Top Links
- Introducing Windows Phone Preview for Developers (Cliff Simpkins)
 - Announcing our third Windows Phone 8 update—plus a new developer preview program (Darren Laybourn)
 - TWC9: Visual Studio 2012 5.5 million downloads, VS2013 Virtual Launch, ScriptCS and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
 - Steve Ballmer is right, and I was wrong (Joe Wilcox)
 
Web Development
- SignalR and user identity (authentication and authorization) (Gustavo Armenta Valdez)
 - WebStorm and Windows Azure Mobile Services and Creating a GitHub Pull Request from within PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Creating a MVC 5 CRUD Application Using Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
 - The dict pattern: objects without prototypes are better maps (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Animated Media Queries (Chris Coyier)
 - Understanding Web Proxy Configuration (Eric Lawrence)
 
XAML
- Using Windows 8 WinRT APIs in .NET Desktop Applications (Andrei Marukovich)
 - My XML is Alive! An Intro to XAML (Jeremy Likness)
 - 2000 WPF Things #927 – Limiting the Size of a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
 - Besides tearing your hair out, how you debug why your Windows 8 Modern app isn’t starting? (Greg Duncan)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Modifying the Console Cursor Appearance (Richard Carr)
 - The Adapter Pattern in the .NET Framework (Eric Vogel)
 - Conditional Breakpoints (Brad Sullivan)
 - AWS .NET SDK v2: the message-pump pattern and AWS .NET SDK v2: setting up queues and topics (Elton Stoneman)
 - EF Power Tools Beta 4 Available (Glenn Condron)
 - Reference Manager Needs Folder Names (Karl Shifflett)
 - Memory management myths: promptness (Jon Harrop)
 - The blog post Did you know… How the Configuration Manager works – Part 2 on the MSDN Blogs has possibly gone viral. This is full of win! (Sara Ford)
 - 2000 C# Things #951 – Not Every Type Derives from object (Sean Sexton)
 - Quickly Create JSON Object from Anonymous Object with Json.NET (Toni Petrina)
 - Serilog hits 1.0 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Certified ScrumMaster Training and Scrum with TFS course (Giles Davies)
 - There is no product unless you first ship it! (Chris Pietschmann)
 - A lighter, brighter GitHub for Windows (Markus Olsson)
 - Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server + Hands On Lab (Paulo Morgado)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 134 – “Beyond the Desktop” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - Technology & Friends Episode 287: Terrence Dorsey on Writing About Code (David Giard)
 - MNR 492: Hear more about where you can get hands on time with Xbox One (Larry Hyrb)
 - Boagworld – Static Agile (Paul Boag)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Nick Offerman Returns and The Nerdist Podcast – Daniel Radcliffe (Chris Hardwick)
 - AppBizDev Podcast Episode 20: Jodon can’t get his hands out of the Coding Jar (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
 - 079 JSJ Lo-Dash with John-David Dalton (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
 - Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 4, Season 4 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
 - Engadget Podcast 364 – 10.12.13 (Joe Pollicino)
 - Get Up And Code 023: Excuses, Excuses, Excuses! (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
 - 01/20/2013 – Welcome to BDBI Radio (Kevin Goff)
 - GeekWire Radio: Zulily, Amazon, GeekGirlCon, Nest Protect, and those gigantic Fox News ‘tablets’ (Todd Bishop)
 
Community / Events
- What Is The Worst Thing About Working At Microsoft? (Matt Wallaert)
 - Happy 18th Birthday to Franks World (Frank La Vigne)
 - A new adventure at Splunk after an amazing 8 years at Microsoft (Glenn Block)
 
Database
- Big Data – Buzz Words: What is NewSQL – Day 10 of 21 (Pinal Dave)
 
PowerShell
- PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit v3.0.6 (CodePlex)
 
Miscellaneous
- [Hardware Review] It’s been a Haswell Summer… Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review – Part 3 (Greg Duncan)
 - Creating a link to a OneNote page on the desktop (John Guin)
 - paint.net 4.0 alpha (build 5034) is now available (Rick Brewster)
 - Happy Birthday, Windows Phone; Microsoft’s mobile platform celebrates its third year (Rich Edmonds)
 - Suffering from the spinning cogs issue on a Nokia Windows Phone? There’s a fix for that (Rich Edmonds)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 12, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 13, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 10th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, October 11th (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading October 11, 2013 (Robert Diana)
 - Pie in the Sky (October 11th, 2013) (Larry Franks)
 - Double Shot #1221 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Reading Notes #111 (Frank)
 - The Morning Brew #1461 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-14 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Daily Six Pack: October 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 - Weekly Digest 34 (Jakub Chodounský)
 - SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #050 (Pinal Dave)
 
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