Top Links
- Windows 10 is launching July 29 (Harish Jonnalagadda)
 - Clean C# eBook Published (Jason Roberts)
 - Creating a Knockout-Style Variable in C# (Chris Eargle)
 - Presentation: C# 6 – The Future Is (nearly) Here! (Jon Skeet)
 
Web Development
- The Past, Present & Future of Node.js and io.js (Andrew Connell)
 - ASP.NET Formatted String Control (Ricardo Peres)
 - Windows 10 uses Chakra to Provide JavaScript For All Applications (Jeff Martin)
 - Using AngularJS in your ASP.NET MVC Projects – Part 3 (Mark Kendall)
 - Improved Structure View in PhpStorm 9 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
 - Automatically Compile Your TypeScript Files with Visual Studio Code on OSX (Michael Crump)
 - Why to avoid fat controllers (Gunnar Peipman)
 - TypeScript Futures (Peter Vogel)
 - The jsblocks Framework (Alex R. Young)
 - Messing with MessageChannel (David Humphrey)
 - DZone Refcardz: REST: Foundations of RESTful Architecture (G. Ryan Spain)
 - GitHub Repository Redirects to Go Live in API v3 (Romin Irani)
 - Azure Utilities You Should Have In Your Toolbox (Tim Murphy)
 - Angular 1.4.0 – jaracimrman-existence (Pete Bacon Darwin)
 - ES6 In Depth: Rest parameters and defaults (Benjamin Peterson)
 - Rocket.Chat – Have your own Slack like online chat, built with Meteor. (Diego Sampaio, Gabriel Engel, Marcelo Schmidt, Rafael Caferati & Rodrigo Nascimento)
 
XAML
- Using compiled bindings (x:Bind) with #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
 - WPF Control Templates – Displaying Content (Richard Carr)
 - EZ-Robot controller and Universal Windows Platform (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
 - I don’t get UWP on IOT (Matt Lacey)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- C# on EdX – A Programmer’s Review (Nikos Vaggalis)
 - Create and Update bug by email in TFS 2015 using Bug2Mail Service (Tarun Arora)
 - VSO Status Inspector – A walk through on creating a Visual Studio extension to track VSO Status (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
 - Announcing Octopus Deploy integration for Visual Studio Online (Charles Sterling)
 - Using SecureString in C# For Sensitive Information (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - Extending Visual Studio 2015 (Heather Brown)
 - Using Reflection to Get Enum Description and Value and Deserializing Interface Properties With Json.NET (Bruno Leonardo Michels)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Don’t Be a Magnet for Unpleasant Experiences (J.D. Meier)
 - Everyone can be a leader (Patrick Kua)
 - How to Facilitate an Agile Retrospective Using “Rory Story Cubes” (Savita Pahuja)
 - How Many Stories Per Sprint? Rules of Thumb (Andrew Fuqua)
 - Testing in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflows (Gopinath C H)
 - Embracing Parallelism in Your Applications (Jerry Makare)
 - Elephant in the Room – Technical Debt (Matt Davey)
 - Article: Why We Fail to Change: Understanding Practices, Principles, and Values Is a Solution (Pawel Brodzinski)
 - My Thoughts On #NoEstimates (Robin Osborne)
 - The Holy Trinity of Product Development (Stephen Forte)
 - Developer Productivity without tools (Steven Barnett)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Xamarin Studio: Obliterate Output Paths (bin/obj) (James Montemagno)
 - Android Studio 1.3 Does C/C++ and More Material Design (Abel Avram)
 - Xamarin.Forms Future Survey (Adam J Wolf)
 - iOS Fundamentals: UIAlertView and UIAlertController (Bart Jacobs)
 - Get the Summer Going with Xamarin Events in June (Jayme Singleton)
 - Android Vulnerability Lets Attackers Modify App Behavior (Patricio Robles)
 - Android Plugin Application (Raffaele Garofalo)
 - Android Design Support Library (Ian Lake)
 - Grow your app installs with App Invites from Google (Ranjith Jayaram)
 - Updated Scratch Ticket Code (Mike Bluestein)
 - Raspberry PI 2 and analog input (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
 - My onboarding experience at Khan Academy (Kevin Dangoor)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Thimbleweed Park Podcast #8 (Ron Gilbert)
 - Technology & Friends Episode 368: Kris Wagner on Hot Parties in Azure (David Giard)
 - Simple Programmer Podcast 007: Is Paying for Developer Bootcamp Worth It? and Get Up And Code 093: All About Running With Thomas Henson (John Sonmez)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 166 #OTP (Richard Hay)
 - MS Dev Show – Android Apps on Windows (Project Astoria) with Shabnam Erfani (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
 - SSW TV – ASP.NET Identity using vNext | Dev Superpowers Episode 11 (SSW Team)
 - Free Course (Video Available): Practical Performance Tips to Make Your HTML/JavaScript Faster (Doris Chen)
 - The Changelog 157: Building Bridges with Sarah Allen (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
 - Windows Design for Developers: Getting the Balance Right | Build 2015 (Albert Shum, Jeff Arnold, Karen Kesler, Jeff Fong & Jonathan Wiedemann)
 - The Married Gamers Episode 364: Lost Kinection (Chris Brown)
 - TWC9: We’re back…. Windows 10, IoT, Thing Explainer, Ask Anders Anything and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Jeremy Foster)
 - Episode 176: Logic Apps with Stephen Siciliano | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
 - StarTalk Radio – Combating Disease with Jimmy Carter (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
 - Azure Podcast Episode 79 – Azure A-Z (Sujit D’Mello)
 
Community / Events
- Interview: Tony Grout and Chris Matts on Skype’s Agile Transformation (Tony Grout & Chris Matts)
 - The 8th Annual Regular Expression Day – June 1st, 2015 (Ben Nadel)
 - Google I/O and the Death of the Web (John Ptacek)
 - Windows 10 Developer Readiness – Powered by MVPs (Sara Silva)
 
Database
- Remove Question Mark and Show Correct Total Number of Pages in SSRS Report (Dallas Snider)
 - How to Clone a SQL Server Login, Part 2 of 3 (K. Brian Kelley)
 - Protecting Yourself from SQL Injection in SQL Server – Part 2 (Aaron Bertrand)
 - How to Set Up Standard Edition AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016 (Brent Ozar)
 - SQL SERVER – Error Msg 511 using SQL Server Sparse columns and Interview Question of the Week #022 – How to Get Started with Big Data? (Pinal Dave)
 
PowerShell
- PowerShell ISE: Jump to Column Feature (Trevor Sullivan)
 - Windows Management Framework 4.0 (MS Downloads)
 - How to register a node with a DSC pull server (Narine Mossikyan)
 - #PSTip Validate if an Active Directory Organizational Unit exists or not (Ravikanth C)
 
Miscellaneous
- Here’s what’s new, fixed, and broken in Windows 10 build 10130 (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
 - An open source Windows Live Writer coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading May 29, 2015 (Robert Diana)
 - The Morning Brew #1871 (Chris Alcock)
 - Collective #170 (Pedro Botelho)
 - Links of the month (May Edition) (Jan Hentschel)
 - Coding4Fun May 2015 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: May 25th – May 31st, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
 - The Daily Six Pack: June 1, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-01 (Dan Rigby)
 - .NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips : May 2015 Links (Abhijit Jana)
 - Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #42 (Adam J. Wolf)
 - Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 29th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
 - F# Weekly #22, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 0465050654  | 
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition: Don Norman: 9780465050659: Books
Agile Project Management with Kanban (Developer Best Practices): Eric Brechner: 9780735698956: Books
The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript: Nicholas C. Zakas: 9781593275402: Books