Top Links
- Resources for Building ASP.NET with Microsoft Azure (Jeff Fritz)
 - Introducing Microsoft Edge Dev (Kyle Pflug & Anton Molleda)
 - Writing a Brackets extension in TypeScript, in Brackets (Dan)
 - Common mistakes in date/time formatting and parsing (Jon Skeet)
 
Web Development
- Web Optimization – Development and Production in ASP.NET MVC6 (Dave Paquette)
 - 401 Response from ASP.NET Identity when linking to External Accounts (Rick Strahl)
 - Partial Updates for Your RESTful API with JsonPatch in the new ASP .NET 5 (Kevin Dockx)
 - Transforms on SVG Elements (Ana Tudor)
 - ECMAScript 2015 Iterators Revisited (K. Scott Allen)
 
XAML
- Silverlight Method Data Source (Ricardo Peres)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Visual Studio Online Process Customization (Aaron Bjork)
 - Connecting Azure Storage Using Add Connected Services in Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
 - The easiest way to file bugs and send error logs for Visual Studio 2015 (Charles Sterling)
 - Using F# for Enterprise Applications (Jonathan Wood)
 - Meet my new best friend: Visual Studio Code (Frank Boucher)
 - Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Serializing Configuration (Ricardo Peres)
 - Announcing FsLab: Data science package for Mono and .NET (Tomas Petricek)
 - VS Online & Power BI (Brian Harry)
 - Fixing Windows 10 emulators not showing up in VS2015RC or not having internet access (Joost van Schaik)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Traditional Risk Management on Agile Projects (Dave Prior)
 - CQRS with MediatR and AutoMapper (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Bad Code in Any Language (Mark Bowytz)
 - 3 Quick Tips for Product Owners Dealing with Stress (Michael Burns)
 - Teams, Backlogs, Working Tested Software (Mike Cottmeyer)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Using Azure Event Hubs As A Message Hub For IoT Scenarios (Shiju Varghese)
 - Dart on Android could bring smooth, 120fps apps (Anton D. Nagy)
 - Demystifying Xamarin Forms AbsoluteLayout and RelativeLayout positioning. (Jonathan Yates)
 - Get Node.js Apps Running on a Raspberry Pi 2 that Use AzureAD, ADAL, TypeScript & Office 365 APIs (Andrew Connell)
 - WatchKit Controller Life Cycle (Mike Swanson)
 - Box Announces New Mobile SDKs for Enterprise (Will M)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Update from Build! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - [MSCloudShow] Episode 77 is live – Building Startups in the Cloud, Interview with Rob Walling & Derrick Reimer of GetDrip.com (Andrew Connell)
 - RunAs Radio – Modern Public Folders with Peter Schmidt (Richard Campbell)
 - Episode 8: Interview with Robert Kessler and Roger Altizer of University of Utah | Level Up (Greg Duncan, Kaitlin McKinnon & Seth Juarez)
 
Community / Events
- Day Against DRM 2015 Campaign (Ricardo Peres)
 - Announcing Cocos2d-x hackathon, San Francisco May 16th 2015 (Eric Mittelette)
 
Database
- Change the restore mode of a secondary SQL Server database in Log shipping with SSMS (Manvendra Singh)
 - Microsoft readies SQL Server 2016 summer preview (Mary Jo Foley)
 - SQL Server 2016 announced… and it’s gonna rock (Ed Leighton-Dick)
 - SQL Server – Knowing the Use of Deprecated or Discontinued Features (Pinal Dave)
 - Combining SQL Server and MongoDB using NHibernate (Vladimir Khorikov)
 - Monitor SQL Server Master Database Changes with WMI Alerts (Svetlana Golovko)
 - Improving Power Query Calculation Performance With List.Buffer() (Chris Webb)
 - Connecting SQL Fails? Did You Hibernate Your PC? (Dirk Strauss)
 - New DocumentDB Import Options (Stephen Baron)
 - Top reasons why enterprises should choose Azure SQL Data Warehouse! (Tiffany Wissner)
 - Debug Managed Code and Stored Procedures Seamlessly (Guy Glantser)
 
PowerShell
- Download Channel 9 Series using PowerShell (Alexandre Brisebois)
 - Automating Analyzing Tons of Minidump Files with WinDBG and PowerShell (John Robbins)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading May 5, 2015 (Robert Diana)
 - Tech Brief: Microsoft’s Visual Code, Google’s Collections, Tesla’s New Battery, and Microsoft Will Tell You How Old You Look (Michael Burns)
 - The Daily Six Pack: May 6, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-06 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #1854 (Chris Alcock)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 0735624259  | 
How We Test Software at Microsoft: Alan Page, Ken Johnston, Bj Rollison: 9780735624252: Books
Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (3rd Edition) (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series): Zed A. Shaw: 9780321884916: Books
PowerShell Deep Dives (9781617291319): Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Oisin Grehan, Aleksandar Nikolic: Books