• The State of NuGet (Phil Haack)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Requests (Scott Dorman)
• Microsoft to launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC (Mary Jo Foley)
• Stack Exchange Keyboard Shortcuts (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #2–Cohesion (Oren Eini)
• TFS 2010 Grant Backup Plan Permissions Error (Bob Hardister)
• YaWhiteBoard – A Simple Whiteboard using C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• A new Gadgeteer blog – VB Magic (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Solve ‘Complex Data Restructuring’ Using the ‘List’ Operations in the Service Bus EAI/EDI Mapper (Ravi Bollapragada)
• The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm (Raymond Chen)
• datatemplateselector winrt (babaandthepigman)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: AboditNLP (Jason Jarrett)
• Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0 (Jef Claes)
• Using Fluent NHibernate for XML-Free Class Mapping (Joydip Kanjilal)

Web Development

• WebDev Playground: dabblet.com for HTML/CSS, jsfiddler.com for JS & HUrl.it for REST (Code Inside Team)
• jQuery Tip #2: Manipulating the DOM in a Loop (Dan Wahlin)
• Lighter Configuration Files and Better ASP.NET Support with WCF 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
• The Decorator pattern, or its cousin, in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• Emerging Trends in Ruby on Rails Development in 2012 (Mich de Castro)
• SignalR : Best thing since slice bread? (Sacha Barber)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• Book Giveaway: The Book of Ruby (Louis Lazaris)
• NEW! Wiki launched for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure (Michele Hart)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• At a Single Glance – Interpreting and Acting Upon Agile Project Metrics (Joel Semeniuk)
• Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
• Finding Out When Something Happened in Your Git Repo (Christopher Bennage)
• Avoiding Prescriptive Requirements (Jak Charlton)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #6 Layout (Windows Phone Geek)
• Treadmill Assistant Windows Phone 7 App Released (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #491 – Displaying a Hyperlink (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day – 9/Feb/2012 – Introducing Silverlight 4 (Tatworth)
• Using RadDiagnostics for WP7 to receive error reports anonymously (Valentin Stoychev)
• Part 2: Developing for a multitude of clients: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 013 – 02.08.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld: Don’t limit your options when wireframing (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 104: The Future Of Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Computing: Start Smart – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows 7.5 Video: Fast Application Switching (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Visual Studio Live! – Las Vegas (Brian Peek)
• Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines (Charles Sterling)
• Win a free pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas in SilverlightShow Contest (Silverlight Show)
• WPUG Talk: Developing cross-platform mobile applications with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Register for Telerik Webinars (Stephen Forte)
• A Coder Interview With Dave Ward (The Code Project)
• Philadelphia Star Trek Meetup: Sunday @ Hive 76 (Mikey Il)
• Free DevExpress Day – 25th February 2012 – Bad Ems, Germany (Oliver Sturm)
• Azure Update On February 15, 2012 @ NYC Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)
• MADExpo Family Fun Feature #1 (Kevin Griffin)
• OSS Rules of Engagement (Jimmy Bogard)
• Isolating Code: A Quick Intro to Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• FREE Webcasts: Temptations That Lead to the 5 Deadly Sins of SharePoint #in the Enterprise and FREE Feb 9 Webcast: The State of Enterprise Social w/ SharePoint #spsocial #mspartner (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)

Database

• It’s Hard To Be "Average": Mean, Median, and Mode in SQL Server (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – INNER JOIN Returning More Records than Exists in Table (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Is it better to have coding experience in the US or abroad? (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Is AppStore bad for gaming business? (Scott Barnes)
• Bliki: PresentationSmells (Martin Fowler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 087 for 2/9/2012 and Maker Geek Roundup 007 for 2/8/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #814 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1040 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-08 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 08 – #0038 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Everything You Know about CSS Is Wrong! by Rachel Andrew

• Modern Web Development – Part 4 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The 5 best books on Innovation EVER (Scott Berkun)
• Improving power efficiency for applications (Steven Sinofsky)
• Modernizr 2.5: Supercharged for 2012 (Modernizr Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Send me a patch for that and Limiting your abstractions: Reflections on the Interface Segregation Principle (Oren Eini)
• IntelliTrace Moves Beyond Development in Visual Studio 11 (Mickey Gousset)
• A Simple implementation of the Proxy Design Pattern using C# (Asif Maniar)
• C# Needs Seqs (Chris Eargle)
• Facebook C# SDK Road Map (Nathan Totten)
• Creating a dynamic, extensible C# Expando Object (Rick Strahl)
• APress Deal of the Day – 8/Feb/2012 – Visual C# 2010 Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
• GIT-TFS Instruction: Add Directory to Your Path? (Cori Drew)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Northwind.Db (Jason Jarrett)
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework 2012 January Sample Updates (Jialiang)
• Windows 8 Secrets: WinRT, the Windows Runtime (Paul Thurrott)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Empowering Your Master Pages (Peter Vogel)
• A better way to view images in RadFileExplorer for ASP.NET AJAX – thumbnail view comes in Q1 2012 (Stoyan Stratev)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role (Brian Swan)
• Rewriting My ‘Guaranteed Callbacks’ Code With jQuery Deferred (Derick Bailey)
• jQuery Tip #1 – Defining a Context When Using Selectors (Dan Wahlin)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role (Eric Nelson)
• High performance HTML5 content in Metro-style Apps (Andy Zeigler)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Convert Procedural Design to Objects (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.2 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)
• It’s Curtains for Marital Strife Thanks to getUserMedia (Bruce Lawson)
• Application Lifecycle Management Overview for Windows Azure (Buck Woody)
• Regular Expressions in CoffeeScript are Awesome (Elijah Manor)
• Google+ developers page launched, is an API on the way? (Jamie Keene)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Proof of Unit Testing’s Time Savings (Keith Ward)
• Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions v1.2.0.0 (Jeremiah Clark)
• The efficiency of Self-Organizing Teams (Bill Wagner)
• Kiss The Ring… (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Capture Picture from Camera and Save in Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7 – Scott Hanselman’s A to Z resources (Lohith) – A nice round-up of links from Scott’s post on his WP7 app.
• Creating Big Silverlight Windows and Getting Monitor Resolutions and Positions with PInvoke (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #490 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone and Implementing Trial Functionality for Windows Phone applications (Valentin Stoychev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Eric Sink Distributes His Source (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #132: Thomas Hessler, UFOStart.com (Bob Walsh)
• Let’s Play TDD #162: Wishing for Double Dispatch (James Shore)
• SE Radio becomes part of IEEE Software (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget HD Podcast 285 – 02.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld – When it comes to colour, test (Paul Boag)
• Hot Apps: Krashlander, NFL Pro ’12, MixTapes, Weave, Network Dashboard (Laura Foy)
• Going Native 2012 sessions available for download and streaming (Michael B. McLaughlin)

Community / Events

• C-Sharpen Up (Dani Diaz)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Talking Cloud with SharePoint Server MVP Patrick Yong (MVP Award Program)
• SQLBits now publishing all SQLBits agendas as an iCalendar (Jamie Thomson)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• IndyHall Hosting IDGA Philly Demo Session This Saturday to Show Off Global Game Jam Results (Joe Ross)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Convert Subquery to CTE – SQL in Sixty Seconds #001 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server and xp_cmdshell – The good, the bad and more ugly (Ted Krueger)
• The Minimalist Guide to Database Administration (Thomas LaRock)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Survey: memory configuration (Paul S. Randal)
• How to Test Your Backup Strategy: Five Simple Questions (Kendra Little)

Miscellaneous

• OneNote for Android released: features SkyDrive integration (Kip Kniskern)
• New in 3.0: More ‘Surround With’ actions for PHP (Nikolay Matveev)
• Microspeak: fit (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 7, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #1039 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-07 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 07, 2012 – #0037 and SilverlightShowTop 5 News for January 30 – February 5, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #813 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Farewell Stack Exchange (Jeff Atwood)
• Farewell (Joel Spolsky)
• Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
• What is "binding" and what makes it late? (Eric Lippert)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding solutions not covered by automated builds (Rory Primrose)
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #1 (Oren Eini)
• KinectContrib 2.0 released – now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Gadgeteer Hello World (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 8 Composition and Content (Joe Mayo)
• Using JSON.net to consume the JSON Stack Overflow API (Jonathan Creamer)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter (Jason Jarrett)
• The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed (Pete Brown)
• Wrapping up Configuration Manager (Paul Sheriff)
• Pinpointing a Static GC Root with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
• JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies (Joost van Schaik)
• How to Use the Azure npm Package Locally without the Azure Compute Emulator (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Entity Framework to Query Dynamic Types (David Barrett)
• WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed. (Deepak Kapoor)
• Developing for a multitude of clients – Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

Web Development

• jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects (Ben Nadel)
• JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB (Devon Govett)
• Learning HTML5 & CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
• PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• Turbocharge your Website with Memcached (Nicolas Sebban)
• Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser (Ilmari Heikkinen)
• MSDN Article: Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color (Chris Coyier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Use Hand Coding Coded UI Test For Automated Vs2010 Test Scripting (Abhishek Lohani)
• Looking for the seam (Mark Needham)
• The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs? (Mike Walker)
• Mocking ITable<T> (Chris Skardon)
• Builder pattern with a twist (Uzi Landsmann)
• MSTest and Calling Exe with Sample Data Files (Johan Danforth)
• [Humor] – Business Roles and Designations – For a Baby (Peter Saddington)
• Constraints, expectations and real estate (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as ListBox Items (Windows Phone Geek)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons (Arturo Toledo)
• A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #489 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style (Tony Champion)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• Why Custom Controls are underrated (Morten Nielsen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 038: Puzzlejuice Pigs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 175 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Wells on SQL 2012 and SQLSpade (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• CreativeJS workshops in UK and Amsterdam (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March (Namita Gupta)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco – Feb 26 (Joel Oleson)
• I’m back, baby (get it? baby?) and Windows 8 resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• Don’t Miss FREE MSDN Webcast, Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 1) “Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure”, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 am PT (Himanshu Singh)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Data Quality Services (James Serra)
• SQL Server Certifications: What to Take and How to Prepare (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server 2012 Free Cook Book and Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize (Colin Stasiuk)
• Why Every DBA is a Clown (John Sansom)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Embracing guesswork with SQL Prompt partial matches (Troy Hunt)
• Code to list potential cluster key space savings per table (Paul S. Randal)
• How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database (Herve Roggero)

PowerShell

• List failed SQL server Jobs with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• Announcing Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook! (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Android–Create a ListView with rounded corners (Bill Osuch)
• Looking at Office 365 Security Holistically (Mike Halsey)
• ASCII Table Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #5) (Himanshu Singh)
• Double Shot #812 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1038 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft’s New Command Shell by Lee Holmes

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Windows Phone 8 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Setting Up Git on Windows in Four Easy Steps (Adam Feber)
• A Handy Script For Compiling CoffeeScript On The Fly (Rob Conery)
• Clean Up NuGet Dependencies With Chewie (Ian Davis)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way (Oren Eini)
• Retrieve and Update YouTube Content in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Visual Expression Builder for Dynamic Linq (Rabb Moshe Plotkin)
• 30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
• How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11 (Willy-Peter Schaub)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro (Jason Jarrett)
• Naming Conventions in JustCode (JustCode Team)
• Reviewing 70-562 .NET Framework 3.5 Preparation Kit from uCertify (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0-Intellisense Improvements (Blake Niemyjski)
• Rx – DistinctUntilChanged (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Node.js, Require and Exports (Karl Seguin)
• The Telerik Q1 2012 MVC Beta is here with new Area chart and galore of charting features (Stefan Rahnev)
• HTML5 and the Web Audio API are BFFs! (Eric Bidelman)
• CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Inside the CSS WG: A New Reality Series (Molly E. Holzschlag)
• HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive (Peter Kellner)
• Creating a Vertical CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
• Umbraco v5 released (The "OMG, it’s really fast now" version) (Greg Duncan)
• Using PHP to Add Content to Plain Text (Scott Eiler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: But I’m not a .NET developer (Giles Davies)
• The Science of Kanban – Conclusions (Karl Scotland)
• Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)
• Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
• Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests (Piotr Solnica)
• Talking to Customers: What a Concept (Patrick Foley)
• How To: Get all test points assigned to you? (Gautam Goenka)
• A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development (Mike Cottmeyer)
• When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need the information for (Raymond Chen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Daddy, tell me a story of how VB, WP7, Azure and my photos can be combined in the cloud to create a video story… (Greg Duncan)
• Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2 (Rabeb Othmani)
• 2000 WPF Things #487 – Specify DrawingAttributes When Drawing to an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker (Andy Wigley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 053 – “5.9″, QUAD CORE, NFC, 3D, LTE, 128GB Windows Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Let’s Play TDD #161: The UserEnteredDollars Value Object (James Shore)
• Inside Windows Phone #31 | Windows Phone Partners (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Larry Lieberman)
• Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• MADExpo 2012 Call for Speakers is Open! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do (Jeff Atwood)
• Sharpen your Ninja Skills with Telerik Webinars from Feb20 – Feb 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• SQL Server – COPY TABLE from another SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
• Learn about the new SQL Server Data Tools from the original DataDude (Richard Erwin)
• SQL Server NOLOCK (Tom Stickel)
• Don’t Splint Your Database Server To Death (Mike Walsh)
• Sniff that Parameter (Chris Yates)
• Ready for SQL Azure? New Service Tells You (David Ramel)
• Quick Review of Backup tools for SQL Azure (Herve Roggero)

SharePoint

• So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products – Happy Days (Joel Oleson)
• Using Twilio with SharePoint to send SMS messages (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 consumer preview (Beta) installation screenshots leaked (Ankur Mittal)
• The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
• Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from? (Ed Bott)
• I’m from the Cloud and I’m here to help… No really, trust me… Looking at Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" (Greg Duncan)
• New Social APIs in Android ICS (Tim Bray)
• Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work! (Kent Nguyen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 2 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #810 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1036 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-02 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 02, 2012 – #0035 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012 (Beth Massi)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus by Juval Lowy

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

PowerShell

• Rich formatting for PowerShell help (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

Programming Android by Zigurd Mednieks

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released (Nathan Totten)
• jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released (Todd Parker)
• Modularity And Security In Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps (Joe Mayo)
• Infragistics Undo/Redo Framework CTP (Ambrose Little)

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Reflection (Richard Carr)
• Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
• Undertone – Programmable music in F# (Robert Pickering)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion (James Michael Hare)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – IntelliTrace and Test Impact Analysis (Martin Hinshelwood)
• F# vs. Scala, My Take at Year Two (Neil)
• Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 3 (Bill Osuch)
• Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings (Tim Murphy)
• CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Most-Wanted Features in Entity Framework (Roopesh Shenoy)
• SqlBulkCopy for Generic List (useful for Entity Framework & NHibernate) (Jarod Ferguson)

Web Development

• Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Hiding Things using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• One reason why HTML5 gaming is limping along (Christian Heilmann)
• Skype-enabled JavaScript Restaurant (Elijah Manor)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 2 (Shi Chuan)
• Upgrading to Rails 3.2.0 from Rails 3.1.3 (maciej)
• Resumable.js, Open Source Android WebGL Implementation, Coderbyte (Alex Young)
• Rails v3.2.1 has been released (with minor fixes) and Read This Before Installing Rails 3.2 and Deploying Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3 on Heroku (Daniel Kehoe)
• Using the Vibration API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: MongoDB and PHP – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Demo from Brian Loesgen (Peter Laudati)
• New Management API for Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Michael Washam)
• 24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development (Siddharth)
• Making the web speedier and safer with SPDY (Roberto Peon & Will Chan)
• Pattern matching and guards in Less stylesheets (Ivan Towlson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Anna (Jason Jarrett)
• Animate to an Inline Style (Chris Coyier)
• Vibration API coming to Firefox 11 (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Project Management – Engaging Your Customer! (Bob Galen)
• Seven Options for Handling Interruptions on Agile Teams (Craig Smith)
• ScrumMaster Manifesto? (Peter Saddington)
• Article: New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Pen and paper wireframing without the hassle (Paul Boag)
• The n00b filter: Bad UX at its Finest in Eagle PCB (Pete Brown)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Community Question: Synching Remote Locations (Tobin Titus)
• (Ab)Using Conventions To Enforce Good Practices (Davy Brion)
• The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love (Tomer Sharon)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App (Dave Bost)
• MetroSky – End to end Windows Phone 7 SkyDrive sample code and app (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #482 – You Can Include Other Controls Inside an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• 5 Reasons to use Azure when designing your Windows Phone Game (Surf4Fun)
• How I ended up using WebBrowser instead of a TextBlock in a Windows Phone application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How To Connect Window Phone 7 and Windows 8 app to Microsoft pubCenter (Shai Raiten)
• Beginning LightSwitch–Address Book Sample (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• A world of NUI: Steve Hodges (Steve Clayton)
• Video on How to work with Page State in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• RadioTFS: Backup on that (Martin Woodward)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Bruce Burke (Ryan Parsley)
• WHOIS: Danah Boyd, MSR Social Scientist (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• April 23rd to 27th in New York City: The Art of Agile (Training) (James Shore)
• My Daughter’s First User Group Meeting (Cori Drew)
• It’s Time For Another PowerShell Deep Dive! (Travis Jones)
• MVPs Provide Great Advice in 4th Official MVP Twitter Chat! (MVP Award Program)
• A Conversation with Charles Petzold (Michael Desmond)

Database

• SSRS – Custom Code with External Assemblies (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Common Gotcha’s Associated with Common Table Expressions (CTE) – Quiz – Puzzle – 26 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Collecting Index Usage Statistics (Bob Pusateri)
• Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic (Scott Klein)
• Understanding Database Choice (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh (Gregory Leake)

Miscellaneous

• Powertoys from the test team for 2011 (John Guin)
• Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza! (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft, don’t forget about Desktop Player — we haven’t (Mike Williams)
• Why doesn’t the Windows 7 Start menu have a pushpin for pinning items? (Raymond Chen)
• Android: Say Goodbye to the Menu Button (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 139 (Scott Banwart)
• Collective #2 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #805 and Open Source Report #3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1031 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/26/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-26 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 – #0032 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #6 (Devon Govett)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure

• Removing Regions Using Project Roslyn (Jason Bock)
• SQL Server 2012 launches March 7th… with a free virtual launch event (Greg Duncan)
• Resources for getting started with Backbone.js (Jarod Ferguson)
• Anonymous types unify within an assembly, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 6 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Call Stack Window and Implementing IComparer (Richard Carr)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: That CQRS thing (Oren Eini)
• How to Mock a WCF Service (Amit)
• Creating a WYSIWYG font ComboBox using C# (Cyotek)
• What do you want to see in Entity Framework? (Julie Lerman)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 1, P/Invoke – Managed to Unmanaged (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Async for File Access (Alan Berman)
• It’s three-for-one QR Code Day and A Kinect & Netduino controlled squirt gun (Greg Duncan)
• dotTrace 5.0 Performance Early Access Program (Hadi Hariri)
• Source code for the OneNote Table Sorter and Table of Contents powertoy (John Guin)
• Executing SQL Stored Procedures with Simple.Data (David Neal)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: PineCone (Jason Jarrett)
• DocX v1.0.0.12 and Cosmos – C# Open Source Managed Operating System: Release 87612 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Creating A Keyboard-Shortcuts Module In A Modular JavaScript Application (Ben Nadel)
• Font.js: A Powerful Font Toolkit for JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Managing Links and URLs with T4MVC (David J Kelley)
• Agile New Year resolutions (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Fix: the value ‚x‘ is not valid for Foo in ASP.NET MVC (Code Inside Team)
• HTML5 Interactive Maps for Both Mobile and Desktop (Dave Mahon)
• Introducing Dragonfly – another .NET HTTP server (Louis DeJardin)
• Adding rich Selector support for MVC (Matt Hidinger)
• Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2 (Peter Kellner)
• Ajax requests to other domains with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (Giorgio Sironi)
• Skip Intro – CSS3 is the new Flash (Scott Hanselman)
• .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us (Dan Wellman)
• The Technical Realities of Cloud Computing: MATRIX Whitepaper (John Brothers)
• CoffeeScript Object Comprehensions (Excerpt from CoffeeScript in Action) (Brandon Satrom)
• Let’s make TCP faster (Scott Knaster)
• This Week in Privacy (Adrian Bateman)
• Thinking in boxes (Marlon Grech)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Job Titles and Scrum (David Starr)
• Splitting user stories: the hamburger method (Gojko Adzic)
• Progressive Enhancement – A Better Web Design Philosophy (Pad Gallagher)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PROTECT YOUR Windows Phone APP AGAINST (casual) PIRACY (Windows Phone Geek)
• Split Generic.xaml in Silverlight Applications (Loek van den Ouweland)
• New book: XAML Developer Reference (Kim Spilker)
• 2000 WPF Things #479 – Using a Layout Transform on Child Elements in a Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Overwriting the default WebRequest used by WebClient (Morten Nielsen)
• Integrating with the .NET Framework UI Controls (Peter Vogel)
• DataGrid customization with Elements 5: Sparklines, template selectors and more (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 173 – PowerScripting Podcast – Greg Shields (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Gweek 036: Grab bag of comics, book, gadgets, apps, and websites we love (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Ping 129: Windows Phone climbing the ladder, Xbox admits fault, Visual Studio Game! Bing is for Doing (Laura Foy)
• Screencast: Building ASP.NET MVC Forms with Razor (ASP.NET MVC Foundations Series) (Michael Kennedy)
• Yet Another Podcast #57–Kendo UI (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Scrum.org’s New Agile Webcast Series (no trans fats) (David Starr)
• What To Expect At Your First MVP Summit? (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Uruguay SharePoint Community Launch (Joel Oleson)

Database

• Monday Morning Mistakes: Remote Connectivity to SQL Server (Jorge Segarra)
• Sorting a String as a Number with T-SQL and SSIS (MikeDavisSQL)
• SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring and Fine-Prints – Quiz – Puzzle – 23 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Estimating Mean Uptime for Team-based uptime measurements (Ted Krueger)
• Deadlock Monitoring (Grant Fritchey)
• Declaring Length for VARCHAR and NVARCHAR datatypes IS Necessary (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Configuring a TFS 2010 build agent to compile SharePoint 2010 projects (Rory Primrose)

Miscellaneous

• ‘Diablo III’ getting big skill and rune system changes, losing senior producer (Adi Robertson)
• Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the ‘consumer preview’ (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #802 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #3) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 1/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #30 (Franky)
• The Morning Brew #1028 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-23 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 23 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

• Getting Started with Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Run Your Unit Tests in Parallel to Maximize Performance (Steve Smith)
• Announcing OData T4 for C#, Preview 1 (Ahmed Moustafa)
• New Videos on CQRS/DDD and Practical CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• What’s it like building apps for Windows 8? Developers speak out (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Puzzlers available for download (Bill Wagner)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: From start to finishing–tracing a request (Oren Eini)
• Teams and TFS Groups in TFS11, the backlog, board and security settings. (Clemens Reijnen)
• .NET Demon Provides Continuous Compilation and Testing for Visual Studio (Jenni Konrad)
• C#, Async, Limits, oh my! (Peter Ritchie)
• Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: Team Explorer My Work Page (Mickey Gousset)
• More on TPL Data Flow from Zlatko Michailov (Jonathan Allen)
• Building an English-Based Rules Engine in .NET with IronRuby Slides and Demo (Keith Elder)
• SkyDrive API Link Round-Up and A "Get right to work introduction to Lucene.Net" (Greg Duncan)
• Aggressive Inlining in the CLR 4.5 JIT (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Abusing the Microsoft Research’s Touch Mouse Sensor API SDK with a Console-based Heat-map (Scott Hanselman)
• Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent (Shawn Cicoria)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Gets Final Tune-Up — Enum Support Promised in 5.0 (David Ramel)
• Simple Microsoft™ CAB Sample (Tom Puglisi)
• Timeouts for long running operations… (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• HTML5 and validation issues with this blog (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Facebook App using DotNetNuke (Dave M. Bush)
• How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth (Jef Claes)
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 1 (Shi Chuan)
• How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress (Kevin Muldoon)
• Tracking API usage with Google Analytics (Maarten Balliauw)
• Retrieving a Logged On User ID (Bunch)
• Just published my first node.js Windows Azure application (Eric Nelson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: AggregateOrientedDatabase (Martin Fowler)
• TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools (James Kovacs)
• Article: Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey (Shubhra Maji)
• The quickest and easiest “Getting Started w/ GitHub” article you’ll ever read! (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Faceted Minimization: Simplifying the Sidebar Navigation (Anthony)
• "Re: I have a question about proving code correctness" (Frans Bouma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PhoneGap on Windows Phone Adds Support For Facebook, Twitter, Bing Maps, and More (Eric Genesky)
• How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #477 – Default ZIndex Value for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Ly: Expression Design, XAML and Expression Blend, why bother? (Surf4Fun)
• “Metro Done Right” according to my tweeps (András Velvárt)
• WPFSpark 1.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Pod Show – Building a SharePoint team-Episode 69 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Full Stack Resumes–MVVM Design (Jesse Liberty)
• Visual Studio Achievements in 60 seconds (Dan Fernandez, Karsten J. & Golnaz)
• [Humor] – What Project Managers Say and Talk Like (Peter Saddington)
• Architecting Applications for Multiple UIs video now available! (Paul Sheriff)
• Blog Post: New and Improved Generator Overview Video (Autumn Wilkins)

Community / Events

• Join me at the ALM & Test days in Italy (Jason Zander)
• “I Gotta Get Me Some of That [Azure]” (Jim O’Neil)
• Thoughts on the Latest PASS Fracas… (Audrey Hammonds)
• Meet Abhishek Sur – Client App Dev MVP from India (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Microsoft International Development Centers (Anne Cheng)

Database

• Use VALUES clause to get the maximum value from some columns [SQL Server, T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS Tip: Hide a tablix if no rows returned (Jen McCown)
• SQL SERVER – MERGE or INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE – Quiz – Puzzle – 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How I use PowerShell to generate table output for blog posts from query results (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – Powershell Excel to HTML (Jack Vamvas)
• Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_ExecuteSQL’ (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2012 Database Engine Tuning Advisor: Now With More Plan Cache! (Thomas LaRock)
• RavenDB Sequential Number Generator (Nick Berardi)

SharePoint

• WebPartAdderExtension – a better way of deploying web parts (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• Powershell Emailing Strings as attachments (Mike Koerner)

Miscellaneous

• Jobless rate for software developers: 4.4 percent (Greg Lamm)
• Microsoft has ‘perks galore’ but still lags behind Google (Jennifer Sokolowsky & Greg Lamm)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 138 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #799 and Double Shot #800 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 20 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily and Weekly Front-End Dev Resources (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1026 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-19 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug

• Getting Started with Mobile Web Development Using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Rachel Appel)
• Upcoming T-SQL Toolbar and Context menu changes (Sam Hughes)
• Very handy utility – hurl.it (Eric Nelson)
• Making testing in Visual Studio demon hot… New RedGate ".NET Demon" Visual Studio Extension beta (Greg Duncan)
• 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides (Jon Galloway)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Top Visual Studio Extensions (Prashant Khandelwal)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: If you won’t respect the database, there will be pain (Oren Eini)
• How to use INTERNET_OPTION_SERVER_CERT_CHAIN_CONTEXT with InternetQueryOption in C# (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• TFS11 on Azure January 2012 update – request feedback (Clemens Reijnen)
• New Article: Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure Service Bus Queues – Compared and Contrasted (Valery Mizonov)
• Mapping and Location with Monotouch on DevProConnections web site (Wally McClure)
• How Nuget could improve (Paul Stack)
• Displaying a Map of the Current Location with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

• Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions (Ben Nadel)
• Working with HTML tables using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
• Style sheet strong arm: Reset.css versus Normalization.css (Eric Newton)
• Kinect, HTML5, WebSockets and Canvas (Greg Duncan)
• The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Interface (Giorgio Sironi)
• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4: slides and demo are now online (Simone Chiaretta)
• URI segments, dots, REST, and a .NET bug (Christopher Smith)
• You Tube API – recall Video Meta files with .NET (Code Inside Team)
• jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
• New Web Workbench features (Ivan Towlson)
• The Principles of Web API Usage (Janet Wagner)
• How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure (Aaron Stannard)
• WebClient/WebRequest threading untangled (Andreas Hammar)
• One Azure Web Role, Multiple Websites (Brian Hitney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• "Testing In An Agile World" Article Posted On Developer Fusion (Malcolm Anderson)
• What is the roll of the Project Manager in Scrum? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
• Git Cheat Sheet (Mark Curphey)
• Open Group Publishes its First Cloud and International SOA Standards (Mike Walker)
• FAQ: What is the difference between “Assigned To” and “Tester” in MTM? (Gautam Goenka)
• An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
• Testing framework is not just for writing… tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 2000 WPF Things #475 – Child Elements in Canvas Can Overlap (Sean Sexton)
• Free ly: Using Expression Design with Expression Blend an XAML and Free Water Scroll Viewer for Expression (Surf4Fun)
• Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control (Morten Nielsen)
• Calling Navigate From The View Model (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gillmor Gang 01.17.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Let’s Play TDD #159: How Do We Store Data? (James Shore)
• Boagworld: Create a consistent user experience across all online channels (Paul Boag)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #130: Timo Rein, Cofounder of Pipedrive (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• Developing Windows Phone Apps Webcasts on Jan. 24 and Jan. 26, 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
• Thank you Nestor Portillo for your Years of Leadership and Service to the MVP Award Program (MVP Award Program)
• Welcome to My New Blog (Elijah Manor)
• Speaking at Hub City NUG Thursday Jan 19th 2012 (Keith Elder)

Database

• CTE command In Sql Server (Vivek Johari)
• Windows 8, ReFS and SQL Server (Denny Cherry)
• SQL SERVER – Various Ways to Create Constraints – Quiz – Puzzle – 17 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• ORAPOCO: ORM Light to work with Oracle (J. Torrecilla)

Miscellaneous

• IPv6: countdown to launch (Erik Kline)
• SkyDrive and Office: 7 tips for full-powered collaboration in the cloud across PCs and Macs (Anand Babu)
• New ReFS File System Will Debut in Windows Server 8, Not Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)
• Microspeak: Walls and ladders (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1024 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #5 (Devon Govett)
• January 17th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Double Shot #798 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad by Dan Pilone