• 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

• From Concept to Code in 6 hours: Shipping my first Windows Phone App (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages. (Arturo Toledo)
• Something’s Missing from the WebBrowser Control (Peter Kuhn)
• Testing a jQuery Plugin with ExpectThat and Mocha (Daniel Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
• Enabling SSL for a WCF Service (Christophe Geers)
• Log4Net basics with a Console Application (c#) (Mark Pearl)
• Windows Phone 7 – Location Service and Bing Maps (Shai Raiten)
• Hazards of Converting Binary Data To A String (Phil Haack)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Guard (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Hidden Gems of HTML5: classList (Chris Heilmann)
• Find the jQuery Bug #3: Give Me Truth (Elijah Manor)
• Vimeo API in ASP.NET using C# (Fazlur Rahman)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Inheritance with Delegation (Giorgio Sironi)
• Page Transitions with CSS3 (Sergio Camalich)
• Customizing your Hadoop cluster running on your own Windows Azure Subscription (Avkash Chauhan)
• Backbone JS – Hello World tutorial (Veera Sundar)
• Naming via Class, ID, and Name (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with Autobox (Mehfuz Hossain)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Introduction (Karl Scotland)
• 05. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – No Double, Triple Testing and 06. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – PBI Implementation Sequence (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone apps, built out of “the 3 P’s”: Panoramas, Pivots, and Pages (Jeff Wilcox)
• GTasks Plus v1.0 – Open Source Windows Phone 7 Application (Max)
• 2000 WPF Things #483 – InkCanvas MinHeight and MinWidth (Sean Sexton)
• Calling Web Services to Validate Data in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
• Windows Phone with modem access – sending SMS messages through a terminal emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Tablet Show – Andrew Glover Plugs the PhoneGap (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 123 – 01.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Red-Gate Webinars (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Ball Flow Recap: CodeMash Coding Dojo (Brendan Enrick)
• About Orchard Governance and Microsoft (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sharing The Point Antarctica (Joel Oleson)
• Windows Azure Discovery Events (Zhiming Xue)
• The new OpenEverything organization (Sebastien Lambla)
• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle v5.2 and Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL v5.2 (MS Downloads)
• MongoDB: Embedded Documents vs Multiple Collections (Karl Seguin)
• Execution Plans, What Do I Look At? (Grant Fritchey)
• System Base Tables (Jason Brimhall)
• What are the impersonation rights for my database users? (Mark Broadbent)

Miscellaneous

• Vim for rails developers: browse Ruby, RSpec and Rails docs quickly (Luca Pette)
• The problem with virtual training: instructional design, not distance (Jessica Stillman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Essential iOS Build and Release – $5.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Why does it take Task Manager longer to appear when you start it from the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 30 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #806 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1032 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #31 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for January 29, 2012 – #0033 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD by James A. Whittaker

• Removing Regions Using Project Roslyn (Jason Bock)
• SQL Server 2012 launches March 7th… with a free virtual launch event (Greg Duncan)
• Resources for getting started with Backbone.js (Jarod Ferguson)
• Anonymous types unify within an assembly, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 6 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Call Stack Window and Implementing IComparer (Richard Carr)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: That CQRS thing (Oren Eini)
• How to Mock a WCF Service (Amit)
• Creating a WYSIWYG font ComboBox using C# (Cyotek)
• What do you want to see in Entity Framework? (Julie Lerman)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 1, P/Invoke – Managed to Unmanaged (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Async for File Access (Alan Berman)
• It’s three-for-one QR Code Day and A Kinect & Netduino controlled squirt gun (Greg Duncan)
• dotTrace 5.0 Performance Early Access Program (Hadi Hariri)
• Source code for the OneNote Table Sorter and Table of Contents powertoy (John Guin)
• Executing SQL Stored Procedures with Simple.Data (David Neal)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: PineCone (Jason Jarrett)
• DocX v1.0.0.12 and Cosmos – C# Open Source Managed Operating System: Release 87612 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Creating A Keyboard-Shortcuts Module In A Modular JavaScript Application (Ben Nadel)
• Font.js: A Powerful Font Toolkit for JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Managing Links and URLs with T4MVC (David J Kelley)
• Agile New Year resolutions (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Fix: the value ‚x‘ is not valid for Foo in ASP.NET MVC (Code Inside Team)
• HTML5 Interactive Maps for Both Mobile and Desktop (Dave Mahon)
• Introducing Dragonfly – another .NET HTTP server (Louis DeJardin)
• Adding rich Selector support for MVC (Matt Hidinger)
• Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2 (Peter Kellner)
• Ajax requests to other domains with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (Giorgio Sironi)
• Skip Intro – CSS3 is the new Flash (Scott Hanselman)
• .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us (Dan Wellman)
• The Technical Realities of Cloud Computing: MATRIX Whitepaper (John Brothers)
• CoffeeScript Object Comprehensions (Excerpt from CoffeeScript in Action) (Brandon Satrom)
• Let’s make TCP faster (Scott Knaster)
• This Week in Privacy (Adrian Bateman)
• Thinking in boxes (Marlon Grech)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Job Titles and Scrum (David Starr)
• Splitting user stories: the hamburger method (Gojko Adzic)
• Progressive Enhancement – A Better Web Design Philosophy (Pad Gallagher)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PROTECT YOUR Windows Phone APP AGAINST (casual) PIRACY (Windows Phone Geek)
• Split Generic.xaml in Silverlight Applications (Loek van den Ouweland)
• New book: XAML Developer Reference (Kim Spilker)
• 2000 WPF Things #479 – Using a Layout Transform on Child Elements in a Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Overwriting the default WebRequest used by WebClient (Morten Nielsen)
• Integrating with the .NET Framework UI Controls (Peter Vogel)
• DataGrid customization with Elements 5: Sparklines, template selectors and more (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 173 – PowerScripting Podcast – Greg Shields (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Gweek 036: Grab bag of comics, book, gadgets, apps, and websites we love (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Ping 129: Windows Phone climbing the ladder, Xbox admits fault, Visual Studio Game! Bing is for Doing (Laura Foy)
• Screencast: Building ASP.NET MVC Forms with Razor (ASP.NET MVC Foundations Series) (Michael Kennedy)
• Yet Another Podcast #57–Kendo UI (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Scrum.org’s New Agile Webcast Series (no trans fats) (David Starr)
• What To Expect At Your First MVP Summit? (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Uruguay SharePoint Community Launch (Joel Oleson)

Database

• Monday Morning Mistakes: Remote Connectivity to SQL Server (Jorge Segarra)
• Sorting a String as a Number with T-SQL and SSIS (MikeDavisSQL)
• SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring and Fine-Prints – Quiz – Puzzle – 23 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Estimating Mean Uptime for Team-based uptime measurements (Ted Krueger)
• Deadlock Monitoring (Grant Fritchey)
• Declaring Length for VARCHAR and NVARCHAR datatypes IS Necessary (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Configuring a TFS 2010 build agent to compile SharePoint 2010 projects (Rory Primrose)

Miscellaneous

• ‘Diablo III’ getting big skill and rune system changes, losing senior producer (Adi Robertson)
• Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the ‘consumer preview’ (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #802 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #3) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 1/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #30 (Franky)
• The Morning Brew #1028 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-23 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 23 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

• 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

• JSON Toolkit 2.0 (CodePlex)
• Node.JS on Windows Azure Part 1: Setting Up Your Environment (Aaron Stannard)
• Every public change is a breaking change (Eric Lippert)
• If you like typing XAML you will love ReSharper 6.1 ! (Jeremy Alles)
• jQuery Mobile Upcoming Releases: 1.0.1, 1.1, and beyond (Todd Parker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access and the essence of needless work, Part I (Oren Eini)
• Intellitrace in VS2010 (Mark)
• Deploying Visual Studio 2008 ClickOnce Projects in TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• Visual Studio 11 ALM VHD’s, VirtualBoxed (and even on x86 hosts too) (Greg Duncan)
• Breaking Changes in the LINQ to Twitter Search API (Joe Mayo)
• Extension Method of the Day – IsReallyFuckingNullOrEmpty() (Scott C. Reynolds)
• “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” [ManagedMsiExec sample app shows how to use the Windows Installer API from managed code] (David Anson)
• I Hate You, OutDir parameter (Pete Seale)

Web Development

• HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 6 (Andrey Prikaznov)
• Animated Web Banners With CSS3 (Caleb Jacob)
• CSS Corner: Using the Whole Font (Sylvain Galineau)
• Minify JavaScript using UglifyJS and NodeJS (Jonathan Creamer)
• Sencha: The 2012 HTML5 Wishlist (Michael Mullany)
• HTML5 Will Replace Native Apps–But It Will Take Longer Than You Think (AAPL, GOOG, ADBE) (Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry)
• Cascading DropDownList in ASP.Net MVC (Rick Anderson)
• Ruby On REST 3: One Model, Multiple Representations! (Nick Sutterer)
• Windows Azure Libraries for Java 0.1 December 2011 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Creating Printer Friendly Pages (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Web Fonts, now more compressed (Scott Knaster)
• Fix Common IE Problems: Update your Docmode for Web Standards (Rey Bango)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure : Running Hive Scripts from Interactive Hive Console (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fluent API in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• O’ Reilly Deal of the Day 10/Jan/2012 – Version Control with Git (Tatworth)
• Gallio plugin for the VS2011 Test Window and MbUnit 101: Assert.That (Andy Stopford)
• [Agile Tool Review] – EasyBacklog – Quick and Easy Backlog Management (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #5 Basic XAML (Windows Phone Geek)
• Crafting the Øredev Windows Phone app live tile (Andreas Hammar)
• WPF Elements 5 Dashboard Sample (Jason)
• Silverlight Reporting Open Source Printing/Reports Example Updated for Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #469 – Filling a UniformGrid from Right to Left (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Audio from 2012 Microsoft CES Keynote (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 171 – PowerScripting Podcast – Listener Call-In (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Tablet Show – Kevin McNeish Prefers Objective-C (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gweek 034: Giant Jenga! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Engadget Podcast 271: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.09.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 36 (Richard Hay)
• New Video: Integrating Test Studio with Team Pulse (Jim Holmes)
• VIDEO: First look at the Nokia Lumia 710 and LTE-powered HTC Titan II (Ben Rudolph)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 9th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m a CodeProject MVP 2012 (Shai Raiten)
• Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers and 10 Days Left to Catch an Early-bird Discount for the 4-day XAML Training in London (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone Camps in London (4th Feb) and Bristol (11th Feb) and Updated agenda for Six Weeks of Windows Azure now available #6weeksazure (Eric Nelson)
• AT&T shows off coming new Windows Phones at CES (Mary Jo Foley)
• Webinar: Test Dependencies & Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)
• Proud to be a CodeProject MVP 2012 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Rewarded as Codeproject MVP 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Steve Ballmer Was ON FIRE At Today’s AT&T Event In Vegas (Matt Rosoff)
• Git Events in Pittsburgh on February 21st & 22nd (Matthew McCullough)
• CES 2012: TI’s OMAP platform to power Windows 8 tablets (Michael)
• CES: Nokia Lumia 900, gorgeous and 4G fast, comes to AT&T (Michael Stroh)
• CES 2012: Kinect For Windows Retail Pricing Revealed (Richard Hay)

Database

• SQL Server –WRITELOG and how to reduce it (Jack Vamvas)
• Consolidating SQL Server Databases (David Barbarin)
• SQL SERVER – Locking, Blocking and Deadlock – Quiz – Puzzle – 9 of 31 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• How To Add Custom ASP.NET Page Using Layouts Folder Approach in SharePoint2010 (Member 3664831)

Miscellaneous

• Nokia Lumia 900 official: 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED, 4G LTE, exclusive to AT&T (Daniel Cooper)
• Microsoft in 2012: two screens and a question mark (Ed Bott)
• Adobe Lightroom 4 enters free public beta with new editing tools and photo books (Jacob Schulman)
• Starting February 1, 2012: Use the Power of Kinect for Windows to Change the World (Craig Eisler)
• Learning Android: Robolectric – Testing details got saved to SharedPreferences (Mark Needham)
• Om Nom Now Om Line (Ryan Gavin)
• Setting a Custom Icon for your External Drives in Windows Explorer (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.01 ~ 01.09 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #792 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Postings–10/01/2012 (BizTalk Visionary)
• The Morning Brew #1018 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 02-08, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/10/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• NEW! Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #1) (Himanshu Singh)

The Geek Shelf

Introducing Microsoft WebMatrix by Laurence Moroney

• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #2 The Design Process of a Windows Phone App (Arturo Toledo)
• Syncing Visual Studio Extensions and Settings with Dropbox (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• SOLID JavaScript: The Interface Segregation Principle (Derek Greer)
• The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET session hijacking with Google and ELMAH (Troy Hunt)
• Introducing ExpectThat: A CoffeeScript Assertion Library (Dan Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Static Field Initialisation Order (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Working with the Search charm in Windows 8 (Peter von Lochow)

Web Development

• Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript inheritance by example (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Downloading Blob To Local Machine (Puja Pramudya)
• Textarea Auto Resize (Louis Lazaris)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• What we still can’t do client-side (Lea Verou)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My take on TDD & binary search (Morgan Persson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• [WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app. (Jonathan Antoine)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Phone: Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Using advanced tiles API (Andrea Boschin)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone–Marketing 101 (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #468 – FirstColumn Property Allows Blank Cells in a UniformGrid (Sean Sexton)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 3of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• Fixing that darn AdControl when it won’t show up (Arian Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 242: Refreshing and Resetting (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Webcasts: Upcoming Sessions in January and February (Kim Spilker)

Database

• Relating Parameters & Filters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Melissa Coates)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.6–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• Restoring SQL Server Database: Points to Consider (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Using RANKING Functions Instead of SQL Looping Logic of Cursor – Quiz – Puzzle – 8 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• “New Index…” is greyed out in SSMS (Ben March)
• Set-Based Operations: They’re Not Just For Databases (Calvin Bottoms)
• Orders Search in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• Managing Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 from a Single PowerShell Session and How to Enable Lync 2010 Client Presence Status: Appear Offline and Generating Delivery Reports and Tracking Messages from PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Started with Python – A simple example with all basic stuff (Singaram Subramanian)
• Learning Android: Getting android-support jar/compatability package as a Maven dependency (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #791 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #28 (Franky)
• The Morning Brew #1017 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development by Trevor Burnham

• 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

• Knockout 2.0.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows Phone Beats Out Blackberry World – Marketplace Now 4th Largest (Antonio Hernandez)
• Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro (Daniela Panfili)
• ReSharper 6.1, dotCover 1.2 and dotTrace 4.5.2 Performance Released (Hadi Hariri)
• OData: iOS Client Library goes Open Source (Arlo Belshee)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stupid smart code: Solution (Oren Eini)
• Search in Tfs Work Items never was so easy (Gian Maria Ricci)
• TFS + NuGet =’s? TFS NuGetter of course! and Kinect + 3D = Fusion4D (Greg Duncan)
• The PacMan problem (Julian M. Bucknall)
• New CodeRush Plugin – CR_ImportNamespace (Rory Becker)
• Live Data and Source Code in JustTrace (Just* Team)
• New Book: Developing Microsoft Media Foundation Applications (Kim Spilker)
• Facebook C# SDK 5.4.1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Model Binding with Dropdown List in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• WebStorm 3.0: The JavaScript IDE! (Alexey Korsun)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 3 (Jorge Ramon)
• Using jQuery’s .pushStack() for reusable DOM traversing methods (Karl Swedberg)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Exception with Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• The output element (Richard Clark)
• Espresso Tip: Changing those nasty constraint names in Code First (Jonathan Creamer)
• What’s been happening in the Web Workbench world (Ivan Towlson)
• My book is now available (HTML5 games) (Jacob Seidelin)
• An Introduction to EAI Bridges (Harish Agarwal)
• Important Announcements Regarding the Access Control Service (Himanshu Singh)
• Let It Snow… Faster! (Rob Mauceri)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 2 (Dan Wellman)
• Use the W3C Geolocation API to create location aware web sites (Rachel Appel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Isn’t the Answer to Bad Product Ownership (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Unit Testing MySQL-Bound Code (Omer van Kloeten)
• Metro: Typography trumps chrome–debunked. (Scott Barnes)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 17: Rules for Effective Data-Driven Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Final Designs are Always the Simplest and Most Practical (Anthony)
• The Process of Change – Handling Resistance to Change [Part 3/4] (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #2: Installing the Tools (Windows Phone Geek)
• TouchDevelop v2.5: new tutorial, artwork, forum, and more (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Updates to the Windows Phone docs (Cheryl Simmons)
• WP7 Saving To Isolated Storage (Daniel Egan)
• Stopping the WP7 Emulator Skin file copy/replace madness… Windows Phone 7 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 [Beta] (Greg Duncan)
• Finding the Unique Device ID in Windows Phone 7 (And Device Manufacturer And Anonymous Windows Live ID) (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #455 – Using ItemContainerStyle to Bind Data Elements in a Collection to a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• 7th Day of Silverlight : Ancestor Relative Source Binding (Tony Champion)
• Ways To Pass Time On Window Phone – TouchDevelop (Tim Murphy)
• WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 Coming Soon, Test it Now! (Rene Schulte)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions (Beth Massi)
• patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 2 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Damian Conway – Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming Made Easy (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #152: No-ckito (James Shore)
• Engadget HD Podcast 279 – 12.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video Tutorial PhoneGap for Windows Phone – Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• New Video: Common Functional Testing Problems (Jim Holmes)
• SDU Show 48 with guest Roger Doherty (Greg Low)

Community / Events

• A day in the life of a Developer Evangelist! (Harish Ranganathan)

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT Function – PRINT (Pinal Dave)
• All 15 SQLBits Training days have been announced (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server Audits: Introduction and SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Server Specification (SQLArcher)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 20: Indexes with Included Columns (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010, ALM and Continuous Integration Resources (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Apple is a patent troll now (Joe Wilcox)
• ‘Roswell’: Another key component of Microsoft’s cloud strategy (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microspeak: Offline (noun) (Raymond Chen)
• Out with the Old, In with the New: Bing Takes Stock of 2011 and The Year Ahead (Kari Dilloo)
• Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
• RSS feed that can be filtered–would you use it? (Jason Haley)
• Microsoft forgets Windows Phone in Windows Live Messenger ad (Phone Arena Team)
• Face Swap For Windows Phone Swaps Faces Of Two People In A Photo – Download Now (Edward Marquez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Link Post 215 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #778 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew#1007 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 20-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis