Top Links
- Rewarding our community and fans (Den Delimarsky)
 - Aurelia 2018 Roadmap (Aurelia Team)
 - Yet Another Podcast – MVVM Light and Xamarin.Forms with Laurent Bugnion (Jesse Liberty)
 - KC Lemson: maestro of fun, mastermind of memes (Candace Whitney-Morris)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Running ASP.NET Core in an Alpine Linux Docker Container – A True Micro Service (21MB) (Dean North)
 - DZone Refcard – Introduction to Web Components (Kito Mann)
 - Quick way to deploy an Azure App Service from Visual Studio (Benjamin Perkins)
 - Docker (Inc.) Is Dead (Chris Short)
 - Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure (Peter Taylor)
 - Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems, accelerating high-performance computing innovation for media and entertainment industry and beyond (Jason Zander)
 - Mitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (John Hazen)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
- Fluent Theme for WPF & WinForms Apps is Coming in 2018 (Dobrin Grancharov)
 - Xamarin 101: How to use Syncfusion Community Edition in Xamarin Forms (Devlin Duldulao)
 - Xamarin Forms and .NET Standard – Getting Started (Michele Ferracin)
 - Create an Android Oreo (8.0) Emulator for Visual Studio Mac (Xamarin) (Mario Jesús Galván Miranda)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Simple Asynchronous Processing for Web Service Calls (Peter Vogel)
 - Open your current project in Visual Studio Code directly from Visual Studio IDE (Abhijit Jana)
 - Sneak Peak of JustMock R1 2018: TFS Web Based Builds (Stefan Stefanov)
 - Creating a C# Console App From My iPhone (Thomas Hansen)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- 8 Best Practices for Agile Software Deployment (Ben Putano)
 - Respawn 2.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Unit Testing, DevOps and Flow Agile (Haydn Shaughnessy)
 - The five requirements for the design of all major RavenDB features (Oren Eini)
 - Builds with conditional NuGet publishing in Team Foundation Server (Daniel Fisher)
 - Network virtualization using SCVMM and TFS/VSTS for your Build-Deploy-Test scenarios (Ashok Kirla)
 - Dealing With the Disadvantages of Multithreading (Dzung Tran)
 - Technical Solutions Used for Performance Testing and Tuning (Tom Smith)
 - Benefits of Using GitHub (Ekaterina Novoseltseva)
 - Code Review vs Pair-Programming: Which One Should Your Team Pick? (Erik Dietrich)
 - Let’s Talk About Stress, Baby – Part 1 (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - Design Rules to Manage Software Architecture (Sean Barow)
 - The New Guy Is A Better Coder Than Me, And That’s Wonderful (Matthew Jones)
 
Mobile & IoT
- Fastlane your Android App — Build and upload APK to Slack (Kalyan Dechiraju)
 - New Resources for Enhancing User Experience on Your Alexa-Enabled Product (Ted Karczewski)
 - How to Create VR Content for iOS and Android Apps in 2018? (ThinkMobiles Team)
 - How to Port Your Unity® Game from Google Play to the Amazon Appstore (Emily Esposito Fulkerson)
 - Apple Developer Program fee waivers are now available for nonprofits, schools and government (Sarah Perez)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Vision, AI and More with Tim Huckaby (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Azure Analysis Services Scale Out & Diagnostics | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
 - Syntax Podcast – All About Redux && Cookies vs JWT (Wes Bos)
 - JSJ 294: Node Security with Adam Baldwin (AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood & Joe Eames)
 - AiA 170: NG Atlanta with Zack Chapple and Kim Maida (Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames & Ward Bell)
 - PyMLadies — What is Data Science? | AI Show (Cameron Tomisser)
 - Developer on Fire Episode 301 | Marco Pivetta – Worth Doing (Dave Rael)
 - How Programming Languages Quietly Run the World with Dr. Ben Zorn (Emily Maryatt)
 
Community & Events
- Xamarin Developer Events This January (Jayme Singleton)
 - MVP Summit Trip Crypto-Gamble (Alan Mendelevich)
 - #Coding4Fun – Goodbye to one of the funniest and useful Channel9 ‘s resources (Bruno Capuano)
 - 2017: A Retrospective (Josh Varty)
 - 10 Exciting Concerts Coming To Philadelphia This January (Nikki Volpicelli)
 
Database
- Tracking Execution Times for SSIS Packages (Tim Smith)
 - Scripts to check SQL Server instant file initialization and lock pages in memory for all servers (Pablo Echeverria)
 - Using the Resource Usage Profiler Event For SSAS Multidimensional Query Performance Tuning, Part 3: Aggregations And Indexes (Chris Webb)
 - SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why Does UNION ALL Work but UNION Produces Error? (Pinal Dave)
 
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Your Path to a Successful Career (Adobe Careers)
 - Groove Music dies and so does Cortana’s music identifying skill (Jules Wang)
 
More Link Collections
- Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-04 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #2498 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #2006 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Windows Weekly Dockerfile #16: SQL Server (Elton Stoneman)
 - Daily Links 3 Jan 2018 (Malcolm Jack)
 - Hello 2018 | Recap of “Top 10” Posts of 2017 (Cortana Intelligence & ML Blog Team)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 1491949023  | 
Developing Web Components: UI from jQuery to Polymer: Jarrod Overson, Jason Strimpel: 9781491949023: Books
Battlestar Galactica: Corey Konieczka: Toys & Games
Xamarin Blueprints: Michael Williams: 9781785887444: Books