Top Links
- Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova (aka TACO) v1.0.0 (Subhag Oak)
 - Microsoft Azure camp, hosted by Scott Guthrie in Philadelphia, Oct 13 (Dave Voyles)
 - Small Basic 1.2 Released with Kinect Support and Bug Fixes (Michael Scherotter)
 - The Roslyn Academy Community (Roslyn Academy)
 
Web Development
- Image Diffing in CSS and CSS Stacking Contexts (Chris Coyier)
 - PostCSS Quickstart Guide: Gulp Setup (Kezz Bracey)
 - Augmenting Types in Javascript (Abhi Jain)
 - JavaScript Promises and Error Handling (K. Scott Allen)
 - Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: How to install (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
 - Image Load And Error Events Bubble Up In ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
 - ES6: methods versus callbacks and Concatenating Typed Arrays (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - The Genius of Template Strings in ES6 (Chris Heilmann)
 - Find and install your favorite developer tools (Kyle Daigle)
 - Side Effects vs. Promises (Kevin Dangoor)
 - Some Great Ways to Use Web Note in Microsoft Edge (The Windows Team)
 
XAML
- Developing for the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (Rod Trent)
 - Adding polish to improve the look and feel of your app (10×10) (Clint Rutkas)
 - A New Publication Model for Universal Windows Apps (Jonathan Allen)
 - Windows 10 Development: Custom StateTriggers (Josh Morales)
 - The stylus is mightier than the sword – Inking in your UWP (Shen Chauhan)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Code Completion Improvements in ReSharper 9 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
 - Application Insights retiring on VSO Portal & blogging on Azure Blogs (Rahul Bagaria)
 - One Man’s Garbage – Hashcodes (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
 - LLBLGen Pro – Runtime Library Source Browser (Frans Bouma)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Kanban for Game Development (Anna Majowska)
 - Agile Team Traits (Debby Murphy)
 - Unit Test parallel execution of static classes or ServiceLocator (Michael Sync)
 - Does Your Development Team Have a Skilled Product Owner? (Magenic Team)
 - New Office Visio Stencil (MS Downloads)
 - GitHub supports Universal 2nd Factor authentication (Ben Toews)
 - Office Delve adds Praise, Favorites and enhances content creation (Mark Kashman)
 - Announcing Git-LFS on all VSO Git repos (Saeed Noursalehi)
 - Git Large File Storage v1.0 (Rick Olson)
 - The new Visio is here—work visually (Stella Lin)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Working with Files and the File System in Android Apps (Vipul Patel)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Episode 065 on the Office Extensibility team with Tristan Davis—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake & Richard DiZerega)
 - Hanselminutes – Creativity, Code, Community, and Connected Objects with Dawn C. Hayes (Scott Hanselman)
 - Building a Mobile App API using MongoDB and Node.js (Session Recording) (Brian Rinaldi)
 - 061 AiA ng-book with Ari Lerner (John Papa)
 - New Trailer and Details Revealed for Minecraft: Story Mode – Ep. 1: The Order of the Stone (Xbox Wire)
 - NSScreencast #189 – Swift 2 Functions and Extensions (Ben Scheirman)
 - Developer on Fire Episode 042 | /\ndy Hunt – Pragmatic and Awesome (Dave Rael)
 - Cross Platform Development with Jay Schmelzer | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Golnaz Alibeigi)
 - Detecting and Responding to Battery Status in UWP apps | Inside Windows Platform (Larry Lieberman & Shen Chauhan)
 - Tuesdays with Corey: The Mark Russinovich episode – for real | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
 - Rocket 38: Red Carpet Ready (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
 - The Amp Hour #269 – Be Tidy (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
 
Community / Events
- Windows Insider Program marks first anniversary (Richard Hay)
 - Upcoming Silicon Valley Code Camp 2015 (Doris Chen)
 - Explore GitHub Universe (Kelsey Schimmelman)
 - Welcome Nearly 1,000 New and Renewed MVPs! (MVP Award Program)
 - More Azure Announcements from AzureCon (Paul Ballard)
 
Database
- Integration Services Logging Levels in SQL Server 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
 - SQL SERVER – Three Simple Guidelines for System Maintenance – Notes from the Field #098 (Pinal Dave)
 - Does Creating an Indexed View Require Exclusive Locks on an Underlying Table? (Kendra Little)
 
PowerShell
- PowerShell DSC FAQ: Sorting Out Certificates (Michael Greene)
 - Azure DSC Extension v2.7 released and How to use WMF 4 with Azure DSC Extension in Azure Cloud Service Manager (ASM) (Travis Plunk)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Ties OneNote to Sway with Preview Add-in (Rod Trent)
 - Microsoft to add ‘likes’ and ‘mentions’ to Outlook (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders (MS Downloads)
 - Developer Quotes: Edition 1 (Dara Monasch)
 - Save your DNS and your SANITY when using VPN on a Mac (Glenn Block)
 - New Xbox Experience interface rated fastest among next-gen consoles (Kareem Anderson)
 - Your top 10 questions about Office 2016 answered (Kirk Koenigsbauer)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading October 1, 2015 (Robert Diana)
 - The Morning Brew #1938 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-02 (Dan Rigby)
 - Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 1st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
 - Double Shot #1560 (Mike Gunderloy)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 0321965515  | 
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Steve Krug: 9780321965516: Books
 
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum (9780321579362): Mike Cohn: Books