• Visual Studio Achievements – Remember Kids They’re Just For Fun (Bil Simser)
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta (Karsten Januszewski)
• Learning leadership from Congress (Seth Godin)
• Introducing ReSharper 6.1 SDK (Dmitri Nesteruk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Ask Ayende: Life without repositories, are they worth living? (Oren Eini)
• [Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! – Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Achievements Widget (Geoffrey K.)
• TFS11 Scrum board update remaining work without opening the work item… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• An introduction to NDepend (Nathan Gloyn)
• Don’t try to allocate memory until there is only x% free (Raymond Chen)
• Querying an Uninitialized Collection with NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• P/Invoke Stack Imbalance MDA (Sasha Goldshtein)
• async / await, some reasoning (Bnaya Eshet)
• "Beginner’s Guide to Kinect Programming," from download to demo (Greg Duncan)
• Per Project Settings or How to have different naming styles for my test project (Hadi Hariri)
• Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• jQuery Bootstrap 0.2 Brings ‘Beauty’ to Widgets (Christopher Smith)
• An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques (Scott Hanselman)
• 160 Music APIs (Wendell Santos)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 3 – Paths and Text (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Add Google Plus One Extension to BlogEngine.NET (Joseph Guadagno)
• Under the Covers: Let It Snow… (Bogdan Brinza)
• HTTP is not a transport protocol, HTTP is not RPC (Glenn Block)
• Format efficiency take 2: really clean JSON (Pablo Castro)
• Windows Azure application VM and (virtual) IP Address (Avkash Chauhan)
• Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability (Dilip Krishnan)
• Easing Functions in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care (Steve Smith)
• The next big thing is extremely small (Jimmy Nilsson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Toolkit ToggleSwitch Databinding Bug (Andy Wigley)
• wp7 skydrive upload (babaandthepigman)
• WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited (Colin Eberhardt)
• How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight (DawningTiger)
• How to Use the ConnectionSettings Task for Windows Phone and Code to Share Status or Links on Social Media sites in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Comfortably numb… MVVM’ing Enums in ComboBox (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #476 – Set ZIndex Values for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• New Ebook by SilverlightShow and Andrea Boschin: Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals (SilverlightShow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Dev Radio Episode 95: Jeff Carouth at ZendCon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
• The GeekDads Episode #107: And Anyone Who Says Otherwise Is Evil and Bad and Wrong (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag: Gov’s Nest, Bitlocker Q’s, Win7 Defrag, (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Bug Village, Hasta La Muerte, PixelTV, Make Way, WeatherDuck (Laura Foy)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 010 – 01.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio Achievements (Robert Green)
• New Videos Uploaded (Jesse Liberty)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells Unplugged! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Microsoft-ComponentOne Hands-On-Workshops for Windows Phone Series – January 24th and 26th 2012 (MS Public Sector Team)
• Top 10 Reasons Why I Like Dating A Programmer (Lori Lalonde)
• I have been awarded as Telerik MVP (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Importance of Resource Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Performance Tuning – optimizing for response time (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• Translating Military Experience to Real World Jobs (Joe Wallis)
• Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn’t Enough (Jeff Atwood)
• New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition) (Garr Reynolds)
• Learning RegEx – Grouping and Backlinks and Lots-O-emote’s in WPCentral’s complete WP7 emoticons list (Greg Duncan)
• Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPA (Todd Wasserman)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.10 ~ 01.19 (yuanjian)
• Daily News Digest 1/18/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1025 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-18 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 – #00029 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework: Code First: Code First by Julia Lerman

• SOLID JavaScript: The Open/Closed Principle (Derek Greer)
• Using the JavaScript Prototype Property to Structure and Extend Code (Dan Wahlin)
• What’s new in MEF 2 Preview 5? (Alok & Nick)
• Optimizing picture password security (Steven Sinofsky)
• Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and his impact on Azure: A six month report card (Mary Jo Foley)
• No gaps for Windows Phone 7 with latest PhoneGap (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Obtaining the Week Number for a Date (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8 Metro App Tip of The Day – reading/writing files without CAP declarations (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
• F# Pattern Matching (Ganesan Senthilvel)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 3–Anonymous methods (Kyle Burns)
• CXXI: Briding the C++ and C# worlds. (Miguel de Icaza)
• Sharing with CompositionScopeDefinition in MEF 2 (Alok)
• Tpl Dataflow (IDataflowBlock) – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Great Windows Azure announcements and fresh content! (Glen Gordon)
• MonoGame – Write Once, Play Everywhere and .NET Client Library for Google+ (Both in original binary form and decompiled/source version too) (Greg Duncan)
• What is the Lifecycle of Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class (Giorgi Dalakishvili)

Web Development

• Be Careful When Using The jQuery Proxy() Method Outside Of A jQuery Context (Ben Nadel)
• JavaScript for C# developers: calling functions and the ‘this’ variable (Julian M. Bucknall)
• CSS and mobile device orientation (Dave Mahon)
• Using CORS to access ASP.NET services across domains (Dave Ward)
• Solving Duplicate Content with Distinct URLs Issue in ASP.NET MVC (Imran Baloch)
• Experimental CSS3 Animations for Image Transitions (Pedro Botelho)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 1 – Introduction (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Creating an Awesome Search Box (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• 2012 Bing Maps Feature Wish List (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Azure Resource: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, Second Edition – eBook Download and Windows Azure: Hands on Lab for Moving Applications to the Cloud (Avkash Chauhan)
• Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page: My Solution (Davy Brion)
• WebSocket servers on Windows Server (Nathan Evans)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are You A Unit Testing Ninja? Stuck with Legacy Code? (Avi Kaye)
• Can software succeed even if Agile failed? and 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Process of Change – The Agile Change Agent [Part 1/4] and The Process of Change – 3 Levels of Change-Implementation [Part 2/4] (Peter Saddington)
• Four cool colour tools (Paul Boag)
• 31 Days of Testing-Day 16: Testing Web Services (Jim Holmes)
• Management Models, Values & Principles? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Article: Succeeding with Dependency Injection (Mark Seemann)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PAARC: Milestone Reached (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)
• Block Diagram on Windows Phone 7 Application Life Cycle Events (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Book Review: Window Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook (Matt Lacey)
• Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
• 2000 WPF Things #454 – UseLayoutRounding vs. SnapsToDevicePixels (Sean Sexton)
• The Case of the ModelBinding Failure (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Trying To Put A Horseshoe On A Car (Michael Washington)
• Muted audio even when the playback rate is set to a supported audio playback rate (Nitya Ravi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kathy Malone is a Green Developer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Mike Lee – The Road to Appsterdam (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 34 (Richard Hay)
• Gweek 031: The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #127: Brad Feld on the Startup Marriage (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• A Revolution in My Lifestyle (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT function (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
• Update Available for SSDT CTP4 (Adam Mahood)
• SQL: Calculated Fields (Shannon Lowder)
• The Mythical MySQL DBA (Sean Hull)
• Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Where, Oh Where, Is My Mashup Running? (James Terwilliger)

SharePoint

• Information Architecture in a SharePoint Context | Architecture d’Information dans un contexte SharePoint (Alain Lord)

PowerShell

• Configure Git in PowerShell So You Don’t Have to Enter Your Password All the Damn Time (Phil Haack)

Miscellaneous

• A Metro Themed PowerPoint Template (Colin Eberhardt)
• Code Signing For Individual Developers (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Android: Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText() (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #777 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1006 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/19/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 12/19/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 12-18, 2011 and Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 19-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #25 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying by Itzik Ben-Gan

• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is here! (Ted Krueger)
• jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• A Few of My Favorite HTML5 and CSS3 Online Tools (Dan Wahlin)
• Visual Studio 11 IDE Advances (Somasegar)
• Working with Subversion Part 2 (or Subversion for the Less Subversive) (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 (Todd Parker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop (Don Syme)
• Dynamic LINQ to NHibernate (Felice Pollano)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The EventHandler and EventHandler<TEventArgs> delegates (James Michael Hare)
• CSS speed typing for Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• ExportFactory in MEF 2 (Alok)
• Analyzing Memory Leaks from Dump Files with SciTech .NET Memory Profiler (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Storing Complex Types, Binary Resources, and Other Tricky Things (Glen Gailey)
• Updated libraries and projects for Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 (Greg Duncan)
• Why can’t I install this DLL via Regsvr32 /i? (Raymond Chen)
• Compare .NET Objects – Version 1.3.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Generating Mandelbrot fractals using HTML5 (Chris)
• Convert Ruby Regexp to JavaScript RegExp (Brian Cardarella)
• Learning HTML5 – Best of RSS (Steve Albers)
• Introduction To Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.437 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Box debuts /bin platform with $2M app developer fund (Colleen Taylor)
• Execute code each time the Node.js REPL starts (Axel Rauschmayer)
• REST API Design: Put the “Type” in “Content-Type” (Mark Massé)
• Building A More App-y Web (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: SpecificationByExample (Martin Fowler)
• 15 Tenets For The Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
• How I view OneNote automation (John Guin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight: Bugs in the multicast client (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Delete data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Disable Javascript errors in WPF Web Browser Control take2 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• New! Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts (Chris Koenig)
• Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Simulating GPS position changes using Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone environment (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Socket Sample (Michael Sync)
• 2000 WPF Things #433 – Preservation of Margins While Editing Grid in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #18: Using Sample Data (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How-to: Apps for creating custom ringtones (Andy Colley)
• Custom ringtones: A visual guide (Drew Williams)
• MultiBinding in Silverlight 5 (Henrik Jonsson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: David Ungar – Self, ManyCore, and Embracing Non-Determinism (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 043 – “Ben the Phone Charity Guy” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: JetBrains ReSharper (Robert Green)
• High Performance Computing with Wenming Ye (Larry Larsen)
• Five Kindle Fire Unboxing and Review YouTube Videos (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Michael Sync (The Code Project)
• Juicy Bits (Mike Swanson)
• Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest (Stephanie Taylor)
• FREE ALM Webcast Series in November/December (Angela Binkowski)
• UGIALT.net conf 7: proposals, dates and voting (Simone Chiaretta)
• Infragistics speaking at New York City Windows Phone User Group (Tobias Komischke)
• SQL Azure MVP Herve Roggero on the Value of Being an MVP (MVP Award Program)
• Northwest Harvest at MVP Summit 2012 (MVP Summit Events)

Database

• Great tool for SQL Server Compact Databases (Arian Kulp)
• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is now available. Here’s a download link round-up. (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to PERCENT_RANK() – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Location of files for new database in SQL Server and Showing sysjobhistory run_duration in HHMMSS format (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – When will my backup finish? (Vishal)
• Compatibility Matrix 1.2 (Mark Broadbent)
• The Data Explorer Formula Language (Data Explorer Team)
• Table Space revised Again (Jason Brimhall)
• Excel worksheets from variable – revisited (John Pertell)

SharePoint

• Deploying WSPs as part of an automated build (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Samplers From O’Reilly (Tatworth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #755 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #984 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2011 — #1168 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

• S#arp Lite: The Basics (Billy McCafferty)
• Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Nick)
• Eduasync part 15: implementing COMEFROM with a horrible hack (Jon Skeet)
• F# Dynamic Lookup Operator and Regex (Carl Nolan)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 78: Migrating Silverlight apps to Windows 8 Metro with Derik Whittaker (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using the Simplest Type Name in a Snippet and Child Tasks (Richard Carr)
• Information on upgrading Kinect Applications to MS SDK Beta 2. (Michael Crump)
• Kinect SDK – resources for developers and Hosting a WCF service on GoDaddy (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Tool for Debugging Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 11 (Jenni Konrad)
• Hosting WCF Service in Windows Server AppFabric (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Implementing Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern in C# using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• With Visual Studio 2010 (and vs2011 preview) Fast Launch Not Helpful Often (Peter Kellner)
• TFS API Part 40–Build Service Host (Shai Raiten)
• Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK and Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.11111 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
• Mounting a Microsoft Azure CloudDrive in a VMRole (Sean Barlow)
• .NET Gadgeteer Module Contest at GHI and Update to .NET Gadgeteer Larson Scanner (Pete Brown)
• Data breakpoints to find points where data gets broken (Timo Heinäpurola)
• Book Review – Developer’s Guide To Collections in Microsoft® .NET (Lori Lalonde)
• Interactive, free and just plain cool, .Net Tutorial (Greg Duncan)
• WinRT Wishlist: Live Tiles for “Classic” Apps (James Ashley)
• MsBuild finding directories if not given as parameter (Daniel Fisher)
• XPath Visualizer v1.3 Latest and MSBuild Extension Pack – November 2011 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML5 is on a killer spree, Web Sockets May partially “kill” HTTP as well (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Separate Query from Modifier (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript in different browsers (PointsToShare)
• Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture (Martin Beeby)
• Build business apps in .NET – not HTML & JavaScript (Ward Bell)
• Test your App Fabric ACS v2 RPS Application to use actual REALM and Return URL in Cloud and localhost URL in Compute Emulator and Windows Azure Load Balancer Timeout Details (Avkash Chauhan)
• Creating an E-Mail Contact Form (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Solving the Shakespeare Million Monkeys Problem in Real-time with Parallelism and SignalR (Scott Hanselman)
• New Game 2011: HMTL5 Gaming FTW (Carter Rabasa)
• rails_best_practices 1.3.0 released (Huang Zhimin)
• Common Areas For Securing Web Services (DotNetBlocks)
• Better ASP MVC Select HtmlHelper (Sacha Barber)
• Web.config Transformations and XML Namespaces (Mads Troest)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Monthly Planning with Agile Results and Simplified Site and Knowledge Base for Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• BDD XAF Project Released and Setup and Use SpecFlow BDD with DevExpress XAF (Patrick Liekhus)
• New Articles on Event Sourcing and CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010-Part 2 and Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010-Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
• New Article: Managing and Testing Topics, Queues and Relay Services with the Service Bus Explorer Tool (Paolo Salvatori)
• The 5 whys: Another attempt (Mark Needham)
• The Happiness Door, Another Great Feedback Method (Jurgen Appelo)
• Mitigate your merge issues (Mehdi Khalili)
• Merge Business Logic Handler Custom Conflict Resolver (Brandon Williams)
• What Good is a Pig? (Brent Ozar)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Death to banding: Windows Phone devs, please upgrade your apps to 32 BitsPerPixel (Windows Phone Geek)
• Is the Future of Silverlight Coming to an End? Do We Really Need to Worry About Silverlight 6 Yet? (Devin Jordan)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Manipulating camera stream (Andrea Boschin)
• F# Silverlight Library Template in Visual Studio 11 (Dan Mohl)
• Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Binary Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• 2000 WPF Things #429 – Child Element Properties that Affect Layout (Sean Sexton)
• Developing Snowfight – Basic particle engine (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Improving CSLA 4 MobileFormatter behavior (Rockford Lhotka)
• TouchDevelop v2.4: push notifications, updates, discussions, … (Nikolai Tillmann)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #12: Beta Distribution and 31 Days of Mango | Day #13: Marketplace Test Kit and 31 Days of Mango | Day #14: Using OData (Jeff Blankenburg)
• xamGrid vs. xamDataGrid: Conceptual and Feature Comparison (Pamela Brasil)
• Visual State Manager (VSM) – part II (Alex Mukora)
• Have an Idea? Need an Idea? (Ben Lower)
• Storyboards in Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (Scott Hanselman)
• SPLASH 2011: Andrew Black and James Noble – The Grace Programming Language Project (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 182: Mark Minasi on Windows Server 8 (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 042 – “WOW, That’s a Big Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 419: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Larry Hyrb)
• Boagworld: The challenge of context in modern UX design (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 234: Paul of Duty (Paul Thurrott)
• Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs Video and There’s Something About Nolock: Webcast Video (Brent Ozar)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Jeff Truman Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 76 – John Bristowe and Kendo UI (Richard Banks)
• Bill Gates Jumps Over Chair (Gillian)
• Vergecast 002 – 11.11.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Engadget Podcast 264 – 11.11.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 112 – 11.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: VS11, HTML5, Debugging, and guest host Habib Heydarian (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• TDD Master class – Videos Available For Purchase at TekPub (Roy Osherove)
• Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Better Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• The Tablet Show – WinRT Panel Discussion from DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Getting Involved With Open-Source In 10 Minutes (Addy Osmani)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – A Real Story of Book Getting ‘Out of Stock’ to A 25% Discount Story Available (Pinal Dave)
• Windows Azure DevCamps in DC, Dec. 14, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• Workshop Agile + UX (Caleb Jenkins)
• My shift from WPF-XAML to Kinect for Windows (Rob Relyea)
• Upcoming jQuery Events (Addy Osmani)
• Ever Thought to Yourself “Wow, Angela has a FUN and AWESOME job in DPE”? Well, we are currently looking for a few good folks to join us! and Clint and Zain Return to the Midwest in December to WOW us with Visual Studio and TFS Goodness! (Angela Binkowski)
• A Conversation from the Trenches of Agility with David J Bland, Brad Murphy and Peter Saddington (Christopher Goldsbury)

Database

• Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar‘s SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: Book review (Dhananjay Kumar)
• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 5: Incorrect Calculation Results, Miscellaneous and MDX Studio Errors (drweed)
• Parallel execution in SSIS (James Serra)
• SQLAuthority News – Various Microsoft SQL Server Documentations Available for Download and SQL SERVER – CSVExpress and Quick Data Load (Pinal Dave)
• Third Normal Form is Snake Oil (Brent Ozar)
• Sharding vs. Having multiple databases (Oren Eini)
• Synchronize Data from Cloud to Cloud (C2C) using SQL Azure Data Sync (Sudhesh Suresh)
• Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping (Chad Miller)

SharePoint

• #Ebook Deal/Day: SharePoint for Project Management – $17.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 2) (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader Is Not About Reading News It Is About Curation (Rob Diana)
• Updated NDK for Android 4.0 (Xavier Ducrohet)
• Next-Gen Xbox codenamed "Loop" and will run Windows 9? (Zac)
• Developers’ Interest Growing in Windows Phone, Waning in BlackBerry (Ina Fried)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 12, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• This Week’s Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What’s New in Bundler 1.1? (Peter Cooper)
• The Morning Brew #980 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/14/2011 and Weekly article digest 11/14/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/11/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (November 11th) (Larry Franks)
• Reading Notes # 20 (Franky)
• Double Shot #751 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: November 11, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Retrospective 58 – People Over Technology (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 06-November-2011 to 12-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 7-13 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

• jQuery 1.7 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Physics Games: Multi-targeting Windows 8 + Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• My Secrets to Productivity (Jolie O’Dell)
• Using the Roslyn Syntax API (Kevin Pilch-Bisson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lazy Loading in C# (Suprabhat Paul)
• Using lambdas – C++ vs. C# vs. C++/CX vs. C++/CLI (Nishant Sivakumar)
• Track Changes and Advance Scroll Mode in Visual Studio 2010 (Christian D. Yellington)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Generic Action Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Alpha (CodePlex)
• DevForce Code First with AOP (Ward Bell)
• Be a Keyboard Ninja! (Just* Team)
• Project2NuGet (Greg Duncan)
• Source code for OneCal (John Guin)
• Overriding part registration conventions with the MEF attributes (Nick)
• Application State, Suspension and Termination of Apps in WinRT (Abhishek Sur)

Web Development

• Using the NetAdvantage jQuery Chart to Explore Over One Million Items of USGS Data (Graham Murray)
• Full-height app layouts: Navigation and History (Steve Sanderson)
• Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls – Check them out (John Petersen)
• Using a virtual machine to play with multiple versions of PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• WebMatrix 2 Beta (Vishal R. Joshi)
• MetroBlog: Windows8 Metro Styled Blog (Justin Angel)
• Bing Webmaster Tools Fall Updates (Duane Forrester)
• Open Source Simple Twitter Client written in JavaScript (Titanium) (Michael Sync)
• How to read Windows Azure Application Endpont IP Address and Port values in the Startup Task (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: ContextualValidation (Martin Fowler)
• Comparison extension method for unit testing (Denis Pitcher)
• Best and Most Up-to-date Agile/Lean Books (Jurgen Appelo)
• INF3720 – Interaction Design Chapter 5 Summary (Mark Pearl)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)
• Mercurial 2.0 Released with LargeFiles extension (Alex Blewitt)
• Coded UI tests : AutomationId or how to find the chose one (control) ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• A Faster Way to File Bugs in BugTracker (Celina)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Announcing: Phone as a Remote Control (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Toolkit MultiselectList in depth| Part2: Data Binding and “Top Windows Phone Dev Tools” section is now Live! and WP7Contrib, Caliburn Micro and AgFx added to the Top Windows Phone Dev Tools (Windows Phone Geek)
• Introduction to Resource Washing in NetAdvantage for Silverlight 11.2 (Damyan Petev)
• Thinking of Pinned Apps conceptually on Windows Phone (Adam Kinney)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (4) – Displaying data from webservice (Anders Poulsen)
• 300 Windows Phone 7 Icons, Creative Commons (with *.XAML, *.Design and *.PNG) (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #423 – Setting Maximum Height and Width for Rows and Columns in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Design Tips #4 (Andrew Spooner)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #4: Compass (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 12 : Looking at a (Rad)GridView (Evan Hutnick)
• XamMultiColumnComboEditor (Atanas Dyulgerov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Announcing Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Alpha (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 041 – “Kinect a Mole” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Reza Malekzadeh Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Check Out Steve Jobs In A Rare, Unedited Interview From 1990 (AAPL) (Dylan Love)
• Inside Microsoft Research: The Research Behind Kinect (Rob Knies)

Community / Events

• Baton Rouge Windows Phone User Group (Chris Koenig)
• Surface MVP Helps Develop Breakthrough Tool to Diagnose Autism (MVP Award Program)
• Salute to the MVPs and a Nod to MVP Wannabes (Joel Oleson)
• Five Questions: Imagine That (Mike Desmond)
• It’s big. It’s in NYC. It’s a secret (for now). (Michael Stroh)
• Touring Microsoft’s Technology Center Campus in Malvern (Daniel Olivieri)
• I work for Microsoft now (David Vidmar)
• JobsBlog roll call: Meet our team – and introduce yourself! (Gretchen Ledgard)
• A Coder Interview With Dan Mohl (The Code Project)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Edition and Licensing Revamp Round-up and SQL Kinection (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server 2012: Business Intelligence Edition (Jorge Segarra)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Interview Questions And Answers Book Summary and SQL SERVER 2012 Editions – Highlights of The Cloud-Ready Information Platform (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS Interview questions – Answers (Ted Krueger)
• Book Review – Effective MySQL (Sean Hull)

Miscellaneous

• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: A Videogame History Book (Jonathan Liu)
• November Oracle Technology Network Offers (Oracle Technology Network)
• Profanity doesn’t work and Google+ Ripples brings something interesting to the table (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 3, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #745 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/3/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #974 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/03/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2011 — #1161 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Best of Blog Overflow: October 2011 (Alex Miller)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours by Rob Eisenberg & Christopher Bennage

• EF 4.2 Released (EF Team)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #2: DeviceStatus (Jeff Blankenburg)
• jQuery 1.7 RC2 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Getting started with convention-based part registration in MEF ‘version 2’ (Nick – BCL Team)
• Debugging Fun with the Async CTP (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• IDisposable and Thread Safety (Richard Carr)
• F# Math – Numerical computing and F# PowerPack and F# Math (I.) – Numeric types in PowerPack (Tomas Petricek)
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework November Sample Updates (Jialiang Ge)
• My article on Creating a User Interface with Mono for Android #Monodroid (Wally McClure)
• Devpad 4.6 (CodePlex)
• TODO: An EPUB Viewer for Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
• Debugging Contracts using Windows Simulator (Cathy Sullivan)
• List valid Data Center Locations for a Subscription using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• Practical HTML5: Using It Today (Doris Chen)
• Javascript memory leaks (Jeff Krebsbach)
• Build Cross-Platform Apps with Standards (Joe Stagner)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Rename Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating a Windows Azure VM Role and Using Windows Azure table storage (Shervin Shakibi)
• My Experiment with Wolfram|Alpha Facts Windows Azure DataMarket to check world population and Everything you need to start with Windows Azure based Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics" (Avkash Chauhan)
• Remote Site Editing and Local Syncing with WebMatrix 2 (John Esposito)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: OpportunisticRefactoring (Martin Fowler)
• Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• TDD – Static Methods (Mark Pearl)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New features in NetAdvantage for Windows Phone Vol.11.2 (Mihail Mateev)
• XamTileManager – new control in the XAML Line of Business product shipped with the 11.2 release (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 3 of 3): RadChartingKit (Evan Hutnick)
• Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 1 of 3) and Telerik XAML Q3’11 Beta – Walkthrough (Part 2 of 3) (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #421 – HorizontalAlignment, Margins and Column Widths in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7: Launcher and Choosers – Part 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
• AgFx Windows Phone Application Data Caching Framework – November Update (CodePlex)
• Looking for great app ideas? Try Marketplace Extra (Michael Stroh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed (MS Podcasts)
• Engadget HD Podcast 272 – 11.01.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Phone Hackathon from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Screencast: Coding Conway’s Game of Life in Ruby the TDD Way with RSpec (Peter Cooper)
• Defrag: Readyboost, Virtual Machines, Printing at Distance (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• jQuery Conference 2012: United Kingdom Announced (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Free Upcoming Webinar – Enterprise Information Management with SharePoint 2010: Secrets to Success (Joel Oleson)
• Free online Prism 4.0 training (Bob Brumfield)
• AT&T Mobile App Hackathon–Orlando–I’ll be there (Dani Diaz)
• Windows Phone Event at Hull University (Rob Miles)
• What are you into? (Luke)
• 30 Day Boot Camp for Getting Results: Free Time Management Training for Achievers (JD Meier)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Import CSV into Database – Transferring File Content into a Database Table using CSVexpress (Pinal Dave)
• Over and under indexing – how bad is it out there? (Paul S. Randal)
• Publish Capabilities in Data Explorer (Data Explorer Team)
• How To Backup Your Postgres DB To Amazon Nightly (Rob Conery)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Azure Use Case: Supplementing Infrastructure (Buck Woody)
• Cross-Post: Photosynth Loves Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
• New Google Reader Layout | Not a Fan (Jeff Julian)
• Pogue Power: #Ebook Deal/Day – Save 50% on all @Pogue’s Missing Manuals + NEW Mac OS X Lion: TMM (O’Reilly Media)
• How Microsoft kills cool projects (Scott Berkun)
• Android 4.0 Graphics and Animations (Tim Bray)
• Nokia Maps Coming to ALL Windows Phones Soon and WP7 Xbox Live Game of the Week: Kinectimals (officially) (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #972 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 2 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading November 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #743 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/1/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/01/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow for October 24 – 30, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2011 — #1160 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Dino Esposito

• Using Task Manager with 64+ logical processors (Steven Sinofsky)
• Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET 4.5 (Grigori Melnik)
• Getting Started with JavaScript… again (Christopher Bennage)
• Calling F# Libraries from Metro Style Apps (Daniel Mohl)
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target and Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• What’s new in MEF ‘version 2’ Preview 4? (Alok & Nick)
• Phree Book Reader Now Available (Charles Petzold)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.8.5 Now Available (Rene Schulte)
• LINQ to XML in a Nutshell (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WCF Data Services October CTP Updates OData Libraries, Adds Spatial Data Types (Jenni Konrad)
• F# under the covers XIV — Match expressions : Does my complexity look big in this? and F# — where has our Roslyn been? (Steve Gilham)
• Inner Fields and Lazy Initialization in C# (Steve Smith)
• .NET Framework 4 Now Supports LocalDB (Abel Avram)
• MEF 101 – Part2 (Abhijeet Patel)
• Understanding basic WinRT Metro Applications and Application Capabilities and Layout adjustments Snapping and OrientationChanges in Metro Applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Azure AppFabric ServiceBus Relay Load Balancing (Scale & Availability Feature) and Whats new in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 – Packages are no longer encrypted and How to upgrade only one specific role from your Windows Azure Application and Communication between Windows Azure Roles (Avkash Chauhan)
• VS11DP Microsoft Parallel Visualization Pack (Greg Duncan)
• OpenWrap 2.0.1–a better way to look at dependencies (Sebastien Lambla)
• Building a .NET Gadgeteer Compatible Hardware and Software Module: Der BlinkenLED (Pete Brown)
• Three .NET "tools" that I use every day and you want to know about (Dror Helper)
• Convention-based part registration available in a new MEF preview! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Fluent Assertions is finally gaining some momentum (Dennis Doomen)
• 5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic GC Collections (Michael McLaughlin)
• Enterprise Library Contrib – 5.0 (Oct 2011) (CodePlex)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

• HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails Developers (Daniel Kehoe)
• ASP.NET MVC: Expression Trees as Parameter to Simplify Query (SummiG)
• HTML5 canvas – Creating Your Own Paint Program (Aramis GC)
• Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github (Phil Haack)
• Codeigniter + HTML5 Boilerplate = win (John Esposito)
• Razor and CSS in JustCode (Just* Team)
• Simple Membership MVC3 1.2 available on NuGet (Kevin LaBranche)
• Definition of Done in an MVC project (Mehdi Khalili)
• HTMLApplicationHost Framework Posted to Codeplex (David Kelley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript: Why the hatred for strict mode? (Acel Rauschmayer)
• Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers (Vitaly Friedman)
• JavaScript YouTube Downloader–The Compact Edition (Shai Raiten)
• Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Embrace Authorship – The importance of rel=me and rel=author on your content’s SEO and Google (Scott Hanselman)
• Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? (Peter Kellner)
• New PHP formatting options in PhpStorm 3.0 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
• Deploying Node.js Applications to Windows Azure via Blobs or Git Sync (Steve Marx)
• Best Practices for Getting Started with SVG (Jennifer Yu)
• A Best Practice for Programming with Vendor Prefixes (John Hrvatin)
• Guide to Claims-based Identity and Access Control (2nd Edition) (Jimmy Larkin)
• CoffeeScript’s for loops don’t work on strings (despite appearances to the contrary) (Joe White)
• Piwik ≤ 1.5.1 multiple XSS vulnerabilities (Krzysztof Kotowicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simple Design with Design Patterns (Cory Foy)
• Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party controls – the basics explained and Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party Windows Forms controls–How to? (Shubhra Maji)
• Getting Started with Getting Results Free eBook (JD Meier)
• The gift of legacy (Jef Claes)
• Software Development as Risk Management (Christopher Goldsbury)
• Are Project Managers Living a Lie? (Peter Saddington)
• A case study in responsive design (Dan Sheerman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Commands in MVVM (Dave Kerr)
• Getting Started with Windows Phone Alarms (Windows Phone Geek)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (1) (Anders Poulsen)
• Grouping & CheckBoxes in RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 (Deyan Ginev)
• Microsoft: Windows Phone Mango now being delivered to ’100 percent’ of compatible devices (Donald Melanson)
• HTML5 Mobile and Windows Phone 7 (Doris Chen)
• WPF 4: Changing DataGrid Cell Appearance on Mouse Events (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 2000 WPF Things #418 – Star Sizing Allows Setting Row and Column Sizes Relative to Each Other and #419 – How Cell Sizes are Calculated when Using Star Sizing (Sean Sexton)
• Custom Versioning Strategy on TFS 2010 for Windows Phone (Henry Lee)
• 31 Days of Mango (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 180: Brian Korzinski on Codeslingers (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 417: BF3, Kinect Sports Season 2, Goldeneye 007: Reloaded (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 164 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro with Devfarm (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 91: Zendcon 2011 – Jeff Kibler interview (Michael Kimsal)
• Engadget Podcast 262 – 10.28.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 110 – 10.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Migrating to the Cloud – Part 3/3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 74 – Mahesh Krishnan on Azure (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 232: Mango Is To Tango (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Robert Collazo Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Cloud Cover Episode 63 – Securely Sharing Files with Windows Azure (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• This is my next Podcast 030 – 10.30.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Kinect to Kill: A Channel 9 Halloween Special (Laura Foy)
• Video on How to Start developing for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to change Theme and Skin of Windows Phone 7 Emulator and Video on How to work with Orientation Changes in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Online Webcast How to Identify Resource Bottlenecks – Wait Types and Queues (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing a new user group (Andrej Tozon)
• ALM Events in Redmond by Northwest Cadence and Agile Scrum and Kanban presentation by David Starr Nov 3rd at ODNC and free bonus sessions at DevTeach (Charles Sterling)
• Get in the game! Announcing a round of free, HTML5 game camps from Microsoft (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight in the Enterprise Training at MS NYC (Dani Diaz)
• WordPress Geeks Rejoice, WordCamp Philly 2011 Scheduled For November 6th (Joe Ross)
• KolkataGeeks Pleased to Announce Developer Conference 2011 (#DevConKol2011) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft holding Windows Phone press event in NYC Nov. 7 (John Callaham)
• November Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Updatable Subscriptions Deprecated in SQL Server 2012 (Brandon Williams)
• SQL SERVER – Fundamentals of Columnstore Index and SQL SERVER – How to Ignore Columnstore Index Usage in Query and SQL SERVER – Database Dynamic Caching by Automatic SQL Server Performance Acceleration (Pinal Dave)
• Add Client Name in SQL Profiler Results (Madhivanan)
• Creating a Table Report with Dynamic Columns (Paul Turley)
• Save a step: Using Computed Columns in a Table Variable (or Temp Table) (sognibene)
• Installing the AdventureWorks Community Sample Database content and Installing the AdventureWorks OLAP Sample Database (Enrique Lima)
• How To Estimate Data Utilization (Michelle Ufford)

SharePoint

• Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – About this Series… and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – How I do MVVM and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – My favorite MVVM toolkit : MVVM Light Toolkit and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Commands and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Messages and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Dialogs and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the Business Logic and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the User Interface and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Using Data Services (Andrew Connell)
• How do I – Resolve the Powershell New-SPConfigurationDatabase command error – The pipeline has been stopped, This SharePoint farm currently has pending upgrades (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• A follow up to installing a Dev SharePoint 2010 environment on Windows 7: Using the Farm Configuration Wizard Part 1 of 2 (Enrique Lima)
• New book: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• My Favorite PowerShell Script: Reading Log Files (Jes Schultz Borland)

Miscellaneous

• The Great Place to Work Institute Names Microsoft World’s Best Workplace (MS JobsBlog)
• Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth (Joe Ferris)
• RubyMine, Part 4. Editing Code (Victor Savkin)
• Control Your Vim Editor (Dalibor Nasevic)
• CodePlex Activity Stream (Jahmai OSullivan)
• Windows Azure Special offer for MSDN Subscribers (PubSec)
• Google TV gets generally more ‘Googly’ with Android apps, new YouTube (Tim Conneally)
• So what about Windows Phone 7 adoption rates? (Joost van Schaik)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 126 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 31 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Bi-Weekly Link Post 212 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading October 28, 2011 and Geek Reading October 29, 2011 and Geek Reading October 30, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #740 and Double Shot #741 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: October 28, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Friday Links 2011-10-28 (JD Meier)
• The Morning Brew #969 and The Morning Brew #970 (Chris Alcock)
• Pie in the Sky (October 28, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Daily News Digest 10/28/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/28/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 23-October-2011 to 29-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Web Dev Tweets 26-Oct-2011 and 27-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #18 (Franky)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/28/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 56 – #CTO #Blog and #SEO #Giveaway (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Devices: Now With Android! (Wade Wegner)
• HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Designing for Metro style and the desktop (Steven Sinofsky)
• Prism-fy the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TFS11 gets a new merge/diff tool (Rory Primrose)
• PartNotDiscoverable attribute in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
• C# 2010 Soup to Nuts Series (Emily Gibson)
• VS2010 Find In Solution Explorer Hotkey/Toolbar Button (Lance Robinson)
• The TeamPulse TFS Process Template – Why Does It Matter? (Joel Poiron)
• Visual Studio vNext IDE Enhancements (Zain Naboulsi)
• MiniBuss Updates (Johan Danforth)
• Downloading and saving a File from Windows Azure BLOB storage (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 2 Released (Eric J. Smith)
• String.Format-specific refactorings shipped in Refactor! Pro (Alex Skorkin)
• concurrency::accelerator (Daniel Moth)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.2 Alpha (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Adding Two-Factor Authentication to a ASP.NET MVC Application (Jimmy Larkin)
• Offline web applications: a working example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using the HTML5 and jQuery UI Popup Calendar with ASP.NET MVC (Rick Anderson)
• Book Review: CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development (Michael J. Ross)
• Ruby and Windows Azure Local Storage (Larry Franks)
• Web Oriented Architecture is here to Stay, and Why Microsoft’s new WCF Stack is interesting. (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• FormsAuthentication Ignores web.config LoginUrl Settings (Joe Mayo)
• Browsing Without Plug-ins (John Hrvatin)
• AJAX Series Part 3: Advanced Techniques – Performance, Theming, Cloud Deployment (Carl Bergenhem)
• A Guide to Installing Rails 3.1 and Example Apps for Rails 3.1 (Daniel Kehoe)
• 10 Life-Saving PHP Snippets (JB)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The product backlog (John Rayner)
• How GitHub Develops (PJ Hyett)
• Git Revisited (Mark Pearl)
• Balsamiq New Release: Font Adjustments and More (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Production is a mixed blessing (Eric Brechner)
• Best Practices: Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises (Devon Musgrave)
• A User, an Account and SaaS (Oren Eini)
• Why Developers Never Use State Machines (Alan Skorkin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Simple ToDo List: Persisting Data with the Sterling NoSQL Database (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers – MVC and MVVM (Kevin Hoffman)
• Windows Phone 7.1 Isolated Storage Explorer Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
• WP7: Background execution – revisited! (Håkan Reis)
• Building a Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 3 of 3 (Jesse Liberty)
• Layout Tips and Tricks for WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango. (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight 5: Remote control and MediaCommand Support (Pete Brown)
• Building Windows Phone Applications Using Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• 2000 WPF Things #377 – Reuse Tooltips by Defining Them as Resources (Sean Sexton)
• Introduction to XNA on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Ohrn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kerry Hammil Builds .NET Gadgets (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain (MS Podcasts)
• C++ and Beyond 2011: Benedict Gaster on C++11, C++ AMP, C++ Renaissance (Charles Torre)
• A for Architecture: Oracle’s Fusion Middleware A-Team – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 8: Let the games begin (MS JobsBlog)
• SE Podcast #16 (Alex Miller)
• Hot Apps: IonBallEx, Relaxify, Speed, NightStand Clock, Fastball 2 (Laura Foy)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #59: Building HTML5tx.com with FrogSlayer’s Sam Hooker (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Let’s Play TDD #134: Persistence! (James Shore)

Community / Events

• I’ll be presenting @ SharePoint Connections Fall 2011 in Las Vegas, NV (Andrew Connell)
• SQLAuthority News – Shaivi’s Birthday – SQL Wait Stats Joes 2 Pros Book Released Today – 30 Million Views Completed (Pinal Dave)
• Reserve the date! Developer Day 2011 (Christian Nagel)
• Come See Me At Roanoke .NET Thursday Night! (Kevin Griffin)
• Annoucing the Windows Phone Camps East Coast Fall 2011 Tour (Dave Isbitski)
• The unofficial BUILD precon (Guy Barrette)
• A Coder Interview With Sacha Barber (The Code Project)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Using Root With Auto XML Mode – Day 32 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Red Gate | SQL Compare Review (Jeff Julian)
• Microsoft is Aligning with ODBC for Native Relational Data Access (Rohan Lam)

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 is a happy PowerShell Camper (Greg Duncan)
• Powershell Text-To-Speech and fun with a 4yr old. (Jason Jarrett)
• Scala: A Better Java for Android (Mike Burns)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.23 ~ 08.31 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 31, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Link dump for August 31st (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Web Dev Tweets 30-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Today’s Links (8/31/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #928 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for August 22 – 28, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2011 — #1140 (Dave Campbell)
• 31 Tips on ASP.NET, C#, WPF , MEF, MVC, Visual Studio – August 2011 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• 31 Tips for the month on Threading, WPF, MEF, ASP.NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 31 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 4: To query or to code, that is the question! (Gill Cleeren)
• MEFedMVVM NavigationExtension (Marlon Grech)
• Windows Phone 7.1 SDK is Alarming (Shawn Wildermuth)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Cookbook – Only $13.99 w/code DDJQR (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Async Lambda Expression and How to use DebuggerTypeProxy while debugging your sensitive Type and Working with TypeCatalog in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
• String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace and Speed Test: String Concatenation (Richard Carr)
• EF 4.1 Code First and WCF Data Services Part 2: Service Operation Considerations (Glenn Gailey)
• Subversion to TFS 2010: The migration engine is unable to resolve a conflict where two changes have the same target item (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Kinect Reception – Tech Stuff (Shai Raiten)
• Steps to write a plugin based application with MEF and Monday Mornings : Extensibility in .NET 4.0 (Abhishek Sur)
• VMMap Allocation Profiling and Leak Detection and Process Monitor Profiling Support (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Save disk space with IsolatedStorageGZipFileStream (Nicolas Humann)
• Recording Skype Calls (with your code) (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Server-Sent Event Notifications with HTML5 & Goliath (Ilya Grigorik)
• Inside ASP.NET MVC: IResolver and it’s implementations and Latest version of ELMAH MVC controller (Alexander Beletsky)
• Initialize assemblies using PreApplicationStartMethod for ASP.NET 4.0 Application and ASP.NET Calendar Control as Outlook Calendar (Abhijit Jana)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Duplicate Observed Data (Giorgio Sironi)
• Dissecting CSS3 gradients – Part 2 (Ryan Sukale)
• Facebook Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love (Raghu Chandrasekaran)
• Installing and Running node.js applications within IIS on Windows – Are you mad? and Asynchronous scalable web applications with real-time persistent long-running connections with SignalR (Scott Hanselman)
• Don’t Execute A Backbone.js Route Handler From Your Code (Derick Bailey)
• Creating and updating EXCEL file in Windows Azure Web Role using Open XML SDK (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Declaring Static Methods in PHP (Lorna Wilson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Choosing Technology To Include In Software Design (DotNetBlocks)
• Responsive Web Design – Stop and Think (Anthony Grace)
• Action Guidelines and The Way of Success (JD Meier)
• Data validation, take it seriously (Jef Claes)
• What makes a web design expert? (Paul Boag)
• Spread your workload (Roy Osherove)
• What Are Best Practices for Agile Managers? (Jurgen Appelo)
• The Lost Art of Design Etiquette (Dan Rose)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Where to find Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit.dll in WP Toolkit Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• GZIP Compressed Web Requests in WP7 – Take 2 (Morten Nielsen)
• Order in Chaos: Handling unhandled exceptions in a WPF application (Arik Poznanski)
• WPF ListBox Postioning using a Canvas (Christian Nagel)
• [Weekend coding] MetroPack – desktop Cydia (alt Marketplace) for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Charts in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Silverlight 4: Applying Style to the Selected DataGrid Cell during Edit Operation (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 2000 WPF Things #374 – Using a Tooltip to Display the Full Contents of a TextBox (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 75: Understanding LightSwitch with Beth Massi (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 171: Phil Japikse on Agile (David Giard)
• Herding Code 119: On The Writing Of Technical Books (with Jesse Liberty, Phil Haack, and Brad Wilson) (Jon Galloway)
• Cloud Cover Episode 57 – Windows Azure Page Blobs with Brent Stineman (Steve Marx)
• TWC9: August 26th 2011 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Studios (Laura Foy & Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Weekly 223: Shave Theme For Sharing (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• NHibernate & RavenDB Courses in New York, October/November 2011 (Oren Eini)
• 22 Ruby and Rails Jobs for August 2011 (With Even Some Junior Ones) (Peter Cooper)
• Moved to Keyvan.MS Domain (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Upcoming SQL Server Training Webcasts (Brent Ozar)
• Jason Milgram named Windows Phone 7 Developer Hero of the Week (Bob Familiar)

Database

• My BIG problem with SQL Server Denali! (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – SQL Server Error Messages – Day 27 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Structured Error Handling – Day 28 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – What is XML? – Day 29 of 35 and SQL SERVER – SSQL Architecture Basics – Core Architecture Concepts – Book Available for SQL Server Certification (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL: Running MongoDB on the Cloud (Mindstorms)
• Every .NET Developer Should Know About the Database they are working with (Suprotim Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

• Speech Recognition Leaps Forward (Janie Chang)
• Designing the Windows 8 file name collision experience (Steven Sinofsky)
• Using Evernote for training courses (Simon Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 28 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading August 28, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Retrospective 47 – Gotta Love Them Tools (Peter Saddington)
• Link dump for August 26th and Link dump for August 27th and Link dump for August 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2011 — #1138 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 21-August-2011 to 27-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Weekly Article Digest 08/29/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Paul T. Kimmel

• Tail calls in F# (Keith Battocchi)
• What is a Closure? (Mike Hadlow)
• AspectableMef (Sacha Barber)
• Resources for Windows Phone Mango Developers (Larry Lieberman)
• Autofac 2.5 Released (Nicholas Blumhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Serialization of Arrays and Collections (Richard Carr)
• WCF Data Services June CTP: LINQ Improvements and Properties on Derived Types (Jenni Ripley)
• FluentValidation and PostSharp for RESTful WCF parameter validation – Part 4 (Naeem Khedarun)
• Exploring Topics and Queues by Building a Service Bus Explorer Tool–Part 1 (Paolo Salvatori)
• Project Templates and preinstalled NuGet packages (Marcin Doboz)
• Atari Lynx Emulator and Kinect Toolkit v 1.0 and Fluent Validation v3.0.0.1 and SQL Compact Code Generator – Build 1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• MVC–Showing a setup screen on the first run (Michael Ceranski)
• Using PC Hardware more efficiently in HTML5: New Web Performance APIs, Part 2 (Jatinder Mann)
• Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: Pushpin Tooltips via Html Title Attribute and Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: InfoBox Description containing Html tags (Chris Pietschmann)
• Simulating Mouse Click Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
• Evaluating jQuery Plugins for Use in your Projects (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Buzz Makes it Easy to Use HTML5 Audio (Rey Bango)
• Tweaking Add Item Templates for Better Script Performance (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Complex filtering in isotope.js (Pavan Podila)
• Client Express – Require and Exports (Mark Nijhof)
• Listing your MySQL Databases with PHP (James Harvey)
• Performance Tuning PHP Apps on Windows with Wincache (Brian Swan)
• Web optimizations and canvas exporting with data URLs (Brian Bondy)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier v4.24 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• design patterns (Mo Khan)
• My two cents on Scrum (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
• Patterns of Compositional Architecture and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: Policies (Josh Arnold)
• Windows Azure and Object-Oriented Testable Code (J.P. Hamilton)
• Wringing Metaphor from Thin Air : I am the customer (David Starr)
• Weekly Reminders for Changing Your Habits and Adopting New Practices (JD Meier)
• Nurturing Self-organizing Teams (Shane Hastie)
• Balance the System First (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Keystoning Features (Mark Nijhof)
• Make Incremental Improvements or Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Give us Feedback on my Windows Phone Book (Charles Petzold)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 27 – How to Detect whether the Network is Available? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7.1 – Codeless Development using Commanding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Submitting to Marketplace (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 216: You Got Your Dropbox In My Mesh (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 014 – 07.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• TWC9: EF June CTP, jPlayer, Kinect Gesture Toolkit, and a flying car (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 024 – “International Flavored Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk and Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #95: Yes, We Are Lazy, But in a Good Way (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Windows Phone Radio – 35 (Brian Seitz)
• Demo of Visual Voicemail on WP7 Mango (video) (Hyde13)
• Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

• Team SIMPLEX–MIRA at ImagineCup 2011 (New York City) and Microsoft ImagineCup 2011 in New York City – The Kick-Off and ImagineCup 2011 Opening Ceremony and Developing the ImagineCup WorldWide Finals Tracker app fro WP7 @ ImagineCup – Part 1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Azure Sessions Not To Miss at WPC11 Next Week (Windows Azure Team)
• July Silverlight Giveaway by Mindscape, First Floor Software and more! (Michael Crump)

Database

• Free SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (James Serra)
• "Gotchas" With Using an SSAS Default Member (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 9 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 10 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY CUBE() (Vishal)
• Showing slowest parts of SQL query and How to merge (combine) date intervals in T-SQL (Jakub Dvorak)
• Getting Ahead of the Curve – Big Data (Kevin E. Kline)
• Learning From the Mistakes of Other DBAs (Brad M. McGehee)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Development–What’s in your rig? (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2010 – Now in New Mega Size! (Joel Oleson)
• Read the detail about SharePoint 2010 and Remote Blob Storage and Articles about Scaling SharePoint to Large Content Database Capacity (Paul Andrew)
• Understanding workflow starting parameters – Part 1 (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Wave 5 currently in Milestone 2 stage; to be tightly integrated with Windows 8 (damaster)
• Q&A: Putting A Training Course Together (Davy Brion)
• Think you have THE idea for an MMO, but don’t any any infrastructure or funds to build one? Wish there was a 30/70 deal for MMO’s too? (Greg Duncan)
• Zune branded subscription video coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
• What’s on Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft priority list now? (Mary Jo Foley)
• A future game machine, try it now for free! (Surf4Fun)
• Installing Mango on your Samsung Taylor (Rudi Grobler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 07.01 ~ 07.10 (yuanjian)
• Retrospective 40 – Free Book Giveaways (Peter Saddington)
• Interesting .NET Links 9-July , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Friday Links 07-08-2010 (JD Meier)
• Link dump for July 8th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 03-July-2011 to 09-July-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone and iPad for Programmers (2nd Edition) (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul Deitel