Top Links
- Announcing Xamarin University (Bryan Costanich)
 - Announcing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-beta1 (Pranav Rastogi)
 - Leak shows Microsoft unifying Windows Phone and Windows RT app development (Todd Bishop)
 - EF 6.1.0 Beta 1 Available and Preview of Dynamic Data Provider and EntityDataSource Control for EF6 (Rowan Miller)
 
Web Development
- AngularJS in Its Simplest Form (Arian Celina)
 - How to Build an iOS & Android App in 24 hours with HTML5 and Cordova (Ivan Ross)
 - AngularJS–Part 12, Multi language support (Gabriel Schenker)
 - Mocking Session State in an ASP.NET MVC4 Unit Test using Moq (harleydk)
 - Logging ASP.Net WebApi elapsed time for IQueryables (Jim Wooley)
 - A Tour of the LightSwitch HTML Client APIs (Elizabeth Maher)
 - Capturing SendGrid Events With ASP.NET WebAPI and Task async (Peter Kellner)
 - AngularJS – Introducing Templates (John Ptacek)
 
XAML
- Drawing translucent shapes and lines on a Windows Phone 8 Map (Joost van Schaik)
 - [Sample Of Feb 11th] How to load an Image from Isolated Storage and display it on the device in WP8 (Philip Fu)
 - Developers react to the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK leaks (Sam Sabri)
 - 2000 WPF Things #1,007 – Changing Scrollbar Settings for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
 - App Downloads on Windows Phone Store | Nokia Lumia (Sanjay Sharma)
 - Prism for the Windows Runtime – Book Download (MS Downloads)
 - Enhancements to the App download and In-app purchase reports (Bernardo Zamora)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Combining Tools in the Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013 (Dan J Taylor)
 - Why Use Code Behind? (Deborah Kurata)
 - What does Blazingly Fast Tracing Mean (Kathleen Dollard)
 - UI Enhancements for IntelliTrace with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Wiktor K.)
 - Funding the .NET Development Ecosystem (Andrew Binstock)
 - String concatenation, string.Format and StringBuilder (Bill Wagner)
 - Ghost of VCBlog Posts Past (Eric Battalio)
 - Fetch performance of various .NET ORM / Data-access frameworks, part 2 (Frans Bouma)
 - How to relocate the Package Cache (Heath Stewart)
 - Custom Logging with Entity Framework EF6 (Jim Wooley)
 - Syncfusion Succinctly Series (Joe Mayo)
 - WinForms scaling at large DPI settings – is it even possible? (Nikolay Diyanov)
 - Minimum NHibernate Code (Ricardo Peres)
 - 2000 C# Things #1,031 – Requiring Generic Type Parameters to Implement an Interface (Sean Sexton)
 - IIS 6 meta reading in .NET (Vaibhav Gaikwad)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: AlienatingAtmosphere (Martin Fowler)
 - Design Patterns for Cloud-Hosted Applications (Jan Stenberg)
 - Should You Use Agile To Build Your Next Home? (Mike Cottmeyer)
 - Time series feature design: Storage (Oren Eini)
 - Show Us Your Work Boards (David Starr)
 - SmartBear Launches API Testing Dojo (Eric Carter)
 - Announcing new Application Lifecycle readiness content by the ALM Rangers (Willy-P. Schaub)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Telerik UI for iOS – Native and Customizable Controls for Building iOS Apps (Ina Tontcheva)
 - Overcoming the Pain of Mobile Development for the Enterprise (Carey Payette)
 - The Telerik Platform: Modular Solutions to Mobile Problems (TJ VanToll)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- SSW TV – TFS Reporting in 2014 with Justin Marks (SSW Team)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Morgan Murphy (Chris Hardwick)
 - The Windows Developer Show Episode 147 – “The Internet of Nail Shooters” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
 - Countdown to Teched: The One with Jam Session News | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin)
 - The Amp Hour #184 – Chris Becomes Self Employed – Quixotic Quitting Quaere (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
 
Community / Events
- Join Microsoft and Xamarin for Mobile Development Keynote and Celebration (Morgan Forsythe)
 - Interview: Adrian Howard Discusses Lean Startup, Lean UX, and Changing Roles for Teams (Adrian Howard)
 - Dev of the Week: Ariya Hidayat (Alec Noller)
 
Database
- How Many Partitions Per Measure Group Are Allowed in SSAS Standard Edition? (Chris Webb)
 - SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.7.1–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
 - SQL SERVER – SafePeak SQL Server Acceleration Software Gets an Upgrade (Pinal Dave)
 - Determining the Length of SQL Server Text Data (Richard Carr)
 - Deploying a DACPAC with DacFx API (Deborah Kurata)
 - Shrink Bloated Development Databases – Save Precious Space (Dirk Strauss)
 - More on using Transaction SID from the transaction log (Paul Randal)
 - Google Cloud SQL now Generally Available with an SLA, larger databases up to 500GB, and encryption (Scott Knaster)
 
PowerShell
- DSC Diagnostics Module– Analyze DSC Logs instantly now! (Inchara Shivalingaiah)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft expands multi-factor authentication for Office 365 (Ed Bott)
 - Satya Nadella’s To-Do List (Andrew J. Brust)
 - How to build a personal brand: 12 month strategy (Manya Susoev)
 - Android on Nokia: Microsoft’s Asha problem (Kip Kniskern)
 
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 11, 2014 (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading February 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1297 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1546 (Chris Alcock)
 - The Daily Six Pack: February 12, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-12 (Dan Rigby)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 0137081073  | 
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series): Robert C. Martin: 9780137081073: Books
Beginning Windows 8 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (9781118012680): István Novák, Zoltan Arvai, György Balássy, David Fulop: Books