Top Links
- Using Github repositories for presentation samples (Bill Wagner)
 - EF6.1.2 RTM Available (Rowan Miller)
 - Extending Xamarin.Forms with Control Plugins (James Montemagno)
 - The New Agile–Why Is Agile So Popular? (Gil Zilberfeld)
 
Web Development
- Another update for the Hudson Community (Brian Benz)
 - Pulp 2.5 Released Including Docker Repository Management (Carlos Sanchez)
 - Getting Started with Gulp (Jeff Lembeck)
 
XAML
- Using XAML Menus in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Bug Fix Update to JetBrains .NET Tools is Available (Daria Dovzhikova)
 - The sideways stack trace (Bertrand Le Roy)
 - Working with System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache (Adam Anderson)
 - IntelliTrace Standalone Collector and Application Pools running under Active Directory accounts (Angelos Petropoulos)
 - Related entities in Entity Framework Code First approach (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Apps for Office: Mail Apps Part 3 – Compose Mode (Josh Morales)
 - Setting, clearing, and testing a single bit in an SSE register (Raymond Chen)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The four species of Agile (Dror Helper)
 - Visual Studio Test Settings selection problems (Kevin Logan)
 - What is Mindmapping? Learn Today (Chance Brown)
 - Resolve to Track Issues more Efficiently Next Year | Guest Blog by Axosoft (Marissa K.)
 - Share and Collaborate with Your Team Using Office 365 (Rayda D.)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Refactoring for Software Design Smells – $34.98 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
 - Software components as a toy (Peter van Ooijen)
 - Direct Responsibility (Wes Higbee)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Android RecyclerView – Simple List (Per-Erik Bergman)
 - Animating Your Mobile UI with Famo.us and Telerik AppBuilder (Jen Looper)
 - From full microsoft stack to cross platform development (Matt Wrock)
 - “House Ads” vs AdDuplex (Matt Lacey)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Docker on Windows with Ben Hall (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - GoingNative 33: C++ Refactoring in Visual Studio 2015 | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
 - Entreprogrammers Episode 44 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
 - RiYL Episode 085: Francoise Mouly (Brian Heater)
 
Community / Events
Database
- SQL Server Min Max Column Normalization for Data Mining (Dallas Snider)
 - Formatting Durations in SSAS: Caveat (Koen Verbeeck)
 - SQL Server 2014 DML Triggers: Tips & Tricks from the Field (Sergio Govoni)
 - SQL SERVER – Story of Temporary Objects (Pinal Dave)
 - Iterative index tryouts in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
 - Auto backup and restore PostgreSQL (Jakub Chodounský)
 - Viewing Error Messages For All Rows In Power Query (Chris Webb)
 - Read Committed Snapshot Isolation: Writers Block Writers (RCSI) (Kendra Little)
 - Client tooling updates for Azure SQL Database (Sanjay Nagamangalam)
 
PowerShell
- Take your PowerShell to the next level with advanced functions (Adam Bertram)
 - Holiday present from PowerShell Magazine – DSC resource module to install and configure Azure Recovery Services Agent (Ravikanth C)
 
Miscellaneous
- Emaroo 2.1.0 Released (Roland Weigelt)
 - Exploring Cloud Enabled Solutions on the Azure Platform (Mike Rossi)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading December 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
 - The Morning Brew #1764 (Chris Alcock)
 - Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for December 22nd, 2014 (Dmitry Lyalin)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 161729134X  | 
C# in Depth, 3rd Edition: Jon Skeet: 9781617291340: Books
Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework (Expert's Voice in .NET): Andrew Troelsen: 9781430242338: Books