Top Links
- Vulnerability announced: update your Git clients (Vicent Marti)
- Becoming a Social Developer: A Guide for Introverts (Jeremy Clark)
- Holiday Contest: Create a Plugin for Xamarin (James Montemagno)
- Quick news: Save 40% on top-selling titles (Kim Spilker)
Web Development
- Creating Custom Script Tag Directives In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
- jQuery Validation with Lightbox and HTML5 Interactive World Map with JavaScript (jQuery Rain)
- Hero transitions in AngularJS (Andy Lee)
- one-javascript (Axel Rauschmayer)
- ng-tutorial Part 1: AngularJS – The Origin (Debashish Paul)
- jQuery Mobile vs Sencha Touch (ExtJS Mobile) (Harsha Bopuri)
- Part 5: Azure Mobile Service: What you need to know about Backend Server Scripts and Scheduling (Adarsha Datta)
- Mario5 with TypeScript (Florian Rappl)
- Splunk and Microsoft Azure – Intro and Resource Roundup (Hal Rottenberg)
- Introducing user invites for Docker Hub (Justen Stepka)
- Everything You Need to Know About Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Part 2) (Max R. McCarty)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Hadoop Application Architectures – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
- Brackets 1.1 and Extract for Brackets 0.6 Now Available (Ryan Stewart)
XAML
- Using XAML Image in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Exploring C# 6 (Sunny Ahuwanya)
- Ambiguous Classes in C# (B. Conlon)
- Giving Your Database Updates Enough Time (Peter Vogel)
- Enhance your Scroll Bar (Latish Sehgal)
- having fun with type-level numbers using a type-provider (Carsten König)
- How to set your App’s Version Number to auto-increment the Build and Revision portions and Display the Version in a Label (B. Clay Shannon)
- Improved Welcome/Wiki experience and Git vulnerability with .git\config (Brian Harry)
- Headsup: a $5 eBook or Video from Packt Bonanza – Every title, every topic (Arthur Zubarev)
- How can I query the location of the taskbar on secondary monitors? (Raymond Chen)
- Beyond Kinect for Windows v2 – KinectEx (Rene Schulte)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agility and the essence of software architecture (Simon Brown)
- BizTalk Server and Agile. Can they live together? (Leonid Ganeline)
- Schedule Standups in the Morning (Brendan Enrick)
- Building Better Behavior Tests for Mobile Apps (Priyank Gupta)
- Developing Leadership Skills by Using a Metaphor of Orchestra Rehearsals (Ben Linders)
- Why You Should Design for Open Source (Jina Bolton)
- Microsoft Azure and Threat Modeling You Apps (Herve Roggero)
- Choose Wisely AND Back Out Easily (Jim Holmes)
- Learning Hacks (John Sonmez)
- 5 years and 1,600 Photoshop and Lightroom Tips, Tricks and Techniques (Julieanne Kost)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Making a performant watch face (Hoi Lam)
- Announcing General Availability of Mobile Offline Sync (Donna Malayeri)
- Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 6) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
- Introducing Unity Support and a New Guide for Using App Events (Shachar Gershoni)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Watch ReSharper C++ Session from JetBrains Night in London (Daria Dovzhikova)
- Strategies for Adopting New Technologies | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
- Adventures in Angular 021 – Duck Angular with Avishek Sen Gupta (John Papa)
- Windows Weekly 393: Crap Patch Fever (Paul Thurrott)
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 169 – “Rhino Monkey” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Paul McCartney (Chris Hardwick)
- Extending Exchange, Outlook and OWA across platforms and devices with the new app model | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
- SQL Server Radio Show 12 – The Other One Mode (Matan Yungman)
- DockerCon video: Migrating a large code-base to Docker containers (Victor Coisne)
Community / Events
- Microsoft’s former Internet Explorer chief has left the company (Rich McCormick)
Database
- Blog Post: SQL Server 2014 – Delayed Transaction Durability (Dinesh Asanka)
- Whitespace, Comments, and Forced Parameterization in SQL Server (Kendra Little)
- SQL SERVER – Reverse String Word By Word – Part 4 (Pinal Dave)
- Thoughts On The New Power BI (Chris Webb)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- OneDrive will soon support music storage, stream stored music using Xbox app (Brad Sams)
- Seattle Seahawks’ QB Russell Wilson says Microsoft Surface tablets help team win (Dave Shanahan)
- Xbox One To Get Pandora, Vevo, Popcornflix And More Apps This Week (Greg Kumparak)
- Xbox One owners can check out the open beta for Evolve starting Jan. 15 (John Callaham)
- Project Online: Opening Projects from Project Center with Firefox (Microsoft Project Support)
- Are you working for the next Sony Pictures? Here’s some things to check at work (Troy Hunt)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading December 18, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1449 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 12/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1762 (Chris Alcock)
- Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for December 19th, 2014 (Dmitry Lyalin)
- Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
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