Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – CSS for Developers with Elijah Manor (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - iOS Development for Windows Developers (Michael James)
 - A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Insider Preview on MVA (Windows Apps Team)
 - Visual Studio Code – Update 1 (0.3.0) (Sean McBreen)
 
Web Development
- Asp.Net Identity for Web Forms Introduction (Stephen Naughton)
 - Upsource 2.0 Released (Kay Ewbank)
 - Manually Serializing A String Using JSON-Encoding In ColdFusion (Ben Nadel)
 - Node dependency injection library extracted from DecentCMS (Bertrand Le Roy)
 - Time to First Byte, Why It is Important and How You Can Improve Your Time (Chris Love)
 - New content in the Microsoft Press Guided Tours app: Fundamentals of Azure (Kim Spilker)
 - Instagram Launches API for Advertisers (Patricio Robles)
 
XAML
- Finding the right SQLite package for a Xamarin app with Windows Phone 8.1 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
 - When you go truly multi platform with UWP everything will be paid for with In App Purchases (Matt Lacey)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Create and read NuGet Packages via Code (Robert Muehsig)
 - Visual Studio Online Update – June 3rd (Brian Harry)
 - Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Dynamic Components (Ricardo Peres)
 - Test automation for VS 2015 (Kevin Logan)
 - Custom Task Scheduler and await (Bnaya Eshet)
 - A little something that made me happy… (Eric Gunnerson)
 - Microsoft MPI v6 release (Karan Batta)
 - Introducing the Project System Extensibility SDK Preview (Andrew Arnott)
 - constexpr Complete For VS 2015 RTM: C++11 compiler, C++17 STL (Stephan T. Lavavej)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Managing Technical Debt Using Total Cost of Ownership (Ben Linders)
 - Load Test Series Part III: Taking your load test to the Cloud (i.e. Creating a Cloud-based Load test) (Charles Sterling)
 - What makes a good metric? (Eric Gunnerson)
 - Four Product Management Universals (Smith Forte)
 - Open Closed Principle (Michael Burns)
 - Filter Pull Requests by Status (Pat Nakajima)
 - Focus on your changes in GitHub for Windows (Markus Olsson)
 - Using Lines of Code as a Software Size Measure – New Lecture Posted (Steve McConnell)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Developing Your First Apple Watch App (Greg Shackles)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Simple Programmer Podcast 008: Hey John! It Doesn’t Seem You Are Following Your Own Advice! and Simple Programmer Podcast 009: Tech Academy Simple Programmer (John Sonmez)
 - 17 ngAir – Angular Internals (Kent C. Dodds)
 - SSW TV – Controlling NuGet packages in your solutions with Marcel de Vries and SSW TV – Visual Studio extensibility & Web Essentials with Mads Kristensen (SSW Team)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – John Cusack (Chris Hardwick)
 - AAWP Insight #141: Windows 10, Band, and Store bloat (Rafe Blandford)
 - Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 080 | We answer listener questions and comments (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
 - RunAs Radio – SQL Panel from SQL Intersection Spring 2015 (Richard Campbell)
 - Talk Python to Me #10 Bringing Python to the Masses with Hosting and DevOps at PythonAnywhere (Michael Kennedy)
 - 7 Ways Your Server is Lying To You | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
 
Community / Events
- Announcing the Ultimate Bing Experience III (Nicholas Kerr)
 - Geek of the Week: Colin Walker is a technical evangelist by day, gamer by night (Monica Nickelsburg)
 - MVPs Bring the Power of Community to the Cloud with the Global Azure Bootcamp (MVP Award Program)
 
Database
- Why is SSDT so slow? (Ed Elliott)
 - SQL Server Reporting Services Expression Builder to Reformat or Convert Text Box Values (Dallas Snider)
 - SQL Server 2016: Updatable, Non-Clustered Columnstore Indexes (Jonathan Allen)
 - The #1 Enemy of Data Loading in SQL Server (Matan Yungman)
 - SQL SERVER – Finding Out Identity Column Without Using Column Name (Pinal Dave)
 - Who’s Backing Up That Database? (Kendra Little)
 - Importing Data to DocumentDB Just Got Faster and Easier (Stephen Baron)
 
PowerShell
- SQL Server Monitoring with Powershell and the SQL Server Platform: Analysis and Reporting (Part 3 of 3) (Fikrat Azizov)
 - A simple PackageManagement (aka Oneget) Provider for Windows Update (Emin Atac)
 - Coding defensively against enums (Jakub Jareš)
 
Miscellaneous
- The Large Hadron Collider is officially doing science again (James Vincent)
 - GameStop buys Geeknet, home to ThinkGeek, in $140M deal (Molly Brown)
 - Microsoft acquires 6Wunderkinder, creator of to-do list app Wunderlist (OneNote Team)
 - Microsoft gives a sneak peek at new Windows 10 hardware (Rich McCormick)
 - Is Windows 10 ready? (Tom Warren)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #1873 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-03 (Dan Rigby)
 
The Geek Shelf
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Mastering Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services: John Savill: 9781119003274: Books