Top Links
- AutoMapper 3.3 feature: open generics (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Step-by-Step on How to Update Git on Mac (Michael Crump)
 - TWC9: Last Show of 2014, Orleans, Bing Developer Assistant, VSO news and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
 - An End-To-End LightSwitch SharePoint Workflow Application (Michael Washington)
 
Web Development
- Building future .NET projects is quite pleasant (Maarten Balliauw)
 - jQuery Mobile vs Sencha Touch (ExtJS Mobile) (Harsha Bopuri)
 - Project Tracking Website using AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API (Pravinkumar Dabade)
 - Kendo: Help, my MVVM template is acting weird! (Adam Anderson)
 - ECMAScript 6: new OOP features besides classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Deploying a Kotlin Application to a Docker Container on Azure (Hadi Hariri)
 
XAML
- Windows Phone 8.1, Continuing a Conversation Started with Cortana (Mike Taulty)
 - WPF Shapes – Polygon (Richard Carr)
 - Beyond Kinect for Windows v2 – KinectEx and The Walking HeadlessHost – WP 8.1 Feedback Feature and Zombies (Rene Schulte)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Git Integration in Visual Studio 2013 (Jeremy Clark)
 - Entity Framework Pitfalls: String Length Validation (Ricardo Peres)
 - EF 6.1 Code First Field Lengths – Reminder to self! (Dave Noderer)
 - Take care when using comma in C++ (Dror Helper)
 - oData comes of age (Richard Jones)
 - Gotcha: Entity Framework gets slow in long Iteration Loops (Rick Strahl)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Article: Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals. Part 2 (Michał Bartyzel)
 - Emotion Cards for Agile Teams (Savita Pahuja)
 - Developing Leadership Skills by Using a Metaphor of Orchestra Rehearsals (Ben Linders)
 - Building Mission Critical Systems using Cloud Platform Services (Hanu K.)
 - Choose Wisely AND Back Out Easily (Jim Holmes)
 - Sharing Code Coverage Results With NCover Code Central (Kerry Meade)
 - ROI Is Dead! (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - What does it take to be a Programmer? (Robert Kim)
 - Passing the torch (Wes McClure)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Build Mobile App Services with Google Cloud Tools for Android Studio v1.0 (Chris Sells)
 - AndroidAnnotations setup in Android Studio (Hannes Gruber)
 - Elegant Circle Images in Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
 - Google Play game services ends year with a bang! (Benjamin Frenkel)
 - Swift from Scratch: Collections and Tuples (Bart Jacobs)
 - How to run .NET on RaspberryPi with Mono and beakn v0.3 : DIY Lync Status Light with a RaspberryPi, .NET, Mono and MQTT (Jon Gallant)
 - Get Ready for 64-Bit with Telerik AppBuilder (Rob Lauer)
 - Azure Mobile Services: How to creating a Dev and Prod environment (Sara Silva)
 - Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 6) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Herding Code 200: io.js, Angular angst, K Scott’s new Band, Kickstarters, Containers and Old School Elite Women Coders (Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente & Scott Koon)
 - Monthly Catch-up: S75 with special co-host Willy-Peter Schaub | Visual Studio ALM Rangers (Wiley P. Schaub & Anisha)
 - Planning a Front-end JavaScript Application (Session Recording) (Cody Lindley)
 - MS Dev Show – AngularJS with John Ptacek (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
 - What The Tech 240: Worst of 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Paul McCartney and The Nerdist Podcast – Jack O’Connell (Chris Hardwick)
 - The Changelog 135: EOY 2014 with Adam and Jerod (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
 - App Biz Dev Episode 22: Hostile Takeover (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
 - Episode 164: Azure Diagnostic Improvements with Boris Scholl and Saurabh Bhatia | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
 - VIDEO – Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta Preview (Larry Hyrb)
 - EdgeShow 130: Inside the Azure Storage Outage of Nov 18th | Edge (RicksterCDN)
 - StarTalk Radio Extended Classic: Cosmic Queries: Pseudoscience, now with Elise Andrew of IFLS and Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
 - Partnerships & Possibilities, Episode 4, Season 6: Virtual Teams, Real Challenges (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
 - Get Up And Code 070: Operation Superhero with Jason Roberts (Douglas Coleman)
 
Community / Events
- 2015 Software Craftsmanship Calendar (Brendan Enrick)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – List the Name of the Months Between Date Ranges – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
 - Comparison of database systems (Simon Sabin)
 - Big Changes – What You Need to Know About the Power BI Public Preview (Melissa Coates)
 - Thoughts On The New Power BI (Chris Webb)
 
Miscellaneous
- Why You Should Design for Open Source (Jina Bolton)
 - Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Review (and Surface Pro 3 Comparison) (Jeremy Likness)
 - Small SVG is a subset of SVG for Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
 - Gifts that will get your kids interested in programming (Stacy Warden)
 - Why Sony’s Breach Matters (Steven Sinofsky)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading December 19, 2014 (Robert Diana)
 - Reading Notes #168 (Frank)
 - Collective #147 (Mary Lou)
 - Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
 - The Morning Brew #1763 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily News Digest 12/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
 - Reblog: December 12 to December 18 (Jason Strate)
 - Weekly Programming Digest #87 (Jakub Chodounský)
 - Last Week on Channel 9: December 15th – 21st, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
 
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