Top Links
- Microsoft’s ‘Project Siena’: A Metro-Style app for creating Windows 8 apps (Mary Jo Foley)
- Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013 (Ala Shiban)
- Coding in the Cloud (Rey Bango)
- Design Resources for Windows Phone and Windows app development (Larry Lieberman)
Web Development
- JavaScript Unit Testing with Visual Studio (Mark Michaelis)
- Building a basic Web Forms application using Visual Studio 2013 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
- Unit Testing AngularJS Controllers, Views, and More: Part Three (Avishek Sen Gupta)
- ACL added security for Availability Group Listener in Azure (Ted Krueger)
- Node v0.10.24 (Stable) (node.js Team)
- Get Rid Of “locahost:#port#” With NGINX Reverse Proxies (Derick Bailey)
- Accessing your Azure Website content over FTP with FileZilla (Iris Classon)
XAML
- Developer Interest In Windows Phone Grows As Microsoft’s Windows 8.x Platform Slips (Alex Wilhelm)
- Compass APIs for Windows Phone (Kunal Chowdhury)
- How to Encode and Save a WriteableBitmap with Windows WinRT (Rene Schulte)
Miscellaneous .NET
- New Features of Visual Studio 2013 (Arun Mahendrakar)
- How do I display an RTL string in a notification balloon on an LTR system? (Raymond Chen)
- Customization and configuration in VS ALM (Kathryn E.)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How to Achieve Shared Understanding When Scaling Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Book Review: Peopleware 3rd edition (Bill Wagner)
- Clojure Kata #1 – Fizz Buzz (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Git Started With Github in Mist (Jim Cowart)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Setting up Android Studio and Eclipse Side-by-Side on Windows 8.1 (Michael Crump)
- Getting Started with Sencha Touch 2: Build a Weather Utility App (Part 3) (Lee Boonstra)
- Privacy Policy for Apps using the Facebook App Promotion Button (Jennifer Marsman)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Herding Code 181: CouchDb, Cloudant, MyCouch and SisoDb with Max Thayer and Daniel Wertheim (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon & Co.)
- Devnology Podcast 43 – Neil Brown (Freek Leemhuis)
- The Vergecast 106 – December 19th, 2013 (Verge Video)
- Webinar Recording: Windows Azure Mobile Services – More Than Cloud Storage (Rich Taylor)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Redundant Indexes Good or Bad – Final Wrap – Part 7 (Pinal Dave)
- How Would You Change Windows Azure SQL Database? (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Workshop – Selecting columns without including a non-aggregate column in the group by clause (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Getting New Power Pivot Features & Other Office 2013 Updates (Melissa Coates)
- MongoDB Facts: Lightning Fast Aggregation (Vlad Mihalcea)
- MariaDB Database Disk Snapshot Backups on Windows (Anders Karlsson)
- SQLskills holiday gift to you: all 2012 Insider videos (Paul Randal)
- Schema Compare or Publish [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)
PowerShell
- Powershell in a Month – Day 6 The Pipeline (Steve Jones)
- Windows PowerShell Remote Debugging and Windows PowerShell Script Workflow Debugging (Paul Higinbotham)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 20, 2013 (Jason Haley)
- Top 8 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, December 19, 2013 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading December 19, 2013 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1263 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Daily Six Pack: December 20, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
The Geek Shelf
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