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Top Links

• Favor – Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU) (Scott Hanselman)
• The Illusion of Performance (John Stockton)
• Introducing the Portable Extensible Metadata (Irinel Crivat)
• Visual Studio 2010 Ranger News (Clemens Reijnen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit updated (Pieter de Bruin)
• Creating Ribbon Applications on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Visual Studio Myth Buster (Innovation Showcase)
• The Project Location is not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 3. How to resolve arrays (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Brittany Behrens)
• The RDLc Disconnect – they’ve done it again (William Vaughn)
• Pasting a single selection into a box selection and Zero-length box selection (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• IE8 Accelerator Creation Guide (Innovation Showcase)
• SEO Tips for Developers : Page Speed (Chris Missal)
• Of Web Browsers and Humanity (K. Scott Allen)
• Awesomium v1.5 (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 5 – Nginx (Karl Seguin)
• Search Engine Optimization got a lot easier (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, the removal of test detail, and dynamically-typed languages (Brian Marick)
• Know Your Product Specifications (Buck Woody)
• Designing the Entity Framework 2nd level cache (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Tony Robbins and 10 Ways to Improve How You Manage Information (JD Meier)
• Separating Passion & Common Sense from Bad Decisions (Dave Schinkel)
• I. M. Wright: “One to one and many to many” (Eric Brechner)
• All about the “M” (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to create great work environments (Scott Berkun)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – How to Capture Audio and Video from a Web Cam (Innovation Showcase)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?” (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight: Tooltip for each ListBox item (Steve Pietrek)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson on the Unified Process (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Community Megaphone Podcast – Show #1 with guest Kevin Griffin (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10 (Adam Kinney)
• The Software Craftsman Cooperative (David Starr)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 – Clojure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the Microsoft Azure Application Development contest for U.S. state and local government partners! (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Looking back at 2009, and looking forward at 2010 (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Database

• Find Out What Percent Of The Log Is Being Used For Each Database In SQL Server 2005 and 2008 and Interview with Brent Ozar about the book Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Find Busiest Database (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• How To Install SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Standalone) on VMWare (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published (Paul Andrew)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to not suck at a techincal interview (Brad Cunningham)
• Where is Rename-Computer? (Lee Holmes)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Apprenticeship Patterns — Only $9.99! Use discount code AP999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Intellisense in MobileShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• ZScreen is now a more kick-ass screenshot tool, especially on Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• The science behind Project Natal (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #517 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2010 — #777 (Dave Campbell)
• F# Discoveries This Week 01/13/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• What You Wanted to Know: Top “How to” Posts of 2009 (Silverlight Team)

 

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Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

 

 

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Top Links

• An IoC-Agnostic Prism Bootstrapper (Ward Bell)
• Hello from 2020 (Rob Conery)
• Powershell and SQL Authentication (Martin Bell)
• Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Patterson)
• DZone 2009: How many links promoted, buried, etc? (Rick Ross) – DZone has been hard at work keeping spam and other irrelevant content out of your way.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ (Bart de Smet)
• CciSharp, a post-compiler for .NET based on CCI (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Review: C# in Depth (Grant Palin)
• Language Envy – C# needs Ranges (Sergio Pereira)
• Sprache C# (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 9.3 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Two Major Milestones for RoundhousE and UppercuT (Rob Reynolds)
• With the new year we get a loved series sequel, Visual Studio Tips and Tricks v2 – Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks (Greg Duncan)
• It’s Easy to Forget (Christopher Bennage)

 

Web Development

• Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC – Do I Really Need It? (Peter Bromberg)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Dunbar’s Number, Monkeyspheres and how to design for social (Ron George)
• Brown, Green, Refactor and RTM ready tests (Roy Osherove)
• Micro optimization decision process and Patterns for reducing memory usage (Oren Eini)
• One to one and many to many (Eric Brechner)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber, Cuke4Nuke and TeamCity (Gojko Adzic)
• Recovering from the depths of developer burn out – Some tips from the field (Greg Duncan)
• How To Change a Habit and Make It Stick (JD Meier)
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch and OOP: Behavioural and Structural Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Lazing Around with Autofac2 and Declarative Context Adapters in Autofac 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Entrepreneurship Tip: Shipping Mediocre Products Is Not An Option. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan Diagnostics and Magellan Shared Layouts and Extending the WPF XML namespaces (Paul Stovell)
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Authentication/Authorization in an INavigationContentLoader (David Poll)
• Day #31: Geocoding and More Fun In Bing Maps for Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Polling Video – A Viable sub-second alternative? (Jesse Liberty)
• Saving Snapshots to PNG in Silverlight 4 and the WebCam (John Papa)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Huey and Wegner Migrate Us to SQL Azure (Carl Franklin)
• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 71: Frank Zammetti on webOS (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week in Testing – New Year Resolutions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Nikolaj Bjørner and Leonardo de Moura: The Z3 Constraint Solver (Jonathan de Halleux)

 

Community / Events

• Agile 2010, Nashville August 9-13 (Ade Miller)
• The Morning Brew – Review of the Year 2009 (Chris Alcock)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 – New Year’s Resolutions (Andrew Connell)
• Trends for 2010 (J.D. Meier)
• Goals for 2010 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Yet Another 2009 Year In Review (John Sheehan)
• It’s time to look ahead to 2010 (Bill Wagner)
• 2009 Blogged – Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• 2009 Year in Review (Rob Bazinet)
• 2010 and Forevah (Rob Reynolds)
• Where Do You Want to Be In a Year? (Tim Barcz)
• Looking back at 2009, and forward to 2010 (Pete Brown)
• Click The Button – The Contest (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Best of "The Moth" 2009 (Daniel Moth)

 

Database

• SQL Server IF Conditions (Richard Carr)
• “SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide” – 486 pages of SQL Server 2008 upgrade guidance (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Location of Data File Using T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Using Variables in SSIS: Purpose review and functional examples (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Debugging Silverlight Client OM Apps in SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Trouble finding the CAML reference in the 2010 SDKs? (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Read and Recommended: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Brian Noyes)
• New Subversion Reference Site (Alex Coisman)
• IE8 64-bit Windows 7 and the Mobile Code Bug (Part 2) (William Stanek)
• Install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Talked About Windows Mobile 7 And We All Missed It (Paul Thurrott)
• Fairness is Highly Overrated (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Dec 31, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #508 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 1, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 — #767 and Silverlight Cream for December 31, 2009 – 2 — #768 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 12.21 ~ 12.31, bye 2009 (yuanjian)
• Everyman Links for January 1, 2010 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 31-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

 

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The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

 

 

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Top Links

• Tips for Releasing Sample Code (Steve Andrews) – Some nice tips from Steve.
• My Life is a Project? (Mike Cottmeyer) – Mike responds to Scott Berkund’s Everything Is a Project article.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? (Oren Eini)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Scaffolding attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

 

Web Development

• Accelerator Creation Guide (Jon Seitel)
• Supporting OpenId in an asp.net MVC site (Joe Kaiser)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Typed Factory Facility reborn (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Debug It: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Resource Dictionaries in Unit Tests (Christopher Bennage)
• Comments on Corey Haines’ String Calculator TDD Kata Implementation (Roy Osherove)
• Lessons from Uncle Bob (Leon Gersing)
• Testing Agatha’s Caching Functionality With QuickNet (Davy Brion)
• Added support for Unity, Autofac to Siege.ServiceLocation (Marcus Bratton)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• A Silverlight HVP Update (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 4 – Grabbing Emails from the Outlook Inbox (Mike Taulty)
• Make a Silverlight TextBox update its binding on every character with a Behavior (András  Velvárt)
• Friction Scrolling Now An WPF Attached Behaviour Too and Cinch : More good news (again sorry) (Sacha Barber)
• Case Study – TwittZure Silverlight Twitter Client on Azure (Silverlight Team)
• Day #23: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 1 of 3) and Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Transforming grouped elements in Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #78 (Jeff Atwood)
• Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 2 (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Loic Le Meur and Channel 9 Live at PDC09: This Week on Channel 9 – PDC09 Daily Show Edition Day 1 (Nic Fillingham)

 

Community / Events

• Traveling to Technical Events (Chris Patterson)

 

Database

• 12-23-2009 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Resolving the issue of multiple JOIN statements and multiple aggregations (Kevin Goff)
• Backing up Azure Table Storage (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShellPack Reaches 10,000 Downloads in 3 Months (Jeffrey Snover)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #505 (Chris Alcock)
• 20 Must Read LINQ, WCF, Expression Web, VSTS and Windows Forms articles on DotNetCurry – 2009 (Minal Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream for December 23, 2009 — #761 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linfest (Scott Berkun)

 

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Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

 

 

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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)

 

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Web Development

• RESTful ASP.NET MVC (Garry Shutler)
• Extending SubText to report Future Posts (Oren Eini)
• Introducing Fizzler (Colin Ramsay)
• Session State Not Working? Check Your Web Garden! (Scott Mitchell)
• More Fun With LINQ – Perform Common Tasks in ASP.NET (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Check Out the New IE8 Developer Tools Tutorials (Duc (Cash) Vo)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM (Niraj Bhatt)
• Composed Regex (Martin Fowler)
• NHibernate and NDepend – skimming the surface (Oren Eini)
• 10 Rules for writing Good SDKs (Christopher Diggins)
• Zen: Does This Project Management Tool Live Up to its Name? (Darrell Etherington)
• Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Gunnar Peipman)
• Wrapping collections: Inheritance vs Composition (Mark Needham) – Link of the Day
• Iterator Blocks, Part Five: Push vs Pull (Eric Lippert)
• Behavior and Data Centricity (Jonathan Oliver)
• TestApi v0.3 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• How I’m using the Event Aggregator Pattern in StoryTeller (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Who’s payin’ the bills?, or “How to drive a stake in the ground” (Kyle Baley)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Book Review: The Art of Unit Testing (Tim Barcz)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using a Border for a Glow Effect in Silverlight 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Changing Brush Brightness in WPF/Silverlight (ailon)
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 10: LinqToSql (Brad Abrams)
• Using the Matrix3DProjection Class in Silverlight 3 and Animated “3D” Text in Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
• XAML Playground: A XAML Designer Built In Silverlight For Gestalt (Karsten Januszewski)
• .NET RIA Services Twitter Pitch (Nikhil Kothari)
• Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RTW (Pete Brown)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing Data from a DataTable to Excel and Linq: Sorting a DataTable (Deborah Kurata)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Generating SQL script from model (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Tag API Released (Jim O’Neil)
• Building Declarative WCF Services in .NET 4.0 (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• The anatomy of the Historical Debugger Navigation Bar (Navbar) (Habib Heydarian)
• Code Providers 101 — Implementing Unimplemented Properties (Mark Miller)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: Windows 7 RTM Sign-Off (Roger)
• Tips and Advice – Continuous Integration (Bob Payne)
• Code Cast 28 – Jim Wierich (Chris Brandsma)
• The History of Microsoft – 1998 (Tina)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the Microsoft PowerShell User Group of Upstate New York (Joel Bennett)
• Windows 7 Incubation Week in Reston, VA (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Keep up with DevelopMentor on Twitter (Michael Kennedy)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Creating HttpHandler for user profile images (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Database

• Maximizing View of SQL Server Management Studio – Full Screen – New Screen (Pinal Dave)
• Speeding up SQL Server Management Studio Startup (Martin Bell)

 

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 RTM (Osama Sajid)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Partner Releases Free Word 2007 Sample Design Templates and Microsoft Releases Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Google Helps You Understand Recursion (Alex Chitu)
• Watching Trends = Job Security (Dave M. Bush)
• The Ultimate Windows 7 Upgrade FAQ (Ed Bott)
• Windows 7 RTMs: Where’s Windows Live? (Kip Kniskern)
• Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now (Will Kelly)
• Scripting WMI Namespace Security (part 2 of 3) (Steve Lee)
• A Developer’s Look at Xobni (Ryan Farley)
• How to pass technical interview in Better Place (Tamir Khason)
• More questions on Professional Development Reading Habits (Joe Stagner)
• Why Fundamentals are Important to Microsoft’s Bottom-line (Peter Ritchie)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #397 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 23, 2009 — #653 (Dave Campbell)
• Rants and Raves #5 (Joel Cochran)
• CloudNews for 23rd July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (7/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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