Top Links
- 12 Days Left for Room Discounts at TechBash 2016 (Jason Gaylord) – Now 11.
 - Stop Running with the Visual Studio Debugger (K. Scott Allen)
 - Wire – Writing one of the fastest .NET serializers (Roger Johansson)
 - Visual Studio’s most useful (and underused) tips (Scott Hanselman)
 
Web Development
- Moving to ASP.NET MVC Core 1 (Ricardo Peres)
 - Create an Aurelia Application With ASP.NET Core 1.0: Part 2 — Navigation (Jonathan Danylko)
 - Looking At ASP.NET Core’s IApplicationLifetime (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - 12 great free Bootstrap themes (Tammy Coron)
 - Build an integration for GitHub (Corey Hobbs)
 - Node v6.4.0 (Current) (Colin Ihrig)
 - Building Components with D3 Data Join by Chris Price (Chris Price)
 - Stay Sharp with Razor TagHelpers (Ed Charbeneau)
 - Google’s Chrome 53 Beta Brings Shadow DOM V1 (James Chesters)
 - Extending Azure Logic Apps Using Azure Functions (Kent Weare)
 - Node v4.5.0 (LTS) (Myles Borins)
 
XAML
- Using an InkToolbar with InkCanvas in your Windows Universal Apps (Abhijit Jana)
 - Creating a Custom Ruler with DirectInk (Mike Taulty)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- C# Networking – HttpListener (Benjamin Summerton)
 - Visual Programming Tool Helps Developers Bring Games to Universal Windows Platform (Richard Hay)
 - Refactoring File System Access (Steve Smith)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Doing Agile… Isn’t Agile. (Bill Roske)
 - Does your workplace use best practices like code reviews, unit testing, pair programming, etc…? (Nick Chamberlain)
 - What Makes a Good User Story (Yvonne Chen)
 - How Startups Get Software Built (Yousef Awad)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- IdentityModel.OidcClient for Xamarin.Android with Chrome Custom Tabs (Kevin Dockx)
 - Node.js IoT: Tracking the ISS through the Sky (Dave Johnson)
 - Book Review: Exploring Raspberry Pi (Mike James)
 - 10 Awesome Mobile UX Design Strategies That Work (Keval Padia)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Building Cross-Platform Apps using Electron with David Neal (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Using Temporal in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
 - Using Azure Notification Hubs from a Xamarin.Android Application and Using Azure Notification Hubs in an Android Application and Using Azure Notification Hubs for Push Notifications in Google Chrome (Scott Hanselman & Seth Juarez)
 - AAWP Insight #189: Anniversary Update rolls out (Rafe Blandford)
 - Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – How to change the mindset of an organization | Mike Collins (Vasco Duarte)
 - Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 142 | Women in Technology and #IStandByYou with Cathy Dew (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
 - The week in .NET – 8/16/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
 - Eat, Sleep, Code – Developer Digest 9 (Ed Charbeneau)
 - RunAs Radio – Building a Blameless Post-Mortem Culture with Jason Hand (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
 - CodeChat 065 – The Amazing JS Data | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
 - StarTalk Radio – Confronting Zika and other Viruses, with Bill Nye and Laurie Garrett – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
 - SE-Radio Episode 266: Charles Nutter on the JVM as a Language Platform (Charles Anderson)
 
Community / Events
- The First Ever NativeScript Community Event (Brian Rinaldi)
 - Celebrating Three Years of ID@Xbox (Chris Charla)
 - Join the conversation with Build Azure Slack group (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Why I’m excited about SIGNAL London (Phil Nash)
 
Database
- Using the SQL Server 2016 Decompress Function (John Miner)
 - Announcing Azure App Service MySQL in-app (preview) (Sunitha Muthukrishna)
 - Database Building 101: The cost of graphing (Oren Eini)
 - Query Tuning Week: How to Start Troubleshooting Parameter Sniffing Issues (Brent Ozar)
 - Database Sharding – How to Identify a Shard Key? (Pinal Dave)
 
PowerShell
- Junctions with PowerShell (Daniel Fisher)
 
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update for phones (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Microsoft Rewards replaces Bing Rewards — collect points to get free stuff! (Mark Wilson)
 - akka : persistent actors (Sacha Barber)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2159 (Chris Alcock)
 - Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-17 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-17 (Dan Rigby)
 
The Geek Shelf
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The C# Player's Guide (2nd Edition): RB Whitaker: 9780985580124: Books
Writing High-Performance .NET Code: Ben Watson: 9780990583431: Books
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels): Richard K. Morgan: 9780345457684: Books