Top Links
- Announcing TypeScript 0.9.5 (Jonathan Turner)
 - Software Craftsmanship 2014 Anti-Patterns Calendar (Steve Smith)
 - The MS Open Tech Hub releases Rx 2.2 (Brian Benz)
 - Download C# Smorgasbord Chapter 1 For Free! (Filip Ekberg)
 
Web Development
- Detecting Caps Lock with JavaScript (Jason Gaylord)
 - Orchard CMS – ASP.NET MVC 5 Web API 2 and Razor 3 (David Hayden)
 - JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 3 (Ariya Hidayat)
 - Either.js (Jan Van Ryswyck)
 - CSS is for developers (Lea Verou)
 - Obtaining a Certificate for use with Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) (Mark Brown)
 - Minty: Razing the Pyramid of Pain (Rob Conery)
 - Glimpse: What’s the current status? (Björn Holdt)
 - AngularJS–Part 1 (Gabriel Schenker)
 - 10 Examples of What API Developers are Working on Right Now (Mark Boyd)
 - Kickstarting Your Rails Education (Rey Bango)
 - Invoking Angular JS Filters from Controller (Ravi Kiran)
 - Working with 154 million records on Azure Table Storage – the story of “Have I been pwned?” (Troy Hunt)
 
XAML
- Data Validation in Windows Phone 8 (Nico Vermeir)
 - Translating Windows Phone Features (Peter Foot)
 - 2000 WPF Things #966 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, part III (Sean Sexton)
 - Windows 8.1: Accounts, Settings, Authentication, Azure Mobile Services (Mike Taulty)
 - Splash screens and interstitial ads (Matt Lacey)
 - Beta apps no longer expire, plus an update for the Dev Center app (Rushmi Malaviarachchi)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Node Tools for Visual Studio (Frank La Vigne)
 - Linking Breakpoints in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
 - Immutable collections performance, take II (Oren Eini)
 - How to open web page in internal browser of Visual Studio (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
 - NDepend customize rule: Quick summary of methods to refactor and NDepend customize rule: Types too big (Daniel Fisher)
 - Visual C++ in 2013 and Beyond – Q&A (Eric Battalio)
 - 2000 C# Things #990 – Converting Hexadecimal Strings to Numeric Data (Sean Sexton)
 - Sorrow and Elation – Why Reflection Isn’t Always Your Friend (Doug Rathbone)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Scrum: What’s in it for me, the Developer? (Anders Abel)
 - How Not To Break Under Pressure (J.D. Meier)
 - Continuous Review (Paul Hammant)
 - Configuring Performance Counters to Run Over Time (Steve Smith)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Butter Knife: A View “Injection” Library for Android and PhoneGap 3.2.0 Released (Alec Noller)
 - Develop for Google Glass with Xamarin.Android (Chris Hardy)
 - Releasing TouchDevelop for Android: a companion app to receive notifications (Nikolai Tillmann)
 - Moore’s Law and the Hybrid Mobile Application (Steve Smith)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes – Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
 - FWTV Goes to Entrepreneur Expo 2013 (Frank La Vigne)
 - The Power Of Batching (John Sonmez)
 - Engadget Podcast 371 – 12.4.13 (Jon Turi)
 - Software Engineering Radio Episode 199: Michael Stonebraker (SE-Radio Team)
 - Edge Show 84 – Java Application Performance Monitoring with Operations Manager in System Center 2012 R2 | Edge (Symon Perriman)
 
Community / Events
- Become an Influential Agile Leader, Toronto and Edinburgh (Johanna Rothman)
 - Make your passion for gaming a career (MS JobsBlog)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Wrap on Series of Temporary Statistics (Pinal Dave)
 - MongoDB and its locks (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Power Query Preview November Update (James Serra)
 - Database Administrators are Plumbers (Jeremiah Peschka)
 - Customer Specific Database Deployments (Jon)
 - Getting Started with a Career in BI (Melissa Coates)
 
PowerShell
- Using PowerShell in SharePoint 2013 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
 - Using CSOM in PowerShell scripts with Office 365 and Using SharePoint Online and MSOL/WAAD cmdlets in PowerShell with Office 365 (Chris O’Brien)
 
Miscellaneous
- Statement by Bill and Melinda Gates on the Death of President Nelson Mandela (Bill & Melinda Gates)
 - Bing Maps Preview Arrives on Windows 8.1 (Bing Maps Team)
 - Rad Gate Post… Get your Red Gate Post here… (Greg Duncan)
 - Really useful Excel keyboard shortcuts (Jamie Thomson)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 6, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, December 5, 2013 (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading December 5, 2013 (Robert Diana)
 - The Morning Brew #1501 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily News Digest 12/6/2013 (Silverlight Show)
 
The Geek Shelf
| 
 
 ASIN: B008X8SIU0  | 
C# Smorgasbord eBook: Filip Ekberg: Kindle Store