Top Links
- Xamarin Android Player Update Brings New Features & Devices (James Montemagno)
 - Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 1 (MS Downloads)
 - Open Source, Cross Platform .NET: Round One to Microsoft (Andrew J. Brust)
 - My experience with Hour of Code (Bill Wagner)
 
Web Development
- Capture photo and save on the disk in WinJS based Windows Store App and Working with app bar in WinJS based Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Getting Started with Telerik Reporting and ASP.NET 5 (Iana Tsolova)
 - Highlight a field with CSS (Josh Eastburn)
 - Grunt and Gulp Intellisense in Visual Studio 2013 (Mads Kristensen)
 - Improved TypeScript Support in ReSharper 9 (Anton Lobov)
 - An update to the Jenkins Slave Plugin for Azure (Brian Benz)
 - Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 4 (David Wesst)
 - Reminder to migrate to updated Google Data APIs (Gary Lewis)
 - Five things to love about modern.IE (Jeff Yates)
 
XAML
- HelloWorld Prism for Windows Runtime 2.0 (Brian Noyes)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- GitHub Issue Management Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
 - Visual Studio Development on a Mac (Hector Gonzalez)
 - Configuration File Transforms In Visual Studio Should Be Built In (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
 - Incorporate “Big Data” Within Your Visual Studio App Using Azure HDInsight (Oliver Chiu)
 - Entity Developer Review, Part 3 (Ricardo Peres)
 - Using Entity Framework with an Existing Database: User Interface (Jon Smith)
 - Application Insights – Metric Explorer (ME) – Part 2 (Ketan Ghelani)
 - Uncorking the Seq API (Nicholas Blumhardt)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (Mike Hadlow)
 - Team Competition is Not Friendly (Johanna Rothman)
 - Creating a designer & developer workflow end to end. (Scott Barnes)
 - How To Configure Git & GitHub On Your Mac (Andrew Burgess)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- iOS iBeacon Background Region Monitoring (James Montemagno)
 - Introduction to iOS Testing With UI Automation (Andy Obusek)
 - Epic Saga Final Chapter: Success!! or How to Upload Images to Azure From a Cordova App (Glenn Gailey)
 - Modern Windows support available with new Cocos2d-x 3.3 release (Eric Mittelette)
 - Tile Map Editor + Object Pooling (Jesse Freeman)
 - Swift NSTimer Tutorial – Lets create a counter application (Mark Petherbridge)
 - Intel and the Internet of Things – What will you Make? (Renee S.)
 - Extending The Kendo UI Mobile Flat UI (Burke Holland)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Writing Compilers with Phil Trelford (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Hello World Podcast Episode 47: Steve Smith (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Defrag Tools #119 – Windows Management Instrumentation | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
 - Entreprogrammers Episode 43 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
 - What’s new in Office 365 ProPlus for admins and first look at shared computer support | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
 - RiYL Episode 084: Tom Scharpling (Brian Heater)
 
Community / Events
- Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Starr and Wondering who the ALM Rangers are? Start here… (Willy-P. Schaub)
 - .NET Developers Who Keep Learning (Vicky)
 - How I got Robert (Uncle Bob) Martin to write a foreword for my book (John Sonmez)
 - CONFERENCE: Microsoft Ignite – Chicago, IL, May 4-8, 2015 (Kurt Shintaku)
 - Countdown to 2015 + Deals with Gold (Larry Hyrb)
 - On the Road with my Surface Pro 3 (Barb Bowman)
 - Mathematical thinkers are key to our future (Michelle Feder)
 
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Query Tuning & Optimization (Ian Stirk)
 - Add a Date Range Dataset in SQL Server Reporting Services (Erin Youtzy)
 - Rebuild or Reorganize? How to Set Up Index Maintenance in SQL Server (video) (Kendra Little)
 - SQL SERVER – Proving that the Source of the Problems aren’t Tied to the Database (Pinal Dave)
 - Does a clustered index sort the rows within a page (Kenneth Fisher)
 - Blog Post: Create a clustered index and a primary key on existing tables (Jen McCown)
 
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Band Tip: Use Cortana and Microsoft Band Tip: Keep Track of Runs, Walks and Similar Activities (Paul Thurrott)
 - Sway Preview expands and delivers more feature improvements (Sway Team)
 
More Link Collections
- Double Shot #1446 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Geek Reading December 15, 2014 (Robert Diana)
 - Last Week on Channel 9: December 8th – 14th, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
 - Daily News Digest 12/16/2014 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Morning Brew #1759 (Chris Alcock)
 
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