Todd Meinershagen

• httparty-with-cookies - Automatic cookie management for your httparty requests.
• Levelling up in Ruby/Rails - for free - Sources for experienced developers to brush up on their skills.
• How to Build an App in 48 Hours - Advice for those gearing up to participate in the Rails Rumble.
• Sword - Server for developing static sites with automatic handling of things like Sass and CoffeeScript.
• Rails configuration in the proper way - Leveraging configuration files to clean up your code.
• Rails 3.2.15 has been released! - A version bump for what's probably still the most popular Rails version.

Top Links

• How To Manage API Keys in a Windows Phone App (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Immutable collections ready for prime time (Immo Landwerth)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day Eight – Dealing With Defects (James Bender)
• Perception is Reality–The state of OSS in .NET (Jimmy Bogard)

Web Development

• Pro ASP.NET Web API Book is Shipped and Available on Amazon (Ali Tugberk Ugurlu)
• jQuery Expand/Collapse Using Head Tags (Dave M. Bush)
• Special syntax for data-win-options strings with WinJS controls (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Built-in Local Terminal in PhpStorm 7 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Bing and Power BI for Office 365 preview (Bing Team)
• The HTML5 Scorecard: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in iOS7 (Michael Mullany)
• Problem/Solution: Error in publishing ASP.NET MVC with MvcBuildViews ON from Visual Studio 2012 (Michael Sync)
• Why to declare JavaScript Variables On Top of Functions and WebAPI with SPA (Single Page JavaScript) Specifically ExtJS and Sencha Touch (Peter Kellner)
• Aiming for a Truly Responsive Web Experience (Dino Esposito)
• What Time Is It? Global Time (Steve Lasker)
• Releases API Preview (Rick Olson)
• KendoUI tips and tricks on Dates in a Grid (Onobai)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #915 – Delaying Generation of Expander Content (Sean Sexton)
• Unirest-RT – Simplified, lightweight HTTP library for Windows 8 RT (Michael Sync)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Tip: Use Ctrl_I for Quick Searches (Peter Vogel)
• Challenge: Spot the bug (Oren Eini)
• Why is My Visual Studio Slow To Start? (Phil Japikse)
• Crypto Obfuscator Evaluation (Anthony Trudeau)
• Kinect for Windows Dev Center (Greg Duncan)
• How can I tell that somebody used the MAKEINTRESOURCE macro to smuggle an integer inside a pointer? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #939 – Not All Objects on Heap Are Promoted to Next GC Generation (Sean Sexton)
• Nest embraces developers, launches API (Katie Fehrenbacher)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Threat of the Stabilization Phase (Gregg Boer)
• Code Reviews Change Over Time (Jim Bird)
• UX Design Libaries and UX Design Library – Investment In Time and Creating a UX Component Library (Matt Davey)
• Measuring Development Trends (Patrick Smacchia)
• Design Improvement: Avoiding Stale Releases (Richard Muscat)

Other Mobile Platforms

• VirtualBox Android Emulation Works Faster (Alec Noller)
• iOS Fortnightly Tutorial: A Simple Weather App, Part 2 (Joey deVilla)
• Simplifying Persistence with a Document Database (Zack Gramana)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 242 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski and Geoff Dalgas on DSC and Stack Overflow (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Devnology podcast 040 – Commitment (Olav Maassen, Chris Matts & Chris Geary)

Community / Events

• An Interview with PhoneGap Refcard Author Raymond Camden (Allen Coin)
• Monday Night Networking at the 2013 PASS Summit (Andy Warren)
• A Coder Interview With Mike Meinz (CodeProject)
• Geek of the Week: Miguel Gomez of VIVA VIDEO! (Dan)
• Free software, services, and support for entrepreneurs and independent developers (David C. Chou)
• Why the red dress? (MS JobsBlog)
• MVPs Present at the 2013 CloudBurst Conference (MVP Award Program)

Database

• #0298 – SQL Server – complex CHECK constraints (Nakul Vachhrajani)
• Determining who is viewing reports in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Dallas Snider)
• Natively Compiled Tables in SQL Server 2014 (Jonathan Allen)
• SQL SERVER – Select Columns from Stored Procedure Resultset (Pinal Dave)
• AdventureWorks2012 Bug on Azure (Grant Fritchey)
• Red Gate goes SQL Loco for OSS Projects… (Greg Duncan)

SharePoint

• Use SharePoint permission management to create various roles in an app for SharePoint (Chenxiao Li, Yu He & Tony Liu)
• SharePointGwe – A lightweight eventreceiver-driven alternative to the windows workflow engine for SharePoint (Pete Weissbrod)

Miscellaneous

• Bug guys meets math from scratch (Eric Lippert)
• Run, don’t walk, to learn TouchDevelop with RoboRun (Greg Duncan)
• Finally: Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake (Taylor Soper)
• Kindle Fire HDX 7 vs Nexus 7 (2013) vs Apple iPad mini (Phone Arena Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 25, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/26/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1450 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for Sep 25, 2013 – #0193 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 8 (G. Andrew Duthie)

The Geek Shelf

Top Links

• Ballmer’s big bet will reshape Microsoft — with no shortage of risk (Todd Bishop)
• Nokia’s Lumia 1020: everything you need to know (Dante D’Orazio)
• Q&A: How Nokia and Microsoft collaborated to create the groundbreaking new Lumia 1020 with Windows Phone 8 (Michael Stroh)
• Nokia Imaging SDK – Now Available (Emilio Salvador Prieto)

Web Development

• Deleting a Storage Account from Windows Azure – The right way ! (Anup SivaDas)
• Scaling Up and Scaling Out in Windows Azure Web Sites (Craig Kitterman)
• Knockout JS, Attr Binding and Radio Button Values (Derik Whittaker)
• 7 Advantages of HTML5 Mobile Apps (Eric Genesky)
• Are You Serving Files Insecurely in ASP.NET (Filip Ekberg)
• 4 Tricks for Smaller CSS in Sencha Touch 2.2 (Ivan Jouikov)
• HTML5 History API: A Syntax Primer (Louis Lazaris)
• jQueryRotate 2.3 (Pawel Witkowski)
• Great new samples and tutorials for Mobile Services integration scenarios (Glenn Gailey)
• Image Filters and Media Profiles in Orchard CMS Media Processing (David Hayden)
• Eight Cool Features Coming in ES6 (Maciej Sopyło)
• The Current and Future Performance of the Mobile Web (Zef Hemel)
• ECMAScript 6 and Proxy (Ariya Hidayat)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #862 – Changing Default Tooltip Delay for all Applications (Sean Sexton)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #8: Files & Tiles (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• [Sample Of Jul 11th] Extract and convert audio file by using Expression Encoder SDK (Philip Fu)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: tries++ (Oren Eini)
• WCF LOB Adapter SDK 2013 (MS Downloads)
• Instrumenting Your Application to Measure its Performance Part 7 Injecting EventSource into WCF Service Calls (Dan Moyer)
• Issue [ TFS 2013 ] You need elevated privileges to install InRelease and Issue [ TFS 2013 InRelease ] You get TF400324 when connecting InRelease to TFS and Issue [ TFS 2013 ] InRelease account requires make requests on behalf of others (Martin Hinshelwood)
• C# Regex for Parsing Known texts (William Wegerson)
• “Enable Edit and Continue” debugging option is now on by default for new web applications in VS2013 preview (Xinyang Qiu)
• New open source releases: Reactive Extensions (Rx) libraries for Python and Ruby (Brian Benz)
• Lock vs. Mutex (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #886 – Setting the HelpLink Property when You Throw an Exception (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• If Scrum Doesn’t Work For You, Should You Try Kanban? (Allan Kelly)
• Primary and Secondary Greatness and Steve Ballmer On a Big Vision — To Help People Realize Their Full Potential (JD Meier)
• The Chain of Responsibility Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
• The Flexible Schedule. Potential Project Killers. Part 5 (Brad Egeland)
• Six Ways to Make Your Peer Code Reviews More Effective (Emma Jane Westby)
• Best Practices for Source Code Control (Raghuveer Gopalakrishnan)
• Test Studio 2013 R1 – Must I Record Using Multiple Browsers? (Steven Vore)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Working With Radio Buttons In Sencha Touch Form Panels (Peter Kellner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Inside Windows Phone – Motion design using the Windows Phone Toolkit (Larry Lieberman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tig Notaro (Chris Hardwick)
• The Engadget Interview: Nokia’s Stephen Elop on the Lumia 1020 (Brian Heater)
• The Vergecast 084 – July 11th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 184 – 07.11.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 97 (Richard Hay)
• Edge Show 67 – Networking with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager | Edge (Symon Perriman)

Community / Events

• Northwest Cadence Presents: Introduction to Kanban and Northwest Cadence Presents: Agile Development using Visual Studio ALM (MS Public Sector Team)
• The Power of Teaching Online (Aaron Skonnard)
• Quick news: Jump Start July 18 – Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 (Kim Spilker)
• Imagine Cup alum becomes intern (MS JobsBlog)
• MVP Award & Why Communities Rock (MVP Award Program)
• Winners of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013 announced (Steve Wiens)

Database

• Use SQL Server’s UNPIVOT operator to help normalize output (Aaron Bertrand)
• MySQL – Learning MySQL Online in 6 Hours – MySQL Fundamentals in 320 Minutes (Pinal Dave)
• Article: Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1 (Seth Proctor)

SharePoint

• Deploying SP2013 provider-hosted apps/Remote Event Receivers to Azure Websites (for Office 365 apps) (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Get CPU Details and its Usage (Prashanth Jayaram)

Miscellaneous

• Nokia Pro Camera tells you when you’re going to ruin your photo (Daniel Rubino)
• Exclusive: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on Why the $300 Lumia 1020 Is a Camera Phone Worth a Premium Price (Video) (Ina Fried)
• Tuts+ Premium Mid-Year Sale – 25% off Yearly Subscriptions (Joel Bankhead)
• Steve Ballmer begins Town Hall Meetings with Microsoft Employees Concerning Reorganization (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone 8 GDR2 update detailed on official website (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, July 11th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 11, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: June 4th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Double Shot #1161 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1397 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 12, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Dev News for July 11, 2013 – #0170 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf