• Farewell Stack Exchange (Jeff Atwood)
• Farewell (Joel Spolsky)
• Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
• What is "binding" and what makes it late? (Eric Lippert)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding solutions not covered by automated builds (Rory Primrose)
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #1 (Oren Eini)
• KinectContrib 2.0 released – now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Gadgeteer Hello World (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 8 Composition and Content (Joe Mayo)
• Using JSON.net to consume the JSON Stack Overflow API (Jonathan Creamer)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter (Jason Jarrett)
• The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed (Pete Brown)
• Wrapping up Configuration Manager (Paul Sheriff)
• Pinpointing a Static GC Root with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
• JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies (Joost van Schaik)
• How to Use the Azure npm Package Locally without the Azure Compute Emulator (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Entity Framework to Query Dynamic Types (David Barrett)
• WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed. (Deepak Kapoor)
• Developing for a multitude of clients – Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

Web Development

• jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects (Ben Nadel)
• JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB (Devon Govett)
• Learning HTML5 & CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
• PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• Turbocharge your Website with Memcached (Nicolas Sebban)
• Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser (Ilmari Heikkinen)
• MSDN Article: Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color (Chris Coyier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Use Hand Coding Coded UI Test For Automated Vs2010 Test Scripting (Abhishek Lohani)
• Looking for the seam (Mark Needham)
• The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs? (Mike Walker)
• Mocking ITable<T> (Chris Skardon)
• Builder pattern with a twist (Uzi Landsmann)
• MSTest and Calling Exe with Sample Data Files (Johan Danforth)
• [Humor] – Business Roles and Designations – For a Baby (Peter Saddington)
• Constraints, expectations and real estate (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as ListBox Items (Windows Phone Geek)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons (Arturo Toledo)
• A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #489 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style (Tony Champion)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• Why Custom Controls are underrated (Morten Nielsen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 038: Puzzlejuice Pigs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 175 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Wells on SQL 2012 and SQLSpade (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• CreativeJS workshops in UK and Amsterdam (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March (Namita Gupta)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco – Feb 26 (Joel Oleson)
• I’m back, baby (get it? baby?) and Windows 8 resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• Don’t Miss FREE MSDN Webcast, Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 1) “Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure”, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 am PT (Himanshu Singh)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Data Quality Services (James Serra)
• SQL Server Certifications: What to Take and How to Prepare (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server 2012 Free Cook Book and Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize (Colin Stasiuk)
• Why Every DBA is a Clown (John Sansom)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Embracing guesswork with SQL Prompt partial matches (Troy Hunt)
• Code to list potential cluster key space savings per table (Paul S. Randal)
• How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database (Herve Roggero)

PowerShell

• List failed SQL server Jobs with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• Announcing Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook! (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Android–Create a ListView with rounded corners (Bill Osuch)
• Looking at Office 365 Security Holistically (Mike Halsey)
• ASCII Table Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #5) (Himanshu Singh)
• Double Shot #812 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1038 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft’s New Command Shell by Lee Holmes

• C++ AMP Open Specification (S. Somasegar)
• Get A Model From A Backbone Collection Without Knowing If The Collection Is Loaded and 3 Stages Of A Backbone Application’s Startup (Derick Bailey)
• If you’re using Node.js, you’re doing life wrong (Toby DiPasquale)
• Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps (Dan Mohl)
• Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon’s Kindle team (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 8 Secrets: What Windows Phone 8 Tells Us About Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The System.Type Class (Richard Carr)
• Extending Visual Studio Part 1 – Creating Code Snippets and Extending Visual Studio Part 2 – Creating Addins (Dave Kerr)
• From C# to C++, the short guide that isn’t (all that short) and Making your app a better listener… Using multiple grammars to improve speech recognition and to allow for runtime, state based recognition configuration (Greg Duncan)
• LINQ Query and Lambda Expressions (Tom Stickel)
• The Microsoft C++ Compiler Turns 20! (Visual C++ Team)
• Implementing Team Foundation Server 2010 In A Mixed Development Environment (Tim Murphy)
• JSON Serialization / Deserialization of DateTime Not Equal (Rick Anderson)
• New book: MCPD 70-519 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and Runtime Update (Luis Cabrera)
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 Adds Easy On/Off, Improved Navigation (Jenni Konrad)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: IntX (Jason Jarrett)
• Code Template in Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
• From 0 to doing solution builds w/ PSake–Part 1 of N (Derik Whittaker)
• RavenDB Tutorial, Part 1 – Introduction and Basic Operations and RavenDB Tutorial, Part 2 – Simple Querying (Piotr Kwapin)
• Introduction to the Infragistics Word Library (Atanas Dyulgerov)

Web Development

• Why You Should Build Your Website Using Static .html Files (Ryan Hayes)
• DataSets, TableAdapters, and Transient Retry Logic For SqlAzure (Dave M. Bush)
• Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on() (Elijah Manor)
• 3D Gallery with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Tease Apart Inheritance (Giorgio Sironi)
• jQuery "Pinify" Plugin Tutorial for Building App-Like Sites (sagar.sjg)
• HTML5 Web Workers: Classic Message Passing Concurrency (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Streaming results to web page using MSMQ/WCF/SignalR/JQuery (Sacha Barber)
• Getting Started with Knockout.js (John Papa)
• MVVM in the web world (Marlon Grech)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.8.0 (CodePlex)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Updates (Nathan Totten)
• MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js) (Neil Mackenzie)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Backbone.js vs Ember.js (Chris Smitch)
• Adding ELMAH to an AppHarbor application (Jef Claes)
• Stack Exchange API V2.0 No Longer Beta (Kevin Montrose)
• Getting Started with IndexedDB Article (Gil Fink)
• Any port in the storm… Sailing Orchard into AppHarbor ("How to setup Orchard on AppHarbor") (Greg Duncan)
• Solving the upload progress bar problem–The History of Node.js (Jarod Ferguson)
• A convenient ‘super’ method for Backbone.js (Max Brunsfeld)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3 (Johanna Rothman)
• A year in review with CQRS (John Teague)
• Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
• Interview: The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption (Sanjiv Augustine & Arlen Bankston)
• Make Code Explicit and Stupid (Rinat Abdullin)
• Organizing Your Work With OneNote Page Templates (Tim Murphy)
• New Mocking Capabilities in JustMock Q3 2011 SP (JustMock Team)
• Drive Your Week with Skill (JD Meier)
• Testing DI bootstrappers (Jef Claes)
• Quick news: Microsoft Manual of Style ebook bundle on sale today (Devon Musgrave)
• Two phase release planning and Looking for information about composed refactorings (Brian Marick)
• Scope, Schedule, and Resources – You can’t have them all (TeamPulse Team)
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–what about change? (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• More Json With Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
• PSake and building Silverlight solutions (Derik Whittaker)
• Accessing Pictures from Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: DynamicXaml (Jason Jarrett)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices – Project Separations (Lohith G N)
• Working with WP7 RadBusyIndicator control from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #488 – You Can Change Drawing Attributes of Existing Strokes in an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #12 – Take picture via Camera in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• Clouds using Expression Design with Expression Blend & XAML for WP7! (Surf4Fun)
• A tale of re-usablity – refactoring MangoTree parts and GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF service and Sending text messages from a Dell Venue Pro. Directly from the app and without SmsComposerTask. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• PivotViewer Basics: Custom Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
• Optimizing INPC Objects against memory leaks using WeakEvents (Abhishek Sur)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 133: Derick Bailey on Backbone.js (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 82: Going Beyond the Obvious in Innovation with Phil McKinney (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 195: Rich Dudley on Event Sponsorship (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 428: Shank 2, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and more (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: 4 Years of TWC9, Kinect SDK, C++, & more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Martin Woodward)
• The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 40 (Richard Hay)
• Gillmor Gang Live 02.03.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Podcast 279 – 02.03.2012 and The Vergecast 016 – 02.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 69 – SQL Azure Federations with George Huey (Wade Wegner)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Talks Windows Phone 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Recording of Gill Cleeren’s ‘Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer’ webinar is now available (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Weekly 246: Helsinki Syndrome (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Upcoming ASP.NET, HTML5 and Windows 8 Talks and Workshops at DevConnections 2012 (Dan Wahlin)
• RavenDB workshop in NDC, Oslo 4-5th June (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone camp in 6 cities of India from 17th Feb to 29th Feb (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 11, February 8, 2012 (Nerd Nite Team)
• Develop a Windows Phone Game, Win A Dell Alienware M18x Gaming Rig (Peter Laudati)
• Testing Dependencies and Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)

Database

• List SQL Server Instances using Powershell and Get-ItemProperty (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Count of Logical CPU using T-SQL Script – Identify Virtual Processors and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery and SQL SERVER – ERROR: FIX – Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner (Pinal Dave)
• Convenient ad-hoc bcp table loading (Erik)
• NoSql and a life without Schema continued (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Let’s Build Something Using Amazon’s DynamoDB (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

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

PowerShell

• Powershell: Selecting files that don’t contain specified content (Tobin Titus)

Miscellaneous

• DZone’s Different! (Austin Kowitz)
• Finding Content in Files With Git (Christopher Bennage)
• Unicode’s "Pile of Poo" character (Cory Doctorow)
• Xbox co-creator brings together Atari ‘dream team’ for mobile gaming startup (Donald Melanson)
• Pin a OneNote page to the desktop (John Guin)
• Expand Your Touch Apps Selection on the Windows 8 Developer Preview (Richard Hay)
• Note about being an Independent Consultant (Jason Haley)
• Windows Phone lacks developer experience first thinking. (Scott Barnes)
• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 – and the future of syncing and sharing (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 5, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 140 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1037 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 3, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Pie in The Sky (February 3, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Double Shot #811 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #32 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/3/2012) and Daily News Digest 2/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 29-January-2012 to 04-February-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Dev News for February 04, 2012 – #0036 (Dave Campbell)
• Re-blog – January 27 – February 2 (Jason Strate)
• Retrospective 70 – Online Agile Videos & Scrum Tools (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• MVP Friday Five: February 3, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-03 (Bob Rhubart)

The Geek Shelf

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

• 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

• 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

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released (Nathan Totten)
• jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released (Todd Parker)
• Modularity And Security In Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps (Joe Mayo)
• Infragistics Undo/Redo Framework CTP (Ambrose Little)

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Reflection (Richard Carr)
• Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
• Undertone – Programmable music in F# (Robert Pickering)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion (James Michael Hare)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – IntelliTrace and Test Impact Analysis (Martin Hinshelwood)
• F# vs. Scala, My Take at Year Two (Neil)
• Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 3 (Bill Osuch)
• Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings (Tim Murphy)
• CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Most-Wanted Features in Entity Framework (Roopesh Shenoy)
• SqlBulkCopy for Generic List (useful for Entity Framework & NHibernate) (Jarod Ferguson)

Web Development

• Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Hiding Things using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• One reason why HTML5 gaming is limping along (Christian Heilmann)
• Skype-enabled JavaScript Restaurant (Elijah Manor)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 2 (Shi Chuan)
• Upgrading to Rails 3.2.0 from Rails 3.1.3 (maciej)
• Resumable.js, Open Source Android WebGL Implementation, Coderbyte (Alex Young)
• Rails v3.2.1 has been released (with minor fixes) and Read This Before Installing Rails 3.2 and Deploying Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3 on Heroku (Daniel Kehoe)
• Using the Vibration API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: MongoDB and PHP – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Demo from Brian Loesgen (Peter Laudati)
• New Management API for Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Michael Washam)
• 24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development (Siddharth)
• Making the web speedier and safer with SPDY (Roberto Peon & Will Chan)
• Pattern matching and guards in Less stylesheets (Ivan Towlson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Anna (Jason Jarrett)
• Animate to an Inline Style (Chris Coyier)
• Vibration API coming to Firefox 11 (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Project Management – Engaging Your Customer! (Bob Galen)
• Seven Options for Handling Interruptions on Agile Teams (Craig Smith)
• ScrumMaster Manifesto? (Peter Saddington)
• Article: New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Pen and paper wireframing without the hassle (Paul Boag)
• The n00b filter: Bad UX at its Finest in Eagle PCB (Pete Brown)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Community Question: Synching Remote Locations (Tobin Titus)
• (Ab)Using Conventions To Enforce Good Practices (Davy Brion)
• The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love (Tomer Sharon)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App (Dave Bost)
• MetroSky – End to end Windows Phone 7 SkyDrive sample code and app (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #482 – You Can Include Other Controls Inside an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• 5 Reasons to use Azure when designing your Windows Phone Game (Surf4Fun)
• How I ended up using WebBrowser instead of a TextBlock in a Windows Phone application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How To Connect Window Phone 7 and Windows 8 app to Microsoft pubCenter (Shai Raiten)
• Beginning LightSwitch–Address Book Sample (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• A world of NUI: Steve Hodges (Steve Clayton)
• Video on How to work with Page State in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• RadioTFS: Backup on that (Martin Woodward)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Bruce Burke (Ryan Parsley)
• WHOIS: Danah Boyd, MSR Social Scientist (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• April 23rd to 27th in New York City: The Art of Agile (Training) (James Shore)
• My Daughter’s First User Group Meeting (Cori Drew)
• It’s Time For Another PowerShell Deep Dive! (Travis Jones)
• MVPs Provide Great Advice in 4th Official MVP Twitter Chat! (MVP Award Program)
• A Conversation with Charles Petzold (Michael Desmond)

Database

• SSRS – Custom Code with External Assemblies (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Common Gotcha’s Associated with Common Table Expressions (CTE) – Quiz – Puzzle – 26 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Collecting Index Usage Statistics (Bob Pusateri)
• Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic (Scott Klein)
• Understanding Database Choice (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh (Gregory Leake)

Miscellaneous

• Powertoys from the test team for 2011 (John Guin)
• Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza! (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft, don’t forget about Desktop Player — we haven’t (Mike Williams)
• Why doesn’t the Windows 7 Start menu have a pushpin for pinning items? (Raymond Chen)
• Android: Say Goodbye to the Menu Button (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 139 (Scott Banwart)
• Collective #2 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #805 and Open Source Report #3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1031 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/26/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-26 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 – #0032 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #6 (Devon Govett)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• 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 Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Run Your Unit Tests in Parallel to Maximize Performance (Steve Smith)
• Announcing OData T4 for C#, Preview 1 (Ahmed Moustafa)
• New Videos on CQRS/DDD and Practical CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• What’s it like building apps for Windows 8? Developers speak out (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Puzzlers available for download (Bill Wagner)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: From start to finishing–tracing a request (Oren Eini)
• Teams and TFS Groups in TFS11, the backlog, board and security settings. (Clemens Reijnen)
• .NET Demon Provides Continuous Compilation and Testing for Visual Studio (Jenni Konrad)
• C#, Async, Limits, oh my! (Peter Ritchie)
• Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: Team Explorer My Work Page (Mickey Gousset)
• More on TPL Data Flow from Zlatko Michailov (Jonathan Allen)
• Building an English-Based Rules Engine in .NET with IronRuby Slides and Demo (Keith Elder)
• SkyDrive API Link Round-Up and A "Get right to work introduction to Lucene.Net" (Greg Duncan)
• Aggressive Inlining in the CLR 4.5 JIT (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Abusing the Microsoft Research’s Touch Mouse Sensor API SDK with a Console-based Heat-map (Scott Hanselman)
• Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent (Shawn Cicoria)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Gets Final Tune-Up — Enum Support Promised in 5.0 (David Ramel)
• Simple Microsoft™ CAB Sample (Tom Puglisi)
• Timeouts for long running operations… (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• HTML5 and validation issues with this blog (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Facebook App using DotNetNuke (Dave M. Bush)
• How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth (Jef Claes)
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 1 (Shi Chuan)
• How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress (Kevin Muldoon)
• Tracking API usage with Google Analytics (Maarten Balliauw)
• Retrieving a Logged On User ID (Bunch)
• Just published my first node.js Windows Azure application (Eric Nelson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: AggregateOrientedDatabase (Martin Fowler)
• TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools (James Kovacs)
• Article: Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey (Shubhra Maji)
• The quickest and easiest “Getting Started w/ GitHub” article you’ll ever read! (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Faceted Minimization: Simplifying the Sidebar Navigation (Anthony)
• "Re: I have a question about proving code correctness" (Frans Bouma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PhoneGap on Windows Phone Adds Support For Facebook, Twitter, Bing Maps, and More (Eric Genesky)
• How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #477 – Default ZIndex Value for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Ly: Expression Design, XAML and Expression Blend, why bother? (Surf4Fun)
• “Metro Done Right” according to my tweeps (András Velvárt)
• WPFSpark 1.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Pod Show – Building a SharePoint team-Episode 69 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Full Stack Resumes–MVVM Design (Jesse Liberty)
• Visual Studio Achievements in 60 seconds (Dan Fernandez, Karsten J. & Golnaz)
• [Humor] – What Project Managers Say and Talk Like (Peter Saddington)
• Architecting Applications for Multiple UIs video now available! (Paul Sheriff)
• Blog Post: New and Improved Generator Overview Video (Autumn Wilkins)

Community / Events

• Join me at the ALM & Test days in Italy (Jason Zander)
• “I Gotta Get Me Some of That [Azure]” (Jim O’Neil)
• Thoughts on the Latest PASS Fracas… (Audrey Hammonds)
• Meet Abhishek Sur – Client App Dev MVP from India (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Microsoft International Development Centers (Anne Cheng)

Database

• Use VALUES clause to get the maximum value from some columns [SQL Server, T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS Tip: Hide a tablix if no rows returned (Jen McCown)
• SQL SERVER – MERGE or INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE – Quiz – Puzzle – 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How I use PowerShell to generate table output for blog posts from query results (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – Powershell Excel to HTML (Jack Vamvas)
• Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_ExecuteSQL’ (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2012 Database Engine Tuning Advisor: Now With More Plan Cache! (Thomas LaRock)
• RavenDB Sequential Number Generator (Nick Berardi)

SharePoint

• WebPartAdderExtension – a better way of deploying web parts (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• Powershell Emailing Strings as attachments (Mike Koerner)

Miscellaneous

• Jobless rate for software developers: 4.4 percent (Greg Lamm)
• Microsoft has ‘perks galore’ but still lags behind Google (Jennifer Sokolowsky & Greg Lamm)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 138 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #799 and Double Shot #800 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 20 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily and Weekly Front-End Dev Resources (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1026 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-19 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug

• Visual Studio Achievements – Remember Kids They’re Just For Fun (Bil Simser)
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta (Karsten Januszewski)
• Learning leadership from Congress (Seth Godin)
• Introducing ReSharper 6.1 SDK (Dmitri Nesteruk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Ask Ayende: Life without repositories, are they worth living? (Oren Eini)
• [Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! – Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Achievements Widget (Geoffrey K.)
• TFS11 Scrum board update remaining work without opening the work item… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• An introduction to NDepend (Nathan Gloyn)
• Don’t try to allocate memory until there is only x% free (Raymond Chen)
• Querying an Uninitialized Collection with NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• P/Invoke Stack Imbalance MDA (Sasha Goldshtein)
• async / await, some reasoning (Bnaya Eshet)
• "Beginner’s Guide to Kinect Programming," from download to demo (Greg Duncan)
• Per Project Settings or How to have different naming styles for my test project (Hadi Hariri)
• Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• jQuery Bootstrap 0.2 Brings ‘Beauty’ to Widgets (Christopher Smith)
• An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques (Scott Hanselman)
• 160 Music APIs (Wendell Santos)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 3 – Paths and Text (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Add Google Plus One Extension to BlogEngine.NET (Joseph Guadagno)
• Under the Covers: Let It Snow… (Bogdan Brinza)
• HTTP is not a transport protocol, HTTP is not RPC (Glenn Block)
• Format efficiency take 2: really clean JSON (Pablo Castro)
• Windows Azure application VM and (virtual) IP Address (Avkash Chauhan)
• Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability (Dilip Krishnan)
• Easing Functions in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care (Steve Smith)
• The next big thing is extremely small (Jimmy Nilsson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Toolkit ToggleSwitch Databinding Bug (Andy Wigley)
• wp7 skydrive upload (babaandthepigman)
• WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited (Colin Eberhardt)
• How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight (DawningTiger)
• How to Use the ConnectionSettings Task for Windows Phone and Code to Share Status or Links on Social Media sites in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Comfortably numb… MVVM’ing Enums in ComboBox (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #476 – Set ZIndex Values for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• New Ebook by SilverlightShow and Andrea Boschin: Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals (SilverlightShow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Dev Radio Episode 95: Jeff Carouth at ZendCon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
• The GeekDads Episode #107: And Anyone Who Says Otherwise Is Evil and Bad and Wrong (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag: Gov’s Nest, Bitlocker Q’s, Win7 Defrag, (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Bug Village, Hasta La Muerte, PixelTV, Make Way, WeatherDuck (Laura Foy)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 010 – 01.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio Achievements (Robert Green)
• New Videos Uploaded (Jesse Liberty)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells Unplugged! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Microsoft-ComponentOne Hands-On-Workshops for Windows Phone Series – January 24th and 26th 2012 (MS Public Sector Team)
• Top 10 Reasons Why I Like Dating A Programmer (Lori Lalonde)
• I have been awarded as Telerik MVP (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Importance of Resource Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Performance Tuning – optimizing for response time (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• Translating Military Experience to Real World Jobs (Joe Wallis)
• Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn’t Enough (Jeff Atwood)
• New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition) (Garr Reynolds)
• Learning RegEx – Grouping and Backlinks and Lots-O-emote’s in WPCentral’s complete WP7 emoticons list (Greg Duncan)
• Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPA (Todd Wasserman)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.10 ~ 01.19 (yuanjian)
• Daily News Digest 1/18/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1025 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-18 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 – #00029 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework: Code First: Code First by Julia Lerman

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets v2.2 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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