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Top Links

• Review: Metaprogramming in .NET (Ted Neward)
• iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? (Scott Hanselman)
• MVVM Light V4.1.26 change log (Laurent Bugnion)
• TypeScript Classes and Interfaces (John Papa)

 

Web Development

• The JavaScript DSP API, RiverTrail, and the Future of JavaScript Parallelization (Devon Govett)
• Visualizing the Client-Side MVC race (Paul Hammant)
• Handling enum values with type converters in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Adam Hoffman)
• Knockout Js and External MVC cshtml templates (Kevin)
• Brace styles and JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Two common tasks using jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Replace JSON.NET with ServiceStack.Text in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• ControlDeck.js – Control HTML5 Presentations Remotely With Node.js (Hirvesh Munogee)
• ASP.NET Bundling/Minification and Embedded Resources (Imran Baloch)
• [Sample Of Jan 6th] How to use Bing Translator API in Windows Azure (Philip Fu)
• Capturing HTML 5 Video To An Image (K. Scott Allen)
• Creating A Desktop Experience Using Wijmo Grid In LightSwitch HTML Client and Saving Data In The Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Including Automatic Saves) (Michael Washington)
• Refactoring >14,000 lines of CSS into Sass (Grant Palin)
• RequireJS is the Spring Framework of Javascript (Patrick Kua)
• Getting the Mouse Click Position and Switch Statements in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• MVC Boostrap 0.6.1 (CodePlex)
• Creating A Custom Show / Hide Directive In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Style Injection is for Winners (Chris Coyier)
• Keeping your AppHarbor application pool alive (Jef Claes)
• Trying out TypeScript (Cameron Taggart)

 

XAML

• A Lap Around the Windows Phone 8 Platform (Nick Randolph)
• Windows Phone 8: Localization (Peter Kuhn)
• Example WinRT: Changing existing style resource at runtime in code using databindings (Iris Classon)
• WinRT’s default “save on suspend” isn’t good enough (Joe White)
• Windows Phone: How to Easily Store User Settings (Mikael Koskinen)
• [Sample Of Jan 5th] Convert live camera feed to bytes in Windows Phone 8 (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #728 – Using the Clipboard to Transfer Other Types of Data (Sean Sexton)
• Modifying the MSDN WIC Sample for Windows 8 To Add FillOpacityMask Support (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Design your Windows 8 app with ads in mind and Windows was unable to communicate with the target application (Loek van den Ouweland)
• How to detect that your app is running in Kid’s Corner (Peter Torr)
• Tips for Passing Microsoft Certification Exam 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps (Samidip Basu)
• Security and Access to SMS (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Review (in advance): F# Deep Dives (Ted Neward)
• Obtaining Caller Information (Richard Carr)
• Bugs in TFS Update 1 (Brian Harry)
• Are Roaming Settings Coming in Visual Studio vNext? (Elena Pundjeva)
• Stupid Question 119: Do we have pointers in C#? (Iris Classon)
• How to connect Telerik TeamPulse with Visual Studio TFS on Cloud? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Mitigate The Billion Dollar Mistake with Aspects (Phil Haack)
• SimpleDeploy.Net – An FTP Style Wrapper for the MS Deploy API (Doug Rathbone)
• Timestamp to String (Anthony Trudeau)
• Ultrabook Sensors on Desktop App (Anup Kumar Verma)
• MEF 2.0 TOC and MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 2 (Fluent and Conventional Export) (Bnaya Eshet)
• Entity Framework CRUD Operations Using Stored Procedures and Implementing CRUD operations in MySQL using Entity Framework (Dorababu)
• Threading threading safely with the Immutable Collections Preview from the BCL Team (Greg Duncan)
• Unbox the 1st New Year Gift from Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework (Jialiang Ge)
• Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window (Steve Wilkes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using sql compact for integration tests with entity framework. (Eric Hexter)
• Single Responsibility Principle, Object Orientation & Active Code (Oren Eini)
• The User Interface Design Process (Peter Vogel)
• Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Preparing For A Front-End Job Interview (Jake Bresnehan)
• Freebie: Gemicon Icon Set (600 PNG Icons + PSD Source) (Smashing Editorial)
• How to Become a Software Architect (Dan Mohl)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Deciding between native iOS and Xamarin (MonoTouch) (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter – Concurrency and Parallelism | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 462: Our favorite games of 2012. Plus Adam Sessler drops by (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 098 – “JavaScript Might Fix Travis’s Voice” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.9 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• TWC9: Welcome to 2013! C# is #1, TypeScript Templates, TPL Samples and more! | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 106: Freelancing interview with Matchist.com founders (Michael Kimsal)
• Windows Weekly 293: 40 Beers in 30 Days (Paul Thurrott)
• The Tablet Show – Luke Wroblewski Builds Mobile UI! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Warren Ellis and The Nerdist Podcast – Timothy Olyphant (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 060 – January 5th, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
• ShopTalk Episode 49 (Chris Coyier)
• Mobile Nations 20: CES 2013 preview! (Daniel Rubino)
• Yet Another Podcast #88–Chris Bowen on Game Development for Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Podcast: Nook vs. Kindle, future of Xbox, and settling in with our new devices (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Tuesday (Jan 9th) (Scott Guthrie)
• RobMen has left the building. (Rob Mensching)
• CodeProject MVP 2013 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Data Science and Big Data User Group (Orlando, FL) (Lillian Pierson)

 

Database

• Working With Multi-Select Parameters for SSRS Reports (Mickey Stuewe)
• Microsoft advocates checkpoints – proceed with caution [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Creating MongoDB as a service on Windows 8 and Differences between Oracle and SQL Server when working with NULL and blank values and What is the Dual table in Oracle and why do I need it? and Truncate rollback differences between SQL Server and Oracle (Denis Gobo)
• Row of nonclustered index page (James Xu)
• Day 5 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in a Nonclustered Index and Day 6 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in Allocation Pages (Robert Davis)
• “Add as object” or “Add as script”? [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Calling SharePoint search using REST (e.g. from JavaScript or an app) (Chris O’Brien)
• Installing and Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Farm on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

 

Miscellaneous

• A new year, a new Microsoft roadmap: Stepping up the delivery pace (Mary Jo Foley)
• Functional programming in C (Luca Bolognese)
• Best Lumia apps of 2012 (Tom Hall)
• Misspelling “Windows Phone” Makes Google Maps Work (Explained) (Matthias Shapiro)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 6, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 188 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading January 4, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Collective #45 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1037 and Double Shot #1038 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – January 4, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 1/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 7, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Pie in the Sky (January 4, 2013) (Brian Swan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1267 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2012 – #0139 and Windows Dev News for January 05, 2012 – #0140 and Windows Dev News for January 06, 2012 – #0141 (Dave Campbell)
• Reblog: December 28 to January 3 (Jason Strate)
• Recommended reading from mrdenny for January 04, 2013 (Denny Cherry)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• TouchDevelop: create apps ON iPad, iPhone, Android in addition to PC, Mac, Windows Phone (Nikolai Tillmann)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #28: Push Notifications (Jeff Blankenburg)
• JavaScript Support Improvements in ReSharper 7.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: OData – Part 1 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure SDK for .NET – June 2012 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 6 EAP build 123.26 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Make Sure You Follow the Documentation (Buck Woody)
• Building an MVC application using QuickBooks (dataintegration)
• How to Create a Cool Parallax Background for Windows 8 in Javascript (David Catuhe)
• Infographic: HTML5 and Why Developers Need It (DevToolsGuy)
• Developing with HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Jumpstart from the Microsoft Virtual Academy (free and a free exam voucher too!) (Greg Duncan)
• html-pipeline: Chainable Content Filters (Jerry Cheung)
• Workshop: Deep Dive into Building Real-Time Web Applications with SignalR (Kevin Griffin)
• How to backup a LocalDB database under an MVC 4 system (Marc Brooks)
• ‘HTML5 vs. Hybrid vs. Native Dilemma’ When You Build Enterprise Mobile Applications – The Bigger Picture (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Camera Launching From HTML App In Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• Introducing The Smashing eBook Library (Vitaly Friedman)
• Respond to change with Object.observe (Alex Danilo)
• W3C Web Performance: Continuing Performance Investments (Jatinder Mann)
• Coercing objects to primitives (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Native Code Support (Peter Kuhn)
• Google Analytics for your WinRT app (Johan Silfversparre)
• A journey in building a Calibre Windows 8/WinRT app, with a SQLite fun too… (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #700 – Dragging an Image to Microsoft Word (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8 apps performance helper: Speed at a glance (nokola)
• Styling windows 8 – 4 The button (Håkan Reis)
• The New LongListSelector control in Windows Phone 8 SDK in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 and the ALM Virtual Machine (Brian Keller)
• Issues w/ OctoPack and ReSharper (Derik Whittaker)
• LINQ query to compare only date part of DateTime (Pranay Rana)
• Intellisense Support and Improved Easier Configuration in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.5 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• EF Fixes in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Rowan Miller)
• Teaching Your Application to Read (Doug Rathbone)
• Infragistics Parsing Framework – LL vs. LR Parsing (Mike Dour)
• Why All The Lambdas? (K. Scott Allen)
• Extending Team Explorer 2012 – Introduction [0 of N] (Toni Petrina)
• Rocking the Windows 8 Sensors on the Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook (John Papa)
• Accessing Assembly Metadata with Reflection or Mono Cecil (Part 6) (Ken Beckett)
• MEF in .NET 4.5 (Milan Raval)
• Enhancing Enumerables with Operators and Conversion (Chris Eargle)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Exploratory Testing in TFS 2012 (Mickey Gousset)
• Integrating existing testing systems with Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio (Charles Sterling)
• Isn’t It Ironic? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Build Bullet #4: Rolling Builds and the Plane of Confidence (Roy Osherove)
• Software Craftsmanship is a misnomer (Scott Koon)
• Continuous value delivery with modern business applications (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Nurturing Leadership (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Taking Web Audio Offline in iOS 6 Safari (Alex Gibson)
• Is Android’s AsyncTask executing tasks serially or concurrently? (Anders Göransson)
• Translating Objective-C adopts-protocol idioms to C# (Miguel de Icaza)
• Free Training: Web vs Apps: The Big Picture – Free for 48 hours! (Steve Woolley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Evans Instruments Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Living With Lumia: The Final Verdict on Windows Phone 8 (Christina Warren)
• The Abominable Snow Monster Gets His Windows Phone Speed Dating On (Richard Hay)
• Episode 8 of the Guild is here! (Felicia Day)
• App Biz Dev Podcast Episode 6: Matt runs WPUG (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Ping 160: Sinofsky, WP celebrity ads, Nook app, Xbox anniversary | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 013 – Thomas LaRock and Joey D’Antoni (Denny Cherry)
• Engadget HD Podcast 326 – 11.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: John Papa on Single Page Apps with HTML5,Web API, Knockout and jQuery (Paul Ballard)
• In Los Angeles this Friday for .NET Rocks Roadshow (Phil Haack)

 

Database

• What’s New in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Scott Murray)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals (Axel Achten)
• SQL SERVER – Auto Recovery File Settings in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #034 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Are Your Protecting Your DB Backups? (Denny Cherry)
• One Interview question. Many Answers (Ramkumar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Server Products and Microsoft License Mobility for Cloud environment (Avkash Chauhan)
• Dogfooding Windows 8: I Tell All (Jeremy Likness)
• The Days of Microsoft Lives. (Scott Barnes)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 27, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1242 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 28, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/28/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 27 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 27 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta (Scott Guthrie)
• Becoming an iOS Developer (Josh Smith)
• The XAML Project is live! (Davide Zordan)
• Transforming HTML with Node.js and jQuery (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfalls (1 of n) (Peter Kuhn)
• Using jQuery, Plugins and UI Controls With Backbone (Derick Bailey)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Law of Demeter (Richard Carr)
• Limit your abstractions: Refactoring toward reduced abstractions (Oren Eini)
• Writing F# Type Extensions for Nullable (Dustin Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2010 SDK Samples – One 30MB download, 68 samples, tons of learning… (Greg Duncan)
• TeboScreen: Basic C# Screen Capture Application (Guy Thiebaut)
• LINQ to CSV library (Matt Perdeck)
• Gravatar avatars in C# for .NET (qenn)
• Windows Phone 7 – Build Puzzle Game (Shai Raiten)
• A Super-Fast C# Extension Method using Expression Trees to Create an instance from a Type (Steve Wilkes)
• What Can You Do with .NET Gadgeteer? (G. Andrew Duthie)
• iOS Development with MonoTouch Cookbook (Wally McClure)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: TranslatorService.Speech and NuGet Project Uncovered: Nancy (Jason Jarrett)
• How to truncate string without breaking a word in half (hmloo)
• TryJoinads (III.): Agent-based programming (Tomas Petricek)
• Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.2 (MS Downloads)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Test Frameworks: more than 30 + 1 (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Using JSON.NET with ASP.NET Web API and Using MongoDB with ASP.NET Web API and Push and Pull Streams using HttpClient and HttpClient: Downloading to a Local File (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• SwiftShader brings software 3D rendering to Chrome (Ilmari Heikkinen)
• ASP.NET MVC4 Installer is incompatible with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (Jef Claes)
• jQuery.continuations In Action (Josh Arnold)
• ASP.NET MVC3 JQuery inline editor – a nice alternative to HTML5 content editable feature (Jovan Popovic)
• Track a Moving Ball in Real Time using HTML5 and JavaScript (Luis Sobrecueva)
• CanML– Creating simple Markup language using XML + T4 for drawing shapes in HTML5 Canvas in your ASP.NET/C# applications (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Add Google Login Support In ASP.NET With OAuth (Prashant Khandelwal)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 4 (Shi Chuan)
• Nettuts+ Quiz #10: Basic CSS3 Techniques (Siddharth)
• Detecting CSS3 Transition Support and CSS: Opacity vs Alpha (via rgba and hsla) and JavaScript animation timing made easy (requestAnimationFrame, cancelRequestAnimationFrame) and Cross-browser event hookup made easy (Tobin Titus)
• How to create a Web Deploy package when publishing a ClickOnce project (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Listing a Table in Storage (Puja Pramudya)
• Do We Need A Standardization Around Amazon APIs? (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Function.prototype.bind (David DeSandro)
• RavenDb Repository using HttpClient (Glenn Block)
• Dropbox REST API Part 3: Create, Delete and Move Folders (Christophe Geers)
• Auto-Setting Terminal Titles for Python Virtual Environments (David Winterbottom)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 Early Access Program started (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Renaming a property in RavenDb with HTTP API (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Lose The Wait: Optimizing GIF Images (Billy Hoffman)
• Introduction to Telerik Kendo UI (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ExpectThat with CoffeeScript, Zombie, Mocha, and Node (Dan Mohl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Discover A New Perspective on Unit Testing – Isolator V7 (Avi Kaye)
• Process for Process Sake and Idea to Done: How I Use a Personal Kanban for Getting Results (JD Meier)
• When NOT to use CQRS? (Rinat Abdullin)
• APress Deal of the Day – 20/Feb/2012 – Design Driven Testing (Tatworth)
• Mikado Method For Refactoring Legacy Software (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Tech Leads & The Progress Principle (Mark Needham)
• The Role of Emotions in Software Engineering (Michael Stal)
• Sometimes It’s Okay to Incur Technical Debt (Geoffrey Papilion)
• There’s no place for monogamy in technology (Jef Claes)
• Using Sublime Text 2 to Edit Git Commit Messages on Windows (Dustin Campbell)
• DTO’s Should Transfer Data, Not Entities (Davy Brion)
• Don’t cheat with the user interface (Jimmy Nilsson)
• Hosting a Git Repository in Windows (Derek Greer)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Local Database Schema Upgrade Part1 – Adding new columns (Windows Phone Geek)
• Visualising StackOverflow Tag Relationships with Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• Page Stack in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF Control Composition (Part 1 of 2) and WPF Control Composition (Part 2 of 2) (Dirkster99)
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 3: Using WinRT (Gill Cleeren)
• Windows Phone Login Navigation (Geoff Hudik)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Extended.Wpf.Toolkit (Jason Jarrett)
• How to Unlock Your WP7 Device for Development? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• What is a Public Sector Windows Phone App? and FREE DEVICES FOR DEVELOPERS (Joel Reyes)
• #498 – A List of WPF Blogs and Forums (Sean Sexton)
• Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #1 – Introduction and Installation (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Phone Performance – Part 2 of many – It’s Full of Stars! (András Velvárt)
• Developing Windows Phone apps for the Marketplace? Here are some tips you should probably follow. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Solving the ObservableCollection bug on Windows 8 and Impressions, slides and code from TechDays Belgium and Netherlands (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 040: My Friend Dahmer (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Technology & Friends Episode 197: Rob Reynolds on NuGet and Chocolatey (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 055 – “Avatar Smackdown” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 430: We catch up on what we are playing (Larry Hyrb)
• The JavaScript Show – JavaScript Design Patterns (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• GeekWire Radio: Microsoft’s Windows Phone vs. our iPhones in an on-air speed test (Todd Bishop)
• Kanban Thinking on SPaMCAST (Karl Scotland)
• The Tablet Show – Paul Thorsteinson on the Business of Selling Mobile Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: Windows Store for Win8 Dev’s, Faster IE, Cheaper Azure, New EF and more (Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
• Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber previews HIMSS12 (Neil Versel)
• What The Tech 105: No Compromises and Windows Weekly 248: We Just Don’t Know (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 281 – 02.17.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 126 – 02.18.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 126 – 12.18.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• New Video: Manual Testing (And What NOT to Automate!) (Jim Holmes)
• The GeekDads Episode #109: R2′s Freakin’ Jets — With Special Guest @Stepto (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (Ken Denmeade)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for February 20th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developer Event (Seattle): Agile Development using Visual Studio ALM (PubSec)
• Microsoft To Talk Windows 8 Gaming at GDC 2012 (Robert Boland)
• MySQL Meetups in North Carolina this week (Peter Zaitsev)
• Stacking up the Open Source Projects, Stack Exchange is… (Greg Duncan)
• Reasons to Come to Functional Programming eXchange 2012 (Robert Pickering)
• Hackathons make more sense than you think (Den Delimarsky)
• Windows Metro Experts Group on Linkedin! (Davide Zordan)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Case Sensitive Database and Database User – Fix: Error: 15151 – Cannot find the user , because it does not exist or you do not have permission. and SQL SERVER – Migration Assistant for Oracle, MySQL, Sybase and Access v5.2 and SQL SERVER – Disable Guest Account – Serious Security Issue (Pinal Dave)
• RavenHQ goes beta–RavenDB reaches the cloud (Oren Eini)
• Can we improve MySQL variable handling ? (Peter Zaitsev)

 

SharePoint

• Top 10 Best SharePoint Sites of 2011 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Working With SharePoint 2010 Search – Part 1 (Saifullah Shafiq)

 

Miscellaneous

• Want to Get and Keep a Job…Coding Seems to be the Key (Bob Familiar)
• "Learning C The Hard Way" free webook (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft planning a “new” music service? Well of course they are. (Kip Kniskern)
• Must-have Tools on Windows – Part 1 of 2 (Punit Ganshani)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview Expiration Date Fix (Richard Hay)
• Xbox 720′s Codename Is Durango (Sumeeth Evans)
• $4.99 E-Book upgrades from O’Reilly and Another O’Reilly Deal to Feb/22 – Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition (Tatworth)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 18, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #821 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1047 (Chris Alcock)
• MVP Friday Five: February 17, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in The Sky (February 17, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Daily News Digest 2/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #34 (Franky)
• Everyman on Creative Pricing, a Productivity Handbook, Insanely Simple, Fill My Screen STTNG (Dave Burke)
• Windows Dev News for February 18, 2012 – #0042 (Dave Campbell)
• Retrospective 72 – Pink and Agile Couches (Peter Saddington)

 

The Geek Shelf

iOS Development using MonoTouch Cookbook by Dimitris Tavlikos