Top Links
- Microsoft to launch its wearable fitness band in coming weeks (Tom Warren)
- What was going on in 1984 that made so many women give up on computer science? (David Voyles)
- Chocolatey Kickstarter–Help Me Take Chocolatey to the Next Level (Rob Reynolds)
- Put yourself out there and publish that Open Source project today (Scott Hanselman)
Web Development
- Mixing Data And Templates Using A Single ngRepeat In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
- Cancelling Route Navigation in AngularJS (Dan Wahlin)
- WinJS and TypeScript: binding a ListView itemDataSource to a ViewModel property (Davide Zordan)
- Open source jQuery mobile x-platform template for your use (David Voyles)
- Kendo Grid Hierarchy with Shared Column Headers (Josh Eastburn)
- Data Visualization with JavaScript (Kevin Dangoor)
- Updating My PHP for WordPress (Marc LaFleur)
- Creating a Classic 2D RPG Using HTML5 (Mickey MacDonald)
- A jquery-watch Plug-in for watching CSS styles and Attributes (Rick Strahl)
- JSONEditorOnline.com – A Valuable Web Development Tool (Chris Love)
- Identity in Orchard Import/Export (Bertrand LeRoy)
- Pretty Chrome Console Reporter for Jasmine JS (Adam Anderson)
- Google Announces Improvements to Google Tag Manager Including New API (Janet Wagner)
- How to Disable SSL 3.0 in Azure Websites, Roles, and Virtual Machines (Nazim Lala)
- Azure Service Bus – ‘NamespaceType’ default value change (Piyush Joshi)
- My 3 beloved Front-End Development Tools (Ralph Whitbeck)
- ASP.NET MVC 6: What are KRE, KVM, KPM? (Gunnar Peipman)
XAML
- Ai->XAML Plug-In Updated for Illustrator CC (Mike Swanson)
- Windows Phone: Page Navigation and Passing a Complex Object to a Page and Windows Phone Controls: Part 2 and Windows Phone Controls: Part 3 (Rahat Yasir Anindo & Md. Shariful Islam Nibir)
- TypedMVVM: Adding a new IoC.Container class for generating instances using generics (Davide Zordan)
- Numpad’s decimal-point correction for WPF (Mario Vernari)
- Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello ‘Custom Gesture’ World for the WPF Developer (Mike Taulty)
- 2000 WPF Things #1,183 – Where Data Templates Are Used (Sean Sexton)
- WPF Data Binding – Collection Views – Filtering Data (Richard Carr)
- Microsoft’s Windows App Studio Beta: Submit Menu App in the Store (Sara Silva)
Miscellaneous .NET
- 2000 C# Things #1,206 – C# 6.0 – Auto-Property Initializers (Sean Sexton)
- Demystifying Iron Ruby in .NET (Ajay Yadav)
- Win2D, what it is and why I am excited about it (Bill Reiss)
- .NET a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 with MonoBrick and WhereAmI? VS Extension notes where a file is in a Project (think “Sync no more” (Greg Duncan)
- Print out the maximum depth of recursion allowed (Jef Claes)
- [Announcement] ODataLib 6.8.1 Release (Layla Liu)
- Building a Better NuGet (Edward Charbeneau)
- 4 programming books available online – for free (Dror Helper)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Mixing Agile with Waterfall for Code Quality (Ben Linders)
- Scrumdamentals 101: Sprint Planning (Michael Burns)
- How to Implement Hypothesis-Driven Development (Barry O’Reilly)
- Getting your Quality Management System Used (Ben Linders)
- Article: The State of Practice in Model-Driven Engineering (Jon Whittle, John Hutchinson & Mark Rouncefield)
- Legacy Code to Testable Code #3: Adding Setter Accessors (Gil Zilberfeld)
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Designing Gender-Neutral Games and Apps (Sage Franch)
- Four styles of business and software development (Wes McClure)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and Nexus Preview Images (Jamal Eason)
- The current state of WebGL – iOS 8, Yosemite, Android Lollipop (David Voyles)
- Xamarin: Reaching out to native from Hybrid Applications (Jesse Liberty)
- How To Develop an Android Wear Application (Romin Irani)
- Showing the device camera in Unity (Bary Nusz)
- Updated Material Design Guidelines and Resources (Gary Lewis)
- Signals and Microinteractions for Smartwatches: Hands-On (Joshua Newnham)
- Mobile Design that Scales: Building for Existing and Future Devices (Nina Zayakova)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 340 – Sam Basu and Michael Crump on New Features of App Builder (David Giard)
- Sam Wronski, Creator of “Conqueror” for Windows Phone (Chris Caldwell)
- TWC9: Build 2015, Connect();, Ignite, Docker and new… !? | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Jeremy Foster, Nikola Metulev & Nisha Singh)
- Episode 158: Azure Media Services and Content Protection with Mingfei Yan | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
- StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Primate Evolution (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Community / Events
- TRAINING: Office 365 Summit – San Diego, CA, Dec 11-12, 2014 (Kurt Shintaku)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Combined Multiple .SQL files into One Single File and SQL SERVER – Search Records with Single Quotes (Pinal Dave)
- Sentiment Analysis In Excel With Azure Machine Learning And Power Query (Chris Webb)
- What is Azure DocumentDB (Dhananjay Kumar)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Video on Text Mining SQL Server Data Using PowerShell (Tim Smith)
- Peruse the new Ranger PowerShell DSC v1 guidance and other recent releases (Willy-P. Schaub)
Miscellaneous
- New ‘Call of Duty’ Trailer Shows Futuristic Mayhem (Chelsea Stark)
- This is the Fitbit Surge, a $250 ‘superwatch’ with built-in GPS (Chris Welch)
- How to configure the new Home Screen in #Windows 10? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Windows 10: the top 10 most requested features (Tom Warren)
- Hey, Windows 10, fix this! (Jamie Thomson)
More Link Collections
- Top 11 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, October 17, 2014 (Rob Caron)
- The Morning Brew #1719 (Chris Alcock)
- Geek Reading October 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Collective #138 (Mary Lou)
- Double Shot #1423 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 10/17/2014 and Daily News Digest 10/20/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #159 (Frank)
- Reblog: October 10 to October 16 (Jason Strate)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-20 (Dan Rigby)
- Weekly Programming Digest #78 (Jakub Chodounský)
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