• Modern Web Development – Part 4 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The 5 best books on Innovation EVER (Scott Berkun)
• Improving power efficiency for applications (Steven Sinofsky)
• Modernizr 2.5: Supercharged for 2012 (Modernizr Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Send me a patch for that and Limiting your abstractions: Reflections on the Interface Segregation Principle (Oren Eini)
• IntelliTrace Moves Beyond Development in Visual Studio 11 (Mickey Gousset)
• A Simple implementation of the Proxy Design Pattern using C# (Asif Maniar)
• C# Needs Seqs (Chris Eargle)
• Facebook C# SDK Road Map (Nathan Totten)
• Creating a dynamic, extensible C# Expando Object (Rick Strahl)
• APress Deal of the Day – 8/Feb/2012 – Visual C# 2010 Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
• GIT-TFS Instruction: Add Directory to Your Path? (Cori Drew)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Northwind.Db (Jason Jarrett)
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework 2012 January Sample Updates (Jialiang)
• Windows 8 Secrets: WinRT, the Windows Runtime (Paul Thurrott)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Empowering Your Master Pages (Peter Vogel)
• A better way to view images in RadFileExplorer for ASP.NET AJAX – thumbnail view comes in Q1 2012 (Stoyan Stratev)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role (Brian Swan)
• Rewriting My ‘Guaranteed Callbacks’ Code With jQuery Deferred (Derick Bailey)
• jQuery Tip #1 – Defining a Context When Using Selectors (Dan Wahlin)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role (Eric Nelson)
• High performance HTML5 content in Metro-style Apps (Andy Zeigler)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Convert Procedural Design to Objects (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.2 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)
• It’s Curtains for Marital Strife Thanks to getUserMedia (Bruce Lawson)
• Application Lifecycle Management Overview for Windows Azure (Buck Woody)
• Regular Expressions in CoffeeScript are Awesome (Elijah Manor)
• Google+ developers page launched, is an API on the way? (Jamie Keene)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Proof of Unit Testing’s Time Savings (Keith Ward)
• Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions v1.2.0.0 (Jeremiah Clark)
• The efficiency of Self-Organizing Teams (Bill Wagner)
• Kiss The Ring… (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Capture Picture from Camera and Save in Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7 – Scott Hanselman’s A to Z resources (Lohith) – A nice round-up of links from Scott’s post on his WP7 app.
• Creating Big Silverlight Windows and Getting Monitor Resolutions and Positions with PInvoke (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #490 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone and Implementing Trial Functionality for Windows Phone applications (Valentin Stoychev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Eric Sink Distributes His Source (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #132: Thomas Hessler, UFOStart.com (Bob Walsh)
• Let’s Play TDD #162: Wishing for Double Dispatch (James Shore)
• SE Radio becomes part of IEEE Software (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget HD Podcast 285 – 02.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld – When it comes to colour, test (Paul Boag)
• Hot Apps: Krashlander, NFL Pro ’12, MixTapes, Weave, Network Dashboard (Laura Foy)
• Going Native 2012 sessions available for download and streaming (Michael B. McLaughlin)

Community / Events

• C-Sharpen Up (Dani Diaz)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Talking Cloud with SharePoint Server MVP Patrick Yong (MVP Award Program)
• SQLBits now publishing all SQLBits agendas as an iCalendar (Jamie Thomson)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• IndyHall Hosting IDGA Philly Demo Session This Saturday to Show Off Global Game Jam Results (Joe Ross)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Convert Subquery to CTE – SQL in Sixty Seconds #001 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server and xp_cmdshell – The good, the bad and more ugly (Ted Krueger)
• The Minimalist Guide to Database Administration (Thomas LaRock)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Survey: memory configuration (Paul S. Randal)
• How to Test Your Backup Strategy: Five Simple Questions (Kendra Little)

Miscellaneous

• OneNote for Android released: features SkyDrive integration (Kip Kniskern)
• New in 3.0: More ‘Surround With’ actions for PHP (Nikolay Matveev)
• Microspeak: fit (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 7, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #1039 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-07 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 07, 2012 – #0037 and SilverlightShowTop 5 News for January 30 – February 5, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #813 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Free eBook: OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers (Troy Hunt)
• Castle Windsor 3.0 is released (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Top Three Reasons Phil Haack Quit Microsoft (D’Arcy Lussier)
• MVVM Light installers and Nuget (including Silverlight 5) #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Resources to write .Net based MapReduce jobs for Hadoop using F# (Avkash Chauhan)
• Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce and Using Hadoop on Azure JS Console for Data Visualizations (Carl Nolan)
• Tip of the day – Windows 8 Metro apps & frame navigation failure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• [Rumor] Pex and Moles to be part of Visual Studio 11? and Getting Started with the Netduino (Really) and Avoiding some Kinect SDK for Windows gotchas (Greg Duncan)
• Developing Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio (Jay Schmelzer)
• Team Foundation Server Power Tools December 2011 (Shai Raiten)
• Examples of depth API improvements coming in v1 (Rob Relyea)
• Programmatically controlling which handles are inherited by new processes in Win32 (Raymond Chen)
• Nuget Update Error (Michael Sync)
• ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support (Jenni Konrad)
• Craig’s Utility Library 3.0 (CodePlex)
• Tpl Dataflow (block structure) – Part 4 and Task != Thread (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• What’s next in 2012 for the Telerik AJAX and MVC products (Stefan Rahnev)
• New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox (Chris Heilmann)
• The rise and rise of JavaScript (Dan North)
• Composite JavaScript Applications With Backbone And Backbone.Marionette (Derick Bailey)
• Custom Blank ASP.NET MVC Project Template (Joe Mayo)
• Choosing a CSS Framework (Joe Stagner)
• MVC: Handling file uploads (John Rayner)
• Book review: HTML & CSS (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Error Code with Exception (Giorgio Sironi)
• Handling CSS by using jQuery (R S Dodiya)
• "I want to optimize my JS application on V8" checklist (mraleph)
• How to Check if a Date is More or Less Than a Month Ago with PHP (Stoimen Popov)
• New in 3.0: Support of profiling with Zend Debugger (nnmatveev)
• Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project (Rob Hawkes)
• Sass: Introducing mixins (John-Daniel Trask)
• fubu new project (Josh Arnold)
• Online Javascript Compression Tool (BrightBit)
• A Case For Using CoffeeScript (Justin Etheredge)
• New book: Integrating PHP with Windows (Kim Spilker)
• Querying The Archivist API With JSON.NET (Karsten Januszewski)
• Announcing the Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs Release (Itai Raz)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Linking Local Packages with npm (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Challenge: Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page and Node.js For Dummies (Davy Brion)
• WebSockets versus REST… fight! (Nathan Evans)
• Create a Node.js App on Azure in 3 minutes (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• How you can store decimal data in Windows Azure Table Storage? and Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI – first public CTP availability (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification (David Bulkin)
• From Agile to Elastic (Ralf Westphal)
• TDD Workflow (Sinatra / Haml / jQuery) Part 1 (Brian Marick)
• Learning Distributed Systems: Sockets and Event Store (Rinat Abdullin)
• Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN (Yann Trevin)
• The Lean Startup: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 15: Cucumber is Not A QA Tool (Jim Holmes)
• Building Social Software for the Anti-Social (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Scalable Cloud Applications (David Aiken)
• 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework (Bobby Johnson)
• Getters are an antipattern? (Gian Maria Ricci)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Don’t forget about the databinding features of Silverlight 4 that you get with Mango! (Cheryl Simmons)
• Trying out jQuery Mobile on Windows Phone (UPDATED) (Chris G. Williams)
• Building Async WCF Services in Silverlight with Channelfactory (Derik Whittaker)
• Video on How to work with Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WP7 Isolated Storage Snapshots and Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders (Daniel Egan)
• SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
• Displaying image inside Panorama Title in Windows Phone applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Kunal’s 13 for 5… 13 Silverlight 5 tutorials… and Pick up your pace on Silverlight 5 with Michael Crump’s 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Greg Duncan)
• Decoding Portable Bitmap (PBM) files in C# and displaying them in WPF (J. Broun)
• Want to change your Windows Phone emulator? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Resources from the HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 Developer Camps (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• 2000 WPF Things #453 – The UseLayoutRounding Property Aligns Things to Pixel Boundaries (Sean Sexton)
• Step by Step WPF Data Binding with Comboboxes (Steve Aube)
• Dell Venue Pro – AT Commands while searching for interop unlock (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 6th Day of Silverlight : Binding in Style Setters (Tony Champion)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 3 (Callum G.)
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 423: We get ready for Christmas (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 169 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Plugins, Amber.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Karsten Wysk Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Expert Panel Q&A featuring Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich (Scott Guthrie, Mark Russinovich & Dave Campbell)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.16.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.17.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Video: Microsoft’s Steve Kaneko on design unification and the challenges of moving to Metro (T.C. Sottek)
• Engadget Podcast 268 – 12.16.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 117 – 12.17.2011 and The Vergecast 006 – 12.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 239: Outside My Wheelhouse (Paul Thurrott)
• The Engadget Show – 028: Boeing’s 787, the Tokyo Motor Show and the year in review (Brian Heater)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #32 with Guest Pete Brown (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks (Jesse Liberty)
• Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Tablet Show – Shawn Wildermuth Builds XAML Apps on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: December 16th – Silverlight 5, Azure, TFS PowerTools and XMPP (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• tl;dr (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Tales from the MNC: The team behind Windows Phone’s breakthrough design (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 with JRE7 getDate compatibility (MS Downloads)
• Import Data from Excel into SQL Server Using SSIS (Keshav Singh)
• SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device.Operating system error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified.) and SQL SERVER – Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 RC0 – Samples Database for SQL Server 2012 RC0 and SQLAuthority News – Introduction to expressor Connectivity to Salesforce – expressor Data Integration Applications (Pinal Dave)
• Bulk Insertion of Data Using C# DataTable and SQL server OpenXML function (Pranay Rana)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 16: CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY and SQL Advent 2011 Day 18: Table-valued Parameters and SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
• Import Data from excel to SQL server using C# in ASP. NET (Suraj S Koneri)
• Building Apps Using SQL Azure and SQL Azure Reporting (Content) (Zhiming Xue)
• Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

• Sells Manor: Running 64-bit Win8 on My MacBook Air (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft Touch Mouse Review (Michael Crump)
• Your New Year’s Resolution – Put an end to spinning rust and buy yourself a SSD (Scott Hanselman)
• Ever wonder what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956? (Steven Hodson)
• Signing in with a picture password (Steven Sinofsky)
• Introducing Android Training (Tim Bray)
• Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools (Xavier Ducrohet)
• Connecting Windows Home Server to web through two routers (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.13 ~ 12.19 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #1005 (Chris Alcock)
• Distributed Weekly 133 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011 and Interesting .NET Links – December 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #775 and Double Shot #776 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: December 16, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 12/16/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/16/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (December 16, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Windows Dev News for December 18, 2011 – #0012 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 5 – 11, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 12-18 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Great Sites and Blogs for Learning about .NET Gadgeteer (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Retrospective 63 – The Kanban Man and Agile Army (Peter Saddington)
• Reading Notes #25 (Franky)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

• New CSS Editor Improvements in Visual Studio (ASP.NET 4.5 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Moving The Web Forward (Paul Irish)
• Roslyn Syntax Visualizer Tools (Chris Sells)
• The Future of TV Begins this week on Xbox 360 and Xbox Companion for Windows Phone coming December 6th (Larry Hryb)
• JavaScript Is Your Buddy (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Obtaining a MAC Address (Richard Carr)
• Tasks in Visual Studio (Arian Kulp)
• Implementing RavenDB Indexes (Oren Eini)
• TFS Pills: merging conflicts during unshelve. (Gian Maria Ricci)
• How-to: download linked images from a website (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Natural Mouse Movement c# (Erwin van de Beek)
• How to Create a Windows 8 Metro Style Application using Visual Studio 2011? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• My CRM 2011 Validation Framework (Mark Schweigert)
• Don’t let more than one process try to read from stdin at the same time (Raymond Chen)
• Zero tolerance on broken windows (Mehdi Khalili)
• 5 reasons not to use a micro ORM (John-Daniel Trask)
• Windows Azure Development Resources (Kevin Grossnicklaus)
• New version of Rx Contrib v1.0.10621 – 1.1.10621.0 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Two cool NuGets of the day: FlickrNet (3.2.4310) and Lucene.net (2.9.4) (Greg Duncan)
• Simple Producer Consumer With Tasks And .NET 4 (Alois Kraus)

Web Development

• Timing Attacks on CSS Shaders (Adam Barth)
• Achieving Block Scope With Immediate Functions In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Custom Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 using DataAnnonationsModelValidator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node – $14.99 (O’Reilly Media)
• Minify JS and CSS in Visual Studio Build Events (Steve Clements)
• Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress (Sameer Borate)
• New Sueetie Featured Product View Control (Dave Burke)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.38 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Essential Setup To Begin Unit Testing (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Dr. Seuss Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Thoughts on Kanban Thinking (Karl Scotland)
• Book Review: Continuous Delivery (Patrick Kua)
• Thoughts on Event Streams in Elastic Environments (Rinat Abdullin)
• 31 Days of Testing: Sustainable Pace, Sensible Flow and 31 Days of Testing: More Collaboration, Not Less (Jim Holmes)
• Sunday Thinking: Are you dealing with Risk or Uncertainty? (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Candlestick based off WPF Toolkit (Xavier John)
• How to work with WrapPanel in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Use Background agents (Andrea Boschin)
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #3: Sending SMS and intro to Plugins (Glen Gordon)
• You know the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone works in the UK right? (Mike Ormond)
• Re-imagining the behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background (Joost van Schaik)
• WPF 4.5: Adding a delay to your binding updates to reduce noise (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #443 – Reversing the Flow Direction in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
• Deploy Visual Studio LightSwitch on a Shared Server (Chris D.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 185: Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 044 – “Voice Control THIS!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 421: What we are playing, news and the 2011 Video Game Awards (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 66 – Using Windows Azure Storage from the Windows Phone (Wade Wegner)
• Video on How to work with WrapPanel in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Gillmor Gang 12.3.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Podcast 266 – 12.02.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 115 – 12.03.2011 and The Vergecast 004 – 12.02.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: December 2nd – Nuget, HTML5, SignalR and an updated tool list from Scott (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 94: Keith Casey Interview from Zendcon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
• The JavaScript Show – Idiomatic JavaScript, HumaneJS, Traffic Cop (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Gweek 029: A grab bag of games, apps, books, and sex-farce comics we love (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #125: Cole Flournoy, LetsListen.com (Bob Walsh)
• Talking Shop Down UnderEpisode 78 – Eric Evans on the Birth of DDD (Richard Banks)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Todd McKellar Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• I get interviewed by Kevin Dee and Boagworld: When is the best time to reach your audience? (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 237: Enterprise Zombies (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• What I learned in the Global Day of Code Retreat (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Red Pill (Brady Gaster)
• Coderetreatin’ (Aaron Lerch)
• Woman in Leadership – Top Women in Agile Thought Leadership (Peter Saddington)

Database

• Activity Monitor in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper 5 Tips for a Smooth SSIS Upgrade to SQL Server 2012 and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux Available Now and SQLAuthority News – SQL Saturday 116 – SQL Saturday in Bangalore, India on January 7, 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• How to call a user defined function with a default parameter and SQL Advent 2011 Day 3: Partitioning and SQL Advent 2011 Day 4: Schemas and SQL Advent 2011 Day 5: Common Table Expressions (Denis Gobo)
• Query Performance Tuning and Mindfreak (Thomas LaRock)
• Monitoring SQL Azure (Patrick Schwanke)
• Source-controlled database backups (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Moving Data from MySQL to PostgreSQL (Mario)

SharePoint

• Is SharePoint really a 3 role environment? An Overview. Part 1 of 5 (Enrique Lima)

PowerShell

• How to Add Exchange Proxy Addresses from a CSV File with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)
• Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #2 Available for Download (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Master Chief and Cortana Will Change in Halo 4 (Ian Steinberg)
• Responsive selection rendering for paint.net 4.0 (Rick Brewster)
• Can Badges Fix Developer Recruitment? (Rob Diana)
• Bing on Xbox: The Future of Entertainment Search (The Bing Team)
• Audible for WP7 possibly available in 3 months (Phone Arena Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 2, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 213 (Rhonda Tipton)
• MVP Friday Five: December 2, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #766 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #995 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/02/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 04, 2011 – #0005 and Windows Dev News for December 03, 2011 – #0004 and SilverlightShow for November 21 – 27, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/2/2011) and Daily News Digest 12/2/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/5/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/5/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 28 Nov – 4 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 2 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 27-November-2011 to 03-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Pie in the Sky (December 2, 2011) (Larry Franks)
• Retrospective 61 – #PMI #Agile Exam and #LeanGiving (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Developing Applications for the Cloud on the Microsoft® Windows AzureTM Platform (Patterns & Practices) by Matias Woloski

• REPL for the Rosyln CTP 10/2011 (Chris Sells)
• Building F# Solutions in Visual Studio 11 (Daniel Mohl)
• Eduasync part 17: unit testing (Jon Skeet)
• Razor Donut Caching and Musings On Software Community (Phil Haack)
• Yes, The Forest Is Full of Trees (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Task Cancellation (Richard Carr)
• How to pass parameters to reports using Infragistics Reporting with WCF RIA Services and Client-Side Rendering (Mihail Mateev)
• Visual Studio, the AVR Studio 5 and some non-.Net Micro Framework hardware (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Introduction to Metro UI in Windows8 (Abhishek Sur)
• Developing Device Drivers in Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• TeamCitySharp (Paul Stack)
• Rewriting an if (Jef Claes)
• Metro Pandora SDK V1 and Terminals Version 2 – Beta 4 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Developing Your First HTML5 Game – Lesson 1 and HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 2 and HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 3 – Navigating Your Spaceship (Andrey Prikaznov)
• OData Binding for Navigation Controls (ASP.NET AJAX) (Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Team)
• Got CSV in your javascript? Use agnes. (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET 4.5: Filtering using Model Binding in ASP.NET Web Forms (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Telerik components for asp.net: learning to live with RADical family. (On using radScheduler in an MVC app) (Peter van Ooijen)
• WebMatrix Start Building Better Websites (Nigel Parker)
• Node.js release: Node v0.6.3 (Bert Belder)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v4.0.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Features vs Behaviour (Simon Brown)
• Pattern Templates (JD Meier)
• Killer instinct as a driving force (Alex Kessinger)
• All our work should be like Calvin and Hobbes (Chris Heilmann)
• Can you really commit to delivering work? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• References on the Actor Programming Model (Chris Patterson)
• Test Driven Development–Testing Private Values (Jesse Liberty)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get user Input from a Popup in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• A WPF TileView Control (VallarasuS)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Developing the core (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Playing sounds in Windows Phone 7 applications and Displaying Subtitles using Timeline Markers in Windows Phone 7 media applications and Multi-column StackPanel for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Lua for you’ah… Adding Lua scripting support to your .Net/WPF app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #437 – Showing Rounded Corners on a Border (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch: It Is About The Money (It Is Always About The Money) (Michael Washington)
• PhoneGap Status: Moving to Apache and Adobe, Plugin Modularization, PhoneGap/Build Service (Werner Schuster)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #25: Background Agents and 31 Days of Mango | Day #26: Background File Transfer and 31 Days of Mango | Day #27: Microphone API (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Advanced Windows Phone Enginering Tool – WPE Downloads (Alpha) (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: Kresten Thorup – Erlang, Erjang, and Building Reliable Systems (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 128: Corey Haines on Global Day of Coderetreat (December 3) (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 114 – 11.25.2011 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 003 – 11.25.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video on How to work with System Tray Progress Indicator in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Apple’s Siri On iPhone 4S vs Microsoft’s Tellme On Windows Phone – The Ultimate Voice Assistants Head-to-Head [VIDEO] (Edward Marquez)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery mobile 1.0, jQuery 1.7.1, node vs RoR (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 93: Brian Hitney – The Cloud and Beyond (Michael Kimsal)
• Tech News Today 378: Interlocking Directorates (Paul Thurrott)
• "Kinect with your Eclipse IDE" (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Draft agenda published for Six Weeks of Windows Azure #6weeksazure (Eric Nelson)
• Free Webcast on “How to Increase Performance of Web Apps using jQuery” (Kunal Chowdhury)

Database

• SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Get Directory Structure using Extended Stored Procedure xp_dirtree and SQL SERVER – Powershell – Get a List of Fixed Hard Drive and Free Space on Server (Pinal Dave)
• Data Loading Performance Guide (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• My Tools of the Trade – 2011 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Objective C Categories (Steve Tibbett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 130 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #760 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five November 25, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Re-blog – November 18 – November 24 (Jason Strate)
• Daily News Digest 11/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #989 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 25 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2011 — #1174 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2011 — #1175 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 20-November-2011 to 26-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 60 – Invest in Your Team & #Agile Cults (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Node.js (Pragmatic) by Travis Swicegood

• MassTransit v2.0.1 Available (Chris Patterson)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.1 (Nathan Totten)
• Detecting HTML5/CSS3 Features using Modernizr (Dan Wahlin)
• Ajax Control Toolkit November 2011 Release (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

• StatFactory: FCore maths & statistics library, designed for use with F# (Don Syme)
• I shall call you… Mini…C# Course (Greg Duncan)
• DevForce Code First Walkthrough: From New Project to Running (John Lantz)
• How can I tell whether a COM pointer to a remote object is still valid? (Raymond Chen)
• Adding Compiled .ResX Resources To NuGet Packages (Jon Davis)
• Publishing symbol packages for a MyGet feed (Maarten Balliauw)
• Dynamic LINQ to NHibernate (Felice Pollano)

Web Development

• TreeList for ASP.NET AJAX Enhanced with Keyboard Navigation and Export to PDF in Q3 2011 (Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Team)
• Experiment: Building and Publishing an HTML5 Game for iPad and HTML5 vs. CSS3 vs…background-image? (John Esposito)
• ASP.NET 4.5 – New Model Binding Feature Keeps the Web Form and Model Separate (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Building Your Rails Box on OS X For Softies (Rob Conery)
• Running JavaScript… With Sneakers! (Sharon Cichelli)
• Simple Async HTTP Module for Appcelerator (Sean Biefeld)
• Calling the Windows Azure Service Management API with the New .publishsettings File (Steve Marx)
• The whole web is confused by mobile (Rob Borley)
• 6 Tips to Help You Build a Great Web Application (Greg & Adrian)
• Better UX Through INPUT Tags And Why They Are Important For Mobile (Chris Love)
• MVC Controls Toolkit 1.5.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: PolyglotPersistence (Martin Fowler)
• The Yin and Yang of Sources of Insight (J.D. Meier)
• Make a distinction: Errors vs. Alerts (Oren Eini)
• The Mojito Method (Jurgen Appelo)
• Assuming Leadership In Your Design Agency (Jeremy Girard)
• Design Decisions: Guided learning approach (Brent Schooley)
• Identify Risk Early (Andy Warren)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 getting started (6) – Make your application come alive (Anders Poulsen)
• Hands On With New Breed Of Windows Phones (Chris Love)
• Introducing a new WP7 control: RadAutoCompleteBox (Deyan Ginev)
• Facebook Graph API and Silverlight Part 2 – Publishing data (Lazar Nikolov)
• RadControls for Windows Phone Q3 2011 – new SlideView, Auto-Complete plus more (Georgi Atanasov)
• PhoneGap on WP7 tip #1: Handling Orientation (Glen Gordon)
• Get a free and open source physics library in BEPUphysics (for Windows, XBox and WP7) (Greg Duncan)
• Databinding an Auto Complete Box in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• Nokia Windows Phone Competition (Nick)
• It’s a wrap! I’ve completed writing Silverlight 5 in Action (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #432 – Height and Width vs. ActualHeight and ActualWidth (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone App Flow: Watching Video (Travis Pope)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #17: Using Windows Azure (Jeff Blankenburg)
• LightSwitch Tutorial – Adding Image to a LightSwitch Screen (Chris D.)
• CODE Framework v4.0.11115.0 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – WinRT Panel Discussion at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Roslyn Project – Meet the Design Team (Charles Torre)
• SE Podcast #27 – Dave Winer (Alex Miller)
• How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server (Video) (Brent Ozar)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 002 – 11.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Online video tutorials for HTML 5 (Steve Albers)
• Defrag – Driver Store, Touch Tips, Defragging HDD (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Test ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC Web Applications (Avi Kaye)
• Silverlight In The Enterprise This Friday in NYC (Matt Van Horn)
• Want to party on with Ubelly at the .Net Awards? (Luke)
• Kinect at the Maker Faire (Greg Duncan)
• Mind Blown at Defrag (Dave Michels)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book and Free 30 Days Online Training Material (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Triggers – An Introduction (Vivek Johari)
• Reviewing the New Oracle NoSQL Database (John Esposito)

SharePoint

• Redirect SharePoint Natively with a Content Editor Webpart (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Recruiter advice: How to navigate the in-between years (MS JobsBlog)
• Quick news: New survey on certification released (Devon Musgrave)
• Amazon Puts Kindle Fire Source Code Up for Download (Kyle Wagner)
• Microsoft drops Dryad; puts its big-data bets on Hadoop (Mary Jo Foley)
• MediaMonkey 4 now supports video (Nick Peers)
• MSFT v.Next: Clues to the Future at Microsoft’s Annual Shareholder Meeting (Paul Thurrott)
• Evernote Clearly Knows How To Make Web Reading, Clipping Easier (Robin Wauters)
• 60 Days as a Linux user by a recovering Windows Guy. (Joe Stagner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #754 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/16/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #983 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links– 2011_36 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for November 07 – 13, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2011 — #1167 (Dave Campbell)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

• Building a power-smart general-purpose Windows (Steven Sinofsky)
• Microsoft, Joyent deliver ‘first stable build’ of Node.js on Windows and Will there be a Silverlight 6 (and does it matter)? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Silverlight 6 doesn’t matter (Rockford Lhotka)
• Building a Slimmer jQuery (Dave Methvin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Rewriting WCF OData Services base URL with load balancing & reverse proxy (Maarten Balliauw)
• F# Math (II.) – Using matrices for graph algorithms (Tomas Petricek)
• Clean up after Visual Studio (Paul Sheriff)
• Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 [Part 1] (Tarun Arora)
• Game Debugging in Visual Studio 11 (Amit Mohindra)
• Using Team Foundation Server 2010 Version Control for a Java Project (Subodh Sohoni)
• What is wrong with the Partition Key value? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• .NET Streams and Windows 8 IStreams (Charles Petzold)
• Facebook C# SDK v5.3.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Super-charged Performance Optimizations for Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Grid in Q3 2011 (Radoslav Kirilov)
• Developing ASP.NET MVC4 based Windows Azure Web Role (Avkash Chauhan)
• Refactoring Javascript with Derick Bailey (Bobby Johnson)
• Was I wrong about JavaScript? (J. Boyer)
• HTML5 App versus HTML5 Page – What’s the Difference ? (Joe Stagner)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Remove Parameter (Giorgio Sironi)
• APress Deal of the Day – 9/Nov/2011 – Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 (Tatworth)
• Sharing Private BLOBs with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
• CoffeeScript v1.1.3 (CoffeeScript Team)
• 25 Cool jQuery Tooltip Plugins for Interactive Designs (Sonny M. Day)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Create a Work Environment that Values Design and UX (Peter Saddington)
• Interview: Ward Cunningham on Agile: 10 Years After (Ward Cunningham)
• Performance Testing a Load Test (Rory Primrose)
• Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 5 (Johanna Rothman)
• Dependency Injection for Dummies (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Advantage of DDD approach to problem (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Touch Friendly Design–Making Touchable Targets (Chris Love)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Video on How to Send SMS, Send Email and Make a Call in Windows Phone 7 and Code to make call in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Inside Windows Phone Apps – IMG News Reader (Sara Allison)
• 2000 WPF Things #426 – Layout Panels Can Also Have Margins (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #9: Calendar API (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Introducing the XamFunnelChart (Damyan Petev)
• Fun with RadLoopingList: Creating a Numeric Picker with RadLoopingList – Introduction (Deyan Ginev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Neil McIsaac Develops SharePoint in the Cloud (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Summer Interns 2011: Parallel Watch Visualizers for Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5: BCL Team – Improvements and Evolution (Charles Torre)
• Yet Another Podcast #52–Peter Torr on Windows Phone Multitasking (Jesse Liberty)
• Engadget HD Podcast 273 – 11.08.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Ejecting an Internal Drive, Windows on a Thumb Drive, Disable Aero Shake (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Gravity Guy, Pictures Lab, Fuse, Spin on it!, Bobble Biker (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Silverlight MVP Brian Noyes on DevConnection 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Winter XNA Games – RIT Game Camp 2011 (Dani Diaz)
• Blend for Developers Course Now Available! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Tour the Experience Microsoft Lobby in Redmond (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• "Microsoft SQL Server Data Portability Documentation" (Greg Duncan)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance – Part 3 (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to FIRST _VALUE and LAST_VALUE – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Survey: wasted space from cluster keys (code to run) (Paul S. Randal)
• Column alias in order by and where (Samuel Vanga)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model – CAML Query inaccurate results error (Kelly Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Channel 9 Moves to the Cloud with Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
• Typing with Speed and Accuracy in IE10 (Travis Leithead)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 9 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 084 for 11/8/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #977 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #747 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/8/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 31-November 6, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #19 (Franky)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for October 31 – November 06, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 08, 2011 — #1165 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Eric Brechner

• Updated Win 8 Dev Platform diagram (Rockford Lhotka)
• SemVer, NuGet, and Nightly Builds (Phil Haack)
• Nokia’s First Two Windows Phones Are Here. And They’re Awesome. (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone Tombstoning with PhoneGap and Knockout.js (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Build VB6 Apps with TFS Team Build 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• Using the ToggleSwitch in WinRT/Metro (for C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• Searching the Global Address List – C# Edition (Henning Krause)
• Building Visual Studio Extensions with Roslyn (Jonathan Allen)
• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 – now available on Microsoft Update (Visual Studio Blog)
• Microsoft Speech Platform – Software Development Kit (SDK) (Version 11) (MS Downloads)
• Install Application as Service on Windows Server 2008 (Steve Smith)
• Code Documentation Generation with SandCastle (Stacy Vicknair)
• Packaging an Executable as a Windows Azure Application From the Command Line (Steve Marx)
• Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New refactorings in JustCode (Just* Team)
• FSharpChart minor release available (version 0.56) (Carl Nolan)

Web Development

• Connecting your WinPhone 7 app to an ASP.Net Razor page with a little REST and JSON (Greg Duncan)
• Building the Internet of Things: HTML5 for Microcontrollers (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Empty Charsets in IE 9 Causing JSON Parsing Errors (Rob Conery)
• Reuse in action: Bing Maps REST API and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta – New Org Chart and Social Share controls, Metro skin and more (Stefan Rahnev)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Social Media (Buck Woody)
• Rebuilding My Backbone.js Plugins With Modules, SRP and More (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption (Craig Smith)
• Now Available: Getting Results the Agile Way on Kindle (JD Meier)
• Scrum with dev11 – Creating a new Team Project (Martin Hinshelwood)
• My Ideal Development Shop (Bobby Johnson)
• The broken window theory in the real world (Peter Gfader)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator v2.5.0.0 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Tip for Using HyperlinkButton or Hyperlink in Silverlight for Windows Phone (Cheryl Simmons)
• Expression Blend Step By Step Review (Don Burnett)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Visual Studio XAML Designer: New Grid Features (Erik Arthur & Jeffrey Ferman)
• Property change notifications when using SQL CE on Windows Phone 7.1 (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #416 – Setting Grid Rows and Columns to Autosize (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 271 – 10.25.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage (Larry Larsen)
• The Engadget Show – 026: A visit from Intel, a trip to New York Comic Con, haunted houses and costume contests (Brian Heater)
• Video on Creating and Uploading Certificate for Windows Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• HTML5 Game Camps Coming Soon (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Signing Event – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• Reflections on GiveCamp (Reed Copsey)
• Win 3 Free Licenses for InVision Prototyping Tool (Scott Hutcheson)

Database

• Verify a connection before using it [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• Wanna Get Good at SQL Server? (Thomas LaRock)
• CLR Sprocs Deployment (Ken Spencer)
• Multiple query plans for the same query? (Geniiius)
• Import MS Best Practice Policies (Ryan Adams)
• Inside the Oracle Database Cloud Service (Oracle TechBlog)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 5: Install Language Packs for SharePoint 2010 and SharePointFive: Move Site Collections Using PowerShell (Martin W. Angler)

Miscellaneous

• A Quick Introduction to Rack (Satish Talim)
• Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry (Dan Rayburn)
• Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and Nokia Pulse for Windows Phone announced (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 25, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #967 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 10/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 24-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

• Roslyn CTP Now Available (Somasegar)
• Roslyn Syntax Visualizers (Shyam Namboodiripad)
• Using Roslyn to implement an MVC Razor view engine (David Ebbo)
• Whitepaper: Roslyn Project Overview and Walkthroughs: Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP (MS Downloads)
• Implementing an Authorization Attribute for WCF Web API (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Linq-To-XML Style of Node Creation for C++ (Wong Shao Voon)
• The Roslyn Preview Is Now Available (Eric Lippert)
• Consuming the Stack Exchange API with C# and Tutorial: XNA 4.0 + Kinect for Windows SDK (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio flicks the LightSwitch on Sydney buildings (Steve Clayton)
• BizTalk Server 2010 – Using the WCF-SQL adapter to make multiple stored procedure calls (Stuart Brierley)
• Updates to Windows Azure MSBuild post for SDK 1.5 (Tom Hollander)
• Introducing the Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP (Kirill Osenkov)
• Roslyn CTP is available (Patrick Smacchia)
• Microsoft Surface 1.0 Supports Windows 8 Developer Preview (Snehal)
• NHibernate Designer 2 is here! (John-Daniel Trask)
• Build Machines, Windows 7, and Classic ADO and Mono 2.12 Roadmap (Jonathan Allen)
• String extension methods rather than using RegEx (Carl Nolan)

Web Development

• Server Side Event Handler Generation From ASP.NET Markup in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• HTML5 Game of Multi Life (Ron de Jong)
• Why PhoneGap 1.1.0 broke jQuery Mobile’s back button (Dave Ward)
• Tell, Don’t Ask in the case of a web service (Giorgio Sironi)
• IE 9, HTML 5 and Video support (Surf4Fun)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.32 (CodePlex)
• RTM’d Today: MCPD 70-519 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• What feature would improve the web? (Paul Irish)
• Installing WebMatrix 1.0 (stable) after installing WM2 Beta (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Zend Studio + GitHub (Kyle Neath)
• Handling Multi-touch and Mouse Input in All Browsers (Ted Johnson)
• Using SQL Azure to Store PHP Session Data (Brian Swan)
• Azure: Announcing Improved In-place Updates (Drew McDaniel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile is for your WHOLE Business (Joel Semeniuk)
• git: Only pushing some changes from local repository (Mark Needham)
• GitHub: All of the Hooks (Rick Olson)
• Installing Jenkins CI on Windows (Geoff Hudik)
• Your ctor says that your code is headache inducing: Explanation (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit Tile Control (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone Acceleration Labs (Chris Koenig)
• Paging Data from the Server with Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• Code to select photo on Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Understanding the WP7.1 Periodic Agents API and Build Real-Time Face Recognition on Windows Phone (Mitch Pronschinske)
• 2000 WPF Things #412 – Three Ways to Set Row Height or Column Width in a Grid (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 163 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Truher from Microsoft (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Sparkling Client Show 115: Being an Independent Developer Today (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• What The Tech 89: Thanks For Coming Back (Paul Thurrott)
• SE Podcast #23 (Alex Miller)
• Migrating to the Cloud – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• We Are Community (Jorge Segarra)
• A Coder Interview With Pete O’Hanlon (The Code Project)
• Free Event: ALM for Agile Development with Visual Studio and TFS 2010 in Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis in November (Angela Binkowski)
• The Art of Managing in an Agile World 2-Day Workshop (Emmanuelle)
• Mango developer sweepstakes – showcase your Windows Phone 7 development skills (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Web Start Women: Learn JavaScript & jQuery This Saturday (Eric Smith)

Database

• SQL SERVER – TRACEWRITE – Wait Type – Wait Related to Buffer and Resolution (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Moving table with LOB data to different file group (Vishal Gajjar)
• Page Life Expectancy isn’t what you think… (Paul S. Randal)
• Did You Know? Query Options Setting in SSMS (Kalen Delaney)
• JOIN IN SQL FAQ (Jack Vamvas)
• More Denali Execution Plan Warning Goodies (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• Top 10 SQL 2012 “Denali” Enhancements for SharePoint (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• RubyMonk Teaches You the Ruby Programming Language with Interactive Exercises [Teach Yourself] (Adam Dachis)
• A deeper dive into Windows 8: can Microsoft’s big bet pay off? (Ed Bott)
• Available Now: Training Kit 3-Pack and 4-Pack for Windows Server 2008 2nd Editions (Kim Spilker)
• MSDN Forum Assistant, TechNet Forum Assistant (MS Downloads)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 19, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #733 and Double Shot #734 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/19/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #963 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/19/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC by Dino Esposito

• Rise and Fall of Classic OOP (K. Scott Allen)
• Steve Jobs (Bill Gates)
• Silverlight 5 Toolkit – September 2011 Released (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV (Larry Hryb)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Changing the Number of Functions in Profiler Summary View in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Demo Scripts from the F# 3.0 BUILD talk and F# presentation – F# Eye for the C# Guy (Don Syme)
• .Net Micro Framework v4.2 RTW’s (Think "VB.Net + lots of community development effort results" version) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft’s Roslyn ‘compiler as a service’ support unlikely to be in Visual Studio 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
• SortedDictionary and SortedList (Simon Cooper)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0: Go To Definition and View Code Support (Blake Niemyjski)
• Reverse a String with No Loops (Bobby Johnson)
• Using ObservableCollection with WinRT (via a little shim!) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Setting the Homepage of an Exchange folder using the EWS Managed API (Henning Krause)
• IronPython 2.7.1 Beta 3 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Need Accessibility in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps? You’re Already Covered (Carl Bergenhem)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Decompose Conditional (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.30 (CodePlex)
• Full-height app layouts: A CSS trick to make it easier (Steve Sanderson)
• Resolving an iisnode “The service is unavailable” 503 error (Dave Ward)
• Don’t make the audience sit through all your typo-ing [Overview of implementing an extension for WebMatrix - and the complete source code for the Snippets sample] (David Anson)
• An Auto-Scaling Module for PHP Applications in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagick (Jeff Wilcox)
• RIA/JS: The barebones demo (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• One design fits all? – Usability check for Ribbon interface (Miao Wang)
• Spiking RavenDB Management Studio: Design decisions (Oren Eini)
• Avoid Testing Implementation Details, Test Behaviours (Ian Cooper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 10 : Live shaping (live filtering, grouping and sorting of collections) (Jonathan Antoine)
• WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 6 – Using Tasks and WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 7 – Making WebRequests (Morten Nielsen)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database Queries with LINQ and Working with the Windows Phone HubTile Events (Windows Phone Geek)
• Control Your Xbox with your Windows Phone Using the Xbox Companion App (Ben Rudolph)
• WP7 Getting Unique Device and User (Daniel Egan)
• Cheating at Tiles…with the Windows Phone 7.1 Live Tile cheat sheet (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit October 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Know About WP7 Page Orientation and Supported Orientations (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #402 – Final Child of DockPanel Fills Remaining Space by Default (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7 and Making HTTPS REST API Calls with Basic Authentication (toetapz)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 7: Building control extensions with the extensibility toolkit (Gill Cleeren)
• Background Agents (Jesse Liberty)
• Creating a Horizontal ListBox in Silverlight and Windows Phone (Jevgeni Tšaikin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coding QA Episode 66 – Testing Strategies for a Toaster Pt.2 (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
• .NET Rocks! – Philip Laureano Programs In Nemerle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• .NET 4.5: Oleg Lvovitch and Kevin Ransom – Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) 2.0 (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 037 – “It’s Staggeringly Incredible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Write XML (Robert Green)
• SE Podcast #21 (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 5th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Free event and 5 day TDD masterclass in Copenhagen this month (Roy Osherove)
• Webcast: Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio (Kim Spilker)
• CodeMastery This Weekend in Atlanta (Brian Hitney)
• A New Adventure: Tech On Tap (Jes Schultz Borland)

Database

• Guessing the SQL Server Denali Release Date (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise vs Standard, one Geek Girl’s view… (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Detecting Database Case Sensitive Property using fn_helpcollations() (Pinal Dave)
• Basic Inner Joins – Basic Skill #4 (Steve Jones)
• Microsoft’s Data Warehouse offerings (James Serra)
• Always pay attention to uniqueness to SQL Index (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

• SharePoint, Apple, Google and Governance (Mark Schneider)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell Command Builder Getting Started Guide (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft employee photographers’ book now available (Gretchen Ledgard)
• Chocolatey – The free and open source windows app store. (Jason Jarrett)
• Surprise! More Consumers Want Windows on a Tablet Than iOS or Android (Paul Thurrott)
• Xbox Live TV: What’s inside? Silverlight (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 5, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #953 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #724 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/05/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 4-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 — #1156 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming by Mark Lutz

• Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview (James Conard)
• First look at Windows Simulator (Navneet Gupta)
• New Debugging Book – Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands (Roberto Alexis Farah)
• Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap (Colin Eberhardt)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99(Save 50%) and FINAL DAY: Back to School Special – *Free to Choose* – Save 50% All Ebooks & Videos – Use code: B2SDEAL (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers (Abhishek Lohani)
• Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Some fundamentals (Nishant Sivakumar)
• AutoMapper 2.0 – Nested/Child Containers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Local workspaces (Gian Maria Ricci)
• A Simple AppSettings Type Provider (Daniel Mohl)
• Microsoft HealthVault SDK v2 released (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest (Andrej Tozon)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (MS Downloads)
• VisualStudio 2010 JavaScript & CSS Outlining – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)
• Getting Touch Support in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps Now (Carl Bergenhem)
• CSS3 text-shadow in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Tips for Speeding Up Octopress Site Generation (Pavan Podila)
• A convention for using CoffeeScript in Rails (Marko Anastasov)
• Stack Exchange API Usage Stats and API 2.0 Plans (Jeff Atwood)
• How to prevent the user to post page twice, by using refresh (Jeroen Bourdeaud’hui)
• A PHP on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pretotyping: a complete example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Document based modeling: Auctions & Bids (Oren Eini)
• Model-View-What? (Stacy Vicknair)
• Delegation Poker (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Updated all "Mango" posts (Peter Kuhn)
• Pinworthy: 5 apps to try with Windows Phone 7.5 (Andy Colley)
• New SilverlightShow Ebook: "Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies" (Silverlight Show)
• Why the Frame Rate Counter is not Available in my WP7 Emulator? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Behind the XAML of the Windows Phone Silverlight Game – Numbertap (Luke Lowrey)
• A word on WPF4 manipulations. (Luis Cabrera)
• 2000 WPF Things #398 – WrapPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 5 – Getting email addresses for Beta testers and SurfCube on Mango Part 6 – Join SurfCube V4 Beta! Here’s what’s coming (András Velvárt)
• Taking a Tougher Stance on Bulk App Publishing (Todd Brix)
• New Extension Introduces Microsoft Office to LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 8: Solving a MEF Dilemma (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 019: Mail Order Mysteries (Mark Frauenfelder)
• How Do I: Internet Explorer 8 – Selectors API (MS Podcasts)
• GoingNative Live at BUILD: Herb Sutter, Joanna Mason, Tony Goodhew and GoingNative 2: C++ at BUILD, Windows Runtime Library(WRL), Meet Tarek and Sridhar (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #144: Cost vs. Benefit (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.7 beta 1, Toggler, Face Detection (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• What The Tech 86: Topical Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast: SendGrid Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• "Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK" TechEd Session (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Announcing the Revival of the Blenders SIG (Don Burnett)
• FREE Software Process & Scrum On-line Event Series by Northwest Cadence in October and November! (Angela Dugan)
• MVP in Residence Helps with BUILD Demo (MVP Award Program)
• Meet Up With DZone @ JavaOne 2011 and Oracle Open World In San Francisco!! (Jim Moscater)

Database

• SQL Server: Removing Deprecated Code and Future Proofing your Queries (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume and SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Development (Zhiming Xue)

SharePoint

• SharePoint is NOT Dropbox: But User Beware! (Joel Oleson)
• New book: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Threading in PowerShell (Oliver Mantl)

Miscellaneous

• Code your own Mult-User Private Git Server (with ruby) (Richard Taylor)
• Time Off, Vacations and Sabbaticals for Programmers (Krishna Kumar)
• Zune expands to Canada, drops Zune Pass price in US (Michael Stroh)
• Android’s HTTP Clients (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 29, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.26 ~ 09.30 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 30 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #720 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 29th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• The Morning Brew #949 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 28-Sep-2011 and 29-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/29/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow for Sept 19 – 25, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 — #1152 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links– 2010_33 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

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