — Serious Pony
  5. The New Science of Who Sits Where at Work – WSJ.com
  6. Four Dangerous Navigation Approaches that Can Increase Cognitive Strain
  7. A New Way To Measure Happiness Finds The True Happiest Countries In The World | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
  8. GoodUI
  9. Web Developer Checklist – ASP.NET Performance
  10. 33 Meticulous Cleaning Tricks For The OCD Person Inside You
  11. Cool life hacks : theCHIVE
  12. Morning Awesomeness : theCHIVE
  13. 40 Must-See Historical Photos | DeMilked
  14. Asda supermarket launches 3D printing service
  15. Introducing TogetherJS ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
  16. The Positive Power of Negative Thinking | LinkedIn
  17. 30 Creative Facebook Timeline Cover Photos | DeMilked
  18. The No Whining Rule for Managers – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review
  19. Hovering | Fabric.js Demos
  20. free-programming-books/free-programming-books.md at master · vhf/free-programming-books
  21. C# versus C++ performance – Stack Overflow
  22. 101 Important Questions To Ask Yourself | Personal Excellence
  23. Keith Barry executa magia mintii | Video on TED.com
  24. What are the most spectacular NASA photos ever taken? – Quora
  25. Marius Ursache’s answer to Productivity: What are the best day to day time saving hacks? – Quora
  26. Confirmation Bias « You Are Not So Smart
  27. ASP.NET Web API 2 is out! Overview of features – StrathWeb
  28. Troy Hunt: Essential reading for Visual Studio 2013, MVC 5 and Web API 2
  29. Creating Facebook Template in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
  30. How Microsoft helped this bar figure out that vodka was costing it a fortune | CITEworld
  31. GitLab.com | Features
  32. 6 dirty secrets of the IT industry
  33. Two Dozen Insanely Essential Programmer Utilities* | Jesse Liberty
  34. AutoHotkey
  35. Bossie Awards 2013: The best open source application development tools – InfoWorld
  36. How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business | Wired.com
  37. Colophon for GOV.UK at launch | Government Digital Service

Friday links 83

  1. annyang! Easily add speech recognition to your site
  2. 33 Amazing Ideas That Will Make Your House Awesome | Bored Panda
  3. Manual on Development of Visual Studio 2005-2012 and Atmel Studio Plugins in C# – APIs and Tools – Articles – Articles – GameDev.net
  4. Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
  5. O’Reilly Open Books Project
  6. Manual on Development of Visual Studio 2005-2012 and Atmel Studio Plugins in C# – APIs and Tools – Articles – Articles – GameDev.net
  7. 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com
  8. Inverse Fizzbuzz – just another scala quant
  9. How To Recognise Famous Painters According To The Internet | Bored Panda
  10. Tools for image optimization
  11. 11 proven practices for more effective, efficient peer code review
  12. Malcolm Gladwell: The unheard story of David and Goliath | Video on TED.com
  13. Advanced Distributed Learning
  14. Zeigarnik Effect – PsychWiki – A Collaborative Psychology Wiki
  15. Tutorials · mbostock/d3 Wiki
  16. Wat — Destroy All Software Talks
  17. Super Cool Science Experiments You Can Do At Home – YouTube

Friday links 82

  1. Core Coding Standard | Insomniac Games
  2. World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks | Information Is Beautiful
  3. Caught In A Stress Spiral? Innovate Your Day With 8 Minutes Of "Ready, Set, Pause" | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
  4. 10 Ways Our Minds Warp Time — PsyBlog
  5. 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies — PsyBlog
  6. HistomapFinal.jpg.CROP.article920-large.jpg (920×4192)
  7. Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software
  8. Pages – Surveys
  9. Translation table explaining the truth behind British politeness becomes internet hit – Telegraph
  10. JExcelApi
  11. Licensing iText | iText Software Info
  12. Attribute Routing in Web API v2
  13. ASP.NET MVC 5 Authentication Filters — Visual Studio Magazine
  14. How to Turn Your Pile of Code into an Open Source Project
  15. 25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story « terribleminds: chuck wendig
  16. WATCH NOW: What Gamers Can Teach Us | Jane McGonigal
  17. C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, Part One – Tech.Pro
  18. C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, Part Two – Tech.Pro
  19. 10 YouTube Videos Every Entrepreneur Should Watch | Inc.com
  20. Debugging Optimized Code–New in Visual Studio 2012 | Random ASCII
  21. Portable House ÁPH80 by Ábaton Arquitectura | URDesign Magazine
  22. Wall Street needs an MFA – Salon.com
  23. The Habits of the World’s Smartest People (Infographic) | Entrepreneur.com
  24. 5 Crazy New Man-Made Materials That Will Shape the Future
  25. 7 cutting-edge programming experiments worth trying
  26. Can Building Great Products Help You Build Great Teams? – Deep Nishar – Harvard Business Review
  27. Timed array processing in JavaScript | NCZOnline
  28. Understanding ECMAScript 6 arrow functions | NCZOnline

Friday links 81

  1. Weird & Exotic Places on Earth
  2. three.js – JavaScript 3D library
  3. Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree | Video on TED.com
  4. Playing video games can boost brain power
  5. Google Chromecast Review – The race is on to wirelessly throw video to your TV – Scott Hanselman
  6. Entity Framework Code-First Performance Issue with String Queries | Brian Sullivan
  7. The Psychology of Video Games | It’s Not So Bad: Cognitive Dissonance and Cheap Games
  8. Math Experts Split the Check | Math with Bad Drawings
  9. How to Work with Designers — The Year of the Looking Glass — Medium
  10. How to Work with PMs — The Year of the Looking Glass — Medium
  11. Implement Kanban: Implement Virtuous Cycle of Ongoing Improvement » MPUG
  12. Getting a distinct list of changed files from TFS using PowerShell | HackedBrain
  13. Functionally Similar – Comparing Underscore.js to LINQ
  14. Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are | Video on TED.com
  15. 4 Things I Wish I Would Have Known When I Started My Software Development Career | Javalobby
  16. Weekend Scripter: Use PowerShell to Explore an RSS Feed from a Blog – Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
  17. Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
  18. 10+ years of designing games in public | opensource.com
  19. Using T4 to Create an AppSettings Wrapper, Part 3 – P3.NET
  20. Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
  21. code journey: Using bind prefix in ASP.NET MVC with overlays
  22. Prefixing Input Elements Of Partial Views With ASP.NET MVC – That Extra Mile
  23. hall of api shame: boolean trap

Friday links 80

  1. Phil Sturgeon • Building a Decent API | Blog
  2. Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions
  3. You Can Now Print 3D Mini Replicas of Yourself «TwistedSifter
  4. If Facebook existed during World War 2
  5. Six Unconventional, Scientific Ways to Be Happier
  6. (0) Mana / Permalink
  7. #AltDevBlog » What documentation?
  8. AttributeRouting
  9. 14 Fantastic Free Tools for Design Collaboration
  10. Drinking in the Social Splenda — Social Design — Medium
  11. Twitter’s Killer New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the Curb | Threat Level | Wired.com
  12. All Europeans are related if you go back just 1,000 years, scientists say – NBC News.com
  13. How to Build a Career Worth Having
  14. 50 Insane Facts About Canada [INFOGRAPHIC] – Cheapflights
  15. Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill | Video on TED.com
  16. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A fish: The most highbrow jokes in the world – Science – News – The Independent
  17. More highbrow jokes: We didn’t realise what we were starting – Science – News – The Independent
  18. 40 maps that explain the world
  19. A Question That Can Change Your Life « Peter Bregman
  20. The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam | VentureBeat
  21. 11 proven practices for more effective, efficient peer code review

Friday Links 79

  1. Self-determination theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  2. 15 Phenomenal TED Talks You Need to Watch Today
  3. The state of web compression
  4. Gamasutra – Features – Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games
  5. Does aggressive monetisation work? | The Develop Blog | Develop
  6. The Future Of UX Design: Tiny, Humanizing Details | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
  7. 10 Weird Tricks To Make Your Life Easier – Listverse
  8. ScraperWiki Data Blog | A blog about ScraperWiki and all things data
  9. Task Parallel Library and async-await Functionality – Patterns of Usage in Easy Samples – CodeProject
  10. The “Yes, And…” Approach: Less Ego, More Openness, More Possibility – 99U
  11. 10 Laws of Productivity – 99U
  12. Expanding the Definitions of Design – NYTimes.com
  13. Cause and Effect Analysis (Fishbone Diagrams) – Problem Solving Tools from MindTools.com
  14. Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” | Ars Technica
  15. Microsoft to allow indie self-publishing on Xbox One, retail consoles will double as debug units (updated)
  16. The Noun Project
  17. Correctly Building Asynchronous Libraries in .NET
  18. Rendering ASP.NET MVC Razor Views outside of MVC revisited – Rick Strahl’s Web Log
  19. The 4 server logs you NEED to know to fix any IIS / ASP.NET error
  20. Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar | Video on TED.com

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