Top Links
- C# for Systems Programming (Joe Duffy)
 - A glimpse into a new general purpose programming language under development at Microsoft (Charles Torre)
 - Microsoft’s Midori: The M# connection (Mary Jo Foley)
 - URL rewrite and the www subdomain (Mads Kristensen)
 
Web Development
- JavaScript gains support for SIMD (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Minifying your HTML (Dave Paquette)
 - WebStorm 7.0.3 (Ekaterina Prigara)
 - AngularJS–Part 6, Templates and AngularJS–Part 7, Getting ready to test (Gabriel Schenker)
 - PhpStorm 7.1.1 EAP 133.437 (Mikhail Vink)
 - Creating Custom Application Events in WinJS (Phil Japikse)
 - Responsive Web Design vs Adaptive Web Design (Chris Love)
 - What is the DOM? (Chris Coyier)
 - OWIN/Katana in-memory integration testing (Filip W)
 - Coding With Koding (Gabriel Manricks)
 
XAML
- Windows Phone : localize your App name (Jonathan Antoine)
 - Real world json parsing in WinRT (Andreas Hammar)
 - Comparing Third Party Windows Phone Controls (Lori Lalonde)
 - [Sample Of Dec 27th] How to add validation to a ListBox in WPF and [Sample Of Dec 29th] How to create a sample music player supporting playlist in Silverlight. (Philip Fu)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Async/Await & ‘Does not contain a definition for GetAwaiter’ error (Derik Whittaker)
 - Is use of default parameters/optional arguments a bad practice in C#? (Q263) (Iris Classon)
 - Creating DJango Application with Python in Visual Studio (Jalpesh Vadgama)
 - An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 5: Objects and Exceptions (Steve Gilham)
 - Kinect v1 vs Kinect v2 – RGB and Depth sensors (András Velvárt)
 - Brief Q&A on the HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption heap information flag (Raymond Chen)
 - Back To Basics: COM Interop and No-PIA (Sasha Goldshtein)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Scratch folder for a unit test (Alois Kraus)
 - Making the Web Secure, One Unit Test at a Time (Gareth Rushgrove)
 - The Power of Annual Reviews for Achieving Your Goals and Realizing Your Potential (J.D. Meier)
 - Article: Retrospectives Applied as “PROspectives” (Hans-Peter Korn)
 - Advise the user when something bad may happen but don’t necessarily prevent it. (Matt Lacey)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Xamarin Studio 4.2 Introduces Improved Account Management, Project System, Debugging and Bug Fixes (Anand Narayanaswamy)
 - A PhoneGap Discussion Around Files, API Calls, and Security (Raymond Camden)
 - New UI Article and Architectural Presentation on PhoneGap (Andrew Trice)
 - Add UINavigationController to UITabbarController Programatically (Mark Petherbridge)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Engadget Podcast 374 – 12.26.13 (Jon Turi)
 - Video: How to create JavaScript Objects using Object.create (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Inside Microsoft Production Studios | Microspotting (Larry Larsen)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Honestly 2013 (Chris Hardwick)
 - The Tablet Show – Hybrid vs. Native Mobile Apps with Brandon Satrom (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - 089 JSJ The Node Security Project with Adam Baldwin (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
 - People Talking Tech – Denny and the Midnight DBAs (Denny Cherry)
 - Get Up And Code 34: Breaking Your Running Plateau (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
 
Community / Events
- Mobile World Congress 2014 (Kip Kniskern)
 
Database
- Top 10 Signs Your SQL Server is Neglected (Kendra Little)
 - SQL SERVER – MySQL – How to Concat Strings? and SQL SERVER – MySQL – LIMIT and OFFSET – Skip and Return Only Next Few Rows – Paging Solution (Pinal Dave)
 - Creating Filtered Indexes using SQL Server Management Studio (Richard Carr)
 - Deleting Duplicate rows using CTE (Vivek Johari)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft applies for trademark on ‘Mod’ (Mary Jo Foley)
 - How to Hire a Programmer? (by Jeff Atwood) (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
 - Stay safe — flush your Windows cache to disk with Sysinternals Sync (Mike Williams)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 28, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 29, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 30, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - Geek Reading December 29, 2013 (Robert Diana)
 - Collective #96 (Mary Lou)
 - Double Shot #1265 and Double Shot #1266 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1514 (Chris Alcock)
 - Friday Links #284 (Mike Ward)
 - Reblog: December 20 to December 26 (Jason Strate)
 - The Daily Six Pack: December 30, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 
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