Top Links
- Intel Haswell Ultrabook Preview Unit Experience (Steve Smith)
 - HotTowel 1.1 with Durandal 2 Now Available and Toastr 2.0.0 rc 1 Now Available (John Papa)
 - RavenDB 2.5 is out, and a happy New Year (Oren Eini)
 - AutoMapper 3.0, Portable Class Libraries and PlatformNotSupportedException (Jimmy Bogard)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Katee Sackhoff (Chris Hardwick)
 
Web Development
- Programmatically clearing the ASP.Net cache for Web Forms and MVC pages (Doug Rathbone)
 - Curious About Developing Big Data Solutions on Windows Azure? (Alexandre Brisebois)
 - Working with jQuery Mobile Panels (Raymond Camden)
 - jQuery, JSON, and ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
 - Variable Scoping and Hoisting in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Using Node.js and Websockets to Build a Chat Service (Guillaume Besson)
 - Using Express.js for APIs (Jed Wood)
 - Self-Hosting SignalR in a Windows Service (Rick Strahl)
 - The Effect of HTML Compression on Speed and User Experience (Shiv Kumar Ganesh)
 - Using Base Controllers In AngularJS – An Experiment (Ben Nadel)
 - Reducing the pressure on the garbage collector by using the F12 developer bar of Internet Explorer 11 (David Catuhe)
 - Node v0.10.18 (Stable) (node.js Team)
 
XAML
- WPF DataGrid footer and aggregates (Jason Fauchelle)
 - 2000 WPF Things #900 – Changing the Font Used in a TabControl (Sean Sexton)
 - [Sample Of Sep 4th] Backup Isolated Storage To SkyDrive in WP8 (Philip Fu)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Fix for InRelease Preview Hands-on-Lab (Brian Keller)
 - Crypto Obfuscator – Protect Your Code And Intellectual Property (Dirk Strauss)
 - 2000 C# Things #924 – You Shouldn’t Normally Worry about Memory Management (Sean Sexton)
 - Release of Jace.NET 0.8.3 (Pieter de Rycke)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Retrospectives, Can You Skip Them? (Ben Linders)
 - Conquer Your Fear of Writing (J.D. Meier)
 - Ideas on Managing Distributed Teams Using Agile [2/3] – The Retrospective (Peter Saddington)
 - Own A System Beyond Its Childhood, Or Stay A Bad Programmer (Karl Seguin)
 - Infragistics Test Automation: Ignite UI (Damyan Petev)
 - Stop Writing Code You Can’t Yet Test (Dennis Stevens)
 - On Hungarian notation for instance vs. static fields naming (Patrick Smacchia)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Objective-C Guide For Developers: Part 3 (Matteo Manferdini)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 110: "The Boogie Nights of the drug trade" (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - .NET Rocks! – Women in Technology Panel at That Conference (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Webinar recording – How to Automate Your Database Deployment Process Using Red Gate Deployment Manager (Andrew Denty)
 - Katy Perry survives plane crash, uses her Lumia 1020 to take a selfie with a monkey (Sam Sabri)
 - Edge Show 73 – Disaster Recovery using the Hyper-V Recovery Manager | Edge (Symon Perriman)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 365 – 09.04.13 (Joe Pollicino)
 
Community / Events
- Fall Mid-Atlantic Windows App and Game Development Event Series (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Survey: SQL Server MCM cancellation – does it affect you? (Paul Randal)
 - Professional Scrum Foundations coming to Glasgow, Scotland in November 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - Microsoft intern creates bridge between women in tech and future students in computer science (Athima Chansanchai)
 - Washington DC Drinkup (Ben Balter)
 - A Coder Interview With Peteris Krumins (CodeProject Team)
 - Going Native 2013 – Day 1 (Eric Battalio)
 - Square Opens Girls Coding Camp To High School Students (Gregory Ferenstein)
 - Join us for Episode 0: The pilot episode of our new YouTube show! (Pete Brown)
 - Enlightening Early Penguins on Open Source (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
 - Xbox One launching on November 22nd for $499 (Tom Warren)
 - You are cordially invited to hack me first (and get free stuff!) (Troy Hunt)
 
Database
- Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Data-Tier Application Framework (August 2013) (MS Downloads)
 - #0292 – SQL Server – Stored Procedures are compiled when executed for the first time (Nakul Vachhrajani)
 - SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) 2012 Top and Bottom Functions (Scott Murray)
 - SSISReportingPack with usp_ssiscatalog v1.1 available – first release with integrated installer (Jamie Thomson)
 - Five SQL Server Settings to Change (Jeremiah Peschka)
 - SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION (Pinal Dave)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft’s Haswell-based Surface Pro 2: The leaks begin (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Introduction to Systematic Programming – Generative Recursion (Week 8) (Dara Monasch)
 - The Old with the New – How to [unofficially] upgrade from Windows 8.1 Preview to Windows 8.1 RTM [Think "cversion.ini hacking for fun and…"] (Greg Duncan)
 - It Turns Out Qualcomm Is Making a Smartwatch, Too (Ina Fried)
 - VMware Workstation 10 extends Windows 8.1 support, adds virtual tablet sensors (Mike Williams)
 - Microsoft and Nokia merger: What it means for developers (Paul Ballard)
 - Evernote Desktop gets "dramatic update" with version 5 (Sam Sabri)
 - Samsung’s Galaxy Gear is only compatible with Note 3, 10.1 at launch (Zach Honig)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 5, 2013 (Jason Haley)
 - Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, September 4th (Rob Caron)
 - Geek Reading September 4, 2013 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1195 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 9/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Daily Six Pack: September 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
 - The Morning Brew #1435 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-05 (Dan Rigby)
 - Windows Dev News for Sep 04, 2013 – #0188 (Dave Campbell)
 - LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–August 2013 (Beth Massi)
 
The Geek Shelf
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