Wintellect Post Roundup

I tend to write over at myh Wintellect blog for more technical posts and I've done quite a few lately. Here's the latest in what I've posted there:

• Beginning Statistics for Data Science: Types of Data
• Beginning Statistics for Data Science: Analyzing Data
• Getting Quick Insights on Sales Data with PowerBI
• Using the Cognitive Services Text Analytics API: Detecting Languages
• Using the Cognitive Services Text Analytics API: Sentiment Analysis
• Pre-processing Text Data with NLTK and Azure Machine Learning
• Building Language Intelligent Apps with Microsoft’s LUIS
• Integrating Microsoft LUIS into the Bot Framework
• An Overview of Azure Databricks

And there is still more coming, including using the Microsoft Bot Framework and on the R programming language.

Random Link Roundup

Apparently, every Sunday seems to be a bit too much of a time constraint to get these links out. Instead, I'll just randomly send some I think are worth reading.

• Building Apps in the 4.5.1 Preview in VS 2012 (Microsoft .NET Team) - No need to get VS2013 Preview to build apps in the .NET 4.5.1 framework.
• AngularJS in 60ish Minutes (Dan Wahlin) - Awesome introductory video to the AngularJS framework. The more I learn about this the more I think I need to learn about it.
• Implementing a SignalR Stock Ticker Using AngularJS (Ravi Kiran) - Speaking of AngularJS, here's an awesome tutorial on it being used in action along with SignalR.
• Understanding Cross-Site Request Forgery in .NET (Bill Morefield) - With me still being new to this client side code stuff I still find stuff that everyone knows about yet I've just now heard about. This is one of those things.

Sunday Link Roundup

What's a Sunday without some links? Here's a couple of stuff I found interesting this past week.

• Being a Better Programmer course (Scott Allen and Iris Classon, PluralSight) - A recent course on different ways you can learn to be a better developer. Includes tons of links, books, and different techniques to manage your time for self-education.
• When Lousy Code Strikes, Google Dispatches Its Elite ‘Gopher Team’ (Klint Finley, Wired) - Interesting article that gives a bit of history on Google's Go language and some insight to one of the teams they have there.
• 7 JavaScript Basics Many Developers Aren't Using (Properly) (David Walsh, TechPro) - A few JavaScript tips that seem like they can be useful. I'm nowhere near decent at JavaScript yet, but I found these tips interesting and I definitely learned some stuff.
• Knockout.js Cheat sheet for Beginners (Sumit Maitra, DevCurry) - I'm still relatively new to Knockout.js myself and this is a concise list of what you need to know for it to help you get started. Wish I had this when I first started with Knockout.js.
• A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites (Scott Hanselman) - Microsoft is apparently sneaking in some cool features. It seems that you are able to edit code within several sites from them, including SkyDrive. How awesome is that?!