Top Links
- Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
- Announcing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-alpha1 and Updating ASP.NET applications from ASP.NET Identity 1.0 to 2.0.0-alpha1 (Pranav Rastogi)
- The Tablet Show – C# Everywhere with Jon Skeet (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Updated license for September 2012 Roslyn preview available (Matt Gertz)
Web Development
- JavaScript Unit Testing with Visual Studio (Mark Michaelis)
- Using strict mode in the Node.js REPL (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Introduction into SignalR 2.0 & Azure Website Websockets (Robert Muehsig)
- Inbuilt Bindings in Knockout.js: Controlling Text and Appearance (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Function = Var + Return: A Functional Style of JavaScript Programming (Hew Wolff)
- Glimpse ASP.NET 1.7 Released – Cache Tab (Nik Molnar)
- Improving your functional CoffeeScript and JavaScript (Oskar Wickström)
- Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client Push Menu (Michael Washington)
- Investigating Memory Leaks in Azure Web Sites with Visual Studio 2013 (Steve Carroll)
- Strings in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Async, LINQ, and the Future of RxJS (Jonathan Allen)
- Override Meta Tags in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
- Intro to Shadow DOM (Agraj Mangal)
- Proper Session/DbContext lifecycle management (Jimmy Bogard)
- Beginning Backbone: My First Book (James Sugrue)
XAML
- How to Encode and Save a WriteableBitmap with Windows WinRT and What are you Awaiting for – How to Turn a C/C++ Callback into a C++/Cx WinRT IAsyncAction (Rene Schulte)
- Aviary discontinues development for Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Sam Sabri)
- Quickstart guide to becoming an app dev (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- First aid for detecting memory leaks in a Windows Store App (Loek van den Ouweland)
- Windows 8.1, the Hub Control and Visual States (Nick Randolph)
- Linking to your other apps (Peter Foot)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Obtaining the Number of Logical Processors (Richard Carr)
- New Features of Visual Studio 2013 (Arun Mahendrakar)
- Introducing Reactive Extensions for C++ (Jonathan Allen)
- Asynchronous programming in C++ using resumable functions and await (Raman Sharma)
- Wouldn’t the Recycle Bin sample program have been simpler without COM? (Raymond Chen)
- Entity Framework and slow bulk INSERTs (Rick Strahl)
- EF 6.1 Alpha 1 Available (Rowan Miller)
- Essential Studio Enterprise 2013 Volume 4 Adds LightSwitch, Localization and New Improvements (Anand Narayanaswamy)
- Team Foundation Server Administration Tool 2.3 (TFS 2013) (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How to Achieve Shared Understanding When Scaling Agile (MIke Cottmeyer)
- Unit Testing AngularJS Controllers, Views, and More: Part Three (Avishek Sen Gupta)
- On object creation and unit tests (Dror Helper)
- Voron Performance, the end is nigh (sequentially) (Oren Eini)
- Creating Useful Naming Conventions: Business Considerations (Peter Vogel)
- Behaviour-Driven Development Tool Jasmine 2.0 Released (Jan Stenberg)
- How Tos for Personal Effectiveness at a Glance and Lists at a Glance (JD Meier)
- Supporting production code: Start with the simple things (Mark Needham)
- Awesome Visual Tool For Working With GIT or HG (Peter Kellner)
Other Mobile Platforms
- MS Open Tech working with the ANGLE Project community to increase apps’ portability to Windows Devices (Adalberto Foresti)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Episode 251 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Swenson on using PowerShell in the real world (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- 088 JSJ Lazy.js with Daniel Tao (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
- Adding subtitles to HTML 5 video (Mads Kristensen)
- [Webinar Recording] Exploring WebStorm Tool Windows (Robert Demmer)
- Windows Weekly 341: Hunt the Wumpus (Paul Thurrott)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Jon Lovitz and The Nerdist Podcast – Moby (Chris Hardwick)
- The Changelog 115: Flynn updates with Jonathan Rudenberg and Jeff Lindsay (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
- TWC9: A Very Happy TWC9 | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
- Get Up And Code 33: Our Thoughts On Caffeine And Sweeteners (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
- Engadget Podcast 373 – 12.19.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 197 – 12.19.13 (Jon Turi)
- Radio TFS – Last Episode of 2013 (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 116 (Richard Hay)
- GeekWire Radio: Amazon at $400, favorite gadgets of 2013, and the new world of airplane tech etiquette (Todd Bishop)
Database
- SQL Server – Calculating elapsed time from DATETIME (Vishal Harishbhai Gajjar)
- SQL SERVER – What Permissions I have on Database I am Connected to? and SQL SERVER – Learning More About SQL Wait Stats (Pinal Dave)
- Transaction merging, locks, background threads and performance (Oren Eini)
- Databases are growing on me (Jef Claes)
PowerShell
- OMG!!! A PowerSHELL within the bash console! (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)
- Integrating TeamCity with Gerrit using PowerShell – Part 1 (Jakob Nilsson-Ehle)
Miscellaneous
- The Geek Christmas Quiz 2013 (Mike Hadlow)
- Pointers in C (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Diablo III: Reaper Of Souls Sets Scythes On Release (Nathan Grayson)
- paint.net 4.0 alpha (build 5105) is now available (Rick Brewster)
- APress Deal of the Day 23/Dec/2013 – GIMP for Absolute Beginners (Tatworth)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 21, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 22, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2013 (take 2) (Jason Haley)
- Friday Links #283 (Mike Ward)
- Reblog: December 13 to December 19 (Jason Strate)
- .NET Weekly Digest #44 (Jakub Chodounský)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, December 20, 2013 (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading December 22, 2013 (Robert Diana)
- Collective #95 (Mary Lou)
- Double Shot #1263 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
- The Morning Brew #1511 and The Morning Brew #1512 (Chris Alcock)
- The Daily Six Pack: December 23, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- The Web Weekly Newsletter – Edition 3 and The Web Weekly Newsletter – Edition 4 (Dan Wahlin)
- Daily News Digest 12/20/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- The Top 10 Visual Studio Magazine Articles of 2013 (Keith Ward)
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