• Modern Web Development – Part 4 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The 5 best books on Innovation EVER (Scott Berkun)
• Improving power efficiency for applications (Steven Sinofsky)
• Modernizr 2.5: Supercharged for 2012 (Modernizr Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Send me a patch for that and Limiting your abstractions: Reflections on the Interface Segregation Principle (Oren Eini)
• IntelliTrace Moves Beyond Development in Visual Studio 11 (Mickey Gousset)
• A Simple implementation of the Proxy Design Pattern using C# (Asif Maniar)
• C# Needs Seqs (Chris Eargle)
• Facebook C# SDK Road Map (Nathan Totten)
• Creating a dynamic, extensible C# Expando Object (Rick Strahl)
• APress Deal of the Day – 8/Feb/2012 – Visual C# 2010 Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach (Tatworth)
• GIT-TFS Instruction: Add Directory to Your Path? (Cori Drew)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Northwind.Db (Jason Jarrett)
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework 2012 January Sample Updates (Jialiang)
• Windows 8 Secrets: WinRT, the Windows Runtime (Paul Thurrott)

Web Development

• ASP.NET: Empowering Your Master Pages (Peter Vogel)
• A better way to view images in RadFileExplorer for ASP.NET AJAX – thumbnail view comes in Q1 2012 (Stoyan Stratev)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role (Brian Swan)
• Rewriting My ‘Guaranteed Callbacks’ Code With jQuery Deferred (Derick Bailey)
• jQuery Tip #1 – Defining a Context When Using Selectors (Dan Wahlin)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role (Eric Nelson)
• High performance HTML5 content in Metro-style Apps (Andy Zeigler)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Convert Procedural Design to Objects (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.2 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)
• It’s Curtains for Marital Strife Thanks to getUserMedia (Bruce Lawson)
• Application Lifecycle Management Overview for Windows Azure (Buck Woody)
• Regular Expressions in CoffeeScript are Awesome (Elijah Manor)
• Google+ developers page launched, is an API on the way? (Jamie Keene)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Proof of Unit Testing’s Time Savings (Keith Ward)
• Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions v1.2.0.0 (Jeremiah Clark)
• The efficiency of Self-Organizing Teams (Bill Wagner)
• Kiss The Ring… (Rob Conery)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Capture Picture from Camera and Save in Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7 – Scott Hanselman’s A to Z resources (Lohith) – A nice round-up of links from Scott’s post on his WP7 app.
• Creating Big Silverlight Windows and Getting Monitor Resolutions and Positions with PInvoke (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #490 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone and Implementing Trial Functionality for Windows Phone applications (Valentin Stoychev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Eric Sink Distributes His Source (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #132: Thomas Hessler, UFOStart.com (Bob Walsh)
• Let’s Play TDD #162: Wishing for Double Dispatch (James Shore)
• SE Radio becomes part of IEEE Software (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget HD Podcast 285 – 02.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld – When it comes to colour, test (Paul Boag)
• Hot Apps: Krashlander, NFL Pro ’12, MixTapes, Weave, Network Dashboard (Laura Foy)
• Going Native 2012 sessions available for download and streaming (Michael B. McLaughlin)

Community / Events

• C-Sharpen Up (Dani Diaz)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Talking Cloud with SharePoint Server MVP Patrick Yong (MVP Award Program)
• SQLBits now publishing all SQLBits agendas as an iCalendar (Jamie Thomson)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• IndyHall Hosting IDGA Philly Demo Session This Saturday to Show Off Global Game Jam Results (Joe Ross)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Convert Subquery to CTE – SQL in Sixty Seconds #001 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server and xp_cmdshell – The good, the bad and more ugly (Ted Krueger)
• The Minimalist Guide to Database Administration (Thomas LaRock)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Survey: memory configuration (Paul S. Randal)
• How to Test Your Backup Strategy: Five Simple Questions (Kendra Little)

Miscellaneous

• OneNote for Android released: features SkyDrive integration (Kip Kniskern)
• New in 3.0: More ‘Surround With’ actions for PHP (Nikolay Matveev)
• Microspeak: fit (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 7, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #1039 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-07 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 07, 2012 – #0037 and SilverlightShowTop 5 News for January 30 – February 5, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #813 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released (Nathan Totten)
• jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released (Todd Parker)
• Modularity And Security In Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps (Joe Mayo)
• Infragistics Undo/Redo Framework CTP (Ambrose Little)

.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Reflection (Richard Carr)
• Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
• Undertone – Programmable music in F# (Robert Pickering)
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion (James Michael Hare)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – IntelliTrace and Test Impact Analysis (Martin Hinshelwood)
• F# vs. Scala, My Take at Year Two (Neil)
• Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 3 (Bill Osuch)
• Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings (Tim Murphy)
• CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Most-Wanted Features in Entity Framework (Roopesh Shenoy)
• SqlBulkCopy for Generic List (useful for Entity Framework & NHibernate) (Jarod Ferguson)

Web Development

• Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Hiding Things using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• One reason why HTML5 gaming is limping along (Christian Heilmann)
• Skype-enabled JavaScript Restaurant (Elijah Manor)
• JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 2 (Shi Chuan)
• Upgrading to Rails 3.2.0 from Rails 3.1.3 (maciej)
• Resumable.js, Open Source Android WebGL Implementation, Coderbyte (Alex Young)
• Rails v3.2.1 has been released (with minor fixes) and Read This Before Installing Rails 3.2 and Deploying Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3 on Heroku (Daniel Kehoe)
• Using the Vibration API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: MongoDB and PHP – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Demo from Brian Loesgen (Peter Laudati)
• New Management API for Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Michael Washam)
• 24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development (Siddharth)
• Making the web speedier and safer with SPDY (Roberto Peon & Will Chan)
• Pattern matching and guards in Less stylesheets (Ivan Towlson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Anna (Jason Jarrett)
• Animate to an Inline Style (Chris Coyier)
• Vibration API coming to Firefox 11 (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Project Management – Engaging Your Customer! (Bob Galen)
• Seven Options for Handling Interruptions on Agile Teams (Craig Smith)
• ScrumMaster Manifesto? (Peter Saddington)
• Article: New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Pen and paper wireframing without the hassle (Paul Boag)
• The n00b filter: Bad UX at its Finest in Eagle PCB (Pete Brown)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Community Question: Synching Remote Locations (Tobin Titus)
• (Ab)Using Conventions To Enforce Good Practices (Davy Brion)
• The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love (Tomer Sharon)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App (Dave Bost)
• MetroSky – End to end Windows Phone 7 SkyDrive sample code and app (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #482 – You Can Include Other Controls Inside an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• 5 Reasons to use Azure when designing your Windows Phone Game (Surf4Fun)
• How I ended up using WebBrowser instead of a TextBlock in a Windows Phone application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How To Connect Window Phone 7 and Windows 8 app to Microsoft pubCenter (Shai Raiten)
• Beginning LightSwitch–Address Book Sample (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• A world of NUI: Steve Hodges (Steve Clayton)
• Video on How to work with Page State in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• RadioTFS: Backup on that (Martin Woodward)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Bruce Burke (Ryan Parsley)
• WHOIS: Danah Boyd, MSR Social Scientist (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• April 23rd to 27th in New York City: The Art of Agile (Training) (James Shore)
• My Daughter’s First User Group Meeting (Cori Drew)
• It’s Time For Another PowerShell Deep Dive! (Travis Jones)
• MVPs Provide Great Advice in 4th Official MVP Twitter Chat! (MVP Award Program)
• A Conversation with Charles Petzold (Michael Desmond)

Database

• SSRS – Custom Code with External Assemblies (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Common Gotcha’s Associated with Common Table Expressions (CTE) – Quiz – Puzzle – 26 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Collecting Index Usage Statistics (Bob Pusateri)
• Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic (Scott Klein)
• Understanding Database Choice (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh (Gregory Leake)

Miscellaneous

• Powertoys from the test team for 2011 (John Guin)
• Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza! (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft, don’t forget about Desktop Player — we haven’t (Mike Williams)
• Why doesn’t the Windows 7 Start menu have a pushpin for pinning items? (Raymond Chen)
• Android: Say Goodbye to the Menu Button (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 139 (Scott Banwart)
• Collective #2 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #805 and Open Source Report #3 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1031 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/26/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-26 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 – #0032 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #6 (Devon Govett)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure

• Supporting sensors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Get involved in Open Source today – How to contribute a patch to a GitHub hosted Open Source project like Code 52 (Scott Hanselman)
• Now, more than ever, you need a designer (Pete Brown)
• 01. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – The Team and Activities and 02. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Regression Test Sets and 03. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Test Automation and 04. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Undone Backlog Item (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the Cloud – My Experience So Far (Buck Woody)
• LINQ to Twitter v2.0.23 Released (Joe Mayo)
• Rx – Aggregate vs. Scan (Bnaya Eshet)
• Sinister Bug is Sinister (Bobby Johnson)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection (Jeff Martin)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentQueue (Simon Cooper)
• Enumerations And The CStr Function (Jesse Taber)
• What’s New In The Latest JustCode Internal Build (JustCode Team)
• Review – ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework (Brian Muirhead)

Web Development

• Resumable.js: Fault Tolerant Resumable File Uploads in JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC views (Rachel Appel)
• Using oData with jQuery Hierarchical Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• JavaScript for C# developers: coercion (Julian M. Bucknall)
• More dynamic JavaScript value inspection (Christian Krebs)
• Some Thoughts On Functional JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Find the jQuery Bug #2: Point of No Return (Elijah Manor)
• Using HTML5, web sockets and some C# to build a multiplayer Space Shoot[er] (Greg Duncan)
• jQuery Grids in MVC with Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
• Arctext.js – Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Form Template Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript Performance: for vs. while (Stoimen Popov)
• Rant: That’s Not Rest. (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Server-Sent Events (Remy Sharp)
• Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing Using SendGrid for Windows Azure Customers (Brian Goldfarb)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: xizzle (Jason Jarrett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to use Pex and Moles to generate unit tests for a project having external dependency(WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Atul Verma)
• Coming Soon: A New Perspective in Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Picking a domain for CQRS Journey RI (Grigori Melnik)
• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• The Rise of the Front End Developers (Veera Sundar)
• Ask Ayende: Handling filtering (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned while Introducing a New Programming Language (Jay C. Fields)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure – part 3: Remote Desktop (Larry Franks)
• Developer machine automation: Dependencies (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Missing Silverlight Resources and ASP.Net security (Derik Whittaker)
• See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer (Gil Yoder)
• Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Review of “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #480 – ZIndex Values and Render Transforms (Sean Sexton)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release: v2.5 (CodePlex)
• PivotViewer Basics : Basic Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
• Caliburn Micro Part 3: More About Events and Parameters (Jason)
• Fixing the [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Troy Hunt Secures ASP.NET (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview sessions and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Introduction (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Boagworld: Does your labelling cause confusion? (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 102: What Would You Do? (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 182: Domain-Specific Languages with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons (SE-Radio Team)
• Mike Downey on the HTML5 Player Framework (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• MVP Summit 2012 MVP 2 MVP Languages Sessions (Joseph Guadagno)
• My upcoming Talk: Introducing PRISM/MEF for the Agile Developer – February 2012 (Sam Abraham)
• First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond (Don Syme)
• Windows Azure User Groups in NYC and NJ (Peter Laudati)
• Philly Nerd Nite on the radio (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• GitHub Drinkup in Atlanta (Steve Smith)
• Talking Cloud with Windows Azure MVP Anton Staykov (MVP Award Program)
• Thinking About Developer Events (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows Azure and Cloud9 IDE at Node Summit (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft to replace Mix with a new developer conference (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Correct Value for Fillfactor – Quiz – Puzzle – 24 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Many-to-Many Relationships and Partition Slices (Chris Webb)
• Take advantage of Database Mirroring in your applications and Automating Index Statistics Collection (Ted Krueger)
• Cheatsheet: Relational Database Management Systems Comparison (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

• Creating a custom XML indexing connector for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hacking and Securing iOS Applications – $9.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RedHawk to be part of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, too? (Mary Jo Foley)
• New WPAppInfo web site by WindowsPhoneGeek (Windows Phone Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #803 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1029 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/24/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/25/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 16-22, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-24 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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

• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #2 The Design Process of a Windows Phone App (Arturo Toledo)
• Syncing Visual Studio Extensions and Settings with Dropbox (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• SOLID JavaScript: The Interface Segregation Principle (Derek Greer)
• The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET session hijacking with Google and ELMAH (Troy Hunt)
• Introducing ExpectThat: A CoffeeScript Assertion Library (Dan Mohl)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Static Field Initialisation Order (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Working with the Search charm in Windows 8 (Peter von Lochow)

Web Development

• Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Field (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript inheritance by example (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Downloading Blob To Local Machine (Puja Pramudya)
• Textarea Auto Resize (Louis Lazaris)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• What we still can’t do client-side (Lea Verou)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My take on TDD & binary search (Morgan Persson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• [WP7] Quick tip : how to set 32 bits per pixel for your app. (Jonathan Antoine)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Phone: Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Using advanced tiles API (Andrea Boschin)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone–Marketing 101 (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #468 – FirstColumn Property Allows Blank Cells in a UniformGrid (Sean Sexton)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 3of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• Fixing that darn AdControl when it won’t show up (Arian Kulp)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 242: Refreshing and Resetting (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Webcasts: Upcoming Sessions in January and February (Kim Spilker)

Database

• Relating Parameters & Filters in SQL Server Reporting Services (Melissa Coates)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.6–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• Restoring SQL Server Database: Points to Consider (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Using RANKING Functions Instead of SQL Looping Logic of Cursor – Quiz – Puzzle – 8 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• “New Index…” is greyed out in SSMS (Ben March)
• Set-Based Operations: They’re Not Just For Databases (Calvin Bottoms)
• Orders Search in RavenDB (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• Managing Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 from a Single PowerShell Session and How to Enable Lync 2010 Client Presence Status: Appear Offline and Generating Delivery Reports and Tracking Messages from PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Started with Python – A simple example with all basic stuff (Singaram Subramanian)
• Learning Android: Getting android-support jar/compatability package as a Maven dependency (Mark Needham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #791 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #28 (Franky)
• The Morning Brew #1017 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development by Trevor Burnham

• Windows Phone Native Series – ExitApplication, PlaySystemSound, GetSystemInformation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Recognition Compensation (Phil Haack)
• SocialViewer gets Windows Phone Mango treatment (Nick Randolph)
• Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency (Steven Sinofsky)
• Metro WebView Source and HTML workarounds (Brent Schooley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Refactoring Code using Visual Studio Extract Method (Abhishek Sur)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods (James Michael Hare)
• LINQPad helps you learn LINQ (Jason Short)
• TFS 2010 Report Results are not up to date after installing Service Pack 1 (Sebastian Dau)
• GHI (non-beta) .NET Gadgeteer SDK released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections (Simon Cooper)
• SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console (Matt Hinze)
• StyleCop 4.7 (CodePlex)
• New Refactorings in JustCode Q3 2011 (JustCode Team)
• Rx – Sample (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the Kinect to build a NUI E-Book and F#, Kinect and a little LegoNXT (Greg Duncan)
• Global reach (Antoine Leblond)
• Parsing HTML in C# (Marlon Grech)

Web Development

• Comment and Uncomment for CSS Editor in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• JavaScript for C# developers: converting arguments into an array (Julian M.  Bucknall)
• CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms (Peter Gasston)
• Things Still Missing From CSS (Trent Walton)
• Using ProudMonkey Controls with ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• PHP Performance: Bitwise Division (Stoimen)
• Update: Deploying Ruby Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
• When APIs Play Spoilsport? (Romin Irani)
• Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube video and a fluid resize (Scott Hanselman)
• Our AJAX Conventions – The AjaxContinuation and Our Ajax Conventions–Clientside Continuations (Josh Arnold)
• Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications (Chris Love)
• The digits of MUSIC.js (Dave Mahon)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster and Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
• Understanding JavaScript OOP (Quildreen Motta)
• Photo Mosaics Part 9: Caching Analysis (Jim O’Neil)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Contextualising just enough up front design (Simon Brown)
• No Class is an Island (John Sonmez)
• Announcing Lokad.CQRS vLean – SampleProject and Tools (Rinat Abdullin)
• 5 Do’s and Don’ts for Managing Distributed Teams – A Tech Lead Speaks (Adam Feber)
• test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank (Brad Frost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections (Deyan Ginev)
• Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
• The Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
• Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App and SLARToolkit Samples Updated (Rene Schulte)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – Capitalization (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #467 – Use a UniformGrid for Evenly Spaced Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• New Markets for Windows Phone Developers (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Leveraging Azure for Windows Phone Devs’ now available (Silverlight Show)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #128: Predictions 2012 (Bob Walsh)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Harald Horgen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Gillmor Gang Live 01.05.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• On Microsoft MVP Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives (Simone Chiaretta)
• A very few thoughts on the MVP program (Jeremy Miller)
• MVP Program, Award and my view on things (Dennis Vroegop)
• Windows 8 – First Apps Contest and Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? (Dave Isbitski)
• Your Blog is The Engine of Community (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS in a PDF (Jason Strate)
• Reader Review: SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Locking and Blocking – Important Aspect of Database and Effect on Performance – Quiz – Puzzle – 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• The Art of the Execution Plan (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

• Hot Topics: A Contest Formula that Works (Lauren Gundrum)
• Things We Wish Clients Would Say (Louis Lazaris)
• Programmers are born not made (Swizec Teller)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #790 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/5/2012 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 04-Jan-2012 and 05-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #1016 (Chris Alcock)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– December 2011 (Beth Massi)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/05/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Distributed Weekly 136 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 3) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 22: Why Collaboration Matters (A Real World Example) (Jim Holmes)
• Channel 9 New feature: your own personal video queue (Duncan Mackenzie)
• The Likes & Dislikes of Microsoft in 2011 (Scott Barnes)
• Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology (Soulskill)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Documentation Comments (Richard Carr)
• I am reviewing Microsoft’s 70-515 C# exam PrepKit from UCertify (Abhishek Sur)
• Getting Assembly Information Using Reflection (Michael Ceranski)
• With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory and Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background (Peter Kellner)
• Working with DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro App and Working with Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML Metro App (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Hashtables vs. Arrays (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New GhostDoc Pro in Beta soon (Tatworth)
• New Resharper Code Style Sharing in v6.1 Features. (Mark Pearl)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects (Elton Stoneman)
• Graphite with .Net and Ubuntu 11.10 (Henrik Feldt)
• Sandcastle Help File Bbuilder v1.9.3.3 Beta 1 (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 10 – Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job from Interactive JavaScript Console (Avkash Chauhan)
• HTML5 Progress Bars (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET Tutorial – Creating Web.Config file (Chris D.)
• Introduction to Column Hiding in jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• CSS Selector Profiler, Source Mapping and Software Rendering (Peter Beverloo)
• Checking if a view has changed in ASP.NET (Tim)
• APIs in 2012: Predictions From the Experts (Adam DuVander)
• Day 11 – Animating with sprite sheets (Val Head)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 4 (Dan Wellman)
• Batman.js: Micro-framework with macro features (Dave Mahon)
• IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells (Rick Strahl)
• Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis? (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating PHPUnit Tests in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• Out of context, architecture is nothing but modern art (Oren Eini)
• Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas (Bobby Johnson)
• More flexibility at work equals better health, new study confirms (Jessica Stillman)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Donald Reifer: “Software Change Management: Doing More With Less” (Devon Musgrave)
• xUnit.net 1.9 (CodePlex)
• Interview: Jeff Sutherland: Are Agile Teams Truly Agile? (Jeff Sutherland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Running Windows Phone Unit Tests via MSBuild (Francis Cheung)
• WPF TextBox With Ellipsis (Mark)
• 2000 WPF Things #465 – Using GridSplitters with Nested Grids (Sean Sexton)
• Vibrating the phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet (Jonathan Allen)
• Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without (Loek van den Ouweland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2011: Scott, Andrei and Herb – Ask Us Anything (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #156: Persistence, for Realsies (James Shore)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 008 – 01.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Minesweeper, Cheezia. Interior Design, Talking Alien, Zombie Squish (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Maine’s First SharePoint User Group (Jim O’Neil)
• Engadget’s 2012 CES Preview (Engadget staff)

Database

• CSV to SQL Server Compact scripting utility (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding Identity Beyond its Every Increasing Nature – Quiz – Puzzle – 3 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment service released (Denis Gobo)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft patent could signal Xbox digital video recorder (Greg Lamm)
• Metro Style Desktop Wallpaper Calendar – January 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Cropping screenshots in OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Learn to Code in 2012 with Free Weekly Programming Lessons from Codecademy [Programming] (Melanie Pinola)
• UX service consulting: It’s all about motivation! (Miao Wang)
• 5 Awesome Learning Resources For Programmers (To help you and your kids to grow the geek neurons) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Holo Everywhere (Tim Bray)
• Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace (Ed Oswald)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #788 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 04/01/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1014 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/03/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2011 – #0021 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference (Oracle Press) by Kevin Loney

Top Links

• Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) and Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• SOLID JavaScript: The Liskov Substitution Principle (Derek Greer)
• A Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string (Joost van Schaik)
• Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application analysis: Northwind.NET (Oren Eini)
• AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method (Richard Carr)
• Oracle Releases Provider with EF 4 Support (but not really EF 4.1 and EF4.2) (Julie Lerman)
• Rx – Window (Bnaya Eshet)
• Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Menu rearrangement (Raymond Chen)
• Resharper 6.1 – new nice features – 1 (Tatworth)
• On mutable state (Brian Marick)
• "Netduino – Getting Started with *" Series and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit December 2011 Release (Think "MVC3 VB and OData HOL Love" version) (Greg Duncan)
• New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer and ReSharper 6.1.1 Early Access (Jura Gorohovsky)

Web Development

• Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role and ASP.NET MVC: Helper method to display date ranges (Gunnar Peipman)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 – Creating a Simple Log-In Form (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Has the hash DoS patch been installed on your site? Check it right now with ASafaWeb! (Troy Hunt)
• Day 6 – Getting canvas in on the web fonts fun (Val Head)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 4- Remote Login to Hadoop node for MapReduce Job and HDFS administration and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 5 – Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with Teragen, TeraSort and TeraValidate Options and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 6 – Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with TeraSort Option and understanding MapReduce Job administration and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster (Avkash Chauhan)
• PHP can perform better than Node.js (Henri Bergius)
• This Week In REST (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test? (Gautam Goenka)
• Story in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• API design challenge – builder (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Language of Risk and Yak Shaving: Tracking the yak stack (Mark Needham)
• Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)
• Problems Already Solved (Calvin Bottoms)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #462 – Drawing a Better Looking GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
• StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)
• WPF Textbox with hints (Rohit Sharma)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Corey Haines Code Retreats Globally (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More and YOW! 2011: Tony Morris – Functional Programming and Functional Thinking (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 424: We look back at the year in gaming and choose our favorite titles (Larry Hyrb)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.30.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Podcast 270 – 12.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• The JavaScript Show – A Tinge of Christmas (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Gweek 033: Jesse Thorn (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Video on How to work with AutoCompleteBox in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• Farewell Most Valuable Professional Status (Alan Stevens)
• FUSE Labs: Year in Review (Lili Cheng)
• Top Ten Microspotting Profiles of 2011 (MS JobsBlog)
• The World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Is In Critical Condition (MSFT) (Dylan Love)

Database

• SSIS Community Tasks and Components (James Serra)
• SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The selected database contains foreign keys that create a cycle (Gunnar Peipman)
• RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)
• Estimated Completion Time for Backups and Restores (Jorge Segarra)
• SQL Azure to Developers: Some Basic Concepts (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Welcome to the Federation… SQL Azure Database Federation that is… (Or "Sharding for the New Year") (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Getting Your Notes Into OneNote (Jeff Cardon)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 135 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1012 (Chris Alcock)
• 2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• Retrospective 65 – NOT Scrum and Insane Agile Teams (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #785 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: December 30, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Monthly Summary – December 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Top Official Microsoft Blog Posts of 2011 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Daily News Digest 12/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 27-Dec-2011 and 28-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 and Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010 by Matthew MacDonald

• Exclusive: Microsoft’s LTE Plans for Windows Phone (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th (Scott Guthrie)
• Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Six (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework December Sample Updates (Jialiang)
• New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Free resources (audio, fonts, graphics, tools, etc) for Dev’s and your next app… and Education and Educational tools, open source style (Greg Duncan)
• Dino Esposito: The O/RM and the chicken/egg dilemma (Devon Musgrave)
• How To: Bulk edit action recording? (Gautam Goenka)
• the concept of async \ await (Bnaya Eshet)
• On mutable state (Brian Marick)
• Practical Demonstration of Windows 8 Metro Style Application Lifecycle (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dropping in (Raymond Chen)

Web Development

• Peer to Peer Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket and PubSub Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket (Amar Daxini)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using PHP to HTML-ize Plain Text (Scott Eiler)
• The async and defer Script Attributes in HTML5 (Gil Fink)
• Subtyping JavaScript built-ins (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTTP Tools You Should Know About (John Sheehan)
• Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role (Gunnar Peipman)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 3 (Dan Wellman)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 1- Creating a new Windows Azure Cluster for Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 2 – Creating a Pi Estimator Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #461 – Making a GridSplitter Look Three-Dimensional (Sean Sexton)
• Binding Formatting (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez and YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #155: Transitioning to SaveFile (James Shore)
• Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang Live 12.29.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 119 – 12.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• RavenDB videos on YouTube (Oren Eini)
• Agile 2011 – Ward Cunningham – Agile Manifesto, 10 years later and the Federated Wiki (Agile Toolkit)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Auston Bunsen Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• There and Back Again – My Return to .Net Development (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

• SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
• SQL SERVER – Year End Brain Teaser – Disabled Login and Associated User Without Disabled User Red Arrow (Pinal Dave)
• RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Cambridge: Year in Review (Andrew Blake)
• Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
• Learning Android: Sharing with Twitter/the ‘share via’ dialog (Mark Needham)
• Is the Windows Phone story “starting to come together”? (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone users: LTE models may be closer than you think (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• 2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• Fever Pitched Episode 6: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 28 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Double Shot #784 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1011 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars

• Beginning LightSwitch Part 6: I Feel Pretty! Customizing the "Look and Feel" with Themes (Beth Massi)
• Taking a look at the Windows Simulator in Visual Studio 11 (Michael Crump)
• JavaScript as a First Language (John Resig)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 18: Baseline Datasets (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mixing Integrated Authentication and Anonymous Authentication with PreAuthenticated = true doesn’t work (Oren Eini)
• How to enable REST and SOAP both on the same WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to Get Elevated Process Path in .Net (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• iSpy with my little… OSS security camera/audio software suite and Windows Forms Toolkit v0.2… A little WinForm love for the holidays… and A VB.Net and C# Side-by-side Syntax Comparison (Greg Duncan)
• TFS API Part 42 – Getting Started With Lab Management API (Shai Raiten)
• New book: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Mono in 2011 (Miguel de Icaza)

Web Development

• CSS3 2D and 3D Transform (Gil Fink)
• Building Apps and deploying them from GitHub (Joe Stagner)
• Developing Metro Style App using JavaScript and Visual Studio 2011 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 3D experience in a browser with Three.js (Giorgio Sironi)
• Facebook: Deprecating the REST API (Doug Purdy)
• PHP 5.4 To Have A Built-In Development Web Server (John Sheehan)
• Introducing mod_spdy, a SPDY module for the Apache HTTP server (Bryan McQuade & Matthew Steele)
• It’s time for your site to play nicely with social media (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spinning – Getting Agile at the Core (Ralf Westphal)
• Designing app-centric sharing for SkyDrive, part 1 of 2: Complexity of “simple” (Tony East)
• The Problem with Precision (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Testing item values in lists (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Book review: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code,” Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• The Four Rules of Simple Design (Bobby Johnson)
• 10 Design Rules You MUST Follow If You Want Apple To Approve Your App (AAPL) (Dylan Love)
• Making APIs is hard (James Padolsey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #3 Getting Help (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Festive and Fun Windows Phone 7 Maze Game (Colin Eberhardt)
• RadDate- & RadTimePicker for Windows Phone 7 extended to support custom selector intervals (Deyan Ginev)
• New Microsoft Press Book: XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Title Added to SilverlightShow Ebooks Shelf: Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• WPFSpark gets all V1.0! (Greg Duncan)
• Customize Tab Control in Silverlight (create tab control with side bar) (Hiren Khirsaria)
• WPF Diagrams: New tree layout algorithm (Jason)
• XAML Developer Reference–A Great Holiday Gift (Kim Spilker)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring INSERT performance–5 power tweaks (Erik EJ)
• WPFSpark: 5 of n: FluidPivotPanel and WPFSpark: 6 of n: FluidProgressBar and WPFSpark: 7 of n: FluidStatusBar and WPFSpark: 4 of n: SparkWindow (Ratish Philip)
• 2000 WPF Things #456 – An Element in a Grid Can Span Multiple Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Get Started with Silverlight 5 (Zhiming Xue)
• Announcing RadControls for WindowsPhone Q3.11 Service Pack1 release and Create beautiful and dynamic Live Tiles with Telerik LiveTileHelper (Valentin Stoychev)
• DecryptR Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Photo Mosaics Part 8: Caching (Jim O’Neil)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks!j – Startups and Cyborg Anthropology at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Allen Wirfs-Brock and Rob Manson – Ambient Computing, Augmented Reality, and JavaScript (Charles Torre)
• videos: Learn Bugzilla (Paul Rouget)
• What The Tech 98: Worst Tech of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Influence over Enforce (Martin Woodward)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 007 – 12.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Apps for Kids 001: a new Boing Boing podcast (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Training Courses and Kits (Robert Green)

Community / Events

• vNext Global Vision Goes Live (David Kelley)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Robert Scoble (Thomas Houston)
• 2 Days 2 Kinect in Dallas (Jan 28 – 29 2012) (Greg Duncan)

Database

• Backing up SSRS Encryption Key with Powershell (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Mastering the Basics – Igniting Learning – A Unique Learning Experience (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 21: TRY CATCH and SQL Advent 2011 Day 22: Dynamic Management Views (Denis Gobo)
• Analysis Services Stored Procedure Project 1.3.6 Release (CodePlex)
• Filtering in SSMS (Jason Brimhall)
• SQL Azure – Backup (Nicolas Humann)
• Replacing sysfiles With sys.database_files (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Querying RSS feed subscriber count on Google Reader using Data Explorer‏ (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Sharepoint and PowerPivot: Connections fail to refresh in SQL Server 2008 Denali CTP3 (Jen Stirrup)
• SharePoint Site Collection Administrator vs. Site Owner (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• MIT takes over Google App Inventor from Google (Don Burnett)
• Living a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products – Lync, OneNote, Xbox for iPhone and iPad and more, oh my (Scott Hanselman)
• Holiday In Tekpubland (Rob Conery)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows Phone In 2012 (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #779 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1008 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 21, 2011 – #0014 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #4 (Devon Govett)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reading Notes #26 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 12-22-2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets – 21-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Games: Creating Fun with HTML5, CSS3, and WebGL by Jacob Seidelin

• Knockout 2.0.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows Phone Beats Out Blackberry World – Marketplace Now 4th Largest (Antonio Hernandez)
• Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro (Daniela Panfili)
• ReSharper 6.1, dotCover 1.2 and dotTrace 4.5.2 Performance Released (Hadi Hariri)
• OData: iOS Client Library goes Open Source (Arlo Belshee)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stupid smart code: Solution (Oren Eini)
• Search in Tfs Work Items never was so easy (Gian Maria Ricci)
• TFS + NuGet =’s? TFS NuGetter of course! and Kinect + 3D = Fusion4D (Greg Duncan)
• The PacMan problem (Julian M. Bucknall)
• New CodeRush Plugin – CR_ImportNamespace (Rory Becker)
• Live Data and Source Code in JustTrace (Just* Team)
• New Book: Developing Microsoft Media Foundation Applications (Kim Spilker)
• Facebook C# SDK 5.4.1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Model Binding with Dropdown List in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• WebStorm 3.0: The JavaScript IDE! (Alexey Korsun)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 3 (Jorge Ramon)
• Using jQuery’s .pushStack() for reusable DOM traversing methods (Karl Swedberg)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Exception with Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• The output element (Richard Clark)
• Espresso Tip: Changing those nasty constraint names in Code First (Jonathan Creamer)
• What’s been happening in the Web Workbench world (Ivan Towlson)
• My book is now available (HTML5 games) (Jacob Seidelin)
• An Introduction to EAI Bridges (Harish Agarwal)
• Important Announcements Regarding the Access Control Service (Himanshu Singh)
• Let It Snow… Faster! (Rob Mauceri)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 2 (Dan Wellman)
• Use the W3C Geolocation API to create location aware web sites (Rachel Appel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Isn’t the Answer to Bad Product Ownership (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Unit Testing MySQL-Bound Code (Omer van Kloeten)
• Metro: Typography trumps chrome–debunked. (Scott Barnes)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 17: Rules for Effective Data-Driven Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Final Designs are Always the Simplest and Most Practical (Anthony)
• The Process of Change – Handling Resistance to Change [Part 3/4] (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #2: Installing the Tools (Windows Phone Geek)
• TouchDevelop v2.5: new tutorial, artwork, forum, and more (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Updates to the Windows Phone docs (Cheryl Simmons)
• WP7 Saving To Isolated Storage (Daniel Egan)
• Stopping the WP7 Emulator Skin file copy/replace madness… Windows Phone 7 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 [Beta] (Greg Duncan)
• Finding the Unique Device ID in Windows Phone 7 (And Device Manufacturer And Anonymous Windows Live ID) (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #455 – Using ItemContainerStyle to Bind Data Elements in a Collection to a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• 7th Day of Silverlight : Ancestor Relative Source Binding (Tony Champion)
• Ways To Pass Time On Window Phone – TouchDevelop (Tim Murphy)
• WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 Coming Soon, Test it Now! (Rene Schulte)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions (Beth Massi)
• patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 2 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Damian Conway – Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming Made Easy (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #152: No-ckito (James Shore)
• Engadget HD Podcast 279 – 12.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video Tutorial PhoneGap for Windows Phone – Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• New Video: Common Functional Testing Problems (Jim Holmes)
• SDU Show 48 with guest Roger Doherty (Greg Low)

Community / Events

• A day in the life of a Developer Evangelist! (Harish Ranganathan)

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT Function – PRINT (Pinal Dave)
• All 15 SQLBits Training days have been announced (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server Audits: Introduction and SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Server Specification (SQLArcher)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 20: Indexes with Included Columns (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010, ALM and Continuous Integration Resources (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Apple is a patent troll now (Joe Wilcox)
• ‘Roswell’: Another key component of Microsoft’s cloud strategy (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microspeak: Offline (noun) (Raymond Chen)
• Out with the Old, In with the New: Bing Takes Stock of 2011 and The Year Ahead (Kari Dilloo)
• Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
• RSS feed that can be filtered–would you use it? (Jason Haley)
• Microsoft forgets Windows Phone in Windows Live Messenger ad (Phone Arena Team)
• Face Swap For Windows Phone Swaps Faces Of Two People In A Photo – Download Now (Edward Marquez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Link Post 215 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #778 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew#1007 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 20-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis