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Top Links

• New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Implicit Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• Improving developer productivity with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Visual Studio Team)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 has been released (Denis Gobo)
• Modernizr.js (K. Scott Allen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Comparing Profiler Performance Reports in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Kinecting with F# (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a "Safer" Task Dispose() (James Michael Hare)
• WCF REST tip 3: WebOperationContext (Pieter de Rycke)
• Additional Mime Types in Visual Studio 2010 Development Web Server (Shawn Cicoria)
• Authoring Type Providers with the TypeProviderDSL from FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
• Windows 8 Metro declarations: Protocol (Andrej Tozon)
• Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh and Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• Generic Types and Static Members (Abhishek Sur)
• WASABi scale groups (Grigori Melnik)
• Spatial Data Introduced to Entity Framework (Jenni Ripley)

 

Web Development

• Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 3: The Video (Derick Bailey)
• Pondering Amazon Silk (Chris Love)
• Integrating Facebook Authentication for your website using WebMatrix 2 Beta (Harish Ranganathan)
• A review of Crafting Rails Applications (Luca Pette)
• Debug command line scripts with PhpStorm 2.1 (Nikolay Matveev)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.4.0 (CodePlex)
• O Reilly – Deals of the day 7/Oct/2011 – 50% off HTML5 books and 2 free books (Tatworth)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Get a Free Chapter of The Art of Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Book review: The Art of Unit Testing (Jef Claes)
• Updates on the Latest Quince Release (Amy Quinn)
• How mocks can cut down on test maintenance (Brian Marick)
• How to make software development decisions based on facts (Laila Lotfi)
• Theories And Technologies Are Not Solutions (Rob Diana)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 9: The Repository Pattern + Source Code Is In! (Evan Hutnick)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Binding to HubTile Events using MVVM Light EventToCommand (Windows Phone Geek)
• Optimizing Windows Phone 7 Applications (Part 1) (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• Windows Phone 7.1(5) "Controls and Toolkits" cheat sheet (Greg Duncan)
• Migrating From WP7 To Mango–Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)
• MadProps.MvvmLight 2.0.0 (Matt Hamilton)
• Using screenshot and camera feed to create funny Windows Phone 7 pictures (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #403 – The Order of DockPanel Children Matters (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Silverlight Poor Man’s Double-Tap (Tim Murphy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Mahmoud Saleh – Advanced CRT (Charles Torre)
• Episode 161 – PowerScripting Podcast – Gaurav Mantri from Cerebrata and their Azure Management Cmdlets (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Mobile 1.0rc1, JavaScript books, and new libraries (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Micah Baldwin Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 107 – 10.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #122: Mark Smith and Adam Wride, founders of DigMyData (Bob Walsh)
• Play by Play: Ryan Singer: UI Prototyping (Peepcode)
• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Risk and Innovation (The Takeaway)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Garage at Richmond Code Camp (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Reminder: RavenDB and NHibernate courses–New York coming up (Oren Eini)
• New England Code Camp–Sweet Sixteen (Jim O’Neil)
• Winnipeg Code Camp 2012 Date (D’Arcy Lussier)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP3 Reporting Services Report Builder and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server CE (Compact Edition) (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Views and Metadata (Ted Krueger)
• Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy (Eric Humphrey)
• Expiring Databases and Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)

 

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• APress Deal of the Day – 7/Oct/2011 – Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010 (Tatworth)
• Always pay attention to uniqueness to SQL Index (Gian Maria Ricci)

 

PowerShell

• Recordings from the First PowerShell Deep Dive (Travis Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Sharing Vim Configuration Between Machines (Ben Scheirman)
• Samsung Series 7 Slate now up for pre-orders, shipping date still MIA (Jesse Hicks)
• Setting procmon to put logs in the TEMP folder (John Guin)

 

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 123 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #725 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #954 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 6, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily Links 06/10/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 10/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 5-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More by Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek