Top Links
- I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit (Hartley Brody)
- a n00b’s Look at HTML5 Game Development and Building a Game With JavaScript (Christopher Bennage)
- Async – Handling multiple Exceptions and Will it crash my process (Bnaya Eshet)
- How to: Install Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Offline (Rob Caron)
Web Development
- On protecting HTML5 apps (Christian Heilmann)
- CSS Next (Chris Coyier)
- Using the New ASP.NET MVC 4 Template in MonoDevelop (Daniel Mohl)
- How to compile all your TypeScript .ts files into a Single .js file (Derik Whittaker)
- Backbone.js Meets RESTful Web Services (Geertjan Wielenga)
- Using Media Queries in JavaScript Code (Gil Fink)
- Differences Between CSS2.1 and CSS3+ (Louis Lazaris)
- Writing Unit Tests for an ASP.NET MVC Action Method that handles Ajax Request and Normal Request (Shiju Varghese)
- Implementing The Wijmo Radial Gauge In The LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
- Building Cross-Platform Apps with HTML: Part 1 of 4 (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud, 3rd Edition (Paulo Morgado)
- Firebug 1.11.0 (Jan Odvarko)
- Lowering the barrier of entry to the cloud: announcing the first release of Actor Framework from MS Open Tech (Act I) (Claudio Caldato)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
XAML
- Telerik Announces Coded UI Test Support for WPF (Anand Narayanaswamy)
- Windows Phone 8: Developer Tools (Peter Kuhn)
- Walkthrough: Building a Sweet Dial in XAML for Windows 8 (Jerry Nixon)
- WPF Chart Control With Pan, Zoom and More (John Stewien)
- Get Started with Windows Phone 8 Lenses (Larry Lieberman)
- Introducing Windows Phone 8 Development: Part 2 (Rob Tiffany)
- Updating my Windows Phone App to Windows Phone 8 (Scott Hanselman)
- 2000 WPF Things #708 – Dragging a File Into a WPF Application (Sean Sexton)
- WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.400 (CodePlex)
- Walkthrough: Monetize Windows 8 with the Microsoft Advertising SDK (Jerry Nixon)
- Going Old School on Windows 8 (Jeremy Likness)
- Debugging on your Windows RT Device without a Network Connection (Brad Sullivan)
- Windows 8 Development Tips #4: Use a lot of apps (Brent Schooley)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Running deployment tasks in a TFS lab build (Rory Primrose)
- Creating CSV Files (Richard Carr)
- Visual Studio 2012 ALM Virtual Machine with Update 1 and hands-on-labs / demo scripts now available (Charles Sterling)
- WCF Data Services 5.2.0-rc1 Prerelease (WCF Team)
- QuickLinq Helpers (Don Syme)
- Research into Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism in C# (Jonathan Allen)
- [Sample Of Dec 9th] How to deep clone objects using reflection in .NET (Philip Fu)
- It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Writing to the application directory (Raymond Chen)
- Await HttpClient.GetStringAsync() and cancellation (Lucian Wischik)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role (J.D. Meier)
- A Parable of Why Agile Methods Can Save Money (John Cook)
- The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer (John Sonmez)
- Agile Requires an Integrated Story (Mitch Pronschinske)
- 7 steps to continuous deployment (Florian Motlik)
- DZone Refcardz -Software Configuration Management Patterns (Steve Berczuk)
- Coded UI Test: Configuring Search Properties while recording on Internet Explorer (Sai Krishna Vajjala)
- The non-blocking script loader pattern (Philip Tellis)
- Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager – Deep Dive (Mathew Aniyan)
- Integrating BitBucket and GIT with ssh (no password required for push) (Peter Kellner)
- The unwritten requirements for implementing an email notification unsubscribe feature (Jon Gallant)
- How to execute tests locally using TCM.exe command-line? (Aseem Bansal)
- Fluent Design through Early Prototyping (Rebecca Cottrell)
- Abstractions and Models aren’t Infallible (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Lessons learned from the Code Retreat (Giorgio Sironi)
- The Agile Coach Persona – The Calling and Integrity (Part 1/2) (Peter Saddington)
- Cheerleading? No. Courage? Yes (Johanna Rothman)
- Asynchronous calls in C++ Windows Store Unit Tests (Mathew Aniyan)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Book Review: Creating Android Applications (Harry Fairhead)
- Android tips: apps failing to update, & using any music file for ringtones & notifications (Robert Nyman)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Inside Windows 8: Pedro Teixeira – Thread pools | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
- Technology & Friends Episode 243: Mark Bostleman on an Azure Proof of Concept (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 460: Child’s Play Charity and more (Larry Hyrb)
- The Windows Developer Show Episode 095 – “Download This Show For Free” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- SPC MVP Panel Discussion, SharePoint 2013, Cloud, and Yammer-Episode 77 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
- Video: Deliver Project Management On Your Terms w/ SharePoint #share2012 #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
- Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101: Windows Phone 8 Demo | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Laura Foy)
- Video: Take Command of Your Windows 8 MVVM XAML App with Attached Behaviors (Paul Ballard)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Williams (Chris Hardwick)
- Windows Weekly 289: Perfect for a 4th Grader (Paul Thurrott)
- The Tablet Show – Shawn Wildermuth Builds Tablet Apps with PhoneGap (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- The Vergecast 057 – December 7th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
- ShopTalk Episode 46 (Chris Coyier)
- 037 JSJ Promises with Domenic Denicola and Kris Kowal (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
- TWC9: Sharing Code, Cheat Sheets, and Jump Starting! | This Week On Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
- Stupid Question 98: What advice would you give developers to land a dream job? and Stupid Question 99: Should developers use refactoring tools? (Iris Classon)
- Engadget Mobile Podcast 160 – 12.08.2012 (James Trew)
- SitePoint Podcast #191: The Beat Don’t Stop (Karn Broad)
- Boagworld – Add some positivity to your web strategy (Paul Boag)
- GeekWire Podcast: Tablets, travel, kids, and a ukulele rock band, live in studio (Todd Bishop)
- Engadget Podcast 319 – 12.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- Free 2-day Training: Windows Store app dev for iOS developers (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Winners from XNA Contest (John Sonmez)
- Microsoft patterns & practices Symposium 2013 (Oren Eini)
- One Year At GitHub (Phil Haack)
- Philly Pluralsight Study Group: Building Apps with ASP.NET MVC 4: Intro & Controllers (Week 1 of 7) (Tony Verguldi)
- Architecture, Strategy at Center of First AWS Conference (Richard Seroter)
- Windows Store App Labs for app builders (Devon Musgrave)
Database
- Migrating from a relational to a NoSQL cloud database? (Daniel Doubrovkine)
- How to add database file to a Log Shipped database in SQL Server (Manvendra Singh)
- The current state of a MERGE Destination for SSIS and Query for server DefaultData & DefaultLog folders (Jamie Thomson)
- SQL Authority News – Download SQL Server Data Type Conversion Chart (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Advent 2012 Day 8: Foreign Keys and SQL Server Data Type Conversion Poster is available for download and SQL Advent 2012 Day 9: Reinventing the wheel (Denis Gobo)
- SQL Server Query Tuning – Back to Basics (Ted Krueger)
- Debugging Parameter Dependencies in Reporting Services (Paul Turley)
SharePoint
- Passing Selected Data Between WebParts in SharePoint (Peter Vogel)
- Resources: How to Best Develop Requirements for SharePoint Projects #share2012 (Dux Raymond Sy)
PowerShell
- PowerTip: Use PowerShell 3.0 to Find an IP Address (The Scripting Guys)
Miscellaneous
- What’s new in Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Phone (Amin Lakhani)
- Navigating Microsoft’s employment opportunities (Scott Mattie)
- Honouring computing’s 1843 visionary, Lady Ada Lovelace (Megan Smith & Lynette Webb)
- Australian Police Warn Against Apple Maps, Citing “Potentially Life Threatening” Misdirection (Catherine Shu)
- Amazon shaves $50 off the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD for today only (Deepak Dhingra)
- Microsoft’s History with BASIC (Altair 8800, TRS-80 Color Computer) (Ed Price)
- The Big List of 256 Programming Languages (Rob Diana)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 8, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 9, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Geek Reading December 7, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #1019 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1250 (Chris Alcock)
- Friday Five – December 7, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- Pie in the Sky (December 7, 2012) (Larry Franks)
- Collective #41 (Mary Lou)
- Daily News Digest 12/10/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Friday Miscellany #3 (Eric Battalio)
- Reading Notes #74 (Frank)
- The Daily Six Pack: December 8, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: December 10, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
- Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-10 (Dan Rigby)
- Visual Studio ALM Links week 49/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
- Daily Windows 8 Development News 7 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Azure Community Roundup (Edition #48) (Craig Kitterman)
The Geek Shelf
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Professional ASP.NET MVC 4 (Wrox Professional Guides): Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen: 9781118348468: Books
Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)): Roman Pichler: Kindle Store
Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML (Microsoft Windows Development Series): Jeremy Likness: Kindle Store