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Top Links
- xUnit for Xamarin is dead, long live xUnit for Devices! (Oren Novotny)
- The Channel 9 Xamarin Invasion Advances (James Montemagno)
- Aurelia & Angular 2.0 Code Side by Side (Rob Eisenberg)
- dotnetConf is back, this Wednesday (The .NET Team)
- Announcing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview (Kirk Koenigsbauer)
Web Development
- PhpStorm 9 EAP 141.176 (Mikhail Vink)
- Read Config file in ASP.NET 5 (Radenko Zec)
- A Look at ASP.NET 5: Part 3 – EF7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Angular First and Foremost (Aaron Marisi)
- Writing DecentCMS modules (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Media Services in Azure Government Datacenters! (Adarsh Solanki)
- Scaling #Azure Cloud Services to Zero (Alexandre Brisebois)
- Strategies for Staying on Top of Web Performance (Chris Coyier)
- React Introduces Support for ES6 Classes (James Chesters)
- Adobe Announces Document Cloud Service and APIs (Janet Wagner)
- 11 Tips to Become a Better Front-end Developer (Lubos Kmetko)
- Powerful Development & Test Environment in the Cloud (Magnus MĂĄrtensson)
- Error Handling inside Node Promises (Mehfuz Hossain)
- My new free eBook is out: OWIN Succinctly by Syncfusion (Simone Chiaretta)
XAML
- Windows Phone 8.1 Tile Icon Size Guide (Andreas Hammar)
- WPF Transforms – Skew (Richard Carr)
- How to update Live Tile in Universal Windows apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Automatically update packages using NuGet (Kevin Logan)
- It’s that time again; get ready to upgrade to TFS 2015 (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 Beta Released (Steve Dower)
- Retrieve and Update Entity Framework with Dynamic Queries (Peter Vogel)
- Project, project, project, creating multi-project Solutions (Greg Duncan)
- String Extension to use instead of String.IsNullOrEmpty (Mitul Suthar)
- Does the really CLR call CoInitializeEx on the first call to unmanaged code, even if you don’t deal with COM at all and are just calling native code via p/invoke? (Raymond Chen)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Sprint Review Blog: The Big Scrum Series (David Starr)
- Using Games to Make You a Better Tester (Erik Davis)
- Releasing Update 3 for Indigo Studio (v4) (George Abraham)
- Personas: Finding imaginary friends for web designers (Jerry Cao)
- 11 Rules All Programmers Should Live By (John Sonmez)
- One month of mini habits (Mark Needham)
- Slide view / splitview / side draw and a hamburger are not necessarily the same thing (Matt Lacey)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Add Charts to Your Android App Using MPAndroidChart (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
- NGraphics in a Xamarin Sketch (Mike Bluestein)
- Chuck Norris and the Internet of Things (Jim O’Neil)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Managing an IT Codebase with Steve Evans (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Brian Michael Bendis (Chris Hardwick)
- Defrag Tools #128 – Networking – Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
- EntreProgrammers Episode 56 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
- Ping 240: Games, Iron Man lends a hand, world’s largest growler | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
- Tuesdays With Corey: Virtual Machine Size Update | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
- Video: An Early Demo Of WebGL 2.0 (Vygantas)
- Local Variables vs. Parameterized Stored Procedures in SQL Server (Video) (Kendra Little)
Community / Events
- Free Webinar on Professional Scrum Development by Richard Hundhausen March 18 2:00 PM PST (Charles Sterling)
- Now we are nine (Julian M. Bucknall)
- Tragedies of the Remote Worker: “Looks like you’re the only one on the call” (Scott Hanselman)
- Sins and Virtues of the Remote Worker (Sam Basu)
- Say Hello to These .NET Developers (Vicky)
- Google Summer of Code now open for student applications (Gary Lewis)
- Microsoft unveils new business products, with Russell Wilson cameo and jabs at Apple and Google (Todd Bishop)
Database
- Passing SQL Server Agent tokens to an Integration Services package (Koen Verbeeck)
- New Features in Bing Developer Assistant March Release (Jialiang)
- SQL SERVER – Marking Filegroup as ReadOnly with SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
- “Thing IS NOT NULL” isn’t the same as “Thing != NULL” (Jen McCown)
- Power BI preview is now available (Jennifer Chen)
PowerShell
- Verify SQL Server Backups Existence in the File System with PowerShell (Tim Smith)
- Basel PowerShell User Group Meeting: March, 2015 (Emin Atac)
Miscellaneous
- No, John Gruber, Apple did not ‘basically invent’ USB-C (Mark Wilson)
- Office Delve—discover exactly what you need, when you need it (Julia White)
- Get ready for Skype for Business (Giovanni Mezgec)
- How to Become a Web Developer Part 5: Web Application Architecture (Stephen Young)
More Link Collections
- Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (3/9-3/15) (Dara Monasch)
- The Morning Brew #1821 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-17 (Dan Rigby)
- Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 16th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
The Geek Shelf
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Node.js the Right Way: Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scales: Jim R. Wilson: 9781937785734: Books
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