Top Links
- Angular Material 1.0 Now Available! (Thomas Burleson)
 - WebForms – How do I Unit Test Thee? (Jeff Fritz)
 - Accelerate Mobile App Development with Over 500 Components (Bill Holmes)
 - Signing into Windows 10 with your Face – Using an Xbox One Kinect with Windows Hello and 3D Printing is for so much more than just making brightly colored plastic pieces of crap (Scott Hanselman)
 
Web Development
- Flagging up inconsiderate writing in Microsoft Office using JavaScript (Chris Heilmann)
 - Modern JavaScript Development Environments and Choice (David Starr)
 - HTML5 Mastery: DOM Mutations (Florian Rappl)
 - The Trivia Awakens – SMS powered Star Wars trivia in 40 lines of PHP (Greg Baugues)
 - Announcing RIMdev Releases Built With ASP.NET 5 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - JavaScript MaskedTextBox – Fast And Easy To Use (L. Milkov)
 - Securing ASP.NET Web API using Token Based Authentication and using it in Angular.js application (Mahesh Sabnis)
 - Creating a prototype chain in Javascript (Rohit Gupta)
 - TypeScript + ASP.NET Web API + AngularJS Bootcamp – Week 6 (Stephen Walther)
 - Mozilla Has Created A-Frame, a VR Framework (Abel Avram)
 - Why is (0,obj.prop)() not a method call? and Installing past or future versions of npm packages and Tree-shaking with webpack 2 and Babel 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Click SVG Element to Focus (and Style) (Chris Coyier)
 - The Power of 3: Force 3 + Splunk on ISE (Gregory Kushto)
 - Free Full Course: How to Become a Web Developer (Joel Bankhead)
 
XAML
- WPF – How To Load XAML Files Asynchronously In .NET (Sid)
 - How to apply custom color in #UWP apps Title Bar? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- What’s New in C# 6 (Paulo Morgado)
 - Regular Expression Options (Richard Carr)
 - Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio – Depth of Inheritance (Abhijit Jana)
 - Name Decorations, Exported Functions, PInvoke Signatures (Mike Taulty)
 - #VS2015–VS Touch useful extension to work in #TouchMode in Visual Studio (Bruno Capuano)
 - Constraints on Type Parameters in Generics in C# (Abhi Jain)
 - VSColorOuput – Version 2.0 Beta 1 Ready (Mike Ward)
 - Using Azure Storage Queues from .NET (Chris Pietschmann)
 - Extensions 101 – But it worked yesterday … now what?!? (Willy-P. Schaub)
 - Using AutoMapper with Attributes (Spencer Schneidenbach)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- You suck at TDD #3–Design sensitivity and improvement (Eric Gunnerson)
 - Agile Results for Year-End Reflection (JD Meier)
 - The Career Changer’s Guide to Becoming a Software Developer (Natasha Postolovski)
 - From Legacy Code to Testable Code #10: Getting Rid of Static Constructors (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - Combining User Story Mapping with Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: UX Strategy – $14.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
 - What is a “Collaborative Organization” Anyway? (Angela Ashenden)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Performance Profiling Your Xamarin Apps (Greg Shackles)
 - Introducing the (beta) IBM Watson iOS SDK! (Andrew Trice)
 - iOS From Scratch With Swift: Table View Basics (Bart Jacobs)
 - Using UI for Android with Instant Run in Android Studio 2.0 (Nikolay Diyanov)
 - Remove Xcode Default Header Comment (Paul Zabelin)
 - How to Create ASCII art in functional Swift (Josh Smith)
 - Google Play Services 8.4 SDK is available (Laurence Moroney)
 - Strawberries and Cream – Fusion and Boot Camp Windows (Richard Woollcott)
 - Faking Band and Microsoft Band Tools (Greg Duncan)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Thimbleweed Park Podcast #34 (Ron Gilbert)
 - Yet Another Podcast #144 Pierce Boggan (Jesse Liberty)
 - WinBeta Podcast 46: All of Microsoft’s 2015 crammed into one show! (Sean Michael)
 - Xamarin Podcast – Building games for iOS, Android, Apple TV, PlayStation, and more! (Mike Bluestein)
 - The Changelog 187: Redux, React, and Functional JavaScript with Dan Abramov (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
 - AAWP Insight #164: Lumia 950, 950 XL, and Continuum (Rafe Blandford)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Alex Winter Returns and The Nerdist Podcast – Quentin Tarantino (Chris Hardwick)
 - MS Dev Show – Responsive Design with Karen McGrane (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
 - Startup Success Podcast 3.12: Startup Thought Leader Steve Blank (Bob Walsh)
 - Developer on Fire Episode 074 | Evelina Gabasova – Love of Data and Developer on Fire Episode 075 | Pavneet Singh Saund – Pushing Boundaries (Dave Rael)
 - Episode 195: PowerApps with Stephen Siciliano | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)
 - Get Up And Code 116: The accidental developer with Roland Sobrepena (Robert Navarro)
 - How Lotus F1 Team implemented OneDrive for Business | Microsoft Mechanics (Zachary Cavanell)
 - StarTalk Radio – The Science of Creativity, with David Byrne (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
 - Windows Internet of Things development starts to sizzle – Learn the Universal Windows Platform | Chris Briggs (Sophie Belle)
 - One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – The Windows 95 Ship Party (keantonc & Rosshe)
 
Community / Events
- Chocolatey Community Feed State of the Union (Rob Reynolds)
 - .NET All-Stars (Vicky)
 
Database
- SQL Server Management Studio Performance Dashboard Reports Overview (Daniel Farina)
 - MySQL – Date and Time Related System Functions and SQL SERVER 2016 – New T-SQL Functions – COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS (Pinal Dave)
 
PowerShell
- Get the Windows Installer PowerShell Module easier with WMF 5.0 (Heath Stewart)
 - Hosting a .Net 4 runtime inside Powershell v2 (Matt Wrock)
 - WMF 5.0 is RTM (Emin Atac)
 
Miscellaneous
- Syncfusion 2015 Tech Gift Guide (Graham High)
 - 5 Star Wars Resources for Developers (Ed Charbeneau)
 - Edge extensions make an appearance in latest Windows Insider build, sort of (Kip Kniskern)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading December 18, 2015 (Robert Diana)
 - Double Shot #1608 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Today’s #FridayFives! (MVP Award Program)
 - The Morning Brew #1994 (Chris Alcock)
 - Reading Notes #214 (Frank Boucher)
 - Office 365 news roundup (Office 365 Team)
 - Collective #199 (Pedro Botelho)
 - Last Week on Channel 9: December 14th – December 20th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
 - GameDev News – Week Ending December 18, 2015 (Brian Peek)
 - Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-21 (Dan Rigby)
 - Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #71 (Adam J. Wolf)
 - Weekly C# Digest Issue #81 (Jakub Chodounsky)
 - F# Weekly #51, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
 - Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 18th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
 - links of the week 12-20-15 (Chris Love)
 - WordPress goes to NodeJs, Get to Know Visual Studio Code, Angular 2 Components Fri Dec 18 2015 (Jeremy Likness)
 
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