Top Links
- The update Windows SDK and Windows App Certification Kit tool (now checks branding images) (Pete Brown)
 - 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #21: Camera Capture (Jeff Blankenburg)
 - Add Packages, not References – a NuGet plugin for ReSharper (Matt Ellis)
 - Building Windows Store Apps with .NET (Brandon Bray)
 
Web Development
- Node Roundup: Knockout Winners, Node for Raspberry Pi, Benchtable (Alex Young)
 - How does Windows Azure PowerShell import publishsettings using Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile command? (Avkash Chauhan)
 - How to Duplicate Elements Using CSS3 Box Shadows (Craig Buckler)
 - Web Publish Updates with Windows Azure SDK 1.8 (John Wen)
 - Learning Principles for Improving Your CSS (Hugo Giraudel)
 - Practical Azure #3: The Case for Windows Azure Drives (Jim O’Neil)
 - Two ASP.NET MVC 4 Courses (K. Scott Allen)
 - Inspiration: Adding A Personal Touch To Your Web Design (Sabina Idler)
 - Fully Loaded Node – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 2 (Lloyd Hilaiel)
 - IE10 CSS Hacks (Louis Lazaris)
 - Fixing Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense for WinJS Files (Phil Japikse)
 - Tips: 50 Performance Tricks To Make Your HTML5 Applications And Sites Faster (Vygantas Lipskas)
 - Adaptive Thumbnail Pile Effect with Automatic Grouping (Pedro Botelho)
 - Amazon adds Windows Server 2012 support to AWS (Mary Jo Foley)
 
XAML
- Implementing in-app purchasing in Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Windows Phone Toolkit overview (Adam Denning)
 - Passing event arguments to the WinRT EventToCommandBehavior (Joost van Schaik)
 - 2000 WPF Things #695 – Implementing Drag-and-Drop Behavior (Sean Sexton)
 - Key Windows Phone Development Concepts (Tim Murphy)
 - Speech Recognition Made Easy with Telerik RadControls for WP8 (Michael Crump)
 - Sideloading and Testing Windows 8 Store Apps on Other Machines (Johan Danforth)
 - Real-World Live Tiles: Working with Live Tiles in Windows 8 Apps (Jennifer Marsman)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- A Programmer’s Guide to C# 5.0 (Eric Gunnerson)
 - How I push GoogleAnalyticsTracker to NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Stupid Question 87: Warning levels, what are they, which level to use, and should they be treated as errors? and Stupid Question 88: How do I ignore certain warnings in code when I’ve set treat all warnings as errors? (Iris Classon)
 - 5 Good and useful .NET Profilers (Senthil Kumar)
 - Another Earful: Debugging Survey (Eric Battalio)
 - Json.NET Release 11 (CodePlex)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Part 2–Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer (Charles Sterling)
 - Design patterns in the test of time: Command, Redux (Oren Eini)
 - Unit Testing in Windows Phone 8 – Asynchronous Operations and Mocking (Matteo Pagani)
 - Strangling the life out of Software Testing (Mark Pearl)
 - Build Metrics with Distributed Teams & Large Organizations (Eric Hexter)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- C# to Objective-C – Part 2 : Arrays (Stephen Zaharuk)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Nerdist Podcast – Dave Attell Returns! (Chris Hardwick)
 - Living With Lumia: The Problem With Windows Phone Apps (Christina Warren)
 - SE Podcast #37 – Back At It, Again (Alex Miller)
 - Maelstrom: An Overview (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Michael B. McLaughlin & Rick Barraza)
 - ShopTalk Episode #43 (Chris Coyier)
 - People Talking Tech Episode 012 – Jonathan Gardner (Denny Cherry)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 325 – 11.20.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Performance tips for Windows Store apps using XAML | Build 2012 (Kiran Kumar)
 
Community / Events
- Drinkup in Oxford, UK this Thursday (Brandon Keepers)
 - Mo’ Bash 2012: Movember Celebration in Manayunk (Eric Smith)
 - A Change of Seasons… (James Michael Hare)
 - The 25 Coolest New Businesses In Philadelphia (Melissa Stanger & Max Nisen)
 - Windows Server 2012 IT Camp–Troy NY and Manchester NH (Jim O’Neil)
 
Database
- SQL Server Database Security Audit (Part 1): What to expect? (Svetlana Golovko)
 - Getting SSRS Subscriptions for a Specific Date (Kevin Conan)
 - sp_ssiscatalog v1.0.1.0 now available for download (Jamie Thomson)
 - SQL Server: Datetime vs Datetime2 Datatype (Madhivanan)
 - SQL SERVER – Display Datetime in Specific Format – SQL in Sixty Seconds #033 – Video (Pinal Dave)
 - Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 for $15 (Ted Krueger)
 - Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysopentapes (Jason Strate)
 - Long Term Backup Storage With Amazon Glacier (Jeremiah Peschka)
 - RavenDB 2.0 Release Candidates (Oren Eini)
 - Article: The State of NoSQL (Stefan Edlich)
 
Miscellaneous
- Why Learn Small Basic? (Ed Price)
 - Quick news: Mobi and ePub formats ready for Introducing Windows 8 free ebook (Kim Spilker)
 - How to Tune Up a Virtual PC (Merrick Chaffer)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 21, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Geek Reading November 20, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #1006 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 11/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Daily Six Pack: November 21, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
 - The Morning Brew #1237 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 20 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
The Geek Shelf
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C# 5.0 Pocket Reference: Instant Help for C# 5.0 Programmers: Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari: 9781449320171: Books