A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T.

Dirk Strauss

Feature link: Microsoft Announces Skype Insiders Program

• Skype insiders program announced by Microsoft via Kunal-Chowdhury.com

Other

• Microsoft Is Now ‘Open by Default’, Says Xamarin Founder Miguel de Icaza via Hacker News
• New MacBook Pro sales are surging via Hacker News
• 3 ways a Trump presidency will affect Apple via Business Insider
• Neural Networks for the Prediction of Organic Chemistry Reactions via Hacker News
• Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals the biggest threat to mankind via Business Insider
• Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian says Twitter hashtags ‘are one of the greatest farces ever foisted upon us’ via Business Insider
• Ireland doesn’t want to take €13 billion from Apple — so it’s going to court via Business Insider
• CodeSOD: Repeat Delete via The Daily WTF
• 5 Instagram Marketing Tools Your Business Needs via Lifehack
• 7 Websites Every Psychologist Should Bookmark via Lifehack
• The price of bitcoin is rocketing on Trump’s shock win via Business Insider
• 14 Tech Tools for Your Coworking Space via Hacker News
• Canadian immigration site crash via Hacker News
• I Am Mark Zuckerberg via Digg Top Stories
• More struggles at Google’s parent company as Alphabet scales back its drone plans via Business Insider
• What It Will Actually Be Like To Ride The Hyperloop* via Digg Top Stories
• Google tech guru Urs Hölzle explained the company’s plan to beat one of the oldest laws of technology via Business Insider
• Fake iPhone Apps Are Another Sign Of Apple’s Slipping Standards via Digg Top Stories
• ‘Snowden’ actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the US election and meeting the NSA whistleblower via Business Insider
• A man who worked for the CIA for 15 years tells us what it was really like to have a top-secret job via Business Insider
• Here’s the Slack-sized mountain Microsoft’s new chat app will have to climb via Business Insider
• ASSANGE: I do not have ‘a personal desire to influence the outcome of the election’ via Business Insider
• During a mindfulness program developed at Google, I heard a key insight about meditation that makes it a lot less frustrating via Business Insider
• How LinkedIn Drove a Wedge Between Microsoft and Salesforce via Hacker News

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Even More

• This terrifying homemade USB killer will instantly kill your computer via The Next Web
• MacBook Pro cruises through the competition as Apple outsells all laptop manufacturers via The Next Web
• Fox Is Scrambling to Reboot Its X-Men Franchise: Report via Gizmodo
• Tech industry tries to cope with the reality of a Trump presidency via GeekWire
• Add ‘social media guru’ to your resume with the Social Media Marketing Course & Certification via The Next Web
• Researchers Just Created the Most Amazing Lip-Reading Software via Gizmodo
• Canada’s immigration website has crashed via The Next Web
• 4 common mistakes customers make when transitioning to cloud hosting via ReadWrite
• Apple is working on a secret iPhone feature to get you out of sticky situations via The Next Web
• App of the Week: Anchor aims to be the Twitter of audio sharing via GeekWire
• Asus Should Never Ever Tweet via Gizmodo
• Facebook mystery with missing man and woman is now officially a murder case via The Next Web
• It’s time to stop using the ? emoji via The Next Web

Programming

• Comparing two tables with millions of rows via CodeProject Latest Articles
• How to do OO programming with C in a simple and effective way via CodeProject Latest Articles
• SQL Split String Function (STRING_SPLIT in 2016) via CodeProject Latest Articles
• Synchronizing NOT NULL Columns via CodeProject Latest Articles
• Synchronizing SQL Server data using rowversion via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• Exam study material for Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012/2014 Databases (Exam 70-462) via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• Automating deployment of ASP.NET Core to Azure App Service from Linux via CodeProject Latest Articles
• Presentation: From Imperative to Reactive Web Apps via InfoQ
• Presentation: DDD & REST – Domain Driven APIs for the Web via InfoQ
• MVP Summit Day 1 via robmiles.com
• How to show a specific View at application startup, right after the logon window or after loading the main window via News, tips, tricks and more about DevExpress eXpressApp Framework (XAF) directly from the lab
• Learning C# (Day 10): Delegates in C# (A Practical Approach) via CodeProject Latest Articles
• Story of Equality in .NET – Part 4 via CodeProject Latest Articles
• How to migrate DevExpress XAF SecuritySystemUser to PermissionPolicyUser via CodeProject Latest Articles
• Responsive Applications with Asynchronous Programming via CodeProject Latest Articles

Podcasts

• Listener Question: Donovan Asks About Analysis Paralysis via Developer Tea
• Reflections of an Old Programmer with Ben Northrup via Software Engineering Daily
• Building Mobile Apps using MFractor with Matthew Robbins via .NET Rocks!

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Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 Goodness

• Windows 10 courses in MVA, Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Developer for Windows 10
  • What’s New
  • Get Started
  • Design
  • Develop
  • Publish
• Channel 9 – A great online resource for Windows 10 related videos
• Developer Tools Download,Download any Visual Studio sku’s, including VS 2015

For more excellent content, have a look at these great sites

• The week in .NET, Bertrand Le Roy
• Abhijit’s World of .NET,Abhijit Jana
• Kunal Chowdhury’s Technical Blog
• Lock Me Down – Security For The Everyday Developer by Max McCarty
• GeekLift
• James Michael Hare
• Interesting Finds by Jason Haley
• FormatException by Brian Mullen
• Dew Drop by Alvin Ashcraft
• Regular Geek by Robert Diana