Design / Methodology / Testing

• Zen is Live! (Nate Kohari) – Link of the Day
• Refactoring challenge (Jimmy Bogard)
• Refactoring challenge Part 1 – Examination (Jimmy Bogard)
• Fluent Context Builders (Chris Bilson)
• Lower the Cost of Knowing (Gabriel Torok)
• Embrace Pain (Ian Cooper)
• Code: It’s Trivial (Jeff Atwood)
• Micro-rant: Ninject and IKernel (Joe White)
• Serializing (Queuing) Messages To Aggregates (Jonathan Oliver)
• Relearning: The Productivity Problem that We’re Not Supposed To Talk About (Scott Bellware)
• Kicking Your Coding into High Gear (Rob Bazinet)

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 16 (Scott Mitchell)
• Building ASP.NET Applications with Delphi and Advantage Database Server (Cary Jensen)
• Making a jQuery JSON Request to an ASP.NET Handler And Back (Dave Schinkel)
• Improving jQuery’s JSON performance and security (Dave Ward)
• ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 3: MvcContrib Grid & jQuery Plugins (Elijah Manor)
• HTML 5 Parsing (John Resig)
• SubSonic 3.0.0.1 Released and SubSonic: Working With Git (Rob Conery)
• Event Aggregation with jQuery (K. Scott Allen)
• Sneak Peek at our book Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Simone Chiaretta)
• PHP SDK for Windows Azure – Milestone 2 release (Maarten Balliauw)
• KiGG support for Entity Framework and MySQL (Muhammad Mosa)
• Rounded Corner Rendering in newer Browsers (Rick Strahl)
• Video: Google’s HTML 5 Work: What’s Next? (Matthew Papakipos)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Building Tuple (Matt Ellis)
• Part 3 of Dana’s End-to-End "Oslo" Series: Quadrant (Chris Sells)
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Positioning Text (Dave M. Bush)
• New Visual Studio Debugger 2010 feature for C/C++ Developers: Using string functions in conditional breakpoints (Habib Heydarian)
• How to copy an entire folder tree with Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• Azure .NET Services – July CTP SDK Released (Jeff Barnes)
• F#: Parsing Cruise build data and C#: Removing duplication in mapping code with partial classes (Mark Needham)
• .NET – Write Once, Run Anywhere? (Michael Ceranski)
• Managing Application Configuration (Mitchell Hashimoto)
• RegEx.Split vs. String.Split (Srinath MS)
• VSTS 2010: Overview of Team System 2010 for Architects (Subodh Sohoni)
• Deployment and Updates of Desktop Applications: WiX, ClickOnce and Other Scenarios (Rinat Abdullin)
• LINQ is not LINQ To SQL (Justin Etheredge)
• Patterns and Match Expressions in F# (Kathleen McGrath)
• Insert Master Detail Data with LINQ to SQL and Select Max Value with LINQ to SQL (Deepak Kapoor)

Silverlight / WPF

• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-6 (Faisal Hossain Khan)
• Day #7: Using WCF Web Services With Silverlight (and LINQ) and Day #8: Custom Fonts in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.0.0 (Laurent Bugnion)
• MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies – Introduction (Rob Eisenberg)
• Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design (Silverlight Team)
• Style Silverlight ScrollViewer with a New ControlTemplate and Scrolling in Silverlight Panels (Deepak Kapoor)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte on Data Access Options (Carl Franklin)
• Task Parallel Library: Task Results (Dariusz Parys)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #124: Learning the Mediator Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Inside Secret Microsoft Meeting Rooms – What Laptop do Alpha Geeks Use? (Scott Hanselman)
• Webcast on ASP.NET MVC (in Italian) (Simone Chiaretta) – Anyone know a good streaming video translator? 
• The History of Microsoft – 1996 (Tina)
• Yavor Georgiev – Using WCF with Silverlight 3.0 (Robert Hess)
• Episode 75 – PowerScripting Podcast – Oisin Grehan and Joel Bennett talk Poshcode (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• CodePlex Turns 3 years old; Breaks the 10,000 project mark (Sara Ford)
• return thoughts.Where(x => x.IsCaffeineInspired) (Russell Ball)
• Top 200 Development and Social Media Blogs (OPML) (Jurgen Appelo)

SharePoint

• How We Did It: BDC Meta Man Web Edition (Nick Swan & Phill Duffy)

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Gazelle browser takes a radical path (Ina Fried)
• Introducing the Google Chrome OS (Sundar Pichai)
• Thrive for Developers (Michael S. Scherotter)
• 7 Tips to Get Started Blog Writing (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Is your career THRIVING – Microsoft has a new portal to help. (Joe Stagner)
• How to insert Superscript, Subscript, and Strikethrough in your wiki pages – #048 (Sara Ford)
• Zoho Plug-ins for Microsoft Apps (Raju Vegesna)
• Game Programming Made Easy (Winda Benedetti)
• New Halo 3 Maps Coming This Fall (Larry Hyrb)
• Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs Come Out of Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Engineering Windows 7 for a Global Market (Julie Bennett & John McConnell)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for July 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: July 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #385 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2009 — #631 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 7th July, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Separating Configuration from Data Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Injecting Fakes/Stubs into StructureMap When Using Profiles (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrating Fluent NHibernate and Windsor NHibernate Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Oslo Tool: SQL Schema –> MSchema (Chris Sells)
• Working with IDs in the Entity Framework (Josh Twist)
• Asynchronous Fire and Forget with Lambdas (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• The Problems with NHibernate (Buddy Lindsey)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SDK: Beta and Microsoft .NET Services White Paper (Dec 2008 CTP) (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• JavaScript Tools (Mike Hadlow)
• An Argument for Moving ASP.NET MVC Controllers to a Separate Assembly (Billy McCafferty)
• The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (Updated Edition) (Eric Lawrence)
• Enumeration-Based Dropdowns in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
• xVal – A Validation Framework for ASP.NET MVC (Steve Sanderson)

Silverlight / WPF

• The WPF Mindset (Ryan Cromwell)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #80 – How to Crop an Object (Mike Snow)
• Creating a Silverlight Control That Stays Square and Dazzling Silverlight Toolkit Pie Charts with Overlays (Pete Brown)
• Using Encoder 2 Templates for Existing Media (Tim Heuer)
• Fun with List Bindings in Silverlight 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)

PowerShell

• Managing Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Services) Using Windows PowerShell (Shanmugam Kulandaivel)
• Should I Refinance? PowerShell the Financial Advisor (Lee Holmes)
• Get-USB – Using WMI Association Classes in PowerShell (James Brundage)
• Develop a Complete WMI Inventory Tool in Windows PowerShell (Don Jones)

.NET Community / Events

• MDC Giveaways (Frank La Vigne)
• James Whittaker Netcast (Steve Rowe)
• ALT.NET Podcast Episode 14: Object Databases (Mike Moore)

Miscellaneous

• The Office 14 Wave: What to Expect and Office 14 and Windows Mobil 7: Another Day, Another Roadmap… and First Office 14 Screenshot? (Stephen Chapman)
• SOA Still Alive and Well–Sell It to the Business (David A. Chappell)
• Visualization – The Browser Wars (Max Pool)
• A Year in the Life of Caffeinated Coder: Part Deux (Russell Ball)
• Google’s New Favicon (Marissa Mayer)
• Getting Windows 7 Up and Running in VPC 2007 (Kirstin Juhl)
• Building a Hackintosh (Ben Scheirman)
• Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009 (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for January 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Discoveries This Week 01/09/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for January 9th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2009 — #480 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight News for January 10, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Link Listing – January 10, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day