• Windows Phone 8 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Setting Up Git on Windows in Four Easy Steps (Adam Feber)
• A Handy Script For Compiling CoffeeScript On The Fly (Rob Conery)
• Clean Up NuGet Dependencies With Chewie (Ian Davis)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way (Oren Eini)
• Retrieve and Update YouTube Content in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Visual Expression Builder for Dynamic Linq (Rabb Moshe Plotkin)
• 30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
• How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11 (Willy-Peter Schaub)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro (Jason Jarrett)
• Naming Conventions in JustCode (JustCode Team)
• Reviewing 70-562 .NET Framework 3.5 Preparation Kit from uCertify (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0-Intellisense Improvements (Blake Niemyjski)
• Rx – DistinctUntilChanged (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Node.js, Require and Exports (Karl Seguin)
• The Telerik Q1 2012 MVC Beta is here with new Area chart and galore of charting features (Stefan Rahnev)
• HTML5 and the Web Audio API are BFFs! (Eric Bidelman)
• CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Inside the CSS WG: A New Reality Series (Molly E. Holzschlag)
• HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive (Peter Kellner)
• Creating a Vertical CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
• Umbraco v5 released (The "OMG, it’s really fast now" version) (Greg Duncan)
• Using PHP to Add Content to Plain Text (Scott Eiler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: But I’m not a .NET developer (Giles Davies)
• The Science of Kanban – Conclusions (Karl Scotland)
• Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)
• Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
• Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests (Piotr Solnica)
• Talking to Customers: What a Concept (Patrick Foley)
• How To: Get all test points assigned to you? (Gautam Goenka)
• A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development (Mike Cottmeyer)
• When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need the information for (Raymond Chen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Daddy, tell me a story of how VB, WP7, Azure and my photos can be combined in the cloud to create a video story… (Greg Duncan)
• Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2 (Rabeb Othmani)
• 2000 WPF Things #487 – Specify DrawingAttributes When Drawing to an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker (Andy Wigley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 053 – “5.9″, QUAD CORE, NFC, 3D, LTE, 128GB Windows Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Let’s Play TDD #161: The UserEnteredDollars Value Object (James Shore)
• Inside Windows Phone #31 | Windows Phone Partners (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Larry Lieberman)
• Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• MADExpo 2012 Call for Speakers is Open! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do (Jeff Atwood)
• Sharpen your Ninja Skills with Telerik Webinars from Feb20 – Feb 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• SQL Server – COPY TABLE from another SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
• Learn about the new SQL Server Data Tools from the original DataDude (Richard Erwin)
• SQL Server NOLOCK (Tom Stickel)
• Don’t Splint Your Database Server To Death (Mike Walsh)
• Sniff that Parameter (Chris Yates)
• Ready for SQL Azure? New Service Tells You (David Ramel)
• Quick Review of Backup tools for SQL Azure (Herve Roggero)

SharePoint

• So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products – Happy Days (Joel Oleson)
• Using Twilio with SharePoint to send SMS messages (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 consumer preview (Beta) installation screenshots leaked (Ankur Mittal)
• The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
• Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from? (Ed Bott)
• I’m from the Cloud and I’m here to help… No really, trust me… Looking at Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" (Greg Duncan)
• New Social APIs in Android ICS (Tim Bray)
• Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work! (Kent Nguyen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 2 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #810 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1036 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-02 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 02, 2012 – #0035 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012 (Beth Massi)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus by Juval Lowy

• Kinect for Windows is now Available! (Craig Eisler)
• One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman)
• jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Learn jQuery in 30 Days (Jeffrey Way)
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 Released (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension (Giles Davies)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Face Recognation in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C# (Rick Strahl)
• Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows – Details of API Changes from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows Support Info Coming Soon (Rob Relyea)
• How to access a WCF Service behind ISA Server 2006 Forms Based Authentication (Stacy Vicknair)
• Enhancements to /GS in Visual Studio 11 (vcblog)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.4 Beta 2 (VS2010 Support) (Codeplex)
• Simplify Your Projections with AutoMapper (Patrick Steele)
• StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released (TATWORTH)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Enum Metadata Library (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Chain Validation Rules In An Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Environment (Ben Nadel)
• 2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries (John Papa)
• Creating the Perfect ASP.NET UI with Web Parts and User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• On the Viability of HTML5 Games (Dave Mahon)
• How to create animated tooltips with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
• ASP.net MVC Awesome – jQuery Ajax Helpers 2.0 and ProDinner – ASP.NET MVC Sample (EF4, N-Tier, jQuery) – Release Seven (CodePlex)
• An Ultimate HTML5 Cheat Sheet for Developers (Amit)
• My five favorite "hidden" features in Rails 3.2 (José Valim)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 4 – Transformations (G. Andrew Duthie)
• psd.js: You Guessed It – A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript (Devon Govett)
• Authenticating & Working with the Salesforce REST API & OAuth (Andrew Connell)
• Why External Links Should Open in New Tabs (Anthony)
• Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Firebug 1.9.1 (Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko)
• Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Process (Karl Scotland)
• Hand Drawn UI Kit (Vladimir Carrer)
• The Open Group Releases ArchiMate 2.0 (Mike Walker)
• The top mistakes UX designers make: the writeup (Scott Berkun)
• Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback (Tapas)
• Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way (Derick Bailey)
• Software engineering—what’s missing? (Eric Brechner)
• Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App (Julie Stanford)
• [Review] – Mike Cohn’s eLearning Agile Videos (Peter Saddington)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Code to send game invite to multiple user in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins (Jeff Wilcox)
• Codeproject Windows Phone Application (Lakamraju Raghuram)
• Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #485 – Binding a ComboBox to an Enumerated Type’s List of Values (Sean Sexton)
• Top 10 Mango Features Article (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Memory Profiling for Application Performance (Pratap Lakshman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 81: Looking at the Next .NET Compilers AKA “Roslyn” Project (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 174 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Graeber using PowerShell in Infosec (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• HTML5 WebCamp Training VIDEO Available (Doris Chen)
• Let’s Play TDD #160: End of Week 1 (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – Backbone.js 0.9.0 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF (Jesse Liberty)
• The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (Ken Denmead)
• Engadget HD Podcast 284 – 01.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Talking Cloud with ASP.NET/IIS MVP Eduardo Zabat Lorenzo (MVP Award Program)
• Agile .NET Conference in Dallas this month (Caleb Jenkins)
• Join the Conversation with Bill (The Gates Notes)
• Join Me for Lunch in Chicago on March 23rd (Brent Ozar)
• Call for Sessions for PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 – San Diego, CA – April 29 – May 2 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• February Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• February Meeting Announcement (Don Burnett)
• Windows Azure + Node.js at NY Alt.NET (Peter Laudati)

Database

• "Introducing SQL Server 2012" second draft of free eBook now available (6 of the 10 final chapters) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server – Send email using Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• 6 ways to get free SQL Server 2012 Training (John Sterrett)
• SQL SERVER – What is Slowly Changing Dimension – Quiz – Puzzle – 31 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Laying a Strong Foundation (John Sansom)

SharePoint

• Mobile SharePoint: Infragistics Acquires SouthLabs for End-to-End iPad, Android & Blackberry SharePoint Experience (Jason Beres)

PowerShell

• Prompts and Directories – Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary of Microsoft Certifications (MS PressPass)
• The Microsoft Interview Process (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Using the Group Project Toolkit, Office Web Apps and SkyDrive to take some of the coordination nightmare out of group projects… (Greg Duncan)
• Great time to be a developer (Joshua Flanagan)
• Software Security Weekly (Mark Curphey)
• Microsoft’s Office 15: To Metro or not to Metro? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tekpub Update: January 2012 (Rob Conery)
• Skype for Windows Phone app to begin beta testing soon, release imminent (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.20 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Monthly Summary – January 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Double Shot #808 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1034 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for January 31, 2012 – #0034 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 31 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK by Jarrett Webb

• Supporting sensors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Get involved in Open Source today – How to contribute a patch to a GitHub hosted Open Source project like Code 52 (Scott Hanselman)
• Now, more than ever, you need a designer (Pete Brown)
• 01. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – The Team and Activities and 02. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Regression Test Sets and 03. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Test Automation and 04. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Undone Backlog Item (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the Cloud – My Experience So Far (Buck Woody)
• LINQ to Twitter v2.0.23 Released (Joe Mayo)
• Rx – Aggregate vs. Scan (Bnaya Eshet)
• Sinister Bug is Sinister (Bobby Johnson)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection (Jeff Martin)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentQueue (Simon Cooper)
• Enumerations And The CStr Function (Jesse Taber)
• What’s New In The Latest JustCode Internal Build (JustCode Team)
• Review – ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework (Brian Muirhead)

Web Development

• Resumable.js: Fault Tolerant Resumable File Uploads in JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC views (Rachel Appel)
• Using oData with jQuery Hierarchical Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• JavaScript for C# developers: coercion (Julian M. Bucknall)
• More dynamic JavaScript value inspection (Christian Krebs)
• Some Thoughts On Functional JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Find the jQuery Bug #2: Point of No Return (Elijah Manor)
• Using HTML5, web sockets and some C# to build a multiplayer Space Shoot[er] (Greg Duncan)
• jQuery Grids in MVC with Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
• Arctext.js – Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Form Template Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript Performance: for vs. while (Stoimen Popov)
• Rant: That’s Not Rest. (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Server-Sent Events (Remy Sharp)
• Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing Using SendGrid for Windows Azure Customers (Brian Goldfarb)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: xizzle (Jason Jarrett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to use Pex and Moles to generate unit tests for a project having external dependency(WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Atul Verma)
• Coming Soon: A New Perspective in Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Picking a domain for CQRS Journey RI (Grigori Melnik)
• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• The Rise of the Front End Developers (Veera Sundar)
• Ask Ayende: Handling filtering (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned while Introducing a New Programming Language (Jay C. Fields)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure – part 3: Remote Desktop (Larry Franks)
• Developer machine automation: Dependencies (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Missing Silverlight Resources and ASP.Net security (Derik Whittaker)
• See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer (Gil Yoder)
• Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Review of “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #480 – ZIndex Values and Render Transforms (Sean Sexton)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release: v2.5 (CodePlex)
• PivotViewer Basics : Basic Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
• Caliburn Micro Part 3: More About Events and Parameters (Jason)
• Fixing the [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Troy Hunt Secures ASP.NET (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview sessions and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Introduction (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Boagworld: Does your labelling cause confusion? (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 102: What Would You Do? (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 182: Domain-Specific Languages with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons (SE-Radio Team)
• Mike Downey on the HTML5 Player Framework (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• MVP Summit 2012 MVP 2 MVP Languages Sessions (Joseph Guadagno)
• My upcoming Talk: Introducing PRISM/MEF for the Agile Developer – February 2012 (Sam Abraham)
• First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond (Don Syme)
• Windows Azure User Groups in NYC and NJ (Peter Laudati)
• Philly Nerd Nite on the radio (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• GitHub Drinkup in Atlanta (Steve Smith)
• Talking Cloud with Windows Azure MVP Anton Staykov (MVP Award Program)
• Thinking About Developer Events (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows Azure and Cloud9 IDE at Node Summit (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft to replace Mix with a new developer conference (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Correct Value for Fillfactor – Quiz – Puzzle – 24 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Many-to-Many Relationships and Partition Slices (Chris Webb)
• Take advantage of Database Mirroring in your applications and Automating Index Statistics Collection (Ted Krueger)
• Cheatsheet: Relational Database Management Systems Comparison (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

• Creating a custom XML indexing connector for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hacking and Securing iOS Applications – $9.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RedHawk to be part of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, too? (Mary Jo Foley)
• New WPAppInfo web site by WindowsPhoneGeek (Windows Phone Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #803 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1029 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/24/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/25/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 16-22, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-24 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• Getting Started with Mobile Web Development Using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Rachel Appel)
• Upcoming T-SQL Toolbar and Context menu changes (Sam Hughes)
• Very handy utility – hurl.it (Eric Nelson)
• Making testing in Visual Studio demon hot… New RedGate ".NET Demon" Visual Studio Extension beta (Greg Duncan)
• 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides (Jon Galloway)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Top Visual Studio Extensions (Prashant Khandelwal)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: If you won’t respect the database, there will be pain (Oren Eini)
• How to use INTERNET_OPTION_SERVER_CERT_CHAIN_CONTEXT with InternetQueryOption in C# (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• TFS11 on Azure January 2012 update – request feedback (Clemens Reijnen)
• New Article: Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure Service Bus Queues – Compared and Contrasted (Valery Mizonov)
• Mapping and Location with Monotouch on DevProConnections web site (Wally McClure)
• How Nuget could improve (Paul Stack)
• Displaying a Map of the Current Location with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions (Ben Nadel)
• Working with HTML tables using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
• Style sheet strong arm: Reset.css versus Normalization.css (Eric Newton)
• Kinect, HTML5, WebSockets and Canvas (Greg Duncan)
• The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Interface (Giorgio Sironi)
• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4: slides and demo are now online (Simone Chiaretta)
• URI segments, dots, REST, and a .NET bug (Christopher Smith)
• You Tube API – recall Video Meta files with .NET (Code Inside Team)
• jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
• New Web Workbench features (Ivan Towlson)
• The Principles of Web API Usage (Janet Wagner)
• How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure (Aaron Stannard)
• WebClient/WebRequest threading untangled (Andreas Hammar)
• One Azure Web Role, Multiple Websites (Brian Hitney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Testing In An Agile World" Article Posted On Developer Fusion (Malcolm Anderson)
• What is the roll of the Project Manager in Scrum? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
• Git Cheat Sheet (Mark Curphey)
• Open Group Publishes its First Cloud and International SOA Standards (Mike Walker)
• FAQ: What is the difference between “Assigned To” and “Tester” in MTM? (Gautam Goenka)
• An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
• Testing framework is not just for writing… tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 2000 WPF Things #475 – Child Elements in Canvas Can Overlap (Sean Sexton)
• Free ly: Using Expression Design with Expression Blend an XAML and Free Water Scroll Viewer for Expression (Surf4Fun)
• Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control (Morten Nielsen)
• Calling Navigate From The View Model (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gillmor Gang 01.17.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Let’s Play TDD #159: How Do We Store Data? (James Shore)
• Boagworld: Create a consistent user experience across all online channels (Paul Boag)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #130: Timo Rein, Cofounder of Pipedrive (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• Developing Windows Phone Apps Webcasts on Jan. 24 and Jan. 26, 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
• Thank you Nestor Portillo for your Years of Leadership and Service to the MVP Award Program (MVP Award Program)
• Welcome to My New Blog (Elijah Manor)
• Speaking at Hub City NUG Thursday Jan 19th 2012 (Keith Elder)

Database

• CTE command In Sql Server (Vivek Johari)
• Windows 8, ReFS and SQL Server (Denny Cherry)
• SQL SERVER – Various Ways to Create Constraints – Quiz – Puzzle – 17 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• ORAPOCO: ORM Light to work with Oracle (J. Torrecilla)

Miscellaneous

• IPv6: countdown to launch (Erik Kline)
• SkyDrive and Office: 7 tips for full-powered collaboration in the cloud across PCs and Macs (Anand Babu)
• New ReFS File System Will Debut in Windows Server 8, Not Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)
• Microspeak: Walls and ladders (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1024 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #5 (Devon Govett)
• January 17th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Double Shot #798 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad by Dan Pilone

• Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS (Steven Sinofsky)
• Eduasync part 19: ordering by completion, ahead of time… (Jon Skeet)
• What is the defining characteristic of a local variable? (Eric Lippert)
• Struct vs. Class, Safety vs. Speed (Bill Wagner)
• A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs (Jeff Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Generic Equality Comparer for LINQ (Richard Carr)
• LINQ to SQL – Mapping Stored Procedure with Multiple Results (Hiren Khirsaria)
• Team Foundation Backup Plan Not Working in Administration Console (Shai Raiten)
• EF 4.3 Gets Code First Migrations But No Enum Support (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Shining a ray of light with Azure… Using Azure to create your own ray tracer (Greg Duncan)
• Getting values into a string (John Rayner)
• Getting Started Building iOS Applications with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)
• developerFusion Article: An Introduction to FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
• StyleCop+ 1.6 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Refactoring Common API Functionality Into A Node.js Proxy (Karl Seguin)
• Dynamic ViewState in ASP.Net WebForms (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• HTML 5 Canvas Cheatsheet from DZone /Refcardz (Greg Duncan)
• Diving Deep: ASP.NET Membership and the new Universal Providers (Harish Ranganathan)
• Gate 0.2.1 implementation of OWIN online at NuGet (Louis DeJardin)
• The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
• jQuery Accordion Control Musings (Becky Isserman)
• Json serialization – RPC style in MVC (Nuri Halperin)
• AppEngine Thoughts, or “How to support a cloud” (Kyle Baley)
• jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
• On EventEmitter In node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Resolution Independence With SVG (David Bushell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
• Use tasks you have to do around the house to improve your development skills (John V. Petersen)
• DZone Top Article of 2011: 7 Tenets Of Framework Selection (Rob Diana)
• Adapting to Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection (Filip Ekberg)
• FAQ: Why are my tests not included in the test run? (Gautam Goenka)
• Origins of the Craft : Iterative / Incremental (David Starr)
• How Do You Pick Open Source Libraries? (Davy Brion)
• Our evolution of story cards (Mark Pearl)
• TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 3: In, Out, and Around (Michael Sorens)
• Approval testing – value for the money (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
• Marines vs. Boy Scouts (Chris Brandsma)
• Arrange – Act – Assert: Intuitive Testing for .NET (Christopher Smith)
• Estimating Work Items by Hours–Idiotic You Say? (D’Arcy Lussier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to add Panorama to existing WP7 project (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF Data Chart to PDF (Tom Puglisi)
• A WPF Spinner Custom Control (Barry Lapthorn)
• Highway To The Danger Zone (Pete Seale)
• Metro Snack #1: Choosing XAML or HTML5 for Windows Developer Preview apps (Brent Schooley)
• Windows Phone: 30 to Launch (Chris Koenig)
• 10 Laps Around Silverlight 5 e-Book available to download for FREE. (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets (Andrea Boschin)
• Getting your WP7 Desktop integration out of park with PAARC, the Phone as a Remote Control library (Greg Duncan)
• Generating a LINQ to SQL DataContext for VS Express for Windows Phone (Erik EJ)
• MVVM Series: Part I (Steve Adey)
• Windows Phone Native Series – Solving "Fatal error LNK1112: module machine type ‘ARM’ conflicts with target machine type ‘X86′" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How to Create a LightSwitch Application that Works with SharePoint Data (Marat Bakirov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Willeke Does Reporting at DevConnections and The Tablet Show – John Sonmez Compares iOS and Android Tools (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 172 – PowerScripting Podcast – vCenter Orchestrator (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Ping 128: CES, Windows Phone Devs make $$, Kinect for Windows, Mango & Nokia news (Laura Foy)
• Free on-demand ASP.Net 4/Visual Studio 2010 training course (in 55 videos) (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 16th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Heroines Emerge Mini-Conference 2012 (Ubelly)
• Meet Marino Posadas – Visual C# MVP from Spain (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• My Adventures in HTML5 Gaming and Are you a student? Check out the Big App On Campus Contest! (Dave Isbitski)
• HTML5 Canvas Refcard – Meet the Author: Simon Sarris (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Webstock 2012 Less Than A Month Away (Nigel Parker)
• NuCon 2012, Irvine, CA (David Barrett)
• Webinar: Using Typemock Isolator Effectively (Avi Kaye)
• Good Science’s Shannon Loftis: Gaming as critical work (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference between CHAR, VARCHAR, NVARCHAR and VARCHAR(MAX) – Quiz – Puzzle – 15 of 31 and SQL SERVER – CHECKPOINT Behavior and Database Recovery Models – Quiz – Puzzle – 16 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• DIRTY_PAGE_POLL wait type in SQL Server 2012 (Sankar Reddy)
• APress Deal of the Day – 17/Jan/2012 – Oracle PL/SQL Recipes (TATWORTH)
• DBDeploy.Net 2 (rakker)
• A Generic SQL Performance Test Harness (Ian Stirk)
• Is Your DBA Lying To You? (Thomas LaRock)
• Validating NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers in SQL (Bill Osuch)
• “Data Explorer” meets Office 365 (Data Explorer Team)
• SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Book Review (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Implementation Checklist: Aligning People, Technology & Process (Dux Raymond Sy)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets v2.2 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• An Xbox for the rest of us? (Kip Kniskern)
• Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons? (Raymond Chen)
• KidsRuby 1.0 Released (Roy Wood)
• Stack Exchange Data Explorer 2.0 (Sam Saffron)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #796 and Double Shot #797 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #29 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 1/16/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 9-15, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/17/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1022 and The Morning Brew #1023 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-16 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 15, 2012 – #0028 and SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 9-15 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: For All Database Developers and Developers Administrators by Pinal Dave

• Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher v1.2 and source now available (Greg Duncan)
• The Learn to Code Movement and Software Security (Mark Curphey)
• Skype coming soon to Windows Phone (or is it?) – updated (Kip Kniskern)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept (Arturo Toledo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• [Quick VS Tip] Using regular expressions do the find/replace in Visual Studio and WinRT People – A WinRT community effort and site (Greg Duncan)
• Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance (Jef Claes)
• When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. and EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation (Peter Kellner)
• Input Parameters in Fluent API (Mehdi Khalili)

Web Development

• Understanding CoffeeScript Comprehensions (Karl Seguin)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)
• Hosting A Node.js Site Through Apache (Davy Brion)
• NetBash Updated – Formatting Helpers Added (Luke Lowrey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Results for Time Management (J.D. Meier)
• Book Review and my thoughts on UX (User Centered Design) (Rohit Sharma)
• A meta post about negative code reviews (Oren Eini)
• Focused Retrospectives: things to watch for (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• One project, one declarative language, two platforms – A side-by-side XAML project on Silverlight 5 and WinRT (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1 (Senthil Kumar)
• 12th Day of Silverlight: PivotViewer (Tony Champion)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 4of Many (Vijaya Malla)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
• Engadget Podcast 276: CES Finale – 01.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing the GoingNative 2012 Full Schedule (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• CodeMash 2012 report and Coding in the style of Glee (Jon Skeet)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Cases When Stored Procedure RECOMPILE – Quiz – Puzzle – 14 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-January-2012 to 14-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning C++ Through Game Programming by Michael Dawson

• Refresh and reset your PC (Steven Sinofsky)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 23: Acceptance Tests & Criteria in the Real World (Jim Holmes)
• Give us your feedback on Visual Studio 11 etc. and receive a gift! (Karl Melder)
• Metro style JS Apps in Visual Studio 11 (Chris Sells)
• Building a Windows 8 RSS Reader (Eric Vogel)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Image Preview in Solution Explorer – Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• You’re my FavorIt code file… FavorIt adds favorites to your Visual Studio Solution and SocialCounter.Net, a .Net Library to get all those Social counts (Greg Duncan)
• Setting a default value for C# Auto-implemented properties (OriginalGriff)
• The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs. Team Foundation Server (Shai Raiten)
• Use the Caching Service for your Windows Azure Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Blog Post: Version Control Improvements in CodeSmith Generator 6.0 (Eric Smith)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects from IDataReader (Elton Stoneman)

Web Development

• What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support (Ben Nadel)
• An In Depth Overview of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility (Ian Devlin)
• Installing and Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Application (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Matador: The Obvious MVC Framework for Node (Dustin Diaz)
• Using HTML 5 Geo Location in an ASP.NET MVC Bing Maps Application (Part 2) (Sumit Maitra)
• Random Numbers in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Day 12 — 3D pixel particles (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Nancy running on Heroku (Andreas Håkansson)
• How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress (Kevin Leary)
• Stack Exchange V2 Goes Beta, Launches Contest (Romin Irani)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: How Hadoop cluster was setup on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Leap of Faith and Nailing Your Goals for 2012 (JD Meier)
• Executable Attributes in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
• Printing Story Cards for Physical Scrum Board (Petr Pechovic)
• On Infinite Scalability (Oren Eini)
• Fluentator – generate fluent API for your structures (Pavel Savara)
• Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows (Morgan Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Silverlight: Behaviors for TextBox (Denis Gladkikh)
• FastClick for WP7 – Improving Browser Responsiveness for PhoneGap Apps (Colin Eberhardt)
• Top 10 SilverlightShow Ebooks for 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Infragistics Silverlight 5 Installers Available for Download (Jason Beres)
• 2000 WPF Things #466 – Using a GridSplitter in Conjunction with a SharedSizeGroup (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Papa Looks at the Microsoft Client Landscape (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 131: Chris Williams and Matthew Podwysocki on the Javascript community (Jon Galloway)
• YOW! 2011: Nigel Dalton – Agile Product Development (Charles Torre)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Manual Testing (Robert Green)
• Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC (Larry Larsen)
• Office 911: Don’t panic, build your skills (Laura Foy)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 008 – 01.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Yet Another Podcast #56–Jeff Blankenburg: Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award (Rob Eisenberg)
• MVP Program Thoughts for New Awardees (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• Assess your SQL Server to SQL Azure migration using SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment Tool by SQL Azure Labs (Avkash Chauhan)
• SQL SERVER REBUILD INDEX and SQL Server Disable Indexes and Rebuild Indexes dynamically (Jack Vamvas)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – An Important Part of Most SELECT statement – WHERE clause – Quiz – Puzzle – 4 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Identifying default data directory for multiple instances through registry (Vishal)
• Bliki: NosqlDistilled (Martin Fowler)
• SQLCop integration with Red Gate’s SQL Test (George Mastros)

PowerShell

• PowerShell 3 – Finally on the DLR! and Did you know PowerShell can use Selenium? (Joel Bennett)
• PowerShell Check for Empty SecureString Entry (Brian Jackett)

Miscellaneous

• 3 Tips for Getting What You Want in the New Year (MS JobsBlog)
• Best Online File Comparison Tool (Aaron Grogg)
• 40 Most Anticipated Xbox 360 Games of 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• 5 Unusual Ways to Raise Successful Children (April Dykman)
• ★ You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking (John Gruber)
• Learning Android: Getting a service to communicate with an activity (Mark Needham)
• Look who’s back: Ray Ozzie, Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect (Mary Jo Foley)
• Oracle’s copyright / patent infringement trial against Google set to begin in March (Matt Macari)
• How To Resize An Image Using Snagit 10 (Muhammad Omer Khan)
• Windows Phone Update 8107 Rolling Out – Fixes Disappearing Keyboard, Exchange & More (Antonio Hernandez)
• Life Satisfaction – Nerds Win (Peter Saddington)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #789 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1015 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• DZone’s Top 5 Agile Articles of 2011 and DZone’s Top Web Builder Articles of 2011 (Mitch Pronschinske)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer) by Kalen Delaney

• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 3) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 22: Why Collaboration Matters (A Real World Example) (Jim Holmes)
• Channel 9 New feature: your own personal video queue (Duncan Mackenzie)
• The Likes & Dislikes of Microsoft in 2011 (Scott Barnes)
• Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology (Soulskill)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Documentation Comments (Richard Carr)
• I am reviewing Microsoft’s 70-515 C# exam PrepKit from UCertify (Abhishek Sur)
• Getting Assembly Information Using Reflection (Michael Ceranski)
• With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory and Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background (Peter Kellner)
• Working with DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro App and Working with Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML Metro App (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Hashtables vs. Arrays (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New GhostDoc Pro in Beta soon (Tatworth)
• New Resharper Code Style Sharing in v6.1 Features. (Mark Pearl)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects (Elton Stoneman)
• Graphite with .Net and Ubuntu 11.10 (Henrik Feldt)
• Sandcastle Help File Bbuilder v1.9.3.3 Beta 1 (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 10 – Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job from Interactive JavaScript Console (Avkash Chauhan)
• HTML5 Progress Bars (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET Tutorial – Creating Web.Config file (Chris D.)
• Introduction to Column Hiding in jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• CSS Selector Profiler, Source Mapping and Software Rendering (Peter Beverloo)
• Checking if a view has changed in ASP.NET (Tim)
• APIs in 2012: Predictions From the Experts (Adam DuVander)
• Day 11 – Animating with sprite sheets (Val Head)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 4 (Dan Wellman)
• Batman.js: Micro-framework with macro features (Dave Mahon)
• IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells (Rick Strahl)
• Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis? (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating PHPUnit Tests in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• Out of context, architecture is nothing but modern art (Oren Eini)
• Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas (Bobby Johnson)
• More flexibility at work equals better health, new study confirms (Jessica Stillman)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Donald Reifer: “Software Change Management: Doing More With Less” (Devon Musgrave)
• xUnit.net 1.9 (CodePlex)
• Interview: Jeff Sutherland: Are Agile Teams Truly Agile? (Jeff Sutherland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Running Windows Phone Unit Tests via MSBuild (Francis Cheung)
• WPF TextBox With Ellipsis (Mark)
• 2000 WPF Things #465 – Using GridSplitters with Nested Grids (Sean Sexton)
• Vibrating the phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet (Jonathan Allen)
• Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without (Loek van den Ouweland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2011: Scott, Andrei and Herb – Ask Us Anything (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #156: Persistence, for Realsies (James Shore)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 008 – 01.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Minesweeper, Cheezia. Interior Design, Talking Alien, Zombie Squish (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Maine’s First SharePoint User Group (Jim O’Neil)
• Engadget’s 2012 CES Preview (Engadget staff)

Database

• CSV to SQL Server Compact scripting utility (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding Identity Beyond its Every Increasing Nature – Quiz – Puzzle – 3 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment service released (Denis Gobo)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft patent could signal Xbox digital video recorder (Greg Lamm)
• Metro Style Desktop Wallpaper Calendar – January 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Cropping screenshots in OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Learn to Code in 2012 with Free Weekly Programming Lessons from Codecademy [Programming] (Melanie Pinola)
• UX service consulting: It’s all about motivation! (Miao Wang)
• 5 Awesome Learning Resources For Programmers (To help you and your kids to grow the geek neurons) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Holo Everywhere (Tim Bray)
• Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace (Ed Oswald)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #788 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 04/01/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1014 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/03/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2011 – #0021 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference (Oracle Press) by Kevin Loney

• Be A Creator, Not a Consumer (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Introduction to jQuery Mobile (Joseph Guadagno)
• Announcing FsUnit 1.0 (Daniel Mohl)
• Windows Phone Challenges for Microsoft (John Papa)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application review: Northwind Starter Kit (Oren Eini)
• Repository Pattern with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Massimiliano Peluso)
• Optimizing Assembly References with ReSharper 6.1 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Shortest String That Contains All Words (Chris Eargle)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 9 – Using Interactive JavaScript for Data Visualization (Avkash Chauhan)
• APress Deal of the Day 3/Jan/2011 – Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development (Tatworth)
• Day 10 – Drawing rotated images into canvas (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Web Forms with HTML5 (Mark Michaelis)
• SoMvc – ASP.net MVC 3 Application Template 1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft’s cloud roadmap for 2012: What’s on tap (Mary Jo Foley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah, What’s the Difference? (Abby Fichtner)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Team Pulse – Full Enterprise Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• TDD for multithreaded applications (Giorgio Sironi)
• Article: Dialogue Sheets: A new tool for retrospectives (Allan Kelly)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Composition Of Responsibility vs. Interface Implementation (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Article Series by SilverlightShow and Gill Cleeren: Windows 8 and the future of XAML (Silverlight Show)
• Adding Cookies to a Windows Phone 7 HttpWebRequest (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #464 – ShowsPreview Property Delays Row/Column Size Change Using a GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 (Subodhn Pushpak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Holmes Tests Everything (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 170 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffery Hicks Manages Windows Server with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Legacy Refactoring Using Isolator (Avi Kaye)

Community / Events

• Check Out the Slides for Tomorrow’s Webinar "Azure for the Windows Phone Developer" (Silverlight Show)
• Looking forward to CodeMash: Inside and Outside (Bill Wagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER DISABLE INDEX (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server Login Auditing (Tim Radney)
• MongoDB’s Write Lock (Rick Copeland)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Things To Do to Secure an Important Person’s Computer (or even Ashton’s or a Kardashian’s) (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #787 (Mike Gunderloy)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 and Windows Dev News for January 02, 2011 – #0020 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 26, 2011 – January 01, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1013 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know by Richard Monson-Haefel

Top Links

• I moved on from WCF Web API, but Web API IS still moving (Glenn Block)
• 9th Day of Silverlight : Implicit Data Templates (Tony Champion)
• Backbone.js Is Not An MVC Framework (Derick Bailey)
• Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express (Jan Van Ryswyck)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to order by multiple columns using Lambas and LINQ in C# (Senthil Kumar)
• How do I get the full path for the target of a shortcut file? (Raymond Chen)
• What’s New And Improved In JustCode Q3 2011 SP1 (Just* Team)
• Kinecting to PowerPoint (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming JSON in Windows 8 Metro style Application using WinJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Lego KinNXT (Ashley Feniello)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 10 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Rx – SP1 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
• BugNET Issue Tracker 0.9.147 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• Configuring WCF for Multiple IIS Host Identities in Sueetie (Dave Burke)
• New Developer Tools in Firefox 11 Aurora (Kevin Dangoor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
• Make Everything OK – Agile is Hard (Peter Saddington)
• Free Book – The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (Tatworth)
• Are You Intentional? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• AutoHotKey for quick Git access (Joe White)
• Software Architecture: Myth or Reality (Kerry Huguet)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7 + IronRuby + Online Library Hosting + Auto Updating = LiveLibs (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Kevin O’Neill – Mobile App Development, PlayUp, Objective-C, Windows Phone and YOW! 2011: Steve Vinoski – Riak Core, Erlang and Frisbee Freestyle and Brian Beckman: Hidden Markov Models, Viterbi Algorithm, LINQ, Rx and Higgs Boson and Checking In: Larry Osterman – 26 Years of Programming at Microsoft and Counting and Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell (Charles Torre)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.23.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.24.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• TWC9: The Top 9 Developer Stories & Trends of 2011 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Engadget Podcast 269 – 12.23.2011 and The Vergecast 007 – 12.23.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 240: What’s Your Prestige Level? (Paul Thurrott)
• NeowinCast Gaming 003 – Dec. 23: End of 2011 Edition (John Callaham)
• Video on How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to Protect Password in Windows Phone 7 using Data Protection API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s DigiGirlz Program Ends Year on High Note (MS JobsBlog)
• Stack Exchange Gives Back 2011 (Robert Cartaino)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): New Security Features (James Serra)
• Assign Result of Dynamic SQL to a Variable in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – A Simple Puzzle and Simple Solution of Datatype and Computed Column and SQL SERVER – Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays – Database Properties – Number of Users (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 23: OBJECT_DEFINITION and Upgrade Assistant for SQL Server 2012 available for download and SQL Advent 2011 Day 24: Index REBUILD and REORGANIZE and SQL Advent 2011 Recap (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – How to identify service pack installed (Vishal)

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP2 available (with Getting Started with PowerShell Workflows guide too) (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Building the one Install OS Flash Drive to rule them all…? (Windows 7 x86 & x64 and Live CDs and Rescue disks and…) (Greg Duncan)
• My Bests of 2011 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• What I’d do with my ‘Microsoft 20% time’ (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• Amazon 2012: What the Future May Hold for the Web’s Largest Retailer (Peter Pachal)
• Introducing Aurora 11 with tons of new features and improvements (Robert Nyman)
• The two (and only two) ways Microsoft can survive the phone wars (David Aronchick)

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 134 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Dev News for December 24, 2011 – #0015 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/23/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/23/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Retrospective 64 – The Process of Change 4 Part Series (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: December 22, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 28-December-2011 to 24-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript by Tom Hughes-Croucher