Top Links
- Xamarin Indie Now $25/Month (Joseph Hill)
 - Free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure (Scott Guthrie)
 - Windows Store: Integrating OneDrive into Your Windows Store Apps (Tony Champion)
 - Object pooling and thread safety (Jon Skeet)
 
Web Development
- Retrieving Data with Backbone and TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
 - Less CSS, Relative Paths, Nested Quotes, Url() Constructs, And Post-Processing (Ben Nadel)
 - JavaScript and V8 TurboFan (Ariya Hidayat)
 - Final Tips for Best Practices in WordPress Development (Damian Logghe)
 - Code Quality Analysis in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
 - No Need to $Watch AngularJS “Controller As” (Jeremy Likness)
 - Integration Testing with FubuMVC and OWIN (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Making Your Kendo UI Pages More Testable (Jim Holmes)
 - Extending HTML with AngularJS’s Directives (Maciej Sopyło)
 - BackBone Tutorial – Part 6: Understanding Backbone.js Routes and History (Rahul Rajat Singh)
 - Using ECMAScript 6 today (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Store and Retrieve JSON data from Local storage in Windows Store App (Dhananjay Kumar)
 
XAML
- Preserve the Selected Item of a WPF List Box (Michael L. Perry)
 - Windows Phone: Build MVVM Apps with Xamarin and MvvmCross (Thomas LeBrun)
 - Book review: Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Geoff Webber-Cross) (Marco Siccardi)
 - 2000 WPF Things #1,128 – Localization IX – Localizing Content (Sean Sexton)
 - WPF Media Controls – Image (Richard Carr)
 - Building Unified Apps for Phone and Tablet (Rob Miles)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Unity: Developing Your First Game with Unity and C# (Adam Tuliper)
 - Why I Use Crashlytics – Part 2 (Donn Felker)
 - What is up with transparent identifiers? Part two (Eric Lippert)
 - C++ Runtime for Sideloaded Windows 8.1 apps (Raman Sharma)
 - 2000 C# Things #1,152 – The Action Delegate Type (Sean Sexton)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Driving Unit Tests from Cloud Load Test (Charles Sterling)
 - Test Attribute #7 – Footprint (Gil Zilberfeld)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Xamarin Forms Shared project template error (Paras Wadehra)
 - Hold It Right There: Xamarin and Unit Testing and Learning Xamarin: MVVM Light and Xamarin Forms (Jesse Liberty)
 - Files and Initialization (Swift Team)
 - Using Swift and Sprite Kit for Physics and Particles (Simon Gladman)
 - App Mock Up (Sanjay Sharma)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 329 – Sam McClanahan on MakerSpaces and HackerSpaces (David Giard)
 - Post Award Ceremony Wrap-Up | Imagine Cup World Finals 2014 (Channel 9)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Bert Kreischer (Chris Hardwick)
 - Episode 147: Azure Redis Cache with Saurabh Pant and Wade Wegner | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
 - SSW TV – How to choose the best developer boot camp for you (SSW Team)
 - StarTalk Radio – StarTalk Live: Big Brains at BAM (Part 3) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
 
Community / Events
- Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers (aka.ms/vsarindex) (Willy-P. Schaub)
 - Wrapping Up The Imagine Cup (Steve Guggenheimer)
 - Developers As Diverse As Their Code (Kerry Meade)
 
Database
- MySQL – Export the Resultset to CSV file and SQL SERVER – SSMS: Backup and Restore Events Report (Pinal Dave)
 - Production analysis and trouble shooting with RavenDB and RavenDB 3.0 Status Update (Oren Eini)
 - Can’t We Just Get Along: The Spurious NoSQL Battle (Shawn Wildermuth)
 
Miscellaneous
- Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: Hiring or Not (Chris Sells)
 - Small Basic – Controls are Shapes (litdev)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading August 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
 - Collective #127 (Mary Lou)
 - Daily News Digest 8/4/2014 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Daily Six Pack: August 4, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
 - The Morning Brew #1665 (Chris Alcock)
 - Reblog: July 25 to July 31 (Jason Strate)
 - Friday Links #315 (Mike Ward)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-04 (Dan Rigby)
 - Weekly Programming Digest #73 (Jakub Chodounský)
 - Coding4Fun July 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
 
The Geek Shelf
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