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- Packt publishing – 50% off to Thursday 17/Oct (Tatworth)
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- Math from scratch, part seven: division and remainder (Eric Lippert)
- Asynchronous Solution Load Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 (Ben Bradley)
Web Development
- Interview Questions and Excercises About CSS (Chris Coyier)
- Creating multilingual support using AngularJS (Hallstein Brøtan)
- Weekly Dev Diary Recap: Optimizing HTML5 Game Loading (Jesse Freeman)
- Integration Testing ASP.NET Web API (Amy Palamountain)
- I’m Giving Away a Copy of My Book, Beginning HTML and CSS (Rob Larsen)
- Guide to VS2013 LightSwitch HTML Themes (Xpert360)
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- Creating an AngularJS CRUD Application Using Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
- Leveraging your XAML MVVM Skills in HTML – Changing Binding Context (Derik Whittaker)
- What is JSFiddle? The ultimate guide for the ultimate lightweight tool (Q 249 & 250) (Iris Classon)
- Latest project: a video game in AngularJS (Joe White)
XAML
- Xaml: ViewModel Main Page Instantiation and Loading Strategy for Easier Binding. (William Wegerson)
- 2000 WPF Things #928 – TextBox.MinLines Doesn’t Size Properly on Startup (Sean Sexton)
- Windows Phone 8 Update 3 now available for developers (Tom Warren)
- Windows 8.1 (Preview): Flyout, MaxWidth and FlyoutPresenter (Mike Taulty)
- Raising the Bar with Direct3D (Kam VedBrat)
- How to Add Tapped Event to the Textbox in Windows 8 Application. (Pavan Pareta)
Miscellaneous .NET
- How do I – Sort a list of custom class objects in descending order in C#? (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
- Visual Studio 2013 unlocks new ways to speed up load performance (Deborah Pisano)
- Fix in Scope: a New Code Cleanup Experience in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
- Enable the Features Backlog in TFS 2013 (Andy Schwam)
- Microsoft .NET Portable Library Reference Assemblies 4.6 RC (MS Downloads)
- Data Breakpoints (Brad Sullivan)
- Brian Keller’s 5 reasons for Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)
- Microsoft’s PCL Reference Assemblies (Miguel de Icaza)
- 2000 C# Things #952 – Type Safety (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 30 Days of TDD – Day 14 – “Simple” Does Not Always Mean “Obvious” Pt. 1 (James Bender)
- Leaky Abstractions Are Holding Us Back (John Sonmez)
- Tips to Avoid Brittle UI Tests (Mehdi Khalili)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Quick-Tip: Detecting Smiles Using iOS 7 (Objective-C) (Torrey Betts)
- iOS – Objective-C – Working with Files (Stephen Zaharuk)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Disruptive Change with Dan North (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Defrag Tools: #60 – Visual Studio 2013 – JavaScript – Just My Code | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
- Video: Twitter API Starter Kit for Windows 8 (Bob Familiar)
- Introducing Web Development and Tooling TV (Mads Kristensen)
- Video – Refactoring and Design Skills for Test Driven Development (Roy Osherove)
Community / Events
- Free Webinar on October 16 – MongoDB, Jaspersoft and Windows Azure: Building Open Source Reporting and Analytics in the Cloud (Brian Benz)
- Learn from our female leaders (MS JobsBlog)
- Code Camp 2013 Harrisburg PA (Ray Smith)
Database
PowerShell
- PowerShell – Disk Space GUI Tool (Prashanth Jayaram)
- CSI: Re-enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell after you’ve blocked it with your own firewall rule (Scott Hanselman)
Miscellaneous
- Getting started with Redis on Windows and a look at performance for logging (Naeem Khedarun)
- Updating Your Utility Belt (Jeff Atwood)
- A Deeper Look at Task Completion (John Psaroudakis & Mujtaba Khambatti)
- How do you measure quality of a service? (Brian Harry)
- Running Windows 8.1 in the Enterprise (Karl Shifflett)
- Free ebook: Introducing Windows 8.1 for IT Professionals (Kim Spilker)
- Review Part 3: Two Months with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook (Martin Hinshelwood)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: October 14, 2013 and Interesting Finds: October 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
- Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: August 26th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, October 14th (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading October 14, 2013 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1222 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Collective #85 (Mary Lou)
- The Morning Brew #1462 and The Morning Brew #1463 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-15 (Dan Rigby)
- The Daily Six Pack: October 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 10/14/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for Oct 14, 2013 – #0199 (Dave Campbell)
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