Top Links
- Bug guys: string extensions and const fields (Eric Lippert)
 - Hanselminutes – Creating the AGENT Smart Watch with Chris Walker Secret Labs (Scott Hanselman)
 - Dictaphone (Ted Neward)
 - Is Your WPF Application Leaky? JustTrace Will Tell You! (James Bender)
 
Web Development
- PhpStorm 7 EAP 130.1481 (Mikhail Vink)
 - Getting Started with your first Windows 8 HTML app using RadControls – Part 2 (Phil Japikse)
 - A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites (Scott Hanselman)
 - Make jQuery UI and Bootstrap 2 working together in MVC template (Xinyang Qiu)
 - Animation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - V3 of my AngularJS, WebApi CRUD Grid. It’s now a directive and supports multiple grids per page (Jon Gallant)
 - 3D Effect for Mobile App Showcase (Mary Lou)
 - 5 Myths About Mobile Web Performance (Michael Mullany)
 - 5 Ways to Test Your Website in Old Versions of IE (Martin Beeby)
 - ECMAScript 6 Modules: What Are They and How to Use Them Today (Zef Hemel)
 
XAML
- WPF: Architecture for Hosting Third-Party .NET Plug-Ins (Gennady Slobodsky & Levi Haskell)
 - Google again extends ActiveSync support for its services on Windows Phone until December 31st (Rich Edmonds)
 - 2000 WPF Things #877 – Placing a Popup Relative to Another Control (Sean Sexton)
 - Modern Apps: Navigation Essentials in Windows Store Apps (Rachel Appel)
 - A Trip Around Charming Share (Peter Foot)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- [Book Review – Preview] "Building Interactive Queries with LINQPad" (Greg Duncan)
 - Data Points: Coding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs (Julie Lerman)
 - 2000 C# Things #901 – Throwing a New Exception from a catch Block (Sean Sexton)
 - Missing [RoundtripOriginal()] in RIA Service auto-generated code (Kunal Chowdhury)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How Individuals Can Adopt an Agile Way of Working (Ben Linders)
 - Progressive Reduction: Modify Your UI Over Time (Jeffrey Zeldman)
 - A Step by Step Guide to Automating TeamCity Backups (Howard van Rooijen)
 - Commenting on Commits (Rick Marron)
 - 30 Days of Getting Results Updated Based on Feedback (JD Meier)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Another Helping of Android Studio (Rob Williams)
 - Introducing the Google Play Services Component for Xamarin.Android (Tom Opgenorth)
 - PhoneGap 3.0 FAQ (Raymond Camden)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Edge Show 70 – Storage with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager | Edge (David Tesar & Symon Perriman)
 - Imagine Cup 2013 Recap (Duncan Mackenzie & Golnaz)
 - Engadget Mobile Podcast 185 – 08.01.13 (Joe Pollicino)
 - Now Available On-Demand: Learn How to Create Windows 8 Games with GameMaker (Dave Bost)
 - Video: Calling an External Web Service using Workflow Manager 1.0 in SharePoint 2013 (Manya Susoev)
 
Community / Events
- ThatConference schedule. (Bill Wagner)
 - Philly Geek Awards Spotlight: Amanda Danziger, Director of The Backyard Philly Project (Dan)
 - My first Pluralsight course is out! (Iris Classon)
 - Join us at the SharePint at #SPCTechcon Boston on Aug 12 at 7pm at Dillons (Joel Oleson)
 - Geekend Picks: The Philadelphia Podcast Festival, Ice Cream Tasting, James Bond Burlesque (Nicole Kline)
 
Database
- Move an On Premise SQL Server Database to the SQL Azure Cloud (Brady Upton)
 - SQL SERVER – Disk Space Monitoring – Detecting Low Disk Space on Server (Pinal Dave)
 - Using Microsoft SQL Server security features in Windows Azure Virtual Machines (Craig Kitterman)
 
SharePoint
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, August 1st (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading August 1, 2013 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1171 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-02 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Daily Six Pack: August 2, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Windows Dev News for Aug 01, 2013 – #0181 (Dave Campbell)
 - The Morning Brew #1412 (Chris Alcock)
 - LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– July 2013 (Beth Massi)
 
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