Top Links
- Microsoft announces Windows Phone 8.1 Update details, with Cortana coming to new markets (David Chen)
 - Visual Studio Tools for Unity 1.9 (Jb Evain)
 - Free Online Book – Eloquent JavaScript, 2nd Edition (Marijn Haverbeke)
 - NuGet Package of the Week: MarkdownLog makes log files much prettier (Scott Hanselman)
 
Web Development
- Angular Style Guide (John Papa)
 - Writing JavaScript Tests for Asynchronous Events with Deferreds (Kevin Yeh)
 - Profile and Time your ASP.NET MVC app all the way to Azure (Rick Anderson)
 - Debugging AngularJS In The Console (K. Scott Allen)
 - Building Node.js Together (Timothy J. Fontaine)
 - Web Forms is not Dead! (Paul Sheriff)
 - Towards PhantomJS 2 (Ariya Hidayat)
 
XAML
- Learning Xamarin: Xamarin Forms & MVVM (Jesse Liberty)
 - Would you like double cheese with that? Adding Windows tablet goodness to Windows Phone applications (Rob Miles)
 - Merging the Code-Base: Combining Existing Windows Store and Phone Apps into Universal Apps (Can Bilgin)
 - A Behavior to handle VisualState in Universal apps with MVVM (Marco Minerva)
 - 2000 WPF Things #1,125 – Localization VI – Interpreting CSV File That Is Output by LocBaml Tool (Sean Sexton)
 - WPF Base Classes – HeaderedItemsControl (Richard Carr)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Building a Release Pipeline with TFS 2012 now includes HOLs for TFS 2013 (Willy-P. Schaub)
 - 2000 C# Things #1,149 – Generic Delegate Types (Sean Sexton)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Office 365 Development Patterns & Practices launched (Office 365 Team)
 - Triage of ideas … ∆ process changes (Willy-P. Schaub)
 - Hey Developers – is it UI, UX, UI/UX or Something Else? (Allen Conway)
 - A Git Branch Changes Nothing (Brendan Enrick)
 - Continuous Backlog Refinement (Andrew Fuqua)
 - Unreasonable Expectations (Lino Tadros)
 - Downstream cost of interfaces (Wes McClure)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Learning Xamarin: Deleting From SQLite (Jesse Liberty)
 - Discover iOS Device Form Factor using Size Classes in Swift and Simplifying NSJSONSerialization in Swift and A Swift App that Calls JSON Web Services (Josh Smith)
 - Fluent Assertions 3.1 for Xamarin (Oren Novotny)
 - Be More Social: oAuth, Facebook and Xamarin (Wally McClure)
 - Tooling Up for the Marriage of the Internet of Things, Big Data, and Cloud Computing (Ken North)
 - Amazon Web Services Mobile SDK Version 2 Brings in Enterprise Features for Better Development (Anand Narayanaswamy)
 - Ext JS 5 Tablet Support (Grgur Grisogono)
 - Computed Properties in Swift (Mark Petherbridge)
 - A Better way to Access Swift From the Terminal (Michael Crump)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Modern App Development with Rocky Lhotka (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Yet Another Podcast #128: The Legendary Charles Petzold (Jesse Liberty)
 - Special Episode – Olivier Bloch (OSCON) | CodeChat (obloch & Jeremy Foster)
 - SSW TV – How to go on the Cyber-Offence (before online attackers do) – Troy Hunt | DDD Melbourne (SSW Team)
 - StarTalk Radio – StarTalk SoundBite: Madame Saturn Meets Star Trek (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
 - Functional Geekery Episode 13 – Martin J. Logan (Steven Proctor)
 
Community / Events
- Dev of the Week: Sean Lorenz (Alec Noller)
 - Here Come the World Finalists (John Scott Tynes)
 - Imagine winning $10,000 to start a business (Michelle Feder)
 - Introduction to Office 365 Development: attend this Live webinar Q&A event August 8 (Office 365 Team)
 
Database
- Using rowversion with SQL Server Integration Services to reduce load times (Robert Biddle)
 - SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Object and Batch Execution Statistics Reports (Pinal Dave)
 
PowerShell
- Chef with PowerShell DSC Now Public! (PowerShell Team)
 - #PSTip Functions and SQL filtering, Part 2 (Bartek Bielawski)
 
Miscellaneous
- Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Fit Interviews (Chris Sells)
 - How to create a file with a . dot prefix in Windows Explorer (Scott Hanselman)
 - The Microsoft built Windows Phone era is about to begin – can it save Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
 - How do you feel about Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1? (Rich Edmonds)
 
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 29, 2014 (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading July 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
 - The Morning Brew #1662 (Chris Alcock)
 - The Daily Six Pack: July 30, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Daily News Digest 7/30/2014 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-30 (Dan Rigby)
 
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