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Top Links

• .NET Serialization Performance Comparison (James Newton-King)
• Parsing strings to System.Linq.Expression (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Fluent Silverlight – Implementing a fluent API (Gabriel N. Schenker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Resolve Anything (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Entity Framework – MergeOption.NoTracking and CompiledQuery.Compile (Simon Sabin)

Web Development

• Learning Django and Python with “The Django Book” (Rick Ross)
• Building A Ratings Widget With ASP.NET MVC And jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Creating ASP.NET MVC Helpers (Mohammad Azam)
• Rendering ASP.NET Script References into the Html Header (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test Soon Development: a case study (Ward Bell)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Do Not Start ‘Good News Wildfires’ Using Your Wishful Thinking. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Architecting SL4 Apps with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 4 (of 3) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Magellan Extension Points (Paul Stovell)

Community / Events

• Balsamiq – A look back at 2009 (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Miscellaneous

• 10 must have Google Chrome extensions for Bloggers and Download the Bing Sidebar Gadget for Windows 7 and Enable the secret ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7 (Imran Hussain)
• New, Lower Careers Pricing (Jeff Atwood)
• Influential technologies of the last decade (Larry Clarkin)
• Firefox for Mobile 1.0 gets a release candidate (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Top 9 Posts from 2009 (Bart de Smet)
• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight Cream for January 02, 2010 — #769 (Dave Campbell)

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Programming WPF

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Top Links

• OCGM: A New Windows User Experience (Stephen Chapman) – Some insight into the UX design philosophy in Windows 8.
• Day #28: Silverlight Application Themes (Jeff Blankenburg) – Jeff nears the end of his 30 days of Silverlight sereies.
• Cost of Maintenance (Larry Clarkin) – A reminder about the importance of a good design up front.
• iPhone and Android Development – NOT STARTING A FLAME WAR!!!! (Leon Gersing) – Leon compares ease of programming against each platform.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating An Application With Full Plug-in Support (Arian T. Kulp)
• Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing in C# and F# (Rick Minerich)
• D3DImage Extension Methods (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Update for Windows Azure Blob Storage publishing plugin for Expression Encoder (James Clarke)
• Migrating Applications to Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• More Windows Code Pack and Windows 7 developing delightfulness (Greg Duncan)
• More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exploiting the code = data relationship (Bart de Smet)

Web Development

• JavaScript inside ColdFusion – CFJS (Michael Kimsal)
• 7 Tips for Loading JavaScript Rich Web 2.0-like Sites Significantly Faster (Omar Al Zabir)
• Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor)
• Do you know how to permanently redirect old incoming URL’s? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• KiGG Design And Architecture – Part 3 The Core (Muhammad Mosa)
• Self executing recursive javascript functions (Kris Gray)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fighting the profiler memory obesity (Oren Eini)
• Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My First Attempt (Mark Needham)
• Agile Tenet #6– Face-to-face Communication (Julie Stickler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7, VS2010, WPF all mixed together DevX article style (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight HVP Design Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Compass indicators properties for Telerik’s Docking Control for Silverlight and WPF (Telerik Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 4 – Yet More on Capturing Video from Webcams (Mike Taulty)
• Better WPF Circular Progress Bar (Sacha Barber)
• Solution to minimize the loading of too much data to a DataGrid– WCF RIA Services and Silverlight (Fredrik Normen)
• Read and Recommended: Essential Silverlight 3 (Stephen Forte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Hunter Tours Us Through ASP.NET 4.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• (free) Training videos from the last year. (Eric Hexter)
• Episode 96- PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson The Scripting Guy on PowerShell Best Practices (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• Mark Your Calendars for Microsoft BI Conference (Bruce Kyle)
• Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)
• January Events (Matt Hinze)
• 12/28/2009 – Speaking at Northern Delaware .NET User Group on 1/28/2010 (Kevin Goff)
• This One is for the Quiet Ones (Sara J. Chipps)

Database

• Data is Just Data – Information – that’s another thing! (Buck Woody)
• Standard Point-in-time and time-interval representations (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Get Date of All Weekdays or Weekends of the Year (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• On Learning (Anne Epstein)
• Using "within" in a WMI event query (Kapil Mathur)
• DZone Daily Dose – 12/29 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Write-Progress & WPK (James Brundage)
• A Desktop UI for Zoho Services (Rodrigo Vaca)
• Consulting vs. Employee-hood, or “How to consider your options” (Kyle Baley)
• The decade in graphic form (Steve Clayton)
• Chrome Corner – weekly updates, extensions, themes, and tips for Google Chrome (Lee Mathews)
• Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Read Facebook updates in Google Reader (or any other RSS tool) (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2009 — #765 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 28-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #506 (Chris Alcock)

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Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

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Top Links

• 10 AppFabric/.Net 4 Virtual Labs now available (Greg Duncan) – Greg points out a recent post from Nicholas Allen about new Virtual Labs.
• A VS 2010 Beta3 would be welcomed (Patrick Smacchia) – Count Patrick among the .NET community members with concerns about the stability and performance of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
• Silverlight 4 COM Support and 32/64 bit machines – the C64 Emulator (Pete Brown) - Pete works around a 32bit/64bit issue by going out-of-process with COM.
• Behind PaulStovell.com (Paul Stovell) – Get the inside scoop on Pauls home-grown blog engine / web site.
• Which Code Metrics Do You Consider Important? (Davy Brion) – Get some discussion going in the comments.
• Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin) – A great intro to MVVM with Silverlight. New to the pattern? Start here.
• The CodeBetter.Com/Devlicio.Us Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science (Brendan Tompkins) – Fantastic initiative!
• Microsoft Gets Serious About Its Cloud Business (Krishnan Subramanian) - Krishnan’s take on Microsoft Azure/WinServer re-org.
• Chrome Extensions beta launched, with over 300 extensions! (Erik Kay & Aaron Boodman) – Is FireBug there yet?    Make sure you use LastPass so you don’t have to risk Chrome displaying your saved passwords as plain text.

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ query operators and null lists (Jimmy Bogard)
• SidePOP XMLConfigurator (Rob Reynolds)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 2 – Contextual Registration and Resolution (Marcus Bratton)
• Feedback Wanted: Links to C# Tech Info (Charlie Calvert)
• Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository Part 5: IObjectSet and Include (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

• Organizing ASP.NET MVC solutions (Jimmy Bogard)
• Adding a Color Picker Control To Your ASP.NET Application (Scott Mitchell)
• Featured Open Source Project: the ColdBox ColdFusion Platform (Alex Coisman)
• Creating a Twitter Like TextBox Character Warning Using JQuery (Chris Love)
• Guided Tour: jQuery – guard and default operators (Sergio Pereira)
• Easy HTML Templating with jQuery (Sara Chipps)
• SOLUTION: Outlook Is Stripping Line Breaks From Plain-Text Emails Auto-Generated From My ASP.NET Application! (Scott Mitchell)
• Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part II (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Efficient vs. Effective (Christophe Louvion)
• CQRS – Domain state (Mark Nijhof)
• Simple Prototyping: PowerPoint and SketchFlow (James Chittenden)
• Software process improvements with Lean and Kanban at BNP Paribas and Shock therapy agile adoption at 7Digital (Gojko Adzic)
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• Field Level Access with RIA Services (Brad Abrams)
• WCF RIA Services Exception Handling (Fredrik Normén)
• Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 2 (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• That’s a WrapPanel and I am outta here… [A balanced WrapPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• Careful using Mouse.OverrideCursor (Corey Miller)
• Windows 7 & WPF 4.0 Beta – Taskbar programming of jumplists and thumbnail previews (Mike Taulty)
• MEF, Silverlight and the HVP (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E2E: Meijer, Rys and Vick – Programming Data and Building on Azure: Persistent Systems (Charles Torre)
• Webcast: Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions (Level 200) (Charlie Calvert)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Zip (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Hanselminutes – Solver Foundation and Optimization with Nathan Brixius (Scott Hanselman)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #154: How to host a WCF Service inside your Windows Service (Derik Whittaker)
• CSLA .NET, MVVM AND DNR TV (Rockford Lhotka)
• Major Nelson Show 343: Interviews with members of the 343 Team about Halo and more (Larry Hyrb)
• William Stanek: Fun with Windows Media Player 12 and Windows 7 (Devon Musgrave)

Community / Events

• Coding4Fun Show in Orlando (Brian Peek)
• We’re Hiring! (Eran Kampf)
• Events This Week – December 8th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 1: Summary and IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 2: What sets IronRuby apart? (Jimmy Schementi)
• Streaming Media Webinar with Microsoft and Internap on Enterprise Video (Silverlight Team)
• 4th NYC Girl Geek Dinner & 1 Year Anniversary (Stephen Forte)
• Guest Post: The Product Group (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• What Does Clam Chowder & the Google Wave API Have in Common? Boston! (Pamela Fox)

Database

• Age calculation with SQL Server (Dave Ballantyne)
• Unambiguous date formats : T-SQL Tuesday #001 (Jamie Thomson)
• Locking & Blocking (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Business Intelligence – Aligning Business Metrics (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #001: My Datetime FAQ (Kalen Delaney)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Find the PowerShell cmdlet you’re looking for and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? (Andrew Connell)
• Common compilation error for SharePoint 2010 VS projects (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Nice IE8 add-ons from Play.com (Mike Ormond)
• Stack Overflow Trilogy Lego Minifigs (Jeff Atwood)
• Digital Signatures in Office 2010 (Shelley Gu)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/9 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Bing and MSN Messenger apps coming to the iPhone (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows Azure Joins Windows Server in a New Organization: Server & Cloud Division (Windows Azure Team)
• Why you need a public speaking book (Scott Berkun)
• EntityCube Ready to Define and Connect Entities (Larry Larsen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 8, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #494 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 08, 2009 — #752 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Resharper is amazing, take N (Oren Eini)
• Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)
• Are you ready to learn F#? Concepts to be familiar with before learning the F# language (Bart Czernicki)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• F# on the Xbox 360 (Joh)
• Serialization Generics (Steve Andrews)
• More On The Death of If-Else (K. Scott Allen)
• Asynchronous messages in F# and AutoCAD (Kean Walmsley)
• D3: Rides Again – Now on VS2010 Beta 2 (Dan Simmons)

Web Development

• Authenticated web services calls with Asp.Net MVC (Chris Brandsma)
• Resetting Focus After Selecting a Date with the JQuery UI DateSelector (Chris Love)
• Adding a Twitter Profile Widget in BlogEngine.NET and One-Click Page Creation with ScrewTurn Wiki (Dave Burke)
• Easy HTML Templating with JQuery (Sara J. Chipps)
• Create an ASP.NET TextBox Watermark Effect using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Introducing the new Bing Maps beta (Greg Schechter)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership Tip: Start Noticing And Appreciating Your Silent Heroes. (Rajiv Popat)
• nunit to mstest for CSLA .NET 4 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Windows Azure – Scaling Out vs. Scaling Up (Jason Haley)
• What is the Definition of Elegant Code? (Christopher Diggins)
• Unit Testing An NHibernate Application and Testing CRUD Operations With NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software from Eric Brechner (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
• Our obsession with efficiency – Dan North (Mark Needham)
• Do you Encode your interface ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
• FitNesse book now free online (Gojko Adzic)
• The Monthly Code Quality Report (Mike Hadlow)
• Bug Triage (Daniel Moth)

Silverlight / WPF

• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Event-based and Error-Handling INavigationContentLoaders (David Poll)
• How to get access to WPF’s internal Direct3D guts (Jeremiah Morrill)
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 2 – Make the Bugs Crawl and BugCamSmash Dissected part 3 – Give the Bugs Brains (Adam Kinney)
• Document Toolkit 1.1.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Blend 3 Tip: Filter resources by selected element (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 133: A Fish Called Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns (Bob Familiar)
• Major Nelson Show 342: Video Game Awards, Dark Void and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Continuous education, Hanselminutes show #187 (Peter Eysermans)
• Episode 94 – PowerScripting Podcast – Carter Shanklin from VMware on PowerCLI and Onyx (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast #3: Silverlight is Real (David Starr)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dr Jeff Norris, NASA (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

• My Presentations in Europe (December 2009) (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• SQL SERVER – White Papers – Consolidation Guidance for SQL Server – Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server – White Paper – An Introduction to Fast Track Data Warehouse Architectures by Erik Veerman (Pinal Dave)
• Exporting a SQL Server table as CSV (Jeremy Jarrell)

SharePoint

• Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – some notes on the "why" (Chris O’Brien)
• Add javascript files once to a page – SharePoint Sandbox Solutions (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps (Ben Kepes)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/7 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Pluralsight On-Demand (Mark Nijhof)
• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)
• Distributed Programming with Ruby Book Review (Mike Riley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 05, 2009 — #749 and Silverlight Cream for December 06, 2009 — #750 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for December 6, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• The Morning Brew #492 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #100 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009.12.01 ~ 12.07 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #82 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/7/2009 (Pete Brown)
• A Feed You Should Read #14 – WynAspe, Silverlight Cream (Greg Duncan)
• Interesting Post… 11/30/2009 through 12/6/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Links (12/6/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 122 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/06/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using a worker AppDomain to register a COM assembly (Joe White)
• N-Tier Methods in Entity Framework 4 – Use with Care (Julie Lerman)
• Productivity Improvements in Mono 2.4: Components and Architecture (Tapas Pal)
• Effective C#, 2nd Edition: What Content got dropped, and why? (Bill Wagner)
• More on Timers in .NET (Rhonda Tipton)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Startup Failures (Rick Strahl)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy 2.2 beta in the wild! (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen! (Peter Kellner)

Web Development

• Using Windows Azure BLOB storage with PHP (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Releases Bing API Software Development Kit (SDK) (Blake Handler)
• Hiding Foreign Key or Children Columns Globally in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• More on medium trust: what permission are you missing? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Validating CheckBoxLists when using ClientIDMode=Predictable (Pete Blum)
• jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Doc Reviews – The Documentation Sprint (Julie Stickler)
• Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway (Jeff Atwood)
• You don’t need a UML tool (Simon Brown)
• the Importance of Observers (Brett Schuchert)
• One-Way (Or Fire And Forget) Requests With Agatha (Davy Brion)
• Bing Outage exposes Testing in Production (TiP) Hazards (Ken Johnston)
• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• If Agile Isn’t the Point, What Is? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Saying "NO". (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Hiring Kick-Ass Programmers Who Interview Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: ComboBox SelectedItem (Deborah Kurata)
• Building Hello MEF – Part II – Metadata and why being Lazy is a good thing. (Glenn Block) – Link of the Day
• BugCamSmash Dissected part 1 – Smash a Bug (Adam Kinney)
• Cinch : Major change alert (Sacha Barber)
• Inserting Silverlight DeepZoom images into your Web page (Silverlight Team)
• MVVM Light V3/alpha3 for Blend 3 and Blend Preview 4 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Extensibility Series – Loading Metadata for Microsoft Controls (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The State of Powershell with Lee Holmes and Jason Shirk (Scott Hanselman)
• Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Simplicity and Performance with Scott Hunter (Craig Shoemaker)
• Connected Show Podcast: PDC 2009 Pizza Party (Brian Johnson)
• Coding4Fun at PDC 2009 – Video Montage (Brian Peek)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 41: Developing Better User Experiences with Internet Explorer 8 with Jon Box (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: Scott Hanselman, Jon Galloway, Bing, parallel unit tests, more (Dan Fernandez)
• Introducing the Pluralcast (David Starr)
• Progression of the Iconic Background (Larry Larsen)
• Video on Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Jennifer Marsman)
• Mike Cottmeyer… DZone Interview at Agile 2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Scott Guthrie (Nic Fillingham)
• Life at Microsoft: Episode 3 (Tina Wood)

Database

• SQL Server DateTime Manipulation Functions (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

• BCS Model in Visual Studio 2010 – SpecificFinder and IdEnumerator (Nick Swan)
• Permissions Reporting in SP2010 (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Free Trial now with Power Pack 3 (Nicole Berett)
• Ignoring Namespaces in XPath (Joel Bennett)
• Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week (MG Siegler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• New-Object PSObject –Property [HashTable] (Jeffrey Snover)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Every Client Is Not Meant To Be Your Client. (Rajiv Popat)
• Freelance work what it should be vs what it is. (Paul Zubkov)
• User Account Control and WMI (Kapil Mathur)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 04, 2009 — #748 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for the Week of 2009.12.04 (Jeremiah Peschka)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Agile EF 4 Repositories Part 4: Compiled LINQ Queries (Julie Lerman)
• .Net 4.0 – Start Reading Between the Lines – Learn Silverlight and Entity Framework (Keith Elder) – Link of the Day
• What’s the difference between covariance and assignment compatibility? (Eric Lippert)
• DefaultDataPath (Gert Drapers)
• Plug into MEF in 10 minutes or less (Greg Duncan)
• Adding a console to your IronRuby application (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• The Halting Problem and the Church-Turing Thesis (Chris Smith)

Web Development

• Displaying Google Analytics Data in ASP.NET (Mike Brind)
• Flash to jQuery and JQuery, CuFon, and Dynamic Content (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 (John Sheehan)
• Discovering "Dallas" (Jim O’Neil)
• MSXML XHTML DTDs – making the web better (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part 1 (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t panic (Eric Brechner)
• Applied Modularity – Part 4 (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Establishing an Architecture Review Board (Mike Walker)
• The Joy of MSpec (Mike Hadlow)
• NDepending Resharper (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Open Data Protocol (OData) (Stephen Forte)
• The promise of Natural User Interface – NUI (Steve Clayton)
• How to influence others (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating a Pinball Game in Silverlight: Using the Physics Helper Library + Farseer Physics and There’s an App for THAT?! (Andy Beaulieu)
• Microsoft® Expression® Encoder 3 QFE Released (Allan P.)
• Two birds, squared! [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 and a DataVisualizationDemos update] (David Anson)
• Silverlight 4 – MVVM with Commanding and WCF RIA Services and WCF RIA Services – StructureMap – DomainServiceFactory (Fredrik Normén)
• Using Azure as a Silverlight Streaming replacement (Tim Heuer)
• Convert, Encode And Decode Silverlight WriteableBitmap Data (Rene Schulte)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 3 for WPF4/SL4 (Laurent Bugnion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Management Console (MS Podcasts)
• Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures (Charles Torre)
• Official Publication of Creating Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio Videos (Charlie Calvert)
• Debugging Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser applications in Visual Studio 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Episode 150: Software Craftsmanship with Bob Martin (SE-Radio Team)
• Ping 39: Chrome is here, Dancing in MS Stores, Iphone & Bing (Laura Foy)
• TechNet WebCast: SQL Server Locking & Blocking (Joe Webb)
• Water Cooler Interview With SharePoint MVP (Jas Dhaliwal)
• A Feed You Should Read – The Blogcast Repository (Greg Duncan)
• The Changelog (Chris Wanstrath)

Community / Events

• My time at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009 (Dave Isbitski)
• Events This Week – November 30th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Experts Conference 2010 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Call for Papers – The Architecture Journal (Peter Provost)
• GitHub Meetup Philadelphia (Tom Preston-Werner)
• SQLAuthority News – A Daily Doze of Technology – Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew (Pinal Dave) – Thanks for the endorsement!

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel – NOV CTP (MS Downloads)
• Converting GraffitiCMS from VistaDB to SQL Server on GoDaddy (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Aren’t DBA’s Just System Admins for Databases? (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• BCS External Content Type Associations in SPD (Nick Swan)
• Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 preserve use of Relational Databases (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft updates its enterprise roadmaps (Mary-Jo Foley)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/1 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• My first useful powershell script – capturing performance counters (Dave Ballantyne)
• And we’re live with O’Reilly Media (Devon Musgrave)
• Confirmed: Office 2010 to ship in June (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Ultimate List of Google Wave Robots (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows 8 Jobs Abound, More Details Emerge (Stephen Chapman)
• She Sells PowerShell on The Sea Shore (James Howard)
• Photosynth: New release and new UI (Sunshine)
• More About Background Removal in Office 2010 (Tucker Hatfield)
• An Update for Google Chrome’s Developer Tools (Ian Fette)
• Insight: Hiring Programmers (Eran Kampf)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/30/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #488 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #99 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 30, 2009 — #745 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight 4 Links (Karen Corby)
• F# Discoveries This Week 11/30/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Source Code for Programming F# (Chris Smith)
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms – Yes you can… (Greg Duncan)
• Surface SDK 1.0 SP1 supports XNA Game Studio 3.0 and later (Eric St. John)
• Sample: Get Calendar Data Using Exchange Web Services (C#) (Jason Zander)
• What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2? (Noah Richards)
• Hello World With Agatha (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Deploying A Web Application with Git and FTP (Rob Conery)
• LinkedIn API Platform Goes Live: Your Resume and Business Network Now Have an API (Adam DuVander)
• Developers Get a Sneak Peek at Internet Explorer 9 (Bruce Kyle)
• JQuery Validator plus Element IDs, and Names (Chris Brandsma)
• ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager Improvements (Dave Reed)
• Visual WebGui: Cloud Optimization and the Application Layer (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension (Lawrence Moroney)
• Renaming jQuery UI Tabs (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Serialize Any .NET Object to a JSON String (Deepak Choudhari)
• Where does this go? Applying SoC to dynamic data – Part 1 (Peter Blum)
• Enabling the ASP.NET Ajax script loader for your own scripts (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Offsetting Your Bad Code Footprint (Billy McCafferty)
• Always write a spec, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
• Pros don’t make do (Scott Koon)
• TestAPI 0.4 Released (Lester Lobo)
• Connecting Your Tests to an Implementation and Static vs. Instance-Based Models (Nico Kicillof)
• Mindscape LightSpeed an O/R Mapper Done Right (Rob Bazinet)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 Beta – Accessing a users webcam and microphone and Silverlight 4 Beta – Text Trimming and Silverlight 4 Beta – Using Silverlight as Drop Target (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight (Corrina Barber)
• What’s New in Silverlight 4 (John Papa) – Link of the Day
• Sharing isn’t easy for anyone [Tricks for sharing the same XAML files across Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
• Using the WebBrowser control and debug a Silverlight Out-of-browser (OOB) application in VS 2010 (Fredrik Normén)
• Free Embeddable Fonts for your WPF Applications (Learn WPF)
• New WPF Features: DatePicker\Calendar\VSM\Datagrid (Lester Lobo)
• Running FxCop rules against Silverlight or WPF XAML and XAML Toolkit CTP – November 2009 is now live! (Michael Shim)
• Microsoft’s Bob Muglia and Ray Ozzie on Silverlight vs. standards (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Taking a WebCam Photo with Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• EdgeCam Shots – Saving Silverlight 4 Webcam Snapshots to JPEG (Rene Schulte)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010 (Beth Massi)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 40: Silverlight 4 and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Scott Hanselman and Øredev chit-chat: Dag König and Julia Lerman and Øredev chit-chat: Johan Lindfors and Alan Smith and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Shawn Wildermuth and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Scott Bellware and Øredev chit-chat: Daniel Mellgaard Frost and Ayende Rahien (Dag König)
• 10-4 Episode 36: Windows Server AppFabric and Workflow Services Lab (Ron Jacobs)
• Silverlight Podcast: Expression Encoder 3 (Silverlight Team)
• Videos of C# Authors at PDC (Charlie Calvert)

Community / Events

• PDC2009, Coding4Fun, and Mind Blaster (Brian Peek)
• SharePoint 2010 Experience: Dec 2nd and 3rd (Jim O’Neil)
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Hitting the upper limit of foreign key constraints (Jimmy Bogard)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Hex Dumper in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft’s TechNet Releases "Explore as Administrator" PowerToy for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/24 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Collaboration Without Compromise (Ayca)
• I Don’t Get The Hype – Google Wave is Discussion Forums Web 2.0 (Keith Elder)
• Windows Azure vs. Windows 8 Server? (Stephen Chapman)
• Orchard team looking for a new developer (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Extensions: One Step Closer to the Finish Line (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/23/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009 — #741 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #483 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 393 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

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.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Windows Service Installer and Auto Start After Installation (Chris Pietschmann)
• Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework (Tim Laverty)
• Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Detect Recursive Calls in Your .NET Code (Michel Posseth)
• DataAnnotations not in the client profile (Rockford Lhotka)
• MPI Project Template for VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
• Timers in .NET (Rhonda Tipton)
• All Your RegKeys Are Belong To Us (Aaron Marten)

Web Development

• A theming engine for ASP.NET MVC 2 (Daniel Crenna)
• Using serialized JSON to move complex data to and from the browser (Jason Grundy)
• Create ASP.NET Dynamic Hyperlinks from URLs Stored in Web.Config (Deepak Choudhari)
• Running WCF Service in IIS on Windows 7 Error: no svc MIME Type (Keith Elder)
• Note to self on HTTP namespace reservations (Mike Taulty)
• How To View JSON in a Pretty Way (Peter Kellner)
• Quickly Determine Whether a Column Is Fully Visible in a DataGridView (Srinath MS)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Dave M. Bush)
• Using MSDeploy to automate your Enterprise Application remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Introduction to Distributed Source Control (Jason Young)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Code (Howard Dierking)

Silverlight / WPF

• New WPF Features: Full Trust Xbap Deployment (Lester Lobo)
• Designer v Xaml v Code (Jesse Liberty)
• XAML for WinMo6.5? (Rob Relyea)
• WPF : Callout Popup (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Scott Stanfield from Vertigo – PSLUG First Meeting (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• New Katacast (Corey Haines)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 6: Introduction to PeerChannel (Jeff Brand)
• Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 90-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. (Jeff Barnes)
• Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and Software Security Today (Charles Torre)
• Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• Oredev 2009 – LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Idea for new user group (Jason Haley)
• Recap of Oredev and some .net debugging videos (Tess Ferrandez)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM Best Practices (Greg Duncan)
• SSIS Package Stats Collector version 2 (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include size when using varchar, nvarchar, char and nchar (George Mastros)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions Pricing Announced (Denis Gobo)
• SQLAuthority News – Data Compression Strategy Capacity Planning and Best Practices (Pinal Dave)
• Sproc Executing Slow? It Might be This (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• Web Office Suites: Complementary and Coopetive Technologies (Will Kelly)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Icon Maker" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) (Ed Bott)
• Almost everything you ever wanted to know about the MSG (stand alone Outlook Email message) file format but were afraid to ask (Part 1) (Greg Duncan)
• Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century (Paul Barr)
• Teaching Your Kids To Be Programmers (Paul Govan)
• Google Chrome 4: Yes, it’s fast, but is it usable? (Scott M. Fulton, III)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 6-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #578 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Size Matters (Leon Gersing)
• Idealistic vs. Practical (Christopher Bennage)
• Entities: Required Properties And Properties That Shouldn’t Be Modified (Davy Brion)
• Why “No Issues” Is Not An Acceptable Answer (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture By Baseball: The Presentation (Larry Clarkin)
• Simple Usability (Phil Haack)
• QTB: Lean Times Require Lean Thinking (Mark Needham)
• Persistence Patterns in MSDN Magazine (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Development\Design using Entity Framework, Part 2.A Unit Testing Entities With Moq 3 (Muhammad Mosa)
• My 100th blog post: Top 5 development practices you should care for (Patrick Smacchia)
• Comparing Moq to Rhino Mocks (Tim Van Wassenhove)
• Scrum Gathering Agile Architecture Talk (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Ins and Outs of Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• C# Optimization Revisited Part 2: Concurrency (Ade Miller)
• AgDLR 0.5 (Harry Pierson)
• Overview of Windows Azure (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• What’s new in JScript for IE8 (Shreesh Dubey)
• Fiddler Plugin: Casaba Security’s Watcher tool (Marwan Tarek)
• Opening a WAP IIS Project when IIS Virtual doesn’t exist (Rick Strahl)
• Setting up your Dynamic Data Site with a Domain Service Layer (Steve Naughton)
• 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 3 Behaviors: Interactivity Without Code (Christian Schormann)
• Behaviors in Expression Blend 3 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, now in VB Flavor (Bob Brumfeld)
• Silverlight Contrib 2009.1.0 Released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New goodies coming out with WPF 4 (Marlon Grech)
• Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application (Tim Sneath)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – The Star Wars Scroller (Velvart Andras) – Link of the Day
• A MUST READ: Microsoft .NET RIA Services Overview (Joel Reyes)
• Versioning note , writing SL 3.0 applications with Astoria v1.5 Sl 2.0 SDK Library (Phani Raj)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Krzysztof Cwalina on Creating Reusable Frameworks (David Solivan)
• ScottGu’s Mix09 Silverlight for Business Applications Demo (Brad Abrams)
• Erik Meijer and Matthew Podwysocki – Perspectives on Functional Programming (Charles Torre)
• Talking Functional Programming with Erik Meijer (Matthew Podwysocki)
• ASP.NET MVC Sessions At Mix (Phil Haack)
• WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps (Beth Massi)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 2: Working with Features (Kirk Allen Evans)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 2 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• RESTful Web Services with WCF Screencast (Michael Kennedy)
• Review: Coding in Objective-C 2.0 screencasts (Victor Agreda, Jr.)

Events / Community

• NINE Questions with Donn Felker (Chris G. Williams)
• LOLGeeks (Frank La Vigne)
• Mix 09 Trip Report (Jesse Liberty)
• 1st Annual Silverlight MIXer (John Papa)
• Recognizing Women in Technology for Ada Lovelace Day (Maggie Longshore)
• Dream Build Play 2009 and XNA Game Studio 3.1 Announced at GDC! (Kathleen Sanders)
• Nothin’ but .NET – Reaching out (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Happy Ada Lovelace Day!! – Video Blog (Sara J. Chipps)
• Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference – Albany, NY April 15, 2009 (Nandita)

Database

• Implementing a document database: simple queries (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint (Clemens Reijnen)

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++ version 5.3 software update (Ben)
• Plan Your Web Working Career Path (Darrell Etherington)
• Is Software Engineering The Most Important Profession in the World? (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Home Server PP2 recognizes Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)
• Geeky T-Shirt ideas (Roy Osherove)
• Syntax Highlighting for PHP and CSS files (Sara Ford)
• Blogalogue: What makes a developer “senior”? (Trevor Green)
• Overcoming Fear of Clouding (Bill Zack)
• Making Web Applications Look Like Desktop Applications Using Chrome (Rhonda Tipton)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: “Snap on Center” and other little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Gephardt jumps on the PHR bandwagon (Neil Versel)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #314 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2009 — #549 and Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2009 – 2 — #550 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for March 24, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Twitterings #21 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 24th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 Preview (MS Downloads)
• SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 3: Blog Post Summary (Andy Beaulieu)
• Blend 3 MIX Preview and TFS 2008 Integration (Brian Randell)
• .NET RIA Services is now public (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• What’s New in Silverlight 3? (Emil Stoychev)
• Perspective 3D in Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications) (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight 3: More Posts? (Mike Taulty)
• Compiling the Silverlight 3 Video’s Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing Silverlight 3! SL3 Post Index (Pete Brown)
• A guide to Silverlight 3 new features and Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 and Silverlight Spy (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• A great set of performance tests for datareader,linq to sql, ef (Julie Lerman)
• Functional .NET – Lose the Magic Strings (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Geo Location Enables Developers To Choose Data Centers and Group Applications & Storage (Sriram Krishnan)
• Windows Azure Delivers New CTP Capabilities (Windows Azure Team)
• Using Extension Methods to Verify Assumptions (Craig Andera)

MIX09

• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote: A Roundup of Announcements and Releases (Me)
• Commerce Server 2009 Announced at MIX09 (ASP.NET News)
• New Experiences @MIX from the Microsoft Web Platform (Bill Staples)
• MIX09 Day 2 Scott Gu Keynote and MIX09 Day 2 and MIX09 Day 2 Bill Buxton Keynote (Dave Campbell)
• MIX 2009 Keynote Announcements: Day 1 (Denny Boynton)
• MIX09 Photos and MIX09 Photos Part 2 (Frank La Vigne)
• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 1: Bill Buxton on Experience Design and MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences (Tim Sneath)
• A lap around MIX09 announcements (Simone Chiaretta)
• For MIX09 attendees: “First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3” (Devon Musgrave)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! and Subtext 2.1.1 Available Via the Web Platform Installer (Phil Haack)
• Sample chapter from ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Maarten Balliauw)
• WCF / Windsor Integration: Adding Behaviours (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows Azure Full Trust and FastCGI (PHP!) and PHP + ASP.NET in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Hosting Roles Under .NET Full Trust (Mohit Srivastava)
• Using 3rd Party Programming Languages via FastCGI (Windows Azure Team)
• Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds (Phani Raj)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip – Return specific views for specific errors. (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Documentation and Videos (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft Web Platform, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer (and DasBlog) (Scott Hanselman)
• Reach your people everywhere, in real time! (Kevin)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Nick Berardi)
• ASP.NET MVC Goes RTM Before MIX09 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Live Messenger Web Toolkit (Scott)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive (Derik Whittaker)
• If you’ve ever wondered what Query/Command Separation means (Jeremy D. Miller)
• "Architect" is a swear word. (Leon Bambrick)
• Patterns and Origins: SueetieConfiguration Class (Dave Burke)
• When Is One Container (IoC) Not Enough? (Dru Sellers)
• Your Software Project Has No Goal (Jurgen Appelo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET MVC 1 with Phil Haack and First Look at Expression Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Abrams and Kothari Talk MIX09! (Carl Franklin)
• Tips and Advice – Self Organizing Teams (Bob)
• Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 3 (Charles)
• endpoint.tv Screencast – Consuming REST services with HttpClient (Cliff Simpkins)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Johnny Lee on Computer Vision (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 137 – Microsoft Velocity Installation and Configuration with David Penton – audio (Wally McClure)
• Behind the scenes: How Scott Guthrie prepares for his MIX09 keynote (Tina) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

• Aging Calculated Fields in SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Easy Installation of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 (Paul Andrew)

Community / Events

• Talk – JavaScript at Rockford .NET (Sergio Pereira)
• Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web – March 25, 2009 Reston, VA (Nandita)
• The State of ALT.NET (Nick Berardi)

Miscellaneous

• First Google Chrome Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• 14 Twitter directories to find new friends (Don Reisinger)
• WordPress News Report: iPhone, Widgets API, WordCamps in Hong Kong and China, International WordPress.tv (Lorelle VanFossen)
• The curious case of Kumo: more than just a “test name”? (Kip Kniskern)
• Re-reading books (Mark Needham)
• Windows Azure Outage (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Xbox 360 and EA Bring Beloved HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT to Next Generation of Players (Sumeeth Evans)
• Internet Explorer 8 To Be Released At Noon EDT Today (March 19) (Sunshine)
• SQLAuthority News – 900th Article – 9 Best Practices – Important Milestones (Pinal Dave)
• Google Launches Chrome Experiments To Showcase JavaScript Applications (Robin Wauters)
• Improving the Education Experience with Internet Explorer 8 (Jatinder Mann)
• Mozilla Fennec (Firefox Mobile) Hits Beta (Brad Linder)
• WorldWide Telescope Web Client now available – bringing the universe closer to everyone (damaster)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #310 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for March 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for March 18h, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day