Top Links
- Windows Azure Mobile Services: New support for iOS apps, Facebook/Twitter/Google identity, Emails, SMS, Blobs, Service Bus and more (Scott Guthrie)
 - Surface pricing announced: Too high, or just right? (Kip Kniskern)
 - An inside look at Microsoft’s Surface RT (Ed Bott)
 - How To “Completely” Set-Up TypeScript in Visual Studio 2012 (Ryan Hayes)
 - Understanding Text Encoding in ASP.NET MVC (ASP.NET MVC Foundations Series) (Michael Kennedy)
 
Web Development
- How to get started with jQuery Grid Unbound Columns and jQuery Grid Unbound Column: How to make the most of it (Damyan Petev)
 - Using the Trial API in your WinJS Game (Alice Pang)
 - JavaScript: parallel programming via River Trail coming to Firefox (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite – Day 3 (Billy McCafferty)
 - Getting Error Info for PHP Sites in Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
 - Knockout.js Added to the F#/C# MVC 4 Single Page Application Template (Daniel Mohl)
 - Roost – A JavaScript Training Conference from Bocoup (Darius Kazemi)
 - Getting Started with the HTML5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
 - Send text messages (SMS) from Web API using Azure Mobile Services (Filip W)
 - Does JavaScript need classes? (Nicholas C. Zakas)
 - Article: New Book: JQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs and ASP.NET Anti-Forgery Tokens With JSON Payloads (Roopesh Shenoy)
 - Adding type annotations to JavaScript (Scott Koon)
 - Bring Your Charts to Life with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript (Suprotim Agarwal)
 - Celebrating Dart’s birthday with the first release of the Dart SDK (Seth Ladd)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: The Web Designer’s Roadmap – $14.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
 
XAML
- Professional Windows 8 Programming with C# and XAML (Doug Holland)
 - Windows 8 Metro: Discovering the Application Bars (Andrea Boschin)
 - WPF: Running code when Window rendering is completed (Ilya Verbitskiy)
 - XAML Binding Basics 101 (Jerry Nixon)
 - Document Toolkit October 2012 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
 - 3 Icon Packs for Windows Phone and Windows 8 and Writing a Windows Phone App Bar in Code (CodeSnippet) (Matthias Shapiro)
 - Windows Developer Dashboard now FULLY support Windows Phone 8 (Rudi Grobler)
 - 2000 WPF Things #669 – Retrieving the Mouse’s Current Position in an Event Handler and #670 – Getting the Mouse Position Relative to a Specific Element (Sean Sexton)
 - Building a custom control using XAML and C# (Aaron Wroblewski)
 - Diagnosing Memory Leaks in Managed Windows Store Apps (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - Who cares about application analytics? Lots of people for lots of reasons… (Sebastian Holst)
 - Windows Store App Development Snack: Simulator Tips and Tricks (Robert MacLean)
 - Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 4) – Navigate between Pages (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Using ProcDump to Monitor Windows 8 Store Apps (Michael Crump)
 - Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications (Jim O’Neil)
 - Callisto + Caliburn.Micro + these Dialog Helpers = Happy Windows RT Dev Camper (Greg Duncan)
 - Data Exchange with Infragistics XamGantt Control – Import/Export to Microsoft Project (Part 2) (Mihail Mateev)
 - Windows Store apps: the case of missing StringFormat or Binding on the Run (Andrej Tozon)
 - Data Binding 101: The Converter Attribute (Nick Randolph)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- NuGet or Not for Telerik? (Chris Eargle)
 - Is C# a strongly typed or a weakly typed language? (Eric Lippert)
 - Support for Visual Studio 2012 Themes in JustCode 2012 Q2 Service Pack 2 (Philip Japikse)
 - Inside the Kinect for Windows SDK Update… and WiX up a quick add-in install with with this "Wix Addin Installer Project Template" (Greg Duncan)
 - Kinect for Windows SDK Update and What it Means for Developers (Jackie)
 - 6 Lessons to learn Small Basic and graduate to Visual Basic! (Ed Price)
 - More Q&A for the C++ AMP book (Eric Battalio)
 - C++ AMP Extras: String Reversal (Ade Miller)
 - NP .NET Profiler (MS Downloads)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Are You Making These ScrumMaster Mistakes? (Faisal Mahmood)
 - Agile Results in Evernote with One Notebook (JD Meier)
 - TDD: Is There Really Any Debate Any Longer? (Joseph Eames)
 - Multi threaded design guidelines for libraries: Part II (Oren Eini)
 - Leadership Pitfalls and the Technical Manager (Davee LaBay)
 - Refactoring FizzBuzz (Mark Pearl)
 - Slow Down to Speed up EA Results (Mike Walker)
 - Introducing Traffic Light (Joel Ross)
 - How to Use Git With FTP (Jeffrey Way)
 - How do you estimate with Story Points and determine Velocity when you’ve not done it before? (John Petersen)
 - Commands with dependencies (Jef Claes)
 - Free your Typemock… New Typemock Isolator Basic is now available and free (Updated Typemock Isolator Essential & Typemock Isolator Complete also available) (Greg Duncan)
 - Microsoft Design Style – The real new name and 10 things you should know about designing for Windows 8 (Brent Schooley)
 - Locking and git-tf and… danger? (Charles Sterling)
 - Technical debt is like ketchup (Dave Ward)
 - Good Design with Typemock (Eli Lopian)
 - Dealing with Code Complexity (Filip Ekberg)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Team Foundation Server and Xcode projects with git-tf (Charles Sterling)
 - Pre-Order Now And Save 20%: The Brand New Printed Smashing Book: “The Mobile Book” (Smashing Editorial)
 - Building the PhoneGap Extension for Brackets (Terrence Ryan)
 - How to detect Device is connected to Internet using Cordova (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - New Google Play Developer Console Available to Everyone (Eva-Lotta Lamm, Riccardo Govoni & Ellie Powers)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Alan Stevens and Leon Gersing Discuss Leading Developers (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Lars Bak and Steve Lucco: Chakra, V8, JavaScript, Open Source | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
 - Herding Code 153 – Matt Wrock on RequestReduce, Chocolatey and BoxStarter (Jon Galloway & Co.)
 - .NET Framework 4.5 Support in Windows Azure Web Sites | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Larry King (Chris Hardwick)
 - The Guild Episode 3 is up! (Felicia Day)
 - SE Podcast #33 – It’s Back! (Alex Miller)
 - How to identify CLR threads in a dump – 08 | .NET Debugging for the Production Environment (Brad L.)
 - Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 188: MobileManDan (Gareth)
 - Yet Another Podcast #78–Rey Bango on IE10 (Jesse Liberty)
 - Defrag Tools: #12 – TaskMgr and ResMon | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
 - Ping 158: Ballmer talks the future, Microsofties hit High School, Stocking the Windows Store, Microsoft Gives | Ping! (Laura Foy)
 - People Talking Tech Episode 007 – Jason Strate (Denny Cherry)
 - Screencast: Inspecting Code Quality and Code Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)
 - Video: Right Sizing Your Startup (Paul Ballard)
 - Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 65 (Richard Hay)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 320 – 10.16.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Windows 8 version of OneNote shown off in video (John Callaham)
 
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for October 16th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Wrox Authors Speaking at SharePoint Conference 2013 (Jim Minatel)
 - Meet the Author: Joe Sack on SQL Server: Transact-SQL Basic Data Retrieval (Paul Ballard)
 - Syme Times Two: Father of F# at NERD (Jim O’Neil)
 - Visual Studio product planners to do a road trip and visit YOU (Charles Sterling)
 - Announcing new changes to the Microsoft Community Contributor community (MS Community Contributor Team)
 - Jobs in IT: Geek Out with Hot Tech Jobs at Cosmos (MS JobsBlog)
 - Small Basic – New TechNet Wiki Contest!!! (Ed Price)
 - OpenStack Summit – Fall 2012: My Expectations (Krishnan Subramanian)
 - Seattle GiveCamp this Weekend (Stephen Walther)
 
Database
- Execute Dynamic SQL commands in SQL Server (Greg Robidoux)
 - Script to create dynamic PIVOT queries in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
 - SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 4 (Glenn Berry)
 - Should we be able to deploy a single package to the SSIS Catalog? (Jamie Thomson)
 - New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (Kim Spilker)
 - Why Tune Queries? (Grant Fritchey)
 - A review of SQL Interoperability / Joes 2 Pros Volume 5 by Rick A Morelan (Kenneth Fisher)
 - Sorry Guys, it’s not just about Big Data (Treasure Data Team)
 - Querying database usage (Matt Bowler)
 - Plan Explorer Pro – First Glance (Ted Krueger)
 - Who’s testing your restores? No, really – who’s testing your restores? (Jes Schultz Borland)
 
PowerShell
- Disable or Enable SQL Server Agent Jobs using PowerShell (Edwin Sarmiento)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Office for Windows RT: How to move to a commercial-use license (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Microsoft explains why they chose 1366×768 resolution for the Surface RT (Brad Sams)
 - Reimagining Clinical Computing (Bill Crounse)
 - MVP Monday – Hyper-V Blitz (hv_blitz) Inventory Tool (Nathan Lasnoski)
 - Microsoft Surface: Pricing and Availability (Paul Thurrott)
 - Tablet Fight: Surface vs. iPad vs. Kindle Fire HD [CHART] (Samantha Murphy)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: October 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2012 10.08 ~ 10.16 (yuanjian)
 - Geek Reading October 15, 2012 and Geek Reading October 16, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #980 and Double Shot #981 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily Links 17 Oct 2012 (Jax)
 - Daily News Digest 10/15/2012 and Daily News Digest 10/16/2012 and Daily News Digest 10/17/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Morning Brew #1211 and The Morning Brew #1212 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-16 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-17 (Dan Rigby)
 - Daily Windows 8 Development News 15 Oct 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Oct 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - MS Stack Affliate Program for vNext (David J. Kelley)
 
The Geek Shelf
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Agile Principles,Patterns,and Practices in C#: Robert C. Martin,Micah Martin: Kindle Store
C# in Depth,Second Edition: Jon Skeet: 9781935182474: Books
Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps: A Guide to the Windows Runtime: Ben Dewey: 9781449320553: Books