Top Links
- Near Field Communication in Windows 8: Part 1 (Walter Ferrari)
- Book Download: Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing (MS Downloads)
- Will Windows Phone 7 apps “just work” in Windows Phone 8? (Kip Kniskern)
- AT&T planning Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 launch, training dates set (Daniel Rubino)
Web Development
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0.2 EAP 121.272 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Store DB Connection Info in Windows Azure Web Sites App Settings (Brian Swan)
- Scripting Web API self host with Roslyn CTP – Part 1 (Filip W)
- Professional ASP.NET MVC 4 is out! (Jon Galloway)
- Showing Geolocation in Browser using HTML5 and JavaScript (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Backbone.js and Client-side Web Applications (Liam McLennan)
- Workaround for HTML closing tag problem (Mads Kristensen)
- Location Awareness in about 2 minutes with Windows 8–HTML (Michael Crump)
- WCF Duplex Bi-directional Streaming with WebSocket Transport (James Osborne)
- Experimenting with Windows Azure Mobiles Services (Round 2) (Mike Taulty)
- MVC Boostrap 0.5.1 (CodePlex)
- Using Azure Web Sites to market your Windows App (Tim Heuer)
- Making HTTP requests from Scripts in Mobile Services (Josh Twist)
- Viewing Azure Blob Storage Containers (Mark Berryman)
XAML
- How I price my Windows Phone apps (Bernardo Zamora)
- Refinement of a XAML ListBox empty template (Bill)
- 2000 WPF Things #656 – Data Available to Mouse Button Event Handlers (Sean Sexton)
- Windows 8 is coming – are you ready to publish your app? (Sara Allison)
Miscellaneous .NET
- WCF Data Services 5.1 Tools Installer (RC) (MS Downloads)
- C# wrapper for Diablo III API (Charles Ju)
- Using Live SDK in Windows 8 – C# (Shai Raiten)
- Get Func-y v2.0 (Phubar Baz)
- Sabotaging yourself: Closing a handle and then using it (Raymond Chen)
- Entity Framework 5 First Steps–Mapping (Ricci Gian Maria)
- Exporting CSV files in .NET (Michael Georgiou)
- Entity Framework Spatial Part 1: Loading data (AppHarbor Team)
- StyleCop Custom Rules (Kevin)
- Use Structs Instead of Classes to Pass Data Uniquely (Peter Vogel)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter (Charles Sterling)
- Things we learned from production, part III–singleton thinking makes long queues (Oren Eini)
- Running Your Unit Tests Continuously (Deborah Kurata)
- Code Better or Code Less? (Pawel Brodzinski)
- UI Wars: Episode 28807 – Attack of the Dark Patterns (Alex Bulat)
- Copy Paste Programming (Brendan Enrick)
- Designing for Windows 8 Webinar Follow-up (Brent Schooley)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Google Play services and OAuth Identity Tools (Tim Bray)
- Just Got a New Phone? Time to Download the Bing App (The Bing Mobile Team)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 069: Ned Vizzini, author of The Other Normals and writer for Last Resort (Mark Frauenfelder)
- .NET Rocks! – Dr. Yngve Falck-Ytter talks Medicine and Software (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- GoingNative 11: Inside Fresh Paint – A C++ + XAML + DirectX Windows Store App | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
- Video: Add Browser Automation to Your Unit Tests With Selenium (Paul Ballard)
- Hands-On Unit Testing With PHPUnit (Jeffrey Way)
- Video: Pluralsight uses Selenium – you should too! (Keith Brown)
- Defrag: Defrag RSS, Reconstructing Accounts, CL Printing | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- Music Art Food Drink: Oracle Social Plaza – Tues 10/2 (Bob Rhubart)
- 2013 North American PowerShell Summit (Aaron Nelson)
- Geek of the Week: Melissa Ward of the Cupcake Friday Project (Colleen Reese)
- Office Hours: Get Help Building Windows 8 Applications (Jim O’Neil)
- Please join us on October 1st for the Capital Area Software Testing Forum! (MS Public Sector Team)
- Web.NET European Conference: sold out in 2hrs and now the agenda is available (Simone Chiaretta)
- PuppetConf Drinkup (San Francisco) (Will Farrington)
- Apptivate.ms: A Windows 8 App Development Contest (Lauren Gundrum)
Database
- SQL Server Data Tools Updated for Visual Studio 2012 (David Ramel)
- Running a document database on Sql Server (Peter Skoglund)
- SQL Server: Part 4 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issue (Nelson Aloor)
- SQL SERVER – Not Possible – Delete From Multiple Table – Update Multiple Table in Single Statement (Pinal Dave)
- A Quick SQL Challenge (Michael Swart)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- From the lab: Lumia 920 low-light shootout with Nokia 808, iPhone 5, HTC One X and Galaxy S III (Zach Honig)
- Dear JobsBlog: What are common interview mistakes (Colleen Canney)
- The Dew Review – Intel Next Generation Ultrabook™ with Windows 8: Playing with Sensors (Alvin Ashcraft)
- New Xbox Music Pass info leaked or just the same old Zune Pass? (Daniel Rubino)
- Be smart with this "Windows 8 Shortcut Keys" Work Smart guide (Greg Duncan)
- Recruiter email etiquette (James Johnson)
- Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Review (Tim Boland)
- Ballmer on a quest for apps as Windows 8 approaches (Todd Bishop)
- Windows Phone 8: Are there still any real surprises left? (Mary Jo Foley)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading September 26, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #967 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1198 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-27 (Dan Rigby)
- Windows Dev News for September 26, 2012 – #0126 and A Few Things to Check Out on 09/26/12 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily Windows 8 Development News 26 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 26 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 9/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)
The Geek Shelf
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ISBN: 1430244917 |
Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C#: Adam Freeman: 9781430244912: Books
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great: Esther Derby,Diana Larsen,Ken Schwaber: 9780977616640: Books
Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams: Lisa Crispin,Janet Gregory: 9780321534460: Books