• Getting Started with Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Run Your Unit Tests in Parallel to Maximize Performance (Steve Smith)
• Announcing OData T4 for C#, Preview 1 (Ahmed Moustafa)
• New Videos on CQRS/DDD and Practical CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• What’s it like building apps for Windows 8? Developers speak out (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Puzzlers available for download (Bill Wagner)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: From start to finishing–tracing a request (Oren Eini)
• Teams and TFS Groups in TFS11, the backlog, board and security settings. (Clemens Reijnen)
• .NET Demon Provides Continuous Compilation and Testing for Visual Studio (Jenni Konrad)
• C#, Async, Limits, oh my! (Peter Ritchie)
• Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: Team Explorer My Work Page (Mickey Gousset)
• More on TPL Data Flow from Zlatko Michailov (Jonathan Allen)
• Building an English-Based Rules Engine in .NET with IronRuby Slides and Demo (Keith Elder)
• SkyDrive API Link Round-Up and A "Get right to work introduction to Lucene.Net" (Greg Duncan)
• Aggressive Inlining in the CLR 4.5 JIT (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Abusing the Microsoft Research’s Touch Mouse Sensor API SDK with a Console-based Heat-map (Scott Hanselman)
• Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent (Shawn Cicoria)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Gets Final Tune-Up — Enum Support Promised in 5.0 (David Ramel)
• Simple Microsoft™ CAB Sample (Tom Puglisi)
• Timeouts for long running operations… (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• HTML5 and validation issues with this blog (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Facebook App using DotNetNuke (Dave M. Bush)
• How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth (Jef Claes)
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 1 (Shi Chuan)
• How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress (Kevin Muldoon)
• Tracking API usage with Google Analytics (Maarten Balliauw)
• Retrieving a Logged On User ID (Bunch)
• Just published my first node.js Windows Azure application (Eric Nelson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: AggregateOrientedDatabase (Martin Fowler)
• TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools (James Kovacs)
• Article: Interview and Book Excerpt: Service Design Patterns (Jeevak Kasarkod)
• Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey (Shubhra Maji)
• The quickest and easiest “Getting Started w/ GitHub” article you’ll ever read! (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Faceted Minimization: Simplifying the Sidebar Navigation (Anthony)
• "Re: I have a question about proving code correctness" (Frans Bouma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PhoneGap on Windows Phone Adds Support For Facebook, Twitter, Bing Maps, and More (Eric Genesky)
• How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #477 – Default ZIndex Value for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Ly: Expression Design, XAML and Expression Blend, why bother? (Surf4Fun)
• “Metro Done Right” according to my tweeps (András Velvárt)
• WPFSpark 1.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SharePoint Pod Show – Building a SharePoint team-Episode 69 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Full Stack Resumes–MVVM Design (Jesse Liberty)
• Visual Studio Achievements in 60 seconds (Dan Fernandez, Karsten J. & Golnaz)
• [Humor] – What Project Managers Say and Talk Like (Peter Saddington)
• Architecting Applications for Multiple UIs video now available! (Paul Sheriff)
• Blog Post: New and Improved Generator Overview Video (Autumn Wilkins)

Community / Events

• Join me at the ALM & Test days in Italy (Jason Zander)
• “I Gotta Get Me Some of That [Azure]” (Jim O’Neil)
• Thoughts on the Latest PASS Fracas… (Audrey Hammonds)
• Meet Abhishek Sur – Client App Dev MVP from India (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Microsoft International Development Centers (Anne Cheng)

Database

• Use VALUES clause to get the maximum value from some columns [SQL Server, T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS Tip: Hide a tablix if no rows returned (Jen McCown)
• SQL SERVER – MERGE or INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE – Quiz – Puzzle – 19 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• How I use PowerShell to generate table output for blog posts from query results (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – Powershell Excel to HTML (Jack Vamvas)
• Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_ExecuteSQL’ (Ted Krueger)
• SQL 2012 Database Engine Tuning Advisor: Now With More Plan Cache! (Thomas LaRock)
• RavenDB Sequential Number Generator (Nick Berardi)

SharePoint

• WebPartAdderExtension – a better way of deploying web parts (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• Powershell Emailing Strings as attachments (Mike Koerner)

Miscellaneous

• Jobless rate for software developers: 4.4 percent (Greg Lamm)
• Microsoft has ‘perks galore’ but still lags behind Google (Jennifer Sokolowsky & Greg Lamm)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 138 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #799 and Double Shot #800 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 20 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily and Weekly Front-End Dev Resources (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1026 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-19 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug

Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards (Troy Hunt)
• Announcing the Release of Silverlight 5! (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 5 is released! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Fun With Big Data Using the Microsoft “Data Explorer” Pt. 1 (Don Burnett)
• VIDEO: The Art of Speaking – with Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)
• Using QUnit with Razor Layouts (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure SDK for node.js (Andre Rodrigues)
• The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011 (Oleg Mokhov)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 and Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server – Windows Server 2003 Distributed Cache Client (MS Downloads)
• Mocking Internal Types with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Poll – do you reverse engineer .NET apps you didn’t write? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Metro Style Apps using Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (Developer Preview) (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS source control – Watch your application grow like a garden (Peter Gfader)
• In the async world – no one can hear you scream (Peter von Lochow)
• Sure, I’m supposed to pass WT_EXECUTELONGFUNCTION if my function takes a long time, but how long is long? (Raymond Chen)
• RTM’d today: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• MicroTweet – Adding tweeting to your Netduino/.Net Micro Framework projects and Want some help making snippet deployment and sharing easier? Snippet to VSI! (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Store to allow for open source apps (John Callaham)
• Make your Windows 8 Video App use the PlayTo feature (Morten Nielsen)
• Tpl Dataflow – Part 3 (Bnaya Eshet)
• ImpromptuInterface: Static interface to dynamic implementation (duck casting). (Google Code)

Web Development

• Speed up writing CSS backgrounds (Richard Bradshaw)
• ELMAH MVC: Answering questions (Alexander Beletsky)
• On deploying ASP.NET MVC site as a desktop application (Andrei Marukovich)
• Animations in HTML5 (Florian Rappl)
• MVC3, Razor and MS Chart Controls in .NET 4 (Henrik Andersson)
• Using Classic ASP, PHP and WebForm Pages in ASP.NET MVC Views (Imran Baloch)
• Quick Tip: Create a Makeshift JavaScript Templating Solution (Jeffrey Way)
• JavaScript – Add Commas To Number (Shai Raiten)
• To Say Mobile is to Set A False Limit on Your Reach (Chris Love)
• NetBash – An Alternative to Endless Admin Pages in Asp.Net Web Applications (Luke Lowrey)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Constructor with Factory Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML 5 Input Types on WebForms Controls and HTML 5 Input Types – How useful is this really going to be? and Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Table Storage- Partition or Row key length is limited to 256 characters in Storage Emulator and Handling issues with your startup task in Windows Azure Application and Exploring Windows Azure Package contents (Avkash Chauhan)
• Tutorial: Running the Mongoose Web Server in Windows Azure and Tutorial: Running a Python Web Application in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Media Capture API: Helping Web developers directly import image, video, and sound data into Web apps (Claudio Caldato)
• Transferable Objects: Lightning Fast! (Eric Bidelman)
• Keep Users Coming Back With Desktop Notifications for Web Apps Article (Gil Fink)
• Leveraging YetAnotherForum.NET for External Post Display (Dave Burke)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 18 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• WebStorm 3.0 RC (Alexey Gopachenko)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Unit Testing Death-Spiral of Doom (Gil Zilberfeld)
• TDD vs. BDD or why can’t we all just get along? (Dror Helper)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• How to Think About Estimating (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Nine Things I’ve Learned (Mike Kus)
• Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled (Mike Walker)
• Good UX in the Wild: A comic book geek returns after twenty years away to a brave new digital world (Scott Hanselman)
• Leadership Books Sweep and 30 Day Improvement Sprints Revisited (JD Meier)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 9: Readable Tests and 31 Days of Testing—Day 10: Mocking Out Dependencies and 31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation (Jim Holmes)
• Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 3 (Johanna Rothmann)
• Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts (Chris Missal)
• Acronyms and Ubiquitous Language (Derek Greer)
• Sunday Thought: Embracing the Type System (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Why Silverlight 5’s 3D is (almost) useless (Morten Nielsen)
• Updated all my Silverlight 5 posts (Peter Kuhn)
• Arrays in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight 5 has released! The docs are up and a .chm is available (Cheryl Simmons)
• Implementing MVVM Light with Structure Map (emardini)
• Detecting and simulating low memory devices in Windows Phone 7 applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Silverlight 5 Released: Myth vs. Fact (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight Spy December 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• MVVM Light for Silverlight 5 is on Codeplex #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft releases Silverlight 5 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone 8 and WinRT (Matt Lacey)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Batch INSERT performance (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #448 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – User details & official project page (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Great Series — 31 Days of Mango (Rhonda Tipton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 186: Charles Stacy Harris III and David Sawyer on the Microsoft Technology Center (part 1 of 2) (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 045 – “Frat Night at Ben’s” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 422: Xbox 360 System Update and BF3 Back To Karkand (Larry Hyrb)
• Gweek 030: Supergods, Mutants, and Mystics (Mark)
• The Tablet Show – Rocky Lhotka, Sergey Barskiy and Stuart Williams Explore WinRT App Migration (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start-Up Success Show #126: George Karavias and Dimitris Gkanatsios, Anlock (Bob Walsh)
• TWC9: Windows 8 Store, Azure Event, SignalR and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 79 – Extreme Performance with Patrick Cooney and Joel Pobar (Richard Banks)
• A Little Bit of My Soul Went Into This One (Rob Conery)
• Engadget Podcast 267 – 12.09.2011 and The Vergecast 005 – 12.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 67 – Technical Computing with Windows Azure and Wenming Ye (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Weekly 238: It’s All About The Gs (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft makes a movie: Ctrl+Alt+Compete (Zoe Goldring)

Community / Events

• Get Your Azure On! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – Virtual Presentation on Practical Tricks and Tips to Speed up Database Queries – December 15, 2011 (Pinal Dave)
• Just One More Week To Enter The Rock Paper Azure Fall Sweepstakes! (Dani Diaz)
• Author news: Q&A with author and consultant Don Reifer (Devon Musgrave)

Database

• Find Last Run Query in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 RC0: Fix Setup Error: File format is not valid and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: Msg 1904, Level 16 The statistics on table has 33 column names in statistics key list. The maximum limit for index or statistics key column list is 32 (Pinal Dave)
• Search SSRS Subscriptions – LightSwitch Star Contest Submission (Royce Bacon)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 9: Dynamic TOP and SQL Advent 2011 Day 10: Upsert by using the Merge statement and SQL Advent 2011 Day 11: DML statements with the OUTPUT clause (Denis Gobo)
• Merge Replication – Parameterized Filters (Ted Krueger)
• SQL Database Status with sys.databases (Jack Vamvas)
• XQuery Lab 65 – Restructuring an XML document using FLWOR (Jacob Sebastian)
• Reduce heap table fragmentation (James Serra)
• Working With Web Data in Microsoft Codename "Data Explorer" (James Terwilliger)

SharePoint

• ExcelMashup.com debuts! (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

• How to use a Proxy Server with the EWS Managed API and PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Software: The most important Growth Industry (Bill Wagner)
• HP Opensources WebOS: My Quick Thoughts (Krishnan Subramanian)
• HP: WebOS Is Now an Open Source Project (Lance Ulanoff)
• The New MSDN Subscriber Portal is Live! (Mark Curphey)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 10, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 132 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Link Post 214 (Rhonda Tipton)
• MVP Friday Five: December 9, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #770 and Double Shot #771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 10 Dec 2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 12/9/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/9/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (December 9, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1000 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 11, 2011 – #0009 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/09/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 62 – Books and Giveaways (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 5 – 11 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

Top Links

• Visual Studio 11 .NET Advances (Somasegar)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Analysis and Flow Analysis (Sasha Goldshtein)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 – v1 (Brian Keller)
• Designing your Windows Phone App – where to start and Windows Phone App Layouts with Expression Blend and Windows Phone App Styles (Sara Allison)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)
• IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools – Training and Exploration Sandbox (Willy-P. Schaub)
• How can I get notified when some other window is destroyed? (Raymond Chen)
• OpenWrap 1.0.2 available (Sebastien Lambla)
• MSDN Magazine November Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• FSharpChart release supporting Stacked Charts (version 0.60) (Carl Nolan)

Web Development

• MVC–Hooking up my randomizer (Chris Skardon)
• Creating Style Rules in HTML 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Installing MVC 3 for Visual Studio 2010 on Windows Developer Preview after installing MVC 4 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Tips and tricks: HTML5 video and audio on iOS (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Winter is coming! Get 50% OFF on WebStorm, PhpStorm and RubyMine (Alexey Korsun)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: REST API Design Rulebook – $4.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RazorEngine Performance and Template Caching (Steve Smith)
• CodeLobster PHP Edition – An IDE for PHP Developers (Senthil Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Applied to Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• New Article on Software Development (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning Behavior Driven Development (Larry Franks)
• Introducing the New TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal (TeamPulse Team)
• Introducing Android WebDriver (Tim Bray)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox (Part 2) (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Update data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Telerik Windows Phone controls Q3 2011 Beta – New Context Menu, Chart Financial Series plus more (Georgi Atanasov)
• The Blue Book gets Mango’d! Rob Mile’s "Windows Phone Programming in C#" Blue Book updated for Windows Phone 7.1(5) And do do the lab’s and demo’s too! and Kinecting to Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Welcome Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin (Telerik)
• 2000 WPF Things #417 – Using Star Sizing to Distribute Space Evenly across Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Apps – Adding the glossy elements (Andrew Spooner)
• LightSwitch: Integrating The ComponentOne Scheduler (Michael Washington)
• Top 3 Memory Leak Inducing Pitfalls of WPF Programming (Omer Raviv)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building a Software Business at DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 3: The C++/CX Episode with Marian Luparu (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 040 – “Nokia FTW, Skype FTL” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SE Podcast #24 (Alex Miller)
• The Tablet Show – “Resist the Drama” (Dan Wahlin)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #62: Arduino and Netduino with a Couple of Microcontroller Geeks (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• What The Tech 90: So Much To Say (Paul Thurrott)
• Devices and news from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Audiocast on Developer + Tester Collaboration (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• Rich Community. Great Opportunities. (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A Coder Interview With Andreas Håkansson (The Code Project)
• Upstate New York Tech Events and Torn Between Two (Code) Camps (Jim O’Neil)
• App Hub Developer Talk Series – Upcoming and on Demand Dev Talks (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Questions: Development Is Design (Mike Desmond)

Database

• SSAS – Deployment Wizard (Devin Knight)
• How do I get a listing of all DB instances and table names where a column name occurs in MS SQL Server? (Paula DiTallo)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Wait Stats – eBook to Download on Kindle – Answer to FREE PDF Download Request (Pinal Dave)
• “Data Explorer” Mashup 101 (Data Explorer Team)
• All About Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) (Hima)

SharePoint

• SharePoint API – Download \ Upload Documents (Tool) (Shai Raiten)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 1) (Tobias Weltner)
• Windows PowerShell ISE add-ons, links, info and a bit more (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows HPC with Windows Azure burst training kit version 1.6 (Avkash Chauhan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 26, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 25-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/26/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #968 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard

• Hands on Labs from //build/ Now Available (buildwindows)
• Windows Phone Mango users reporting disappearing keyboards (Mary Jo Foley) – I’m seeing it occasionally on my HTC Surround.
• Amazon’s Silk Browser: A Peeping Tom Or A Mona Lisa? (Rob Diana)
• Actions in WCF Data Services (Alex James)
• IronPython 2.7.1 RC (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to let other teams at Microsoft know how to support F# better (Don Syme)
• Neovolve.Toolkit 1.1 Released (Rory Primrose)
• System Users and Application Users (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Released and Helping others become Visual Studio Keyboard Ninja’s with the Code Ninja Spy (Greg Duncan)
• Automated Build-Deploy-Test using TFS 2010 (Anuj Chaudhary)
• New Field Notes and Real World Guidance added to the Windows Azure Technical Content (Molly Bostic)
• Fixing NLog’s Logging to a Web Service (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows 8 Metro declarations: User Tile Provider (Andrej Tozon)
• WinRT and Windows Property System part 1: storing and retrieving files metadata (Andrei Marukovich)
• Facebook C# SDK 5.3 (CodePlex)
• Azure Storage Client using Async API (Rohit Gupta)
• Using Geospatial Data (WCF Team)

Web Development

• How to Deploy Your ASP.NET MVC 3 with SQL CE 4.0 & Entity Framework (Christian D. Yellington)
• Tips For Using Backbone.js Routers With HTML5 PushState (Derick Bailey)
• RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• The many places to Dive into HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
• Using HTML5 Geolocation API in ASP.NET Application (Harish Ranganathan)
• Viewmodel extractors in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• HTML5 Gaming: animating sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and An introduction to CSS pseudo-element hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A look at Dart from the eyes of an OO programmer (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ah Ha Moments – Handcrafted CSS (Ryan Rauh)
• JavaScript unit testing support (Sergey Simonchik)
• Ruby and Node on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Larry Franks)
• Challenging non-local session scope (session-per-request) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• RIA/JS: Deleting Entities (Josh Twist)
• Getting Started With PHP Templating (Krzysztof Rakowski)
• Azure Blob Storage – a simple example (Peter von Lochow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Development is Broken (Avi Kaye)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine and CoffeeScript (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Writing Software as a Kaizen Event (Stephen Forte)
• Product Owners are not a myth (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Effective Stand-ups (Robert May)
• Book Review “Cloud Computing Architected – Solution Design Handbook” by John Rhoton and Risto Haukioja (Kai Wähner)
• Blocks and Playsets (Christopher Bennage)
• How To Produce Bug-Free Software (Derek Greer)
• The Lure of Specialization (Joel Semeniuk)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Insert data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Code to Send SMS in Windows Phone 7 and Reading coordinate values using Accelerometer API in Windows Phone 7 and Debugging WCF Service from Silverlight: The Breakpoint will not currently be hit at WCF Service error (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 2: manipulating the UI (Kevin Dockx)
• ChevronWP7 Unlock Tool Coming Soon (Few Weeks Away) (Antonio Hernandez)
• A behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #409 – Child Elements in a Grid Size to Fit the Containing Cell and #410 – Default Grid Row and Column Sizes (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 21: I Go Pogo! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Paul Lewis Sees 3D in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Drawbridge: A new form of virtualization for application sandboxing and Tao Liu: F# Design Patterns (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 123: Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on NancyFx (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 162 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Pfeiffer from Interface Technical Training (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Short interview on C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 17th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone Hackathon draws in Pro Devs and Students (Bob Familiar)
• Quick training & conference announcements (Udi Dahan)
• YUIConf 2011 Preliminary Schedule Now Available (Jenny Donnelly)

Database

• SQL Server Developers Tools code-named “Juneau” becomes SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Gert Drapers)
• SQL SERVER – Next Version of SQL Server ‘Denali’ is Officially Named as SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Denali CTP3 – Semantic Search features (Trevor Dwyer)
• Simple XML exist performance enhancement (Arthur Olcot)

SharePoint

• Web Part Development Options in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s plan for bringing its BI tools to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 8 “Isn’t Finished”, Microsoft Reminds us again! (Mike Halsey)
• Learn Ruby with the Edgecase Ruby Koans (Jim Weirich & Joe O’Brien)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.11 ~ 10.17 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Maker Geek Roundup 002 for 10/17/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Geek Reading October 17, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #961 (Chris Alcock)
• SilverlightShow for October 10 – 16, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2011 — #1158 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• My Windows 8 Development Article Collection. (Michael Crump)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 10 – 16, 2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition) by Jason Cranford Teague

• What Is The .NET Framework 4.5? (Paulo Morgado)
• Upcoming Mono Releases: Change in Policies (Miguel de Icaza)
• More MEFedMVVM NavigationExtensions love (Marlon Grech)
• The Dangers of Implementing Recurring Background Tasks In ASP.NET (Phil Haack)
• The Weekly Source Code 59 – An Open Source Treasure: Irony .NET Language Implementation Kit (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Obtaining Results from Parallel Tasks (Richard Carr)
• Quick Launch in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview and Search Toolbox controls in Visual Studio 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• DemoMates for Visual Studio 11 ALM Demos (Brian Keller)
• Two New F# 3.0 Type Provider Related NuGet Packages (Daniel Mohl)
• Calling One-Way WCF Service using IOutputChannel (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The C# Yellow Book gets a 2011 refresh… (Greg Duncan)
• SIMD-Optimized C++ Code in Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Win8, Metro, and WinRT terminology (Rockford Lhotka)
• Introducing the OData Library (Shayne Burgess)
• Composition root with MEF (Glenn Block)
• Automate Assembly Build Version (Abhishek Sur)
• FSharpChart now available as a NuGet Package (Carl Nolan)
• How to easily turn your L2S objects into interfaces (Deran Schilling)
• ORM Profiler Analyzes Data Access Performance (Jenni Konrad)

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET MVC 3 to Build Ajax Form with JQuery Validation (Chris D.)
• Quick Hack To Work Around Jasmine-jQuery Fixture Limitations (Derick Bailey)
• Quick Tip – Converting JSON Serialized .NET DateTime to JavaScript Date (Gil Fink)
• HTML5 Markup Enhancements for ASP.NET (Harish Ranganathan)
• Why isn’t Visual Studio letting me debug JavaScript any longer? (Jake Rutherford)
• FubuMVC–Action discovery (Josh Arnold)
• Compressing ViewState in ASP.NET. (Pavan Kumar Pabothu)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Remove Control Flag (Giorgio Sironi)
• ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests with UnityAutoMoq Container (Raj Aththanayake)
• Sending and Receiving Email in Windows Azure (MS Public Sector Team)
• The power of the Asynchronous Module Definition (Axel Rauschmayer)
• .NET and CoffeeScript: comparing Jurassic, Jint, and IronJS (Joe White)
• Moving to Azure: Static Assets (Michael C. Neel)
• Find out the Geo-coordinates of an address – geocoding with Google Maps (Code Inside Team)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.122 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Avoiding Circular Reference for Entity in JSON Serialization (Gil Fink)
• SVG Filter Effects in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• QUnit – Client side unit testing with TDD (Guilherme Cardoso)
• Top Ten Tips for Managing Change (J.D. Meier)
• Windows Azure Planning – A Post-decision Guide to Integrate Windows Azure in Your Environment (Vishwas Lele)
• The Case for Project Management (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.3.1 (Yann Trevin)
• Using Test Oracles to Ensure Your Tests’ True Validity (Jim Holmes)
• Use of Abstractions in Dynamic & Static Languages (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM PRISM: Modal Windows by using Interaction Request with Generics (Gerard Castelló Viader)
• MyNextDays Calendar App Review (Karl Stein)
• The Future of Silverlight: My Take [& a BUILD / HTML5 Rant] (Andrew Connell)
• Protecting password or any data in Windows Phone 7 using Data Protection API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5–Debugging Bindings in XAML (Dan Wahlin)
• Confusion Around WP7.1 Periodic Agents (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Using Databases with Mango (Chris Koenig)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Google’s Steve Souders, Creator of YSlow on Web Site Optimization (Scott Hanselman)
• Technology & Friends Episode 178: Rich Dudley on the Job Interview Process (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 415: What we’re playing, Gears 3, Batman AC, Sims 3 Pets and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 61 – Updates to SQL Azure Database with Roger Doherty (Steve Marx)
• Yet Another Podcast #51–Shawn Wildermuth: //build, Xaml Programming & Beyond (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Radio – 46 (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9: October 14: NuGet, Visual Studio 11, Windows Phone and Big Data (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• What The Tech 88: Rob Greenlee Interview and Windows Weekly 230: The Start Menu Is A Lie (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 028 – 10.14.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Camps – Fall 2011 (Cigdem Patlak)
• Final Summit Keynote – NoSQL = Not Only SQL (Tim Radney)
• MVP Friday Five: October 14, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Call for Abstracts for Spring 2012 ClientDev Connections Conference (Dan Wahlin)
• The JetBrains Magical Mouseless Continuous England Group Tour (Hadi Hariri)
• Reminder, RavenDB and NHibernate courses are upcoming in New York (Oren Eini)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Denali – Three DMVs – sys.dm_server_memory_dumps – sys.dm_server_services – sys.dm_server_registry and SQLAuthority News – SafePeak Releases a Major Update: SafePeak version 2.1 for SQL Server Performance Acceleration (Pinal Dave)
• Simple XML exist performance enhancement (Arthur Olcot)
• Announcing: Upcoming SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release (Gregory Leake)
• Peeking behind the curtains: The new RavenDB Management Studio (Oren Eini)
• Today I Played With RavenDB (Karl Seguin)

Miscellaneous

• Ruby, Concurrency, and You (Peter Cooper)
• Serving at the Pleasure of the King (Jeff Atwood)
• Welcome back Win 3.x ProgMan.exe and Fileman.exe (Don Burnett)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: iOS 5 Programming Cookbook – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 15, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 16, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #960 (Chris Alcock)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Oct-2011 and 13-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Retrospective 54 – Kaizen (Peter Saddington)
• SilverlightShow for October 03 – 09, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for October 15, 2011 — #1157 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 09-October-2011 to 15-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SilverlightShow Weekend Recap (10/16/2011): The Stories You May Have Missed and Weekly article digest 10/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 Oct 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 10-16 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth, Second Edition by Jon Skeet

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.8 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• Launching PowerShell 2.0 into .net4 via F# Interactive or IronPython 2.7 (Steve Gilham)
• Dart: A language for structured web programming (Lars Bak)
• MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike (Jeff Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Inspecting Tier Interaction Profiling (TIP) results in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Abhijit Jana)
• .NET Math Library (Richard Carr)
• F# Parallel Array Sorting (Carl Nolan)
• Teams in Visual Studio 11, the basics. and Teams in Visual Studio 11, feature teams and backlogs. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… – Look from a bird’s eye view (Peter Gfader)
• An easy way to create Side by Side registrationless COM Manifests with Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Using Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions with WCF (Tom Hollander)
• Actions in OData (Alex James)
• How to Resolve the ‘Manifest Reference file ‘XYZ’ is not part of the payload in Metro and How to setup a clean error message when your Metro Application does not support Data Sharing (Derik Whittaker)
• Reading EXCEL FILE in a collection using Open XML SDK 2.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• C#’s String.Format For JavaScript (Geek Daily)
• Cool stuff in FubuMVC No. 2: Action Conventions (Chad Myers)
• ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Mobile Template (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Conditional Expression (Giorgio Sironi)
• Getting Your HTML5 Fix: HTML5 At DZone (Rob Diana)
• Viewport Meta Tag and Using HTML 5/CSS3/jQuery to Build Mobile Interfaces (Sam Gentile)
• 10 super useful PHP snippets (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Use Local Storage to Make Your Single Page Web Application Rock (Chris Love)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.00 Beta (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Metrotastic– Palette Generator Preview. (Scott Barnes)
• Test Data Builder pattern with object initializers in .NET (Stacy Vicknair)
• Change the Environment, Not the People (Jurgen Appelo)
• How’s mentorship seen in Software Craftsmanship? (Sandro Mancuso)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Progress Bar using Threads (R. Carty)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–using the BusyIndicator (Brian Lagunas)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 1 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Detecting System Information of WP7 Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #404 – A Grid Hosts Child Controls in Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Using system alerts with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Random Airplane Mode in Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Visual States to Set Focus on a Control (Jeremy Likness)
• Isolated Storage for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 177: Jeremy Likness on Sterling database (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 414: Dragon Age II Mark Of The Assassin, Rocksmith, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (Larry Hyrb)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 179: Cassandra with Jonathan Ellis (SE-Radio Team)
• Gillmor Gang 10.8.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Windows Weekly 229: What’s It Called And What’s It Cost? (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 72 – CodeMania NZ and a Build Windows 8 Recap (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 25 (Richard Hay)
• The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• TWC9: C9 goes global, Fast App Switching, Geo AR Toolkit, MEF 2.0 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Radio – 45 (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools Live Roadshow Double Feature: Managing Your Software Lifecycle and Agile Management using Visual Studio Team Foundation in a town near you (US) (Charles Sterling)
• Welcome to our First MVP Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Upcoming MSDN Webcasts on Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Azure, Orchard and VS Team Build (Katrien de Graeve)
• Want to Learn iOS or Android? (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Book Review – MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services: Cookbook (Darren Gosbell)
• SQL Server Temp Tables (J. Verheul)
• SSIS: Word-wrapping Annotations (Using Only Notepad) (Larry Leonard)
• SQLAuthority News – System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance (Pinal Dave)
• DBCC checktable (Jack Vamvas)
• Review of Redgate SQL Prompt (Tatworth)
• Search and Replace in MySQL (Tom Hearn)
• MIT introduces Oracle for Object-Oriented Programmers (Michael Stal)

Miscellaneous

• Personal Development Hub on Sources of Insight (JD Meier)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Early Release Edition of #Android Cookbook – $21.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET v3.5.10 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Negative hiring decisions, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight to power apps on the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Pie in the Sky (October 7, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #955 (Chris Alcock)
• Retrospective 53 – #Agile Tool Reviews and #Giveaway #Contest (Peter Saddington)
• Double Shot #726 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 7-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 02-October-2011 to 08-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.01 ~ 10.10 (gOODiDEA)

The Geek Shelf

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript by Eric T Freeman

• Windows Phone Marketplace on the Web for Mango (Todd Brix)
• Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers – Part 1 (Michael Kennedy)
• OData Updates in Windows Phone “Mango” (Glenn Gailey)
• OAuth and REST in Android: Part 1 (John Sonmez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Adding your own local content to the new Visual Studio Help Library (Greg Duncan)
• My CLR via C#, 3rd Edition book is E-Book deal of the day on May 26, 2011 (Jeffrey Richter)
• Code Metrics – Maintainability Index (Zain Naboulsi)
• EntityLock, implement a logic locking strategy in my domain (Gian Maria Ricci)
• MadProps.AppArgs (Matt Hamilton)
• Develop Microsoft Surface apps. Without a Surface (Steve Clayton)

Web Development

• NetAdvantage jQuery Controls are Theme Roller Ready (Murtaza Abdeali)
• 50 Fresh jQuery Tutorials 2011 (Dong Nguyen)
• Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 (Phil Haack)
• Taking The M out of MVC – JSON, The dynamic Keyword, LINQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: #HTML5 Canvas – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM94 (O’Reilly Media)
• Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Enabling RSS Site-wide in Orchard (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Annoying.Js – One include, many irritated users… (Greg Duncan)
• Project Silk Documentation Drop: New Chapters Ready for Review (Karl Shifflett)
• Netflix + OData + datajs sample released (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.1 RC (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Boards from Sys Admin to Sales (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Why ‘Ok’ Buttons in Dialog Boxes Work Best on the Right (Anthony)
• Basic unit testing with Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
• Domain Driven Design Architecture with .Net eBook Released (We’re talking 475 pages of DDD…) – "N-Layered Domain-Oriented Architecture Guide with .Net 4.0" (PDF, XPS, with ePub and Mobi coming soon) (Greg Duncan)
• Enable and Equip Your Product Owners (Peter Saddington)
• Code Kata : "Simple" Database Design (S. Lott)
• All wannabe software testers out there … (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Code Snippets for the Dispose Pattern (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Testing in the Cloud (Vikas Hazrati)
• Symptoms of a centralized VCS (Jimmy Bogard)
• Marissa Mayer: I Learn Most When I Do Things I’m Not Ready To Do (Julie Zeveloff)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Catel – Part 6 of n: Bing Maps application for WP7 (Geert van Horrik)
• Metro List View double line (ep. 2) – from PSD to HTML (Adam Kinney)
• How to install Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Mango) and How to choose a Contact and get Contact details in a WP7 app (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blending XNA with Blender – "Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part I" (Greg Duncan)
• The Midweek Download: May 25th Edition–Windows Phone releases beta of “Mango” developer tools plus Windows Live Messenger, Office 365 and IE9 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON (Jeremy Likness)
• Download Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• New Addition to Windows Phone Quickstarts- Pivot and Panorama Controls (Nitya Ravi)
• Why is a Y in the Windows Phone Mango Camera API (Rene Schulte)
• Unity 3D and Silverlight in Harmony with SLARToolkit’s Augmented Reality (Rene Schulte)
• Silverlight & XNA- A tale of two cities (Simon Jackson)
• Blinking UI with a CaretBrush (Pavan Podila)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 7.1 Installation behavior (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Smith Tells Performance Stories (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Agile 2010 – Johanna Rothman – Agile Program Management (Agile Toolkit)
• Let’s Play TDD #108: Wishing for First-Class Functions (James Shore)
• AppFabric.tv – Troubleshooting WCF Performance (Part 1) (Ron Jacobs)
• Inside the Mango Developer Tools: App Platform and Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Search and Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Communications and Hot Apps: Assassins Creed, Ninja Boy +, Burglar Alarm, Windows Phone News, Rhapsody (Laura Foy)
• New behind-the-scenes videos and more on Marketplace (Michael Stroh)

Community / Events

• Houston Code Camp – Call for Speakers (Ben Scheirman)
• Join me next week in Boston for SPTechCon! (Andrew Connell)
• Can an open-source backer thrive inside Microsoft? This one says no (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone Garage (PubSec)
• Moving on to Greener Pastures (Kevin Griffin)
• MVPs Share Deep Tech-Ed Experience (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• SSRS 2008 R2: How to dynamically size your INDICATORS (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Getting Columns Headers without Result Data – SET FMTONLY ON (Pinal Dave)
• Using Built-in System Functions – NEWID() and NEWSEQUENTIALID() (Vishal)
• The Ties that Bind Us….Community, People, Exceptional DBAs… (Robert Pearl)
• Bad T-SQL Song Lyrics or How My Music Playlists Torment Me By Reminding Me of So Many T-SQL Code Sins (Thomas LaRock)

SharePoint

• Using SharePoint List Data in Microsoft Expression Blend (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Is Charles Petzold a guilty pleasure for you? (Devon Musgrave)
• Why Microsoft Is 3X Better Than Apple For Customer Support (AAPL, MSFT) (Mark Fidelman)
• Your tips for video conferencing interviews (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• My Phone might be coming back with the new web-based Windows Phone Marketplace? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Find: May 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #860 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/25/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/26/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• SilverlightShow for May 16-22, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher

• Anders Hejlsberg: Questions and Answers (Charles Torre)
• MassTransit 2.0 Beta – Boo Yeah! (Dru Sellers)
• The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ (Bart de Smet)
• Next Steps in 2011 (John Resig)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Extensibility – Message Formatters (Carlos Figueira)
• Visual Studio go faster! Faster!… (Well okay, maybe just phone home and tell Microsoft you’re feeling a little slow…) – Visual Studio PerfWatson and NTrace v2 now available (think Managed VS2010/.Net 4 Event Tracing for Windows) (Greg Duncan)
• MassTransit v2.0 Beta Available Now on NuGet! (Chris Patterson)
• XNA Game resources: Free sounds and music to use in your games (Sam)
• Back to basics: Usage of static members (Patrick Smacchia)
• Not Just a Designer: Code First in Entity Framework Article on VS Magazine (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Server Explorer: Part 3 – Plug-in Architecture (Fred Song)
• Resource management in Javascript based games (Rob Ashton)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – WebSockets (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Using CSS3: Older Browsers And Common Considerations (Dave Sparks)
• Good introduction to FubuMVC from the Two Ryan’s (Jeremy Miller)
• jQuery.map() in 1.6 (Jordan Boesch)
• Classical inheritance in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• Introduction to Complex UIs Using jQuery UI (Ralph Whitbeck)
• WordPress auto sign-on with IIS7 and a plugin (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
• Best Windows Hosting Offers (including plenty of free stuff) (Andy Robb)
• Geospatial data support in OData (Arlo Belshee)
• Project Silk Drop 8 (Karl Shifflett)
• Deleting “Flash Cookies” Made Easier (Andy Zeigler)
• What we’re up to with datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Agile at 10 – A State of Contradiction (Mike Beedle)
• 10 Tips for Agile Adoption in the Enterprise (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Stored Procedure Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• A minimal actor framework (Oren Eini)
• Getting things done daily (Hadi Hariri)
• Trust, Honesty, Openness, Cooperation and Friction-free Tooling (Jak Charlton)
• Are You Making Time for Your Team to Innovate? (Georgina Laidlaw)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 PasswordBox Light theme problems – the solution (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trick Play Video (Mike Taulty)
• Introducing Runtime Intelligence Portal 2.0 (Brandon Siegel)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• Event to Command in WPF MVVM application (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Supporting copy ‘n paste in your Windows Phone app (Daniel Moth)
• Silverlight/WCF RIA Validation: Metadata Class (Deborah Kurata)
• Silverlight 4 and Prism: Communication between Two Views of Different Modules using IEventAggregator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Blending the WebBrowser Control with your App (Mike Ormond)
• Windows Phone 7 Social Viewer Template v2 Published (Nick Randolph)
• Make your own Angry Birds for WP7 (Jo De Greef)
• Metro In Motion Part #4 – Tilt Effect (Colin Eberhardt)
• Jeremy Likness on Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Chatting with the Imagine Cup Winners! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 99: Kinect sets a world record, Ribbon Hero 2, Location history on Windows Phone, Anti-Bullying (Laura Foy)
• Yet Another Podcast #33–Mobile Game Development (Jesse Liberty)
• Worldwide Telescope – Kinect Style (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Free 1 Day HTML5 Training Available| Register Now (Doris Chen)
• Indianapolis TFS & ALM User Group Presents–Visual Studio 2010 Test Manager on June 1st (Angela Binkowski)
• Windows Phone Garage–May 9th and New England Code Camp 15–This Weekend! and Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter (Jim O’Neil)
• Joel Cochran Speaking at RockNUG (Frank La Vigne)
• Scott Guthrie Will Head Azure Development, Remains Connected with .NET & ASP.NET (Abel Avram)

Database

• SQL Server DBA Tip 6 – Server Security – Windows Authentication / SQL Authentication and Compressing Data with Uniqueidentifier columns (Ted Krueger)
• Iterating Over Columns in the SSIS Script Component (Todd McDermid)
• TRIGGERS, IDENTITY, INSERTED and OUTPUT (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• URL Shortener – These SharePoint URLs are LONG! (Joel Oleson)
• Using LINQ-to-SharePoint with Choice Fields (Ricky Kirkham)
• Deploying a BCS Model to another Environment (Phill Duffy)

Miscellaneous

• Issues updating to 7392 (“Walshed” phones) and What’s in your 7392 Windows Phone Update (Chris Walsh)
• WP7: Latest update news (Eric Hautala)
• Another one is "In the books" – Professional Mono for Android is now AR complete (Wally McClure)
• Dealing with Now and why I’m almost done with C# and Java (Karl Seguin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 192 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily News Digest 05/03/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 2-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #844 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2011 — #1082 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2011 -2 — #1083 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 3rd 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• WebSockets, RIA/JS and WCF Web API at MIX, a whole lotta love for the web (Glenn Block)
• Combining WCF Data Services, JSONP and jQuery and Making a JSONP Call to a WCF Data Service using datajs (Gil Fink)
• "The Ultimate List of Freely Available .NET Libraries" (Greg Duncan)
• MVC Bricks for ASP.NET (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fix/Resolution: Unable to install Windows Server AppFabric through Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Abhijit Jana)
• Anonymous type equality follow-up: Equals() (Jef Claes)
• Revisiting C# – Published New Free Ebook (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Asynchronous Message Processing using Task Parallel Library and Reactive Extensions (Jonathan Allen)
• FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 – Release: v1.3.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Want to develop for Social Networking using ASP.Net 4.0? Then grab the book ASP.Net 4.0 Social Networking authored by Atul Gupta and Windows Azure for Developers Task 14 : Working with Windows Azure BLOB storage (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using jQuery for ASP.NET Styled DropDown (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 Boilerplate Visual Studio 2010 Template (Jon Davis)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Superclass (Giorgio Sironi)
• Review of Programming Google App Engine (Brian Bondy)
• Sueetie Gets a Makeover (Dave Burke)
• When we can use HttpContext.Current.Items to stores data in ASP.NET ? and Different Versions of Integrated Web Server in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s new in Windsor 3: Service Locator usage detection and What’s new in Windsor 3: Container debugger diagnostics improvements (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• More on RavenDB structure and RavenDB: Let us write our own JSON Parser, NOT (Oren Eini)
• The Era of Usability (Peter Ritchie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Trusted applications and Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Incremental Search (Peter Kuhn)
• How to use Application Bar in Windows Phone 7 Application ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Working with Isolated Storage for Windows Phone 7 (Abhishek Sur)
• How to launch the Maps application inside the Windows Phone emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 153: Randy Pagels on Lab Management (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 395: Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 205: Maybe It’s The Clown Nose (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 013 – “Ahead of Schedule” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 52 – Thomas Johansen gets SASSy with HTML5 and Rails (Richard Banks)
• Pluralcast 40 : JQuery with Dan Wahlin (David Starr)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – 1700th Blog Posts – Over 25 Millions of Views – A SQL Milestone (Pinal Dave)

Database

• A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 23 (Glenn Berry)
• SSAS – Creating and Using a Writeback Measure Group (Devin Knight)
• SQL Server Management Objects 2008 (SMO) New Features (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – How to ALTER CONSTRAINT (Pinal Dave)
• Does NEWSEQUENTIALID() function always generates sequential GUIDs? (Amit Bansal)

SharePoint

• Read SharePoint 2010 List in Silverlight using REST – Silverlight with SharePoint 2010 – Part II (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• How to download a document from SharePoint 2010 using Client Context Object Model ? (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

• Live Coding in Presentations – Don’t Waste my Time! (Roland Weigelt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 17-April-2011 to 23-April-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2011 — #1077 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4.0 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Larry Tenny