Top Links
- Smart Unit Tests – a mental model (Pratap Lakshman)
- Better together: C# 6 and the Visual Studio 2015 Debugger (Anthony D. Green)
- NCover 5.0 – What’s New (NCover Team)
- ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ gets character names: Meet Finn, BB-8 and the gang (Chris Taylor)
Web Development
- jFormslider : jQuery Form in Slider Plugin and HTML – Weather Widget Generator (jQuery Rain)
- Razor views pre-compilation with ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 (Filip W)
- Introduction to AngularJS (Prasant Jinaga)
- Azure: Premium Storage, RemoteApp, SQL Database Update, Live Media Streaming, Search and More (Scott Guthrie)
- Using web api client in synchronous methods and some good async/await resources (Simone Chiaretta)
- Drawing Triangles on the Canvas (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- W3C Invites Implementations of Web Cryptography API (Coralie Mercier)
- Bluemix Launches Docker-based IBM Containers Service Beta (Daniel Bryant)
- Advancing Docker Security: Docker 1.4.0 and 1.3.3 Releases (Fred Lifton)
- Building a scalable geofencing API on Google’s App Engine (Gary Lewis)
- Announcing Sencha Ext JS 5.1 (Gautam Agrawal)
- 10 Myths of Enterprise Python from PayPal (Michael Kennedy)
- Rivets.js – Lightweight and powerful data binding + templating (Rivets.js Team)
XAML
- Using XAML DatePicker in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
- WPF Shapes – Line (Richard Carr)
Miscellaneous .NET
- All Talk: Using the Mediator Pattern in .NET Framework (Eric Vogel)
- 10 New features of C# 6.0 that you should know (Abhijit Jana)
- Understanding TFS migrations from on-premise to Visual Studio Online – Part 1: Concepts (Willy-P. Schaub)
- Better together: Visual Basic 14 and the Visual Studio 2015 Debugger (Anthony D. Green) – In case you prefer this article with VB in the title.
- Custom Visual Studio Project Templates (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
- Getting the Second Last Thing You Copied (Peter Vogel)
- Export telemetry from Application Insights (Anton Fritz)
- How to Replace a List of Words in a .DOCX File using the DocX Library (B. Clay Shannon)
- Apps for Office: Mail Apps Part 1 – Setup and Activation (Josh Morales)
- XMLRPC Universal API (Tony Champion)
- .NET Interop with 32 and 64-bit DLLs (Zzzzzoltan)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Is Agile Harder for Agencies? (Charlie Perrins)
- An Introduction to BDD Test Automation with Serenity and JUnit (John Smart)
- A Case Against Comments (David Donahue)
- Jurgen Appelo on Better Management with Fewer Managers (Ben Linders)
- Are We Succeeding With an Enterprise Transformation? (Isaac Hogue)
- Win Big, Lose Small (John Sonmez)
- How Can Suppliers Help Customers Understand Their Requirements Better (Ulf Eriksson)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Debugging – $8.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Using the PhoneGap Developer App with a Cordova for Visual Studio Project (Glenn Gailey)
- Apple’s February 1st Deadline and Xamarin 64-bit Support (Miguel de Icaza)
- Microsoft acquires HockeyApp, leading mobile crash analytics and beta distribution service for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone (S.Somasegar)
- Amazon Brings HTML5 Support to Fire TV (Eric Zeman)
- HTML5 Mobile – Optimizing for older or slower devices (Andy Lee)
- Part 4: Azure Mobile Services: What you need to know about Authentication and Authorization (Adarsha Datta)
- Hello World, meet our new experimental toolchain, Jack and Jill (Paul Rashidi)
- New Code Samples for Lollipop (Trevor Johns)
- Google Play Services 6.5 Adds Granular API Functionality (Eric Carter)
- Xamarin.Forms: Styles (Jesse Liberty)
- The web is a critical part of the IoT story (O’Reilly Media)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Devnology Podcast 049 – Mathias Verraes (Freek Leemhuis & Pieter Joost)
- Hanselminutes – Web Animation Foundations, Today and Tomorrow with Rachel Nabors (Scott Hanselman)
- Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 025 on Solutions, Scenarios & Samples in PnP github repo (Jeremy Thake)
- Adventures in Angular 020 – Structuring Code in an AngularJS App with Dan Wahlin (John Papa)
- IoTShow: Kick-Off and Steve Teixeira Interview | Internet of Things Show (Larry Larsen, Golnaz & GavinGear)
- Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson Episode 4: Biggest ever month of Microsoft Intune releases | The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson (Simon May)
- Azure Podcast Episode 56 – Azure Backup (Sujit D’Mello)
- Edge Show 129 – Storage Replication in the next version of Windows Server | Edge (Symon Perriman & Simon May)
Community / Events
- Microsoft ready to show off Windows 10 mobile SKU on January 21 (Mary Jo Foley)
- Being Part of the Tuts+ Community (Sharon Milne)
- Do you want to be a Small Basic Community Leader??? (Ed Price)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Monitoring SQL Server Never Got This Easy (Pinal Dave)
- Reading The Power Query Trace File–With Power Query (Chris Webb)
- Preview Available for Latest Version of Azure SQL Database (Tiffany Wissner)
PowerShell
- Video of 6 Useful PowerShell Scripts to Help SQL Server DBAs and Developers (Tim Smith)
- PowerShell Commands for SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Mode (Daniel Calbimonte)
- PowerShell Job Debugging (Paul Higinbotham)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft: US would be outraged if another nation ransacked US servers (Lisa Vaas)
- Minecraft creators Mojang release their latest game, Scrolls, for Windows and Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner now says Windows 10 is coming ‘early next fall’ (John Callaham)
- Stop losing time installing your software (Frank)
- Leaked email reveals secret anti-piracy meeting between Google, Sony, and Homeland Security (Russell Brandom)
- Amazon Echo gets its iOS app — now where’s our Amazon Echo invite?! (Todd Bishop)
- I’ve given up on Windows Phone (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading December 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- The Daily Six Pack: December 12, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
- The Morning Brew #1757 (Chris Alcock)
- Scrumptions Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
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