Community Update 2014-05-02 – #d3js, #html5, #restful best practices, #tdd and #sqlserver

 

Web Development

Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API | Vinay Sahni (www.vinaysahni.com)

Creating a drop area to drop a file in HTML 5 (www.philliphaydon.com)

Gallery · mbostock/d3 Wiki · GitHub (github.com) – Gallery of the awesome d3.js Javascript library. If you want to represent visual data, it’s the library that you need.

.NET

Happy 50th Birthday, BASIC! (blogs.msdn.com)

SQL Server

Truncate a table without removing all constraints | Patrick Desjardins’ Blog (patrickdesjardins.com)

Architecture and Methodology

TDD, Straw Men, and Rhetoric — Destroy All Software Blog (www.destroyallsoftware.com)

The TDD Divide: Everyone is Right | BitNative by Cory House (www.bitnative.com)

Tools

BirdWatch explained - Matthias Nehlsen (matthiasnehlsen.com)