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Top Links

• Vulnerability in AntiXSS Library Could Allow Information Disclosure (Barry Dorrans)
• jQuery UI 1.8.17 (Scott González)
• JavaScript Needs Blocks (Yehuda Katz)
• jsFiddle is Well Worth 3 Minutes (John Papa)
• I’ve got $100 that says your smartphone will get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access and the essence of needless work, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Changing the default Framework from Client Profile to Full in five minutes and five steps (aka Editing a Project Template to change its default Framework) (Greg Duncan)
• DateTime.UtcNow is generally preferable to DateTime.Now (Kirill Osenkov)
• SQL Azure Federations and the Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Phalanger – The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework – Release 3.0 (January 2012) for .NET 4.0 and C# LinkedList Tutorial – Learning C# (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Using The RequireJS Build / Optimizer To Concatenate Modularized CSS Files (Ben Nadel)
• Using ASP.NET MVC Validation Mechanism without ASP.NET MVC (Alexander Beletsky)
• A Really Empty ASP.NET MVC 3 Project Template (Phil Haack)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Subclass (Giorgio Sironi)
• Show Large Image on Mouseover with jQuery (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Levels in Renderscript (Tim Bray)
• iHeartRadio Launches Developer API (Sarah Perez)
• Full Screen API embiggens the lowliest of web apps (Dave Mahon)
• Accessing Windows Azure blob Storage as Network Drive and Running Apache Pig (Pig Latin) at Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Facebook Mobile Evangelist Tries To Convince Developers To Build Web Apps (Boonsri Dickinson)
• Running VisualPHPUnit in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• (Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders (Chris Coyier)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.7.0 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Top 10 Ways to Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin (J.D. Meier)
• Scrum (2012) – Should I fire my testers and replace them with developers? (Mark Pearl)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Coded UI Tests : Property “ReadOnly” cannot be retrieved due to the current state of Edit (Jonathan Antoine)
• Why Scrolling is the New Click (Anthony)
• Non-trivial and real-world feedbacks on writing Unit-Tests (Patrick Smacchia)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Localization Improvements for YLAD (Peter Kuhn)
• Data from Cloud on Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Real-time Direct2D Graph for WPF (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit January 2012 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• WP7 Tips: How to Unpin an Application from the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Threading Considerations for Binding and Change Notification in Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #470 – Elements that Support RightToLeft Flow (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #6 – Make your WP7 Vibrate (Senthil Kumar)
• Tombstone Territory: Saving Silverlight/XNA State of your WP7 Game and Free Tool for XAML: XamlPadX 4.0 (Surf4Fun)
• Living the Dream: Make the Video Game You’ve Always Wanted and Get Paid For It (Dave Isbitski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Hanselman and the Web Stack of Love! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 272: CES 2012 Day 2 – 01.10.2012 and The Vergecast 009: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Admin Accounts, Block Sizes, PerfView (Larry Larsen)
• Boagworld – Integrating Facebook and your website and Don’t allow form to compromise function (Paul Boag)
• Hot Apps: Earthworm Jim HD, Mini Squadrom, Dress Pal, Grantophone, Ski Guide (Laura Foy)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #129: Michael Sliwinski, CEO of Nozbe (Bob Walsh)

 

Community / Events

• January 18th in Portland, OR: Agile Tune-Up (James Shore)
• Lead Better Austin, TX – April 2012 (Roy Osherove)
• What’s in Microsoft’s What’s Next booth at CES? (Steve Clayton)
• Sharing The Point Venues in Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile Announced! (Joel Oleson)
• SF Drinkup #33 (Kami Lott)
• ComponentOne is taking on CodeMash (Kevin Griffin)

 

Database

• SQL Server Can Run Databases from Network Shares & NAS (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server – Maintaining different environments (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Reasons for Using Output Clause – Quiz – Puzzle – 10 of 31 and SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at expressor Data Quality Solutions (Pinal Dave)
• How To Improve Database Performance Without Changing Code (Thomas LaRock)
• Getting Started with MongoDB – Part 2 (Matthew Setter)
• MySQL MyISAM and InnoDB Engine Differences (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

SharePoint

• Office 365/SharePoint Online + Windows Azure Authentication Challenges – About this Series (Andrew Connell)
• Quick hint: How to Find the Installed Language Packs of a MOSS 2007 Installation (Martin W. Angler)

 

Miscellaneous

• Squeezing Python into an Android with a Single APK (Christopher Smith)
• Windows Store is coming in February – will your company have an application in it? (Eric Nelson)
• Windows 8 on ARM: The desktop remains (or does it?) (Mary Jo Foley)
• 2012 is a very important year for Microsoft and it starts it with a bang (Michael Gillett)
• Everything to Everyone – The Mobile Landscape (Tommy Rausch)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Strategy for 2012 (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – Jaunary 11 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #793 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1019 (Chris Alcock)
• MySQL Resources and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-10 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 – #0023 and Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 – 2 – #0024 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for January 2-8, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 10 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript 24-Hour Trainer (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jeremy McPeak

 

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review of Scaling Lean & Agile Development (Ade Miller)
• Refactoring Exercise (Brett Schuchert)
• What I expect my Continuous Integration server to do for me. (Derik Whittaker) – Link of the Day
• What are you solving for? (Joe Ocampo)
• Why do we extract method? (Mark Needham)
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) (Mike Walker)
• Component-Driven Development and IoC Containers and Developing Component-Driven Applications powered by IoC Containers (Rinat Abdullin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Not Sure If I’ve Said Often Enough.. I LOVE LINQPAD!!! (Peter Kellner)
• Retrying Operations (Tony Rasa)
• From LINQ to XPath and Back Again (K. Scott Allen)
• DSL Tools Model Bus Sample (Peter Provost)

 

Web Development

• Forms Auth\Windows Auth – what is more common? (Brad Abrams)
• Twitter From ASP.NET – Friends vs Followers (Dave M. Bush)
• jQuery Tools vs jQuery UI (Marc Grabanski)
• More group slicing in XSLT (Marcelo Lopez Luiz)
• TUTORIAL: Creating an IE8 Accelator (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The .NET Newbie’s Guide to Customizing the DataGridView Control (Susan Sales Harkins)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Getting Your House in Order – Overview (Howard Dierking) – Be sure to check out Howard’s entire “Extreme ASP.NET Makeover” series on Channel 9.
• MSDN Webcast: XNA Game Studio 3.0 (Lindsay Rutter)
• Scott Hanselman – NerdDinner.com (Robert Hess)
• The History of Microsoft – 1992 (Tina)

 

Database

• SQL Server Summaries with ROLLUP and CUBE (Richard Carr)
• Removing replication and handling tables with identity seeds (Ted Krueger)

 

Miscellaneous

• Boxee Alpha media center for Windows to go public on June 23 (Brad Linder)
• D&D-style map of C++ (Cory Doctorow)
• How to view stats for the entire lifetime of a CodePlex project – #043 (Sara Ford)
• How to Remove the .NET ClickOnce Firefox Extension (Scott Hanselman)
• SQLAuthority News – Rambling of Author and Technology Musing – Bing, Google, Windows 7, Books, Blogs, Twitter and Life (Pinal Dave)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for June 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #362 (Chris Alcock)
• List of Microsoft training kits (Gunnar Peipman)
• Random stuff surrounding Silverlight for June 4, 2009 and Silverlight Cream for June 04, 2009 — #608 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (6/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Everyman Links for June 4, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 326 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 4th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

 

Thanks to everyone who came out to Philly.NET’s Code Camp last Saturday! I had a great time meeting many of the attendees and other speakers. I think I’ve learned some good lessons from my first public .NET speaking engagement and hope to refine and improve my talk and give it again soon.

I presented ‘ASP.NET MVC Development with S#arp Architecture’ on Rachel Appel’s ASP.NET track. If you are interested in checking out the slides or my sample code, you can get them here:

• Slide Deck
• Sample Code

There is a great list of useful links at the end of the slideshow. Make sure to check them all out if you are working with ASP.NET MVC.