Top Links
- Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using JavaScript: Hilo (Windows) – Book Download (MS Downloads)
- Inside the ASP.NET Single Page Apps Template and Knockout Intellisense in Visual Studio 2012 (John Papa)
- How to make non-observable properties observable in Knockout.js (Derik Whittaker)
- Announcing the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Release Candidate (Scott Guthrie)
Web Development
- Combining Modules in Require.js (John Teague)
- Ember.js and CoffeeScript (Chris Smith)
- Which JavaScript Recipe Is Right For You? (Zack Grossbart)
- Box API v2: Less is More (John Sheehan)
- npm install require-directory (Troy Goode)
- Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) (Ali Spivak)
- Customized Twitter Bootstrap sites in WebMatrix (Gianmaria Gregori)
- Google Analytics: Exclude Your Own IP Address from the Results (Ralph Whitbeck)
- Elegantly using socket.io in backbone apps (Swizec Teller)
- A Harder-Working Class (Nathan Ford)
XAML
- How to create Image Stream of XAML Page using Telerik’s ExportExtension method? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Preventing high speed socket communication on Windows Phone 8 going south when using async/await (Joost van Schaik)
- Building WinRT components that implement interfaces with C# (Olivier Rouit)
- Building a great Windows 8 app Step 3: Installing the SDK & Tools (Susan Ibach)
- Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook Review (Ricardo Peres)
- Binding MediaElement to a ViewModel in a Windows 8 Store App (John Danforth)
- Walkthrough: Implementing SnapView in Your Windows 8 App (Jerry Nixon)
- Analytics for Windows 8 apps using Markedup (Arun Mahendrakar)
Miscellaneous .NET
- A LINQ Style Replace Operator (Richard Carr)
- CLR via C# Fourth Edition Book Review (David Hayden)
- Super D to the B to the A – AKA Script for reducing the size of a database (Rob Reynolds)
- Introducing this.Log (Rob Reynolds)
- C# memory model articles (Stephen Toub)
- Kinecting to Google Maps and Adapting to Lucene.Net with this simplification approach, "Simplifying Lucene using Adapter Pattern, Generics, Reflection, and Custom Attributes" (Greg Duncan)
- Why is it possible to create a toolbar with the wrong HINSTANCE? And what’s the right HINSTANCE anyway? (Raymond Chen)
- Loading Entities Dynamically with Entity Framework (Ricardo Peres)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- What is "Agile Coaching"? (Ben Linders)
- How to do Agile Performance Reviews (David J. Bland)
- What is Your Message? (J.D. Meier)
- Agile Estimating: Story Points and Decay (Jim Bird)
- The More I Know, the Less I Know (John Sonmez)
- Just Design It Like You Want It (Ambrose Little)
- An Errors List Underscores the Need for Static Code Analysis (Abel Avram)
- The Flyweight Pattern (Daniel Barreiro)
- Stupid Question 103: What are some different types of code reviews? and Stupid Question 104: What is a ‘Fagan Inspection’? (Iris Classon)
- Own Your Work (Chris Missal)
- Lessons from refactoring two year old code (Josh Arnold)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 079: Milo Danger, maker of the armed civilian drone (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 461: Happy Holidays (Larry Hyrb)
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 096 – “Get To Know Your Spouse” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The Neridst Podcast – John Hodgman returns! (Chris Hardwick)
- Windows Weekly 290: Beer and Cookies (Paul Thurrott)
- TWC9: Year Wrap Up | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
- Engadget Podcast 320 – 12.14.2012 (James Trew)
- SitePoint Podcast #192: The End (Karn Broad)
- Podcast: Google Maps, Amazon + Facebook, and EveryMove’s ‘mileage program’ for your health (Todd Bishop)
- Episode 95 – Windows Azure Service Bus Fall Updates | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
- Instant Index Insight: How to Use sp_BlitzIndex (video) (Kendra Little)
- Web Dev Radio Episode 105: Font tools, design thoughts, parallel deployment, and my Florida road trip (Michael Kimsal)
Community / Events
- Join the Visual Studio diagnostics team (Daniel Moth)
- Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk (Derick Bailey)
Database
- Querying SQL Server Agent Job History Data (Chad Churchwell)
- SQL Server – Convert Month Number to Month Name (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #007 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Advent 2012 Day 14: When to say no and SQL Advent 2012 Day 15: Benefits of Indexes (Denis Gobo)
- SSMS Tools Pack 2.5.3 is out with bug fixes and improved licensing (Mladen Prajdic)
- Database unit testing is now available for SSDT (Jamie Thomson)
- Practical Azure #5: Windows Azure SQL Database (Jim O’Neil)
PowerShell
- Using Unregistered COM Objects in PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Meet Mark Penn, the former Clinton electioneer behind Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign (Adi Robertson)
- Christmas Pi (Greg Duncan)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 15, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 16, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheasheet: 2012 12.01 ~ 12.16 (yuanjian)
- Geek Reading December 14, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Friday Five – December 14, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- Collective #42 (Mary Lou)
- Double Shot #1023 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reblog: December 7 to December 13 (Jason Strate)
- Visual Studio ALM Links week 50/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
- Daily Windows 8 Development News 14 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/15/2012) (Silverlight Show)
The Geek Shelf
Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed (9780672336010): Adam Nathan: Books ISBN: 0672336014 |
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