Top Links
- Visual Studio 2015 opens new era of Universal Windows Platform apps (Steve Clarke)
- Why write Python in Visual Studio? (Steve Dower)
- And your 2015 Imagine Cup World Champion IS … Team eFitFashion of Brazil! (Imagine Cup Admin)
- Learn Roslyn Now: Part 11 Introduction to Code Fixes (Josh Varty)
Web Development
- Switch Cases Do Not Have To Be Static In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
- #Video Deal/Day: Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – $49.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
- Debugging CSS Keyframe Animations (Sarah Drasner)
- Building Azure Service Fabric Actors with F# – Part 1 (Sergey Tihon)
- Getting a Card’s info from Trello (1 of 3) (Erik Dietrich)
- Getting Started with Docker: Simplifying Devops (Radek Ostrowski)
- RESTful Considered Harmful (Tomasz Nurkiewicz)
XAML
- UWP: new VS2015 project templates (Koen Zwikstra)
- Working with Live XAML in Windows Universal Apps and Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
- Two approaches to updating your app to Windows 10 (Matt Lacey)
- WPF Application Framework (WAF) 3.1.0.450 (CodePlex)
- Adding Toast Notification to your new Windows Universal App created from an existing web app. (Arun Kumar)
Miscellaneous .NET
- C# 6 string interpolation is not a templating engine, and it’s not the new String.Format (Bertrand Le Roy)
- F# 4.0 Released for All Platforms (Jeff Martin)
- Using REST APIs of TFS and Visual Studio Online (Subodh Sohoni)
- Sale: Save 45% on all Developer Reference eBooks (Kim Spilker)
- SlowCheetah – XML Transforms Preview for 2015 (Sayed I. Hashimi)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Scrum or Kanban: Which form of Agile is best for you? (Jeremy Jarrell)
- TDD best practices (Vladimir Khorikov)
- Eat Sleep Code – Running a Successful Open Source Project (Ed Charbeneau)
- Continuous deployment (Gabriel Schenker)
- Estimates: Jumping To Wrong Conclusions (Gil Zilberfeld)
- 7 Things Your Boss Doesn’t Understand About Software Development (John Sonmez)
- Making a clean exit – how to leave your company with friends, not dependencies (Troy Hunt)
- Securing your pre-production environment in the cloud (Nir Mashkowski)
- Organizational purpose (Wes Higbee)
Other Mobile Platforms
- Bringing Xamarin.Forms Apps to Tablets (James Montemagno)
- Day 3: Creating your first Android Application with Xamarin (Venkata Koppaka)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Simple Programmer Podcast 037: In Amsterdam – Simple Programmer European Tour 2015 (John Sonmez)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Diablo Cody (Chris Hardwick)
- DefragTools: #136 – Debugging User Mode Crash Dumps Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder)
- Developer on Fire Episode 17: Charles Max Wood – Get Involved and Try New Things (Dave Rael)
- The future of Entity Framework (EF7) (Rowan Miller & Seth Juarez)
Community / Events
- Wintellect Becomes Premier Xamarin Consulting Partner (Paul Ballard)
- The Next Philly Nerd Nite Will Focus On Street Art, Star Wars Maps, And Papermaking (Chris Cummins)
- MVPs in APGC-J Celebrate and Support Windows 10 (MVP Award Program)
- UMD Kinect Q&A: an interview with Gregory Kramida at the University of Maryland (Shahed C)
Database
- Start SQL Server in Single User Mode and Clearing Out a Database With SQL Compare (Steve Jones)
- Dynamically Refresh SQL Server Reporting Services Report Date Parameters (Ghanesh Prasad)
- SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL – Error: SQL Server Could Not Spawn Lazy Writer Thread (Pinal Dave)
- Reducing parsing costs in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Still using PowerGUI? Get on the Visual Studio train! (Trevor Sullivan)
- Detecting a hung windows process (Matt Wrock)
Miscellaneous
- OneDrive can now sync Shared Folders (Richard Hay)
- Learning Scala (Ian Stirk)
- Microsoft 3d Blueprint Visio Template (MS Downloads)
- 21 best Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts you should know (Mark Guim)
- Small Basic in Windows 10 Quick Review (Nonki Takahashi)
- Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is ‘a game’ (Kim Gittleson)
- Windows 10 Tweaks and Debloating Tools – Registry Tweaks 1 (CodePlex)
- First image of Slack for Windows Phone revealed (Brad Stephenson)
More Link Collections
- Collective #179 (Pedro Botelho)
- Geek Reading August 3, 2015 (Robert Diana)
- The Morning Brew #1917 (Chris Alcock)
- Reading Notes #196 (Frank Boucher)
- Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (7/27-8/2) (Dara Monasch)
- The Daily Six Pack: August 4, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
- Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 3rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
The Geek Shelf
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ISBN: 1401241883 |
The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1: Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Colleen Doran: 9781401241889: Books
CLR via C# (4th Edition) (Developer Reference): Jeffrey Richter: 9780735667457: Books
JavaScript Patterns: Stoyan Stefanov: 9780596806750: Books