• 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

• PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code (Jeff Wilcox)
• Is Programming Less Exciting Today? (Ted Neward)
• Avoid the volatile Modifier (Peter Ritchie)
• MVVM on MVC: HTML is not XAML (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Conclusion (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – A day in the life of … Plan, Code & Test (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows Forms Toolkit 0.3 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 7 (CodePlex)
• A Smarter Infrastructure: Automatically filtering an EF 4.1 DbSet (Matt Hidinger)
• "Building a large text file editor" Series – Part 1 of x (Greg Duncan)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: NFeature (Jason Jarrett)
• New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database (Glenn Gailey)
• Quick NLog Tip: Getting the Log Filename (Geoff Hudik)
• Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 2 (Bill Osuch)

Web Development

• Exploring Client-Side MVC with Backbone.js (Christopher Smith)
• Binding UI controls using Fluent API (Yosif Yosifov)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Unit testing when Value Objects get in the way (Giorgio Sironi)
• Book Review: ASP.NET MVC 3 In Action (Chad Haney)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views (Simon J. Ince)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Queues vs. Windows Azure Queues (Peter Laudati)
• Managed Dependencies vs. Dependency Injection In RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Node.js and Windows Azure: Creating a blog application using Node.JS and Windows Azure Table & Blob Storage Part 1 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts (Brian Swan)
• Debugging IndexedDB Applications (Israel Hilerio)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• Finding with Git (Anders Janmyr)
• Software Release Management – Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version (Rob Reynolds)
• Programming & Barries to Entry (Cori Drew)
• An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Shipped: xUnit.net 1.9 (Brad Wilson)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Fresh WPF Elements 5 Features – DataGrid Grouping and Exporting! (Callum G.)
• Windows Phone: App Config Settings – Thinking Outside the Box (Geoff Hudik)
• "New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database" for Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Tutorial: Logging Into Facebook with Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Using CSLA 4: Windows Phone ebook available (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 WPF Things #481 – You Can Draw On an InkCanvas Control with the Mouse (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen Talks About SOPA, Piracy, and Intellectual Property (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 2 (Robert Green)
• Visual Studio for Business Analysts (MS Podcasts)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 011 – 01.25.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Z0MB1ES, ARMED!, Groupon, NewEgg, Lumia Music (Laura Foy)
• Web Camps TV #12 – Vishal Joshi Talks about WebMatrix v2 (Drew Robbins & Brady Gaster)
• The Engadget Show 29: Red Cameras, MakerBot and the coolest gadgets of CES 2012 (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Interview with Book Authors after 2 Months of Book Released (Pinal Dave)
• Meet Andrey Korshikov – SQL Server MVP from Russia (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• A Coder Interview With Michael Dunn (The Code Project)

Database

• A early look at the "SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book" (Think "Work in progress") (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Different Aspect of Policy Based Management – Quiz – Puzzle – 25 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Improving cube processing time (James Serra)
• Rebuild Your Indexes Online (When You Can) (Michael Swart)
• Thoughts on Test Driven Database Development (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Loading Reference Data from a SharePoint List using SSIS (Nick Haslam)

Miscellaneous

• The best way to list skills on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
• Let Alice help you teach and learn programming… (Greg Duncan)
• Open WebOS 1.0 announced (Jason Kennedy)
• When are servers not servers? (Ted Neward)
• Installing and Configuring PeopleSoft Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010 (Vishal Mody)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Maker Geek Roundup 006 for 1/25/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #804 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1030 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-25 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke

• Caliburn Micro Part 1: Getting Started (Jason Fauchelle)
• EF 4.3 Beta 1 Released (EF Team)
• Scoping CQRS/ES Guidance Project (Grigori Melnik)
• JavaScript Pattern Collection (Shi Chuan)
• 101 Async Samples (Joe Mayo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access review thoughts (Oren Eini)
• SSDT CTP4 and Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Adam Mahood)
• How to work with Custom Method in WCF Data Service? and Flyout control in Windows 8 HTML JavaScript Metro Application and Code analysis using Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Stopwatch Ticks are not TimeSpan Ticks (James Michael Hare)
• My Artilcle on the UITableView with MonoTouch and the iPhone/iOS is now online (Wally McClure)
• Garbage Collection in The Age of Smart Pointers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentStack (Simon Cooper)
• 2012 Roadmap Revealed: 6 Major Releases (TeamPulse Team)
• Why does CreateEvent fail with ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND if I give it a name with a backslash? (Raymond Chen)
• DebuggerDisplay Attribute (Joseph Guadagno)
• Search in JustDecompile (JustDecompile Team)
• Reading and Writing text files in Windows 8 Metro (Morten Nielsen)
• Speaking of Speech Recognition… Check out Julius, the OSS high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder (Greg Duncan)
• EF 4.3 Configuration File Settings and EF 4.3 Beta 1: Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Beta 1: Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Developing Apps for Windows 8 (Christopher Smith)
• ReSharper and code generation (Jeremy Alles)
• Unable to cast transparent proxy to type <type> (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

• HTML5 Reference Poster and Bipin shows us that creating a tag cloud doesn’t have to be hard to do (in ASP.Net) (Greg Duncan)
• An approach to mobile support in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• Automatically numbering headings via CSS (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline (Rob Conery)
• My top 3 improvements in Windows Azure from the December update (Eric Nelson)
• New API Lets You Show Three Alternative Routes on Bing Maps (Bruce Kyle)
• Access Amazon’s EC2 (and more) from within NodeJS (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing the Android Design site (Tim Bray)
• New book: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Valerie Woolley)
• 5 Things Every Mobile Design Should Have (Patrick Cox)
• small-scale software craftsmanship (Ariya Hidayat)
• Inclusive Design (Faruk Ateş)
• Article: Design for Testability – The True Story (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• UriMapper in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Working with animation in Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
• Creating Cascading Drop Down Lists in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
• A Windows Phone-CES Post Mortem (Andrew Brust)
• “Operation Not Permitted” On IsolatedStorageSettings in Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #472 – UniformGrid Defaults to Being Square (Sean Sexton)
• Capturing the transport data between Visual Studio and Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New RSS Starter Kit (Chris Koenig)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Verge Mobile Podcast 009: CES 2012 – 01.12.2012 and The Vergecast 011: CES 2012 Day 2 – 01.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• VIDEO: Windows Phone wins 88% of #smokedbywindowsphone challenges at CES 2012! (Ben Rudolph)
• Let’s Play TDD #158: writeFile() and readFile() (James Shore)
• Surface 2.0 at CES (Steve Clayton)
• RadioTFS – First Show of 2012 (Martin Woodward)
• Gweek 035: Interview with Robert Anton Wilson’s daughter (Mark Frauenfelder)
• MVP First Timers Webcast On Demand (Denny Cherry)
• Basic Ad Controls for Windows Phone Apps with David Kelley (Silverlight Show)

Community / Events

• Boston Area Geek Dinner: Thursday January 19, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• New Cities and New Courses (Shawn Wildermuth)
• F# courses and talks (Winter 2012 and beyond…) (Tomas Petricek)
• A New Coding Project Every Week at Code52 (Paul Betts)
• Charles Petzold on His 25 Years with MSDN Magazine (Michael Desmond)
• MVP Award Program at CES 2012 (Kari Finn)
• Nokia Lumia 900 collects the hardware at CES with numerous awards (PhoneArena Team)
• .NET Performance Diagnostics: How and Where to Start -User Group Meeting January 18th Eagan, MN (Charles Sterling)
• Next Week: Central Ohio Windows Phone User Group January Meetup (Silverlight Show)

Database

• Anatomy of the SQL Server Database: Settings and Secrets Video (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – DACPAC and SQL Azure – Quiz – Puzzle – 12 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Missing Indexes (Jason Brimhall)
• Have you tried the “Data Explorer” samples yet? (Data Explorer Team)

Miscellaneous

• How to Take Screen Shots From An Android Phone or Tablet (Chris Love)
• Learning Android: Roboguice – Injecting context into PreferenceManager (Mark Needham)
• Microsoft’s Ballmer: If I had it to do all over again… (Mary Jo Foley)
• Why Doesn’t Windows 8 Just Look Like THIS? (Paul Thurrott)
• Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign for Windows 0.96 Beta released (Ron)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1021 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 12, 2011 – #0026 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-12 and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-13 (Bob Rhubart)
• Double Shot #795 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 1/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Wallace B. McClure

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Exclusive: Microsoft’s LTE Plans for Windows Phone (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th (Scott Guthrie)
• Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Six (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework December Sample Updates (Jialiang)
• New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Free resources (audio, fonts, graphics, tools, etc) for Dev’s and your next app… and Education and Educational tools, open source style (Greg Duncan)
• Dino Esposito: The O/RM and the chicken/egg dilemma (Devon Musgrave)
• How To: Bulk edit action recording? (Gautam Goenka)
• the concept of async \ await (Bnaya Eshet)
• On mutable state (Brian Marick)
• Practical Demonstration of Windows 8 Metro Style Application Lifecycle (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dropping in (Raymond Chen)

Web Development

• Peer to Peer Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket and PubSub Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket (Amar Daxini)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using PHP to HTML-ize Plain Text (Scott Eiler)
• The async and defer Script Attributes in HTML5 (Gil Fink)
• Subtyping JavaScript built-ins (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTTP Tools You Should Know About (John Sheehan)
• Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role (Gunnar Peipman)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 3 (Dan Wellman)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 1- Creating a new Windows Azure Cluster for Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 2 – Creating a Pi Estimator Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #461 – Making a GridSplitter Look Three-Dimensional (Sean Sexton)
• Binding Formatting (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez and YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #155: Transitioning to SaveFile (James Shore)
• Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang Live 12.29.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 119 – 12.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• RavenDB videos on YouTube (Oren Eini)
• Agile 2011 – Ward Cunningham – Agile Manifesto, 10 years later and the Federated Wiki (Agile Toolkit)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Auston Bunsen Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• There and Back Again – My Return to .Net Development (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

• SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
• SQL SERVER – Year End Brain Teaser – Disabled Login and Associated User Without Disabled User Red Arrow (Pinal Dave)
• RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Cambridge: Year in Review (Andrew Blake)
• Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
• Learning Android: Sharing with Twitter/the ‘share via’ dialog (Mark Needham)
• Is the Windows Phone story “starting to come together”? (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone users: LTE models may be closer than you think (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• 2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• Fever Pitched Episode 6: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 28 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Double Shot #784 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1011 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars

• Protecting your digital identity (Steven Sinofsky)
• Starting work on Prism 4.1 (Blaine Wastell)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 3: Screen Templates, Which One Do I Choose? (Beth Massi)
• Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #4: The Application Bar (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrating RoboHelp with TFS Source Control (Shai Raiten)
• Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• NuGet PowerShell Downloader Update – Adding Failed Download Retries, Better Paging Support (Jon Galloway)
• Manage Your Dependencies with Rake and NuGet (Josh Bush)
• Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations (Per Ökvist)
• I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! (Peter Kellner)
• Getting the most of the Kinect SDK (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• CSS3 Animations (Gil Fink)
• Interoperable HTML5 Quirks Mode in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Debugging Application_Start and Module Initialization with IIS and Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 8 -Show SSRS Report in ASP.NET Web Page (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Downcast (and Wrapping) and jQuery plugins with jsTestDriver (Giorgio Sironi)
• Decoding jQuery – OOP and jQuery part 6 (Shi Chuan)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.02 (CodePlex)
• Good Summary of Bad Security Assumptions (S. Lott)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP Availability (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Process Reality Check (Ralf Westphal)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 13: Functional Test 201 (Common Problems) and Test Studio Webinar on Functional Test 201 (Common Problems) (Jim Holmes)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• E is for Estimable (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Annotated Source Code As Documentation, With Docco (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Is there a future for Microsoft Expression Blend for XAML? (Andrei Marukovich)
• Windows Phone LINQ to SQL and Data Virtualization (Andy Wigley)
• Just Published on Codeplex SDNavigation WP7 + MVVM + Navigation Framework (Braulio Díez Botella)
• Windows Phone testing for sensors (Daniel Egan)
• 2000 WPF Things #451 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, Part IV (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Basic User Comparison (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 2 (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Communicating at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 187: Charles Stacy Harris III on the Microsoft Technology Center (part 2 of 2) (David Giard)
• Grantophone LIVE! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Performance Profiling (Robert Green)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 006 – 12.14.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• What The Tech 97: Best of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• A Look Behind the Art of Touch Site (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Dream.Build.Play 2012 – Adding Windows Phone (XNA Team)
• A Coder Interview With Phil Haack (The Code Project)

Database

• Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQLAuthority News – Online Session Practical Tricks and Tips to Speed up Database Queries Today (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 14: EXCEPT and INTERSECT SET Operations (Denis Gobo)
• Troubleshooting Merge Replication Performance – Indexing Publications (Ted Krueger)
• Display Foreign Key Relationships and Name of the Constraint for Each Table in Database (Rodney Vinyard)
• Deleting Leading Zeros in a String (SQL) (Madhivanan)

SharePoint

• Installing SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012 RC0 (Bradley Schacht)

PowerShell

• A short round-up of PowerShell Quick Reference Guides & Cheat Sheets (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• The best way to handle unrelated experience on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
• Moving My Data To The Cloud: Stormy Weather (Chris Sells)
• Thoughts on ExcelMashup.com (and a rant) (Jamie Thomson)
• The peculiar cadence of executive mail messages (Raymond Chen)
• More Android Games that Play Nice (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 14, 2011 (#2,100 or so) (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 15 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #773 and Double Shot #774 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1003 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/14/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for December 13, 2011 – #0011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 14 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World by Estelle Weyl

• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards (Troy Hunt)
• Announcing the Release of Silverlight 5! (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 5 is released! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Fun With Big Data Using the Microsoft “Data Explorer” Pt. 1 (Don Burnett)
• VIDEO: The Art of Speaking – with Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)
• Using QUnit with Razor Layouts (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure SDK for node.js (Andre Rodrigues)
• The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011 (Oleg Mokhov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 and Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server – Windows Server 2003 Distributed Cache Client (MS Downloads)
• Mocking Internal Types with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Poll – do you reverse engineer .NET apps you didn’t write? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Metro Style Apps using Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (Developer Preview) (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS source control – Watch your application grow like a garden (Peter Gfader)
• In the async world – no one can hear you scream (Peter von Lochow)
• Sure, I’m supposed to pass WT_EXECUTELONGFUNCTION if my function takes a long time, but how long is long? (Raymond Chen)
• RTM’d today: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• MicroTweet – Adding tweeting to your Netduino/.Net Micro Framework projects and Want some help making snippet deployment and sharing easier? Snippet to VSI! (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Store to allow for open source apps (John Callaham)
• Make your Windows 8 Video App use the PlayTo feature (Morten Nielsen)
• Tpl Dataflow – Part 3 (Bnaya Eshet)
• ImpromptuInterface: Static interface to dynamic implementation (duck casting). (Google Code)

Web Development

• Speed up writing CSS backgrounds (Richard Bradshaw)
• ELMAH MVC: Answering questions (Alexander Beletsky)
• On deploying ASP.NET MVC site as a desktop application (Andrei Marukovich)
• Animations in HTML5 (Florian Rappl)
• MVC3, Razor and MS Chart Controls in .NET 4 (Henrik Andersson)
• Using Classic ASP, PHP and WebForm Pages in ASP.NET MVC Views (Imran Baloch)
• Quick Tip: Create a Makeshift JavaScript Templating Solution (Jeffrey Way)
• JavaScript – Add Commas To Number (Shai Raiten)
• To Say Mobile is to Set A False Limit on Your Reach (Chris Love)
• NetBash – An Alternative to Endless Admin Pages in Asp.Net Web Applications (Luke Lowrey)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Constructor with Factory Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML 5 Input Types on WebForms Controls and HTML 5 Input Types – How useful is this really going to be? and Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Table Storage- Partition or Row key length is limited to 256 characters in Storage Emulator and Handling issues with your startup task in Windows Azure Application and Exploring Windows Azure Package contents (Avkash Chauhan)
• Tutorial: Running the Mongoose Web Server in Windows Azure and Tutorial: Running a Python Web Application in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Media Capture API: Helping Web developers directly import image, video, and sound data into Web apps (Claudio Caldato)
• Transferable Objects: Lightning Fast! (Eric Bidelman)
• Keep Users Coming Back With Desktop Notifications for Web Apps Article (Gil Fink)
• Leveraging YetAnotherForum.NET for External Post Display (Dave Burke)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 18 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• WebStorm 3.0 RC (Alexey Gopachenko)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Unit Testing Death-Spiral of Doom (Gil Zilberfeld)
• TDD vs. BDD or why can’t we all just get along? (Dror Helper)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• How to Think About Estimating (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Nine Things I’ve Learned (Mike Kus)
• Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled (Mike Walker)
• Good UX in the Wild: A comic book geek returns after twenty years away to a brave new digital world (Scott Hanselman)
• Leadership Books Sweep and 30 Day Improvement Sprints Revisited (JD Meier)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 9: Readable Tests and 31 Days of Testing—Day 10: Mocking Out Dependencies and 31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation (Jim Holmes)
• Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 3 (Johanna Rothmann)
• Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts (Chris Missal)
• Acronyms and Ubiquitous Language (Derek Greer)
• Sunday Thought: Embracing the Type System (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Why Silverlight 5’s 3D is (almost) useless (Morten Nielsen)
• Updated all my Silverlight 5 posts (Peter Kuhn)
• Arrays in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight 5 has released! The docs are up and a .chm is available (Cheryl Simmons)
• Implementing MVVM Light with Structure Map (emardini)
• Detecting and simulating low memory devices in Windows Phone 7 applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Silverlight 5 Released: Myth vs. Fact (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight Spy December 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• MVVM Light for Silverlight 5 is on Codeplex #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft releases Silverlight 5 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone 8 and WinRT (Matt Lacey)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Batch INSERT performance (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #448 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – User details & official project page (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Great Series — 31 Days of Mango (Rhonda Tipton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 186: Charles Stacy Harris III and David Sawyer on the Microsoft Technology Center (part 1 of 2) (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 045 – “Frat Night at Ben’s” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 422: Xbox 360 System Update and BF3 Back To Karkand (Larry Hyrb)
• Gweek 030: Supergods, Mutants, and Mystics (Mark)
• The Tablet Show – Rocky Lhotka, Sergey Barskiy and Stuart Williams Explore WinRT App Migration (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start-Up Success Show #126: George Karavias and Dimitris Gkanatsios, Anlock (Bob Walsh)
• TWC9: Windows 8 Store, Azure Event, SignalR and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 79 – Extreme Performance with Patrick Cooney and Joel Pobar (Richard Banks)
• A Little Bit of My Soul Went Into This One (Rob Conery)
• Engadget Podcast 267 – 12.09.2011 and The Vergecast 005 – 12.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 67 – Technical Computing with Windows Azure and Wenming Ye (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Weekly 238: It’s All About The Gs (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft makes a movie: Ctrl+Alt+Compete (Zoe Goldring)

Community / Events

• Get Your Azure On! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – Virtual Presentation on Practical Tricks and Tips to Speed up Database Queries – December 15, 2011 (Pinal Dave)
• Just One More Week To Enter The Rock Paper Azure Fall Sweepstakes! (Dani Diaz)
• Author news: Q&A with author and consultant Don Reifer (Devon Musgrave)

Database

• Find Last Run Query in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 RC0: Fix Setup Error: File format is not valid and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: Msg 1904, Level 16 The statistics on table has 33 column names in statistics key list. The maximum limit for index or statistics key column list is 32 (Pinal Dave)
• Search SSRS Subscriptions – LightSwitch Star Contest Submission (Royce Bacon)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 9: Dynamic TOP and SQL Advent 2011 Day 10: Upsert by using the Merge statement and SQL Advent 2011 Day 11: DML statements with the OUTPUT clause (Denis Gobo)
• Merge Replication – Parameterized Filters (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Database Status with sys.databases (Jack Vamvas)
• XQuery Lab 65 – Restructuring an XML document using FLWOR (Jacob Sebastian)
• Reduce heap table fragmentation (James Serra)
• Working With Web Data in Microsoft Codename "Data Explorer" (James Terwilliger)

SharePoint

• ExcelMashup.com debuts! (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

• How to use a Proxy Server with the EWS Managed API and PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Software: The most important Growth Industry (Bill Wagner)
• HP Opensources WebOS: My Quick Thoughts (Krishnan Subramanian)
• HP: WebOS Is Now an Open Source Project (Lance Ulanoff)
• The New MSDN Subscriber Portal is Live! (Mark Curphey)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 132 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Link Post 214 (Rhonda Tipton)
• MVP Friday Five: December 9, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #770 and Double Shot #771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 10 Dec 2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 12/9/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/9/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (December 9, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1000 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 11, 2011 – #0009 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/09/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 62 – Books and Giveaways (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 5 – 11 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

• 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

• Scott Hanselman’s 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 Released (EF Team)
• Web API preview 6 is out: how to get a RESTful mind (Simone Chiaretta)
• Web Essentials – the idea (Mads Kristensen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting up a Rhino Service Bus Application: Part I and Setting up a Rhino Service Bus Application: Part II–One way bus (Oren Eini)
• Parallel LINQ and Getting a Base Exception (Richard Carr)
• Building an Async WCF Service in .NET 4.5 (Howard Dierking)
• Downloads for Code First book are online (Julie Lerman)
• Greatest Hits: Using Visual Studio 2010 IntelliSense with Keywords (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with the WCF NetMsmqBinding with WAS (Sam Gentile)
• Mono for Android Debugging Android.OS.Debug.StartMethodTracing(); (Wally McClure)
• Bringing Windows 8 UI to Windows 7 with RadPanorama for WinForms. Today. (Telerik WinForms Team)
• LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.22 (CodePlex)
• VS 2010 Build Customization: Custom Activity Invoke Process (Gouri Sohoni)
• If you protect a write with a critical section, you may also want to protect the read (Raymond Chen)
• November 2011 Update for MFCMAPI and MrMAPI (Think, "MFCMAPI, You’re looking kind of Metro" release) and SharpDX – A new Managed DirectX/Multimedia API Library (one with Win8/Metro in mind too!) and Adding Lua scripting to your .Net app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 and WinRT development whitepaper (Rockford Lhotka)
• Mini Review: NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Samuel Jack)
• Submit your ideas for the next version of GhostDoc (Tatworth)
• Feedback Requested: Is there any valid usage for the ‘new’ keyword? (Dennis Doomen)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM – Stored Procedure Editor essentials (OpenAccess ORM Team)
• Programming Windows 8: The Sublime To The Strange (K. Scott Allen)
• Macro-optimisations and Yes, Simple.Data protects against SQL Injection (Mark Rendle)
• Async CTP Support in ReSharper 6.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations) and Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘No-Magic’ Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• What is a manifest file in Windows 8 Metro applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Arcticles on Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4.5 (MS Downloads)
• NetAdvantage Reporting in Windows Forms (Tom Puglisi)
• Using a state object to store object property values. and Custom XML Serialization (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Static Constructors Should Be Private (Chris Eargle)

Web Development

• Building an advent calendar for Mozilla in PHP/JS/CSS (part 2) (Chris Heilmann)
• Help me organize my posts about using jQuery with ASP.NET (Dave Ward)
• Is JavaScript’s “Global” Scope Really Just A Closure? (Derick Bailey)
• HTML5 for Applications: The Fourth IE10 Platform Preview (Rob Mauceri)
• Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re Wrong (Jeremy McPeak)
• Getting Intrinsic HTML5 Video Dimensions (K. Scott Allen)
• How to lint your JavaScript with JSLint in real time (Maxim Mossienko)
• CSS3 toolkit (Paul Boag)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Parameter Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 2 (Jorge Ramon)
• jQuery Time Entry with Time Navigation Keys (Rick Strahl)
• Easier ASP.NET MVC Routing (Steve Wilkes)
• Creating Falling Snow in HTML/JS and Clipping Content Using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection (Troy Hunt)
• HTML5 Form Input Enhancements: Form Validation, CSS3, and JavaScript (Michael Palermo)
• A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers (Rachel Andrew)
• S#arp Lite: S#arp Architecture Simplified To Its Essentials (Jenni Konrad)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Now Available: 30 Days of Getting Results Free eBook (J.D. Meier)
• Agile "Religion" Issues (S. Lott)
• Getting Setup for JavaScript Testing with Pavlov (Daniel Mohl)
• Sleeping Under Your Desk Doesn’t Make You A Success (Rob Conery)
• That’s not funny (Eric Brechner)
• Do you ponder what to name things in your code? (Evan Light)
• My Code Isn’t Fat, It’s Just Robust (Jeremiah Peschka)
• How *NOT* to win the hearts of developers, part 2 (Dawn Cannan)
• Another Case for Using Top Aligned Form Labels (Anthony)
• Overusing Interfaces and Injection (Brendan Enrick)
• Migrating from SVN to Git (Karl von Randow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Displaying Enum Values User Friendly in WPF (Henrik Jonsson)
• ListBox ContextMenu with MVVM in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using the xamGrid with Virtual Collections and MVVM (Radko Kolev)
• The Ultimate Windows Phone Design and UX Resource List (Arturo Toledo)
• Silverlight front end calling to WCF Service, all in one Windows Azure Web Role Sample (Avkash Chauhan)
• “Lost” your SkyDrive OneNote files on your Windows Phone? Here’s the workaround (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone (Mango) Contact Chooser Task (Luke Lowrey)
• Microsoft: No Silverlight 5 release in November (Mary Jo Foley)
• WPF 4.5: Binding and change notification for static properties (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #440 – How Alignment Properties Behave in a WrapPanel and #441 – Setting a Consistent Height/Width for Child Elements in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
• The Microsoft sponsored service for WP7 ends – the PreEmptive sponsored service debuts (Sebastian Holst)
• Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free and Context Menu (Jesse Liberty)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #30: Local Database and 31 Days of Mango | Day #31: Promoting Your App (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Fixing a WinPhone Phone Gap App: Those Darn Gray Box’s (David Kelley)
• Icons in the „Metro Look“ for free – Monochrom/Minimalist Icons (Code Inside Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cool Projects at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Graham Hutton – How To Be More Productive (Charles Torre)
• Recording of joint interview with Eric Evans (Udi Dahan)
• Let’s Play TDD #146: Race Condition and "Evolutionary Design Illustrated" Video (James Shore)
• Yet Another Podcast #54–Damian Edwards on ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
• Engadget HD Podcast 276 – 11.29.2011 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 004 – 11.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• SE Podcast #29 – Chris Poole (Alex Miller)
• State of the nation website (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 95: Heavenly Music (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #104: The Greatest Podcast of All Time (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag – Unplayable Media Center files, Missing RAM, Closing Cores (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Let’s Golf 2, Kayak, Drummer, Find My Girlfriend, First Words – Learning Animals (Laura Foy)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• April 11th and 12th in Philadelphia, PA: Emerging Technologies Conference (James Shore)
• ANN: Special 2-day SharePoint 2010 Development Roadshow in Boston, MA by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• What I’ve Been Doing… (Shawn Wildermuth)
• jQuery Conference 2012: UK – Training Workshops Announced (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Microsofties cultivate mustaches for mankind (MS JobsBlog)
• TED2012 Fellowship applications open (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Blue Beanie Day 2011: Three Cheers for Web Standards (Jason McConnell)

Database

• GO statement breaks SSIS Execute SQL Task (aedna)
• SQL Server Configuration timeouts – and a workaround [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: File cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for more details and SQL SERVER – Where Can YOU Get My Books – SQL Server Interview Question and Answers (Pinal Dave)
• Anecdotes about SQL AKA post 400 (Denis Gobo)
• Red Gate adds TSQL unit testing to SSMS (for free) (Greg Duncan)
• Using OFFSET and FETCH (Vinay Pugalia)

SharePoint

• Microsoft Visio 2010 for SharePoint Network Topology (MS Downloads)
• Avoiding bugs from cached JavaScript and CSS files in SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)
• How do I – Create a recursive escalation workflow in SharePoint using Visio 2010 Premium (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• What to SharePoint from your WP7 App? Check out the SharePoint 2010 Windows Phone 7 Toolkit (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Some new powertoys for OneNote (John Guin)
• Microsoft delivers new IE 10 preview for Windows 8 and Microsoft updates SkyDrive with HTML5 upload, PDF support and more (Mary Jo Foley)
• The New Essential Apps November 2011 (Roberto Baldwin)
• Windows Phone 7 needs a Christmas miracle (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #992 and The Morning Brew #993 (Chris Alcock)
• WindowsDevNews for November 29, 2011 – #0002 and WindowsDevNews for November 30, 2011 – #0003 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 30 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/29/2011 and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/30/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Things I’ve written that have amused other people, Episode 8 (Raymond Chen)
• Maker Geek Roundup 004 for 11/29/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #763 and Double Shot #764 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Monthly Summary – November 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 11/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 29-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Monthly Report November 2011: Total Posts 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Firefox – tons of tools for web developers! (Robert Nyman)
• Just ___ It (Mike Brown)
• Handling the back-stack in Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap applications (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual C++ CLR Class Library – where is the DLL? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the Static Code Analysis feature of Visual Studio (Premium/Ultimate) to find memory leakage problems (Terje Sandstrom)
• What are Charms and how to use them (Abhishek Sur)
• Reflection, performance and runtime code generation (Ivan Towlson)
• Using The DataContext In EntityFramework To Retrieve Nested Objects (Peter Kellner)
• Tips for using Statement Visualization (Omer Raviv)
• Simple.Data for Mono (Mark Rendle)

Web Development

• How To Write Plugin in jQuery (Shakeel Iqbal)
• Are jQuery Users Fools? (Jeffrey Way)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Parameter with Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Windows Azure Cloud Drive and Snapshots limit and Windows Azure instance uptime and instance re-initialization (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Reasons to Write Unit Tests (Avi Kaye)
• When should you take performance into consideration? (Jef Claes)
• Things I love about the new RavenDB UI (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Picture Browser app for Windows Phone using RadSlideView and RadDataBoundListBox (Georgi Atanasov)
• How can you Add Network Connection Settings Page in your WP7 Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #438 – Border Element Can Have a Background (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #28: Media Library (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Mango Sample: External Data and Mango Sample: Data Validation (Jerry Nixon)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – What it looks like (Dennis Delimarsky)
• XamGrid: Now with Excel Style Filtering (Damyan Petev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 184: Scott Hunter on ASP.NET 4.5 (David Giard)
• Gweek 028: The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones (Unknown Author)
• The Tablet Show – WinRT Panel Discussion from DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Need Help With Your Chapter? Join the vNext Monthly Q and A call (David Kelley)
• On Microsoft Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• APress cyber Monday sale is today!" (Tatworth)
• UX at this year’s Web 2.0 NYC Conference (jsalvador)
• O’Reilly / MS Press Cyber Monday Ebook Deal (Zain Naboulsi)
• Brent’s 2012 Conference Schedule (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Some interesting links for SQL Server 2012 data tools (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Are you ready for SQL Server 2012 or are you still partying like it is 1999? (Denis Gobo)
• Installing SQL Server 2012 RC0 from an iPhone (Steve Turner)
• SQL Dirty Pages (Jack Vamvas)

SharePoint

• Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint – Part 2 (Walter Ferrari)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #990 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #761 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 085 for 11/28/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Reading Notes #22 (Franky)
• Everyman on Pictures Under Glass, Ruining Sharing, Blog As Application Template, Rumble Strips (Dave Burke)
• Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 21-27 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 27, 2011 — #1176 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share by Ken Denmead