Top Links
- QuickVB Goes Open Source! (VBTeam)
- Angular 2.0 Router Scenarios (Rob Eisenberg)
- The Case of the Terrible, Awful Keyword (Kathleen Dollard)
- Splunk Your Star Wars Data – Episode I. May the Fourth be with you. (Matt Davies)
Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC Helper – MoreLessText (James Curran)
- Writing testable JavaScript: How AMD changed the way I see code (Maxime Rouiller)
- Aborting An AJAX Request In AngularJS Using httpi and Triggering $digest Phases In Related Directives In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
- Avoiding unnecessary dependencies by writing a few lines of code [A simple URL rewrite implementation for Node.js apps under iisnode removes the need for the URL Rewrite module] (David Anson)
- FubuMVC Lessons Learned: Semantic Versioning (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Editable HTML Table with CRUD operations using KnockoutJS and ASP.NET WEB API (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Promises: The New Async Standard in Browser JavaScript? (Zef Hemel)
- Learn CSS Layout (Greg Smith)
- VBScript is DIM (Dan)
- Useful @Brackets extensions for Web Developers (Alexander Zeitler)
- current-script and webcomponents-org (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Analyzing a large JSON in memory (Abishek Baskaran)
- Node v0.10.28 (Stable) (node.js Team)
XAML
- Windows Phone 8.1: A Giant Leap Forward for Convergence (Nick Randolph)
- 2000 WPF Things #1,065 – ViewBox Child Must Have Explicit Size (Sean Sexton)
- Building Text To Speech Applications using Windows Phone 8.1 and Cortana Overview (Vikram Pendse)
- WAQS: Edmx Update Model from Database and WAQS: Implement your own identity logic (Matthieu Mezil)
- The 5 most common questions I heard in April (Kevin Gallo)
Miscellaneous .NET
- Locating the System Folder (Richard Carr)
- Legacy software development with LINQPad (Jakub Chodounsky)
- refit – The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET (Paul Betts)
- MSDN Magazine article on Application Insights (Brian Harry)
- A Look Back at NDoc and Sandcastle (Jonathan Allen)
- 2000 C# Things #1,089 – How 32-Bit Floating Point Numbers Are Stored in .NET, part II (Sean Sexton)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Professionalism and TDD (Reprise) (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
- Focus on key examples (Gojko Adzic)
- Estimation and the Sunk Cost Fallacy (Johanna Rothman)
- What Should I be looking for during Code Reviews? (Alexandre Brisebois)
- How a Feel Good Manager can Foster and Grow Culture (Ben Linders)
- High-Performance Mode for Outstanding Personal Performance (JD Meier)
- Refactoring Legacy Code: Part 3 – Complex Conditionals & Long Methods (Patkos Csaba)
Other Mobile Platforms
- How to use Xcode with almost any C++ project (Denis Gladkikh)
- My Future is Xamarin (Christian Helle)
- iOS Quick Tip: Adding a Custom Font to a Project (Stephen Zaharuk)
- Ingredients in a good hamburger app layout (David Washington)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Engadget Podcast 395 – 5.2.14 (Jon Turi)
- MNR 509: The ET Dig in New Mexico and more (Larry Hyrb)
- My appearance on the Home Gadget Geeks Podcast Show 165 (Michael Crump)
- SQL SERVER – How to Install SQL Server 2014 – A 99 Seconds Video (Pinal Dave)
- RavenDB Conf Videos: Abstracting RavenDB: Don’t Do It! (Oren Eini)
- TWC9:Lang.NEXT, .NET Native Performance, .NET Framework Repair Tool and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
- (Video) Installing and running the Windows Phone emulator in a Virtual Machine (Iris Classon)
- What The Tech 209: The World Is Changing (Paul Thurrott)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Gaffigan #3 (Chris Hardwick)
- The Changelog 120: Ruby tooling, chruby, ruby-install, and security with Postmodern (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
- Get Up And Code 052: The Sport of Parkour (John Sonmez)
- StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Comets and Asteroids with Dr. Amy Mainzer (Amy Mainzer)
- GeekWire Radio: Using a smartphone to help overcome your bad habits (Todd Bishop)
- Episode 139: Exploring the New Azure Portal | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (VishalRJoshi, Nathan Totten, Nick Harris & Chris)
Community / Events
- Tips for winning hackathons (Matt Harrington)
- Joe Belfiore just wrapped up his Reddit AMA, here are the highlights (Sam Sabri)
- Come party with Telerik at TechEd 2014 (Sasha Krsmanovic)
Database
- How to Change the COLLATION of a SQL Server Column (Ben Snaidero)
- SQL Authority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Feature Pack and Microsoft SQL Server Developer’s Edition (Pinal Dave)
- Managing your Azure Storage account with Zudio (Phillip Haydon)
- Big Data Basics – Part 5 – Introduction to MapReduce (Dattatrey Sindol)
- A NodeJS Perspective on What’s New in MongoDB 2.6, Part II: Aggregation $out (Valeri Karpov)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Milestone: Bill Gates no longer Microsoft’s largest shareholder, as shares dip below Ballmer’s stake (Todd Bishop)
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading May 4, 2014 (Robert Diana)
- Double Shot #1348 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading Notes #138 (Frank)
- Collective #114 (Mary Lou)
- Reblog: April 25 to May 1 (Jason Strate)
- Friday Links #302 (Mike Ward)
- Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-05 (Dan Rigby)
- Weekly Programming Digest #60 (Jakub Chodounsky)
- Community Update 2014-05-02 – #d3js, #html5, #restful best practices, #tdd and #sqlserver (Maxime Rouiller)
- Links of the month (April Edition) (Jan Hentschel)
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