Top Links
- Build 2016 Registration Opens Jan. 19 (Steve Guggenheimer)
- Accelerate your NuGet.Server (Maarten Balliauw)
- Redgate SSDT Extensions Beta – Improve your SSDT DB development workflow experience (Redgate)
- The $10 Echo (Sam Machin)
Web Development
- An Introduction to HTML5 Boilerplate (Kerry Butters)
- PhpStorm 11 Early Access Program Started (Anna Lebedeva)
- CSS Prefixed and unprefixed properties (glazou)
- Understanding the Magic of Bloom Filters With Node.js & Redis (Kyle Davis)
- Get your Apps Modernized for you with UI for ASP.NET AJAX (Rumen Jekov)
- Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: Categories (Samantha Zhang)
- Running The KestrelHttpServer On Linux With CoreCLR (Mike Hadlow)
- Azure API Management Resources (Darrel Miller)
- Influencing Web Layouts with Print Layouts (Chris Coyier)
- Azure Disk Encryption in Public Preview (Chris Pietschmann)
- Things You Should Know About Building Web Application in 2016 (Maria)
- ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open (Gaurav Seth)
- MooTools 1.6.0 is out! (Sérgio Crisóstomo)
- Farewell, IE (Ted Neward)
XAML
- #UWP Tips: How to create Hosted Web Apps for #Windows 10? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Using the Universal Windows Platform SplitView Control with Visual States and BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)
- Promote your Windows 10 app with AppRaisin – here’s why (Matt Lacey)
- The Basics of Background Audio (Windows Apps Team)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Singleton Indexer – A Workaround for not having Static Indexers in C# (Nick Chamberlain)
- Executing C# Scripts from Command Line or C# Interactive Windows in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
- Supporting Multiple String Formats from Your Class (Peter Vogel)
- Resetting Entity Framework Migrations to a clean Slate (Rick Strahl)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile in 2016: Product Managers Using Feature Flags (Justin Baker)
- Death to Technical Monoculture (Ted Neward)
- The Case for the NDepend Dashboard Feature (Erik Dietrich)
- Article: #noprojects – Outcomes: The Value of Change (Evan Leybourn)
- Deleting Code (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Branch Policies for TFVC (Martin Hinshelwood)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Decentralized Applications – $16.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Other Mobile Platforms
- iOS 9: An Introduction to ReplayKit (Davis Allie)
- Instrumenting Android Apps II (Noel Rice)
- Unit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 2 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
- Introduction to Data Binding (David Britch)
- Major Additions in NativeScript 1.5 (James Chesters)
- New book teaches Python programming with Minecraft (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Spatial audio comes to the Cardboard SDK (Nathan Martz)
- Swift 2.2 Release Process Begins (Sergio De Simone)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Cryptography with Stephen Haunts (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Top 5 Developer Podcasts (DevToolsGuy)
- SQL Server Radio Show 39 – SQL Server and Independent Consulting with William Durkin (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
- 194 JSJ JavaScript Tools Fatigue (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
- Seth on the Road – MVP Summit 2015 (Seth Juarez)
- The Joy of Coding – Episode 40 (Richard)
- 48 ngAir – Why empathy will make you a better developer with Joe Eames (Angular Air)
- Defrag: Back from the Break with Cortana in the Car, Oculus Pre-Order and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
- Monthly Meetup Dec 2015 – Topic 1: Exponent and React Native (Jeremy Foster)
- Developer Tea Gear: From My Room to Your Ears (Jonathan Cutrell)
Community / Events
- Google shares details for Google I/O 2016: May 18th – 20th in Mountain View (Michael Morisy)
- Upcoming Web Design Conferences (January–June 2016) (Jan Constantin)
Database
- Removing Duplicates from Strings in SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
- DOWNLOAD: Free Microsoft Press eBook, “Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016: Mission-Critical Applications, Deeper Insights, Hyperscale Cloud, Preview Edition” (Jan 2016) (Kurt Shintaku)
- Microsoft Retools R Offerings for Big Data Analytics (David Ramel)
SharePoint
- Announcing ngOfficeUiFabric v0.1.3 – Angular 1.x Directives for the Office UI Fabric (Andrew Connell)
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online (Steve Smith)
PowerShell
- Powershell to make User Principle Name (UPN) of SharePoint user profile service editable (Gino Abraham)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft rolls out new Windows 10 PC Insider preview build (Mary Jo Foley)
- Microsoft gets its swagger back – stock hits highest marks since dot com era (Ashley Stewart)
- How to turn a plastic bottle into 20 yards of string (Mark Frauenfelder)
- How to get started with your Surface Book (Microsoft Devices Team)
- Alan Rickman, 1947-2016 (Rob Beschizza)
- A Programmer’s Guide to Better Posture (Sabrina Taylor)
More Link Collections
- The Daily Six Pack: January 14, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
- The Morning Brew #2009 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-14 (Dan Rigby)
- Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Team Services and Cloud Storage Comparison Wed Jan 13 2016 (Jeremy Likness)