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• Breaking news: HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D specification’s definition is complete! (Paul Cotton)
• Which is faster? (Eric Lippert)
• jQuery 1.9 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• WCF Data Services 5.2.0 Released (Mark Stafford)

 

Web Development

• Storing user uploads in Windows Azure blob storage (Maarten Balliauw)
• Basic Operations on Windows Azure Table in Windows Azure Storage in Storage Client Library 2.0 and Steps to Enable Windows Azure Mobile Services (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Stupid Question 106: What is MessagePack? (Iris Classon)
• CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Espen Brunborg)
• Running ASP.NET Web API with OWIN and Katana (Filip W)
• What to Expect From PHP 5.5 (Gabriel Manricks)
• CSS Click Events (Hugo Giraudel)
• Fixing the Model Binding issue of ASP.NET MVC 4 and ASP.NET Web API (Imran Baloch)
• HTML5: Server-sent events with Angular.js, Node.js and Express.js (Jos Dirksen)
• WebStorm 6 EAP Build 124.281 (K. Safonov)
• A Responsive CSS Background Image Technique (Tom Kenny)
• Setting mobile browser meta viewport tag (Mikko Ohtamaa)

 

XAML

• Getting started with Bluetooth in Windows Phone 8 (Stuart Lodge)
• Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (MS Downloads)
• Detecting Kid’s Corner in Windows Phone 8 (Adam Benoit)
• Sinking RoutedCommands to ViewModel Commands in WPF (Charles Mathis)
• F# PowerPack NuGet Packages for F# 3.0, .NET 4.x, and Silverlight 5 (Daniel Mohl)
• WPF: Compare two brushes using IsEquals (Fadi Sayyed)
• Coding4Fun Kinect Service v1.6 released (Think the "WinRT clients!" release…) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and SQL Lite: What’s the Current Situation? (Matteo Pagani)
• 2000 WPF Things #713 – Setting the Cursor to an Image of an UIElement While Dragging and #714 – Setting the Cursor to Render Some Text While Dragging (Sean Sexton)
• NDepend + Windows Store apps = Winning (Robert MacLean)
• ReactiveUI 4.2 is Released! (Paul Betts)
• Windows Store App and Remote Debugging on a Surface RT (Phillip Haydon)
• Windows 8 Persisting Conference Buddy JSON To A File and Windows 8–Grid View (Jesse Liberty)
• Stop writing INotifyPropertyChanged, start using UpdateControls (Joe White)
• How to Crop an Image using the WriteableBitmap class? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Production Cloud Profiling With Uber Prof (Oren Eini)
• Changing TFS credentials in Visual Studio 2012 (Andreas Hammar)
• Downloading the .NET Framework and Visual Studio Express Editions and SDKs (Brandon Bray)
• dotTrace 5.3 Performance, ReSharper 7.1.1 are Available (Daria Dovzhikova)
• ReSharper SDK Adventures Part 8 — Expression factoring improved (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Use NuGet package restore to simplify code sharing (Michael Kennedy)
• A quick note on Closing lambda loop variables in C# 5.0 – Breaking Changes in C# 5.0 compiler (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Linq Except Operator to Get NonEmployee And Employee collection (Santosh Poojari)
• Like the cake, WS_EX_TRANSPARENT is a lie, or at least not the entire truth (Raymond Chen)
• From the MVPs: Different deployment options in Windows 8 (Peter Ritchie)
• How to Await Just About Anything (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Motivating Yourself the Simple Way (J.D. Meier)
• Mini book: The Scrum Primer (Pete Deemer, Gabrielle Benefield, Craig Larman & Bas Vodde)
• What is the Right Size For a User Story? (Allan Kelly)
• Are Bugs Part of Technical Debt? (Jim Bird)
• Lessons from refactoring two year old code (Josh Arnold)
• Code Reviews: Small and Done by Experts (Rodrigo De Castro)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 244: Josh Harrison on Azure Access Control service (David Giard)
• Episode 208 – PowerScripting Podcast – Oisin Grehan and Keith Hill talk about the PowerShell Community Extensions (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• App Biz Dev Podcast Episode 8: Atta + Tweetro + MetroTube + Drama (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• The Tablet Show – Beth Massi Builds Mobile Apps with LightSwitch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – CM Punk (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #19 – WinDbg – OCA | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Building MVVM HTML5/JS Apps for C#/XAML Developers Webinar (Anand Raja)
• In the Community: Meet Kenny Kerr (Eric Battalio)
• 2012 API Community Survey (John Sheehan)
• Happy Holidays! Jobs in IT: A few of our engineers share why they love their jobs and appreciate Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• Getting started with the SQL Server 2012 Tabular Model – Part 2 (Arshad Ali)
• SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer TempDB Recommendations (Dan Quinones)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 10 and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Cumulative Update 4  and SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update 5 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – Auto Complete and Format T-SQL Code – Devart SQL Complete and SQL SERVER – Select the Most Optimal Backup Methods for Server (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 17: No matter how long you are on the wrong path, go back (Denis Gobo)
• Data Modeling Is Dead; Long Live Data Modeling! (Thomas LaRock)
• Drop All Tables in Database whose name begins with tmp (Madhivanan)
• Stored procedures and ORMs won’t save you from SQL injection (Troy Hunt)
• Yes, Every MongoDB Driver Supports Every Command (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis)
• Creating a Semi-additive Measure over a Parent-child Hierarchy (Koen Verbeeck)

 

Miscellaneous

• MVP Monday – Keeping Windows 8 (UI) Clean! (Winson Woo)
• On blogging, sharing and commenting (Joost van Schaik)
• 2012: A Year of Microsoft Milestones (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 17, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1024 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #75 (Frank)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 17, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: December 18, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/17/2012 and Daily News Digest 12/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1255 and The Morning Brew #1256 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-17 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-18 (Dan Rigby)
• SQLQuill – Link Round Up – December 2012 Edition (Andy Lohn)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 17 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 17 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #49) (Craig Kitterman)

 

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