Top Links
- Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8 (Daniel Roth)
 - Introducing ReSharper Build (Matt Ellis)
 - Learn Roslyn Now: Part 14 Intro to the Scripting API (Josh Varty)
 - Free eBook – FakeItEasy Succinctly (Michael McCarthy)
 
Web Development
- Setting the thread culture in ASP.NET 5 (Jerrie Pelser)
 - React+Flux can do in just 137 lines what jQuery can do in 10 (Swizec Teller)
 - JavaScript Iterators and Generators (R. Mark Volkmann)
 - Function Invocation Patterns in JavaScript (Abhi Jain)
 - Audit Trail Part in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
 - Running a simple web server from a shell (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Postmates Updates Delivery API with Multiple Drop-off and Batch Features (Eric Carter)
 - HALO 5 Stats API Lets Anyone Snag Player Statistics (Eric Zeman)
 - Effect Ideas for Image Grids (Manoela Ilic)
 - Building sites and web apps for every device (guest series for npm) (Microsoft Edge Team)
 - Install SSL certificate on Apache server (Pankhuri Kaushik)
 - Microsoft Releases Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Paul Ballard)
 - Go Get Brackets 1.5 (Ryan Stewart)
 - A Gentle Introduction to Ember 2.0 (James Futhey)
 
XAML
- FreshMvvm n=0 – Mvvm in Xamarin.Forms and Why FreshMvvm (Michael Ridland)
 - Understanding SplitView and its features in Universal Windows App. (Arun Kumar)
 - New Windows 10 application usage in Dev Center (Bernardo Zamora)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Sprinkling some C#6 fairy dust on FluentPath (Bertrand Le Roy)
 - TFS Office Integration Installer (Brian Harry)
 - Visual Studio Solution Explorer Tips (Dirk Strauss)
 - Generate custom build numbers in TFS Build vNext (Jakob Ehn)
 - All ReSharper Ultimate tools bumped up to version 10 (Jura Gorohovsky)
 - Touch Support – Day 15 – Visual Studio 2015 and Light Bulbs and Quick Actions – Day 16 – Visual Studio 2015 (Rachel Hagerman)
 - Custom .NET Data Provider (Ricardo Peres)
 - CodeRush for Roslyn, v1.0.6 (Mark Miller)
 - EF7 Beta 8 Available (Rowan Miller)
 - One Man’s Garbage – Call Stacks (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
 - A better way to integrate Code and Unity (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
 - Free eBook – T4 Succinctly (Nick Harrison)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Path to No Estimates (Amir Barylko)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: How Software Works – $11.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
 - Team Bus Factors: How to Reduce Them and How to Prevent Them (Roy Osherove)
 - Adobe Creative Cloud streamlines collaborative workflows (WebdesignerDepot Staff)
 - What Is Your Motivation For Working So Much? (John Sonmez)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Devs ask Microsoft for real .NET universal apps: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android (Tim Anderson)
 - Understanding Bitcode for iOS Applications (Alex Blewitt)
 - Android Support Library 23.1 (Ian Lake)
 - Native Android Support Arrives in Test Studio R3 2015 (Shravanthi Alimilli)
 - How to Build a tvOS Application for Apple TV Tutorial (Jose Casanova)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Top Four 5: Podcasts (Marco Arment & Tiffany Arment)
 - Hanselminutes – Your Personal Cloud Platform with Sandstorm.io and Kenton Varda and Staged WordPress Deployments on Azure with Sunitha Muthukrishna and Azure Mobile Apps Updates for August 2015 (Scott Hanselman)
 - 063 AiA Live Q&A From October 7th, 2015 (John Papa)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Chris Hardwick)
 - Video: Microservices, IoT and Azure (Bob Familiar)
 - #001 – Trial Show | The Ops Team (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit & Simon May)
 - Building Offline Ready Mobile Apps (Session Recording) (Hristo Borisov)
 - Exposing and Calling App Services from your UWP app | Inside Windows Platform (Larry Lieberman & Shen Chauhan)
 - Rocket 40: Sweater Weather & iMac Season (Simone De Rochefort, Brianna Wu & Christina Warren)
 - Azure Podcast Episode 98 – WebHooks (Sujit D’Mello)
 
Community / Events
- Join Xamarin at a Visual Studio Launch Event Near You (Krystin Stutesman)
 - Thoughts on Running an OSS Project (Jeremy D. Miller)
 
Database
- Exploring SQL Server 2014 Table Variables (Sergey Gigoyan)
 - Using SQL Server on high resolution monitors (Simon Sabin)
 - Simple mathematical formulas using the M Language (John Miner)
 - Low priority locking wait types (Paul Randal)
 
PowerShell
- New book: Windows PowerShell Step by Step, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft aims to make group chatting easier with Skype (Mary Jo Foley)
 
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #1566 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - What you shouldn’t have missed in the last few weeks (Frank Boucher)
 - The Morning Brew #1948 (Chris Alcock)
 - The Daily Six Pack: October 16, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
 - October Grab Bag o’ Awesome Things (Matthias Shapiro)
 
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