Top Links
- Getting Started with Xamarin Sketches (Steve Smith)
 - NavigationService in MVVM Light V5 (Marco Minerva)
 - Lenovo announces Yoga 3 Pro, successor to the best Windows laptop you can buy (Chris Welch)
 - Complete Guide to the Windows Technical Preview (Paul Thurrott)
 
Web Development
- Building and Running Your ASP.NET vNext Application with Gulp (Tugberk Ugurlu)
 - Practical SOA / microservices – Typed Requests (Karl Seguin)
 - node.js as a desktop app runtime, to build “desktop” apps with it? node-webkit… (Greg Duncan)
 - Announcing key advances to JavaScript performance in Windows 10 Technical Preview (John-David Dalton, Gaurav Seth & Louis Lafreniere)
 - Manipulating a kendo view on show (Patrick Dunn)
 - WordPress -> Ghost -> Harp (part 2) (Remy Sharp)
 - Ghost, Node.js, and Azure Websites: Not a Pretty Picture (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - WebAPI actions in Orchard (Bertrand LeRoy)
 - A chatroom for all! Part 6 – The Finale and Debugging Remote Node Apps (Rami Sayar)
 - Just Updated “NotAClue Bootstrap Friendly WebForms Controls” (Steve Naughton)
 - Freebie: Helium Icon Set (AI, EPS, SVG, Icon Font) (Taras Shypka)
 
XAML
- How to shorten an url with Bitly asynchronously on Windows Phone (Marco Siccardi)
 - 2000 WPF Things #1,177 – UIElement vs. FrameworkElement vs. Control (Sean Sexton)
 - Choosing the best GitHub branch of ANGLE (Cooper Partin)
 - Techniques on how to share files in a Windows Universal app (Robert Hedgate)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Complex nested structures in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
 - Two Quick TFS Performance Tips (Cory House)
 - Decorator Pattern in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Bug in the Visual Studio Git integration that results in a merge conflict (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - .NET Is Not a Black Box, Open It Up (John Bubriski)
 - Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.9 (MS Downloads)
 - Applying Code Access Restrictions in .NET and Unity – Part 7: Adding Interfaces (Ricardo Peres)
 - HiLo Desktop sample updated (Douglas Erickson)
 - How to add custom auto complete functionality to your map app (Ricky Brundritt)
 - 2000 C# Things #1,201 – Writing Conditional Logical Operators as Conditionals (Sean Sexton)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Minimum Viable Product (David Humphrey)
 - How I Plan My Week (John Sonmez)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Developer Tips To Improve iOS8 App Transition (Chris Beauchamp)
 - Building Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin and Azure Mobile Services (Donna Malayeri)
 - Adventures in Apache Cordova #2: First build and run (Kraig Brockschmidt)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 019 with Waldek Mastykarz on the Office Graph (Office 365 Team)
 - Hanselminutes – “A Dark Room” – What’s it like to have a #1 App? With Amir Rajan (Scott Hanselman)
 - What the Tech 231: Re Selfie and Windows Weekly 383: Office Sway (Paul Thurrott)
 - RadioTFS – The ALM Rangers with Willy-Peter (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
 - SQL Server Radio Show 6 – It’s the Cursor (Matan Yungman)
 - Boagworld – 10 ways animation can improve your website (Paul Boag)
 - Episode 2: Windows 10, EMM Analyst Rankings, and SCCM “Integration” | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
 - Azure Podcast Episode 47 – DocumentDB (Sujit D’Mello)
 
Community / Events
- MVP Summit Advice from MVPs (MVP Award Program)
 - Philly Gaming Expo to host Smithsonian’s “Art of Gaming” Creator, lots of demos by local devs (Nicole Kline)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Row Offset in SQL Server For Different Version (Pinal Dave)
 - Auditing for Azure SQL Database now with more manageability options (Tony Petrossian)
 - Azure DocumentDB: Profile of MSN Health and Fitness (Eron Kelly)
 
PowerShell
- Playing with Classes in PowerShell v5 Preview (Lee Holmes)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft: Surface Pro line is here to stay (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Keeping It Simple, with Xim (MS Fuse Labs)
 - Windows on tablets on ARM: Surface, or something else? (Kip Kniskern)
 - Uppercase or Lowercase in Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
 - Free Goodies for Students (Rob Miles)
 
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 9, 2014 (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading October 9, 2014 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1421 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1713 (Chris Alcock)
 - Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (9/29-10/5) (Dara Monasch)
 - Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
 
The Geek Shelf
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