Top Links
- Eight Reasons C# is the Best Language for Mobile Development (Nat)
- Chocolatey Automatic Packages (Rob Reynolds)
- Working with Windows Azure from within PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
- There is no ARM in Windows RT (Hal Berenson)
Web Development
- Scaling Windows Azure Web Sites from Free/Shared to Reserved (Brian Noyes)
- Creating a round button in CSS 3.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Upcoming ASP.NET Web API events in Toronto (Filip W)
- Arctic.js – A JavaScript Game Engine For Smartphones (Hirvesh Munogee)
- ASP.NET MVC Client-Side Validation Summary with jQuery Validation Plugin (Soe Tun)
- Microsoft’s ‘Orleans’ cloud programming model gets a Halo test drive (Mary Jo Foley)
- Web Storage Made Easy with AmplifyJS (Tim Corey)
- Test driving Brackets (Kevin Dangoor)
- A New Year’s Resolution for Web Developers (Andy Schwam)
- Why Bootstrap? (K. Scott Allen)
XAML
- 2000 WPF Things #726 – Sample Controls from the Extended WPF Toolkit (Sean Sexton)
- Building Apps Across Windows 8 Platforms (Nick Randolph)
- Mobile Services Custom Parameters in Windows Store apps (Glenn Gailey)
- Data Forms – No Problem with Telerik RadControls for WP8 (Michael Crump)
- Building a great Windows 8 app Step 5: Reserve your app name and Building a great Windows 8 app Step 6: Which template should you use? (Susan Ibach)
- A Recursively Splittable Panel Control for User Customizable Interfaces (Dr. Hurol Aslan)
- Windows 8 Development + Blendability, Part 2: Services (Braulio Diez)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Fisher-Yates-Durstenfeld Shuffle (Richard Carr)
- Retrospective on TFS 2012 Update 1 and Team Explorer Extensibility (Brian Harry)
- Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 pre-releases expiring Jan 15 (Brian Keller)
- DPack 3.5.x is out (Think VS2012++ version) (Greg Duncan)
- Upgrade Visual Sourcesafe to Team Foundation Server 2012 (Mohamed Radwan)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 10 Scrum Methodology Best Practices (Cagdas Basaraner)
- SOLID principles: are they enough for OO? (Giorgio Sironi)
- Replaceable Employees (Brendan Enrick)
- No silver bullet: reloaded (Cedric Otaku)
- Article: Automated Builds: The Key to Consistency (Joe Enos)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out on Nuclear Power (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- C++ and Beyond 2012: Panel – Convincing your Colleagues (Charles Torre)
- Windows 8 Blendability – Intro and Windows 8 Blendability – SimpleDesign and Windows 8 Blendability – ContractsSample and Windows 8 Blendability – MVVMLightSample (Braulio Diez)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Tom Morello (Chris Hardwick)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 163 – 1.2.2013 (James Trew)
- Video: Turn Scary Monster Image Requests into Nice Sprites (Paul Ballard)
- [Screencast] Debugging Kendo UI Applications (Burke Holland)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for January 2nd, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Ignite Webcast – Real World Deployment Scenarios (Josh T.)
- Infragistics User Group Contest 2013: Let the Games Begin! (Brian Lagunas)
- Jeffrey Richter & Jennifer Smith at Windows 8 Meetup–January 8th (Jim O’Neil)
- Integrating Production Support into ALM Webcast (MS Public Sector Team)
- Starting An Open-Source Project (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Database
- Creating SSIS Package Templates for Reusability (Arshad Ali)
- Standardizing SQL Server CRUD Templates with Rollback Plans (Derek Colley)
- 4 New T-SQL Functions (Sam Nasr)
- Why you shouldn’t use SELECT * (Axel Achten)
- Auditing Login Attempts in MySQL (Peter Zaitsev)
- Data Platform Innovation, Without Disruption (Andrew J. Brust)
- Warning! Publish may fail on creation of a FOREIGN KEY constraint and then immediately succeed [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft resurrects YouTube-Windows Phone compatibility complaint (Mary Jo Foley)
- Pluralsight doubles library in 2012 – Now 400 courses! (Steve Woolley)
- A look back at Microsoft’s 2012, and what’s next for the evolving giant (Alex Wilhelm)
- The 10-Minute XPath Tutorial – Automating System Administration with Perl (David N. Blank-Edelman)
- A win for enterprise as RSA SecurID now available for Windows Phone (Robert Brand)
- Stupid Question 118: The pointer series: What is a pointer? (Iris Classon)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading January 2, 2013 (Rob Diana)
- The Morning Brew #1265 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #1036 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 1/2/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily Links 2 Jan 2013 (Jax)
- Windows Dev News for January 02, 2012 – #0138 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 2 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
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