Top Links
- Mark your calendars: Announcing Build 2014 (Jeffrey Meisner)
- Reflector 8.3 released (Roger Hart)
- Learning TypeScript: Hello World (Bill Wagner)
- Visual Studio and TFS 2013 List of Product Updates (Part 1) and Visual Studio & TFS 2013 – List of extensions and tools (Part 2) (Terje Sandstrom)
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC 5 and Bootstrap 3 CSS Framework (David Hayden)
- Learn JavaScript Part 3 – AngularJS and Langton’s Ant (Dave Kerr)
- Browser Link–Tracking Unused CSS (Dave Paquette)
- Securing your Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) with HTTPS and SSL (Mark Brown)
- Accepting Raw Request Body Content with ASP.NET Web API (Rick Strahl)
- Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Automating everything with the Windows Azure Management Libraries and .NET (Scott Hanselman)
- Use Windows Azure Scheduler through .NET SDK (Shaun Xu)
- Creating Advanced LightSwitch HTML Screen Templates (Michael Washington)
- A Deeper Look at Objects in JavaScript and Introduction to Objects in JavaScript and Event Capturing and Bubbling in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Create Custom Kendo MVVM Widgets (Basem Emara)
- VCL syntax highlighting for Sublime Text 2 (Karl von Randow)
- Do You Like Your Angular Controllers with or without Sugar? (John Papa)
- Interactive Vector Graphic Essentials (Marc Grabanski)
- Studying Go language (golang) (Rinat Abdullin)
- RxJS 2.2 Released (Rx team)
- Ajax Control Toolkit December 2013 Release (Stephen Walther)
- Mixing SPDY and Domain Sharding (John Graham-Cumming)
- Don’t Fear Directives In Angular.js (Nathan LeClaire)
XAML
- 2000 WPF Things #971 – Items Property is a Content Property (Sean Sexton)
- Windows 8.1: Beaming Media via PlayTo By Reference (Mike Taulty)
- Windows Embedded 8 Handheld SDK (MS Downloads)
- Windows 8.1: Alarm and Lock screen call toasts (Andrea Boschin)
- Can an app control toast display time? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- How to enable “Fast App Resume” in your WP8 app? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Choosing a specific master page for each Windows Store App page (Loek van den Ouweland)
- Publish your apps now to take advantage of the biggest holiday season yet (Todd Brix)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Microsoft Git-TF for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (MS Downloads)
- Static Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2013: What’s New (Mickey Gousset)
- The Folder Browser Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
- Making sound using C# (Filip Ekberg)
- Virtual Academy write-up: Visual Studio Tips and Tricks, Debugging (Iris Classon)
- NDepend customizing rule: Avoid namespaces with few types and NDepend customizing rule: Declare types in namespaces (Daniel Fisher)
- Announcing Team Foundation Server Administration Tool (Charles Sterling)
- Code-first O/R mapping is actually rather silly. (Frans Bouma)
- “Learn to program with Visual Basic & .NET Gadgeteer” (Greg Duncan)
- New book: Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
- Nailing Down Generics (Patrick Lioi)
- EF6.0.2 RTM Available (Rowan Miller)
- 2000 C# Things #996 – UTF-16 Encoding, Part I (Sean Sexton)
- NDepend on a Real Project, Round 1.3: An Exception by Any Other Name… (Steve Wilkes)
- A handful of ALM Ranger solutions landed to close off another exciting VS ALM year (Willy-P. Schaub)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Balancing Demand and Capability with Kanban (Ben Linders)
- Home Kanban for Domestic Bliss (Meri Williams)
- 30 Days of TDD – Day 30 – Conclusion (James Bender)
- Unit Tests In VS2013, When It Makes Sense (Peter Kellner)
- Voron perf testing, part II (Oren Eini)
- Worst Practices Teams (Paul Hammant)
- Architecture, design, and the connected environment (Andy Fitzgerald)
- What are “Off-times”? (Brian Harry)
- Credits and Recognition (Geri Coady)
- 10 Emotional Intelligence Articles for Improving Your Effectiveness in Work and Life (JD Meier)
- A book review for a data analysis book I am using for testing OneNote (John Guin)
- SOLID: Part 1 – The Single Responsibility Principle (Patkos Csaba)
- Release: new Image inspector, huge leap forward in Mockups for Google Drive, and more! (Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni)
- Thoughts on Performance Culture (Nicholas Zakas)
- Mature Optimization: An Introduction (Carlos Bueno)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Options for Testing Android Applications and Sprinkles: Boilerplate Reduction for Databases on Android (Alec Noller)
- Connecting to Google Drive* from an Android* App and Options for Releasing Native Android* Apps for Intel® Architecture (x86) (Android on Intel)
- PhoneGap 3.3 Offers Improved BlackBerry Support and an Android Resource Loading API (Jonathan Allen)
- How to Become a Lazy but Productive Android Developer (Paresh Mayani)
- Phonegap CordovaActivity Problem (Jakub Chodounský)
- Creating Slide-out Menu with UIDynamics (Mehfuz Hossain)
- Improvements to the Google Play Services Component (Tom Opgenorth)
- Building Native User Interfaces is the Right Way To Build Cross Platform Style Apps (Wally McClure)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- MNR 497: Peggle 2, Dead Rising 3 DLC and more (Larry Hyrb)
- Vblog – Dropping out (Iris Classon)
- TWC9: VS2013.1 RC 1, ALM VM’s, More *.1 RC’s, Mads on Future of C# and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Charles, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- Edge Show 85 – Windows Azure Active Directory Premium Demo | Edge (David Tesar & RicksterCDN)
- Yet Another Podcast #117–Elijah Manor and John Papa on jQuery and other JavaScript Libraries (Jesse Liberty)
- Windows Weekly 340: Can I Call You Steve? (Paul Thurrott)
- Nodecember on FWTV (Frank LaVigne)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Brendon Small (Chris Hardwick)
- Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 011 | AC’s and CJ’s 2014 Predictions (Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson)
- The Tablet Show – Monetizing Your Mobile Apps with Atley Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- 087 JSJ TC39 with Alex Russell (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
- Countdown to Teched: The One With Things Not to Miss in Houston | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
- The Vergecast 105 – Instagram Direct, Nexus TV, and Spotify (Evan Rodgers)
- Get Up And Code 32: Do You Know What Your MQ Is? (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
- Engadget Podcast 372 – 12.12.13 (Jon Turi)
- Inside the Microsoft Model Shop | Microspotting (Larry Larsen)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 115 (Richard Hay)
- GeekWire Radio: Ride-sharing rules, our geeky gift guide, using the Nest Protect, and the Gigabit Seattle delay (Todd Bishop)
- Developer Tools Screencast 7: ConEmu (Latish Sehgal)
Community / Events
- Microsoft announces the Surface Classroom Challenge (Brian Fagioli)
- Open Source Scan-and-Win Contest (Joseph Hill)
- Build announced for April 2-4: will a new CEO keynote? (Kip Kniskern)
- DeveloperWeek Launches Crowdsourced Awards Program (Mark Boyd)
Database
- SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Architecture and Data Storage (Arshad Ali)
- Document your SQL Server database with free tools: SQL Server Compact Toolbox and DB>Doc (Erik EJ)
- SQL SERVER – How to Identify Datatypes and Properties of Variable and SQL SERVER – Monitor Database via a Heatmap, Alarms List and Realtime Diagnostics for FREE (Pinal Dave)
- Understanding the Limitations of MongoDB (Alec Noller)
- Ways to View Content Published to a Power BI Site (Melissa Coates)
SharePoint
- Setting up Security on sub sites in SharePoint 2010 (Mike Davis)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Turning off the disco lights on the Start screen (Raymond Chen)
More Link Collections
- Cheatsheet: 2013 12.01 ~ 12.16 (yuanjian)
- Interesting Finds: December 14, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 15, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading December 15, 2013 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1259 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Friday Five – December 13, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
- Collective #94 (Mary Lou)
- Daily News Digest 12/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #120 (Frank)
- The Morning Brew #1507 (Chris Alcock)
- The Daily Six Pack: December 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- Friday Links #282 (Mike Ward)
- .NET Weekly Digest (Jakub Chodounský)
The Geek Shelf
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ISBN: 1449358063 |
RESTful Web APIs: Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby: 9781449358068: Books
Debugging with Fiddler: The complete reference from the creator of the Fiddler Web Debugger: Eric Lawrence: 9781475024487: Books
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Jesse James Garrett: 9780321683687: Books