Top Links
- Microsoft: This is why we bought Nokia and What’s the strategic rational in acquiring Nokia? Here’s Microsofts answer and Ballmer: Stephen Elop now an internal candidate for Microsoft CEO (Sam Sabri)
- Microsoft to Buy Nokia’s Device Business in Deal Worth $7.17 Billion and Microsoft Wants to Keep Licensing Windows Phone to Others, Post-Nokia Deal (Ina Fried)
- The Next Chapter: An open letter from Steve Ballmer and Stephen Elop (Michael Wann)
- Microsoft buys Nokia handset unit: It’s an end-to-end world after all (Molly Wood)
- Some key points in the Microsoft – Nokia deal (Kip Kniskern)
Web Development
- An Overview of Project Katana (Howard Dierking)
- JavaScript’s type system (Axel Rauschmayer)
- AngularJS Training (egghead.io) – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
- Invocation patterns in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
- WebStorm 7 EAP 131.24; local terminal and Compass support (Dmitry Jemerov)
- New eBook: JavaScript Patterns JumpStart Guide – Clean up your JavaScript Code (Dan Wahlin)
- ASP.NET Web API 2 and HttpRequestContext (Filip W)
- Using Spatial Data With Sql 2012 and Windows Azure (Ugo Lattanzi)
- Creating Real-Time System Notifications with SignalR (Joel Cogley)
- Accessing external APIs with Angular.js (Arun Israel)
- Use Visual Studio 2012 to debug JavaScript code outside the running project (Tao Wu, Tony Liu & Michael Zlatkovsky)
- New Features in Windows Azure SDK 2.1 (Paul Ballard)
- Inverting if Clause in JavaScript Fails (Peter Kellner)
- Leveraging the Most Out of CSS Classes (Ryan Morr)
- Integrating PayPal With Visual Studio LightSwitch (Michael Washington)
- Filtering Items in a List (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Building and Testing a View Model in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
- WebDriver and AngularJS (Paul Hammant)
- Transition end propertyName (David DeSandro)
- Using the AngularJS Package for Sublime Text (Dan Wahlin)
- Firebug Tip: getEventListeners() command (Jan Odvarko)
- Bootstrap 3 At A Glance – Part One – Motivations (Matthew Adams)
- Web security, Dark Matter Developers and lowering the bar (Troy Hunt)
XAML
- Grouping with the GridView Control – Windows Store Apps (XAML) (Christian Nagel)
- 2000 WPF Things #897 – Content on a TabItem Does Not Automatically Wrap and #898 – Setting the Text that Appears on a TabItem (Sean Sexton)
- How to Create a Cloud-Powered Windows Phone App with Telerik Cloud Controls – Part 4 (Todor Petrov)
- In-App Purchase: Success stories and Tips to test common in-app failure scenarios (Bernardo Zamora)
- SkyDrive Sync on Windows Phone – Adding Local Content (Dennis Delimarsky)
- WPF Base Classes – FrameworkElement – Object Lifetime (Richard Carr)
- Prism for Windows Runtime docs now available in 11 languages (Blaine Wastell)
- Using PubCenter for Ads? READ THIS. (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Make your App Studio app a little more Charming (Peter Foot)
- [Sample Of Sep 2nd] Bind ListView with local datasource in Windows Store apps (Philip Fu)
- Using a VisualBrush for Slicing Content (Roland Weigelt)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Buzz-Fuzz in LINQ (James Curran)
- Forced Override of Virtual Methods (Richard Carr)
- Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate inches closer (Mary Jo Foley)
- NuGet 2.7 Package Restore Tips (Jeff Handley)
- Embedding a Console in a C# Application (Dave Kerr)
- Different ways to work with SharePoint Lists in Visual Studio 2013 LightSwitch (Clemens Reijnen)
- Awesome Libraries For C# Developers #2 – Reactive Extensions (Rx) and More On IEnumerable, IQueryable, IObservable and IQbservable (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- Visual Studio 2013 RC leaked, 46 days until Windows 8.1 general availability (Ron)
- 2012 MCSD Resources (Kevin Logan)
- Take full control of your projects with RadGanttView for WinForms (Carey Payette)
- Creating a Unity Game for Windows 8 (Dave Bost)
- Some New Features for SpecFlow and SpecRun (David Starr)
- ‘object’ Does Not Contain a Definition for ‘errors’ (Juri Strumpflohner)
- Building a game in a day (Phillip Trelford)
- 2000 C# Things #921 – Objects Are Explicitly Created but Automatically Destroyed and #922 – Ways in Which References to an Object Are Released (Sean Sexton)
- DevLog Day – Playing with Xamarin and MonoGame (Toni Petrina)
- SlowCheetah + ClickOnce Issue and Non-app config (e.g. NLog.config) transformation with SlowCheetah in Console App (Michael Sync)
- Entity Framework Pitfalls – Cannot Return Complex Types From SQL Queries and Entity Framework Code First One to One With Cascade Delete (Ricardo Peres)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Improve Agile Project Planning by Involving the Whole Team (Konstantin Boev)
- How we solved our #1 product management problem (Gojko Adzic)
- Saving you some labor in creating your Unit tests… (Greg Duncan)
- There is no “be agile” there is only “do agile” (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Ideas on Managing Distributed Teams Using Agile [1/3] – Introduction and Ceremonies (Peter Saddington)
- Unit Testing Succinctly (Rabeb Othmani)
- Get out of the way, we are coding, Part II (Oren Eini)
- Designing Cloud Services – Consider Bulkiness & Chattiness (Alexandre Brisebois)
- E-Shaped People, Not T-Shaped (JD Meier)
- Kick-Start Your Tests with Microsoft Test Manager (John Papa)
- New book: Software Requirements, Third Edition (Kim Spilker)
- Designing the hub experience for Windows Store creative (art, music, video) apps (Pete Brown)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Objective C Block syntax reference (Karl von Randow)
- First Look at the FireFox OS Developer Preview Phone (Michael Crump)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 129 – “Atley Hunter” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- .NET Rocks! – Wireframing UI the Right Way with Russ Unger (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- GoingNative 18: Inside Vector Calling Convention (VCC) | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
- Technology & Friends Episode 281: David Makogon on Polyglot Persistence (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast – PAX Podcast 2013 (Larry Hyrb)
- TWC9: Windows 8.1 RTM’s, VS Unit Test Generator, more Azure GA’s and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Robert Green)
- Yet Another Podcast #106–Jeff Fritz on One ASP.Net (Jesse Liberty)
- Windows Weekly 326: Bye Bye Ballmer (Paul Thurrott)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Neko Case (Chris Hardwick)
- Show 100 Recap of Two Years of Tablet Show! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- 073 JSJ React with Pete Hunt and Jordan Walke (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
- Podcast: emerging technology and the coming disruption in design (Jenn Webb)
- Engadget Podcast 358 – 08.30.13 (Joe Pollicino)
- Get Up And Code 17: Common Injuries While Lifting (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
- This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nintendo 2DS, Pebble, And Unikey (Jordan Crook)
- Defrag Tools: #54 – IE Favorites Crash | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
- Windows Store Weekly: Toy Story, Hallmark, Outfitzy, Draw & guess, Sleep Bug | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
- ZEN & TECH 58: Zen in the workplace (Rene Ritchie)
- GeekWire Radio: Chase Jarvis on photography, creativity and the new world of learning (Todd Bishop)
Community / Events
- Student Developer? Get Involved! (Dennis Delimarsky)
- TechEd Australia Streaming Live (Channel 9)
- Build Apps. Get Stuff. (Jim O’Neil)
- The Life and Times of an Open Source Project (Joe Brinkman)
- Hello (Martin Woodward)
- Nic’s path to Xbox internship (MS JobsBlog)
Database
- #0291 – SQL Server – sp_rename – Renaming SQL Server objects – Do’s and Dont’s (Nakul Vachhrajani)
- Common SQL Server Clustering, AlwaysOn, and High Availability Answers (Brent Ozar)
- SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: SQL 2012 Certification Path – SQL in Sixty Seconds #065 and SQLAuthority News – Learn MySQL Indexing in 99 Minutes – MySQL Indexing for Performance – Video Course (Pinal Dave)
- The Case of the NULL Query_Plan (Patrick Keisler)
SharePoint
- Current State of SharePoint (DevToolsGuy)
- Are You Designed To Take Advantage of Mobile? (Joel Oleson)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft abruptly pulls ‘masters’ certification; hints a replacement may come and Does its Nokia buy thwart or fuel a possible Microsoft break-up? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Running batch and long-running, highly available service jobs on the same cluster (Ben Lorica)
- Kickstarter Reportedly Owns Indiegogo With Around 6X More Total Dollars Raised, Average Success Rate Much Higher (Darrell Etherington)
- Permissible poaching—internal recruiting (Eric Brechner)
- Do I Need To Understand Low Level Programming And Memory Management? (Filip Ekberg)
- ID@Xbox (Greg Duncan)
- OneNote as personal travel guide: Using OneNote on trip (Gunnar Peipmen)
- Stupid Question 234: Do I need to know math to be a developer? What about logic, statistics, and linear programming? (Iris Classon)
- A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day (Leon Bambrick)
- More perspective on the Nokia news (Michael Stroh)
- Review Part 2: Developing with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook (Martin Hinshelwood)
- 10+ Progamming Languages in 10 minutes (Phillip Trelford)
- Windows Phone is a ‘real adversary’ to Android and iOS (Mihaita Bamburic)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 31, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: September 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
- Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 30th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, September 2nd (Rob Caron)
- Geek Reading August 30, 2013 and Geek Reading September 2, 2013 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1192 and Double Shot #1193 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Collective #79 (Mary Lou)
- Daily Links 2 Sep 2013 (Jax)
- Reading Notes #105 (Frank)
- The Daily Six Pack: September 2, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: September 3, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
- Daily News Digest 8/30/2013 and Daily News Digest 9/2/2013 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1432 and The Morning Brew #1433 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-03 (Dan Rigby)
- Reblog: August 23 to August 29 (Jason Strate)
- SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #044 (Pinal Dave)
- Weekly Digest 28 (Jakub Chodounský)
- .NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – July and August 2013 Links (Abhijit Jana)
The Geek Shelf
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JavaScript Patterns JumpStart Guide (Cleanup your JavaScript Code) eBook: Dan Wahlin: Kindle Store
Essential Windows Phone 8 (2nd Edition) (Microsoft Windows Development Series): Shawn Wildermuth: 9780321904942: Books
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#: Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin: 9780131857254: Books