• Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture (Steven Sinofsky)
• EF 4.3 Released (EF Team)
• EF 4.3 Automatic Migrations Walkthrough and EF 4.3 Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough (Rowan Miller)
• Windows 8: The Facts about ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Find/Replace in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions (David Amador)
• Microsoft Deprecates Legacy Workflow Foundation Libraries in New Beta Release (Richard Seroter)
• What is the effect of memory-mapped file access on GetLastError()? (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework 4.3 Released (Migrations) (Jarod Ferguson)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: StudioShell (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Google web fonts (Julian M. Bucknall)
• A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients (Ben Howdle)
• Asynchronously Load HTML Templates For Backbone Views (Derick Bailey)
• Using JavaScript’s Prototype with MVC (James Baker)
• Referencing JavaScript files from a CDN in a CRM 2011 form (Marc Schweigert)
• How many copies of your blob is stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Mobile Boilerplate v3.0 Released! (Shi Chuan)
• Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
• CORS for XHR in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)
• Developing Mobile Dashboards for ComponentArt Dashboard Server (Milos Glisic)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Development Pendulum (John Sonmez)
• [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)
• Moq Partial Mocks (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Design Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Developping an app for the Windows Phone platform (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #492 – Layout Can Change at Runtime (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch Screen Tips: Scrollbars and Splitters (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #163: Combinatorial Explosion (James Shore)
• RadioTFS – Yes We Kanban (Martin Woodward)
• Security, Security, Security! Helping the LIDNUG community build safer software (Troy Hunt)
• Peter Heldens – Creating Scripts with TouchDevelop (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 11: SignalR (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Free "Introduction to Reactive Extensions" on-demand video training available, with 8 sessions and growing (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Join the Belgian Experts and Microsoft Corp Product team for 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 (Katrien de Graeve)
• Learn About Windows Azure for Technical Decision Makers, Developers, Architects (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft Student Developers Showcase Their Work at the White House Science Fair (Chuck Lawton)
• Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)
• ExpressionBlend.com is Live! (Daniel Vaughan)
• C# for Gaming: AltDevConf This Weekend (Miguel de Icaza)
• 2012 MVP Global Summit- Tour of the Neighborhood (MVP Award Program)

Database

• An open letter to anyone with “SQL Server” on their resume (Jen McCown)
• PBM for SSIS? What policies would you want? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser (Pinal Dave)
• Executing scripts with sp_addscriptexec (Brandon Williams)
• When you pit RavenDB & SQL Server against one another… (Oren Eini)
• Three Consulting Tools to Make You a Better DBA (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

• How to Programmatically Update an ODC File (Shubh Raj Singh)
• Social Squared version 6.1 release (Phill Duffy)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.1 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Kids are the future. Teach ‘em to code. (Cameron McEfee)
• Reinstaller: Install All Your Previously Downloaded Apps Automatically (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows 8 ARM edition will include built-in Office apps and access to the traditional desktop mode and Microsoft unveils Office 15 Metro design look and feel (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – February 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #815 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: February 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1041 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-09 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Shawn Wildermuth

• Farewell Stack Exchange (Jeff Atwood)
• Farewell (Joel Spolsky)
• Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
• What is "binding" and what makes it late? (Eric Lippert)
• Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Finding solutions not covered by automated builds (Rory Primrose)
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #1 (Oren Eini)
• KinectContrib 2.0 released – now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Gadgeteer Hello World (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 8 Composition and Content (Joe Mayo)
• Using JSON.net to consume the JSON Stack Overflow API (Jonathan Creamer)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter (Jason Jarrett)
• The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed (Pete Brown)
• Wrapping up Configuration Manager (Paul Sheriff)
• Pinpointing a Static GC Root with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
• JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies (Joost van Schaik)
• How to Use the Azure npm Package Locally without the Azure Compute Emulator (Aaron Stannard)
• Using Entity Framework to Query Dynamic Types (David Barrett)
• WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed. (Deepak Kapoor)
• Developing for a multitude of clients – Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

Web Development

• jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects (Ben Nadel)
• JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB (Devon Govett)
• Learning HTML5 & CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
• PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
• Turbocharge your Website with Memcached (Nicolas Sebban)
• Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser (Ilmari Heikkinen)
• MSDN Article: Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color (Chris Coyier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Use Hand Coding Coded UI Test For Automated Vs2010 Test Scripting (Abhishek Lohani)
• Looking for the seam (Mark Needham)
• The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs? (Mike Walker)
• Mocking ITable<T> (Chris Skardon)
• Builder pattern with a twist (Uzi Landsmann)
• MSTest and Calling Exe with Sample Data Files (Johan Danforth)
• [Humor] – Business Roles and Designations – For a Baby (Peter Saddington)
• Constraints, expectations and real estate (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as ListBox Items (Windows Phone Geek)
• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons (Arturo Toledo)
• A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #489 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style (Tony Champion)
• Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
• Why Custom Controls are underrated (Morten Nielsen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 038: Puzzlejuice Pigs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 175 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Wells on SQL 2012 and SQLSpade (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• CreativeJS workshops in UK and Amsterdam (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March (Namita Gupta)
• Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco – Feb 26 (Joel Oleson)
• I’m back, baby (get it? baby?) and Windows 8 resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
• Don’t Miss FREE MSDN Webcast, Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 1) “Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure”, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 am PT (Himanshu Singh)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Data Quality Services (James Serra)
• SQL Server Certifications: What to Take and How to Prepare (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server 2012 Free Cook Book and Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize (Colin Stasiuk)
• Why Every DBA is a Clown (John Sansom)
• Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Embracing guesswork with SQL Prompt partial matches (Troy Hunt)
• Code to list potential cluster key space savings per table (Paul S. Randal)
• How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database (Herve Roggero)

PowerShell

• List failed SQL server Jobs with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• Announcing Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook! (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Android–Create a ListView with rounded corners (Bill Osuch)
• Looking at Office 365 Security Holistically (Mike Halsey)
• ASCII Table Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #5) (Himanshu Singh)
• Double Shot #812 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1038 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft’s New Command Shell by Lee Holmes

• C++ AMP Open Specification (S. Somasegar)
• Get A Model From A Backbone Collection Without Knowing If The Collection Is Loaded and 3 Stages Of A Backbone Application’s Startup (Derick Bailey)
• If you’re using Node.js, you’re doing life wrong (Toby DiPasquale)
• Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps (Dan Mohl)
• Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon’s Kindle team (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 8 Secrets: What Windows Phone 8 Tells Us About Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The System.Type Class (Richard Carr)
• Extending Visual Studio Part 1 – Creating Code Snippets and Extending Visual Studio Part 2 – Creating Addins (Dave Kerr)
• From C# to C++, the short guide that isn’t (all that short) and Making your app a better listener… Using multiple grammars to improve speech recognition and to allow for runtime, state based recognition configuration (Greg Duncan)
• LINQ Query and Lambda Expressions (Tom Stickel)
• The Microsoft C++ Compiler Turns 20! (Visual C++ Team)
• Implementing Team Foundation Server 2010 In A Mixed Development Environment (Tim Murphy)
• JSON Serialization / Deserialization of DateTime Not Equal (Rick Anderson)
• New book: MCPD 70-519 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and Runtime Update (Luis Cabrera)
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 Adds Easy On/Off, Improved Navigation (Jenni Konrad)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: IntX (Jason Jarrett)
• Code Template in Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
• From 0 to doing solution builds w/ PSake–Part 1 of N (Derik Whittaker)
• RavenDB Tutorial, Part 1 – Introduction and Basic Operations and RavenDB Tutorial, Part 2 – Simple Querying (Piotr Kwapin)
• Introduction to the Infragistics Word Library (Atanas Dyulgerov)

Web Development

• Why You Should Build Your Website Using Static .html Files (Ryan Hayes)
• DataSets, TableAdapters, and Transient Retry Logic For SqlAzure (Dave M. Bush)
• Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on() (Elijah Manor)
• 3D Gallery with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Tease Apart Inheritance (Giorgio Sironi)
• jQuery "Pinify" Plugin Tutorial for Building App-Like Sites (sagar.sjg)
• HTML5 Web Workers: Classic Message Passing Concurrency (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Streaming results to web page using MSMQ/WCF/SignalR/JQuery (Sacha Barber)
• Getting Started with Knockout.js (John Papa)
• MVVM in the web world (Marlon Grech)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.8.0 (CodePlex)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Updates (Nathan Totten)
• MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js) (Neil Mackenzie)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Backbone.js vs Ember.js (Chris Smitch)
• Adding ELMAH to an AppHarbor application (Jef Claes)
• Stack Exchange API V2.0 No Longer Beta (Kevin Montrose)
• Getting Started with IndexedDB Article (Gil Fink)
• Any port in the storm… Sailing Orchard into AppHarbor ("How to setup Orchard on AppHarbor") (Greg Duncan)
• Solving the upload progress bar problem–The History of Node.js (Jarod Ferguson)
• A convenient ‘super’ method for Backbone.js (Max Brunsfeld)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3 (Johanna Rothman)
• A year in review with CQRS (John Teague)
• Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
• Interview: The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption (Sanjiv Augustine & Arlen Bankston)
• Make Code Explicit and Stupid (Rinat Abdullin)
• Organizing Your Work With OneNote Page Templates (Tim Murphy)
• New Mocking Capabilities in JustMock Q3 2011 SP (JustMock Team)
• Drive Your Week with Skill (JD Meier)
• Testing DI bootstrappers (Jef Claes)
• Quick news: Microsoft Manual of Style ebook bundle on sale today (Devon Musgrave)
• Two phase release planning and Looking for information about composed refactorings (Brian Marick)
• Scope, Schedule, and Resources – You can’t have them all (TeamPulse Team)
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–what about change? (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• More Json With Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
• PSake and building Silverlight solutions (Derik Whittaker)
• Accessing Pictures from Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: DynamicXaml (Jason Jarrett)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices – Project Separations (Lohith G N)
• Working with WP7 RadBusyIndicator control from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #488 – You Can Change Drawing Attributes of Existing Strokes in an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #12 – Take picture via Camera in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• Clouds using Expression Design with Expression Blend & XAML for WP7! (Surf4Fun)
• A tale of re-usablity – refactoring MangoTree parts and GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF service and Sending text messages from a Dell Venue Pro. Directly from the app and without SmsComposerTask. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• PivotViewer Basics: Custom Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
• Optimizing INPC Objects against memory leaks using WeakEvents (Abhishek Sur)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 133: Derick Bailey on Backbone.js (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 82: Going Beyond the Obvious in Innovation with Phil McKinney (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 195: Rich Dudley on Event Sponsorship (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 428: Shank 2, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and more (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: 4 Years of TWC9, Kinect SDK, C++, & more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Martin Woodward)
• The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 40 (Richard Hay)
• Gillmor Gang Live 02.03.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Podcast 279 – 02.03.2012 and The Vergecast 016 – 02.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 69 – SQL Azure Federations with George Huey (Wade Wegner)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Talks Windows Phone 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Recording of Gill Cleeren’s ‘Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer’ webinar is now available (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Weekly 246: Helsinki Syndrome (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Upcoming ASP.NET, HTML5 and Windows 8 Talks and Workshops at DevConnections 2012 (Dan Wahlin)
• RavenDB workshop in NDC, Oslo 4-5th June (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone camp in 6 cities of India from 17th Feb to 29th Feb (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 11, February 8, 2012 (Nerd Nite Team)
• Develop a Windows Phone Game, Win A Dell Alienware M18x Gaming Rig (Peter Laudati)
• Testing Dependencies and Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)

Database

• List SQL Server Instances using Powershell and Get-ItemProperty (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Count of Logical CPU using T-SQL Script – Identify Virtual Processors and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery and SQL SERVER – ERROR: FIX – Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner (Pinal Dave)
• Convenient ad-hoc bcp table loading (Erik)
• NoSql and a life without Schema continued (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Let’s Build Something Using Amazon’s DynamoDB (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• Loading Reference Data from a SharePoint List using SSIS (Nick Haslam)

PowerShell

• Powershell: Selecting files that don’t contain specified content (Tobin Titus)

Miscellaneous

• DZone’s Different! (Austin Kowitz)
• Finding Content in Files With Git (Christopher Bennage)
• Unicode’s "Pile of Poo" character (Cory Doctorow)
• Xbox co-creator brings together Atari ‘dream team’ for mobile gaming startup (Donald Melanson)
• Pin a OneNote page to the desktop (John Guin)
• Expand Your Touch Apps Selection on the Windows 8 Developer Preview (Richard Hay)
• Note about being an Independent Consultant (Jason Haley)
• Windows Phone lacks developer experience first thinking. (Scott Barnes)
• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 – and the future of syncing and sharing (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 5, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 140 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1037 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 3, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Pie in The Sky (February 3, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Double Shot #811 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #32 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/3/2012) and Daily News Digest 2/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 29-January-2012 to 04-February-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Dev News for February 04, 2012 – #0036 (Dave Campbell)
• Re-blog – January 27 – February 2 (Jason Strate)
• Retrospective 70 – Online Agile Videos & Scrum Tools (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• MVP Friday Five: February 3, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-03 (Bob Rhubart)

The Geek Shelf

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

• Kinect for Windows is now Available! (Craig Eisler)
• One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman)
• jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Learn jQuery in 30 Days (Jeffrey Way)
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 Released (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension (Giles Davies)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Face Recognation in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C# (Rick Strahl)
• Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows – Details of API Changes from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows Support Info Coming Soon (Rob Relyea)
• How to access a WCF Service behind ISA Server 2006 Forms Based Authentication (Stacy Vicknair)
• Enhancements to /GS in Visual Studio 11 (vcblog)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.4 Beta 2 (VS2010 Support) (Codeplex)
• Simplify Your Projections with AutoMapper (Patrick Steele)
• StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released (TATWORTH)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Enum Metadata Library (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Chain Validation Rules In An Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Environment (Ben Nadel)
• 2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries (John Papa)
• Creating the Perfect ASP.NET UI with Web Parts and User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• On the Viability of HTML5 Games (Dave Mahon)
• How to create animated tooltips with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
• ASP.net MVC Awesome – jQuery Ajax Helpers 2.0 and ProDinner – ASP.NET MVC Sample (EF4, N-Tier, jQuery) – Release Seven (CodePlex)
• An Ultimate HTML5 Cheat Sheet for Developers (Amit)
• My five favorite "hidden" features in Rails 3.2 (José Valim)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 4 – Transformations (G. Andrew Duthie)
• psd.js: You Guessed It – A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript (Devon Govett)
• Authenticating & Working with the Salesforce REST API & OAuth (Andrew Connell)
• Why External Links Should Open in New Tabs (Anthony)
• Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Firebug 1.9.1 (Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko)
• Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Process (Karl Scotland)
• Hand Drawn UI Kit (Vladimir Carrer)
• The Open Group Releases ArchiMate 2.0 (Mike Walker)
• The top mistakes UX designers make: the writeup (Scott Berkun)
• Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback (Tapas)
• Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way (Derick Bailey)
• Software engineering—what’s missing? (Eric Brechner)
• Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App (Julie Stanford)
• [Review] – Mike Cohn’s eLearning Agile Videos (Peter Saddington)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Code to send game invite to multiple user in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins (Jeff Wilcox)
• Codeproject Windows Phone Application (Lakamraju Raghuram)
• Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #485 – Binding a ComboBox to an Enumerated Type’s List of Values (Sean Sexton)
• Top 10 Mango Features Article (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Memory Profiling for Application Performance (Pratap Lakshman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 81: Looking at the Next .NET Compilers AKA “Roslyn” Project (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 174 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Graeber using PowerShell in Infosec (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• HTML5 WebCamp Training VIDEO Available (Doris Chen)
• Let’s Play TDD #160: End of Week 1 (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – Backbone.js 0.9.0 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF (Jesse Liberty)
• The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (Ken Denmead)
• Engadget HD Podcast 284 – 01.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Talking Cloud with ASP.NET/IIS MVP Eduardo Zabat Lorenzo (MVP Award Program)
• Agile .NET Conference in Dallas this month (Caleb Jenkins)
• Join the Conversation with Bill (The Gates Notes)
• Join Me for Lunch in Chicago on March 23rd (Brent Ozar)
• Call for Sessions for PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 – San Diego, CA – April 29 – May 2 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• February Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• February Meeting Announcement (Don Burnett)
• Windows Azure + Node.js at NY Alt.NET (Peter Laudati)

Database

• "Introducing SQL Server 2012" second draft of free eBook now available (6 of the 10 final chapters) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server – Send email using Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• 6 ways to get free SQL Server 2012 Training (John Sterrett)
• SQL SERVER – What is Slowly Changing Dimension – Quiz – Puzzle – 31 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Laying a Strong Foundation (John Sansom)

SharePoint

• Mobile SharePoint: Infragistics Acquires SouthLabs for End-to-End iPad, Android & Blackberry SharePoint Experience (Jason Beres)

PowerShell

• Prompts and Directories – Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary of Microsoft Certifications (MS PressPass)
• The Microsoft Interview Process (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Using the Group Project Toolkit, Office Web Apps and SkyDrive to take some of the coordination nightmare out of group projects… (Greg Duncan)
• Great time to be a developer (Joshua Flanagan)
• Software Security Weekly (Mark Curphey)
• Microsoft’s Office 15: To Metro or not to Metro? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tekpub Update: January 2012 (Rob Conery)
• Skype for Windows Phone app to begin beta testing soon, release imminent (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.20 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Monthly Summary – January 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Double Shot #808 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1034 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for January 31, 2012 – #0034 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 31 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK by Jarrett Webb

• Modern Web Development – Part 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Acting on file management feedback (Steven Sinofsky)
• Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• Currying vs partial function application (Jon Skeet)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a Useful Task List in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
• Ask Ayende: What about the QA env? (Oren Eini)
• Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C# (Visual C# Team)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management & Build and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Microsoft Test Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Building a Windows 8 Metro App, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: 7 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• Entity Framework Membership Provider 2.0 (CodePlex)
• Metro Snack #2: What is WinRT? (Brent Schooley)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 3, C++/CLI and Other Options and Analysis of a Mobile Redirection Framework and Obfuscated Regular Expressions (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Installing Mono on Windows (Paul Stack)
• What Code Comments are Not For. (Peter Ritchie)
• Entity Framework vs. LightSpeed (John-Daniel Trask)
• How to force Nuget not to update log4net to 1.2.11 (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The .NET Gadgeteer Diaper Alarm Part 1 (Moisture Sensor) (Pete Brown)
• More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations (Glenn Gailey)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: VerifyArgs (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• How to Access jQuery’s Internal Data (Elijah Manor)
• Translating JavaScript to Dart (Aaron Wheeler & Marcin Wichary)
• ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, MultiSelect and jQuery (Rick Anderson)
• Tag Cloud in ASP.NET MVC using Clickable HTML 5 Canvas Elements (Sumit Maitra)
• Trying out Underscore on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• jsfiddle Keyboard Shortcuts (Ryan Sukale)
• Scalable web apps: the complexity issue (Ariya Hidayat)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – People (Karl Scotland)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Mobile Interfaces – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Code reviews in the 21st Century (Alex Staveley)
• QA: A Hillbilly Love Story (Kyle Baley)
• Getting started with a Mocking Framework (Filip Ekberg)
• Finding Files by Name With Git (Christopher Bennage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting latest Tweets in Windows Phone apps using Twitter REST API and JSON.NET (Windows Phone Geek)
• MarketPlaceSearchTask in Windows Phone and WebBrowserTask and MediaPlayerLauncher in Windows Phone and Code to search location on Bing Map and Launchers related to MarketPlace in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 2: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) (Gill Cleeren)
• Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM (Joe Mayo)
• Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone (Mary Jo Foley)
• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
• HTML5 on Windows Phone: A Simple Boilerplate (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #484 – InkCanvas Contains a Collection of Strokes (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jeremy Likness is all Silverlight 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 130: Xbox LIVE for Droids and iPhones, Where’s MIX, Microsoft points, SQL Server Party (Laura Foy)
• Boagworld: Tips for getting design signoff (Paul Boag)
• Quick news: Free Step by Step videos (Kim Spilker)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 30th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Part 2 of the Webinar ‘Metro and WinRT for Silverlight/WPF’ scheduled for Feb 9th (Silverlight Show)
• I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows 8 Metro style app recap (Tony Verguldi Jr.)
• Android Developers on Google+ (Tim Bray)
• NYC’s Own Chevon Christie Named ‘Microsoft Tech Student of the Month’ (Peter Laudati)
• 3 Reasons to Attend Prairie Dev Con–West (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes (Jack Vamvas)
• Complex reporting off a SSAS cube (James Serra)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Merge Replication hotfixes (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Advantages of Partitioning – Quiz – Puzzle – 30 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Compact data and schema script utility – Version 3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Crunching Big Data with “Data Explorer” and “Social Analytics” (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit and Upgrade worksheet for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)

PowerShell

• Invalid JSON results via Powershell 3 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)

Miscellaneous

• Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off (Mary Jo Foley)
• Keeping Your Documents Safe (Debra Littlejohn Shinder)
• MIT brings Google App Inventor Back As Open-Source Project (Phillip Torrone)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #807 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 30 Jan 2012 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1033 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-30 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #4) (Himanshu Singh)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 23-29, 2012 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s Hard Code (Best Practices) by Eric Brechner

• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone hits 1.0.0 (Den Delimarsky)
• The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources (Bil Simser)
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs of Software Development (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone “Tango” will support 120 languages, C++ development support coming soon (damaster)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How much do I love the yield statement? and Refreshing an expired STSTestCert WIF certificate (Rory Primrose)
• Building WebKit on Windows 7 with VS2010 (Ashod Nakashian)
• Results of the Windows 8 development poll (Dennis Delimarsky)
• PHP as a Scripting Language for C# (Jakub Misek)
• Attached Command for Windows 8 Metro Style in C# (Jarrey)
• Secure your REST-based WCF service with WIF, part 2 (Stefan Severin)
• Partial application in F# and C# and Why do we need partial application? – Part 1 of n – Fluent interfaces and piping (Steffen Forkmann)
• Windows 8 for ARM is stable, ready to be in hands of developers? (Ron)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 2, P/Invoke – Unmanaged to Managed (Sasha Goldshtein)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Stimpack and NuGet Project Uncovered: NSpec and NuGet Project Uncovered: Guard (Jason Jarrett)
• Refactoring using Telerik Just Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Tpl Dataflow walkthrough – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Kibloc – Real time, distance based object tracking and counting using Kinect (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Merging DLLs into Your Main Assembly for Easier Distribution (Red Gate Software)

Web Development

• HTML5 File Drag and Drop Upload With jQuery and ASP.NET (Prashant Khandelwal)
• Setting Amazon S3 Storage as data source (s3n://) in Hadoop on Azure (hadooponazure.com) portal and Windows Azure Troubleshooting – Taking specific Windows Azure Instance offline and Creating your own Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure by using your own Windows Azure Subscription account (Avkash Chauhan)
• How I Got Node.js Running On A Linux Micro Instance Using Amazon EC2 (Ben Nadel)
• Working with Inline Web Workers (Gil Fink)
• David Pallmann takes us on a fresh look at the Windows Azure development (Greg Duncan)
• Found: Windows Azure Document Treasure Trove! (Peter Laudati)
• Handling Big Data in Cloud (Rinat Abdullin)
• Creating A Custom Template For WebMatrix (Mike Brind)
• From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference (Jeffrey Way)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD (Claudio Ortolina)
• Agile Results with Evernote and Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Framework and ITIL Stages, Processes, and Sub-Processes (JD Meier)
• The Perils of Asynchrony (Frank Kelly)
• JavaScript Testing with Mocha (Attila Domokos)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to implement communication between Silverlight and the HTML host. (Ariel Ben Horesh)
• Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight (Christian Nagel)
• PhoneGap 1.4.0rc1 is commited (Jesse MacFadyen)
• Clipboard API in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Templating a XAML CheckBox to a thumbs-up/down control using Expression Blend (Joost van Schaik)
• WP7 – Changing Visuals Based on Phone Theme with ThemeToStateBehavior (András Velvárt)
• Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 – Location Service and Bing Maps (Shai Raiten)
• Part 3 of my Prism 4 Series is out (Brian Noyes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 052 – “$99 Nokia Phones and Travis Barfs” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 427: Syndicate, The Darkness II (Larry Hyrb)
• Gweek 037: Donald Duck is High on Arrival (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Geekadelphia_ The Podcast Episode 2 – SOUTH fellini Interview.mp3 (Jo & Dan)
• TWC9: SQL Server 2012, Windows Phone, Async, Azure, HTML5 and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Gillmor Gang Live 01.27.12 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 01.28.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Cloud Cover Episode 68 – Throttling in SQL Azure with Scott Klein (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• The Vergecast 015 – 01.28.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 123 – 01.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video on Web Storage in HTML5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Weekly 245: Microsoft Will Disappoint Millions (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 39 (Richard Hay)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #131: David Feinleib: VC, Founder, Author (Bob Walsh)
• My first video for code refactoring in visual studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)

Community / Events

• Career vNext (Steve Marx)
• Windows Azure Powers Winning Solutions at Imagine Cup (Himanshu Singh)

Database

• SQL Server – Generate SQL INSERT from Excel (Jack Vamvas)
• Reinstalling & Slipstreaming SQL Server (Nick Haslam)
• SQL SERVER – Lots of Date Functions – Find Right One to Use – Quiz – Puzzle – 27 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Reclaiming Space Back from Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 28 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Data Collector Usage – Quiz – Puzzle – 29 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Problem with printing database diagrams (Tatworth)
• A SQL Server Leap Year Test Function (Richard Carr)

PowerShell

• Rich formatting for PowerShell help (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

• Roman Numerals Kata in Ruby, Take II (Calvin Bottoms)
• Ruby Class Hierarchy to DGML (C. Lovett)
• Quick news: Press release for Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Cast your vote in the Windows 8 release schedule prediction pool (Ed Bott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 29, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 29 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• MVP Friday Five: January 27, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/28/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Retrospective 69 – #Agile Controversy Week (Peter Saddington)
• This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk (Peter Cooper)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Android by Zigurd Mednieks

• Removing Regions Using Project Roslyn (Jason Bock)
• SQL Server 2012 launches March 7th… with a free virtual launch event (Greg Duncan)
• Resources for getting started with Backbone.js (Jarod Ferguson)
• Anonymous types unify within an assembly, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 6 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Call Stack Window and Implementing IComparer (Richard Carr)
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: That CQRS thing (Oren Eini)
• How to Mock a WCF Service (Amit)
• Creating a WYSIWYG font ComboBox using C# (Cyotek)
• What do you want to see in Entity Framework? (Julie Lerman)
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 1, P/Invoke – Managed to Unmanaged (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Using Async for File Access (Alan Berman)
• It’s three-for-one QR Code Day and A Kinect & Netduino controlled squirt gun (Greg Duncan)
• dotTrace 5.0 Performance Early Access Program (Hadi Hariri)
• Source code for the OneNote Table Sorter and Table of Contents powertoy (John Guin)
• Executing SQL Stored Procedures with Simple.Data (David Neal)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: PineCone (Jason Jarrett)
• DocX v1.0.0.12 and Cosmos – C# Open Source Managed Operating System: Release 87612 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Creating A Keyboard-Shortcuts Module In A Modular JavaScript Application (Ben Nadel)
• Font.js: A Powerful Font Toolkit for JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Managing Links and URLs with T4MVC (David J Kelley)
• Agile New Year resolutions (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Fix: the value ‚x‘ is not valid for Foo in ASP.NET MVC (Code Inside Team)
• HTML5 Interactive Maps for Both Mobile and Desktop (Dave Mahon)
• Introducing Dragonfly – another .NET HTTP server (Louis DeJardin)
• Adding rich Selector support for MVC (Matt Hidinger)
• Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2 (Peter Kellner)
• Ajax requests to other domains with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (Giorgio Sironi)
• Skip Intro – CSS3 is the new Flash (Scott Hanselman)
• .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us (Dan Wellman)
• The Technical Realities of Cloud Computing: MATRIX Whitepaper (John Brothers)
• CoffeeScript Object Comprehensions (Excerpt from CoffeeScript in Action) (Brandon Satrom)
• Let’s make TCP faster (Scott Knaster)
• This Week in Privacy (Adrian Bateman)
• Thinking in boxes (Marlon Grech)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Job Titles and Scrum (David Starr)
• Splitting user stories: the hamburger method (Gojko Adzic)
• Progressive Enhancement – A Better Web Design Philosophy (Pad Gallagher)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PROTECT YOUR Windows Phone APP AGAINST (casual) PIRACY (Windows Phone Geek)
• Split Generic.xaml in Silverlight Applications (Loek van den Ouweland)
• New book: XAML Developer Reference (Kim Spilker)
• 2000 WPF Things #479 – Using a Layout Transform on Child Elements in a Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• Overwriting the default WebRequest used by WebClient (Morten Nielsen)
• Integrating with the .NET Framework UI Controls (Peter Vogel)
• DataGrid customization with Elements 5: Sparklines, template selectors and more (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 173 – PowerScripting Podcast – Greg Shields (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Gweek 036: Grab bag of comics, book, gadgets, apps, and websites we love (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Ping 129: Windows Phone climbing the ladder, Xbox admits fault, Visual Studio Game! Bing is for Doing (Laura Foy)
• Screencast: Building ASP.NET MVC Forms with Razor (ASP.NET MVC Foundations Series) (Michael Kennedy)
• Yet Another Podcast #57–Kendo UI (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Scrum.org’s New Agile Webcast Series (no trans fats) (David Starr)
• What To Expect At Your First MVP Summit? (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Uruguay SharePoint Community Launch (Joel Oleson)

Database

• Monday Morning Mistakes: Remote Connectivity to SQL Server (Jorge Segarra)
• Sorting a String as a Number with T-SQL and SSIS (MikeDavisSQL)
• SQL SERVER – Database Mirroring and Fine-Prints – Quiz – Puzzle – 23 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Estimating Mean Uptime for Team-based uptime measurements (Ted Krueger)
• Deadlock Monitoring (Grant Fritchey)
• Declaring Length for VARCHAR and NVARCHAR datatypes IS Necessary (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Configuring a TFS 2010 build agent to compile SharePoint 2010 projects (Rory Primrose)

Miscellaneous

• ‘Diablo III’ getting big skill and rune system changes, losing senior producer (Adi Robertson)
• Windows 8: Why the coming beta is likely to be labeled the ‘consumer preview’ (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #802 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #3) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 1/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #30 (Franky)
• The Morning Brew #1028 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-23 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 23 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

• 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

• Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS (Steven Sinofsky)
• Eduasync part 19: ordering by completion, ahead of time… (Jon Skeet)
• What is the defining characteristic of a local variable? (Eric Lippert)
• Struct vs. Class, Safety vs. Speed (Bill Wagner)
• A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs (Jeff Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A Generic Equality Comparer for LINQ (Richard Carr)
• LINQ to SQL – Mapping Stored Procedure with Multiple Results (Hiren Khirsaria)
• Team Foundation Backup Plan Not Working in Administration Console (Shai Raiten)
• EF 4.3 Gets Code First Migrations But No Enum Support (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Shining a ray of light with Azure… Using Azure to create your own ray tracer (Greg Duncan)
• Getting values into a string (John Rayner)
• Getting Started Building iOS Applications with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)
• developerFusion Article: An Introduction to FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
• StyleCop+ 1.6 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Refactoring Common API Functionality Into A Node.js Proxy (Karl Seguin)
• Dynamic ViewState in ASP.Net WebForms (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• HTML 5 Canvas Cheatsheet from DZone /Refcardz (Greg Duncan)
• Diving Deep: ASP.NET Membership and the new Universal Providers (Harish Ranganathan)
• Gate 0.2.1 implementation of OWIN online at NuGet (Louis DeJardin)
• The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
• jQuery Accordion Control Musings (Becky Isserman)
• Json serialization – RPC style in MVC (Nuri Halperin)
• AppEngine Thoughts, or “How to support a cloud” (Kyle Baley)
• jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
• On EventEmitter In node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Resolution Independence With SVG (David Bushell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
• Use tasks you have to do around the house to improve your development skills (John V. Petersen)
• DZone Top Article of 2011: 7 Tenets Of Framework Selection (Rob Diana)
• Adapting to Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection (Filip Ekberg)
• FAQ: Why are my tests not included in the test run? (Gautam Goenka)
• Origins of the Craft : Iterative / Incremental (David Starr)
• How Do You Pick Open Source Libraries? (Davy Brion)
• Our evolution of story cards (Mark Pearl)
• TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 3: In, Out, and Around (Michael Sorens)
• Approval testing – value for the money (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
• Marines vs. Boy Scouts (Chris Brandsma)
• Arrange – Act – Assert: Intuitive Testing for .NET (Christopher Smith)
• Estimating Work Items by Hours–Idiotic You Say? (D’Arcy Lussier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to add Panorama to existing WP7 project (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF Data Chart to PDF (Tom Puglisi)
• A WPF Spinner Custom Control (Barry Lapthorn)
• Highway To The Danger Zone (Pete Seale)
• Metro Snack #1: Choosing XAML or HTML5 for Windows Developer Preview apps (Brent Schooley)
• Windows Phone: 30 to Launch (Chris Koenig)
• 10 Laps Around Silverlight 5 e-Book available to download for FREE. (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets (Andrea Boschin)
• Getting your WP7 Desktop integration out of park with PAARC, the Phone as a Remote Control library (Greg Duncan)
• Generating a LINQ to SQL DataContext for VS Express for Windows Phone (Erik EJ)
• MVVM Series: Part I (Steve Adey)
• Windows Phone Native Series – Solving "Fatal error LNK1112: module machine type ‘ARM’ conflicts with target machine type ‘X86′" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How to Create a LightSwitch Application that Works with SharePoint Data (Marat Bakirov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Willeke Does Reporting at DevConnections and The Tablet Show – John Sonmez Compares iOS and Android Tools (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 172 – PowerScripting Podcast – vCenter Orchestrator (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• Ping 128: CES, Windows Phone Devs make $$, Kinect for Windows, Mango & Nokia news (Laura Foy)
• Free on-demand ASP.Net 4/Visual Studio 2010 training course (in 55 videos) (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 16th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Heroines Emerge Mini-Conference 2012 (Ubelly)
• Meet Marino Posadas – Visual C# MVP from Spain (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• My Adventures in HTML5 Gaming and Are you a student? Check out the Big App On Campus Contest! (Dave Isbitski)
• HTML5 Canvas Refcard – Meet the Author: Simon Sarris (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Webstock 2012 Less Than A Month Away (Nigel Parker)
• NuCon 2012, Irvine, CA (David Barrett)
• Webinar: Using Typemock Isolator Effectively (Avi Kaye)
• Good Science’s Shannon Loftis: Gaming as critical work (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference between CHAR, VARCHAR, NVARCHAR and VARCHAR(MAX) – Quiz – Puzzle – 15 of 31 and SQL SERVER – CHECKPOINT Behavior and Database Recovery Models – Quiz – Puzzle – 16 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• DIRTY_PAGE_POLL wait type in SQL Server 2012 (Sankar Reddy)
• APress Deal of the Day – 17/Jan/2012 – Oracle PL/SQL Recipes (TATWORTH)
• DBDeploy.Net 2 (rakker)
• A Generic SQL Performance Test Harness (Ian Stirk)
• Is Your DBA Lying To You? (Thomas LaRock)
• Validating NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers in SQL (Bill Osuch)
• “Data Explorer” meets Office 365 (Data Explorer Team)
• SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Book Review (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Implementation Checklist: Aligning People, Technology & Process (Dux Raymond Sy)

PowerShell

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets v2.2 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• An Xbox for the rest of us? (Kip Kniskern)
• Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons? (Raymond Chen)
• KidsRuby 1.0 Released (Roy Wood)
• Stack Exchange Data Explorer 2.0 (Sam Saffron)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #796 and Double Shot #797 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #29 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 1/16/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 9-15, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/17/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1022 and The Morning Brew #1023 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-16 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 15, 2012 – #0028 and SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 9-15 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: For All Database Developers and Developers Administrators by Pinal Dave

• 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)

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CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development by Trevor Burnham