Top Links
- Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17061 now available (Clint Rutkas)
 - Tar and Curl Come to Windows! (Craig Wilhite)
 - AF_UNIX comes to Windows (Sarah Cooley)
 - Application Engagement in Windows Timeline with User Activities (Shawn Henry)
 - The December release of SQL Operations Studio is now available (Alan Yu)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Git support in VS Code – Day 19 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
 - Azure Tips and Tricks Part 71 – Language Detection with Cognitive Service and Azure (Michael Crump)
 - Building ASP.NET Core apps using Cake in Docker (Andrew Lock)
 - A Basic Bot using Azure Bot Services (Arun Sirpal)
 - Subcutaneous Testing against React + .Net Applications (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Introduction to Forms in Angular 4: Reactive Forms (Manjunath M)
 - Integrating imperative APIs into a React application (Sriram Rao)
 - Service Workers: Going beyond the page (Ali Alabbas)
 - How To: Build a Bot with Twilio Studio (Donnie Wang)
 - Creating Custom Estimators in TensorFlow (TensorFlow Team)
 - Firefox Quantum Commits to Cross-Browser Extension Architecture (Kevin Ball)
 - Using SVG to Create a Duotone Effect on Images (Lentie Ward)
 - How To: Build a New Year’s Resolution Bot with Twilio Studio (Nupur Vilas Bhade)
 - Developing RESTful APIs with Hapi (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: loading bundled assets in the Forms project (Marco Siccardi)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Meet ReSharper Ultimate 2017.3 (Alexander Kurakin)
 - Released LINQ to Twitter v4.2.0 (Joe Mayo)
 - Advent of Code Day 19–Following the Path (Mark Heath)
 - 5 .NET Standard Features You Shouldn’t Miss (Ed Charbeneau)
 - Devirtualization in .NET Core (Jonathan Allen)
 - How does Task Manager categorize processes as App, Background Process, or Windows Process? (Raymond Chen)
 - C++17 Progress in VS 2017 15.5 and 15.6 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The married couple component design pattern (Oren Eini)
 - Commented Out Code Is Junk In Your Codebase (Erik Dietrich)
 - A To Z Tips For Building An Awesome Remote Team [Infographic] (Leah Ryder)
 - The impact of an upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2018 (Matteo Emili)
 - Simple Flowcharts and State Diagrams with WebGraphViz (Steve Smith)
 
Mobile & IoT
- AlexaDev Tuesday: Alexa Display Template Skill Design and Coding Deep Dive: Introduction (April Hamilton)
 - Creating a Task Manager App Using Ionic: Part 1 (Roy Agasthyan)
 - Ionic From Scratch: Editing Your Ionic Project (Tinashe Munyaka)
 - Unity 2017.3 is here (Carlos Rincon)
 - Introduction to Game Math: Bouncing a Ball (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
 - Running a .NET Core Web Crawler on a Raspberry Pi (Farooq Ahmad)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- MS Dev Show – Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with Jeff Burtoft (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
 - AiA 168: Angular Connect with Peter Bacon Darwin (Alyssa Nicoll, Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, Shai Reznik & Ward Bell)
 - ngAir 141 – Angular and Electron with Mark Halpin (Justin Schwartzenberger)
 - GoingNative 62: C++ Unit Testing Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll & Augustin Popa)
 - JSJ 292: CosmosDB with Kirill Gavrylyuk (Charles Max Wood)
 - Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 231 | FCC, Microsoft and VMWare Cloud News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
 - RunAs Radio – Microsoft Analytics Stack with Andrew Brust (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
 - Software Engineering Daily – Managing Engineers with Ron Lichty (Jeff Meyerson)
 - Developer Tea – Data Science w/ Elena Grewal (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
 - Developer Things #2: Women in Technology with Megan Horton (Matt Watson)
 
Community & Events
- Microsoft Moves to End Secrecy in Sexual Harassment Claims (Nick Wingfield & Jessica Silver-Greenberg)
 - A Year in Review – 2017 Edition (Den Delimarsky)
 - What Developers Were Fired Up About In 2017: Top 5 Blogs on Industry Trends (Nora Georgieva)
 - Participate in the Developer Economics Survey (Rob Caron)
 
Database
- SQL Server Clustered Columnstore Index Examples for ETL (Tim Smith)
 - Overview of XEvent Profiler in SQL Server Management Studio (Rajendra Gupta)
 - SQL SERVER – List Users with System Admin (sysadmin) Rights – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
 - Incrementally migrate from SQLite to Room (Florina Muntenescu)
 
MS Teams
- Microsoft Teams: The Good, The Bad, The ‘Is it Ready?’ (Joelle Farley)
 
PowerShell
- Part-of-Speech Tagging with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
 
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17063 for PC and Announcing Project Honolulu Technical Preview 1712 Build 05002 (Dona Sarkar)
 - DZone Refcard – Getting Started with Scala (Hugh McKee, Seth Tisue, Ryan Knight & Nilanjan Raychaudhuri)
 - Our predictions for Microsoft in 2018 (Zac Bowden)
 
More Link Collections
- Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-20 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #2490 (Chris Alcock)
 - These were our 10 most popular stories of 2017 (Roberto Torres)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 1589944607  | 
Battlestar Galactica: Corey Konieczka: Toys & Games
Kanban in Action: Marcus Hammarberg, Joakim Sunden: 9781617291050: Books
The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1: Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Colleen Doran: 9781401241889: Books