• Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture (Steven Sinofsky)
• EF 4.3 Released (EF Team)
• EF 4.3 Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Windows 8: The Facts about ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Find/Replace in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions (David Amador)
• Microsoft Deprecates Legacy Workflow Foundation Libraries in New Beta Release (Richard Seroter)
• What is the effect of memory-mapped file access on GetLastError()? (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Released (Migrations) (Jarod Ferguson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: StudioShell (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Google web fonts (Julian M. Bucknall)
• A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients (Ben Howdle)
• Asynchronously Load HTML Templates For Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC (James Baker)
• Referencing JavaScript files from a CDN in a CRM 2011 form (Marc Schweigert)
• How many copies of your blob is stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mobile Boilerplate v3.0 Released! (Shi Chuan)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• CORS for XHR in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)
• Developing Mobile Dashboards for ComponentArt Dashboard Server (Milos Glisic)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Development Pendulum (John Sonmez)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)
• Moq Partial Mocks (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Design Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Developping an app for the Windows Phone platform (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #492 – Layout Can Change at Runtime (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch Screen Tips: Scrollbars and Splitters (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #163: Combinatorial Explosion (James Shore)
• RadioTFS – Yes We Kanban (Martin Woodward)
• Security, Security, Security! Helping the LIDNUG community build safer software (Troy Hunt)
• Peter Heldens – Creating Scripts with TouchDevelop (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 11: SignalR (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Free "Introduction to Reactive Extensions" on-demand video training available, with 8 sessions and growing (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 (Katrien de Graeve)
• Learn About Windows Azure for Technical Decision Makers, Developers, Architects (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft Student Developers Showcase Their Work at the White House Science Fair (Chuck Lawton)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)
• ExpressionBlend.com is Live! (Daniel Vaughan)
• C# for Gaming: AltDevConf This Weekend (Miguel de Icaza)
• 2012 MVP Global Summit- Tour of the Neighborhood (MVP Award Program)

Database

• An open letter to anyone with “SQL Server” on their resume (Jen McCown)
• PBM for SSIS? What policies would you want? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser (Pinal Dave)
• Executing scripts with sp_addscriptexec (Brandon Williams)
• When you pit RavenDB & SQL Server against one another… (Oren Eini)
• Three Consulting Tools to Make You a Better DBA (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

• How to Programmatically Update an ODC File (Shubh Raj Singh)
• Social Squared version 6.1 release (Phill Duffy)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.1 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Kids are the future. Teach ‘em to code. (Cameron McEfee)
• Reinstaller: Install All Your Previously Downloaded Apps Automatically (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows 8 ARM edition will include built-in Office apps and access to the traditional desktop mode and Microsoft unveils Office 15 Metro design look and feel (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – February 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #815 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1041 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-09 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Shawn Wildermuth

• 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

• Learn jQuery in 30 Days (Jeffrey Way)
• [Special Edition] It’s Kinect day! The Kinect For Windows SDK v1 is out! (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor and Setting up your Development Environment (Dan Fernandez)
• Caliburn Micro Part 4: The Event Aggregator (Jason)
• Consuming “Data Explorer” published data feeds in Visual Studio primer (Data Explorer Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building Help Files with Sandcastle (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Architecture (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why doesn’t C# support lambdas for properties? (Nathan Evans)
• Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C# (Rick Strahl)
• Hands-On Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure (MS Downloads)
• Announcing Application Building Blocks for Metro applications (Valentin Stoychev)
• Windows 8 Touch Events Interactions (Charles Petzold)
• Kinect Service (Brian Peek)
• Bones, I’m just a Skeleton… A the full skeleton tutorial (Greg Duncan)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Chronic (Jason Jarrett)
• Insert Dynamic Images in Infragistics Reporting (Tom Puglisi)
• NHibernate Metadata (Ricardo Peres)
• Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5 Adds Versioning, Designer Improvements (Jenni Konrad)
• 30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
• Kinect Toolbot 1.1.1.0 and Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit 1.5 and Callisto 2.0.15 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• 5 Minutes with Data Binding and JavaScript using Knockout and JsViews (John Papa)
• JavaScript File & Folder Structures: Just Pick One (Derick Bailey)
• Star Ratings With Very Little CSS (Chris Coyier)
• On the Viability of HTML5 Games (Dave Mahon)
• Client-side Messaging in JavaScript – Part 2 (Postal.js) (Jim Cowart)
• Binding jQuery Grid to Remote Data using JSONP (jqwidgets)
• Book Review–HTML5 Cookbook (Lori Lalonde)
• How to create animated tooltips with CSS3 (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Delegation with Inheritance (Giorgio Sironi)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Node for Front-End Developers – $3.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• * { box-sizing: border-box } FTW (Paul Irish)
• Get Started with Node.js + Windows Azure: Resources (Peter Laudati)
• Backbone.js by Example – Part 1 (Chaker Nakhli)
• Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0 (Mark Otto)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New Tools in My TDD Arsenal (Alexander Beletsky)
• An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: TFS Support for Agile practices (Giles Davies)
• Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master (Johanna Rothman)
• The Science of Kanban – Economics (Karl Scotland)
• Limit your abstractions: Analyzing a DDD application (Oren Eini)
• The One Button Mystique (Jeff Atwood)
• Ability to Execute (JD Meier)
• Improving the Git Windows experience: Downloads (Jimmy Bogard)
• Architectural Principle – Focus on Simplicity (Rinat Abdullin)
• Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• wp7 Collectionviewsource filtering (babaandthepigman)
• MVVMLight Using Two Views (Barry Lapthorn)
• Windows Phone Design Guidelines on MSDN (Cheryl Simmons)
• Caliburn.Micro v1.3.1 and SliderPanel for WPF v2 (CodePlex)
• Missing Background Image on Panorama Control breaks ContextMenu and Causes Performance Issues in Windows Phone Applications (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #486 – InkCanvas Supports Different Editing Modes (Sean Sexton)
• Expression Design: Ellipse, Clone the Ellipse, Cut a Path using the ellipse (Surf4Fun)
• Behavior to force TextBox model update to prevent trouble with the ApplicationBar (Joost van Schaik)
• XAMLflix continues with RadBarCode for Silverlight and WPF (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rob Labbe Gets Us Rolling on the Security Development Lifecycle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Deploying LightSwitch Applications to Windows Azure (Zhiming Xue)
• New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to make Sliding Panels all in Blend (Silverlight Show)
• Cloud Computing: Start Smart – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• What The Tech 103: You’re Not Steve Jobs (Paul Thurrott)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 012 – 02.01.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• New contest announced: “30 to Launch” Your Path to a Windows Phone App in 30 days (Dave Isbitski)
• February 9, 2012 Meeting – Asynchronous Programming (Philly alt.net)
• Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• These 20 tweeters just got cured of their #DroidRage (Ben Rudolph)
• Nothin’ But .NET Baby! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Register for Q1 Release Webinar by Telerik – Sharpen your .Net Ninja Skills (Kunal Chowdhury)

Database

• SQL SERVER – An Inspiring Personal Story – Movie from The Book – Video Course – SQL Server Questions and Answers – Pluralsight (Pinal Dave)
• Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Acquiring Experience is Key (John Sansom)
• Need to create a time dimension down to the millisecond? (James Serra)

SharePoint

• Using Autofac in SharePoint 2010 (Matt Cowan)

Miscellaneous

• The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
• How “Metro” will Office 15 for Windows 8 be? (damaster)
• The Web is the new Terminal: Are you using the Web’s Keyboard Shortcuts and Hotkeys? (Scott Hanselman)
• An introduction to the R language (Giorgio Sironi)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 1 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #809 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Monthly Report January 2012: Total Posts 31 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 2/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1035 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-01 (Bob Rhubart)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #7 (Devon Govett)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 23-29, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Cookbook by Andrew Zhu

• Modern Web Development – Part 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Acting on file management feedback (Steven Sinofsky)
• Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Currying vs partial function application (Jon Skeet)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a Useful Task List in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
• Ask Ayende: What about the QA env? (Oren Eini)
• Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C# (Visual C# Team)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management & Build and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Microsoft Test Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Building a Windows 8 Metro App, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 7 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Entity Framework Membership Provider 2.0 (CodePlex)
• Metro Snack #2: What is WinRT? (Brent Schooley)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 3, C++/CLI and Other Options and Analysis of a Mobile Redirection Framework and Obfuscated Regular Expressions (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Installing Mono on Windows (Paul Stack)
• What Code Comments are Not For. (Peter Ritchie)
• Entity Framework vs. LightSpeed (John-Daniel Trask)
• How to force Nuget not to update log4net to 1.2.11 (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The .NET Gadgeteer Diaper Alarm Part 1 (Moisture Sensor) (Pete Brown)
• More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations (Glenn Gailey)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: VerifyArgs (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• How to Access jQuery’s Internal Data (Elijah Manor)
• Translating JavaScript to Dart (Aaron Wheeler & Marcin Wichary)
• ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, MultiSelect and jQuery (Rick Anderson)
• Tag Cloud in ASP.NET MVC using Clickable HTML 5 Canvas Elements (Sumit Maitra)
• Trying out Underscore on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• jsfiddle Keyboard Shortcuts (Ryan Sukale)
• Scalable web apps: the complexity issue (Ariya Hidayat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – People (Karl Scotland)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Mobile Interfaces – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Code reviews in the 21st Century (Alex Staveley)
• QA: A Hillbilly Love Story (Kyle Baley)
• Getting started with a Mocking Framework (Filip Ekberg)
• Finding Files by Name With Git (Christopher Bennage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting latest Tweets in Windows Phone apps using Twitter REST API and JSON.NET (Windows Phone Geek)
• MarketPlaceSearchTask in Windows Phone and WebBrowserTask and MediaPlayerLauncher in Windows Phone and Code to search location on Bing Map and Launchers related to MarketPlace in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 2: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) (Gill Cleeren)
• Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM (Joe Mayo)
• Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone (Mary Jo Foley)
• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• HTML5 on Windows Phone: A Simple Boilerplate (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #484 – InkCanvas Contains a Collection of Strokes (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeremy Likness is all Silverlight 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 130: Xbox LIVE for Droids and iPhones, Where’s MIX, Microsoft points, SQL Server Party (Laura Foy)
• Boagworld: Tips for getting design signoff (Paul Boag)
• Quick news: Free Step by Step videos (Kim Spilker)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 30th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Part 2 of the Webinar ‘Metro and WinRT for Silverlight/WPF’ scheduled for Feb 9th (Silverlight Show)
• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows 8 Metro style app recap (Tony Verguldi Jr.)
• Android Developers on Google+ (Tim Bray)
• NYC’s Own Chevon Christie Named ‘Microsoft Tech Student of the Month’ (Peter Laudati)
• 3 Reasons to Attend Prairie Dev Con–West (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes (Jack Vamvas)
• Complex reporting off a SSAS cube (James Serra)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Merge Replication hotfixes (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Advantages of Partitioning – Quiz – Puzzle – 30 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Compact data and schema script utility – Version 3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Crunching Big Data with “Data Explorer” and “Social Analytics” (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit and Upgrade worksheet for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)

PowerShell

• Invalid JSON results via Powershell 3 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)

Miscellaneous

• Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off (Mary Jo Foley)
• Keeping Your Documents Safe (Debra Littlejohn Shinder)
• MIT brings Google App Inventor Back As Open-Source Project (Phillip Torrone)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #807 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 30 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1033 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-30 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #4) (Himanshu Singh)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 23-29, 2012 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s Hard Code (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

• From Concept to Code in 6 hours: Shipping my first Windows Phone App (Scott Hanselman)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages. (Arturo Toledo)
• Something’s Missing from the WebBrowser Control (Peter Kuhn)
• Testing a jQuery Plugin with ExpectThat and Mocha (Daniel Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
• Enabling SSL for a WCF Service (Christophe Geers)
• Log4Net basics with a Console Application (c#) (Mark Pearl)
• Windows Phone 7 – Location Service and Bing Maps (Shai Raiten)
• Hazards of Converting Binary Data To A String (Phil Haack)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Guard (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Hidden Gems of HTML5: classList (Chris Heilmann)
• Find the jQuery Bug #3: Give Me Truth (Elijah Manor)
• Vimeo API in ASP.NET using C# (Fazlur Rahman)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Inheritance with Delegation (Giorgio Sironi)
• Page Transitions with CSS3 (Sergio Camalich)
• Customizing your Hadoop cluster running on your own Windows Azure Subscription (Avkash Chauhan)
• Backbone JS – Hello World tutorial (Veera Sundar)
• Naming via Class, ID, and Name (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with Autobox (Mehfuz Hossain)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Introduction (Karl Scotland)
• 05. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – No Double, Triple Testing and 06. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – PBI Implementation Sequence (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone apps, built out of “the 3 P’s”: Panoramas, Pivots, and Pages (Jeff Wilcox)
• GTasks Plus v1.0 – Open Source Windows Phone 7 Application (Max)
• 2000 WPF Things #483 – InkCanvas MinHeight and MinWidth (Sean Sexton)
• Calling Web Services to Validate Data in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
• Windows Phone with modem access – sending SMS messages through a terminal emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Tablet Show – Andrew Glover Plugs the PhoneGap (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 123 – 01.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Red-Gate Webinars (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Ball Flow Recap: CodeMash Coding Dojo (Brendan Enrick)
• About Orchard Governance and Microsoft (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sharing The Point Antarctica (Joel Oleson)
• Windows Azure Discovery Events (Zhiming Xue)
• The new OpenEverything organization (Sebastien Lambla)
• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands (Scott Guthrie)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle v5.2 and Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL v5.2 (MS Downloads)
• MongoDB: Embedded Documents vs Multiple Collections (Karl Seguin)
• Execution Plans, What Do I Look At? (Grant Fritchey)
• System Base Tables (Jason Brimhall)
• What are the impersonation rights for my database users? (Mark Broadbent)

Miscellaneous

• Vim for rails developers: browse Ruby, RSpec and Rails docs quickly (Luca Pette)
• The problem with virtual training: instructional design, not distance (Jessica Stillman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Essential iOS Build and Release – $5.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Why does it take Task Manager longer to appear when you start it from the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog? (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 30 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #806 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1032 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #31 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for January 29, 2012 – #0033 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD by James A. Whittaker

• 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

• 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

• Hypermedia and Web API. Design brain dump and samples (Glenn Block)
• TWC9: January 6, 2012 – C9 Video Queue, Silverlight 5, Metro and WP7 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Is PhoneGap Right for You? (David J. Kelley)
• What You May Not Know About jQuery (Burke Holland)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stein’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Stack Unwind Does Not Occur When C++ Exceptions Propagate Into Managed Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Windows Libraries for JavaScript: Part I (Chris Sells)
• How to work with NuGet? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: SQL Queries and Parameter Prefix (Ricardo Peres)
• A bit more about Using Ninject 2.2 – factory methods (AngelEyes)

Web Development

• jQuery Splitter and jQuery Tooltip (jqwidgets)
• ASP.NET Page Methods with Parameters (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Intro to Property-Based Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Request Correlation and Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Hadoop Streaming and Reporting and Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage (Carl Nolan)
• JSON.net and Deserializing Anonymous Types (David Hoerster)
• New Year – Updated Ubuntu Rails Setup (Eric Proctor)
• Microsoft Previews Windows Azure Application Integration Services (Richard Seroter)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 2 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting Results the Agile Way – Top 10 Best Seller on Amazon in Time-Management and 10 Things Great Managers Do and 30 Days of Getting Results – Free Time-Management Training (JD Meier)
• CRUD it’s now CQRS … or is it? (Jeremy Likness)
• Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile Adoption and Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic (Peter Cooper)
• You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it… (Jason Jarrett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Show a deleted List Item with a Strike Through in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
• New maintenance release for Windows Phone (Eric Hautala)
• Windows Phone 7 Info Hub – All the phone info, one helpful hub [#wpdev] (Greg Duncan)
• WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrieving a WebPage Title and Sharing it with the ShareLinkTask in WP7 (Michael Crump)
• Follow Up: How Many Apps Are on Your Windows Phone Handset? (Richard Hay)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – User Feedback (Rudi Grobler)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 1of Many and WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 2of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 049 – “Dial 666 For Evil Carrier” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 425: Hello 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)
• Using the Windows Phone Storage NuGets for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 120 – 01.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• New Video: Integrating Test Studio with TFS (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• RavenDB Course in London: 28–29 February (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Nite No. 10, January 11, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Microsoft Free Virtual Private Cloud Event, Jan 17th and code.NASA – Coding opportunities for wanna-be space cowboys and girls. NASA says "We’ve got our OSS space app’s right here…" (Greg Duncan)

Database

• The officially easiest way to play with SQL Server 2012… The SQL Server Virtual Labs (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Collation and Collation Sensitivity – Quiz – Puzzle – 6 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Indexed Views and Restrictions – Quiz – Puzzle – 7 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Federation – Introduction (Shaun)
• Normalizing Your Database (James Serra)
• Does My MongoDB Replica Set Need An Arbiter? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – About this Series and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Why You Should Care & the Development Story and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Breaking Out of the Sandbox and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Integration Options (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Best way to browse iOS documentation (Deepak Kapoor)
• Excerpt Old Posts – A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit (Jon Galloway)
• Weekend project: Create a family calendar (Juliette Guilbert)
• Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver and Learning Android: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with android-maven-plugin (Mark Needham)
• Why I think Windows Phone is superior phone OS? (Slobodan Pavkov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Pie in the Sky (January 6, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Maker Geek Roundup 005 for 1/7/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Windows Dev News for January 07, 2011 – #0022 and SilverlightShow for Dec 26, 2011 – Jan 1, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 66 – Enterprise Scrum Tool Review & Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: January 6, 2012 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen

• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 3) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 22: Why Collaboration Matters (A Real World Example) (Jim Holmes)
• Channel 9 New feature: your own personal video queue (Duncan Mackenzie)
• The Likes & Dislikes of Microsoft in 2011 (Scott Barnes)
• Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology (Soulskill)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Documentation Comments (Richard Carr)
• I am reviewing Microsoft’s 70-515 C# exam PrepKit from UCertify (Abhishek Sur)
• Getting Assembly Information Using Reflection (Michael Ceranski)
• With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory and Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background (Peter Kellner)
• Working with DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro App and Working with Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML Metro App (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Hashtables vs. Arrays (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New GhostDoc Pro in Beta soon (Tatworth)
• New Resharper Code Style Sharing in v6.1 Features. (Mark Pearl)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects (Elton Stoneman)
• Graphite with .Net and Ubuntu 11.10 (Henrik Feldt)
• Sandcastle Help File Bbuilder v1.9.3.3 Beta 1 (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 10 – Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job from Interactive JavaScript Console (Avkash Chauhan)
• HTML5 Progress Bars (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET Tutorial – Creating Web.Config file (Chris D.)
• Introduction to Column Hiding in jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• CSS Selector Profiler, Source Mapping and Software Rendering (Peter Beverloo)
• Checking if a view has changed in ASP.NET (Tim)
• APIs in 2012: Predictions From the Experts (Adam DuVander)
• Day 11 – Animating with sprite sheets (Val Head)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 4 (Dan Wellman)
• Batman.js: Micro-framework with macro features (Dave Mahon)
• IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells (Rick Strahl)
• Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis? (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating PHPUnit Tests in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• Out of context, architecture is nothing but modern art (Oren Eini)
• Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas (Bobby Johnson)
• More flexibility at work equals better health, new study confirms (Jessica Stillman)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Donald Reifer: “Software Change Management: Doing More With Less” (Devon Musgrave)
• xUnit.net 1.9 (CodePlex)
• Interview: Jeff Sutherland: Are Agile Teams Truly Agile? (Jeff Sutherland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Running Windows Phone Unit Tests via MSBuild (Francis Cheung)
• WPF TextBox With Ellipsis (Mark)
• 2000 WPF Things #465 – Using GridSplitters with Nested Grids (Sean Sexton)
• Vibrating the phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet (Jonathan Allen)
• Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without (Loek van den Ouweland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2011: Scott, Andrei and Herb – Ask Us Anything (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #156: Persistence, for Realsies (James Shore)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 008 – 01.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Minesweeper, Cheezia. Interior Design, Talking Alien, Zombie Squish (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Maine’s First SharePoint User Group (Jim O’Neil)
• Engadget’s 2012 CES Preview (Engadget staff)

Database

• CSV to SQL Server Compact scripting utility (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding Identity Beyond its Every Increasing Nature – Quiz – Puzzle – 3 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment service released (Denis Gobo)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft patent could signal Xbox digital video recorder (Greg Lamm)
• Metro Style Desktop Wallpaper Calendar – January 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Cropping screenshots in OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Learn to Code in 2012 with Free Weekly Programming Lessons from Codecademy [Programming] (Melanie Pinola)
• UX service consulting: It’s all about motivation! (Miao Wang)
• 5 Awesome Learning Resources For Programmers (To help you and your kids to grow the geek neurons) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Holo Everywhere (Tim Bray)
• Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace (Ed Oswald)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #788 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 04/01/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1014 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/03/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2011 – #0021 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference (Oracle Press) by Kevin Loney

• Stack Exchange API V2.0 Public Beta (Kevin Montrose)
• GUI REPL for Roslyn (Chris Sells)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Has Reached 50,000 Apps (Antonio Hernandez)
• Charlie Kindel, ex-Microsoft, posts thoughts on Windows Phone’s successes and failures (Chris Ziegler)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Cancelling Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Renaming Project Files in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly Into TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• VSColorOutput – Visual Studio Output Coloring Extension (Think "Adding color to the Build/Debug Output window text") and Virtual Postcard with Kinect and The Android Eye for the .Net Guy… The Android for .NET Developers Series by Dino Esposito (Greg Duncan)
• StyleCop 4.7.0.0. is out (Tatworth)
• Extending Unity (Robert May)
• Features Nuget Would Benefit From (Paul Stack)
• Why is the file size reported incorrectly for files that are still being written to? and Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dragging out (Raymond Chen)
• Yield Operator Fun (Sebastian Dau)
• ReSharper 6.1: Improvements in IntelliSense Options (Hadi Hariri)
• TPL – Continuation (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• Deploying a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 to Azure with SQL Server Compact (Al Pascual)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.41 (CodePlex)
• Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• Working with the JavaScript “this” Keyword (Dan Wahlin)
• CSS3 Images Pre-Last Call WD Published (Elika J. Etemad)
• Little HTML5 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• CSS3 Lightbox (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Field and Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft helps extend JavaScript (Sara Allison)
• Performance testing with Selenium and javascript (JP Castro)
• Packaging a JavaScript Library with Nuget (Sumit Maitra)
• Microsoft Developers finally get a .NET Framework for HTML5 Mobile Applications (Webgui)
• Binding And Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater and 30 Minutes To Grasp ASP. NET jQuery Repeater and Using jQuery Repeater to Mark a Multi-line EMail Message As Spam and Show Progress (zoyobar)
• Day 2 – GPU accelerate your DOM elements (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Windows Azure Trial Account Spending Limit and The New, Improved No-Risk Windows Azure Trial (Jim O’Neil)
• Knockout.js Observable Extensions (Josh Bush)
• Orchard Hands-On Lab available (Greg Duncan)
• Making the First Letter Stand Out (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Introducing filer.js (Eric Bidelman)
• Deployment of Applications with Infragistics Reporting in Windows Azure (Mihail Mateev)
• knockoutjs: Uncaught Error: ko.applyBindings: first parameter should be your view model; second parameter should be a DOM node (Alexander Zeitler)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.1 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github and The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• First Experience Building Something With Clojure (Gareth Rushgrove)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
• Introduction to bddify and Method name conventions in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• NOT Doing Scrum – Back to the Basics and Teams Over Processes – Don’t Be Insane (Peter Saddington)
• Example of Self-documenting Unit Test with Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Introducing the for-if anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 20: Refactoring a Monster Test, Part 2 and 31 Days of Testing—Day 21: Data Driving Your Functional Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test (Gautam Goenka)
• How-To: Returning a Class By Value with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Expanding your horizons: Actions (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Testing Windows Phone 7 Apps with Typemock (Avi Kaye)
• Silverlight & XNA – A Tale of Two Cities (Simon Jackson)
• Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
• 23 skins and counting with v1.1 of the Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.5.0 Now Available… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started (Senthil Kumar)
• Book Review: Fun with Silverlight 4 authored by Rajesh Lal (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Real World Windows Phone Dev Part 4: The Panorama (Matt Hidinger)
• Adding an Easter Egg to your WP7 Application (Michael Crump)
• My Top Frameworks for Windows Phone Development (Pieter de Rycke)
• 2000 WPF Things #458 – Properties to Set When Using a Horizontal or Vertical GridSplitter and #459 – Using Two (or More) GridSplitter Elements in the Same Grid and #460 – A GridSplitter Can Share a Cell with Another Control (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Final notes before the beta and Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Caliburn.Micro: RadTransitionControl custom convention (Mikael Koskinen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve McConnell Studies Development Practices and The Tablet Show – Richard Griffin Programs in WinJS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell and YOW! 2011: Martin Thompson – On Concurrent Programming and Concurrency Folklore and GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 189: Paul Litwin and Suzanna Moran on Geeks Giving Back (David Giard)
• What The Tech 99: Wishlists and Predictions For 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.28.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 118 – 12.26.2011 and Engadget HD Podcast 280 – 12.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #154: Save and Cancel… Done! (James Shore)
• Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go (Mark Frauenfelder)

Community / Events

• Changes, changes, changes and CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Ted Neward)
• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• OSS and .NET Year In Review 2011 (Phil Haack)
• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

• Dynamic Sorting in SSRS (Unknown Author)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 15138 – The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped and SQL SERVER – Target Recovery Time of a Database – Advance Option in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Effect of Compressed Backup Setting at Server Level on Database Backup (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Database Specification (SQLArcher)
• Free O’Reilly eBook "Oracle Essentials, 4th Edition" (Tatworth)
• Case Sensitive search with SQL (koolprasad2003)
• Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Why Management Studio forces you to know SQL (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

• Three Degrees of the SharePoint Community Challenge (Joel Oleson)
• Understanding Business Connectivity Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• 10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Developer Should Make (Andrew Burgess)
• Here are three Ruby functions… (Brian Marick)
• Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
• The Case For Developer Platforms (James Yu)
• Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny (Chris Sells)
• Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release Dates (Vygantas)
• Windows 8 Slate Review (Jeremy Likness)
• iOS Rich Text Editing : Sample Project (Josh Garnham)
• Learning Android: WebView character encoding (Mark Needham)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 and Kindel: Yes, Windows Phone is Superior, But Here’s Why It’s Not Selling (Paul Thurrott)
• So, just what IS the problem with Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
• My next year TOP5 wishlist for Windows media, WP7 and XBox teams in Microsoft (Gunnar Peipman)
• Results of the reverse engineering poll – people do it, whether you want it or not (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 26, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.20 ~ 12.28 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – #0016 and Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – 2 – #0017 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #781 and Double Shot #782 and Double Shot #783 (Mike Gunderloy)
• 2011 Yearly Link Roundup (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Daily News Digest 12/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 22-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1010 (Chris Alcock)
• Backbone Fundamentals, Three.js Boilerplate, zoom.js and Node Roundup: Clarinet, Sandbox, actionHero and jQuery Roundup: jQuery-inlog, -prefix-free, jquery.animate-enhanced (Alex Young)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Recently in Web Development (December Edition) (Siddharth)
• MVP Mondays: Popular Posts from 2011 (MVP Award Program)

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