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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone hits 1.0.0 (Den Delimarsky)
• The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources (Bil Simser)
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs of Software Development (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone “Tango” will support 120 languages, C++ development support coming soon (damaster)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How much do I love the yield statement? and Refreshing an expired STSTestCert WIF certificate (Rory Primrose)
• Building WebKit on Windows 7 with VS2010 (Ashod Nakashian)
• Results of the Windows 8 development poll (Dennis Delimarsky)
• PHP as a Scripting Language for C# (Jakub Misek)
• Attached Command for Windows 8 Metro Style in C# (Jarrey)
• Secure your REST-based WCF service with WIF, part 2 (Stefan Severin)
• Partial application in F# and C# and Why do we need partial application? – Part 1 of n – Fluent interfaces and piping (Steffen Forkmann)
• Windows 8 for ARM is stable, ready to be in hands of developers? (Ron)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 2, P/Invoke – Unmanaged to Managed (Sasha Goldshtein)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Stimpack and NuGet Project Uncovered: NSpec and NuGet Project Uncovered: Guard (Jason Jarrett)
• Refactoring using Telerik Just Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Tpl Dataflow walkthrough – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Kibloc – Real time, distance based object tracking and counting using Kinect (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Merging DLLs into Your Main Assembly for Easier Distribution (Red Gate Software)

Web Development

• HTML5 File Drag and Drop Upload With jQuery and ASP.NET (Prashant Khandelwal)
• Setting Amazon S3 Storage as data source (s3n://) in Hadoop on Azure (hadooponazure.com) portal and Windows Azure Troubleshooting – Taking specific Windows Azure Instance offline and Creating your own Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure by using your own Windows Azure Subscription account (Avkash Chauhan)
• How I Got Node.js Running On A Linux Micro Instance Using Amazon EC2 (Ben Nadel)
• Working with Inline Web Workers (Gil Fink)
• David Pallmann takes us on a fresh look at the Windows Azure development (Greg Duncan)
• Found: Windows Azure Document Treasure Trove! (Peter Laudati)
• Handling Big Data in Cloud (Rinat Abdullin)
• Creating A Custom Template For WebMatrix (Mike Brind)
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD (Claudio Ortolina)
• Agile Results with Evernote and Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Framework and ITIL Stages, Processes, and Sub-Processes (JD Meier)
• The Perils of Asynchrony (Frank Kelly)
• JavaScript Testing with Mocha (Attila Domokos)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to implement communication between Silverlight and the HTML host. (Ariel Ben Horesh)
• Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight (Christian Nagel)
• PhoneGap 1.4.0rc1 is commited (Jesse MacFadyen)
• Clipboard API in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Templating a XAML CheckBox to a thumbs-up/down control using Expression Blend (Joost van Schaik)
• WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior (András Velvárt)
• Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 – Location Service and Bing Maps (Shai Raiten)
• Part 3 of my Prism 4 Series is out (Brian Noyes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 052 – “$99 Nokia Phones and Travis Barfs” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 427: Syndicate, The Darkness II (Larry Hyrb)
• Gweek 037: Donald Duck is High on Arrival (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Geekadelphia_ The Podcast Episode 2 – SOUTH fellini Interview.mp3 (Jo & Dan)
• TWC9: SQL Server 2012, Windows Phone, Async, Azure, HTML5 and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Gillmor Gang Live 01.27.12 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 01.28.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Cloud Cover Episode 68 – Throttling in SQL Azure with Scott Klein (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• The Vergecast 015 – 01.28.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 123 – 01.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video on Web Storage in HTML5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Weekly 245: Microsoft Will Disappoint Millions (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 39 (Richard Hay)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #131: David Feinleib: VC, Founder, Author (Bob Walsh)
• My first video for code refactoring in visual studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)

Community / Events

• Career vNext (Steve Marx)
• Windows Azure Powers Winning Solutions at Imagine Cup (Himanshu Singh)

Database

• SQL Server – Generate SQL INSERT from Excel (Jack Vamvas)
• Reinstalling & Slipstreaming SQL Server (Nick Haslam)
• SQL SERVER – Lots of Date Functions – Find Right One to Use – Quiz – Puzzle – 27 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Reclaiming Space Back from Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 28 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Data Collector Usage – Quiz – Puzzle – 29 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Problem with printing database diagrams (Tatworth)
• A SQL Server Leap Year Test Function (Richard Carr)

PowerShell

• Rich formatting for PowerShell help (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Roman Numerals Kata in Ruby, Take II (Calvin Bottoms)
• Ruby Class Hierarchy to DGML (C. Lovett)
• Quick news: Press release for Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Cast your vote in the Windows 8 release schedule prediction pool (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 29, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 29 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• MVP Friday Five: January 27, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/28/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Retrospective 69 – #Agile Controversy Week (Peter Saddington)
• This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk (Peter Cooper)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Android by Zigurd Mednieks

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets v2.2 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: For All Database Developers and Developers Administrators by Pinal Dave

• Windows Phone Native Series – ExitApplication, PlaySystemSound, GetSystemInformation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recognition Compensation (Phil Haack)
• SocialViewer gets Windows Phone Mango treatment (Nick Randolph)
• Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency (Steven Sinofsky)
• Metro WebView Source and HTML workarounds (Brent Schooley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring Code using Visual Studio Extract Method (Abhishek Sur)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods (James Michael Hare)
• LINQPad helps you learn LINQ (Jason Short)
• TFS 2010 Report Results are not up to date after installing Service Pack 1 (Sebastian Dau)
• GHI (non-beta) .NET Gadgeteer SDK released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections (Simon Cooper)
• SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console (Matt Hinze)
• StyleCop 4.7 (CodePlex)
• New Refactorings in JustCode Q3 2011 (JustCode Team)
• Rx – Sample (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the Kinect to build a NUI E-Book and F#, Kinect and a little LegoNXT (Greg Duncan)
• Global reach (Antoine Leblond)
• Parsing HTML in C# (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• Comment and Uncomment for CSS Editor in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• JavaScript for C# developers: converting arguments into an array (Julian M.  Bucknall)
• CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms (Peter Gasston)
• Things Still Missing From CSS (Trent Walton)
• Using ProudMonkey Controls with ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• PHP Performance: Bitwise Division (Stoimen)
• Update: Deploying Ruby Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
• When APIs Play Spoilsport? (Romin Irani)
• Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube video and a fluid resize (Scott Hanselman)
• Our AJAX Conventions – The AjaxContinuation and Our Ajax Conventions–Clientside Continuations (Josh Arnold)
• Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications (Chris Love)
• The digits of MUSIC.js (Dave Mahon)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster and Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
• Understanding JavaScript OOP (Quildreen Motta)
• Photo Mosaics Part 9: Caching Analysis (Jim O’Neil)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Contextualising just enough up front design (Simon Brown)
• No Class is an Island (John Sonmez)
• Announcing Lokad.CQRS vLean – SampleProject and Tools (Rinat Abdullin)
• 5 Do’s and Don’ts for Managing Distributed Teams – A Tech Lead Speaks (Adam Feber)
• test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank (Brad Frost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections (Deyan Ginev)
• Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
• The Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App and SLARToolkit Samples Updated (Rene Schulte)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – Capitalization (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #467 – Use a UniformGrid for Evenly Spaced Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• New Markets for Windows Phone Developers (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Leveraging Azure for Windows Phone Devs’ now available (Silverlight Show)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #128: Predictions 2012 (Bob Walsh)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Harald Horgen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Gillmor Gang Live 01.05.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• On Microsoft MVP Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives (Simone Chiaretta)
• A very few thoughts on the MVP program (Jeremy Miller)
• MVP Program, Award and my view on things (Dennis Vroegop)
• Windows 8 – First Apps Contest and Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? (Dave Isbitski)
• Your Blog is The Engine of Community (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS in a PDF (Jason Strate)
• Reader Review: SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Locking and Blocking – Important Aspect of Database and Effect on Performance – Quiz – Puzzle – 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• The Art of the Execution Plan (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

• Hot Topics: A Contest Formula that Works (Lauren Gundrum)
• Things We Wish Clients Would Say (Louis Lazaris)
• Programmers are born not made (Swizec Teller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #790 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/5/2012 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 04-Jan-2012 and 05-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #1016 (Chris Alcock)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– December 2011 (Beth Massi)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/05/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Distributed Weekly 136 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Be A Creator, Not a Consumer (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Introduction to jQuery Mobile (Joseph Guadagno)
• Announcing FsUnit 1.0 (Daniel Mohl)
• Windows Phone Challenges for Microsoft (John Papa)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application review: Northwind Starter Kit (Oren Eini)
• Repository Pattern with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Massimiliano Peluso)
• Optimizing Assembly References with ReSharper 6.1 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Shortest String That Contains All Words (Chris Eargle)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 9 – Using Interactive JavaScript for Data Visualization (Avkash Chauhan)
• APress Deal of the Day 3/Jan/2011 – Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development (Tatworth)
• Day 10 – Drawing rotated images into canvas (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Web Forms with HTML5 (Mark Michaelis)
• SoMvc – ASP.net MVC 3 Application Template 1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft’s cloud roadmap for 2012: What’s on tap (Mary Jo Foley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah, What’s the Difference? (Abby Fichtner)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Team Pulse – Full Enterprise Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• TDD for multithreaded applications (Giorgio Sironi)
• Article: Dialogue Sheets: A new tool for retrospectives (Allan Kelly)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Composition Of Responsibility vs. Interface Implementation (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Article Series by SilverlightShow and Gill Cleeren: Windows 8 and the future of XAML (Silverlight Show)
• Adding Cookies to a Windows Phone 7 HttpWebRequest (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #464 – ShowsPreview Property Delays Row/Column Size Change Using a GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 (Subodhn Pushpak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Holmes Tests Everything (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 170 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffery Hicks Manages Windows Server with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Legacy Refactoring Using Isolator (Avi Kaye)

Community / Events

• Check Out the Slides for Tomorrow’s Webinar "Azure for the Windows Phone Developer" (Silverlight Show)
• Looking forward to CodeMash: Inside and Outside (Bill Wagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER DISABLE INDEX (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server Login Auditing (Tim Radney)
• MongoDB’s Write Lock (Rick Copeland)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Things To Do to Secure an Important Person’s Computer (or even Ashton’s or a Kardashian’s) (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #787 (Mike Gunderloy)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 and Windows Dev News for January 02, 2011 – #0020 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 26, 2011 – January 01, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1013 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know by Richard Monson-Haefel

• Free eBook: OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers (Troy Hunt)
• Castle Windsor 3.0 is released (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Top Three Reasons Phil Haack Quit Microsoft (D’Arcy Lussier)
• MVVM Light installers and Nuget (including Silverlight 5) #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Resources to write .Net based MapReduce jobs for Hadoop using F# (Avkash Chauhan)
• Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce and Using Hadoop on Azure JS Console for Data Visualizations (Carl Nolan)
• Tip of the day – Windows 8 Metro apps & frame navigation failure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• [Rumor] Pex and Moles to be part of Visual Studio 11? and Getting Started with the Netduino (Really) and Avoiding some Kinect SDK for Windows gotchas (Greg Duncan)
• Developing Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio (Jay Schmelzer)
• Team Foundation Server Power Tools December 2011 (Shai Raiten)
• Examples of depth API improvements coming in v1 (Rob Relyea)
• Programmatically controlling which handles are inherited by new processes in Win32 (Raymond Chen)
• Nuget Update Error (Michael Sync)
• ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support (Jenni Konrad)
• Craig’s Utility Library 3.0 (CodePlex)
• Tpl Dataflow (block structure) – Part 4 and Task != Thread (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• What’s next in 2012 for the Telerik AJAX and MVC products (Stefan Rahnev)
• New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox (Chris Heilmann)
• The rise and rise of JavaScript (Dan North)
• Composite JavaScript Applications With Backbone And Backbone.Marionette (Derick Bailey)
• Custom Blank ASP.NET MVC Project Template (Joe Mayo)
• Choosing a CSS Framework (Joe Stagner)
• MVC: Handling file uploads (John Rayner)
• Book review: HTML & CSS (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Error Code with Exception (Giorgio Sironi)
• Handling CSS by using jQuery (R S Dodiya)
• "I want to optimize my JS application on V8" checklist (mraleph)
• How to Check if a Date is More or Less Than a Month Ago with PHP (Stoimen Popov)
• New in 3.0: Support of profiling with Zend Debugger (nnmatveev)
• Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project (Rob Hawkes)
• Sass: Introducing mixins (John-Daniel Trask)
• fubu new project (Josh Arnold)
• Online Javascript Compression Tool (BrightBit)
• A Case For Using CoffeeScript (Justin Etheredge)
• New book: Integrating PHP with Windows (Kim Spilker)
• Querying The Archivist API With JSON.NET (Karsten Januszewski)
• Announcing the Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs Release (Itai Raz)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Linking Local Packages with npm (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Challenge: Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page and Node.js For Dummies (Davy Brion)
• WebSockets versus REST… fight! (Nathan Evans)
• Create a Node.js App on Azure in 3 minutes (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• How you can store decimal data in Windows Azure Table Storage? and Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI – first public CTP availability (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification (David Bulkin)
• From Agile to Elastic (Ralf Westphal)
• TDD Workflow (Sinatra / Haml / jQuery) Part 1 (Brian Marick)
• Learning Distributed Systems: Sockets and Event Store (Rinat Abdullin)
• Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN (Yann Trevin)
• The Lean Startup: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 15: Cucumber is Not A QA Tool (Jim Holmes)
• Building Social Software for the Anti-Social (Jeff Atwood)
• Building Scalable Cloud Applications (David Aiken)
• 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework (Bobby Johnson)
• Getters are an antipattern? (Gian Maria Ricci)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Don’t forget about the databinding features of Silverlight 4 that you get with Mango! (Cheryl Simmons)
• Trying out jQuery Mobile on Windows Phone (UPDATED) (Chris G. Williams)
• Building Async WCF Services in Silverlight with Channelfactory (Derik Whittaker)
• Video on How to work with Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WP7 Isolated Storage Snapshots and Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders (Daniel Egan)
• SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
• Displaying image inside Panorama Title in Windows Phone applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Kunal’s 13 for 5… 13 Silverlight 5 tutorials… and Pick up your pace on Silverlight 5 with Michael Crump’s 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Greg Duncan)
• Decoding Portable Bitmap (PBM) files in C# and displaying them in WPF (J. Broun)
• Want to change your Windows Phone emulator? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Resources from the HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 Developer Camps (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• 2000 WPF Things #453 – The UseLayoutRounding Property Aligns Things to Pixel Boundaries (Sean Sexton)
• Step by Step WPF Data Binding with Comboboxes (Steve Aube)
• Dell Venue Pro – AT Commands while searching for interop unlock (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 6th Day of Silverlight : Binding in Style Setters (Tony Champion)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 3 (Callum G.)
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 423: We get ready for Christmas (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 169 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Plugins, Amber.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Karsten Wysk Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Expert Panel Q&A featuring Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich (Scott Guthrie, Mark Russinovich & Dave Campbell)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.16.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.17.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Video: Microsoft’s Steve Kaneko on design unification and the challenges of moving to Metro (T.C. Sottek)
• Engadget Podcast 268 – 12.16.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 117 – 12.17.2011 and The Vergecast 006 – 12.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 239: Outside My Wheelhouse (Paul Thurrott)
• The Engadget Show – 028: Boeing’s 787, the Tokyo Motor Show and the year in review (Brian Heater)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #32 with Guest Pete Brown (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks (Jesse Liberty)
• Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Tablet Show – Shawn Wildermuth Builds XAML Apps on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: December 16th – Silverlight 5, Azure, TFS PowerTools and XMPP (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• tl;dr (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Tales from the MNC: The team behind Windows Phone’s breakthrough design (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 with JRE7 getDate compatibility (MS Downloads)
• Import Data from Excel into SQL Server Using SSIS (Keshav Singh)
• SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device.Operating system error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified.) and SQL SERVER – Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 RC0 – Samples Database for SQL Server 2012 RC0 and SQLAuthority News – Introduction to expressor Connectivity to Salesforce – expressor Data Integration Applications (Pinal Dave)
• Bulk Insertion of Data Using C# DataTable and SQL server OpenXML function (Pranay Rana)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 16: CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY and SQL Advent 2011 Day 18: Table-valued Parameters and SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
• Import Data from excel to SQL server using C# in ASP. NET (Suraj S Koneri)
• Building Apps Using SQL Azure and SQL Azure Reporting (Content) (Zhiming Xue)
• Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

• Sells Manor: Running 64-bit Win8 on My MacBook Air (Chris Sells)
• Microsoft Touch Mouse Review (Michael Crump)
• Your New Year’s Resolution – Put an end to spinning rust and buy yourself a SSD (Scott Hanselman)
• Ever wonder what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956? (Steven Hodson)
• Signing in with a picture password (Steven Sinofsky)
• Introducing Android Training (Tim Bray)
• Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools (Xavier Ducrohet)
• Connecting Windows Home Server to web through two routers (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.13 ~ 12.19 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #1005 (Chris Alcock)
• Distributed Weekly 133 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011 and Interesting .NET Links – December 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #775 and Double Shot #776 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: December 16, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 12/16/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/16/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (December 16, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Windows Dev News for December 18, 2011 – #0012 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 5 – 11, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 12-18 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Great Sites and Blogs for Learning about .NET Gadgeteer (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Retrospective 63 – The Kanban Man and Agile Army (Peter Saddington)
• Reading Notes #25 (Franky)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

• Link-bait Hacker Slash News Dot Considered Cancerous Request For Call To Action (Scott Hanselman) – Obligatory Top Links placement because of author’s status.
• Keynote: Getting Started with Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• A Simple Multi-Page Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap Example (Colin Eberhardt)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 11 Platform Tooling Advances (S. Somasegar)
• Node.js in Windows Azure, to the cloud and beyond! (Glenn Block)

.NET / Visual Studio

• toying with lazy sequences and the fixed-point combinator in F# (Dieser Eintrag)
• Not even making it to the airtight hatchway: Execution even before you get there (Raymond Chen)
• What is the cost of async/await? and Tpl Dataflow – Part 4 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools for Eclipse (MS Downloads)
• Tip for using the Kinect for Windows SDK with XNA (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Create ASP.NET Application with WebMatrix (Chris D.)
• Learning HTML 5: HTML Design Principal and New tags and Learning HTML 5: Detecting HTML5 feature supported in browser using ModernIZR (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview: Display Modes (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To (Divya Manian)
• Azure On GitHub (Phil Haack)
• CSS3 Patterns, Explained (Lea Verou)
• Rotate an ASP.NET Image Control using HTML 5 Canvas (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Mozilla Developer Tools 2012 Roadmap (Kevin Dangoor)
• New book: Integrating PHP with Windows (Kim Spilker)
• Openness Update for Windows Azure (Maor David-Pur)
• 7 Steps will help you to write or migrate your application to Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Some JSON Resources For You (Bil Simser)
• Searching With A BackboneJS Collection (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Good Summary of Bad Security Assumptions (Steven Lott)
• Goals and Your New Year’s Resolution (JD Meier)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 14: Tests as Specifications (Jim Holmes)
• A prototype is worth a thousand words (Leigh Howells)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Meet the Team Behind Windows Phone’s Breakthrough Design (MS PressPass)
• How to check application returning from dormant state in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone testing for sensors and WP7 Isolated Storage Snapshots and Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders (Daniel Egan)
• "Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth" 2nd edition, free Windows Phone 7.1(5) PDF now available (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight 5 Tutorials – A Collection of Beginner Level Articles you may want to Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Getting Started Video Series for our New Controls in WP7 (Michael Crump)
• Create a Windows Phone web browser app in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
• Log4Net AppDomain Logging (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #452 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, Part V (Sean Sexton)
• 7 WP7 Dev Tools You Might End Up Using Frequently (Tim Dams)
• Dell Venue Pro – AT Commands while searching for interop unlock (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and Filtering Data with Queries (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Framework Series: The eXpand Framework with Apostolis Bekiaris (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 046 – “Making Wealth Down Under” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Fever Pitched Episode 4: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 14 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Channel 9 Cloud Cover Show Live (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• Let’s Play TDD #151: Mockito (James Shore)
• Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Unit Testing for Windows Phone’ now available (Silverlight Show)
• Defrag – Page File Needed, Image Tags, Fast Gaming PC (Larry Larsen)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #63: Organizing a Conference with CodeManiacs Ian Randall and Ben Gracewood (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Plugins, Amber.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

• 2011: Tell me how you used Mono this year (Miguel de Icaza)
• Blue Pill vs Red Pill (Davy Brion)
• Own Your Community (Laura Dobrzynski)

Database

• Perk Up Your Career with the SQL Server Troubleshooting Checklist (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 Auditing Enhancement – On Audit Log Failure Options – Maximum Rollover Files (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 14: EXCEPT and INTERSECT SET Operations and SQL Advent 2011 Day 15: Joins (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server Integration Services tools to have – Configuration File Editor (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Azure Management Portal Tips and Tricks: Part I and SQL Azure Management Portal Tips and Tricks: Part II (R Syam Kumar)
• Display Foreign Key Relationships and Name of the Constraint for Each Table in Database (Rodney Vinyard)

PowerShell

• Working around a Powershell Call Depth Disaster With Trampolines (Jon Galloway)

Miscellaneous

• A poweruser tip to moving OneNote files around to free hard drive space (John Guin)
• Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl social-search project (Mary Jo Foley)
• Introducing Android Training (Tim Bray)
• A Bad Presentation Can Hurt More Than Help (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #775 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 15 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #1004 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook by Neil Mackenzie

• Install-Package Roslyn (Kirill Osenkov)
• Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js (Yehuda Katz)
• Improved Developer Experience, Interoperability, and Scalability on Windows Azure (Bob Kelly)
• What’s in (and missing from) Microsoft’s latest batch of Azure cloud updates (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Porting Bryan’s Erlang Function to F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• New VB XNA Sample – showing Xbox, Windows and Phone targetting (VBTeam)
• Integrating with COM Components In C# (vijayksh111)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Code Clone Detection (aka Code Clone Analysis) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Converting FS project files to target Xbox 360 (Joh)
• How can I tell whether a window is modal? and What is the API for accessing content on SkyDrive? (Raymond Chen)
• EFProviders require MultipleActiveResultSets=True for System.Data.SqlClient connection strings (Harish Ranganathan)
• Hello Kinect for Windows Beta 2 NUI/VUI World (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Why I’m Excited about Names in JavaScript (Tab Atkins, Jr.)
• Composite JS Apps: Regions And Region Managers (Derick Bailey)
• New Pluralsight Course – Structuring JavaScript Code in HTML5 Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Building Apps with HTML5 – Desktop, Tablet, Phone ! (Joe Stagner)
• An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) (Louis Lazaris)
• Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck (Scott Kosman)
• Windows Azure December Update – What’s Important for OSS Developers (Larry Franks)
• YUI 3.5.0 PR1 Is Now Available (Allen Rabinovich)
• Create a JS builder with node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
• App Framework Changes in YUI 3.5.0 (Ryan Grove)
• Espresso Tip: IHttpHandler and IsReusable (David Neal)
• WordPress 3.3 Released (Richard Hay)
• New Windows Azure Management Portal with updated SDK for Java, MongoDB, Node.js, Solr/Lucene, PHP and many more (Avkash Chauhan)
• New Windows Azure Guidance Topics Published (Glen Gailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• One-Piece Continuous Flow – an alternative to Kanban? (Anand Vishwanath)
• 4 Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining (Gil Zilberfeld)
• A short summary about DI and using Ninject not as a Service Locator (AngelEyes)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation and 31 Days of Testing—Day 12: Functional Test 101 (Jim Holmes)
• Why Focus on Continuous Integration for Programs? (Johanna Rothmann)
• How to be an effective code coach (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Let’s explore Silverlight 5! (Anthony de Bruyn)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 10 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• My new Windows Phone Emulator theme–simple and sleek (Jeff Wilcox)
• Turning XAML into an image (jpg) in WP7 isolated storage and to the Phone Media Library (David Kelley)
• Silverlight huh, bit of a …hot topic..wouldn’t you say? (Scott Barnes)
• 2000 WPF Things #449 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Storage (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 1 (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gillmor Gang 12.12.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 116 – 12.12.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for December 12th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Critical Path Training SharePoint 2010 Developer Training in Europe in Early 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• 2011 In Retrospect: A Year of Writing F# Professionally (Rick Minerich)
• Want to win $25 worth of apps? Tweet us! (Michael Stroh)
• Winding Down 2011… Nearing Blog Post 400 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Happy 4th Birthday To Regular Geek (Rob Diana)
• Win Free Copies of NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Gabriel Schenker)

Database

• Power View and PowerPivot HelloWorldPicnic Samples for SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) (MS Downloads)
• Changes to SQL Server 2012 Execution Plans (Greg Low)
• Top SSAS white papers (James Serra)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 7 – User Roles and Permissions in SSRS Server (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at Performance – A Quick Look at Configuration (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 12: Table Value Constructor (Denis Gobo)
• Troubleshooting Merge Replication – Logging (Ted Krueger)
• Now Available: SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

• Best Description of Claims Based Security and a Great new SharePoint+Azure Book and Great Resource for SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight (Andrew Connell)
• What Is Included in Business Connectivity Services? (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

• How to Generate an Exchange 2010 Room List Report with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Formatting JSON From Terminal (Ben Scheirman)
• Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition (Jeff Atwood)
• Back from a week of interviewing (John Guin)
• Microsoft Already Won The Battle For The Living Room When Nobody Was Looking (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Add Voice Typing To Your IME (Tim Bray)
• Exclusive: Microsoft Replaces Lees as Head of Windows Phone Business (Ina Fried)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.01 ~ 12.12 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Open Web Platform Weekly Summary – 2011-12-05 – 2011-12-11 (Karl Dubost)
• The Morning Brew #1001 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/12/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #24 (Franky)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/12/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 12, 2011 – #0010 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins

• New ASP.NET website launched (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Days of Mango | Now In eBook Format! (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Microsoft to provide details on Windows 8 app store on Dec 6 (Brad Sams)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure (MS Downloads)
• Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript (Rick Waldron)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Custom XML Serialization (Gian Maria Ricci)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Managing the unmanaged… as in 5 tips toward understanding .Net Managed/Unmanaged Interop (Greg Duncan)
• Setting up TeamCity as a native NuGet Server (Hadi Hariri)
• New book: Developer’s Guide to Collections in Microsoft .NET (Kim Spilker)
• Eager-loading RFC (Mark Rendle)
• .NET access to the GPU for compute purposes (Daniel Moth)
• log4net object renders (Dru Sellers)
• Agent Ralph Plug-In for ReSharper (Josh Buedel) – Find and eliminate duplicate code.

Web Development

• 5 Minute Intro to HTML5 Canvas (John Papa)
• Cascading jQuery Combo Boxes in ASP.NET MVC (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Building an ASP.NET MVC 4 Solution with F# and C# (Daniel Mohl)
• ASP.NET website redesign: Now with less Beta, more Live (Jon Galloway)
• Using MVCContrib 3 Test Helpers with ASP.Net MVC 4 (beta) (Kevin LaBranche)
• How to lint your JavaScript with JSLint in real time (Maxim Mossienko)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First HTML5 Programming – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress (Sameer Borate)
• Custom request methods in Nancy (Andreas Håkansson)
• Working with Binary Data using Typed Arrays (Luke Hoban)
• Kendo UI from Telerik (Jake Rutherford)
• Windows Azure Cloud Services: How you can choose what is needed and how much it will cost? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.6.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The TeamCity Database Migration Documenation Could Use Some Work (Peter Ritchie)
• Future mocking with #IgnoreInstance (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Sharing Code Between Platforms (Peter Kuhn)
• ListBox ContextMenu with MVVM in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to navigate to other page from a user control in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Asynchronous Wait Cursor using Task Parralel Library (Jacob L. Adams)
• Unifying Hardware Access across Windows Phone, Android, and iOS (Jonathan Allen)
• 2000 WPF Things #442 – WrapPanel Child Elements Can Be Clipped (Sean Sexton)
• Reflector: How to Add a WP7 Assembly List (Jason Haley)
• Async tests in Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Infragistics Motion Framework 101 (Akshay Luther)
• Windows Phone geocoding with Rx (Muhammad Afzal)
• Beginning LightSwitch: Getting Started (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cool Projects at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Boagworld: Treat stats as indicators not as the end goal (Paul Boag)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Telerik JustCode (Robert Green)
• Let’s Play TDD #147: Finding the Dialog (James Shore)
• A Dev’s Game Dev castroll… (Or Chris shares the Game Dev podcasts he listens too) (Greg Duncan)
• GitHub has a Vimeo Channel! (Matt Ganucheau)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Rocks The Canadian Technology Community (Miguel Carrasco)
• .net awards rundown (Paul Boag)
• A Coder Interview with Kenny Kerr (The Code Project)
• Three years at IdentityMine–and more to come! (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• I love SQL Server and cultures… NOT ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• SSMS Tools Pack 2.1.0 is out. Added support for SQL Server 2012 RC0. (Mladen Prajdić)
• SQL SERVER – Effect of SET NO COUNT on @@ROWCOUNT (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 2: system tables and catalog views (Denis Gobo)
• Database Mirroring In A Windows Workgroup (Kendal Van Dyke)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 public beta reportedly due in February (Andy Weir)
• Our code needs to run on multiple platforms with different rules, so we follow none of them! (Raymond Chen)
• Microsoft Confirms No Carrier IQ on Windows Phone 7 Handsets (Richard Hay)
• A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (Eric Ries)
• Working Hard? Or HardlyWork.In? (Peter Saddington)
• 10 Books to Gift the Geeky Creative in Your Life (Jocelyn K. Glei)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 3) (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week November 21-27, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #994 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #765 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/01/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Links 01/12/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 12/1/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 30-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 131 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

31 Days of Mango by Jeff Blankenburg

• Farewell to Google’s CodeSearch (Miguel de Icaza)
• OData, RSS, Ifttt.com for your Nuget’s (Greg Duncan)
• Why have a stack? (Eric Lippert)
• Composing Entity Framework Fluent Configurations (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Three new TFS Training Modules at MSDN Virtual Labs and QFEs and Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft Test Manager 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• PowerGUI brings PowerShell scripting support to Visual Studio (David Cooksey)
• Making CopySourceAsHtml add-on work with VS2010 (Gunnar Peipman)
• .NET assembly merging, three different approaches… and Multitouch at your fingertips, with the Touch Mouse and Sensor API (Greg Duncan)
• A Map for the Microsoft Application Development Platform (JD Meier)
• Duplicate Detection and Consolidation in CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• Numerical Computing with F# (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Multiple / Floating Tab Wells (Zain Naboulsi)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Book Review (John Papa)
• Why is CLIPFORMAT defined to be a WORD rather than a UINT? (Raymond Chen)
• MSDN Magazine December Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• How to use Application Bar in windows 8 (Abhishek Sur)
• WinRT File Based Database 0.9.1.5 and FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 – 2.0.0 RC (CodePlex)

Web Development

• People of HTML5: Joe Lambert unshredding images in Canvas (Chris Heilmann)
• staticHTML property (Gareth Heyes)
• Using the Infragistics jQuery Tree (Jordan Tsankov)
• Firefox – tons of tools for web developers! (Robert Nyman)
• Web Audio API how-to: Playing audio based on user interaction (Eric Bidelman)
• Supported Token Format and Protocol in ACS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Azure Queue can have 64KB message content and how 64KB content is calculated? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Techniques for real-time client-server communication on the web (SignalR to the rescue) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Tutorial: jQuery Mobile 1.0 (Shaun Dunne)
• PhpStorm 3.0: Keep Your Code in Its Best Shape! (Alexey Korsun)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are Scrum and Waterfall The Same? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Sprint is a container for Planning and not necessarily for Delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)
• PowerPoint 2010 and Excel 2010: Perfect Partners for Tracking Projects (Glenna Shaw)
• Dealing with transactions (Jimmy Bogard)
• Designing a great API (Damien Guard)
• The two worlds – a project retrospective (Rob Ashton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using JSON With Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
• Launching a WPF Window in a Separate Thread, Part 1 (Reed Copsey)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 8 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Viewing the SQL generated by LINQ to SQL (Erik EJ)
• Windows Phone 7 Connector 2.01 for Mac (Paul Thurrott)
• Castle Func Injection (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #439 – Using a DropShadow with a Border, part II (Sean Sexton)
• New Windows Phone 7 Stencil For Cacoo (Tim Murphy)
• WPF: Thriple (xamlnotes)
• Integrating Infragistics Reporting in Visual Studio LightSwitch Applications (Mihail Mateev)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #29: Globalization (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Phone Power Tools 1.4.9 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dr. Neil Roodyn on Vision-Based Systems (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 166 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alan Renouf talks PowerCLI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Ping 125: Windows Phone Fangirls, Nokia Lumia sales, Kinect on PC, Xbox 360 update (Laura Foy)
• Printing web pages. Often ignored, always important. (Paul Boag)

Community / Events

• Rock Paper Azure Is Back with a BANG (Dani Diaz)
• Departures (Phil Haack) – Best of luck to Phil on his new journey!
• Adobe Photoshop Philadelphia User Group Meeting on December 1st (Jo)
• Random Hacks of Kindness: Geeks Giving Back (Jim O’Neil)
• Google I/O 2012 extended to three days from June 27-29, 2012 (Scott Knaster)
• Early Bird Pricing for TechDays 2012 Extended to December 20. Register now! (Katrien de Graeve)
• Q3 2011 Webinar Week, This Week! (Telerik Marketing Team)
• Great contests for Windows Phone apps! (Arian Kulp)
• The Kinect Accelerator – Turn your awesome idea into a product (and get investment from Microsoft to do so) (Greg Duncan)
• Author news: Interview with Microsoft researcher Richard Banks (Devon Musgrave)

Database

• Some interesting links for SQL Server 2012 data tools (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Importing CSV Files to SQL Server with PowerShell (Chad Miller)
• SQL SERVER – Using expressor Composite Types to Enforce Business Rules (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Dirty Pages (Jack Vamvas)
• Role-playing Dimensions (James Serra)
• Execution plan warnings–The final chapter (Dave Ballantyne)
• Windows and SQL Azure Best Practices: Affinity Groups (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• Infragistics Solutions for Visualizing Data in Sharepoint (Akshay Luther)
• SharePoint Business Connectivity Services Dataflow Model (SharePoint Developer Team)
• Tools for SharePoint: Reset SharePoint Configuration Cache (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Top 10+1 Free Skype Add-ons (Greg Duncan)
• Alien Autopsy: Dissecting a Fijit Friends Sage (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft is in trouble (Robert Johnson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Robert’s read: links and suggestions November 29th 2011 (Robert Nyman)
• Double Shot #762 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/28/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 11/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #991 (Chris Alcock)
• Web Dev Tweets 28-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• 11/24/2011 and WIndowsDevNews for November 28, 2011 – #0001 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord