Top Links
- EF6.0.2 Beta 1 Available on NuGet (Rowan Miller)
 - Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code (Cecily Carver)
 - Visual Studio 2013 Demo VM available (Brian Harry)
 - Windows 8.1 and Caliburn.Micro (Nigel Sampson)
 
Web Development
- Modified ASP.NET 4.5 CPU Throttling (Christy Henriksson)
 - Can you answer these 10 basic Knockout Questions? and How to access functionality from various JS files in Node.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Using ASP.NET Web API Services in Mobile Apps (Jim Cowart)
 - Getting Into Ember.js – Part 5 (Rey Bango)
 - Customizing the Table Control: Sortable by Column (Kevin Mehlhaff)
 - Keeping The npm Registry Awesome (Charlie Robbins)
 - A look at the IE11 Developer Tools (I. Haynes)
 
XAML
- 2000 WPF Things #959 – ListBox Basics (Sean Sexton)
 - Creating Per-Monitor DPI-Aware Applications Code Sample (Greg Duncan)
 - How to launch the Rotation Settings page in WP8 GDR3? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Building an Appointment Tracking App by using Telerik’s WP Cloud Components – Part 1 (Michael Crump)
 - Choosing the right sensor (Brian Rockwell)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Working with Bindings in WCF 4.5 (Joydip Kanjilal)
 - Decimal Values and Trailing Zeroes (Richard Carr)
 - Collaborative Commenting with TFS 2013’s Lightweight Code Comments (Mickey Gousset)
 - Async API considerations (Oren Eini)
 - C# via Java: Primitive types (Simon Cooper)
 - Replace Multiple Strings Effectively (Jakub Chodounský)
 - Renaming, aliasing or coalescing applications in Application Insights (Charles Sterling)
 - Async Assert.Throws for MSTest (Joe Mayo)
 - 2000 C# Things #983 – Using a BitArray to Store a Large Collection of Boolean Values (Sean Sexton)
 - Creating your own dispatcher thread (Vincent Grondin)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit testing OWIN applications using TestServer (Praburaj Thiagarajan)
 - Smashing Book 4: Writing about technical support (Rachel Andrew)
 - How to Scale the Product Owner Role (Ben Linders)
 - Windows 8.1 Store App Paper Prototyping Templates (Greg Duncan)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- A Flat UI Kit for Android (Alec Noller)
 - TouchDevelop: Hour of Code tutorials (Nikolai Tillmann)
 - Updating UITableView with a dynamic data source (Nolan O’Brien)
 - Using Existing Backend Services in PhoneGap/Cordova Applications (TJ VanToll)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Nerdist Podcast – Anamanaguchi (Chris Hardwick)
 - The Changelog 113: Keep npm running with Isaac Schlueter and Charlie Robbins (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
 - The Verge Mobile Show 070 – November 26th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
 - Steve Guggs at DevIntersection (Larry Larsen)
 - Singletons and threads: What you should know (Manya Susoev)
 - Web Directions South Presentation: Hack Yourself First (Troy Hunt)
 - Microsoft Enlists Pawn Stars To Mock Google’s Chromebooks (Frederic Lardinois)
 
Community / Events
- Presentations I’m doing in Dublin and London Dec 2nd->5th (Scott Guthrie)
 - The Geek’s Guide to Dating Webseries: Steph & Glen (Eric Smith)
 - Adopt a skull to help the Mutter Museum (Maggie Koerth-Baker)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – MySQL – Order Column by Nearest Value for Any Integer (Pinal Dave)
 - Filtered Indexes vs. Table Partitioning (Jes Schultz Borland)
 - Master Data Services stops working after an upgrade (Koen Verbeeck)
 
PowerShell
- Push and Pull Configuration Modes (PowerShell Team)
 
Miscellaneous
- Kinect for Windows v2 First Look (James Ashley)
 - Around the world: How Microsoft ranked #1 Great Place to Work (Jane Holland)
 - How Microsoft is learning to make the new generation of developers happy (Mary Branscombe)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 27, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 26, 2013 (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading November 26, 2013 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1249 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1494 (Chris Alcock)
 - The Daily Six Pack: November 27, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Daily News Digest 11/27/2013 (Silverlight Show)
 - Visual Studio 2013 Launch Highlights (Jonathan Rozenblit)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 178216586X  | 
NuGet 2 Essentials: Damir Arh, Dejan Dakic: 9781782165866: Books
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory: Brian Greene: 9780393338102: Books
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Jesse James Garrett: 9780321683687: Books