Top Links

• Mo controls, mo controls, mo controls… [Announcing the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start–Reloaded! (Andy Wigley)
• Microsoft Press ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
• Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die) (Simone Chiaretta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Asynchronous C# and F# (II.): How do they differ? (Tom)
• Using Tuples (Richard Carr)
• Working with Tuple in C# 4.0 (Abhishek Sur)
• Extending Visual Studio 2010 web test–Custom loop (Al Kampfer)
• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Three: Composition (Eric Lippert)
• ILMerging assemblies with Psake / Powershell (Naeem Khedarun)
• Microsoft Test Manager Hotfix available: VS10-KB2387011 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta is available for download! (Shai Raiten)
• Team Foundation Server and Azure (Pieter de Bruin)
• Microsoft Help Viewer – Updates Planned for Visual Studio SP1 (Kathleen McGrath)
• WCF 4.0 – A More Pleasant Experience for Devs (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Orchestration vs WF 4.0 (Jon Fancey)
• NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook EBook on Sale This Week (David Hayden)
• ILMerge – How to Merge Assemblies After A Build (Keith Elder)
• Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support (Mike Taulty)
• Why, oh why is pooling turned off in Entity Framework 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 (Wally McClure)
• Show Advanced Build Configurations and Edit and Continue (Zain Naboulsi)
• Create an Entity Data Model From a Database – Entity Framework 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Getting the most out of user events and Windows Server AppFabric Monitoring (Emil Velinov)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0′s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 18 (Scott Mitchell)
• XHTML in IE9 (Tony Ross)
• PROs and CONs of Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• 5 features of PHP that seem hacks, but save your life (Giorgio Sironi)
• Simple Semantics With Microformats, Part 3 (Emily Lewis)
• Microsoft Folks Submit Grid model for HTML/CSS to the W3C. (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET: Converting X-Forwarded-For To REMOTE_HOST (Jon Davis)
• Introducing MVC Development w/the Razor View Engine for Visual Studio Developers (Rachel Appel)
• How to Scroll Video using JQuery in 9 steps (Martin Beeby)
• Lucene.NET could use the community’s support (Ian Cooper)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SOLID Motivational Calendar (Derick Bailey)
• Seven key ideas of real quality assurance (Gojko Adzic)
• The State of Agile – Lisa Crispin (Lisa Crispin)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Automation Framework (Giorgio Sironi)
• Lean Principles #4 – Defer Commitment (Kelly Waters)
• Agile Manifesto 2.0 – Updates to Come? and 10 Years of Agile – Are We Better Yet? and Tool Review – TinyPM – Nothing Small About It (Peter Saddington)
• Motivating the Unmotivated (Michael Norton)
• Who Wants This User Story? (Dan Puckett)
• Developer Guidance Maps Roundup for ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Azure and Windows Phone (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Caliburn.Micro Contest (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight Framework – All Historical Tool Releases and What is New (Bart Czernicki)
• Windows Phone Partners With PreEmptive Solutions For Analytics (Brandon Watson)
• New OData Tools Feed Windows Phone 7 App from Windows Azure Platform (Bruce Kyle)
• New Version of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Cheryl Simmons)
• Custom image cropping in Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 of 2 and Input box? On Windows Phone 7? Indeed. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Invoking the Keyboard in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Chris Love)
• Sync Framework 4.0 CTP now supports clients like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight (Hanu Kommalapati)
• F# with WPF : Fun with async {} or Asynchronous Workflow – bouncing ellipse (Imran Khatri)
• Running a Windows Phone Application under the lock screen and Hail to the swiss army knife of Silverlight Windows Phone Apps LongListSelector (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Jounce Part 5: Navigation Framework and Silverlight and HTML5: Microsoft’s Official Stance (Jeremy Likness)
• Committed to Silverlight (John Papa)
• Silverlight : Stop Blaming Microsoft For Your Stupidity (Karl Seguin)
• Creating a Tile using theme’s color as background (Windows Phone 7) (Katrien de Graeve)
• Document Toolkit maintenance release (Koen Zwikstra)
• Dotfuscator for Windows Phone Released (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Microsoft Shifts Silverlight Focus (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Tracking Sales Statistics with the Silverlight Analytics Framework for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Styling A ContextMenu In Expression Blend (Sacha Barber)
• WP7 Code: Using the Accelerometer API (Dragos Manolescu)
• Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight! (Tim Heuer)
• Detecting Whether the Dark or Light Theme is in Use and Making Your Images Change Color Based on the Theme (Adam Nathan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward and Dierk Konig Compare .NET and JVM Evolution (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #44: Dis Approvals and Let’s Play TDD #45: Looking for Keys in All the Wrong Places (James Shore)
• Herding Code 96: Eric Sink on Veracity and DVCS (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 130 – PowerScripting Podcast – Core Show with Hal and Jon (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Full Stack, Part 2: Setting up the UI for our Windows Phone client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
• Video & Podcast: Designing and Deploying SharePoint 2010 for a Global Audience (Joel Oleson)
• Dream.in.Code Podcast Episode #9 – Charlie Kindel (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Coding QA Episode 50 End of an Era (Matthew Osborn & Federico Silva)
• Inside Windows Phone#11:Obfuscation And Analytics (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Ping 81: PDC is here, Pixar uses Azure, IE9 Preview, Zunes & Phones and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2010 (Laura Foy)
• Sparkling Client Show 110: Silverlight is Dead. Long Live Silverlight. (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Tsitsi Gora on User Experience Design for Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• ARCast.TV – Creating Windows Phone 7 Apps Using a Configuration Tool and ARCast.TV – Designing and Deploying SharePoint 2010 for a Global Audience (Zhiming Xue)
• Medical “gaming” and simulation—new on Microsoft Health Tech Today (Bill Crounse)

Community / Events

• Hello, Microsoft (Steve Sanderson)
• MVPs Discuss the MVP Award and PDC (Lonnie Webb)
• Virtual Brown Bag Sessions with Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
• PDC and Silverlight (Bob Muglia)
• My take from PDC 2010 (Christian Nagel)
• Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions at Øredev next week (Jeff Wilcox)
• Busy November in the Works, Several Speaking Engagements (Chris Love)
• Microsoft Webcast: Overview of Windows Azure & Visual Studio 2010 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• MSDN Flash Poll #11: What would you like to be doing? (Mike Ormond)

Database

• Format Phone Numbers in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Are you a Database Administrator or a Database Developer? and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: MS Jet OLEDB 4.0 cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is used to run in apartment mode. (Pinal Dave)
• When to use SQL Mirroring Timeout (Ryan Adams)
• Disaster Recovery for AppFabric Caching V1.0 (SQL Mirroring) (Jaime Alva Bravo)
• Mixed ASC/DESC sorting in MySQL (Quassnoi)
• Combining Validation of Transactional and Persisted Data (James Allderidge)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 customErrors mode (Greg Galipeau)
• How to pass InitParams to Silverlight Application which is hosted as SharePoint 2010 web parts? (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Status Bar Changes in Outlook 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
• Xbox 360 Dashboard update is now available (Larry Hyrb)
• Microsoft + open source = loving relationship? (Andy Robb)
• Incorporating 3rd Party Libraries in iPhone apps (Ben Scheirman)
• Book review: DSLs in Action (Dror Helper)
• Automate your PowerShell demos (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using Author Names to track which machine I used to edit OneNote pages (John Guin)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Beautiful Security – $14.99 (Save 53%) Code DDBSC (O’Reilly Media)
• Free Microsoft Tools for Educators and Teachers and Halo Reach Noble Map Pack Release is This Month (Richard Hay)
• Drupal Founder on Why Open Source is Good for Business [INTERVIEW] (Sarah Kessler)
• Becoming An Independent Consultant (Derick Bailey)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #720 and The Morning Brew #721 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 1, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2010 — #984 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 048 for 11/1/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

DSLs in Action by Debasish Ghosh

Top Links

• Our app matches what Forbes thinks Windows Phone 7 needs, so why aren’t we getting any love for our App? (Don Burnett)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #14: Tombstoning (Multi-tasking) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• MonoTouch & WindowsPhone7: indexed lists (Craig Dunn)
• Cool site of the day: extensionmethod.net (John V. Petersen)
• Use a Single Version File For All Projects in a Solution (Mike Hadlow)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Gotchas: Assembly Level Attributes in F# (Ade Miller)
• TFS vs. Subversion (Jaroslaw Dobrzanski)
• Using C#’s implicit type conversions from other .NET languages (Luis Diego Fallas)
• NHibernate Schema Export in Suteki Shop (Mike Hadlow)
• Paint Application in Visual F# (Rey Dacoco)
• The Watch Window: Hexadecimal Display (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Live SDK and HealthVault SDK (MS Downloads)
• And for today’s cheatsheet, another String Format sheet for ya… (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Paging with XPO in ASP.NET (Oliver Sturm)
• Registration Form Gets Some Lovin’ for Sueetie 2.0 (Dave Burke)
• Book Review: Introducing HTML5 (Pete LePage)
• Why HTML5 Web Apps Are Going to Rock Your World (Simon Mackie)
• Sandboxed Natives: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too (John David Dalton)
• KiGG 3.0 Released (Muhammad Mosa)
• IE9 Customisation (Dave)
• “Stranger Danger” – Introducing SmartScreen® Application Reputation (Ryan Colvin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile certification and quantification is a myth (Gojko Adzic)
• How To Adopt Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• From ‘Survive to Thrive’ with Agile (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Why are *automated tests* so important? (Peter Gfader)
• The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer (Alexander Dawson)
• You don’t have to always stare at a screen (Giorgio Sironi)
• Gossip Game Requirements (Jared Richardson)
• A Really Bad Idea — Adding Clutter to A Language (Stephen Lott)
• Agile: Constraints (Mark Needham)
• Agile to Lean to Insane Software Development (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Zombie (Team Member) Motivation Techniques (Derek Huether)
• Why not do it right the first time? (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Making Text Clickable in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Brendan Enrick)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 11- Group Membership (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Reactive Extensions #3: Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
• WP7 Code: Geofencing with the GeoLocation API and Rx (Dragos Manolescu)
• Windows Phone: Taking screenshots for marketplace submissions and Programmatically supporting Windows Phone themes with differing colors for text (Avi Pilosof)
• Windows Phone Radio Episode 3 (Brian Seitz)
• Who’s building the official Messenger app for WP7? (Not Microsoft!) (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 Apps – Currency Converter (Mike Ormond)
• The BLINK tag is back, and it runs on WP7 now (#wp7dev) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone App Challenge #1: The Pomodoro Timer (Joey deVilla)
• Silverlight 4.0 – Secure Communication to WCF service using Custom User Name and Password Validator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Anti-aliased Lines And Optimizing Code for Windows Phone 7–First Look (Nokola)
• Turtle Graphics and L-systems with F# and WPF (Scott Philip Brown)
• Architecting WP7 – Part 3 of 10: Enough Architecture (or Where is my VM) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Creating a Simple Action (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 6 of n (Charles Torre)
• WebDevRadio Episode 82: Various security topics (Michael Kimsal)
• Web Camps TV #9 – Script Junkie, jQuery, jQuery Mobile and "the dance" (James Senior)
• Robert Martin interview (The Pragmatic Programmers)
• Let’s Play TDD #35: Right on Form (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Firestarter- Watch it Live (John Papa)
• TODAY: Let’s MEF! SilverlightShow Webinar with Gill Cleeren (Silverlight Show)
• SQL SERVER – 1500 Posts – A MileStone – Origin of Blog Name Revealed (Pinal Dave)
• MVP Birds of a Feather Lunch at PASS Summit 2010 (Andy Warren)
• YOU ARE INVITED!! PDC Viewing Party – October 28 2010 – Reston and DC (Joel Reyes)
• Philly Code Camp Autumn 2010: That’s a Wrap! (Steve Bohlen)
• Calling Boise Developers (David Starr)
• Frank’s World Turns 15 Years Old Today (Frank La Vigne)
• A new beginning (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

• RavenDB – Live projections, or how to do joins in a non relational database (Oren Eini)
• List Indexes For Database using TSQL (Brian K. McDonald)
• Return of Index Analysis Part 3 and Finding Missing Values from an Array (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Usage Best Practices (MS Downloads)
• Asynchronously Checking if a Command is Available in the SharePoint Ribbon (Andrew Connell)
• Warning to SharePoint Administrators: Don’t Ignore the Red Health Bar (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Configuring Beyond Compare On Windows With Cygwin (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Global hooks getting lost on Windows 7 (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer (Bing Team)
• TweeVo v1.1 Released! (Brian Peek)
• Presentation:Writing a Technical Book (Eric Merritt, Martin Logan & Richard Carlsson)
• iPad And IT Admins: VMware Jumps Into iPad Mania (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Are you a good fit for Microsoft? Show us (Part III of III) (Sandeep Sood)
• Search goes social (Steve Clayton)
• Zune software is NOT coming to the Mac–A sync software will be (Tauqeer)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 13-Oct-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #707 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold

Top Links

• Great News for MonoTouch Users (Miguel de Icaza)
• What is Functional Programming? Part 2, Currying (Christopher Bennage)
• Seeing Code Contracts in Intellisense NOW! (Jonathan de Halleux)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Concatenation (Richard Carr)
• Script# Contrib – Getting started with ScriptSharp Sample (CodePlex)
• Experiment: List<T> internals and performance when adding new elements (Gunnar Peipman)
• A TFS 2010 Power Tools “Must Get” Update – September 2010 Release (Think the “zomg TFS server backup/restore help and more” release) (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Five Final Little Wonders That Make Code Better (3 of 3) (James Michael Hare)
• Easily Backup TFS and change the Retention Days (Mike Fourie)
• TFS Build fails for no indicated reason with code contracts in test assemblies (Rory Primrose)
• How to deal with a stuck or infinitely queued build (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Find in Files: Result Options (Zain Naboulsi)
• Book review: Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 (Maarten Balliauw)
• VS File Explorer – Extension #9 (Sara Ford)
• Entity Framework Supports Your Way to Develop Your Data Tier (Bruce Kyle)
• Old school tree display (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Microsoft to embrace and extend HTML 5? (Tim Anderson)
• Introducing jQuery API Search (Karl Swedberg)
• Bing, Long Zheng, and Google Instant: An HTML5 response? (Kip Kniskern)
• Register Global Namespaces in ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and ASP.NET WebForms (Malcolm Sheridan)
• CSS3 Media Queries and creating adaptive layouts (Rob Nyman)
• JavaScript filtering with JSON and filter management (strofo)
• New Resources for HTML and CSS Authors on Character Encodings (W3C Staff)
• Automatically Upload Images with PHP Directly from the URI (Stoimen Popov)
• USA Today to Throw Open its Data This Month (Romin Irani)
• Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs (Krishnan Subramanian)
• BookedIN.net (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Continuous Integration" Now Online (James Shore)
• Practical PHP Patterns: Gateway (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Best Way to Learn CQRS, DDD and Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Adventures in Repetitive Code (Mike Hadlow)
• A healthy transition (Jimmy Bogard)
• What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made? (Robert Bowen)
• How to Create a Kick Ass Team (Abby Fichtner)
• Principles 4: End-to-End Development Process (Ivo Manolov)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simplified TextBox focus in WPF 4 and xmlns confusion (Rudi Grobler)
• Browser app with bit.ly shortening for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• What’s the Point of a Windows Phone 7 Cannon if It Doesn’t Look Great? (Coding4Fun)
• Maximizing Productivity with the Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight Designer (Dan Wahlin)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7: Lists and Details (Jesse Liberty)
• Get “Silverlight 4 in Action” for Half Price! (Joey deVilla)
• MVVM so easy a n00b can do it (Silverlight4) (Michael Crump)
• Populating an Existing Object Using Xaml2009 (Mike Strobel)
• Introducing JetPack–a new Silverlight 4 application theme and Writing plugins for Seesmic Desktop (Tim Heuer)
• XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – Saving Pictures (Mike Ormond)
• Blend Bits 7: Be Resourceful (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Performance Tuning-Episode 50 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Silverlight TV 44: Top Four Questions from the WCF RIA Services Forum (John Papa)
• The “Windows Sysinternals Primer: Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and More” from TechEd 2010 North America (Greg Duncan)
• YUI Theater — Ryan Grove: “Achieving Performance Zen with YUI 3″ (40 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
• Using TeamCity to Maintain a Stack of OSS Tools (Bobby Johnson)

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow Gives 2 Free Passes for DevReach Conference (Svetla Stoycheva)
• 10/12 MSDN Simulcast: Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch (Emily Gibson)
• A Look Ahead: 2011 MVP Global Summit (Lonnie Webb)
• Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences in 2010 (Louis Lazaris)
• Register Now for YUIConf 2010! (Jenny Han Donnelly)
• Developer and Designer Q&A : Rick Barraza, Cynergy (James Pratt)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel – RTM (MS Downloads)
• SSIS Dynamic Connections (David Dye)
• Newly closed Connect items auger well for SSIS in Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Find Automatically Created Statistics – T-SQL (Pinal Dave)
• More On Overlapping Statistics (Kendal Van Dyke)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint Forum Attachments – Social Squared (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft KIN manager moves to Yahoo (PhoneArena Team)
• Microsoft Releases Free Cyber-Security E-book (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Apple relaxing SDK license agreement: MonoTouch (and Flash?) officially allowed (Simone Chiaretta)
• Cloning Virtual Box Images in Windows 7 (Steve Jones)
• Preparing the ground for iPhone development (SunFish7)
• 5 tips for using Priority Inbox (Kristen Lemons)
• Apple officially changes their Developer SDK License – MonoTouch officially makes it – And then go buy a beer on me. (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2010 — #944 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Links for Patterns and Practices for the Data Professional (Buck Woody)
• The Morning Brew #683 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Unleashed by Mike Snell

.NET / Visual Studio

• Extracting the Icon for a File (Richard Carr)

Web Development

• Using AntiForgeryToken with other verbs than POST (and ActionLinks) (Tomasz Pęczek)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Validation is overrated (Seth Godin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 84: Ex-Microsoft Developer Panel with Mike Moore, Jeff Cohen, and Scott Bellware and Herding Code 85: Clint Nelsen on Startup Weekend and Herding Code 86: Saqib Shaikh on Accessibility and Developing with Limited Sight (Jon Galloway)
• Recording and samples from my Reactive F# talk (Tomas Petricek)

Community / Events

• Live on .NET Rocks Today 6:00 EST (Keith Elder)

Database

• Remove and Replace Special Characters in a SQL Server Column (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL 101 : Without “ORDER BY”, order is not guaranteed. (Dave Ballantyne)

Miscellaneous

• OneNote Text Importer Powertoy Updated for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Is Microsoft the IBM of the 2010’s? (Mike Hadlow)
• Adobe Interview (part 6) (Joe Smith)
• 5 Awesome Arcade Games for the iPhone (Amy-Mae Elliott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 26, 2010 — #891 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Asking Why Not, Sucky Content Club, a Manifesto, Worth Paying For (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Links #111 (Grant Palin)

The Geek Shelf

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell

Top Links

• Stack Overflow Releases API Into Public Beta (Vineel Shah)
• PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio (Jeffrey Snover)
• FXCop 10 was Shipped with Windows 7.1 SDK (Jonathan Allen)
• Application extensibility model – working with MEF and Importing multiple extension assemblies in C# with MEF (Dennis Delimarsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Generic Type Generator (Alexander Van Berg)
• Now our Visual Studio is cooking with Power! The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension that is… (Greg Duncan)
• Write Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Kate Gregory)
• Use Preprocessor Directives for better debugging (Tim Hibbard)
• Great Uses of Using Statement in C# (Steve Smith)
• Document Well 2010 Plus: Hidden Options (Radames Cruz Moreno)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part III: Adding a Metadata Class (Stephen Forte)
• Showing Hidden Tool Windows with the Auto Hide Channel (Zain Naboulsi)
• Update to "Creating Custom FieldData Classes in CSLA" (Jason Bock)
• Use Dovetail SDK in .Net (Sam Tyson)

Web Development

• Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC (Gary Pretty)
• Interested in web services interoperability with WCF? (Matt Milner)
• Internet Explorer Developer Tools: HTML (Pete LePage)
• Of .prototype and function() (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Story Sizing, Elephants and Mice (John Sonmez)
• Aspects of Kanban in Methods and Tools (Karl Scotland)
• Lokad.CQRS – Intro into App Engine Architecture, Multiple Message Subscribers (Rinat Abdullin)
• BDD-Style QUnit Testing ASP.NET MVC’s jQuery Validation (Elijah Manor)
• indentation of trailing lines of code (Anthony Steele)
• Widen People’s Job Titles (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coding: Controlled Technical Debt (Mark Needham)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #9 (Pete LePage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 multitouch behavior: beta testers needed (#wp7dev)! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Readying myself for Windows Phone 7 "Hello, Operator?" (Mike Ormond)
• Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite (Rudi Grobler)
• I want more shell applications, especially for mobile (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pluralcast 18 : BDD in .NET with StoryQ (David Starr)
• This Week in Silverlight – Windows Phone 7 and Bus Tracking (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 17 – Silverlight with Miguel Madero (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 11 (Richard Hay)
• Radio TFS 29: Getting the Band Back Together (Martin Woodward)
• Windows Weekly 161: Paul’s Perihelion (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 95: Jay Wren on Mono (David Giard)
• ARCast.TV – UI of the New Era, Designing for Multiple Devices (Denny Boynton)

Community / Events

• New England GiveCamp: "Awesome, simply awesome" (Jim O’Neil)
• Tech●Ed 2010 Shows the Value of Microsoft MVPs (Toby Richards)

Database

• SQL SERVER – TRANSACTION, DML and Schema Locks (Pinal Dave)
• GROUP_CONCAT in SQL Server (Alex Bolenok)

SharePoint

• A short, sweet and concise four step guide for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64) (Greg Duncan)
• SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Save Even More Money with a TechNet Standard Subscription (Paul Thurrott)
• I Smell Smoke (Rob Conery)
• Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition? (Jeff Atwood)
• Dealing with Dates & Time Zones in Objective-C (Ben Scheirman)
• Setting the Arrow on Lines in Adobe PhotoShop or Elements (Dave Schinkel)
• Getting Started with iPhone and iOS Development (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs (June Blender)
• Programmer Tip: The Virtues Of A Little Bit Of ‘Boredom Time’ In Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• Teaching programming to kids (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/21/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #110 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #625 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 150 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 6/14/2010 through 6/20/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

Top Links

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer (MS Downloads)
• Prototype Process and Tools (Gary Sherman)
• Lambda Function Factory (Brendan Kowitz)
• Moonlight 3.0, Preview 7 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Creating WPF Prototypes with SketchFlow (Michael Sorens)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layer Diagram Extension using the Feature Pack (Cameron Skinner)
• Using Paging in WCF Data Services (Gil Fink)
• A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service (Peter Kellner)
• The Power of Func<> (John Sonmez)
• ResGen.exe error: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (Sara Joiner)
• What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part I (Matteo Slaviero)

Web Development

• Check for Existing Values with ASP.NET CustomValidator + jQuery $.ajax() (Brian Dobberteen)
• Back to Basics: Wiring up a Web Application (Nick Harrison)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Conditionals (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Internet Explorer: Understanding Compat Features For Developers (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mutation Testing (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Slack time (Mark Needham)
• Git and our friction points and beginners mistakes (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #10 (Pete LePage)
• Leadership Tip: Understanding Human Polymorphism In Teams And Organizations. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Boss Launch 2: Zombie Attack for WP7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• XBox Live on Windows Phone 7 (Brandon Watson)
• Known Issue: Control Design-Time Assemblies File Locking When Using WPF and Silverlight Designer (Karl Shifflett)
• Time categories with WPF and Exchange – Part II (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• A Collection Of Windows Phone 7 Motion Videos (Matthias Shapiro)
• WPF Application Framework – Release: v1.0.0.350 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 56: What is new in SQL Server 2008 R2? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• TWC9: Kinect, OData, Cassandra library, & TechEd Sessions now available (Dan Fernandez)
• Pete at Microsoft: WCF RIA Services Team Interview (Pete Brown)
• Updated Windows Home Server SDK Available (Larry Larsen)
• C-Language Programming with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Pro or VC++ Express (Sam Stokes)
• jQuery Podcast 27 – Remy Sharp pt. 2 (HTML5) (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 2 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

• I’m Keynoting at CodeStock 2010! (Rachel Appel)
• First Ever Blend-O-Rama (Kevin Hazzard)
• New Zealand Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Events (Nigel Parker)
• Learn SQL Server 2008 R2 with 24-HOP (Joe Webb)
• Why I’m a programmer (Anne Epstein)
• David Ramel Asks About Interviewing at Microsoft (Chris Sells)

Database

• TempDB Size and Monitoring (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Disaster recovery 101: backing up the tail of the log and Disaster recovery 101: hack-attach a damaged database (Paul S. Randal)
• Building data stores – Transaction log and Building data stores – Append Only and Building data store – indexing data structure and Table scans, index scans and index seeks, on my! (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• How Microsoft Research Banished the BSOD (Dan Grabham)
• PowerBoots 0.3 – The Faster Edition (Joel Bennett)
• Use Google Services from the Command Line (Alex Chitu)
• Audiobook player for iPhone (brochpirate)
• Get your Windows Live Calendar on the go (David Dennis)
• 14 application to install on a new development machine (Dror Helper)
• Making my blog suck less (Jef Claes)
• Improvements to Bounty System (Jeff Atwood)
• Weekend Reading: Kinect, Office 2010 Highlight Big Week (Owen Linderholm)
• So How Much Will Kinect for Xbox 360 Cost? (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 18, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Simple to Share, Free Shipping, Pleasing the Wrong Person (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 18-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate in Action by Pierre Henri Kuaté

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Top Links

.NET / Visual Studio

Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack is now Available! and Documentation Refresh (Cameron Skinner)

Writing to an XML File With Attributes (Deborah Kurata)

VS 2010 and Expression Tree Visualization (Patrick Smacchia)

Mono and .NET – some things you should be aware of (Dennis Delimarsky)

Sqlite-Csharp and NHibernate (Rob Ashton)

Announcing: VS2010 Productivity Power Tools and Modeling Feature Packs (Jason Zander)

Debugging .NET 2.0 Assembly from unmanaged Code in VS2010? (Rick Strahl)

readonly keyword (Arun)

Create Code Shortcuts in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)

DirectX SDK – (June 2010) (MS Downloads)

Peering into the cloud with IntelliTrace (Somasegar)

Web Development

Encrypted Hidden Inputs in ASP.NET MVC (Ashic Mahtab)

A jQuery UI Combobox: Under the hood (Jörn Zaefferer)

Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010 (Kirill Osenkov)

June 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools & SDK (Rinat Abdullin)

IE Diagnostics (Swathi Ganapathi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)

No Domain-Driven Design in Rails? (Scott Bellware)

New Pex release 0.92: Rex and Silverlight (Jonathan de Halleux)

Exercise, Good Choices, and DDT (Jared Richardson)

Simple Branching Strategy Part 2: Implementation (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RIA Services Samples Project on CodePlex (Nikhil Kothari)

New Utility, Links and Tutorials for Path-Based Layout (Christian Schormann)

And the Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” is… (Anand Iyer)

New Policies for Next Gen Windows Phone Marketplace (Brandon Watson)

Windows phone developers please hold on Blend 4 (Jaime Rodriguez)

Install problem with the Developer Tools CTP Refresh (Charlie Kindel)

F# Now Supports Silverlight (Jonathan Allen)

Enter to Win a Ball Watch by Creating One in Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)

Quick Tip: Applying Text Options throughout your WPF 4 Application (Pete Brown)

Expression Studio 4 launch–Blend, Web, Encoder, Design (Tim Heuer)

My favorite Expression 4 features (Somasegar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Ball Watch Tutorial 1: Creating a Watch Application and Tutorial 2: Tracing Visual Elements and Tutorial 3: Animating the Second Hand and Tutorial 4: Using an Dash Pattern for Second Marks and Tutorial 5: Creating Concentric Circles and Tutorial 6: Animating Day and Night and Tutorial 7: Binding the Date Indicator and Tutorial 8: Preparing the Watch for Submission (Michael S. Scherotter)

Talking about Windows deployments with System Center and Orinoko (Matt McSpirit)

Major Bing Maps Announcements and SDK Release (Laura Foy)

Skinning with DotNetNuke 5 Super Stylesheets Layouts – 12 Videos (Andrew Stephenson)

Community / Events

NYC .NET Developer User Group Next Meeting: Next Thursday June 17th (Stephen Forte)

Introduction to SQL Server and Reporting (William Vaughn)

TechEd 2010 – Sunday and Teched 2010 – Sunday Part 2 and TechEd 2010 – Monday Morning (Andy Warren)

WWDC: Everything You Need to Know About iPhone 4 (Kevin C. Tofel)

Impressions of My First Day at TechEd 2010 (Brad M. McGehee)

Google Chrome Developer Update – Google I/O recap, new APIs (Ian Fette)

My Philly GiveCamp Experience (Brian Donahue)

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)

The SQL Server backup – foundation of any Disaster / Recovery and T-SQL Tuesday – Give me my cores SSIS 2008! (Ted Krueger)

SQL SERVER – Merge Operations – Insert, Update, Delete in Single Execution (Pinal Dave)

CouchDB as the Personal Database (Michael Hunger)

Data Sync Service for SQL Azure (Bill Zack)

SharePoint

Oracle Installation guide for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Adobe Interview (part 2) (Joe Smith)

If You Can’t Say Something Bad About It, You Don’t Know It Well Enough (Davy Brion)

Office is now live on SkyDrive! (Jason Moore)

Making it Big in Software: Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great. (Jonathan Giles)

Wave 4 Web services go live! (Kip Kniskern)

Is the iPhone 4 Magical? You Decide. (Mitch Pronschinske)

Why Office? “Our business runs on Excel.” (Jennifer Kensok)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: The Ruby Programming Language – Only $9.99 use code DDTRP (O’Reilly Media)

Review: Getting Things Done (Grant Palin)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Morning Brew #616 (Chris Alcock)

Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

Cheatsheet: 2010 06.01 ~ 06.07 (yuanjian)

Weekly Link Post 148 (Rhonda Tipton)

Links to New Platform Bits (Jason Zander)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle: SDL: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software

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Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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Top Links

• Big update for the Project Rosetta site today (Adam Kinney)
• ASMX and JSON – Common mistakes and misconceptions (Dave Ward)
• Help Me Connect the Southern Community (Keith Elder)
• MEF will not get easier, it’s cool as ICE (Maarten Balliauw)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Explorer codename "Eaglestone" (MS Downloads)
• Lambda Expressions: Join (Deborah Kurata)
• Clearing Your DataTips — vstipDebug0014 and Using Incremental Search and Make Object ID — vstipDebug0015 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tool for generating DGML graphs showing why your object can’t be collected (VisualGCRoot) (Tess Ferrandez)
• String.Empty vs “” vs String. IsNullOrEmpty (Peter Bromberg)
• Windows Server AppFabric (formerly Dublin) Beta 2 is Available! (Sam Gentile)

Web Development

• jQuery to the Rescue: Changing style and target for all external links on my site (Pete Brown)
• Changing an Existing DNN Module and Sharing ObjectDataSource From Codebehind (Dave M. Bush)
• How to package and deploy COM component (Xinyang Qiu)
• Asynchronous DataContext (Wesley Bakker)
• Return Multiple Objects Using ASP.NET MVC’S JsonResult Class (Malcolm Sheridan)
• CSS Crunch: new IE Extension for developers (Giorgio Sardo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is MSpec an Internal DSL?…And is that okay? (Richard Cirerol)
• What is Projection? (Chris Missal)
• Acceptance testing best practices (Gojko Adzic)

Silverlight / WPF

• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight (Christopher Bennage)
• New WPF Showcase Submission: LAN Bridger (Jay Esguerra)
• Where the Wild Things Are: an Adventure in Silverlight (Act I) (Justin J. Moses)
• Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Build 2010 RC (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 12 – WCF and Polling HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brad Frazer on Copyright, SLAs and more (Carl Franklin)
• p&p Claims Identity and Access Control Guide – A look into the Single Sign On scenario and p&p Claims Identity and Access Control Guide is now available (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
• StoryTeller Video from Pablo’s Fiesta (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Silverlight TV 12: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever! (John Papa)
• TechFest 2010 Keynote (TechFest)
• Introduction to Creating Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

• Upcoming events (Simon Brown)
• Windows Phone is Sponsoring Microsoft’s Mix 10 Conference this year.. (Don Burnett)
• The Explore Microsoft internship – a Gateway to Redmond (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Agile Coach Camp, North Carolina, March 19-21 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• Output = MAXDOP 1 (Dave Ballantyne)
• The March 2010 “SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit” update now includes VS2010 goodness (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Rollback TRUNCATE Command in Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS – Access Denied with UNC paths – The file name is a device or contains invalid characters and SQL Server service accounts and SPNs (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

• Lightning Conductor Calendar View (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Activation Technologies: an unauthorized inside look (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First iPhone Development – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFP (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #552 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2010 — #806 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Head First iPhone Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone

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Top Links

• How to keep yourself interested as a developer. (Al Pascual)
• Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF) (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
• Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II (Jesse Liberty)
• 24 Hour 50% off Deal on my Upcoming Manning Book: Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition (Pete Brown)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Concurrency — Only $9.99! Use code DDACF (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack (Chris Sells)
• Iron Python In Action (Tom Brander)
• Impact The Planning For EF/Astoria vNext (Jonathan Carter)
• Looking Ahead to 2010 (David Starr)
• Using the Beta 2 EF POCO Template with VS2010 RC (Julie Lerman)
• IntelliSense Crash in VS 2010 RC when using UI Automation (Brittany Behrens)
• Visual Studio 2010 RC Feedback Channel for Web Tools (Mike)
• “Nested Containers” in StructureMap 2.6.1 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs — vstipEnv0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Help Viewer in Visual Studio 2010 RC (and beyond) (Kimberly Wolk)
• The 10th of Diduary: Did you know your application could use more than one mouse? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 11. Type forwarding (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Serializing Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET: Styling a GridView and ASP.NET: UpdatePanel and Master Pages (Deborah Kurata)
• Sparse Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Dino Esposito)
• How to extend target file to include registry settings for web project package (Xinyang Qiu)
• Javascript: File encoding when using string.replace (Mark Needham)
• Stack Overflow API Coming Soon: What Do You Want it to Do? and Google Wastes No Time in Launching Google Buzz API (Matthew Casperson)
• gwt-presenter, or “How to get excited about MVP” (Kyle Baley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We don’t give 5’s… and other antiquated management techniques. (Caleb Jenkins)
• When I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it (Seth Godin)
• It had to happen (Patrick Kua)
• How does usage data improve the Office User Experience? (Tim Briggs)
• Book smarts vs. Street smarts (Scott Berkun)
• Code coverage reports with NCover and MSBuild (Sergio Pereira)
• CQRS – Scalability and CQRS – Event Versioning (Mark Nijhof)
• 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great (JD Meier)
• Collaboration – Writing is a Team Sport (Julie Stickler)

Silverlight / WPF

• Planetary Body Shader Part 2 and HDR Effects (Dave Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #3 with guest Dan Rigsby (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• C9 Conversations: Yuri Gurevich On Logic, Imperative, Abstraction and Algorithms (Charles Torre)
• CodeCast Episode 66: SOLID with Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
• Major Nelson Podcast – e and stepto record a show (Larry Hyrb)
• PhizzPop Develop & Design Challenge (Laura Foy)
• Managing Browser History Using Client Script Without ScriptManager (Marc Schweigert)

Community / Events

• Nestor Portillo on the 2010 Summit: The importance of this event cannot be understated (Joe Mirabella)
• Have You Thanked Your Favorite Bloggers Today? (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• SharePoint 2010 Training, with Beta Pricing on both US coasts (Andrew Connell)
• Why former employees say Microsoft can’t innovate (Joe Wilcox)
• NYC Code Camp: Registration is now open! (Stephen Forte)
• Courses and Training (Udi Dahan)
• If you could go to one SharePoint Conference this year what would it be? (Joel Oleson)
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2010 – Red Robin, Bellevue, Feb 15, 7pm (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Code Retreat Tour #1 – Seattle, WA (Corey Haines)

Database

• Help for SQL Server (Buck Woody)
• Using ROW_NUMBER in a where clause (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – Converting a Delimited String of Values into Columns (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 eclipses Vista on Steam, 64-bit dominating 32-bit (Emil Protalinski)
• Introducing Google Buzz (Todd Jackson)
• Google Buzz (Alex Chitu)
• Google Buzz in Gmail (Edward Ho)
• Hide/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox (Adam Pash)
• iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 2 busts loose (Chris Ziegler)
• The Windows 7 battery life issue: What’s making notebook batteries die? (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• The Weekly Source Code 49 – SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults (Scott Hanselman)
• If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present (MG Siegler)
• The dreaded compensation question (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Creating a Weather Gadget for Windows 7 (Shoban Kumar)
• Microsoft ditches Unix in the search market (Simon Sabin)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #536 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture