Windows 10 development related

Windows 10 development related:

http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/01/22/windows-10-is-empowering-developers-to-dream-again-3/

Excerpt:

What’s next?

We’re more committed than ever to making sure that you can leverage your work to reach more customers, regardless of where they are, what device type they’re on, or what operating system they’re running. The best way to start preparing for Windows 10 is to start building universal Windows apps today for Windows 8.1.

Here are some great resources to get started:

Official Documentation

• Building universal Windows apps for all Windows devices
• Universal Windows app samples
• Developing Universal Windows Apps with HTML and JavaScript Jumpstart. Comprehensive 12 part video training covering how to build universal Windows apps using HTML & WinJS.

Comprehensive Online Training

• Developing Universal Windows Apps (C#/XAML) Jumpstart. On demand training providing real world guidance to build universal Windows apps with C# and XAML.

• If you are currently a Windows Phone Silverlight developer, there’s never been a better time to investigate moving your development over to Windows XAML, which provides the ability to deliver universal Windows apps. We recently released a comprehensive set of materials detailing how. Check them out here.

Difference between 'input' & 'button' tags

http://api.jquery.com/submit-selector/

Note that some browsers treat <button> element as type="submit" implicitly while others (such as Internet Explorer) do not. To ensure that markup works consistently across all browsers and guarantee that it is possible to consistently select buttons that will submit a form, always specify a typeproperty.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_button.asp

If you use the <button> element in an HTML form, different browsers may submit different values. Use <input> to create buttons in an HTML form.

Smartphone OS Market Share

Ruby: Free programming books

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#ruby

Sublime Text - shortcuts

http://viget.com/extend/my-overused-sublime-text-keyboard-shortcuts

Rails: running a particular migration

This is an old Stackoverflow question - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/753919/run-a-single-migration-file


If the migration file is:
--
db/migrate/20141211192127_add_col1_to_table1.rb

class AddCol1ToTable1 < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :table1, :col1, :boolean
  end
end
--

Then, we have to do the following in Rails console:

> require Rails.root + "db/migrate/20141211192127_add_col1_to_table1.rb"

> AddCol1ToTable1.new.migrate(:up)

Learning Programming

http://studio.code.org/s/frozen/stage/1/puzzle/1
http://studio.code.org/

An introduction to functional programming

https://codewords.hackerschool.com/issues/one/an-introduction-to-functional-programming

Imperative & corresponding Functional code has been used for explanations.

ebook: Distributed Systems

Free 2013 ebook about Distributed Systems:
http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html

"You're already doing TDD" written by david banham

You're already doing TDD written by david banham
http://blog.davidbanham.com/articles/tdd/

git in 2 minutes

git in 2 minutes
http://www.garyrobinson.net/2014/10/git-in-two-minutes-for-a-solo-developer.html

How to Solve Error:: VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrP4vlw5LUY

To turn off Hyper-V:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
reboot

To turn on Hyper-V:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
reboot

How to register your phone for development for Windows Phone 8

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/ff769508(v=vs.105).aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/a/20817431/637563
 

Intro to d3.js

http://square.github.io/intro-to-d3/

Game development - Unity & C#

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn759441.aspx

Scott Hanselman - Scaling Yourself

A great talk by Scott Hanselman about Effectivness, Efficiency, Time Management.. etc..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPgUn8tL8s

Hacker News API through Firebase

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Could use this for test projects, to learn about Firebase etc

Puzzle Driven Development

http://www.yegor256.com/2009/03/04/pdd.html

Windows 10 Tech Preview on a VM

http://learningmachine.quora.com/Installing-Windows-10-Technical-Preview-on-a-Virtual-Machine

Ruby: detect

From
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2986852/ruby-detect-method :

Detect returns the first item in the list for which the block returns TRUE. Your first example:

>> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7].detect { |x| x.between?(3,4) }
=> 3

Returns 3 because that is the first item in the list that returns TRUE for the expression x.between?(3,4).
detect stops iterating after the condition returns true for the first time. select will iterate until the end of the input list is reached and returns all of the items where the block returned true.

Linux - Kernel programming

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/18/you-can-be-a-kernel-hacker/

Linux: 'less' editor

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/02/unix-less-command-10-tips-for-effective-navigation/

Docker Try It Tutorial

https://www.docker.com/tryit/

Algorirthms Visualized (Animated) - algomation.com/

http://www.algomation.com/

Videos in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXXWXz5rF64 - Bubble Sort  vs  Quick Sort

An introductory course in Harvard: CS50
http://cs50.tv/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2d9b_nEzoA - CS50 - Arrays, Linked Lists, Hash Tables

Databases, Algorithms

Databases:
Excellent lecture series on Database Technology from Professor Jens Dittich
https://infosys.uni-saarland.de/datenbankenlernen/

Algorithms:
https://www.learneroo.com/subjects/8

HackerEarth.com

www.hackerearth.com/problems
For practicing programming

Ruby: Metaprogramming related

http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/11/23/dont-know-metaprogramming-in-ruby/

Rails: Deface related

http://deface.heroku.com/

'React' as an alternative to Angular, Knockout etc

http://blog.dantup.com/2014/08/you-have-ruined-html/

http://facebook.github.io/react/

Hash Collisions

http://preshing.com/20110504/hash-collision-probabilities/

Bootstrap tutorial

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_input_groups.htm

Ruby, Rails related

RubySteps – a daily coding practice

http://patmaddox.com/rubysteps/

UI related: Bootstrap Snippets

Bootstrap Snippets like Login Form, Sign-in Form, User Profile etc
http://snipplicious.com/

Prezi.com - tool to create presentations

Website to create Presentations: https://prezi.com
Free option - presentations that we create will be public

Tool to use when accessing Exchange email using a web-browser (Using Javascript Code in Bookmarks - Part II)

I created a small tool to use when accessing my company's Exchange email using a web-browser 

STEP 0:
Drag the below link to your Bookmarks bar

Email Tool

STEP 1-3:
See below pic

Javascript related

http://casual-effects.blogspot.ca/2014/01/an-introduction-to-javascript-for.html

Module

There are several ways of using functions to group state and implement module-like functionality. The simplest is to have modules be objects that contain functions (and constants, and variables...). 

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use strict;   var module = (function() {   // This cannot be seen outside of the module, so it will not create namespace   function aPrivateFunction(z) { return Math.sqrt(z); }     // Freezing and sealing are two ways to prevent accidental mutation of the   // module after creation.   return Object.freeze({      // These are accessible as module.anExportedFunction after the definition      anExportedFunction: function(x, y) { return x + aPrivateFunction(y); },      anotherExportedFunction: function(x) { return 2 * x; }   }); })();

Another variation mutates the global namespace object: 

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use strict;   // Use function to create a local scope and persistent environment (function() {   function aPrivateFunction(z) { return Math.sqrt(z); }     // Mutate the global environment   this.anExportedFunction = function(x, y) { return x + aPrivateFunction(y); };   this.anotherExportedFunction = function(x) { return 2 * x; }; })();