• 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

Top Links

• I moved on from WCF Web API, but Web API IS still moving (Glenn Block)
• 9th Day of Silverlight : Implicit Data Templates (Tony Champion)
• Backbone.js Is Not An MVC Framework (Derick Bailey)
• Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express (Jan Van Ryswyck)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to order by multiple columns using Lambas and LINQ in C# (Senthil Kumar)
• How do I get the full path for the target of a shortcut file? (Raymond Chen)
• What’s New And Improved In JustCode Q3 2011 SP1 (Just* Team)
• Kinecting to PowerPoint (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming JSON in Windows 8 Metro style Application using WinJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Lego KinNXT (Ashley Feniello)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 10 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Rx – SP1 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
• BugNET Issue Tracker 0.9.147 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• Configuring WCF for Multiple IIS Host Identities in Sueetie (Dave Burke)
• New Developer Tools in Firefox 11 Aurora (Kevin Dangoor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
• Make Everything OK – Agile is Hard (Peter Saddington)
• Free Book – The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (Tatworth)
• Are You Intentional? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• AutoHotKey for quick Git access (Joe White)
• Software Architecture: Myth or Reality (Kerry Huguet)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7 + IronRuby + Online Library Hosting + Auto Updating = LiveLibs (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Kevin O’Neill – Mobile App Development, PlayUp, Objective-C, Windows Phone and YOW! 2011: Steve Vinoski – Riak Core, Erlang and Frisbee Freestyle and Brian Beckman: Hidden Markov Models, Viterbi Algorithm, LINQ, Rx and Higgs Boson and Checking In: Larry Osterman – 26 Years of Programming at Microsoft and Counting and Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell (Charles Torre)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.23.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.24.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• TWC9: The Top 9 Developer Stories & Trends of 2011 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Engadget Podcast 269 – 12.23.2011 and The Vergecast 007 – 12.23.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 240: What’s Your Prestige Level? (Paul Thurrott)
• NeowinCast Gaming 003 – Dec. 23: End of 2011 Edition (John Callaham)
• Video on How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to Protect Password in Windows Phone 7 using Data Protection API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s DigiGirlz Program Ends Year on High Note (MS JobsBlog)
• Stack Exchange Gives Back 2011 (Robert Cartaino)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): New Security Features (James Serra)
• Assign Result of Dynamic SQL to a Variable in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – A Simple Puzzle and Simple Solution of Datatype and Computed Column and SQL SERVER – Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays – Database Properties – Number of Users (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 23: OBJECT_DEFINITION and Upgrade Assistant for SQL Server 2012 available for download and SQL Advent 2011 Day 24: Index REBUILD and REORGANIZE and SQL Advent 2011 Recap (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – How to identify service pack installed (Vishal)

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP2 available (with Getting Started with PowerShell Workflows guide too) (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Building the one Install OS Flash Drive to rule them all…? (Windows 7 x86 & x64 and Live CDs and Rescue disks and…) (Greg Duncan)
• My Bests of 2011 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• What I’d do with my ‘Microsoft 20% time’ (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• Amazon 2012: What the Future May Hold for the Web’s Largest Retailer (Peter Pachal)
• Introducing Aurora 11 with tons of new features and improvements (Robert Nyman)
• The two (and only two) ways Microsoft can survive the phone wars (David Aronchick)

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 134 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Dev News for December 24, 2011 – #0015 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/23/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/23/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Retrospective 64 – The Process of Change 4 Part Series (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: December 22, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 28-December-2011 to 24-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• A holiday.js gift for Azure Node.js developers (Glenn Block)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor (Alexia Tsotsis)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Unit Testing with Func<TResult> Generators (James Michael Hare)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 19: Refactoring a “Monster” Functional Test, Part 1 (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generate Return Values Using Lambdas in Moq (Richard Carr)
• Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce (Carl Nolan)
• Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts? (Charles Sterling)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 (Mike Fourie)
• Roslyn CTP: Three Introductory Projects (Whaeth)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features (Jeff Martin)
• Rx – Buffer (Bnaya Eshet)
• LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.5 (CodePlex)
• Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
• How do I determine programmatically whether a particular language is LTR or RTL? (Raymond Chen)
• XSLT 2.0 in .NET (Akram El Assas)
• Treat a plain string as URL and fetch query string values (Jyothikarthik_N)
• SqlMapperHelper – A Helper Class for Dapper-Dot-Net (Peter Bromberg)

Web Development

• CSS Filter Effects Landing in WebKit (Eric Bidelman)
• Typography effects with CSS3 (Leigh Howells)
• Async file upload with jquery and ASP.NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress (Stephen Walther)
• Knockout 2.0.0 is Available (John Papa)
• Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Facebook: Platform Updates for Games Developers (Namita Gupta)
• Adobe Muse Beta 5.1 released (Ron)
• Custom Events are Pretty Cool (Chris Coyier)
• Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners) (Daniel Pataki)
• Umbraco CMS 5.0 RC 1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visualising Kanban Dimensions with TIPs (Karl Scotland)
• The Process of Change – Complexities of Attitudinal Change – Axiology [Part 4/4] (Peter Saddington)
• Return-Oriented Programming (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Advice for Young Developers: Learn to Make Your Own Decisions (J. Boyer)
• Functional version of the visitor pattern (Akram El Assas)
• Getting Gilded Rose Under Test (Bobby Johnson)
• Dynamic binding for data-driven tests in MbUnit v3 (Yann Trevin)
• Get into the flow with Spinning (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #4 First Visual Studio project and How to Update Secondary and Application Tiles in Windows Phone apps and Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to set the HTML string in the webbrowser control in Windows Phone in MVVM context (Nicolas Humann)
• How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Mango Apps: Designspire Gets Huge Update (Functions Like Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows Phone Mango Sample: Input Scope (Jerry Nixon)
• Silverlight 5: MVVM got more fun with Implicit Data Templates (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight security overview paper has been updated for Silverlight 5 (Nick Kramer)
• Color Reflector for WP7 and Silverlight (Punit Ganshani)
• 2000 WPF Things #457 – Use a GridSplitter to Let a User Change Row or Column Size in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• 8th Day of Silverlight : Vector Printing (Tony Champion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Joe Albahari – LINQ, LINQPad, and .NET Async (and a little Rx, too) (Charles Torre)
• Making Learning More Interactive and Fun for Young Children (Sheridan Jones)
• Coming in 2012: The Geekadelphia Podcast (Jo Pincushion)
• Introducing the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series (Zhiming Xue)
• Let’s Play TDD #153: Push the Button (James Shore)
• Fever Pitched Episode 5: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 21 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Roman Karachinsky Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4 webcast: 17 January (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Thing To Do in the New Year: Learn XAML on Silverlight 5, WP7, Win8 & WPF (London Training) (Silverlight Show)
• Call for C++ Community folks in Belgium – January 10th meeting and Join us for the first PHP & Windows Azure Hackthon in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
• 11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012. (Michael Crump)
• Interview with Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework: Code First (Jean Lambert)
• Five years of Encosia (Dave Ward)
• Women Want to Hack! (Emily Smith)
• Kinect at Chippewa Valley Code Camp (Greg Duncan)
• “Earned a Stack Overflow gold badge” Badges! (Laura Dobrzynski)

Database

• 101 with the Interactive Feature of SQL Server Integration Services (Keshav Singh)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Script for Point in Time Recovery – Back Up and Restore (Pinal Dave)
• Replacing Cell Security with Dimension Security (Chris Webb)

PowerShell

• 2 PowerShell Cmdlet Updates (Josh T.)

Miscellaneous

• Gathering, viewing and understanding performance data with the new PerfView utility (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft and Nokia win in indoor location services? (Kip Kniskern)
• 6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012 (Lance Ulanoff)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
• Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1009 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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

Tip #3 – Convert Into LINQ Expression

Use: ForEach blocks that perform simple bits of logic can often times be rewritten as lambda expressions. This reduces the number of lines of code and usually makes the code more readable.

Before

         public IList<Album> FindAlbumsToGiveAway(IList<Album> albums)
         {
             var badAlbums = new List<Album>();

             foreach (Album album in albums)
             {
                 if (album.Genre == "Country")
                     badAlbums.Add(album);
             }

             return badAlbums;
         }

Press <Alt+Enter>

After

         public IList<Album> FindAlbumsToGiveAway(IList<Album> albums)
         {
             return albums.Where(album => album.Genre == "Country").ToList();
         }

Happy coding!

• Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th) (Scott Guthrie)
• Hello GitHub! (Phil Haack)
• A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips (Colin Eberhardt)
• MVVM Light template and WCF services (or any ASP.NET application for that matter) (Laurent Bugnion)
• NuGet: little known features (Peter Kuhn)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preview Tab in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• MSSQL & NHibernate – mapping week numbers to properties (Gunnar Peipman)
• Use Projections and a Repository to Fake a Filtered Eager Load (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Gibraltar 3.0 Beta 2 Available – More scalable, lighter weight agents, and real time data. (Kendall)
• Download .NET Reflector 7.5 EA Build 3 (RedGate)
• LINQ to Reports… As in transform your LINQ queries into reports, with extensible formats like Excel, PDF, CSV, HTML (Greg Duncan)
• A Key Code Checker for DOM Keyboard Events (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.0 (beta) Released (Nathan Totten)
• What is Package.appxmanifest File in Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Group Chat SDK (Steve Jones)
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta 2 (MS Downloads)
• Using a bar code scanner in .NET (Chad Z. Hower)
• Setting up your first use of the Animation library in WinJS (Adam Kinney)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 2–Delegates (Kyle Burns)

Web Development

• The CSS profilers are coming! (Lennart Schoors)
• HTML Forms in HTML Emails (Chris Coyier)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Hide Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• IIS Tuner 1.1 and ProDinner ASP.net WebForms Awesome Sample Application (CodePlex)
• Set the AsyncTimeout attribute for your async controllers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Updated Live Connect API announced (Kip Kniskern)
• Moving to Standards-based Web Graphics in IE10 (Ted Johnson)
• MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud (Jeff Wilcox)
• Running PHPUnit in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing with CRM 2011 (Mark Schweigert)
• Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox’s attention to detail on their download page (Scott Hanselman)
• Design It to Build It: What to Consider When Designing for the Web (Patrick Cox)
• It’s okay for your UI to know some business process (Kyle Szklenski)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 7: Automated Test Basics (Jim Holmes)
• A Manifesto For Sofware Team Leaders – Take 1 (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator – Project Setup (Weidong Shen)
• Building an Augmented Reality XAML control (Morten Nielsen)
• Syncing Windows Phone database with backend SQL Server (Andy Wigley)
• Have an idea for a Windows Phone Starter Kit? and Windows Phone Starter Kit for Schools v2.0 Released! (Chris Koenig)
• Debugging the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps (Doug Holland)
• Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone Survey Application and Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7.5 (Francis K. Cheung)
• WPF Elements 5 Released! (John-Daniel Trask)
• 2000 WPF Things #446 – Default Docking for DockPanel Children (Sean Sexton)
• Calling WCF REST Service with Basic authentication from Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to add and remove Secondary Tiles in Windows Phone apps (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Development Practices at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 005 – 12.07.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing the Learn Windows Azure Live Event! (Wade Wegner)
• Project Compatibility in Visual Studio 11 (Robert Green)
• Let’s Play TDD #148: Asynchronous Assertions (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Farm Frenzy 2, Pocket Party Game, Archie, Race & Battle, Double Jumper (Laura Foy)
• A little responsive video demo (Leigh Howells)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Win Free Copies of Nhibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Oren Eini)
• Phil Haack is a GitHubber (Tim Clem)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Paul Thurrott (Thomas Houston)
• Nokia and T-Mobile USA making announcement on December 14th (Chris Ziegler)
• thatConference Announced! (Dave Bost)

Database

• SQL Server Storage: Files and Filegroups Video (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Error: Deleting Offline Database and Creating the Same Name (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 7: Crosstab with PIVOT and  SQL Advent 2011 Day 8: UNPIVOT (Denis Gobo)
• Dynamic Connections in SSIS – Extract, Transform and Load and SQL Server Integration Services tools to have – Expression Editor & Tester (Ted Krueger)
• Data Explorer Feedback part 1 (Jamie Thomson)
• Community created Forward Engineer Database Diagrams Addin for Visio 2010 (Think "Diagram to T-SQL," like in past versions, but with source) (Greg Duncan)
• The Day-to-Day Tasks of the Average DBA (Brad M McGehee)

SharePoint

• Renaming SharePoint Service Apps Databases (Brian Farnhill)

Miscellaneous

• Power Tools for Windows (Steve Jones)
• Ruby On REST: Introducing the Representer Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
• Get your app in the Store on opening day (Antoine Leblond)
• I’ve got my XBox Live Avatar, right here…. on my T-Shirt! and Getting Started with Scratch – A Programmer’s Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing the official Xbox LIVE iOS App (Larry Hryb)
• Just how important is Desktop App support for Windows 8 ARM tablets? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Pinworthy: 7 apps for entertaining kids during the holidays (Michael Stroh)
• Windows 8 –Trust me, we got this covered this time I promise… (Scott Barnes)
• Xbox Companion App Available Now (Control Your Xbox From Your Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
• O’ Reilly Deals on Cookbooks to Jan 19th (Tatworth)
• Welcome to the New Xbox 360 Dashboard (XNA Team)
• Rumor: Amazon Retail Stores Coming & Predatory Pricing Channel Destruction (Jason Calacanis)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #769 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #998 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/07/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for November 28 – December 4, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 12/8/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: December 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel

• Windows Store details announced and a contest (Tim Heuer)
• Windows Store event and blog (Steven Sinofsky)
• Microsoft previews Windows 8 app store, launching with the beta in late February (Mary Jo Foley)
• Analyzing Windows Store tidbits (Long Zheng)
• Announcing the Labs release of Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” (Data Explorer Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Rhino Service Bus & RavenDB integration (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with WCF Part 8 – REST Services: the Basics and Building Your First REST Service (James Bender)
• Viewing the User Token from Visual Studio 2010 Debugger (Shawn Cicoria)
• VS11 Async Demo and VS2010SP1 Async Demo (Paulo Morgado)
• VHD Test Drive – Lync Server 2010 VHD (Dev) and Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (MS Downloads)
• Mono for Android 1.x to 2.0 changes in the Menus (Wally McClure)
• A new version of GhostDoc is coming! (Tatworth)
• Integrating with TeamPulse data (oData) (TeamPulse Team)
• Windows Store and Developers (Richard Hay)
• Runtime code generation for types (Ivan Towlson)
• Behind the Scenes of Roslyn (Jeff Martin)
• ReSharper 6.1 Settings: DropBox and Company-wide (Hadi Hariri)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 1–the var keyword (Kyle Burns)

Web Development

• A Brief History of HTML5 (Jeffrey Way)
• Using Column Summaries in the jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
• Testing and specifying JavaScript code with Jasmine (Giorgio Sironi)
• NuGet And Orchard? (Rob Conery)
• What’s the deal with Orchard and NuGet? Does Orchard suck? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Use JavaScript Now to Access Many Google APIs (Romin Irani)
• Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure – part 1: Overview and Challenges (Larry Franks)
• jQuery 1.7 Visual Cheat Sheet (woork up)
• Beyond YSlow – Squeeeezing out website network performance (Troy Hunt)
• The need for parallelism in HTTP (Brian Pane)
• Loggr – Your SignalR based real time "event" application monitor (think "Cool web based major/high level event UI" or "A logging solution with data you can actually use…") and Moving Applications to the Cloud 2nd Edition guide (and Hands on Labs) (Greg Duncan)
• How Microsoft helps you NOT break your Windows Azure Application: Storage Services Versioning (Buck Woody)
• Providing Intellisense, Navigation and more for Custom Helpers in ASP.NET MVC (Hadi Hariri)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introduction to Unit Testing: xUnit Frameworks (Avi Kaye)
• Clarifying purpose (Wendy Friedlander)
• Effective User Research And Transforming The Minds Of Clients (Leonard Souza)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 6: Types of Automated Testing (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 8 – What other people are blogging (Morten Nielsen)
• Drawing Objects in Expression Blend (Andrea Haubner)
• Rumor: Microsoft to bring “beaming” file transfers across Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox in the future? (damaster)
• SkyDrive APIs for Docs and Photos—now ready to cloud enable apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone and more (Dare Obasanjo)
• Testing the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps (Doug Holland)
• Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData – Part 1 (Samidip Basu)
• Windows Phone 7 System Tray (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Developers: Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours (Antonio Hernandez)
• 2000 WPF Things #445 – DockPanel Can Be Used Like a StackPanel (Sean Sexton)
• Here’s Why Android’s UI Will Never Be As Smooth As iOS Or Windows Phone 7 (Awais Imran)
• Tip Tuesday: More fun with emoticons (Michael Stroh)
• Panorama? Pivot? What’s the diff? Here’s a Boss Eyed View of the two… (Greg Duncan)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 1: What’s in a Table? Describing Your Data (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Software Engineering Radio Episode 181: Distributed Scrum with Rini van Solingen (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget HD Podcast 277 – 12.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 32 (Richard Hay)
• Defrag: Reset Zoom in IE, Display Properties via CL, AppData Compression (Larry Larsen)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 9: Writing Good Software Engineering Research Papers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• C9 Lectures: Mahmoud Saleh – Advanced CRT, 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• Kinect at Tech Valley .NET User Group (Brian Peek)
• Windows 8 First Apps Contest (Doug Holland)
• What a night! into insider social with Alex James (Luke)

Database

• SQL Server Latency and DATEADD and variables in SQL (Jack Vamvas)
• Ten Reasons PostgreSQL is Better Than SQL Server (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL SERVER – Plenty of SQL Community Updates (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 6: Windowing functions (Denis Gobo)
• A DBA is a Data Professional (Grant Fritchey)
• Maximum length of data in every column in a table (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• What Makes The Perfect DBA Role? (John Sansom)
• Data Explorer walkthrough – Parsing a Twitter list (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Simple Fix for SharePoint for Mobile Devices – iPad iPhone Android WP7 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• How does Remote Desktop works in Windows Azure? (Avkash Chauhan)
• RTM’d Today: Microsoft Excel 2010 Formulas & Functions Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• So You Want To Build Apps? (David Kelley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Data Analysis – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• A feature I didn’t even know existed much less had a name: Color hot-track (Raymond Chen)
• Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective (Peter Cooper)
• Metro dashboard makes Xbox 360 feel like a brand new console (Travis Brown)
• How do you get the Virtual Keyboard (aka Soft Keyboard) in the Android 4.0 Emulator? (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #768 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/7/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #997 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/06/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 06, 2011 – #0007 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 5 in Action by Pete Brown

• Welcome to ASafaWeb (Troy Hunt)
• What if you had to build software for undiagnosed adults that suffer from autism, Asperger’s, dyslexia, ADHD etc. (Scott Barnes)
• Asynchronous Programming with the Reactive Extensions (while waiting for async/await) | Programmation Asynchrone avec les Reactive Extensions (en attendant async/await) (Jerome Laban)
• What’s the difference? Remainder vs Modulus (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Simple Linq PIVOT to one row (Malisa L. Ncube)
• MSDN Article – Visual Studio ALM Rangers: Rise of the VM Factory (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Live SDK v5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Mono for Android 4.0 Comes with Incremental Build and Deployment (Abel Avram)
• No Alert in WinJS! Use console or MessageDialog instead (Adam Kinney)
• New NuGet.org Deployed! (Phil Haack)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator 3.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Automated Build and Deployment with Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (Tom Hollander)
• Why does my program still show up in the Programs and Features folder after my uninstaller exits? (Raymond Chen)
• From COM to Win8, one developers retrospective… (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Inside ASP.NET MVC: Instantiation of Controller (Alexander Beletsky)
• Getting JavaScript Significantly Fluent (Dion Almaer)
• ASP.NET MVC, Dependency Injection, and MEF 2 (Jonathan Allen)
• Understanding CSS’s vertical-align Property (Louis Lazaris)
• Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
• Build and publish an HTML5 game for iPad – Part 3 (Matteo Spinelli)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Remove Setting Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Handling footnotes and references in HTML5 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Book Review: Head First HTML5 Programming (Michael J. Ross)
• KsigDo. A Knockout, SignalR, ASP.net, MVVM, MVC and EF all mixed together into a multiuser real time sync To Do" example (Greg Duncan)
• Developer: Inexpensive WordPress Themes For Your Windows Phone App (Antonio Hernandez)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Bulk Editor Widget (John Lindal)
• Event-driven development with Backbone (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Tribe Wars: The Prezi (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Agile reality check–what if Jesus was female? (Scott Barnes)
• Article: Is Agile Sub-Optimal? (Terry Bunio)
• Thoughts on Testing OSS Applications in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Continuous Delivery: Removing manual scenarios (Mark Needham)
• Future mocking with #IgnoreInstance (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Level Up: 4 Ways to Gamify Workplace Teams (Morgan Norman)
• If you could design the perfect computing device for clinicians and clinical workflow, what would you ask for? (Bill Crounse)
• 31 Days of Testing – Day 5: Choosing What To Test (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• REST with JAX-RS and Silverlight clients (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Windows 8 Dependency Property Strangeness (Charles Petzold)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 9 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Sites Around the World (Rene Schulte)
• MVVM Frameworks For .NET (Roopesh Shenoy)
• 2000 WPF Things #444 – Children of DockPanel Don’t Always Have to be Stretched (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kathleen Dollard and Son talk Algorithms (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 167 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Helmick on teaching PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Talks Android (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Paul Irish covers some of the impressive new Chrome Developer… (David Kaneda)
• Managing Distributed Agile Teams [Video] (Andy Singleton)
• New Series on Telerik TV: “That’s Neat!” (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for December 5th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Charlotte PowerShell Users Group (Jim Christopher)
• Coincidence or career kismet? (MS JobsBlog)
• Webcast: Friday, Dec 9, 2011 by Stephanie Krieger on VBA and XML for Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2010 (Kim Spilker)
• Last Day at Microsoft (Phil Haack)
• No excuse for poor code quality in 2012: Learn How to Start Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Windows Phone Workshop–SQL Databases (Daniel Egan)
• Ordered List is a GitHubber (Chris Wanstrath)
• Prairie Dev Con West – Sessions Announced and Registration Open! (Bil Simser)

Database

• Enable XA transactions for SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
• December Monthly SQL Server Checklist (Jason Strate)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 5 – Deploying a report to the Server (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers Available on Kindle Format as eBook to Download (Pinal Dave)
• Extended Events – inaccurate_cardinality_estimate (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• User control reuse for SharePoint web parts (daniearink)

Miscellaneous

• MacRuby and Objective-C (Michael Sokol)
• Crop video in a Live Broadcasting project (Elliot Meacham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Reading Notes #23 (Franky)
• Kinect SDK Dev Resource Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Article Digest 12/5/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #996 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/05/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 05, 2011 – #0006 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe

• Scott Hanselman’s 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 Released (EF Team)
• Web API preview 6 is out: how to get a RESTful mind (Simone Chiaretta)
• Web Essentials – the idea (Mads Kristensen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting up a Rhino Service Bus Application: Part I and Setting up a Rhino Service Bus Application: Part II–One way bus (Oren Eini)
• Parallel LINQ and Getting a Base Exception (Richard Carr)
• Building an Async WCF Service in .NET 4.5 (Howard Dierking)
• Downloads for Code First book are online (Julie Lerman)
• Greatest Hits: Using Visual Studio 2010 IntelliSense with Keywords (Zain Naboulsi)
• Working with the WCF NetMsmqBinding with WAS (Sam Gentile)
• Mono for Android Debugging Android.OS.Debug.StartMethodTracing(); (Wally McClure)
• Bringing Windows 8 UI to Windows 7 with RadPanorama for WinForms. Today. (Telerik WinForms Team)
• LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.22 (CodePlex)
• VS 2010 Build Customization: Custom Activity Invoke Process (Gouri Sohoni)
• If you protect a write with a critical section, you may also want to protect the read (Raymond Chen)
• November 2011 Update for MFCMAPI and MrMAPI (Think, "MFCMAPI, You’re looking kind of Metro" release) and SharpDX – A new Managed DirectX/Multimedia API Library (one with Win8/Metro in mind too!) and Adding Lua scripting to your .Net app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 and WinRT development whitepaper (Rockford Lhotka)
• Mini Review: NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Samuel Jack)
• Submit your ideas for the next version of GhostDoc (Tatworth)
• Feedback Requested: Is there any valid usage for the ‘new’ keyword? (Dennis Doomen)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM – Stored Procedure Editor essentials (OpenAccess ORM Team)
• Programming Windows 8: The Sublime To The Strange (K. Scott Allen)
• Macro-optimisations and Yes, Simple.Data protects against SQL Injection (Mark Rendle)
• Async CTP Support in ReSharper 6.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations) and Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘No-Magic’ Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• What is a manifest file in Windows 8 Metro applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Arcticles on Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4.5 (MS Downloads)
• NetAdvantage Reporting in Windows Forms (Tom Puglisi)
• Using a state object to store object property values. and Custom XML Serialization (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Static Constructors Should Be Private (Chris Eargle)

Web Development

• Building an advent calendar for Mozilla in PHP/JS/CSS (part 2) (Chris Heilmann)
• Help me organize my posts about using jQuery with ASP.NET (Dave Ward)
• Is JavaScript’s “Global” Scope Really Just A Closure? (Derick Bailey)
• HTML5 for Applications: The Fourth IE10 Platform Preview (Rob Mauceri)
• Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re Wrong (Jeremy McPeak)
• Getting Intrinsic HTML5 Video Dimensions (K. Scott Allen)
• How to lint your JavaScript with JSLint in real time (Maxim Mossienko)
• CSS3 toolkit (Paul Boag)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Parameter Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 2 (Jorge Ramon)
• jQuery Time Entry with Time Navigation Keys (Rick Strahl)
• Easier ASP.NET MVC Routing (Steve Wilkes)
• Creating Falling Snow in HTML/JS and Clipping Content Using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection (Troy Hunt)
• HTML5 Form Input Enhancements: Form Validation, CSS3, and JavaScript (Michael Palermo)
• A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers (Rachel Andrew)
• S#arp Lite: S#arp Architecture Simplified To Its Essentials (Jenni Konrad)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Now Available: 30 Days of Getting Results Free eBook (J.D. Meier)
• Agile "Religion" Issues (S. Lott)
• Getting Setup for JavaScript Testing with Pavlov (Daniel Mohl)
• Sleeping Under Your Desk Doesn’t Make You A Success (Rob Conery)
• That’s not funny (Eric Brechner)
• Do you ponder what to name things in your code? (Evan Light)
• My Code Isn’t Fat, It’s Just Robust (Jeremiah Peschka)
• How *NOT* to win the hearts of developers, part 2 (Dawn Cannan)
• Another Case for Using Top Aligned Form Labels (Anthony)
• Overusing Interfaces and Injection (Brendan Enrick)
• Migrating from SVN to Git (Karl von Randow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Displaying Enum Values User Friendly in WPF (Henrik Jonsson)
• ListBox ContextMenu with MVVM in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using the xamGrid with Virtual Collections and MVVM (Radko Kolev)
• The Ultimate Windows Phone Design and UX Resource List (Arturo Toledo)
• Silverlight front end calling to WCF Service, all in one Windows Azure Web Role Sample (Avkash Chauhan)
• “Lost” your SkyDrive OneNote files on your Windows Phone? Here’s the workaround (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone (Mango) Contact Chooser Task (Luke Lowrey)
• Microsoft: No Silverlight 5 release in November (Mary Jo Foley)
• WPF 4.5: Binding and change notification for static properties (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #440 – How Alignment Properties Behave in a WrapPanel and #441 – Setting a Consistent Height/Width for Child Elements in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
• The Microsoft sponsored service for WP7 ends – the PreEmptive sponsored service debuts (Sebastian Holst)
• Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free and Context Menu (Jesse Liberty)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #30: Local Database and 31 Days of Mango | Day #31: Promoting Your App (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Fixing a WinPhone Phone Gap App: Those Darn Gray Box’s (David Kelley)
• Icons in the „Metro Look“ for free – Monochrom/Minimalist Icons (Code Inside Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cool Projects at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Graham Hutton – How To Be More Productive (Charles Torre)
• Recording of joint interview with Eric Evans (Udi Dahan)
• Let’s Play TDD #146: Race Condition and "Evolutionary Design Illustrated" Video (James Shore)
• Yet Another Podcast #54–Damian Edwards on ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
• Engadget HD Podcast 276 – 11.29.2011 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 004 – 11.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• SE Podcast #29 – Chris Poole (Alex Miller)
• State of the nation website (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 95: Heavenly Music (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #104: The Greatest Podcast of All Time (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag – Unplayable Media Center files, Missing RAM, Closing Cores (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Let’s Golf 2, Kayak, Drummer, Find My Girlfriend, First Words – Learning Animals (Laura Foy)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• April 11th and 12th in Philadelphia, PA: Emerging Technologies Conference (James Shore)
• ANN: Special 2-day SharePoint 2010 Development Roadshow in Boston, MA by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• What I’ve Been Doing… (Shawn Wildermuth)
• jQuery Conference 2012: UK – Training Workshops Announced (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Microsofties cultivate mustaches for mankind (MS JobsBlog)
• TED2012 Fellowship applications open (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Blue Beanie Day 2011: Three Cheers for Web Standards (Jason McConnell)

Database

• GO statement breaks SSIS Execute SQL Task (aedna)
• SQL Server Configuration timeouts – and a workaround [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: File cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for more details and SQL SERVER – Where Can YOU Get My Books – SQL Server Interview Question and Answers (Pinal Dave)
• Anecdotes about SQL AKA post 400 (Denis Gobo)
• Red Gate adds TSQL unit testing to SSMS (for free) (Greg Duncan)
• Using OFFSET and FETCH (Vinay Pugalia)

SharePoint

• Microsoft Visio 2010 for SharePoint Network Topology (MS Downloads)
• Avoiding bugs from cached JavaScript and CSS files in SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)
• How do I – Create a recursive escalation workflow in SharePoint using Visio 2010 Premium (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• What to SharePoint from your WP7 App? Check out the SharePoint 2010 Windows Phone 7 Toolkit (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Some new powertoys for OneNote (John Guin)
• Microsoft delivers new IE 10 preview for Windows 8 and Microsoft updates SkyDrive with HTML5 upload, PDF support and more (Mary Jo Foley)
• The New Essential Apps November 2011 (Roberto Baldwin)
• Windows Phone 7 needs a Christmas miracle (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #992 and The Morning Brew #993 (Chris Alcock)
• WindowsDevNews for November 29, 2011 – #0002 and WindowsDevNews for November 30, 2011 – #0003 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 30 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/29/2011 and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/30/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Things I’ve written that have amused other people, Episode 8 (Raymond Chen)
• Maker Geek Roundup 004 for 11/29/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #763 and Double Shot #764 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Monthly Summary – November 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 11/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 29-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Monthly Report November 2011: Total Posts 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• REPL for the Rosyln CTP 10/2011 (Chris Sells)
• Building F# Solutions in Visual Studio 11 (Daniel Mohl)
• Eduasync part 17: unit testing (Jon Skeet)
• Razor Donut Caching and Musings On Software Community (Phil Haack)
• Yes, The Forest Is Full of Trees (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Task Cancellation (Richard Carr)
• How to pass parameters to reports using Infragistics Reporting with WCF RIA Services and Client-Side Rendering (Mihail Mateev)
• Visual Studio, the AVR Studio 5 and some non-.Net Micro Framework hardware (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Introduction to Metro UI in Windows8 (Abhishek Sur)
• Developing Device Drivers in Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• TeamCitySharp (Paul Stack)
• Rewriting an if (Jef Claes)
• Metro Pandora SDK V1 and Terminals Version 2 – Beta 4 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Developing Your First HTML5 Game – Lesson 1 and HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 2 and HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 3 – Navigating Your Spaceship (Andrey Prikaznov)
• OData Binding for Navigation Controls (ASP.NET AJAX) (Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Team)
• Got CSV in your javascript? Use agnes. (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET 4.5: Filtering using Model Binding in ASP.NET Web Forms (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Telerik components for asp.net: learning to live with RADical family. (On using radScheduler in an MVC app) (Peter van Ooijen)
• WebMatrix Start Building Better Websites (Nigel Parker)
• Node.js release: Node v0.6.3 (Bert Belder)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v4.0.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Features vs Behaviour (Simon Brown)
• Pattern Templates (JD Meier)
• Killer instinct as a driving force (Alex Kessinger)
• All our work should be like Calvin and Hobbes (Chris Heilmann)
• Can you really commit to delivering work? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• References on the Actor Programming Model (Chris Patterson)
• Test Driven Development–Testing Private Values (Jesse Liberty)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get user Input from a Popup in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• A WPF TileView Control (VallarasuS)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Developing the core (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Playing sounds in Windows Phone 7 applications and Displaying Subtitles using Timeline Markers in Windows Phone 7 media applications and Multi-column StackPanel for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Lua for you’ah… Adding Lua scripting support to your .Net/WPF app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #437 – Showing Rounded Corners on a Border (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch: It Is About The Money (It Is Always About The Money) (Michael Washington)
• PhoneGap Status: Moving to Apache and Adobe, Plugin Modularization, PhoneGap/Build Service (Werner Schuster)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #25: Background Agents and 31 Days of Mango | Day #26: Background File Transfer and 31 Days of Mango | Day #27: Microphone API (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Advanced Windows Phone Enginering Tool – WPE Downloads (Alpha) (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: Kresten Thorup – Erlang, Erjang, and Building Reliable Systems (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 128: Corey Haines on Global Day of Coderetreat (December 3) (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 114 – 11.25.2011 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 003 – 11.25.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video on How to work with System Tray Progress Indicator in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Apple’s Siri On iPhone 4S vs Microsoft’s Tellme On Windows Phone – The Ultimate Voice Assistants Head-to-Head [VIDEO] (Edward Marquez)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery mobile 1.0, jQuery 1.7.1, node vs RoR (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 93: Brian Hitney – The Cloud and Beyond (Michael Kimsal)
• Tech News Today 378: Interlocking Directorates (Paul Thurrott)
• "Kinect with your Eclipse IDE" (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Draft agenda published for Six Weeks of Windows Azure #6weeksazure (Eric Nelson)
• Free Webcast on “How to Increase Performance of Web Apps using jQuery” (Kunal Chowdhury)

Database

• SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Get Directory Structure using Extended Stored Procedure xp_dirtree and SQL SERVER – Powershell – Get a List of Fixed Hard Drive and Free Space on Server (Pinal Dave)
• Data Loading Performance Guide (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• My Tools of the Trade – 2011 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Objective C Categories (Steve Tibbett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 130 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #760 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five November 25, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Re-blog – November 18 – November 24 (Jason Strate)
• Daily News Digest 11/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #989 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 25 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2011 — #1174 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2011 — #1175 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 20-November-2011 to 26-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 60 – Invest in Your Team & #Agile Cults (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Node.js (Pragmatic) by Travis Swicegood

• Coming Soon: Visual Studio Achievements and Visual Studio Achievements API and FxCop For VS Achievements (Karsten Januszewski)
• Eduasync part 16: Example of composition: majority voting (Jon Skeet)
• Refactor “if” statements – functional programming style (Dror Helper)
• Kinect for Windows – Building the Future (Craig Eisler)
• Using the Roslyn Symbol API (Kevin Pilch-Bisson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code Definition Window (Richard Carr)
• NHibernate vs. Entity Framework: Usage (Oren Eini)
• Small LINQ to JSON library (Guillaume Ranslant)
• F# Math (III.) – Defining custom numeric types (Tomas Petricek)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: New IDE Features (Jeff Martin)
• Always prompted for credentials in TFS 2010? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• What! C# could do that!! @ironshay demoing my ElasticObject implementation in @LIDNUG presentation (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Convert MP3 to AAC,FLAC to AAC (.NET/C#) FREE (Justin Oehlmann)
• If You’re Using “#if DEBUG”, You’re Doing it Wrong (Peter Ritchie)
• It is not unreasonable to expect uninitialized garbage to change at any time, you don’t need to ask for an explanation (Raymond Chen)
• Take care to unhook Anonymous Delegates (David Vallens)
• Stop premature email sending with NServiceBus (Jimmy Bogard)
• Rewriting an if (Jef Claes)
• Mono: Updated Documentation Site (Miguel de Icaza)

Web Development

• New Color Picker in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview for CSS and CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Binding to oData with jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Learning HTML5 – Sample Sites (Steve Albers)
• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas (Dave Methvin)
• Book review: Closure: the Definitive Guide (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Reducing JavaScript Code Using jsRender Templates in HTML5 Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Back to Basics – JavaScript onerror Event (Gil Fink)
• Getting Started with the Infragistics jQuery Combo (Jordan Tsankov)
• Download Free eBook: Razor View Engine in MVC 3 – by @itorian (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Hover and Click Trigger for Circular Elements with jQuery (Mary Lou)
• JavaScript Intellisense with Telerik in ASP.NET Master Page Project with VS 2010 (Otto Neff)
• How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer (Peter Kellner)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Preserve Whole Object and PhoneGap: native applications written in HTML (Giorgio Sironi)
• Keyword parameters in JavaScript and ECMAScript.next (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Changing the Default Focus Styles (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Walking Dead: HTML/JavaScript (Ward Bell)
• Custom mime types with Cassini (Arian Kulp)
• Bing Spatial Data Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Knockout JS Pluralsight Course in the Works (John Papa)
• How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js (Zack Grossbart)
• Ranking – Part II and Ranking Part III (PointsToShare)
• Creating a Dynamic DataRow for easier DataRow Syntax (Rick Strahl)
• Backbone Persistence (Unknown Author)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Azure Diagnostics generate exception in SystemEventsListener::LoadXmlString when reading event log which includes exception as event data and Can you programmatically enable CDN within your Windows Azure Storage Account? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Packaging a Custom PHP Installation for Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Backbone vs Knockout (Derick Bailey)
• Evolving ECMAScript (Shanku Niyogi, Amanda Silver, John Montgomery, Luke Hoban & Steve Lucco)
• WebStorm your Node app! (Maxim Mossienko)
• Modernizr.js: Polyfills (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• RE: Clean Architecture (Simon Brown)
• Unit testing is… well, broken. (Dewald Galjaard)
• Gratitude Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Invest in Your Team – Know Them (Peter Saddington)
• Importance of Good Domain Models (Rinat Abdullin)
• Solution Architecture Guidance and 13 Mobile Development Questions to Think About and Outline for an Executive Summary (Eric Johnson)
• Systems Thinking in a Bar (Jurgen Appelo)
• Organize Your Tests, Part II: Use Metadata! and Combinatorial / Pairwise Tools (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF 4.5 – Part 13 : binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider and How to bind an ItemsControl to an Enum with localized descriptions (Jonathan Antoine)
• Generic WPF/Silverlight Value Converter (Clifford Nelson)
• How to get user Input from a Popup in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• Building and Using Expression Blend Behaviors (David Kelley)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Play with music (Andrea Boschin)
• OData caching in Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
• Navigation in Windows Phone 7 apps and Creating a simple Media Player for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Lua for you’ah… Adding Lua scripting support to your .Net/WPF app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Leveraging Background Services and Agents in Windows Phone 7 (Mango) (Jon Galloway)
• What is the Future of Silverlight? Let’s Discuss… (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using MVVMLight, ItemsControl, Blend and behaviors to make a ‘heads up compass’ (Joost van Schaik)
• Windows Phone Marketplace: One Year In (Sarah Perez)
• 2000 WPF Things #436 – Using a Drop Shadow with a Border (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #23: Execution Model and 31 Days of Mango | Day #24: Performance Analysis (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cloud Panel Discussion at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SPLASH 2011: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt – JavaScript Modules and GoingNative 4: Jim Springfield on ATL, GoingNative Conference – Register Today! (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 127: Setting up your Computer and Work Area (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Let’s Play TDD #145: Displaying the FileDialog (James Shore)
• Video on How to create Flickr Photo viewer App for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to work with Picture in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Dozen Windows Phone Videos… And Counting (Jesse Liberty)
• SE Podcast #28 – Brent Ozar (Alex Miller)
• Defrag: Moving Page File, Recovering Encrypted Files, Missing User Account (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Fusion Sentient, PhotoVote, FaceArt, Action Potato, The Jumble (Laura Foy)
• What The Tech 94: I’ve Got A Deal For You! and Windows Weekly 236: The PC Plus Era (Paul Thurrott)
• Gillmor Gang 11.22.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget HD Podcast 275 – 11.22.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Marcus Whitney Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• 2011 Virtual and Live Speaking Locations (John Papa)
• Announcing GoingNative 2012 Conference (Visual C++ Team)
• Getting more and more into the Microsoft Belgian community (Simone Chiaretta)
• 1 Year on Next at Microsoft: Tour the Microsoft HQ (Steve Clayton)
• Visiting MVPs Around the World (Nestor Portillo)
• Rock, Paper, Azure is back… (Brian Hitney)

Database

• 3 SQL Server Book Review Short Takes (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Query Performance Analysis using DMVs (Carl Nolan)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 7 Released and SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Data Tools CTP4 (SSDT) download available for all languages (Janet Yeilding)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance – Part 4 (John Pertell)
• Geting Started with SSRS – Part 1 – SQL Server Reporting Services Overview and Installing in Windows Server 2008 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Three Things That Rock About SQL Server (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server: Test Linked Server Connection (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 – Summary of All the Analytic Functions – MSDN and SQLAuthority and SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – Simulate LEAD() and LAG() without Using SQL Server 2012 Analytic Function and SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB–Replication & Master <-> Master support (Oren Eini)
• Always set the SEQUENCE cache size (Denny Cherry)
• Getting Started with MongoDB (Matthew Setter)

SharePoint

• Firebird and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)
• Lightning conductor 2010 web part version 2.0.0.2 (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• JobsBlog Rewind: 3 tips for getting a job in the new year (MS JobsBlog)
• The Kinect knows no national boundaries, as shown by Chinese University students pushing the Kinect’s boundaries (Greg Duncan)
• SkyDrive – designing personal cloud storage for billions of people (Omar Shahine)
• Giving Thanks To Arcane Programming Languages (Rob Diana)
• Doom 3 GPL source code now available (Ross Miller)
• Computer Algorithms: Sequential Search (Stoimen Popov)
• Making Android Games that Play Nice (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #758 and Double Shot #759 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/23/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #987 and The Morning Brew #988 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 22 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 23 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 24 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for November 14 – 20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2011 — #1172 and Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2011 — #1173 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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