Top Links
- Moving to the .NET Framework 4.5.2 (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
- Puppet: Getting Started On Windows (Rob Reynolds)
- Bing Streamlines Technical Searches (Shabbar Husain)
- Semantic Code Highlighting (Terrence Dorsey)
Web Development
- JavaScript Boolean Confusion (Dave M. Bush)
- Learn AngularJS: Hour 3 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Nested Templates with Kendo UI (Josh Eastburn)
- Blade Template Engine Support in PhpStorm 8 EAP (Mikhail Vink)
- Wu.Js 2.0 (Nick Fitzgerald)
- Inheriting Views in Backbone JS (Arvind Bhardwaj)
- Using the cloud to create a cloud! IdeaCloud visualizes social media in real-time with distributed workloads in Azure (Susan Ibach)
- Ignite UI Page Designer: Beta Testing (Ambrose Little)
XAML
- 2000 WPF Things #1,132 – Localization XIII – Verifying Localized Content (Sean Sexton)
- Telerik UI for Windows Universal debuting with a Powerful Chart Library (Kiril Stanoev)
Miscellaneous .NET
- IntelliTrace standalone collector is back! (Angelos Petropoulos)
- Since clean-up functions can’t fail, you have to soldier on (Raymond Chen)
- Make Move Constructors No-Throw (Sasha Goldshtein)
- 2000 C# Things #1,156 – Covariance and Generic Delegate Types (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Draft Kanban Canvas User Guide (Karl Scotland)
- Non-Technical Managers and Agile (Matt Davey)
- Configurable Agility in Custom Software Development (Scott Weeklund)
- The Principles of Modern Management (JD Meier)
- Don’t Be a Boneless Chicken! (Jim Hayden)
- Introducing the Type-Safe Enum Pattern (Scott DePouw)
- Migrating from Subversion to Git with svn2git on Windows (the tricky bits explained) (Troy Hunt)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Facebook – Graph API v2.1 and updated iOS and Android SDKs (Harshdeep Singh)
- Google Fit Preview SDK now available (Louis Gray)
- Facebook Platform Updates: App ads, Parse SDK, and Graph API (Owen Coutts)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 010 with Richard diZerega (Office 365 Team)
- Hanselminutes – BrightstarDB, an open source NoSQL .NET database with Kal Ahmed (Scott Hanselman)
- Windows Weekly 374: Cover Your Ears Isabella and What The Tech 221: Paul Thurrott: World Traveller (Paul Thurrott)
- StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Minute: International Harmony in Space (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
- 127: Keep a CHANGELOG with Olivier Lacan (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Community / Events
- RavenDB 3.0 Days in Sweden (Oren Eini)
- New Book — New Chapter in Life (Charles Petzold)
- Women: Computer Science is a Superpower (Angela M. Romei)
- Geek of the Week: Jean Paoli, president of Microsoft Open Technologies (Todd Bishop)
Database
- Usage of DBCC OPTIMIZER_WHATIF for SQL Server Query Tuning (Daniel Farina)
- Testing SQL Server Query Performance Using Different Levels of Parallelism (Ben Snaidero)
- Installing & configuring TeamCity on Windows with MS SQL Server (Elizabeth Andrews)
- SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP (Pinal Dave)
PowerShell
- Introducing the Azure PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) extension (PowerShell Team)
- Bootstrapping DSC configuration using Azure VM DSC extension (Ravikanth C)
Miscellaneous
- Blizzard Keeps Diablo III On Xbox One Awesomely Up-to-Date (Xbox Wire)
- Do you want a Splunk app built for your data? (David Carasso)
- Introducing Zoho Invoice for Windows Surface and Phone (Krupa Subramanian)
- Microsoft: Windows Phone Store hosts more than 300,000 apps (Phone Arena Team)
More Link Collections
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, August 7, 2014 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading August 7, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1395 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1669 (Chris Alcock)
- The Daily Six Pack: August 8, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 8/8/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily Links 7 Aug 2014 (Jax)
The Geek Shelf
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Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (3rd Edition) (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series): Zed A. Shaw: 9780321884916: Booksdel.icio.us Tags: visual studio,wpf,c#,powershell,puppet,windows phone,xaml,universal apps,xamarin,facebook sdk,nosql,sql server,agile,kanban,javascript,phpstorm
Cloud Design Patterns: Prescriptive Architecture Guidance for Cloud Applications (Microsoft patterns & practices): Alex Homer, John Sharp, Larry Brader, Masashi Narumoto, Trent Swanson: 9781621140368: Books
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Steve Krug: 9780321965516: Books