Top Links
- .NET Rocks! – Water Power Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - This is Windows 10 for phones (Tom Warren)
 - Rollup: Microsoft HoloLens, Surface Hub, Windows 10, Xbox One game streaming and more. (Scott Hanselman)
 - Windows 10’s new features get demoed by Joe Belfiore in detailed video (John Callaham)
 
Web Development
- Watching A Collection Of Expressions Using Scope.$watchGroup() In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
 - Why we can’t do real responsive images with CSS or JavaScript (Bruce Lawson)
 - Official Responsive Images Plugin for WordPress (Chris Coyier)
 - Getting started with Unit Testing JavaScript using QUnit and 11 things about JavaScript functions .NET developers must know: Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Migrating from ASP.NET Web API to MVC 6 – exploring Web API Compatibility Shim (Filip W)
 - Real-time Communication in AngularJS with ($Q)orlate (Jeremy Likness)
 - Render MVC View as String (Saad Khan)
 - Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Password Hashing (Simon Timms)
 - Microsoft Spartan – What do We Know Right Now? (Chris Love)
 - Azure Data Services: Blobbing did you say.. What is that? (Part 3) (Adarsha Datta)
 - An Introduction to Adaptive Design (Jordan Morgan)
 - Some Ideas for Checkout Effects (Mary Lou)
 - Building a Better Web: The Future of Web Development (Mobile Man)
 - TypeScript Developer Survey (Ryan Cavanaugh)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- New VS2015 Preview Highlights Enhanced Diagnostic Tools (Jeff Martin)
 - Should all .NET Collections Implement all .NET Collection Interfaces? (Jonathan Allen)
 - NetMQ : Documentation is there….Phew (Sacha Barber)
 - Windows 10 for developers (Andreas Hammar)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Application Security for Agile Projects (Shirish Padalkar)
 - Agile project management futures… (Aaron Bjork)
 - Scaling Agile with the Disciplined Agile Delivery Framework (Ben Linders)
 - We Need Planning; Do We Need Estimation? (Johanna Rothman)
 - Do you need an expert in Visual Studio ALM, TFS, or Scrum? (Martin Hinshelwood)
 - You Aren’t Doing Scrum If… (Dave M. Bush)
 - Thank You For That Pull Request, However (Rob Conery)
 - 5 Tips for Contributing to Microsoft Open Source Projects (Terrence Dorsey)
 - 21 collaboration tools to streamline your teamwork (Cameron Chapman)
 - Introducing Source Browser (Josh Varty)
 - How to write the perfect pull request (Keavy McMinn)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Using Google Spreadsheets as Data Source in Your Android App (Kiril Stanoev)
 - Authenticate Xamarin Mobile Apps Using Azure Active Directory (Mayur Tendulkar)
 - Active Directory Authentication with iOS with Xamarin.Forms (Nick Randolph)
 - Create Android apps with Java in Visual Studio? and Create Android apps with Java in Visual Studio – my logic (Matt Lacey)
 - Telerik UI for Windows Universal: Customizing the RadRating Control (Josh Morales)
 - beakn v0.4.1 – DIY Lync Status Light with a Spark Core, Onboard LED, Ping Pong Ball and a Cardboard Box (Jon Gallant)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Special Edition – Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 156 #OTP (Richard Hay)
 - Phil Spencer Unveils New Experiences for Xbox One and Windows 10 Gamers (Xbox Wire)
 - 143 JSJ Teaching Programming and Computer Science with Pamela Fox (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
 - The Amp Hour #233 – Glass and Gongkai GSM – Unzymotic Ursidae Upbuilding (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
 - Defrag: Nexus 6 Videos on Media Player, Troubleshooting Slow Booting, Finding Drive Serial Numbers and more | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
 - Xbox on Windows 10 Presentation (Larry Hryb)
 
Community / Events
- Top 10 Conferences for iOS Developers to Attend in 2015 (Michael Crump)
 - Looking ahead, Looking back (Bill Wagner)
 
Database
- Plotting data on a secondary axis in SQL Server Reporting Services (Koen Verbeeck)
 - Using the SQL Server Default Trace to Audit Events (Percy Reyes)
 - Microsoft BI and SQL Server Courses For 2015 (Chris Webb)
 - SQL SERVER – The DBA goes to MARS – Maintenance, Architecture, Research and Support – Notes from the Field #063 (Pinal Dave)
 - Urgent AlwaysOn Availability Groups Bug (Brent Ozar)
 - How to Query Extended Events Target XML (Jes Schultz Borland)
 - The Data Loading Performance Presentation (Matan Yungman)
 
PowerShell
- Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Creating a converged virtual switch (Part 2) (Ravikanth C)
 
Miscellaneous
- Windows 10 for smartphones shown off for the first time on a Lumia 1520 and Microsoft Surface Hub is a new 84-inch 4K Windows 10 device and Microsoft HoloLens is the company’s new holographic computer that goes on your head (John Callaham)
 - Microsoft unveils new, Universal version of Outlook for phones, tablets, and PCs and Microsoft debuts Project Spartan, a new web browser for Windows 10 and New Windows 10 preview build goes out to Insiders next week, Phone preview in February (Joseph Keller)
 - All modern Windows Phones can get Windows 10, flagship ‘later this summer’ (Daniel Rubino)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading January 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
 - The Morning Brew #1783 (Chris Alcock)
 
The Geek Shelf
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Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Code (3rd Edition) (Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series): Zed A. Shaw: 9780321884916: Books
Logitech Rechargeable Touchpad T650 with Windows 8 Multi-Touch Navigation – Black: Computers & Accessories
A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half: Mark Myers: 9781497408180: Books