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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• 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

• Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
• Expression Blend… for HTML (Christian Schormann)
• Build HTML 5 apps with Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview (Pam Keesey)
• Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
• BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio (Somasegar)
• I_See_What_You_Did_There (Anonymous)

Windows 8 / BUILD

• Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The BUILD Report #1: Sinofsky keynote (Ward Bell)
• Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance (Jeff Wilcox)
• Bullet Points from Build–Day 1 and my thoughts (Michael Crump)
• Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware (Grant & Jeff)
• Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Server: Screenshots + What’s new (Owen Williams)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows 8 Developer Preview Screenshot Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts (Ron Fosner)
• Xbox LIVE and Windows 8 (Larry Hryb)
• Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI and Mike Angiulo Unboxes the Build Hardware With Us (Larry Larsen)
• //build conference in Anaheim: Keynote notes #bldwin (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows 8 Forces Some Compromises After All (Ina Fried)
• Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts (Jeremy Likness)
• BUILD Keynote Day 1 – Windows 8 Experience (Brent Schooley)
• The Windows 8 Developer Ecosystem (Chris Eargle)
• Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos (damaster)
• BUILD apps that use C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• Getting Hands On With Virtual Machine of Windows 8! (Matt Griffin)
• Windows 8–First thoughts and Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (Peter Kuhn)
• PreEmptive Provides More Application Intelligence to HTML5 Developers #bldwin (Josette Rigsby)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What is the cost of try/catch (Oren Eini)
• Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
• TeamPulse TFS Sync Tips & Tricks (TeamPulse Team)
• WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32 (Jonathan Allen)
• Programmatically Get Assembly Version and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part I) – Installation and Development Environment Setup (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Custom Web.config Transformations in MSBUILD (Doug Rathbone)
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• Sync Framework Toolkit Connects Phones, Desktops, HTML5 to SQL Server, SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

• Secure development of Metro style apps with HTML5 (MS Downloads)
• Advantages of CoffeeScript When Working with jQuery Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• Backbone.js: MVC in JavaScript and Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Collection (Giorgio Sironi)
• Thinking Like a Web Designer (Tim Bray)
• Getting Role Instance Information with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Command Line Tools (Brian Swan)
• Resources For, And How I Learned Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview (Dean Hachamovitch)
• The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples (Tom Waterhouse)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Four Basic Insights on Confidence (J.D. Meier)
• You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do! (Martin Hinshelwood)
• RTM’d today: Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life (Kim Spilker)
• TeamPulse – A Project Management Solution from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 9 Things Designers Can Learn from Target’s Checkout Form (Anthony)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• Adding to MoXAML. (Pete O’Hanlon)
• 2000 WPF Things #386 – Layout = Panels + FrameworkElements + Alignment/Margins/Padding (Sean Sexton)
• Expression Blend for HTML (Somasegar)
• TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Prism 4 MEF Application (Danny Siew)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #139: File → Close (James Shore)
• Engadget HD Podcast 265 – 09.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Pluralcast 48 : Jeffrey Palermo on Career and Management (David Starr)
• The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Webcast: Office 365 & SharePoint Online (Kim Spilker)
• Take a Ruby on Rails course from Rails Rookies (Charles Max Wood)
• //BUILD/: What a great conference -celebrating this new era by starting a new ALM Team blog (Charles Sterling)
• Say “Hello” to BlendInsider (Kirupa)
• WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program is Live! (Windows Phone Geek)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server OLEDB Provider Deprecation Announcement (Luiz Santos)
• SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Four new useful DMV (Jakub Dvorak)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor 3.4 Lookup Tables (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding SQL Azure Federations No-MARS Support and Entity Framework (James Podgorski)
• Backing up SQL Azure with Backup from Red-Gate (Eric Nelson)

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Business Connectivity Service Associations using DB2 Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

PowerShell

• First Glimpse at PowerShell v3 and Video: Richard Siddaway – WMI: Gems and Gotchas (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• The PowerShell Magazine launches… (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Some Basic Bash Commands I found useful for Git Bash (Mark Pearl)
• Xbox 360 won’t Auto Login to Live – Fixed due to RSTP and Spanning Tree setting in a NetGear Managed GS724TP Switch and Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) – Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web’s Social Glue (Scott Hanselman)
• This is why OEMs in the Windows world get slapped with the Fugly Stamp (Steven Hodson)
• Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #937 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading September 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #708 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 12th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 09/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (9/13/2011) (Bob Rhubart)

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

• Become a Good Programmer in Six Really Hard Steps (Mike Lewis)
• Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 (Mike Taulty)
• NerdDinner 3.0 released (John Petersen)
• Autoscaling Application Block – reactive rule semantics (Grigori Melnik)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting up Policies for Extensible Parts in MEF (Abhishek Sur)
• Exceptions and Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack – Part 4 (Daniel Mohl)
• New book: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• A Review of Beginning C# Object-oriented Programming (srpsco)
• First Look at the New C++ IDE Productivity Features in the Next Version of Visual Studio (Cont’d…) (vcblog)
• Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio — Getting the Appendix (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using BugAid to flatten class hierarchies while debugging (Omer Raviv)
• Why MyGet uses Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Dynamics CRM 2011 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• parallel_for_each from amp.h – part 1 (Daniel Moth)
• From Normal Collections to Generic Collections (Paul Sheriff)
• Managing Concurrency in Windows Azure with Leases and Building a Task Scheduler in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)

Web Development

• Test-Driving Backbone Views With JQuery Templates, The Jasmine Gem, and Jasmine-JQuery (Derick Bailey)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Magic Number with Symbolic Constant (Giorgio Sironi)
• APress Deal of the Day – 7/Sept/2011 – jQuery Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
• JavaScript OMG! #1 to #5 and JavaScript OMG! #6 to #10 and JavaScript OMG! #11 to #15 and JavaScript OMG!: #16 to #20 (Mike Taulty)
• Overview of Command Line Deployment and Management with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Reasons Why Unit Testing is fun–and Important (J. Boyer)
• Agile software development recommendations for users and new adopters (Andrea Salvadore)
• Building Better Software Through Collaboration: Whose Job Is It, Anyway? (Rian van der Merwe)
• Shiny new commit styles (Kyle Neath)
• Pair Programming: The disadvantages of 100% pairing (Mark Needham)
• Leveraging MSBuild for Ruthless Productivity (Michael B. McLaughlin)
• Why Some Companies Execute Better (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics (Justin Angel)
• Windows Phone Toolkit ExpanderView in depth| Part1: key concepts and API and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Connection Strings (Windows Phone Geek)
• Book Review: 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps (taabello)
• MoXAML goes MefXAML (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Nvidia: Windows Phone 7 Apps Will Run On Windows 8 (Ron Fosner)
• Periodic Agents on Windows Phone 7.1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 2000 WPF Things #381 – Loading .rtf Files Into a RichTextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Telerik RadChartControl for LightSwitch Application – Day 3 – Giveaway Contest (Kunal Chowdhury)
• DataBinding to Custom Properties (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 264 – 09.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #137: How Many Frames? (James Shore)
• Video: Kirk Munro – Defining domain-specific vocabularies using Windows PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• CodeBetter.Com wants to send you to Redmond! (Brendan Tompkins)
• RavenDB Webinar (Oren Eini)
• Reminder–Speaking at the NYC and Boston SharePoint User Groups this week (Andrew Connell)
• WindowsPhoneGeek Forums are LIVE! (Windows Phone Geek)

Database

• New LOGICAL functions in SQL Server Denali (Martin Schmidt)
• Using the SSIS Merge Join (Mike Davis)
• SQL SERVER – A Guide to Integrating SQL Server with XML, C#, and PowerShell – Book Available for SQL Server Certification and SQL SERVER – Denali – Conversion Function – TRY_PARSE() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
• Parallelizing Slow Parts of the Data Flow – Part 1 – Preparation (Todd McDermid)
• Red Gate Schema Compare For Oracle (Geoff Hudik)

SharePoint

• Business Connectivity Service Associations using Oracle Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

• The Python Standard Library By Example (Tom Brander)
• Kinect Quiz, one teacher’s story… (Greg Duncan)
• Twitter and Bing renew their relationship… via Twitter (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft’s Mediaroom 2.0 IPTV platform: A codename update (Mary Jo Foley)
• Learning Unix (Miguel de Icaza)
• The Software IP Detective’s Handbook (Mylene Reiners)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 081 for 9/6/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #932 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.01 ~ 09.06 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading September 6, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily News Digest 09/06/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 6-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (9/6/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Acceleration Links #1 (Adam Feber)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Aug 29 – Sept 4 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #703 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Becoming Agile: …in an imperfect world by Greg Smith

Top Links

• Getting Started with Kinect Development (Jennifer Marsman)
• The mission to land a .NET developer on Jupiter. and Is Adobe’s new HTML5 Edge tool Expression Blends replacement? (Scott Barnes)
• Nokia Windows Phones to be announced on October 26? (damaster)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Visual Experience (Richard Carr)
• .NET StockTrader 5 Sample Application (MS Downloads)
• CodeRush Code Navigation inside Visual Studio – Tab to Next Reference (Alex Skorkin)
• Kinect SDK and F# – a standard library in a non-standard language (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Automated License Header Extension for Visual Studio (define the license once, let VS auto-magically add it to new files…) (Greg Duncan)
• Turning off Code First Database Initialization completely (Julie Lerman)
• Silverlight, HTML and the WebBrowser Control for Offline Apps (Mike Taulty)
• C# Light Syntax (Phillip Trelford)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Plan – Part 2 (Shai Raiten)
• Eduasync part 11: More sophisticated (but lossy) exception handling and Eduasync part 12: Observing all exceptions (Jon Skeet)
• More NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Just Announced: Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
• Sending Richly Formatted Emails with .NET (Jonathan Allen)
• 3 Incredibly Useful Projects to jump-start your Kinect Development. (Michael Crump)

Web Development

• Interfacing with dynamic JavaScript APIs in WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)
• HTML5 Web Camps Content Downloads! (Rachel Appel)
• Using the ASP.NET Membership API with SQL Server / SQL Azure: The new “System.Web.Providers” namespace (Harish Ranganathan)
• Rendering jQuery Templates With Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• 15 Amazing Free HTML5 Templates (DongDesign)
• Tap the Cloud for Your ASP.NET Apps (Kim Spilker)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using ActionMethodSelectorAttribute to Handle Multiple Submit Buttons (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Daily Dose: jQuery Mobile Beta 1 Released (R. Jernigan)
• Abhorred Calendar (Mithun Patel)
• Invalid View State error While expanding your Web Farm (Abhijit Jana)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Dispatch options 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Upsides of Scrum (Jimmy Bogard)
• Agile Estimation is Dead – Stop Estimating Stories? (Peter Saddington)
• Managing Application Resources with the Flyweight Pattern (Addy Osmani)
• Quick Tips on Work Breakdown Structures (JD Meier)
• Balsamiq Release: HUGE loading time improvement! (Peldi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Debug Helper (Visual Studio Add-in) and Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 3) (Peter Kuhn)
• CanResizeWithGrip seems does not work in WPF (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Three properties that I use for almost every Windows Phone application (Eugene)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 16 – How to Create a WP7 Alarm Application? and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 17 – How to Create a WP7 Reminder Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Sort Data in Windows Phone using Collection View Source (Paul Sheriff)
• Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight) (Surf4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 115: RESTravaganza with Darrel Miller, Glenn Block, and John Sheehan (Jon Galloway)
• Defrag: Tweaking for HTPC, SSD as a ReadyBoost, WiFi Antenna tuning and Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Chupacabra (Larry Larsen)
• Let’s Play TDD #116: You Gotta Know What You’re Doing (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

• Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed (Paul Thurrott)
• BUILD: Use what you know. Do what you’ve always imagined! (Katrien de Graeve)

Database

• Standard Deviation in SQL Server and Aggregation on Aggregates (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Generating Zero Without using Any Numbers in T-SQL and SQL SERVER – List of Article on Expressor Data Integration Platform and SQL SERVER – SSAS – Multidimensional Space Terms and Explanation (Pinal Dave)
• Copy a Table with data in SQL Server (Steve Smith)
• Nine Reasons Developers Should Learn SQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Data Compression in SQL Server (Steve Jones)
• Using the @ in SQL Azure Connections (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• New xsl files for the lightning conductor 2010 web part (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Ribbon Hero 2 (MS Downloads)

RavenDB in Practice, Part 2 – Using the Client API (Unknown Author)

How to verify validity of certificates with .NET (alejacma)

Why the Windows Azure VM Role is not necessary (most of the time) (Code Inside Team)

Mercurial Cheat Sheet and Visio Template Bonanza (Greg Duncan)

Adobe Flash Player 10.3: Hardware-Accelerated Rendering in IE9 (ieblog)

datajs 0.0.4 is out – very important release! (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Using PowerShell to automate setting CopyLocal to false (Naeem Khedarun)

Tired of manual deployments? (Peter Gfader)

Developers Will Not be Getting their Hands on Mango this Week (WP7GIRL)

How the free market is a complex puzzle for Windows Phone 7 team to grok. (Scott Barnes)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• SilverlightShow for June 13 – 19, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2011 — #1110 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 198 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Link dump for June 20th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Today’s Links (6/20/2011) and Today’s Links (6/21/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #877 and The Morning Brew #878 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/21/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/22/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Analysis Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) by Scott Cameron

• Windows Phone Marketplace on the Web for Mango (Todd Brix)
• Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers – Part 1 (Michael Kennedy)
• OData Updates in Windows Phone “Mango” (Glenn Gailey)
• OAuth and REST in Android: Part 1 (John Sonmez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Adding your own local content to the new Visual Studio Help Library (Greg Duncan)
• My CLR via C#, 3rd Edition book is E-Book deal of the day on May 26, 2011 (Jeffrey Richter)
• Code Metrics – Maintainability Index (Zain Naboulsi)
• EntityLock, implement a logic locking strategy in my domain (Gian Maria Ricci)
• MadProps.AppArgs (Matt Hamilton)
• Develop Microsoft Surface apps. Without a Surface (Steve Clayton)

Web Development

• NetAdvantage jQuery Controls are Theme Roller Ready (Murtaza Abdeali)
• 50 Fresh jQuery Tutorials 2011 (Dong Nguyen)
• Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 (Phil Haack)
• Taking The M out of MVC – JSON, The dynamic Keyword, LINQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
• Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Enabling RSS Site-wide in Orchard (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Annoying.Js – One include, many irritated users… (Greg Duncan)
• Project Silk Documentation Drop: New Chapters Ready for Review (Karl Shifflett)
• Netflix + OData + datajs sample released (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.1 RC (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Boards from Sys Admin to Sales (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Why ‘Ok’ Buttons in Dialog Boxes Work Best on the Right (Anthony)
• Basic unit testing with Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• Domain Driven Design Architecture with .Net eBook Released (We’re talking 475 pages of DDD…) – "N-Layered Domain-Oriented Architecture Guide with .Net 4.0" (PDF, XPS, with ePub and Mobi coming soon) (Greg Duncan)
• Enable and Equip Your Product Owners (Peter Saddington)
• Code Kata : "Simple" Database Design (S. Lott)
• All wannabe software testers out there … (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Code Snippets for the Dispose Pattern (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Testing in the Cloud (Vikas Hazrati)
• Symptoms of a centralized VCS (Jimmy Bogard)
• Marissa Mayer: I Learn Most When I Do Things I’m Not Ready To Do (Julie Zeveloff)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Catel – Part 6 of n: Bing Maps application for WP7 (Geert van Horrik)
• Metro List View double line (ep. 2) – from PSD to HTML (Adam Kinney)
• How to install Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Mango) and How to choose a Contact and get Contact details in a WP7 app (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blending XNA with Blender – "Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part I" (Greg Duncan)
• The Midweek Download: May 25th Edition–Windows Phone releases beta of “Mango” developer tools plus Windows Live Messenger, Office 365 and IE9 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON (Jeremy Likness)
• Download Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• New Addition to Windows Phone Quickstarts- Pivot and Panorama Controls (Nitya Ravi)
• Why is a Y in the Windows Phone Mango Camera API (Rene Schulte)
• Unity 3D and Silverlight in Harmony with SLARToolkit’s Augmented Reality (Rene Schulte)
• Silverlight & XNA- A tale of two cities (Simon Jackson)
• Blinking UI with a CaretBrush (Pavan Podila)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 7.1 Installation behavior (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Smith Tells Performance Stories (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Agile 2010 – Johanna Rothman – Agile Program Management (Agile Toolkit)
• Let’s Play TDD #108: Wishing for First-Class Functions (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Troubleshooting WCF Performance (Part 1) (Ron Jacobs)
• Inside the Mango Developer Tools: App Platform and Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Search and Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Communications and Hot Apps: Assassins Creed, Ninja Boy +, Burglar Alarm, Windows Phone News, Rhapsody (Laura Foy)
• New behind-the-scenes videos and more on Marketplace (Michael Stroh)

Community / Events

• Houston Code Camp – Call for Speakers (Ben Scheirman)
• Join me next week in Boston for SPTechCon! (Andrew Connell)
• Can an open-source backer thrive inside Microsoft? This one says no (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone Garage (PubSec)
• Moving on to Greener Pastures (Kevin Griffin)
• MVPs Share Deep Tech-Ed Experience (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• SSRS 2008 R2: How to dynamically size your INDICATORS (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Getting Columns Headers without Result Data – SET FMTONLY ON (Pinal Dave)
• Using Built-in System Functions – NEWID() and NEWSEQUENTIALID() (Vishal)
• The Ties that Bind Us….Community, People, Exceptional DBAs… (Robert Pearl)
• Bad T-SQL Song Lyrics or How My Music Playlists Torment Me By Reminding Me of So Many T-SQL Code Sins (Thomas LaRock)

SharePoint

• Using SharePoint List Data in Microsoft Expression Blend (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Is Charles Petzold a guilty pleasure for you? (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Microsoft Is 3X Better Than Apple For Customer Support (AAPL, MSFT) (Mark Fidelman)
• Your tips for video conferencing interviews (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• My Phone might be coming back with the new web-based Windows Phone Marketplace? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Find: May 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #860 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/25/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/26/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• SilverlightShow for May 16-22, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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

• Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• MonoMac 1.0 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• Todo List App Using ASP.NET MVC 3 and Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• Task Parallel Library 4 of n (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Disabling SQL Server Table Constraints (Richard Carr)
• How to debug DXCore plug-ins under Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Alex Skorkin)
• Copy TFS queries between iterations (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Just to reiterate, VS2010 is the last version of Visual Studio to support Visual Studio Deployment Projects (Greg Duncan)
• Adding Git Command Line To Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Want to control your drone from Surface? Now the code is available on CodePlex! (Luis Cabrera)

Web Development

• If you’re a Microsoft developer, dabbling with Rails, one… (Rob Conery)
• IE9 Supports CSS3 Transforms! (Chris Love)
• MVC Features Rumored to be Coming to ASP.NET WebForms (David Cooksey)
• Get to Know Action Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3 Using HandleError (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Book Review: Eloquent JavaScript (Elijah Manor)
• AN “Always Visible” area with JavaScript (Joe Stagner)
• JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis (John Resig)
• A Javascript game loop for multiplayer WebGL (Rob Ashton)
• Which PHP framework would you use today for a brand new application? (Giorgio Sironi)
• Internet Explorer 9 Network Performance Improvements (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Modeling and UML – The Truth is You Already Do UML (Peter Saddington)
• Humans can’t estimate tasks (Allan Kelly)
• A story about User Stories; Where do you start and what about the planning? (Dennis Doomen)
• Advice for the newbie developer (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to deal with CPU usage in WPF application ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Hosting a WPF control in Winform with a scrollable Panel (Gian Maria Ricci)
• The Full Stack 9–MVVM and TDD on the Phone Client (Jesse Liberty)
• Observations of Microsoft Testing WP7 Applications (Derik Whittaker)
• New book: Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Blend Bits 26–Use Libraries for Assemblies and Blend Bits 27–“Make it Flip” (Mike Taulty)
• Phoney Tools reaches Beta! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• How you can add custom ringtones to your Windows Phone 7 from your app (w/out Marketplace) and How to find out where the IsolatedStorage is in a Windows Phone 7 app? (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV 66: Phoney – New Windows Phone 7 Open Source Project (John Papa)
• Dynamics CRM MVPs Talk About Being MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
• Walkthrough of a Real-World LightSwitch Application used at Microsoft (Beth Massi)
• Behind the Code: Charlie Kindel – Doing What It Takes To Make A Customer Successful (Charles Torre & Robert Hess)
• Let’s Play TDD #95: Tested, Rendered, and Isolated (James Shore)
• Michael Spayd – Agile 2010 – Coaching Coaches (Agile Toolkit Podcast)

Community / Events

• FREE 3/23 Webinar: 7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint 2010 for PM Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Stack Overflow MeetUps – April 6 (Rebecca Chernoff)
• Event: Microsoft Press Author Rob Miles to Speak at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Tutorial: Designing a Basic Report using SSRS 2008 and VS 2008 BI Studio (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER 2008 – 2011 – Declare and Assign Variable in Single Statement (Pinal Dave)
• Survey: what are the most common causes of performance problems? (Paul S. Randal)
• SMO Enumerations in Powershell (Martin Bell)
• Database Tools (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• Some Read/Write Properties are Read-Only in Sandboxed Solutions (Ricky Kirkham)

Miscellaneous

• When your software doesn’t work in China (Igal Tabachnik)
• Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK (John Zukowski)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Collective Intelligence – Only $15.99 w/code DDPCG (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 03.15 ~ 03.18 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 17th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 03/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 03/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 16-Mar-2011 and 17-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #815 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for March 7-13, 2011 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

Top Links

• How to Interface LightSwitch to a Windows Workflow Part 1 (Dan Moyer)
• Nokia will be allowed to customize every part of Windows Phone 7 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Oracle’s Entity Framework Beta Released Today (Julie Lerman)
• Acting on Feedback: IE9 Release Candidate Available for Download (Dean Hachamovitch)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Concurrent Collections (1 of 3) (James Michael Hare)
• IronRuby – Release v1.1.2 and ReSharper Settings Manager – Release v4.o (for R# 5.1) and WCF Data Services Toolkit Beta (CodePlex)
• Building a database installer with WiX, datadude and Visual Studio 2010 (Jamie Thomson)
• How Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server enable Compliance (Martin Hinshelwood)
• TEE 2010 SP1 (MS Downloads) – TFS Eclipse plugin updated
• Trivia Friday (Jimmy Bogard)
• Reach out and… Windows 7 Touch Development Guidance in a 26 page XPS form (Greg Duncan)
• NOW Available: Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release (Windows Azure Team)
• Creating a Color Picker with an Owner Draw ComboBox (Jonathan Wood)
• Elevate added to the NuGet gallery (Bill Wagner)

Web Development

• A JavaScript tip that’s jarring: remove falsy elements from array (Julian M. Bucknall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Manifesto 10 Year Reunion (Chris Matts)
• What Is Agile Management? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Cool Printable Kanban Card (Peter Saddington)
• The Important User Experience (UX) You Can’t See (Rob Tiffany)
• Web Testing with Selenium Sushi: A Practical Guide and Toolset (Michael Sorens)
• Balsamiq Release: Select on Layers, Linux 32bit installer and bug fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Cucumber tests on iPhone/iPad (Davor Crnomat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implementing Windows Phone 7 DataTemplateSelector and CustomDataTemplateSelector (Windows Phone Geek)
• [TUTORIAL + VIDEO] Creating an RSS reader for Windows Phone 7 in 5 minutes (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• Not able to bind to Uid or Name property in XAML (Merrick Chaffer)
• Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage and Windows Phone 7 Navigation Memory Usage Just Got Scary and Windows Phone 7: Translator Sample, an example in what not to do! (Nick Randolph)
• Some curious facts about the Windows Phone 7 OS – from the emulator console (Dennis Delimarsky)
• ClickOnce, TaskDialogs, Common Controls and WPF Applications and Blend Bits 22–Being Stylish and Blend Bits 23–Templating Part 1 (Mike Taulty)
• Multiple View Models implies multiple DataContexts (Bill Wagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Organizing your own Virtual Technical Conference – MVCConf Post-Mortem (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV: SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud (MS Podcasts)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 1 of n (Charles Torre)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Charts and the Chart Helper and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Data Visualization with the Chart Helper (Joe Stagner)
• First look at 5 features of IE9 RC and A look at three performance demos for IE 9 Release Candidate (Larry Larsen)
• Silverlight TV 61: Expert Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone (John Papa)
• New Video: Interview with Windows Phone 7 Developer–Ash Morgan (Wes Yanaga)

Community / Events

• Last Chance to Save on MIX11 – Register by Feb 11 (Kim Spilker)
• London SharePoint Best Practices Conference – April 11-13, 2011 (Andrew Connell)
• PAX East 2011 Tweet-up (Larry Hyrb)
• Congratulations to MIX11 Open Call Winners (Silverlight Show)
• Web Camp Coming to Mid Atlantic (Dani Diaz)
• Best Practices Europe Conference Sessions Announced! (Joel Oleson)

Database

• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) – Part 1: Basics of SSIS and Creating Packages (Karthik Anbarasan)
• SQL Server MVP Daily Paper and 31 Days of SSIS Conclusion (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 11 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Do Relational Database Vendors Care About Developers? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• ­A step by step guide in designing BCS entities by using a SQL stored procedure (Jyoti Saikia)

Miscellaneous

• Pull Request Changes, Multi-Selection in Advanced View, and Advertisement Changes (Matt Hawley)
• Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Product Guide and Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9 Release Candidate (MS Downloads)
• IE9 Release Candidate review: will Microsoft’s big browser bet pay off? and IE9 FAQ: how to install, uninstall, and tweak the IE9 RC (Ed Bott)
• ADIAD (Rod Paddock)
• Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft (Stephen Elop & Steve Ballmer)
• Starting and Stopping Services on Remote Servers using PowerShell (Steve Smith)
• Bing: Making search yours (Aidan Crook & Sanaz Ahari)
• Here’s a look at the Microsoft Log Parser from a different point of view, from the Computer Forensics’ side of the house OR Check out a ‘Query Analyzer/SSMS’ for Log Parser called Log Parser Lizard (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 89 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 02/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 9-Feb-2011 and 10-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_06 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 31- Feb 06, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #790 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel

Top Links

• Have You Been to MSDN Lately? (Joey deVilla)
• A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Color Printing Extension Now Available! (Brittany Behrens)
• Basics on how to setup an App Fabric Cache server and API usage (Jaime Alva Bravo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Add-in for testing regular expressions (Andreas Andersen)
• HowTo: AssemblyInfos – Keep it DRY! (Code Inside Team)
• Using ConvertAll to Convert a Set of Values (Deborah Kurata)
• Regions are like knives (Daniel Fisher)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010: SQL Adapter Samples (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure – new portal, new services, new tools (Gunnar Peipman)
• The Exceptions Dialog (Zain Naboulsi)
• Why the Windows Azure Nov 2010 SDK Rocks!! (David Lemphers)
• Introduction to Parallelism in .NET 4.0 (Jonathan Cardy)
• How to have NHibernate use a SQL MERGE INTO statement (Merrick Chaffer)
• Windows Azure: Shiny and New (Jim O’Neil)
• CryptoLicensing Tips and Tricks To Eliminate Piracy And Cracking Of Your Software (G. Himangi)

Web Development

• Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News Ticker (Scott Mitchell)
• Protip: Viewing large XML files (Jimmy Bogard)
• Building a One-Level CPU Cache Simulator with C (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Upgrading Subtext 2.5 and Publishing with VS 2010 (Dave Schinkel)
• jQuery Date Plugin (Marc Grabanski)
• Review: jQuery in Action (Ryan Lanciaux)
• HTML5 aside: Defining relations (Niels Matthijs)
• Draft: ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax (Gunnar Peipman)
• An Introduction to jQuery Templates (Stephen Walther)
• Bing Maps Ajax 7: Adding InfoBox Support via Extension to Microsoft.Maps and Bing Maps Ajax 7: Simple Pushpin Animation via Extension to Microsoft.Maps (Chris Pietschmann)
• The Decline of Internet Explorer 6 and the Rise of Internet Explorer 9 (Roger Capriotti)
• Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t Make Me Choose To Follow The Standards (Derick Bailey)
• There’s no place like production (Eric Brechner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Assertion Method (piccoloprincipe)
• [Agile Guide] – UX and Agile Development (ScoutMaster)
• Leadership Books A-Z (J.D. Meier)
• Taking a Second Look at Collective Code Ownership (Jay Fields)
• Basic to Basics: Understanding IoC Part 2 (Creation) (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft reiterates copy and paste is Windows Phone 7′s first update, ‘additional updates delivered in the future’ (Chris Ziegler)
• Coding4Fun: Currency Converter for Windows Phone 7 (Pedro Lamas)
• SystemColors Reference (Patrick Finnigan)
• Blend Bits 19–Transformations (Mike Taulty)
• Opening Lightboxes without Thumbnails (Anthony)
• Tip of the day: Processing touch input on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Controlling a R2D2 (Lego MindStorms NXT) robot with Windows Phone 7 (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
• The right choice for the main window of your WPF project (Jeremy Alles)
• WPF Grand Prix (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Windows Phone 7 Motion Design Videos and Fixing the ListPicker / ScrollViewer Problem in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• ChevronWP7, the Windows Phone 7 unlocking tool, has been axed (Sebastian Anthony)
• My first WP7 application released: Omoplata is live (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #58: Violating Encapsulation (James Shore)
• YUI Theater — Mirek Grymuza and Josh Gordineer: “YQL: An Introduction” (45 min.) and YUI Theater — Ryan Dahl: “Node.js Roadmap” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)

Community / Events

• PASS 2010 Summit Review (Thomas LaRock)
• INETA Community Speakers Stats for November (Chris Williams)
• Plan Your Cloudstock Hackathon App, Registration Opening Soon (Adam DuVander)
• Microsoft Research Asia’s Philosopher of Online Search: Ji-Rong Wen (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• My own iOS and OSX centric blog (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

• Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server (MS Downloads)
• Debugging SSIS Variables—and a Happy Announcement from the Datachix. (Juliie Smith)
• When Were The Statistics In SQL Server Last Updated? (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – 3 Simple Puzzles – Need Your Suggestions (Pinal Dave)
• A first look at the new RavenDB UI (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Denali – Serverless SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
• Mirroring and Transactional Replication setup – Auto Failover (Ted Krueger)
• The Really Cool NTILE() Window Function (Ken Downs)
• SQL Indexing and Performance Part 2: Clustered and Non-Clustered (Lefteris Karafilis)
• Querying Hive with Toad for Cloud Databases (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• need to retire an account – not sure what permissions people have? (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• The Top-Five Most Valuable Development Team Positions (Buck Woody)
• Timeline of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation (Cory Doctorow)
• How Microsoft can clean up the mess in its home and small business server business (Ed Bott)
• A start in understanding the MS-PST Node Database Layer, your first step toward PST binary enlightenment… (Greg Duncan)
• Reviewing "Hello, Android" (Jo Giles)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2010 11.23 ~ 11.30 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #741 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/01/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Silverlight 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jason Beres

Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 ListBox Pagination with MVVMLight & ApplicationBar (Indrajit Chakrabarty)
• Is the Web really dead? No way! (Simone Chiaretta)
• Yestimation (Dave Laribee)
• Windows Phone 7 App Categories Finalized (Chris Williams)
• WP7 Gesture Recognizer and Behavior / Triggers (Kevin Marshall)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Break on Exception (Richard Carr)
• F# Samples for Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET (Ade Miller)
• It really happened, legacy programmers tales (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft Visual Studio developers can now develop Flex 4 applications with Amethys Professional (Marco Casario)
• The Object Browser: Objects Pane (Zain Naboulsi)
• Messenger Connect discontinues .Net Library (Kip Kniskern)
• Catching the iPhone in the .net (Peter Van Ooijen)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Razor Syntax (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Simple Dependency Injection using a Custom MVC Controller Factory (Mike Ceranski)
• PHP Manager for IIS 7 – beta release (Sumeeth Evans)
• Planning common membership provider for different authentication providers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Twitter API Adds Retweet Count and More (Curtis C. Chen)
• HTTP Optimization the easy way: Part 1, how do I know? (Scott Galloway)
• Performance: Profiling how different web sites use browser subsystems (Jason Weber)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Finding an Agile Employer (Angela Druckman)
• 30 Days of Productivity and Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Client Session State (Giorgio Sironi)
• Busting 3 Common Productivity Myths (Celine Roque)
• Introducing Deliberate Discovery (Dan North)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Cloud Application Architectures – Only $9.99. Use code DDCAA (O’Reilly Media)
• Effective Road Mapping: Driving Change in Your Team (Jared Richardson)
• Waste #3: Relearning (Matt Stine)
• Automating Runtime Intelligence Code Injection (Joe Kuemerle)
• Consistency: Your best friend or your worst nightmare (Hadi Hariri)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Adding the Mockup Controls to the SketchFlow Asset Tool (Christian Schormann)
• 10 reasons to switch to WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Disable Javascript error in WPF WebBrowser control (Al Kampfer)
• XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Gestures (Mike Ormond)
• A Silverlight Expense Report Module using View Model (MVVM) (Michael Washington)
• Windows Phone 7 available in Canada same time as US: WMPowerUser.com (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 Development in a Virtual Machine (Dane Morgridge)
• Generally How I describe MVVM in the Presentations or to my Friends (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Thoughts on Windows Phone 7 – Android – iPhone – Blackberry (Wally McClure)
• Making your Content Scrollable (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Building the Windows Experience Index Share Site – WEIshare.net (Coding4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Sahil Malik is Still Nutty About Sharepoint (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 72: Open Source love, Exchange Active Sync, Yahoo! by Bing, Silverlight (Laura Foy)
• Pluralcast 23 : Visual Studio LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer (David Starr)
• YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Crockford on JavaScript — Scene 6: Loopage” (52 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Price change for Xbox LIVE Gold subscription (Larry Hyrb)
• Tim Heuer and Tim Huckaby discuss Silverlight 4 and Steve Marx and Rob Bagby discuss Windows Azure Interoperability and Andre Vrignaud and Rob Cameron discuss XNA & Mobile Development and Todd Brix and Rob Cameron discuss Windows Marketplace and Bill Buxton and Tim Huckaby discuss Design, Multi-touch, and Innovation and Richard Campbell and Billy Hollis discuss Visual Studio 2010 (Bytes by MSDN)
• ARCast.TV – Building an Integrated Office Solution Using Word, OpenXML and SharePoint 2010 (Zhiming Xue)
• Countdown to PDC10: A Tour of Building 33 (Larry Larsen)
• MSDN Radio 31 Aug–We are back (Dag König)

Community / Events

• BALL Watch Silverlight Contest Winners Announced (Michael S. Scherotter)
• What does a user group meeting have for me? (Denny Cherry)
• Sign in on pexforfun.com, start earning medals (Nikolai Tillman)

Database

• SQL or MDX query trace in SSRS – trick of imagination or a real thing? (Aedna)
• Drop and re-create System Stored Procedures in SQL Server 2000 (Pradeep Adiga)
• Convert Several Columns in SSIS With Fewer Clicks and Confusion (Todd McDermid)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part I: When to build your data warehouse (Stephen Forte)
• Defensive Db Programming Chapter 06 (Jason Brimhall)
• How Old Are Your Database Statistics? (Glenn Berry)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to build massive Virginia data center (Ina Fried)
• Hotmail now supports push email, calendar, and contacts with Exchange ActiveSync (Dick Craddock)
• Thoughts Inspired By Ruby (John Sheehan)
• Gmail learns to prioritize your inbox — automatically! (Lee Mathews)
• Kodu Language Gammar (Stephen Coy)
• Three Simple Steps to Improve Your Writing (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• iPhone Tip: Achieving Dev Speed in xCode (Tobin Harris)
• BizTalk Application Tracing Made Easy with BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework Controller (Valery Mizonov)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 30-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• SQLAuthority News – A Monthly Round Up of SQLAuthority Blog Posts – August 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• Weekly Links #120 (Grant Palin)
• Create Games for Windows Phone 7 – Weekly Roundup (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Morning Brew #675 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 30, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

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