• Hypermedia and Web API. Design brain dump and samples (Glenn Block)
• TWC9: January 6, 2012 – C9 Video Queue, Silverlight 5, Metro and WP7 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Is PhoneGap Right for You? (David J. Kelley)
• What You May Not Know About jQuery (Burke Holland)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stein’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Stack Unwind Does Not Occur When C++ Exceptions Propagate Into Managed Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Windows Libraries for JavaScript: Part I (Chris Sells)
• How to work with NuGet? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: SQL Queries and Parameter Prefix (Ricardo Peres)
• A bit more about Using Ninject 2.2 – factory methods (AngelEyes)

Web Development

• jQuery Splitter and jQuery Tooltip (jqwidgets)
• ASP.NET Page Methods with Parameters (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Intro to Property-Based Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Request Correlation and Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Hadoop Streaming and Reporting and Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage (Carl Nolan)
• JSON.net and Deserializing Anonymous Types (David Hoerster)
• New Year – Updated Ubuntu Rails Setup (Eric Proctor)
• Microsoft Previews Windows Azure Application Integration Services (Richard Seroter)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 2 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting Results the Agile Way – Top 10 Best Seller on Amazon in Time-Management and 10 Things Great Managers Do and 30 Days of Getting Results – Free Time-Management Training (JD Meier)
• CRUD it’s now CQRS … or is it? (Jeremy Likness)
• Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile Adoption and Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic (Peter Cooper)
• You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it… (Jason Jarrett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Show a deleted List Item with a Strike Through in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
• New maintenance release for Windows Phone (Eric Hautala)
• Windows Phone 7 Info Hub – All the phone info, one helpful hub [#wpdev] (Greg Duncan)
• WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrieving a WebPage Title and Sharing it with the ShareLinkTask in WP7 (Michael Crump)
• Follow Up: How Many Apps Are on Your Windows Phone Handset? (Richard Hay)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – User Feedback (Rudi Grobler)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 1of Many and WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 2of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 049 – “Dial 666 For Evil Carrier” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 425: Hello 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)
• Using the Windows Phone Storage NuGets for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 120 – 01.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• New Video: Integrating Test Studio with TFS (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• RavenDB Course in London: 28–29 February (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Nite No. 10, January 11, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Microsoft Free Virtual Private Cloud Event, Jan 17th and code.NASA – Coding opportunities for wanna-be space cowboys and girls. NASA says "We’ve got our OSS space app’s right here…" (Greg Duncan)

Database

• The officially easiest way to play with SQL Server 2012… The SQL Server Virtual Labs (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Collation and Collation Sensitivity – Quiz – Puzzle – 6 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Indexed Views and Restrictions – Quiz – Puzzle – 7 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Federation – Introduction (Shaun)
• Normalizing Your Database (James Serra)
• Does My MongoDB Replica Set Need An Arbiter? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – About this Series and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Why You Should Care & the Development Story and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Breaking Out of the Sandbox and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Integration Options (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Best way to browse iOS documentation (Deepak Kapoor)
• Excerpt Old Posts – A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit (Jon Galloway)
• Weekend project: Create a family calendar (Juliette Guilbert)
• Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver and Learning Android: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with android-maven-plugin (Mark Needham)
• Why I think Windows Phone is superior phone OS? (Slobodan Pavkov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Pie in the Sky (January 6, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Maker Geek Roundup 005 for 1/7/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Windows Dev News for January 07, 2011 – #0022 and SilverlightShow for Dec 26, 2011 – Jan 1, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 66 – Enterprise Scrum Tool Review & Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: January 6, 2012 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen

Top Links

• Moving containers beyond testability (Jimmy Bogard)
• Unity, Castle Windsor, StructureMap, Ninject – who has best performance? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Javascript Mocking – Damn, That’s Easy. (Karl Seguin)
• patterns & practices Prism v4 – Drop 8 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WPF / Windows Forms Named Colours and LINQ Set Operations (Richard Carr)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox – Extension #12 (Sara Ford)
• OData/WCF Data Services — Composite Keys and $expand URI Option Bug (Chris Woodruff)
• WinForms Checklist (Deborah Kurata)
• Point point one release for Windsor and Castle.Core (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Entity Framework Extensions (Multiple entity updates) – Release: v1.0.0.1 and COSMOS (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) – Release: v66698 (CodePlex)
• Introducing the NBehave text based scenario VS2010 runner (Naeem Khedarun)
• Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio and Navigate Task List Entries with the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
• Analyzing historical data and playing with interactive extensions (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• OData’s DataServiceQuery and removing the .Expand(“MagicStrings”) (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Using the Chart Controls with ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• Sueetie Analytics Logging Upgrade: Filter Me Gently (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Global and Conditional Filters (Malcolm Sheridan)
• How to Create HTML5 Website and Page Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Rey Bango)
• Real World Monitoring and Tuning ASP.NET Caching Part 2 (Steve Smith)
• Developing Applications for the Cloud (Public Sector DPE Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Google App Engine – Only $9.99. Use code DDPGA (O’Reilly Media)
• Write your own Twitter.com XSS exploit (Eran Kampf)
• Slow Rendering with Large Tables in IE 9 & 8 (Chris Love)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Quick Intro To BDD Style Table Syntax (Brett Schuchert)
• Mood Board (Dave Laribee)
• Key insights that you probably missed on DDD (Cyrille Martraire)
• Why a Pomodoro helps you getting in the zone (Giorgio Sironi)
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (Jonathan Oliver)
• Sprint Burndowns – Are We Measuring the Wrong Things? (Mark Levison)
• 4 essentials to writing quality code in the Cloud era (Eugenia Sawa)
• Clean Code, Saves Money or Is Art? (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Mahhala – WPF MediaKit and Try before you buy (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Maps, GPS and Accelerometer (Nigel Sampson)
• Blend Bits 12: States, Groups, Transitions (Mike Taulty)
• An Introduction to the Windows Phone 7 Development Platform (Colin Melia)
• Panorama in Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 4: Drag and Drop DataGrids with Access to the Data Being Dropped (Andy Schwam)
• There are lots of ways to ask for a date [Creating custom DatePicker/TimePicker experiences is easy with the Windows Phone Toolkit] (David Anson)
• How fast is the Windows Phone 7 Start up??? (Senthil Kumar)
• Multitouch Game Loop Inertia Processing (Dave)
• Great Silverlight Competency Test Part 4 (Answer) and iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Application LifeCycle and Tombstoning and Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight Developers: Life Cycle (Jesse Liberty)
• Choices, choices… Windows Phone 7 and Twitter (Luke)
• Fast, lightweight full-text search engine for objects in WPF and Silverlight controls (Andrew Clancy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Allen Wirfs-Brock and Chris Wilson: EcmaScript, JavaScript and the Web (Charles Torre)
• Mike Barnett and Daryl Zuniga: Code Contracts Editor Extensions (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Let’s Play TDD #20: Getting Started on the UI and Let’s Play TDD Recap: Episodes 1-10 (James Shore)
• OpenTable on Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)

Community / Events

• F# in Education Workshop – Nov 5th, 2010 (Bob Familiar)

Database

• “The SQL Server DMV Start Pack” (eBook and T-SQL) from Red Gate and more Dynamic Management Views (DMV) stuff (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – UNION Not Allowed but OR Allowed in Index View – Limitation of the View 6 (Pinal Dave)
• Software Review: Idera’s Virtual Database (Wesley Brown)
• RavenDB: Replicating to a relational database (Oren Eini)
• Table Variables and Transactions (Steve Jones)
• Three Things to Watch with NoSQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Display VIEW definition using T-SQL code (3 different ways) (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Daily Dose – RC1 of MySQL 5.5 Adds InnoDB Default (Mitch Pronschinske)

SharePoint

• SharePoint – How to use the Inbuilt Data View Webpart to Display and Perform CRUD Operations on a List (Ravi Keshwani)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Bing adds Twitter recommendations to search (Todd Bishop)
• Betanews readers offer mixed reactions to IE9 (Joe Wilcox)
• PKI management with PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• OData Client for Objective-C v1.1 (CodePlex)
• The Real HTC HD7 Revealed ! (Awais Imran)
• 10 Things Apple Could Do to Make iPhone Development Perfect (John Blanco)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #691 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Sep-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2010 — #953 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Scott Mitchell

Top Links

• Performing Back Navigation w/out adding a page to the Back Stack in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Magellan 2.0 is here! (Paul Stovell)
• Windows Phone 7: The Revolution… is coming(??) (Kip Kniskern)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Diving Deeper (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone 7: Almost There! How To Get Ready (Bob Caswell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The XOR Swap Algorithm and LINQ Partitioning (Richard Carr)
• Parallel Programming in F# (I.): Introducing the samples and Parallel Programming in F# (II.): Using PLINQ and Tasks and Parallel Programming in F# (III.): Aggregating data and Parallel Programming in F# (IV.): Financial dashboard example (Tomas Petricek)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Use of Expression Trees in .NET for Lambda Decomposition and Notion of System.Nullable – A Look (Abhishek Sur)
• The Tier Interaction Profiler ( TIP ) (Cameron Skinner)
• Coming in Autofac 2.3 – OnRelease() (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• IronRuby, Nu project and Launchy at your service (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Using Ruby Classes In C# With IronRuby (Davy Brion)
• Get logging in Windows Azure with Enterprise Library (Tom Hollander)
• Keep Track of your Tasks With the Task List (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image (Gunnar Peipman)
• Revisiting Few C# Concepts – Delegates, Anon Methods, Lambdas, Expression Trees (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• The Object Browser: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for Add to References and The Object Browser: Type-Ahead Selection and The Object Browser: Exporting Your Settings and Mark Methods and Types as Hidden from IntelliSense and the Object Browser (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

• CSS 3.0 Maker helps you visually create next-gen CSS (Erez Zukerman)
• Rotate Ads using jQuery and ASP.NET AdRotator Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Add-ons, Installation Experiences, and User Consent (Herman Ng)
• Same Markup: Using <canvas>, <audio>, and <video> (Tony Ross)
• Connecting to Sql Server from WebMatrix using LINQ and Entity Framework Version 4 (Wally McClure)
• A different (for me) way to page (Karl Seguin)
• Coming in YUI 3.2.0: SimpleYUI (Eric Miraglia & Adam Moore)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lokad.CQRS – Keeping It Simple and Focused (Rinat Abdullin)
• It’s hard work to KISS (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• The Third Object (Paul Stovell)
• 10 Strategies for Improving Results and The Results Frame (J.D. Meier)
• Use gitk to understand git and Use gitk to understand git – merge and rebase (Joshua Flanagan)
• One Build to Rule Them All (John Sonmez)
• Unit Testing in C++ is harder than.. (Roy Osherove)
• The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs and Security Models: On Behalf Of (Oren Eini)
• Getting Predictable (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Leadership Tip: Too Many Drivers Will Not Take Your Car Anywhere. (Rajiv Popat)
• Billy sez: Design, Don’t Decorate (Ward Bell)
• Launching beta, or “How to decide when and where to cut corners” (Kyle Baley)
• Design Simplicity: Partially updating an object and Flow in software teams (Mark Needham)
• Team and pair games for building collaboration (Michael Sahota)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials: Isolated Storage and User Controls (Nigel Sampson)
• Learn Silverlight to get access to the developer demand (Al Pascual)
• Silverlight and Security Documentation (Cheryl Simmons)
• Silverlight Futures… (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone 7 App Demos (Mike Ormond)
• WPF Photo Print updated (Chris Cavanagh)
• Who’s the Boss (Rudi Grobler)
• Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – WP7 and Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – Android (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide Drop 2 is now out! and Writing a Twitter Application for Windows Phone 7 with oAuth and Flickr Uploader for Windows Phone 7 at Sam Judson’s Blog (Don Burnett)
• Frogger game on Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
• How can we improve Silverlight Spy? (Koen Zwikstra)
• Ninject.Extensions.Conventions ported to work w/ WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• WPF Auto-Complete Control (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Easy way to generate sample data for your Silverlight 4 Applications and Book Review: Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 Clears The Last Big Milestone (Andy Lees)
• Adding shapes to your Windows Phone using some simple XAML and C# code (Sam)
• Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook (Vibor Cipan)
• DevForce Meets Mvvm Light and Is Mvvm Light Right For You? and DevForce and RIA Services Compared Part 1: Getting Started (Ward Bell)
• Simple Silverlight Configurator/Pivot (View Model/MVVM) (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PAX Prime 2010 LIVE Show and PAX Prime: Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning (Larry Hyrb)
• Let’s Play TDD #6: Capital Gains Tax–Almost and Let’s Play TDD #7: Tax Rage (James Shore)
• TWC9: WP7 RTMs, Future of Silverlight, Excel Importer, Robot Gun Turrets (Brian Keller)
• SharePoint 2010 Search Discussion-Episode 49 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Windows Phone 7 Videos (Sunshine)
• WinExtra on Windows Ep. 17: tripping down memory lane (Steven Hodson)
• Engadget Podcast 211 – 09.04.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 27 – Mahesh Krishnan at TechEd (Richard Banks)
• Cloud Cover Episode 24 – Routing in Windows Azure (Ryan Dunn)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #4 (Michael Lehman)
• Windows Weekly 172: Board Up The Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone 7 ad promises ‘the revolution is coming’ (video) (Vlad Savov)
• Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 1 and Contributing to Open Source Projects On GitHub For .NET Developers Part 2 and Connected Show Podcast – Steve Marx on Azure (Bobby Johnson)
• Inside Windows Phone #02: The Beta Release and the Roadmap to RTM and Inside Windows Phone #03: Optimizing Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Jaime Rodriguez)
• A New Podcast for Developers – This Developer’s Life (Scott Hanselman)
• The Rematch – Webcast of my 101 VS tips in 55 mins via O’Reilly is now available (Sara Ford)

Community / Events

• MVP Mark Dunn Highlights the MVP Award Program (Lonnie Webb)
• SPSBmore SharePoint 2010 Hands-On Lab Resources (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Moving on from Microsoft (Andre Vrignaud)
• SilverlightShow Interview with Webinar Presenter Chris Anderson and Win a Free Ebook in SilverlightShow Webinar on Running Silverlight OOB and with Elevated Trust (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Events (Wes Yanaga)
• Nothin But .Net – London(November,2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• A Community Divided (Joe Webb)
• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of September 6, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Few Notes on Fast Track Data Warehouse and SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Limitation of the View 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Parallelism in SSIS – Multiple Lookups (Todd McDermid)
• Normalization is from the devil (Oren Eini)
• Why You Still Count as a Person if You Have Used Microsoft Access—(or How Old Are You, Julie? (or the overuse of parenthesis in early 21st century Bloggery)) (Julie Smith)
• Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options (Stephen Forte)
• “select *, %%bmk%% from tablename” while rebuilding the index (Pradeep Adiga)
• Make a T-SQL Query Sleep for a certain amount of time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• New book: Microsoft Access 2010 Inside Out (Devon Musgrave)

SharePoint

• Guide to Migrating from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows SBS 2008 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Writing A Simple DSL (Davy Brion)
• Project Sector 5 – Work In Progress – Teaser (Kevin Griffin)
• Halo Reach A Big Hit With Some Big Hitters (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hacking: The Next Generation – Only $9.99. Use code DDHKG (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Home Server Vail Preview Part 1 (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft counting down the days until Kinect launches (Steven Hodson)
• MS Research Releases Kodu Language and Grammar Specification (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 4, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 5, 2010 and Interesting Finds: September 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 040 for 9/6/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 4, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 09/03/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 66 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2010 — #940 and Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2010 — #941 (Dave Campbell)
• Things I Read This Week – 2010.08.03 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #679 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Silverlight Blogs (John Papa)
• Links of the week #128 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

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Top Links

• NHibernate donation campaign (Oren Eini)
• "Art of Agile Development" Going Online (James Shore)
• Chapter 1 of “SQL Server DMVs in Action” is now available for FREE (Ian Stirk)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Ninject 2 Dependency Injection Reaches GA (Mitch Pronschinske)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Virtual Space (Richard Carr)
• WDK 7.1.0 (MS Downloads)
• My Visual Studio 2008 is broken after uninstalling .NET Framework 4.0 (VS Team)
• Download code from the MonoTouch ebook (Wally McClure)
• DataTip Value from the Last Debug Session — vstipDebug0012 and Understanding Word Wrap — vstipEdit0022 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Issues Compiling VS2010 solutions (with web projects) from Nant (Derik Whittaker)
• WCF RIA Services and Audit – Historical changes (Fredrik Normen)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4 – The Official MSDN Source (Greg Duncan)
• Behaviors with MSpec (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension (Jeff Wilcox)
• No Intellisense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it) (Scott Guthrie)
• Setting up a continuous integration server for a CodePlex project using TeamCity and Mercurial (Bertrand Le Roy)

Web Development

• View/ViewModel Association – Convention and Configuration-based Approaches (Nikhil Kothari)
• Lucene.net Is Powering Subtext 2.5 Search (Simone Chiaretta)
• Profilers and ASP.NET (Tom)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Project code organization (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq – Help us design the “Components” feature (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Learning From Austin Powers: Your Product Does Not Need More Features. (Rajiv Popat)
• Code Kata (Julian M. Bucknall)
• The usefulness of interaction tests, or “How to question the method” (Kyle Baley)
• Initiate and Embrace change (Mark Nijhof)
• Get started with Microsoft Test Manager (Murray Gordon)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service (Mike Taulty)
• When Is It OK To Hack? (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting focus in XAML with no code (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #4: Monitoring Applications (Brian Hitney)
• Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 1 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 2 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 3 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 4 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 5 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 6 and Interview with Ivar Jacobson – Part 7 (Dag König)
• Fez’ing with the .Net Micro-framework (Coding4Fun)
• TWC9: MIX10, Tweevo, Silverlight Augmented Reality, testing (Dan Fernandez)
• jQuery Podcast 13 – David Walsh (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover – Episode 2 (Ryan Dunn)

Database

•  SQL SERVER – INSERT TOP (N) INTO Table – Using Top with INSERT (Pinal Dave)
• Using SQL Server Management tools and Integrated Security/Windows Authentication from a non-domain joined machine (Greg Duncan)
• Outputting data to an XML file : SSIS video nugget (Jamie Thomson)
• Turning on execution plans affects performance (Simon Sabin)
• Readonly Databases (Martin Bell)
• Using schemas to maintain order as a DBA (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Mobile Rendering (And Device Emulator Fun!) (Charles Chen)
• SharePoint Designer’s new workflow editor: keyboard shortcuts (SharePoint Designer Team)
• SharePoint Dialog Auto-Sizing and Master Page Customization (Zach Nation)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Hotkey to Pause Pandora (Lee Holmes)
• How I use Social Media: Part 4–LinkedIn (Amy Blankenship)
• Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure? (Ed Bott)
• Lynda.com video tutorial site now has iPhone app (Erez Zukerman)
• Confirmed: Windows Mobile 6.5 to become Windows Phone Starter Edition (Nilay Patel)
• The 27th of Diduary: Did you know you can get 7 free songs every week? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Daily Dose – Vote for the New Eclipse Logo! (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Entelligence: Windows Phone 7 Series (Michael Gartenberg)
• NUI, Lolcats and other trending topics at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• PowerShell – Speak Number of Lines of Code (Keith Elder)
• Developers, save us from the Microsoft undead (Joe Wilcox)
• iPhone OS Coming to More Devices? (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – FEB ‘10 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2010 — #804 (Dave Campbell)
• Friday Potpourri: Azure, Bing Maps, Oomph, and more (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Azure Resources for Decision Makers (Murray Gordon)

The Geek Shelf

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Prism With EntLib and Unity (Ade Miller)
• Silverlight 2 Custom Control Gotchas (Corey Miller)
• State of the DLR for Silverlight (Jimmy Schementi)
• Why Should You Always Locate Your Convertors In App.Xaml (Amit Raz)

Web Development

• 3 Quick Steps for a Painless Upgrade to jQuery 1.3 (Karl Swedberg)
• Kobe – A Web 2.0 Service Development Resource Kit built using ASP.NET MVC and the Microsoft Web Platform (ASP.NET News)
• Evolutility Open Source ASP.NET Framework (Joe Stagner)
• Adding An 800 Pound Gorilla To Your Site (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Select Multiple List Items in SharePoint Feature (Wesley Bakker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application Lifecycle Management Workshops Help ISVs Realize Full Potential of Team Foundation Server (Bruce Kyle)
• Eager loading a One-to-Many collection w/ NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
• Self-Modifying DSL from Savas (Chris Sells)
• C# 4, Dynamic Overloads (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Azure: Settings Are Settings Are Settings..? Maybe Not! (David)
• NInject Contextual Binding, or “How to defy Mick Jagger and always get what you want” (Kyle Baley)

Design/ Methodology / Testing

• The cost of Test Driven Development (Andrew Woodward)
• Transactions and the check-in dance (Jimmy Bogard)
• Application structure: Concepts & Features (Ayende Rahien)
• Test-driven development with code generation (Laila Bougria)
• Smarten Up Instead Of Generating Dumb Tests (Davy Brion)
• Improving Software Process – A Letter to Upper Management (Tim Barcz) – Link of the Day
• Moq 3.0 RTM!!! (Daniel Cazzulino)

Community / Events

• I’m a PC and I’m a MVP — 2009 MVP Summit WrapUp and Thanks! (Dave Campbell)

Database

• Create XML Files Out Of SQL Server With SSIS And FOR XML Syntax (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers (Denis Gobo)
• 5 Games that Won’t Die! (Joel Durham Jr.)
• The ALT.NET Programming Contest (Aaron Jensen)
• BOOK REVIEW: Code Leader, by Patrick Cauldwell (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Death March (Gunnar Peipman)
• Troubleshooting Windows MSI Installers (Phil Haack)
• HealthVault Connection Center 2.0 SP2 released (HealthVault Team)
• The Days of Arcade are coming (Larry Hyrb)
• Podcast of my Talk about Turing at the University of Toronto (Charles Petzold)
• Rebooting My Development Environment (David Starr)
• Why people do not see how smart your idea is at first (Ian Cooper)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2009 — #533 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #301 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Twitterings #18 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for March 5, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• New and Notable 300 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for March 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: March 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer): Patrick Cauldwell, Scott Hanselman: Books ISBN: 0470259248 ISBN-13: 9780470259245

Silverlight / WPF

• Twilight 1.5: Multiple Views with MVVM (Bryant Likes)
• Silverlight-based Gaming is about to explode (Adam Kinney)
• Building a WPF Application: Part 5 (Christopher Bennage)
• Learn Prism (Blaine Wastell)
• ElementRecycler for Silverlight and WPF (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating Master Pages in Windows Presentation Foundation (Azam)
• Title less Windows in WPF (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight Tip of Day #97 – How to get an Image’s Source File Name (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Adoption – A Few Numbers (Mike Ormond)
• Creating Layout Tables in Microsoft Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
• Hypervideo put to work (Jesse Liberty)
• Live Search from Silverlight (John Papa)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring: extract interface (Gunnar Peipman)
• Introduction to HealthVault Development #8: Related items (Eric Gunnerson)
• Ninject 2 hits beta status (Simone Chiaretta)
• My Foray into Linq to Sql and the Entity Framework (Part 1 of 2) (Greg Galipeau)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Introduction and Writing an IronPython Debugger: MDbg 101 and Writing an IronPython Debugger: Hello, Debugger! and CodeHTMLer Language Definition for Python (Harry Pierson) – Links of the Day
• Code Cast #24 – Matt Podwysocki on Functional Programming (David Starr)
• Friday Books – LINQ in Action (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio Challenge: Learn a New Menu Command (Julie Lerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring legacy code (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Paying Down Your Technical Debt (Jeff Atwood)
• QuickGraph on Code Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Design Guidelines: Serialization Technology (Rob Relyea)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 151 – Fit and Fitness with Ward Cunningham and James Shore (Scott Hanselman)
• Why You Want To Be A Craftsman Instead Of A Cowboy (Justin)
• Coding: Implicit vs Explicit modeling (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes and privacy (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Chapter 5 — Understanding Models and ASP.NET MVC Sample Application at www.ASP.net/MVC (Stephen Walther)
• "Variable is assigned but its Value is never used" Warning (Rick Strahl)
• xVal 0.8 (Beta) Now Released (Steve Sanderson)

SharePoint

• MOSS 2007 and .NET framework 3.5 SP1 – Second part (Agnes Molnar)

Database

• It is SQL (Structured Query Language) NOT SBQL (Structured Business Query Language) (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• The ALT.NET Conference: loving it (Simone Chiaretta)
• ALT.NET Seattle Day One (Phil Haack)
• Twitter – A Real Challenge for Blogging (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Miscellaneous

• Whiners that Fail (Uncle Bob)
• Thoughts on "Whiners that Fail" (Anne Epstein)
• Project subdomain URLs and separate RSS feed for reviews (Sara Ford)
• The new Windows Live FrameIt is here! SDK now available for download (damaster)
• Mozilla Bespin: Cloud code editing via browser (Dave Rosenberg)
• Windows 7 Friday: New Security Features and Options (Denny Boynton)
• Introducing Canvas for OneNote (Nathan Fish)
• Spore opens its API (David Pescovitz)
• Microsoft 2019 (Steve Clayton)
• 5 ways to enhance your Wikipedia experience (Jay Hathaway)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 26, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 27, 2009 — #530 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-02-28 (Gunnar Peipman)
• New and Notable 296 (Sam Gentile)
• Let’s Wax Functional 02/27/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• CloudNews for February 27th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: February 27, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• 5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week (Simon Mackie)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links Of The Past Week Episode 13 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Graphical Paths with Gradient Colors (Charles Petzold)
• Where Does Silverlight and WPF Belong? (Chris Love)
• Why Silverlight Is the Future and Silverlight Online Goodies (Rocky Lhotka)
• New Tutorial: DataGrid Binding via Data Entities & WCF (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• VSTS Has a New Web Site (Cameron Skinner)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.1 Released (for Windows and Silverlight) (Rocky Lhotka)
• A Story of TFS WTFery (Ben Scheirman)
• Model Driven Template/Scaffolding AddIn for Visual Studio (Eric Hexter)
• Developing with Microsoft Business Rules Engine (Mohamad Halabi)

Web Development

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Streaming Video, but Were Afraid to Ask, and Then Some… (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Why to Use a CSS Framework? and More About CSS Frameworks (Daniela Panfili)
• Html and Uri String Encoding without System.Web (Rick Strahl)
• Chapter 1 – An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
• Trying to Extend the ASP.NET MVC (T4) Item Templates to Create Multiple Files (Eric Hexter)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 3 – Data Validation (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Friday Books – CSS: The Missing Manual (Dave M. Bush)
• REST Fundamentals (Kalyan Bandarupalli)
• Slide Elements in Different Directions (Karl Swedberg)
• Minifying HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web (Jason N. Gaylord)
• How to Use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile: Why Do We Integrate Early? (Mark Needham)
• The Essence of Great UI – An Overview (Mark Miller)
• S.O.L.I.D. By Example: Open Closed Principle (Bobby Johnson)
• Bounded Context, Extension Methods, and Fluent API’s (JP Hamilton)
• UX Patterns (and not UI Architecture Patterns) (Christopher Bennage)
• Why ‘Should Attach View to Presenter’ Is an Invalid Unit Test / Observation (Derick Bailey)
• Software Development "Lessons Learned" (Jarod Ferguson)
• The Next Level of Code Analysis Using ‘NDepend’: An Interview with Patrick Smacchia (Suprotim Agarwal)

.NET Community / Events

• Introducing .NET Shout Out (Joe Stagner)
• MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 3.5 Overview (Lindsay Rutter)
• MVPs Headline at TechEd 2009! (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• Managing Files with SQL Server 2008′s FILESTREAM Feature (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• Some Simple Code to Show the Difference Between Newid and Newsequentialid (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Performance Is Important – Why Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com) Is Wrong and Right About Performance (Wallace B. McClure)
• New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes (Octavian "Vivi" Costache)
• Mobile Manager for Netflix (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Learning and Understanding (Gabriel Schenker)
• Suggested Sites & Privacy (Jane Kim)
• UAC Feedback and Follow-Up (Jon DeVaan & Steven Sinofsky)
• The History of Microsoft – 1975 (Tina @ Channel9)
• Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to Be Available on Mobile Phones (Chris Webb)

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for February 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• jQuery Week? (Thomas S. Williams)
• Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2009 — #508 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for February 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (2/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #281 (Chris Alcock)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 10 (Denis Gobo)
• Interesting Finds: February 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day