• *Free to Choose* Deal/Day to Support #Japan Disaster Relief – Save 50% – Ebooks & Videos (O’Reilly Media)
• MEFing up John Papa’s MVVM code from Firestarter (Colin Blair)
• Using EntityFramework with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Rob Conery)
• Effective Tests: Test First (Derek Greer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A C# Command-Line Parser (Jonathan Wood)
• A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 1 – Introduction (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using WCF Data Services with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Jeff Derstadt)
• Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: C# in Depth–2nd Edition (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Setup Switches (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Azure and scaling: how? (.NET) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Restart and Recovery Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Entity Framework 4.1 gets DbContext API – but no Database Evolution, SPs or Cached queries (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Code contracts – Is it only about argument validation? (Peter Gfader)
• Monad tutorial, Part 4 (Brian Marick)
• Profile a profiler using a profiler (Feng Yuan)

Web Development

• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 1: Creating a Common Service Layer (Chris Love)
• In JavaScript, curly brace placement matters: An example (Dave Ward)
• Quick tip: Microsoft Expression Web 4 SP1 available, new SuperPreview online service for Safari (Katrien de Graeve)
• Facebook C# SDK Tutorial–ASP.NET MVC3 Website with Facebook Authentication (Nathan Totten)
• Bring your web sites to the desktop with IE 9 Pinned Sites (Rachel Appel)
• JSConsole Remote Debugging and JSBin Live Preview (Elijah Manor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The wages of sin: Proper and improper usage of abstracting an OR/M (Oren Eini)
• Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone? (Vitaly Friedman)
• Lighthouse – Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Meet Microsoft’s Guru of ‘Design Matters’ (Sharon Pian Chan)
• User Experiences: An Insight into Our Design Process (Mirko Mandic)
• IQ Isnt Enough. Enterprise Architects Must Balance with EQ Driven Approaches (Mike Walker)
• Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Issue with RadioButtons and Binding for MVVM (Abhishek Sur)
• Creating “Cool” Buttons with Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #8: Using Sensors (Andrea Boschin)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #8 (Jeff Prosise)
• NuGet Package of the Week #3 – PhoneyTools for Windows Phone 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Jeremy Likness on Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• WP7Contrib – Page Transitions and Navigation Service (Richard Griffin)
• I was joking about the penny, but how about some tombstoning sample code? (Peter Torr)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Text files and Customizing WP7 Slider in different ways (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Common Image Templates (as Paint.Net/PDN files) (Greg Duncan)
• Adding an Application Bar (Jesse Liberty)
• ApplicationIcon must be in root directory (Mike Ormond)
• Metro In Motion – Fluid List Animation (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Adam Driscoll Does PowerShell with TFS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 142 – PowerScripting Podcast – Richard Giles from Idera on PowerShell Plus (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 38 : Liam McLennan on JavaScript (David Starr)
• TWC9: Expression Web SP1 adds HTML5 support, New Events section, Task.Show (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Yet Another Podcast #29 Jon Galloway on MVC 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 48 – Tatham Oddie on What IE9 Means for Developers (Richard Banks)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 5 – Secure Networking using Windows Azure Connect (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Burn It All, Lunchbox, Urban Dictionary, Simon, Apict (Laura Foy)
• WP7′s IE9 implementation shown off on video (Brody McKee)

Community / Events

• Just Announced: First Set of Windows Azure Sessions at MIX11 (Windows Azure Team)
• Joel Oleson in Ireland for the 1st time with Microsoft and SharePoint User Group in Dublin (Joel Oleson)
• Events This Week – March 21st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Giveaway (Brendan Tompkins)
• Deeper in .NET 2011 in Review with Pictures (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Phone 7 Workshops–Register Now! (Mike Ormond)
• Xbox LIVE community patrolled by Enforcement Unicorn Ninja (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.1–Visual Guide of new features (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• SSRS Red-Yellow-Green Indicators: An Alternative Approach? (Jen Stirrup)
• SSIS Foreach File Enumerator returns more files than expected by appending a wildcard (*) to the file mask (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL Server: Move Table to a new File Group (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Solid Quality Journal – Importance of Statistics (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DENALI: Service Broker Troubleshooting made easy (Sankar Reddy)

Miscellaneous

• Review of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (Brian Bondy)
• Kindle info, links, blogs, tools, and more… (Think “One Boat Load of Kindle Links”) (Greg Duncan)
• Certification: Why Exam Development Is Separate from Training Development (Kim Spilker)
• Microsoft “Video Kinect” Chat Review – Video Chat on the Big Screen, The Good and The Bad (Scott Hanselman)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Syncing Outlook 2010 and Window Phone (Lonnie Webb)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 21, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #817 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Client Developer roundup 064 for 3/21/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 03/21/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 03/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly Link Post 186 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

Top Links

• Increasing touch surface (#wp7dev) (Laurent Bugnion)
• An F# Ant Colony Simulation in Silverlight 4.0 with Dynamic AI Loading (Rick Minerich)
• The definite guide to Notification Window in Silverlight 4 (Laurent Duveau)
• How to correctly handle application deactivation and reactivation (Peter Torr)
• Sparkling Client Show 112: Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 5 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Data Services Client does not close connections! and Generating code files with correct namespaces using T4 (Daniel Fisher)
• Introducing Nina – ‘The Friendly Web Microframework that Performs’ (Dotan Nahum)
• Using LINQPad to Run My Life: Budgeting (Chris Sells)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta supports IIS Express (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using EF DbContext with WCF Data Services (Gil Fink)
• Enabling targeting MSTest projects to .NET 3.5 in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Igal Tabachnik)
• Unbind a Visual Studio 2010 Solution from Source Code Control (Peter Ritchie)
• Advanced using OData in .NET: WCF Data Services (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon)
• Updating JScript IntelliSense (Zain Naboulsi)
• My challenges in upgrading my Windows Azure App from SDK 1.2 to 1.3 (Wally McClure)
• Add, Update and Delete Objects in Entity Framework 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• CSLA 4 version 4.1 beta 2 available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Windows 7 Sidebar Gadget – CodeProject Reputation Watcher (Dave Auld)
• Determining what version(s) of the .Net Framework is installed is just a reg read away… (Greg Duncan)
• Do you automate your deployment process? (Peter Gfader)
• Why choosing your own path for packages is asking the wrong question (Sebastien Lambla)

Web Development

• Using Source Control with Expression Web (Christopher Lohr)
• ASP.NET MVC Strongly-Typed RenderPartial (Chris Cavanagh)
• The Challenge with HTML5 – In Pictures (Dan Wahlin)
• ViewBag dynamic in ASP.NET MVC 3 – RC 2 (Hajan Selmani)
• ASP.NET (MVC) and the Tale of the Continuous Application Restarts (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• WordPress Rolls Out New HTML5-Friendly Theme (Jolie O’Dell)
• Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 2: Enter the Matrix (Jeremy Likness)
• The Lucky Charms Analogy (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Announcing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Release Candidate 2) (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Personal Development Blogs (J.D. Meier)
• Kanban System Design Article (Karl Scotland)
• CQRS: EventStore v2 Architectural Overview (Jonathan Oliver)
• Happy Birthday HWTSAM! (Alan Page)
• Plays Well With Others – Can Integrity Be Learned? (Kevin Kline)
• Locating Controls Using UI Map Editor for Coded UI Tests (Ed Blankenship)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using the Application Bar in Windows Phone 7 applications (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Give us your most challenging Windows Phone 7 application development tasks! (Cheryl Simmons)
• Preliminary Enterprise Library for Silverlight backlog is published. Vote now! (Grigori Melnik)
• Protocol of developing an animation texture tool (Peter Kuhn)
• New WP7 Games Educational Content on App Hub: Phase 3! (Team XNA)
• Games for Windows Phone 7 Resources: Reducing Load Times, RPG Kit; Other and 2 New Apps – See Ratings Across Marketplaces and Prevent Phone Locking when Debugging In Visual Studio (Nokola)
• What’s On Your Windows Phone 7? The Inaugural Edition (Richard Hay)
• Impressions of Windows Phone 7 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight View Model (MVVM) – A Play In One Act (Michael Washington)
• 5 of 10 – Give feedback on touch and progress within your UI (Alfred Astort)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Kayak, OWIN, Open Source Web Servers and more with Benjamin van der Veen (Scott Hanselman)
• Major Nelson Podcast – Show 380: Child’s Play dinner and getting ready for the Holidays (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 221 – 12.11.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: VS2010 SP1 Beta, , Native Extensions for Silverlight, EF Code First (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• WP7 Minute Episode I : Hubs and Panorama and WP7 Minute Episode II : Live Tiles (Daniel Egan)
• Dream.in.Code Podcast Episode #13 – Christmas Episode (Den Delimarsky)
• Let’s Play TDD #65: Cogitating on ApplicationModel (James Shore)
• Pinning Favorite Artists to the Start Screen + Windows Phone Radio 11 (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of December 13, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)
• Tweet your favorite thing about Bing to win a new Windows Phone! (Bing Team)
• Unlock the Secret Path with the Ixaris Developer Challenge (Romin Irani)
• the next Philly Nerd Nite (PNN)
• When it rains, it snows (Megan McDonald)
• Come be your best with Pragmatic Works (Adam Jorgensen)

Database

• 2 of my favorite new T-SQL features in SQL Server Denali (SQL 11) (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 System Views Map (Pinal Dave)
• My experiments with Maintenance Plans in SQL Server Denali (Pradeep Adiga)
• SSAS: Using fake dimension and scopes for dynamic ranges (Gunnar Peipman)
• MySQL Partitioning – can save you or kill you (Peter Zaitsev)
• The Cost of Round Trips To The Server (Ken Downs)
• SELECT TOP 3 SQLBOOKS FROM 2010 (Gethyn Ellis)
• 12 Days of SQL, On the 2nd Day of SQL… (Grant Fritchey)
• RTFM365, Week 1 (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• Trying to Move Files with SharePoint Integration (William Vaughn)
• The Future of Office 365 and Microsoft Cloud Series (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Awesome WordPress Plugins to Empower Your Visitors (Jeff Starr)
• Microsoft Introduces Montage, a Magazine-Like, Topic-Based Web App (Jolie O’Dell)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 11, 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 11, 2010 — #1007 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 12/11/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

How We Test Software at Microsoft (text only) by A.Page.K.Johnston.B.Johnston by A.Page.K.Johnston.B.Johnston

Top Links

• Search and Navigation Tips/Tricks with Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
• New XNA Creators Club Educational Material Available! (Andre Vrignaud)
• Vote Now on the FATE OF IRON RUBY DLR language.. (Don Burnett)
• A Developer’s Roadmap to Windows Phone 7 Launch Timing (Brandon Watson)
• And Then, Under the Guise Of Jesusness, A “Fake” Twitter App Arose From the Spammy Ashes (Evan Nagle)
• Windows Phone 7 Web browser comparison versus iPhone and Android (video) (Sebastian Anthony)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio LightSwitch Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Speeding up Visual Studio Build Times and Performance and Installing VS2008 SP1 breaks Team Build Agent (James Allderidge)
• LightSwitch Beta1 Now Available, Building Your First App (Jason Zander)
• Microsoft publish Visual Studio 2010 Database Project Guidance (Jamie Thomson)
• Upcoming Power Tool for Backing up and Restoring your TFS Server (Jeff Ogorek)
• IObserver and IObservable – A New addition to BCL (Abhishek Sur)
• TFS API Part 29 – TFS Impersonation and Update for TFS \ VS \Lab 2010 – All In One (Shai Raiten)
• Integrating WCF RIA Services with WCF Routing (Yavor Georgiev)
• Class View and Object Browser Icons (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to create a ngem package and How to resolve referenced assemblies with NGem (Daniel Fisher)
• Farseer Physics Engine 3.0 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• What is the difference in <%: variable%> and <%= variable%> in ASP.NET MVC? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microsoft Expression Web 4 SuperPreview Rocks! (Markus Egger)
• Extending ASP.NET Dynamic Data: Filtering with Joins (Oleg Sych)
• The wonders of the input tag in HTML 5 (Giorgio Sironi)
• Security Resources Now Available for Windows Azure (Windows Azure)
• WeatherBug Provides Geo Overlays for Map Mashups (Adam DuVander)
• Making Sites Look Their Best in Standards Mode (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 2010 State of Agile Development Survey (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Day 23 – Design Your Week with Skill and Results, Social, and Process Lens for Organizational Culture (J.D. Meier)
• Read and Recommended: Kanban (Stephen Forte)
• TinyPM, Big Release (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Waste #2: Extra Features (Matt Stine)
• Using CCTray with JetBrains TeamCity (Steve Smith)
• New! Unit Testing Asp.NET Applications with Pex and Moles Tutorial (Jonathan de Halleux)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Performance Suite – Timezone fix (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 7: See the Sample Apps and engadget – Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview (Bob Familiar)
• Poll: Windows Phone 7 development – would you like to get involved? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Sharing the Light – Silverlight Development with Expression Blend (Chris Koenig)
• Brand-new XNA content for Windows Phone 7! (Cigdem Patlak)
• The Great Silverlight Competency Test – Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7 – Developer Roadmap and a Belgian Contest (Katrien De Graeve)
• Build Your First Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Application (Shai Raiten)
• Create Silverlight applications using Visual Studio LightSwitch! (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 3 MSDN documentation are combined (Sam Landstrom)
• My kind of developer opportunity (your mkop editor)
• WP7 What to do before the tools are released. (Mike Hole)
• XNA WP7 getting started (Coding4Fun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward Programs in Everything (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 123 – PowerScripting Podcast – Cezar Ungureanasu and Thomas Lee on Office Communications Server (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Phone 7: News for Developers and Ping 71: Windows Phone 7 & Xbox LIVE, Flight Sim, Facebook, Messenger, MENLO (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – August 23rd, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• How to Fix Public Sector IT (Mike Hadlow)
• Finding, Losing, and Reigniting Your Passion and Why Microsoft + Being a Student = Awesome (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• The new gig with Neudesic (Stuart Celarier)
• People are willing to work for less (Zviki Cohen)
• Being fueled by developer passion (Glenn Block)
• PDC10 is Sold Out! Really? (Mike Swanson)
• Upcoming Windows Phone 7 Events (Brian Hitney)
• It’s not about what we have, it’s about what we share… Part One. (Sara Allison)

Database

• Connect To SQL Server 2008 From NetBeans IDE On A Mac (Deepak Kapoor)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (Pinal Dave)
• Copying large files when running SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
• SSIS: Conditional File Processing in a ForEach Loop (Tim Mitchell)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Using SQLite – Only $9.99. Use code DDSLE (O’Reilly Media)
• N Things Worth Knowing About SELECT (Jen McCown)
• SQLCop update Version 1.1 (George Mastros)

Miscellaneous

• Remote Desktop Services Component Architecture Poster (MS Downloads)
• Cloud.com Offers Support For VMware (Krishnan Subramanian)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 038 for 8/23/2010 (Pete Brown)
• WebMatrix Resources (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2010 — #931 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #671 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #119 (Grant Palin)

The Geek Shelf

Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide by Michael Coles

Top Links

• Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer, A [Critical] Review (Scott Lovegrove)
• Why Do We Recycle Our Application Pools? (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Experimenting with ClickOnce deployment (Dennis Delimarsky)
• RoundhousE now supports Oracle, SQL2000 (Rob Reynolds)
• The Performance of Arrays (Chris Burrows)
• Symbolic Calculation in F# (Vagif Abilov)
• Select from the Current Cursor Location to the Last Go-Back Marker (Zain Naboulsi)
• Installing Bing Maps App with VS 2010 (Derek Chan)

Web Development

• Programming MVC2 is out with code (Dino Esposito)
• What’s new in Microsoft Expression Web 4? (Minal Agarwal)
• Edit appSettings using PowerShell (Dan Watson)
• About: DOM Storage (Pete LePage)
• Adding Client-Side Script to an MVC Conditional Validator (Simon Ince)
• New Windows Azure Training Kit Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
• Review: Azure in Action (James Bender)
• IE Test Center updates (Jason Upton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Kanban just Waterfall with Small Batches? and Motivation, Insight, and Introspection (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Lessons from Ed On Software Architecture (J.D. Meier)
• Using Team City With Git (Michael Nichols)
• Agile Teams as Cohesive Communities (Shane Hastie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• CompositionTarget.Rendering and RenderEventArgs (Charles Petzold)
• SplitButtoning hairs [Two fixes for my Silverlight SplitButton/MenuButton implementation - and true WPF support] (David Anson)
• Quick update on the layout designer (Kirill Osenkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: LINQ to SQL with .NET Framework Developer and MVP Bill Jones (MS Podcasts)
• MVP’s Favorite SharePoint 2010 Features and Capabilities-Episode 47 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Windows Weekly 160: Hot Fix Roll Ups (Paul Thurrott)
• Connected Show Podcast – PHP On Windows (Brian Johnson)

Community / Events

• June 23rd Microsoft Developer Dinner for Partners: Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation: A New Age of Identity (Joel Reyes)
• Where to watch the Xbox E32010 Action (Larry Hyrb)
• ANN: Windows Phone 7 Hands-on Labs comes to Indianapolis (Dave Bost)
• Laura Foy: pioneering online media (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• TechEd 2010 Microsoft MVP Interviews with Ken Getz, Nikita Polyakov, Ginny Caughey (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

• SQL Server and High Availability and SQL Server and the Auto Close Setting (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 – WITH GETDATE (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Adobe Interview (part 3) (Joe Smith)
• Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer – A Screenshot Fest (Scott Lovegrove)
• Developing Kodu (Stephen Coy)
• Review: Learning Ruby (Grant Palin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on Website Do-overs, Two-Second Rule, Every Company a Media Company (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

WPF Programmer’s Reference: Windows Presentation Foundation with C# 2010 and .NET 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Rod Stephens

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Top Links

• Bing 404 Plugin for WordPress (Caleb Jenkins)
• CinchV2 : More sneak previews (Sacha Barber)
• Creating Scrollable Edit Content in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• DebuggerDisplay Name and Type Parameters (Richard Carr)
• Gemli.Data: Basic LINQ Support (Jon Davis)
• 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Paul Harrington)
• Swap the Current Anchor Position (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Simple Accordion Menu With jQuery & ASP.NET (Steve Boschi)
• Designing websites for accessibility in Expression Web – Part II (Minal Agarwal)
• Part 3 – A Cascading Hierarchical Field Template & Filter for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Isolation At Work: Good Or Bad? (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Great-Circle Arcs on the Sphere (Charles Petzold)
• WPF (and Silverlight): Choose your Fonts and Text Rendering Options Wisely (Pete Brown)
• Updates and New Home for Sticky Plugin (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

•  Windows Weekly 159: Gypsy Stole My iPhone (Paul Thurrott)
• Coding4Fun Show – NUI with Josh Blake (Brian Peek)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Subquery or Join – Various Options – SQL Server Engine knows the Best (Pinal Dave)
• How to refresh the local IntelliSense cache in SQL Server Management Studio (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Re-Enable DreamScene on Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Navigation Rethink, Cloned Goals, Cap’n Crunch, The Blink Test (Dave Burke)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

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Top Links

• The Power of Enum (John Sonmez)
• Stuff – WPF Line of Business Using MVVM Video Tutorial (Karl Shifflett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox Search (Richard Carr)
• Sequence Diagram RE, LINQ, and Lambdas (Cameron Skinner)
• Choosing the StartUp Project (Zain Naboulsi)
• Patch Released for Dotfuscator Community Edition 5 Affecting VB.NET RTM Projects (Joe Kuemerle)
• Keeping multiple assembly lists with Reflector and Visual Studio 2010 Designer (Paul Stovell)
• Agatha 1.1 Is Out (Davy Brion)
• Layers in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Ritchie)
• Using NetModules for Reducing Compilation Costs (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

• Apple developing Flash alternative, adding insult to Adobe’s injury (Jay Hathaway)
• Changing the appearance of a picture in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• Sessions and Shopping Carts (Mike Brind)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My team keeps breaking their promises. What can I do? (Roy Osherove)
• Annotated Data Contracts and the Content Enricher pattern (Paul Stovell)
• Test Lint – The Next Step (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM, Data Channel, MEF, WCF RIA Services and ViewModel Locator – Silverlight 4.0 and Use Extension method to write cleaner code (Fredrik Normen)
• MEF, Silverlight and the HVP and MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid* (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 155: The Delphi 3 Superbible (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: IE9 Dev Preview, Sync SQL to SQL Azure, & useful CSS tools for ASP.NET (Dan Fernandez)
• Joel on This Week in Startups (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution 2 (Pinal Dave)
• That No SQL Thing: Why do I need that again? (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Sharepoint 2010 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 Themes and Resources for Upgrading a Custom Master Page (Joel Oleson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 08, 2010 — #858 (Dave Campbell)
• New Sueetie Url Handling Model and the SueetieLink UserControl (Dave Burke)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

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Top Links

• S#arp Architecture 1.5 released (Alec Whittington)
• Use Office 2010 to map a local drive letter to your free 25GB Live SkyDrive (Lee Mathews)
• An introduction to MEFedMVVM – PART 1 and Leveraging MEFedMVVM ExportViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 2 and IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3 (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Reference Highlighting (Richard Carr)
• How to get REALLY fast benchmarks (Oren Eini)
• Set or Remove a Breakpoint (Zain Naboulsi)
• Updated Blue and Dark Visual Studio 2010 Themes (John Papa)
• Iron Ruby: ‘unitialized constant…NameError’ (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How to use Personal Web Packages in Microsoft Expression Web (.NET Curry)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Vanilla Scrum Work for You? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)
• When Implementing ICommand don’t forget to Hookup RequerySuggested (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 153: You’re Made of Corn (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Silverlight 4, SQL Server R2 & Ent Library 5.0 all RTM, Why code comments aren’t bad (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Feeling @Home with Windows Azure, at Home (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 25 (Glenn Berry)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (24/30) twenty six restore myths and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Milestone 3 screenshots leaked (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 theme for iPhone released! (Imran Hussain)
• Attn: Google – Amount due: USD$307.50 (FOURTH AND FINAL NOTICE) (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How to Install Android on iPhone – Step by Step Guide [Video] (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 04.19 ~ 04.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #102 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 — #846 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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Top Links

• Wanted: Virtual Alt.Net Community Contributors, Organizers, and Presenters (Steve Bohlen)
• Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. Microsoft AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler (Nick Berardi)
• Drop-down Lists and ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
• How to return all the skipped identity values from a table in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 – It’s still not meeting data developer’s needs (William Vaughn)
• How to use Reference Highlighting — vstipEdit0010 and Using the Call Hierarchy (C# Only) — vstipTool0005 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Building an External DSL in C# (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Visual Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010, aka Team Foundation Server Branching Guide III, released (by guess who? Yep,the ALM Rangers…) (Greg Duncan)
• Article Published on Creating a LINQ Provider (Charlie Calvert)
• Wi-Fi Warthogs (Tim Higgins)
• Clarification on Developer and Trial Azure Account Pricing (Dave Isbitski)
• A Definite Assignment Anomaly (Eric Lippert)
• Vanilla Yet Composable HTTP Services With WCF 4 and Windsor (Howard Dierking)

Web Development

• SEO Tips for Developers : Site Structure (Chris Missal)
• My picture of an MVC-WebForms marriage (Jimmy Bogard)
• Editable Routes Using App_Code (Phil Haack)
• Expression Web Queries (Minal Agarwal)
• FubuMVC – Define your actions your way (Joshua Flanagan)
• Book Review: 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls (Elijah Manor)
• Page Action Mapping in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Balsamiq’s First release of 2010: Draggable Tabs and bug fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• How do you get motivated? (Scott Berkun)
• Are ORMs Solving Anything? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Product Planning in Office 2010 (Scott Gordon)
• Use 3 Stories to Drive Your Day (JD Meier)
• 10 Things To Improve Your Development Career (Ted Neward)
• Poor use of DI versus need for DI and Starting fresh (Jimmy Bogard)
• Dependency Injection Inversion Rejection (Davy Brion)
• Strategic Design (Responsibility Traps) – Eric Evans (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Create First Silverlight Application and Create First WPF Application (Karl Shifflett)
• Caliburn v1.1 Release Candidate Available! (Rob Eisenberg)
• Matrix3DEx 1.0 – When PlaneProjection is not enough (Rene Schulte)
• Source viewer added to the Silverlight SDK sample browser (Karl Erickson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jason Olson Digs into the CLR 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• WebDevRadio Episode 72: Groovy Grails Griffon Greatness at CodeMash (Michael Kimsal)
• Pluralcast #6 : The Language Tour, Part 1 and Pluralcast #7 : The Language Tour, Part 2 (David Starr)
• 10-4 Episode 38: What’s New with WCF4 – Simplified Config (Ron Jacobs)
• Ping 44: Science of Natal, Kodu, HP, Free SEO (Laura Foy)
• GitHub for the Rest of Us Screencast (Chris Wanstrath)
• Silverlight TV Episode 2: Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight (John Papa)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Employees Quick to Help in Haiti (MS PressPass)
• Greener Pastures (Ben Scheirman)
• Free Developer Training for Windows Mobile 6.5 (Bruce Kyle)
• Wanna Attend "Delivering SharePoint Success" Mentoring Workshop This Thursday, Jan 21, in Washington DC for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Events this Week – January 18th, 2010 and MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow: Windows Azure (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mac MVP Contributes to Apple Script Book (Emily Freet)
• Nothin But .Net 2010 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• iPhone 4.0 and Apple Tablet Confirmed for January 27 (Taimur Asad)
• “SharePoint 2010: Bits from the Edge” the day long free virtual SharePoint conference (Feb 16, North America, Feb 18, Europe) (Greg Duncan)
• Codemash 2010 and the Smartphone Throwdown – Windows Mobile vs iPhone vs Android vs Blackberry vs Palm (Keith Elder)
• A rant about women (Scott Berkun)

Database

• Tools and Processes for “Fitting it all in” (Buck Woody)
• Activity Monitor to gather statistics and health of SQL Server 2008 (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS Query Command(s) completed successfully without ANY Results (Pinal Dave)
• Interesting case of watching log file growth during a perf test (Paul S. Randal)
• Deploying a database solution in Visual Studio Database Professional – Tip (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• WebCast tomorrow on SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Theme – Nothing But 7up (Anum Lodhi)
• Delayed Screen Captures in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• The Great Newline Schism (Jeff Atwood)
• 5 desktop apps that’ll make swift work of FaceVille — er, Facebook! (Sebastian Anthony)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First iPhone Development — Only $9.99! Use discount code HFPD9 (O’Reilly Media)
• A Review of “24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them” (Stephen Robillard)
• New Windows Live Mail Wave 4 screenshot revealed! (John Hsu)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 01/19/2010 (Bob Familiar)
• LINKBLOG for Jan 18, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #519 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 18, 2010 — #782 (Dave Campbell)
• Great TFS2010 Resources (Cameron Skinner)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 01.10 ~ 01.18 (yuanjian)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Jan-1010 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Link Post 128 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using F# Discriminated Unions in C# (Beta2) (Jared Parsons)
• Simple Linq to Sql Enhancements with T4 Templating (Nathan Bridgewater)
• IronPython 2.0.3 and 2.6 RC2 (Harry Pierson)
• TFB210602: Failed to copy. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• A Chance to Influence the MSDN Visual Studio Documentation (Help System) (Charlie Calvert)
• VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue (Brittany Behrens)
• Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 2: Building a Trigger Start Optimized Service (Yochay Kiriaty)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Creating Drill Down Reports (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET 4 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit (MS Web Platform Team)
• Using PHP within the Expression Development Server (Chris Leeds)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig is a View Model (Sara J. Chipps) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An epic bug story (Oren Eini)
• MVC Web Testing Strategies – verifying content (Jimmy Bogard)
• TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha – Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Jamie Cansdale)
• Stop Exposing Collections Already! (Davy Brion)
• The SOA Manifesto – Pointlessness Manifested (Harry Pierson)
• Developer Codpieces (Leon Bambrick)
• The Most Productive Programming Language (Dave Laribee)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF is the future, get over it, post of the day – “Are desktop developers ignoring WPF at their peril?” (Greg Duncan)
• New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects and d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Karl Shifflett)
• 10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download (Adam Kinney)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Live Streaming being discontinued. What now? (Rene Schulte)
• New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page (Silverlight Team)
• Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Obfuscation of WPF applications (status update) (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Windows Presentation Foundation with Todd Fine (MS Screencasts)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Monday ClassMaps (Bobby Johnson)
• Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services (Charles Torre)
• Recorded PowerShell Introductory Session from Quest Connect (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Part 1 – Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity and Part 2 – Dependency Injection with Unity and Part 3 – Modularity with Prism and Part 4 – The Unity Bootstrapper and Part 5 – Moving to a Modular Silverlight Project and Part 7 – Commands and Part 8 – Loosely Coupled Events and Part 9 – Sharing Data with Region Contexts and Part 10 – A Larger Example – "Email Client" (Mike Taulty)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview (Tina)
• Access Web Databases and The Access Show (Office Team)

Community / Events

• Office and SharePoint Sessions at PDC (Ahmed El-Ramly)
• SharePoint Live Virtual Conference & Expo – November 5, 2009 (Andrew Connell)
• Google Groups is Dead (John Resig)
• Getting Geeky with Windows 7! My house party and visiting Best Buy on launch day. (Dave Isbitski)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• FAST meets SharePoint – What’s Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010 (Nate Treloar)

Miscellaneous

• Google launches Android 2.0 SDK (Brad Linder)
• Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars [Gaming] (Adam Frucci)
• 7 on 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite (Jim O’Neil)
• Dear Microsoft: What’s the deal with Windows 7 upgrades? (Ed Bott)
• Google Wave will have an App Store too! (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows Management Framework is here! (Nathan Burkhart)

More Link Collections

• SharePoint 2007 Posts: Recap (Pete Seale)
• LINKBLOG for Oct 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #464 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 — #717 and Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update (Brad Abrams)
• CloudNews for 27th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft names Visual Studio 2010 dates (Gavin Clarke) – Link of the Day
• NHibernate Shards: Progress Report (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• HealthVault 0908 SDK Highlights… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Visual Studio 2008 "DataDude" Duplicate Menu Items and SQL Server 2008 – SQLCLR .NET Framework Version (Doug Holland)
• XNA and textures (Coding4Fun)
• Lambda Expressions: Execution (Deborah Kurata)
• A fan-dev Team Build Property Reference Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor (Peter Kellner)
• Mapping From IDataReader/IDataRecord with AutoMapper (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Dynamic lookup operator, aka duck typing in F# (Laurent Le Brun)

Web Development

• Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6 (James Senior)
• Using the New Microsoft Ajax Minifier (Stephen Walther)
• How to render the same template on the server and client with minimal redundancy (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Add temporary bookmarks in Code View in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• How To Optimize the Speed of Your Website (Michael Ceranski)
• Treating Javascript as an integration point (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick reference poster–the VSTS Rangers “scrumified“ process (Clemens Reijnen)
• LinqToSql Profiler & NHibernate Profiler – What is happening? (Oren Eini)
• Message Granularity (Dru Sellers)
• Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever? (Keith Dahlby)
• Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 2. and Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• Efficient Development, Deployment and Customer Feedback at Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)
• A Possible Job Description: Team Leader and Introducing Typemock IntelliTest (Roy Osherove)
• Coding: Role based interfaces (Mark Needham)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part II: Observe First, Judge Later (Patrick Kua)
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Dependency Injection Mess With Mocks (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming (David Cooksey)

Silverlight / WPF

• More on AERO Shake and WPF (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Streaming to be discontinued: new Azure service coming (Kip Kniskern)
• MVVM Light Toolkit on Codeplex and Clean shutdown in Silverlight and WPF applications (Laurent Bugnion)
• Creating Killer Animations in Code (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Cinch : Some code changes (Sacha Barber)
• Big Spaceship delivers a beautiful Silverlight experience for Victoria’s Secret (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 126: Danger Paul Danger (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Matt Hessinger on How Business Drives Architecture and Migrating Legacy Applications to .NET – Webcast by Magenic (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Virtual PC tools, .NET 4.0 FAQ, MVC in Azure (Dan Fernandez)
• Major Nelson Show #335: Forza Motorsport 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Video: Influence Strategies and Test Review: MEF (Roy Osherove)
• Engadget Podcast 167 – 10.16.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hanselminutes on Channel 9 – Inside CodePlex.com (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Goodbye, Twitter (Leon Gersing)
• Stack Overflow: Programmers working for Free?! (Christopher Diggins)
• Clearing the ***Sparks (Dani Diaz)
• Mads Kristensen in Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Philly Code Camp 2009.2 (Nick Berardi)
• TrackAbout Is Hiring! (Joel Ross)
• Windows 7 Labs @ PDC (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Discount extended: Register for PDC by Oct 30 and save $300 (Sandra Haynes)

Database

• Collecting information about your SSIS packages [SSIS Nugget] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Auditing in SQL Server 2008 and SQL SERVER – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script – Consolidating Collations – Extention Script (Pinal Dave)
• Best Practices for Applications Login to SQL Server? (R. Barry Young)
• Series of "Bad habits to kick" by Aaron Bertrand (Ted Krueger)
• What to do till the SQL Azure management tools come? (Bill Zack)

SharePoint

• Upgrade approaches poster and Upgrading services poster and Upgrade testing poster and Upgrade planning poster (MS Downloads) – Some SharePoint 2010 posters from Microsoft.

PowerShell

• The release of Microsoft’s PowerShellPack (Joel Bennett)
• Announcing: Open Source PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer (Lee Holmes)
• PowerShell V2 Virtual Launch Party (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Flight Simulator Team Finds New Home at Cascade Game Foundry (Blake Handler)
• What I Use: October 2009 Update (Paul Thurrott)
• What am I missing? MSMQ Perf Issue (Oren Eini)
• A Feed You Should Read #8 – msdev (Greg Duncan)
• Free e-book: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Professionals Still Need Their Own Web Sites (Charles Hamilton)
• The Interview With The Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing Let Me Bing That For You (Phil Haack)
• Zoho Projects Now Integrated With Google Apps (Leena Rao)
• 77 Windows 7 Tips on Technet (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Build 14.0.4514.1009 (Taimur Asad)
• Introducing the Documentation tab for CodePlex projects (Sara Ford)
• Identifying The Technologies That Will Matter (Mike Walker)
• LiveLessons Programming in Objective-C 2.0 Review (Mike Riley)
• A Sneak Peek at D&D on Microsoft Surface (Larry Larsen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2009 — #710 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #75 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #457 (Chris Alcock)
• My Top 20 Most Popular Posts (So Far) (Davy Brion)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.16 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 16th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 115 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #563 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (10/18/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day