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Top Links

• Moonlight 3.0 Preview 1 (Miguel di Icaza)
• To Control and Observe – Productive Software Development and Mistaking Efficiency for Productivity and Controlled Productivity (Scott Bellware)
• Read from your mirror in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• Real World S#arp Architecture (Billy McCafferty)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Playing WAV Files (Richard Carr)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• .NET Reflector Pro in Final Stages (Mitch Pronschinske)
• What happens behind the scenes: NHibernate, Linq to SQL, Entity Framework scenario analysis (Oren Eini)
• Telerik LINQ to M Refresh (Stephen Forte)
• Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Announcement: Unpublishing Extensions from Beta 2 to RC (Weston Hutchins)
• Using Sensors in You Application – Managed Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 8. Dependency graph visualization (Mike Hadlow)
• Create a floating DataTip — vstipDebug0006 and Adding comments to a DataTip — vstipDebug0007 (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Surface Monster Returns! Nom Nom Nom (Eric Havir)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Multi-Targeting (Dariusz Parys)
• Functional C#: Writing a ‘Partition’ Function (Mark Needham)

 

Web Development

• US Government Launches Business.gov API – Gives Free Access to Small Business Resources (Andres Ferrate)
• Debugging ASP.NET generated code (David Ebbo)
• Using FullCalendar jQuery component with ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Putting Files at the Root of Blog Storage in Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Making Your JavaScript Unobtrusive (Mike Ceranski)
• Love jQuery = Love ASP.NET Ajax Library (Marc Schweigert)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Things Matter (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Branch-Per-Feature: How I Manage Subversion With Git Branches and Can PDCA Help Us Improve Our Test-First Development Efforts? (Derick Bailey)
• The Difference between an Anti-Pattern and a Code Smell (Peter Ritchie)
• Solving Complexity with Message Based Architectures (Jak Charlton)
• Strengthening your domain: a primer (Jimmy Bogard)
• Business Primitives (2/2) (Dru Sellers)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows 7 Sensor Trigger for WPF Applications (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Rules of MVVM?? (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight Splash Page (John Stockton)
• Taming the WPF Expander Control (Karl Shifflett)
• Loading Projects in Visual Studio not Located on Local Machine (Karl Shifflett)
• WPF : How To Create Your Own Threaded DataSourceProvider (Sacha Barber)
• Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound (Doug Holland)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Walling and Taber on Micropreneur Academy. (Carl Franklin)
• UX + AGILE + BLEND +.NET= Efficient Design Practices (Don Burnett)
• The GeekDads Episode #60: iPadCast (Ken Denmead)
• Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Kathleen McGrath)
• Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 Exposed (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Simplifying how to share content on Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez)
• CES reflections (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Announcing the “20 days to OpenRasta” project (Sebastien Lambla)
• At Balsamiq, Everyone Blogs. Join Us. (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Get the List of Object Dependencies – sp_depends and information_schema.routines and sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft, OData and RDF and Visio stencils for SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• ROWCOUNT when setting variables (Martin Bell)
• Report Builder <Next> Wish List – V1.0 (William Vaughn)

 

SharePoint

• The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops (Joel Oleson)
• Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint – Feb 2010 release (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Can You Really Measure Customer Satisfaction? (Phil Haack)
• Will your new Windows 7 PC support XP Mode? (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Search Patterns. Only $9.99! Use code SPDFD (O’Reilly Media)
• Kodu Tutorial #4 Main Menu->Options (Stephen Coy)
• How Does Microsoft Do IT? (Buck Woody)

 

More Link Collections

• Community Convergence LXI and New Articles on MSDN: ClickOnce, Office 2007 Business Applications (Charlie Calvert)
• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #532 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 03, 2010 — #791 (Dave Campbell)
• New and Notable 400 (Sam Gentile)

 

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate in Action

 

 

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Top Links

• Windows Home Server Vail CTP4 Leaks, Includes a Built-in App Store (Anum Lodhi)
• STUPID goals (Christophe Louvion)
• Running static code analysis on SQL Server database with Visual Studio Team System for database architects (Denis Gobo)
• Good Team Dynamics Are Essential For High Technical Quality (Davy Brion)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming – PDC 2009 (Luke Hoban)
• XML Documentation Comments and Finding a Node in an XML String (Deborah Kurata)
• MEF and decrypting LoaderExceptions (Derik Whittaker)
• .NET Framework 4.0: Comparing LINQ and PLINQ performance (Gunnar Peipman)
• NServiceBus 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Available (Udi Dahan)
• Application running in the iPad Simulator (Wally McClure)
• Exporting dynamically changing configuration values (Glenn Block)
• Guidelines, a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor — vstipEdit0015 (Zain Naboulsi)
• VS 2010 Quick Hit: Generate from Usage (Dariusz Parys)
• LINQ to SQL with Stored Procedures (Arian T. Kulp)
• MP3 player for Windows 7 (Shoban Kumar)

 

Web Development

• WCF and JQuery Using JSON (Chris Love)
• Daily Dose – Will HTML5 Kill Flash? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET: ListBox Tooltip (Deborah Kurata)
• 50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques (Smashing Magazine)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programmer Tip: Consider Taking A Couple Of Happy Hours Each Day Of Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• Gherkin style specification testing in .NET (Ryan Lanciaux)
• Attitude of the development team to the product (Brian Marick)
• Saving Time by Mindmapping (Chance Brown)
• Are we functional? (Eric Brechner)
• Thoughts On TDD (A Case Study With Ruby And RSpec) (Alan Skorkin)
• Test Tool Checklists – TMAP NEXT DOWNLOADS (Clemens Reijnen)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• New York Times Silverlight Kit Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Saving Files Locally in Silverlight (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight TV Episode 5: Using Metadata with MEF (John Papa)
• ARCast.TV – Enabling Architects with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Episode 99- PowerScripting Podcast – Shannon Ma on NetPoint (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Herding Code 71: James Avery and Rob Conery on NoSQL and a bunch of other stuff (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Show 349: BioShock 2, NFS: Shift and Windows Home Server (Larry Hyrb)

 

Community / Events

• Leveraging Twitter to Promote User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Life With My Geek: Man Cave Has Jumped Shark (Elle Starr)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Question – How to Convert Hex to Decimal (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #529 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: 2010 01.19 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 — #790 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 1/24/2010 through 1/31/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Weekly Link Post 130 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/1/2010 (Pete Brown)
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Insight Series (Joel Oleson)
• Links (1/31/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

 

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices)

 

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Text Sharp – Visual Studio 2010 text clarity tuner (Sergey Vlasov)
• Code Name Dublin Tutorials (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft donates .NET Micro Framework to open source (Gavin Clarke)
• Linq to Sql profiler – transactions (Oren Eini)
• Pluralsight On-Demand! v2.0 released today (Aaron Skonnard)
• XNA Role Playing Game (RPG) Starter Kit (Coding4Fun)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Testing Asynchronous Client-Side Usage and Request/Response Service Layer: Conclusions (Davy Brion)
• Creating something from nothing – and knowing it [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET refined!] (David Anson)
• Closing over the loop variable, part two (Eric Lippert)
• NHunspell – 0.9.2 released and two cool C# & VB.Net Code Projects too (Greg Duncan)
• Fun with LINQ Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introducing Windows 7 for Developers (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Azure Summary (Tony Rasa)
• Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Why Future should be in your future (Jason Grundy)

 

Web Development

• Making ASP.NET MVC Actions be Transactional By Default (Scott Kirkland)
• T4MVC 2.5.00 update: multiple output files and minified javascript support (David Ebbo)
• Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way (Jeff Atwood)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Remove dependencies inside one iteration (Andy Singleton)
• Usability and Touch (Jason Ipock)
• Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: How to Break Bad Work Habits (Karen Leland)
• Applied Modularity – Part 1 (Kirk Knoernschild)
• The Extensible Test Runner You’ve Been Waiting For (Mark Miller)
• UX Design Tools & Techniques (Jeffrey Dunn)
• Back to Basics: Usage of Static (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• How to deal with bad decisions made by the team and How to start agile development in your team (Roy Osherove)
• I recant my IoC! IoC containers in dynamic languages are silly. (Ryan Svihla)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) MVVM Fundamentals (Damian Schenkelman)
• Reproducing a WPF memory leak (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight’s CollectionViewSource (Bea Stollnitz)
• Updates made to WPF graphing application (Josh Smith)
• How to create a Module based Silverlight application (Part 1) (Fredrik Normén)
• New WPF Features: UIA Virtualization (Lester Lobo)
• Double event firing in VB/XAML. How common? (Rob Relyea)
• A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications (Andrea Boschin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Web Application Security with Keith Brown (MS Podcasts)
• Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Part III (Charlie Calvert)
• Ping 38: Facebook SDK, MSN Video, Bing, Bill Gates, IE8 (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight Podcast: IIS7 Media Services 3.0 (Silverlight Team)
• Episode 92 – PowerScripting Podcast – The BSonPosh module with MVP Brandon Shell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Community / Events

• Developers Meet at "Geek Heaven" in Los Angeles (MS PressPass)
• GiveCamp – Code for non-profits in your community (Andy Singleton)
• Developers, Architects Meet at PDC (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop (Doug Holland)
• Building extensible RIAs at PDC (Glenn Block)
• Not at PDC? You can still take part – Party Underground @ PDC, See the keynotes and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Make: Philly meeting November 22nd (Matt Mets)
• PDC week! Panel on OSS + ASP.NET (Bertrand Le Roy)
• PDC 2009 Day 0: Vista is through and PDC 2009: Scuttling huge chunks of Vista architecture for a faster Windows 7 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• PDC 2009: Day 0 (Paul Thurrott)
• Reporting Live from the Windows 7 Seminar: Boot Camp (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Database

• Do not use the float data type (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – 2005 2008 – Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization By Ola Hallengren (Pinal Dave)
• Article of the Week – Kimberly L. Tripp (Partitioned Tables and Indexes) (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Free e-book: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Devon Musgrave)

 

SharePoint

• External Content Type in SharePoint Designer – SQL Server (Nick Swan)
• Automate Activation/Deactivation of SharePoint Features (Jim Holmes)
• SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 1 – Introduction to the new List View (Greg Chan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Chrome Feed Preview (Alex Chitu)
• The High Cost of Losing a Developer (Dave Laribee)
• Social Software 2.0: Enterprise Process Ubiquity (Hutch Carpenter)
• Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After it Dumps Him (Zoli Erdos)
• Office 2010 Beta Available for Download via MSDN and TechNet (Taimur Asad)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Community Convergence LVII (Charlie Calvert)
• The Morning Brew #478 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2009 — #733 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 16, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/16/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• New and Notable 390 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft names Visual Studio 2010 dates (Gavin Clarke) – Link of the Day
• NHibernate Shards: Progress Report (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with Query Editor (Jason Haley)
• HealthVault 0908 SDK Highlights… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Visual Studio 2008 "DataDude" Duplicate Menu Items and SQL Server 2008 – SQLCLR .NET Framework Version (Doug Holland)
• XNA and textures (Coding4Fun)
• Lambda Expressions: Execution (Deborah Kurata)
• A fan-dev Team Build Property Reference Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor (Peter Kellner)
• Mapping From IDataReader/IDataRecord with AutoMapper (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Dynamic lookup operator, aka duck typing in F# (Laurent Le Brun)

 

Web Development

• Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6 (James Senior)
• Using the New Microsoft Ajax Minifier (Stephen Walther)
• How to render the same template on the server and client with minimal redundancy (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Add temporary bookmarks in Code View in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• How To Optimize the Speed of Your Website (Michael Ceranski)
• Treating Javascript as an integration point (Mark Needham)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick reference poster–the VSTS Rangers “scrumified“ process (Clemens Reijnen)
• LinqToSql Profiler & NHibernate Profiler – What is happening? (Oren Eini)
• Message Granularity (Dru Sellers)
• Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever? (Keith Dahlby)
• Dissecting Remarkable Code And Design – Part 2. and Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
• Efficient Development, Deployment and Customer Feedback at Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)
• A Possible Job Description: Team Leader and Introducing Typemock IntelliTest (Roy Osherove)
• Coding: Role based interfaces (Mark Needham)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part II: Observe First, Judge Later (Patrick Kua)
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Dependency Injection Mess With Mocks (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Dangers of Single Responsibility in Programming (David Cooksey)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• More on AERO Shake and WPF (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Silverlight Streaming to be discontinued: new Azure service coming (Kip Kniskern)
• MVVM Light Toolkit on Codeplex and Clean shutdown in Silverlight and WPF applications (Laurent Bugnion)
• Creating Killer Animations in Code (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Cinch : Some code changes (Sacha Barber)
• Big Spaceship delivers a beautiful Silverlight experience for Victoria’s Secret (Silverlight Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 126: Danger Paul Danger (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – Matt Hessinger on How Business Drives Architecture and Migrating Legacy Applications to .NET – Webcast by Magenic (Bob Familiar)
• TWC9: Virtual PC tools, .NET 4.0 FAQ, MVC in Azure (Dan Fernandez)
• Major Nelson Show #335: Forza Motorsport 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Video: Influence Strategies and Test Review: MEF (Roy Osherove)
• Engadget Podcast 167 – 10.16.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hanselminutes on Channel 9 – Inside CodePlex.com (Scott Hanselman)

 

Community / Events

• Goodbye, Twitter (Leon Gersing)
• Stack Overflow: Programmers working for Free?! (Christopher Diggins)
• Clearing the ***Sparks (Dani Diaz)
• Mads Kristensen in Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Philly Code Camp 2009.2 (Nick Berardi)
• TrackAbout Is Hiring! (Joel Ross)
• Windows 7 Labs @ PDC (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Discount extended: Register for PDC by Oct 30 and save $300 (Sandra Haynes)

 

Database

• Collecting information about your SSIS packages [SSIS Nugget] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Auditing in SQL Server 2008 and SQL SERVER – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script – Consolidating Collations – Extention Script (Pinal Dave)
• Best Practices for Applications Login to SQL Server? (R. Barry Young)
• Series of "Bad habits to kick" by Aaron Bertrand (Ted Krueger)
• What to do till the SQL Azure management tools come? (Bill Zack)

 

SharePoint

• Upgrade approaches poster and Upgrading services poster and Upgrade testing poster and Upgrade planning poster (MS Downloads) – Some SharePoint 2010 posters from Microsoft.

 

PowerShell

• The release of Microsoft’s PowerShellPack (Joel Bennett)
• Announcing: Open Source PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer (Lee Holmes)
• PowerShell V2 Virtual Launch Party (Jeffrey Snover)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Flight Simulator Team Finds New Home at Cascade Game Foundry (Blake Handler)
• What I Use: October 2009 Update (Paul Thurrott)
• What am I missing? MSMQ Perf Issue (Oren Eini)
• A Feed You Should Read #8 – msdev (Greg Duncan)
• Free e-book: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Professionals Still Need Their Own Web Sites (Charles Hamilton)
• The Interview With The Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing Let Me Bing That For You (Phil Haack)
• Zoho Projects Now Integrated With Google Apps (Leena Rao)
• 77 Windows 7 Tips on Technet (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Build 14.0.4514.1009 (Taimur Asad)
• Introducing the Documentation tab for CodePlex projects (Sara Ford)
• Identifying The Technologies That Will Matter (Mike Walker)
• LiveLessons Programming in Objective-C 2.0 Review (Mike Riley)
• A Sneak Peek at D&D on Microsoft Surface (Larry Larsen)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 17, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2009 — #710 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 16-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links #75 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #457 (Chris Alcock)
• My Top 20 Most Popular Posts (So Far) (Davy Brion)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.16 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 16th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 115 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #563 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links (10/18/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Lambda Expressions: An Introduction and Lambda Expressions: Finding an Item in a Generic List and Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Syntax and Lambda Expressions: Predicate Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Action Delegates and Lambda Expressions: Func Delegates (Deborah Kurata)
• "M" Language Type Definitions for 280 Popular (and not so popular) Data Models (Chris Sells)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Enabling Bulk Inserts (Davy Brion)
• Team Build Property Reference Guide (Steve Andrews)
• LINQ to SQL, Lazy Loading and Prefetching (Rick Strahl)

 

Web Development

• Model View Presenter via ASP .NET (Steven James Gray)
• Prevent Cut, Copy and Paste Operations in an ASP.NET TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NHProf in the real world: NHibernate Search integration (Oren Eini)
• Slutty Types (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
• Non-Technical Factors that Lead to Poor Architectures (Mike Walker)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part I: Ask for It (Patrick Kua)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 14. (Rajiv Popat)
• 200 Page Manual on Inversion of Control, Part 2 (Rob Conery)
• How We Do Things – Testing Part 2 (Scott C Reynolds)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight DataForm for WPF? (Rudi Grobler)
• Manipulating Character Outlines in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video Posted for Belgium Visual Studio User’s Group: 10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines (Brad Abrams)
• Episode 87 – PowerScripting Podcast – Sergei Antonov from the IIS team (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Herding Code 62: MonoTouch with Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton (Jon Galloway)
• Road2SPC Interview with Tom Rizzo (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Engineering SharePoint (SharePoint Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• My Tools of the Trade – 2009 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Lifehacker Readers’ Biggest Google Annoyances (Kevin Purdy)
• Installing Ubuntu on Hyper-V (Mike Hadlow)
• Intellects Don’t Appreciate Intelligence (Max Pool)
• Five Best Windows Task Manager Alternatives (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Find users in too many groups (Dmitry Sotnikov) – A PowerShell tip.
• Zoho Meeting: Instant PC Diagnostics with Remote Support (Hari)
• TIP: How to Run Programs as a Domain User from a Non-domain Computer (James Kovacs)
• Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication (MG Siegler)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #452 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 11, 2009 — #709 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #93 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #74 (Grant Palin)
• A Feed You Should Read #7 – A Continuous Learner’s Weblog, Links (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Link Post 114 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/11/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• New and Notable 380 (Sam Gentile)
• Links (10/11/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

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