• Create Projects with JustDecompile (Chris Eargle)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 6 – Show Me the Goodies ! (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• How to Break Down a Backlog (John Sonmez)
• Looking at LightSwitch – Part 1 (Gill Cleeren)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Parallel Programming (Richard Carr)
• WCF RIA Service Learning Series (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Rx and Schedulers (Mike Taulty)
• Expression Tree Basics (Abul Kayes)
• How an OData quirk killed NuGet server perf (David Ebbo)
• Kinect Audio Positioning (Greg Duncan)
• Deprecating RIA Services "Live IntelliSense" (Jeff Handley)
• Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook (Neil Mackenzie)
• NHibernate 3.2 Released (Ricardo Peres)
• TFS Workbench – Release v2.2.0.7 and Facebook C# SDK – Release v5.1.1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Fixing the JavaScript typeof operator (Angus Croll)
• AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new HTMLEditorExtender Control (Harish Ranganathan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Local Extension and CoffeeScript: a TDD example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Restarting Node.js When Your Source Changes (Christopher Bennage)
• Debugging PHP In Eclipse (Eric Hogue)
• Picking a Web Client Side Persistence Mechanism (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can Agile Software Development Deliver a Great User Experience? (Peter Saddington)
• What Bruce Lee Can Teach Us About Design Patterns (Wille Faler)
• Embrace detail, and ignore detail at the same time (Bill Wagner)
• RavenDB implementation frustrations (Oren Eini)
• Look forward (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• When to use Aspect Oriented Architecture (AOA/AOD) (Todd Merritt)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Treeview : Styling and Template Binding using MVVM (Hiren Khirsaria)
• WPF Print Engine : Part I (Saraf Talukder)
• Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Starter Kits (Don Burnett)
• How to Close Browser Window from Silverlight Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight: Quick and Dirty UX Testing (Surf4Fun)
• How to Debug Network Traffic in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator? (Henry Lee)
• Meet RadPivotMap and RadTreeMap (SL/WPF) (Vladimir Milev)
• Silverlight and Synchronous Network Calls (Mike Taulty)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Arrives (Yes, I know it arrived a while ago!) (Steve Naughton)
• 2000 WPF Things #360 – Binding a ToggleButton’s IsChecked Property to a Boolean Variable (Sean Sexton)
• Dependency Properties (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tatham Oddie Makes HTML 5 and Silverlight Play Nice Together (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 157 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski on User Groups and CommandAssist (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Community Megaphone Show #30 with Guest Jason Follas (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Deep Dive video: Constrained PowerShell Endpoints – Aleksandar Nikolic (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 8th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Going to SharePoint Saturday “The Conference”? (Brett Lonsdale)
• Top JavaScript Developers You Should Follow on Google+ (Elijah Manor)
• NYC .NET Developers User Group->Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Open Source Hardware Summit Sponsorship AND Early Bird Tickets (Phillip Torrone)
• August Webcast Schedule: Microsoft Technologies (Kim Spilker)
• The Evolving Face of the Hackathon (Kin Lane)

Database

• What SQL Server Books Do You Recommend? (Brad M. McGehee)
• SQL Server book from Pinal Dave (Jacob Sebastian)
• PowerShell and SQL Server Compact 4.0: A Happy Mix (Jeremiah Clark)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Overriding Identity Fields – Tricks and Tips of Identity Fields – Day 9 of 35 and SQL SERVER – The SQL Hands-On Guide for Beginners – Book Available for SQL Server Certification (Pinal Dave)
• Data Warehousing with SSIS (Tim Radney)
• SQL Server – How to cascade UPDATEs and DELETEs to related tables (Vishal)
• Red Gate SQL Toolbelt Review (David Forck)
• Two New SQL Azure Articles Now Available on TechNet Wiki (Windows Azure Team)
• Putting a Database into Single User Mode (Gethyn Ellis)

SharePoint

• User Profile Subsystem in SharePoint Server 2010 (Spencer Harbar)

Miscellaneous

• IE 9 Security Settings on Server 2008 (Jim Holmes)
• Using our test code repository to my (and OneNote’s) advantage (John Guin)
• Charlie Kindel to leave Microsoft after 21 years (Kip Kniskern)
• MVPs for Office 365: Establishing Calendar Sharing between Office 365 Customers (Lonnie Webb)
• What’s Microsoft’s Redmond campus like? (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 9 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 205 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading August 8, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for August 1 – 7, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for August 08, 2011 — #1127 (Dave Campbell)
• Top 5 SilverlightCream News for August 1-7, 2011 and Daily News Digest 08/08/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (8/8/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Afternoon Tea – Monday 8th August and The Morning Brew #912 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Programming Joes 2 Pros: Programming & Development for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SQL Exam Prep Series 70-433 Volume 4 of 5) by Rick A. Morelan & Pinal Dave

• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Module Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Kinect Toolkit v1.1 (CodePlex)
• HTML5 Part 2: Canvas (Jennifer Marsman)
• 31 Days with WP7 – A Collection of Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorials You Must Read (Kunal Chowdhury)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Monadic Parsing in F# (Frank Thomsen)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 3 and Revised Windows Azure Portal: 2nd August 2011 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Developing a “Real” Outlook Social Connector Provider (Greg Duncan)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) – And Updated NuGet Packages (Jeff Handley)
• C#: DateFormat separator issue with ToString() method (Raghav Khunger)
• TFS API Part 39 – Show Deleted Items in Source Control (Shai Raiten)
• PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension – Release: v1.4.1 (CodePlex)
• BugTracker.NET – Release: v3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update (MS Downloads)
• Using schema with NHibernate and SqlLite (Gian Maria Ricci)

Web Development

• Use ASP.NET’s HttpHandler to bridge the cross-domain gap (Dave Ward)
• HTML5 Periodic Table of Elements (as in HTML5 Tags… ) (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming a POX WebService in .NET and C# – Searching ISBN Numbers. (Joe Stagner)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results and Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Foreign Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript performance: Array.prototype versus [] (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Measuring Mobile Site Performance Using the W3C Navigation Timing API (Joe Marini)
• Improve PHP Performance with Phalanger for .NET and Mono (Jonathan Allen)
• Update Wijmo Charts in Real Time (Kevin Griffin)
• A client side Glimpse to your PHP application (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure Security Review (Buck Woody)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: OverloadedGetterSetter (Martin Fowler)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
• Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
• Which is easier, Scrum or Lean? (Matt Barcomb)
• An Agile Retrospective by Jeff Sutherland (Aaron Bjork)
• Sample Application for .NET 4.0 – Layered Architecture and DDD Patterns Sample Applications (JD Meier)
• TDD Or Not TDD Guest blog by @avi_kaye (Tal Druyan)
• Requirements-Driven Development For The Lose (Peter Saddington)
• Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project Hosting (Dave Borowitz)
• Is it worth it? (Joh)
• 5 Big Usability Mistakes Designers Make on Carousels (Anthony)
• Thoughts on MicroOrms (Chris Brandsma)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Writing a Multiplayer Game (in WPF) (Paulo Zemek)
• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone emulator keyboard shortcuts (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers : From Core Data to LINQ to SQL (Kevin Hoffman)
• Using Custom Themes in Visual Studio LightSwitch (Jason Beres)
• Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
• Understanding XAML Screen Layout (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #356 – RadioButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 2– The SystemTray (András Velvárt)
• What is Visual Tree and Logical Tree in WPF? (Abhijit Jana)
• Installing the RTM version of NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch (Pamela Brasil)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v2.0 beta: script sharing in the cloud (Nikolai Tillmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Channel 9 Exit Interview: Tina Moving to Xbox Team (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #128: 2^7 (James Shore)
• Run as Radio Podcast – A little Denali (Kevin Kline)
• Yet Another Podcast #45–Rey Bango (Jesse Liberty)
• Pranking Softies: The Faces of Microsoft campaign (Dan Fernandez & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday DC – The Conference (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast 2011 Conference in Chicago (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• Looking for Agile Authors (Johanna Rothman)
• Webcasts: Microsoft Press Author Presents Windows 7 Troubleshooting Series (Kim Spilker)
• BUILD Windows Conference Sells Out, Content Will Be Available Online (Bruce Kyle)

Database

• Report Authoring on the SSIS Catalog [link] (Jamie Thomson)
• Microsoft SQL Server Internals & Architecture Matter! (Kevin Kline)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Finding Apostrophes in String and Text – Day 3 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• TSQL Tip O’ the Week – 8/2/11 – Records Per Day (Andy Lohn)

Miscellaneous

• New Formats for Free Microsoft Press eBooks (Carl Diltz)
• Putting the “I” in Health IT (Bill Crounse)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Tap, Move, Shake: Early Release – Only $15.99 w/code DDSHK #iPhone #iPad (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 204 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading August 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 2nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 08/03/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 1-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #908 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (8/2/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Just Published: July 1-31 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (Beck Andros)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft)) by Ed Wilson

• Balsamiq Mockups 2.1! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know (Elijah Manor)
• Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–The Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
• Text templating using Razor the easy way (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 1 and Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• How to initialize the initial state from an external source (Xiang Li)
• Creating a Many To Many Mapping Using Code First (Gil Fink)
• Can we get a little Unity? and Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Preview 2 Released and Baby NUI… Using the Kinect as a Baby Monitor (Greg Duncan)
• Custom Mail headers and EWS (Henning Krause)

Web Development

• Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released – What’s New? (Peter Cooper)
• Introduction to HTML5 : Part 1 (Samaj Shekhar)
• JavaScript: handy hint for jQuery document ready handlers (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Build Accessible web sites with Visual Studio – WCAG reporting (Doug Rathbone)
• Developers – introducing our GitHub code sample library with samples for iOS, PHP, ASP.NET and more (Dare Obasanjo)
• HTML5 Part 1: Semantic Markup and Page Layout (Jennifer Marsman)
• PHP 5.4 features poll: the results (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release and the New HTML Editor Extender (Stephen Walther)
• Streaming your music at home on the cheap… Using IIS to stream your music to your Windows Phone 7 (or iPhone/Android) (Greg Duncan)
• How to Deploy Web Roles Quick & Easy (Maor David-Pur)
• Welcome to Adobe Edge (Michael Chaize)
• New WebSocket Protocol: Secure and Extensible (Ian Fette)
• Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Sad Truth About Agile Planning (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Praveen on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• What is a Team? (John Sonmez)
• No Organizational Charts in Agile? (Peter Saddington)
• Standup isn’t about what you say, it’s about what you hear (Bill Wagner)
• Why Another DVCS? (Eric Sink)
• Supercharge Isolate.Verify (Dror Helper)
• Disruptive versus iterative change (Jimmy Bogard)
• Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Mike Gold)
• Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• There’s a new Windows Phone 7 project place in town… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Logo Refresh Fits A Square Peg In A Round Hole (Jordan Crook)
• Animating ViewBox for WPF (LearnWPF)
• Creating a Silverlight 5 Helper for ASP.NET MVC3 Razor (Pete Brown)
• Hosting a WPF control inside a Windows Form and Dealing with HWND in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• 2000 WPF Things #355 – Implementing Three-State CheckBox Dependent Behavior (Sean Sexton)
• Be careful with phone navigation! (Arian Kulp)
• Location Services–Using the Emulator (Jesse Liberty)
• How to Prepare Your Class Library to Support Application Library Caching? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman Frames Our Entities (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 156 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell on The Coud, Bunnies and VDI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series (Adam Kinney)
• My Intern Life 3 – Episode 4 (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Ping 111: Mango Refresh, Could Server Heat, Avatar Kinect, Microsoft donations (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Android Developer Labs 2011 (Tim Bray)
• Upcoming Events for August 1st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Agile 2011 Conference – Salt Lake City (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft Build conference for Windows 8 sells out (in spite of a dearth of details) (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone ads land Brandon Foy a job at Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)
• Paul Betts is a GitHubber (Chris Wanstrath)

Database

• SQL Server “Denali”: Project Apollo (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Wildcard – Querying Special Characters – Day 2 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Find Table/Column Usages Searches Database Schema (Alexey Korsun)
• Rolling your own index lookups (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• New SharePoint 2010 Implementers Courseware, Two Courses: Internet Sites Implementers and Enterprise Content Management Implementers (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Author news: Mark & Aaron discuss their just-published Sysinternals book (Devon Musgrave)
• August Oracle Technology Network Member Discounts (Oracle TechBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 077 for 8/1/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily WP7 Development News 1 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Today’s Links (8/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #907 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #157 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 08/01/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Writing Secure Code, Second Edition by Michael Howard

• F# XAML Item Templates Now on Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Announcing the Microsoft Entity Framework June 2011 CTP (EF Team)
• How far can you take HTML5 and canvas? (Kevin Roast)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
• jPlayer – The jQuery HTML5 Audio / Video Library (jPlayer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• A New MSDN Forum For All Topics Related to F# Programming (Don Syme)
• Executing build tasks without a build server – Design (Rory Primrose)
• Reading RSS and Atom Syndication Feeds (Richard Carr)
• WCF RIA Services support for EF 4.1 and Snippets (Colin Blair)
• Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries (Entity Framework June 2011 CTP) (EF Team)
• Walkthrough: Table-Valued Functions (June CTP) (Pedro Ardila)
• Walkthrough: Enums (June CTP) (Pawel Kadluczka)
• June 2011 release of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (aka v2.0… or double the download size from the Feb 2010 release, or now 1.8GB of offline training, labs, information, goodness) (Greg Duncan)
• Upgrading from TFS 2008 and WSS v3.0 with SfTSv2 to TFS 2010 and SF 2010 with SfTSv3 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows Azure Stuck in Initializing – Try Different VM Size (Rinat Abdullin)
• Getting the innermost .NET Exception (Rick Strahl)
• Ninject and binding to an existing Method (or Property) (Derik Whittaker)
• Get Started with Office 365 Using the New Developer Training Kit (Bruce Kyle)
• Rx 1.0 Solves the Problem of Asynchronous Data Access (Abel Avram)
• Garbage Collection in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Web Development

• What’s the Difference Between a Value Provider and Model Binder? (Phil Haack)
• test262: Industry JavaScript Standards Test Available (Alex Chi)
• Website check list – Part 1 ASP.NET – 4 essential steps before going live (Peter Gfader)
• More CSS3 Navigation in Expression Web 4 (Pad Gallagher)
• Self-Initializing Fakes in PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating shapes on the fly and So what are zones really? (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Simple Example That’s Incredibly Complex (Rob Conery)
• Designing For Android (Dan McKenzie)
• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part III–Abstraction is as abstraction does (Oren Eini)
• Following the pattern (Eric Lippert)
• Kanban and Quad Biking (Karl Scotland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A better way to check your Windows Phone app submissions (Arian Kulp)
• WP7 Cascade Behavior (Erik Klimcz)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 25 – Learn about Database Connection String (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Excellent Physics tutorial using Phyiscs Helper (Surf4Fun)
• Turnkey with LightSwitch (Laila Lotfi)
• Dial phone numbers from IE on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Learning Video Executing Stored Procedure in LINQ to SQL and Video Executing SQL Query in LINQ to SQL and Video Fetching Tables and Columns name in LINQ to SQL (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introducing Keyvan.TV (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Let’s Play TDD #119: Comments Lie (James Shore)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #51: TDD with Keith Burnell (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Evan (Larry Larsen)
• This is my next Podcast 013 – 07.01.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

Community / Events

• Save the date: SharePint @ the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA (Andrew Connell)
• Open Source Hackathon at Pablo’s Fiesta (Steve Donie)
• What happens when students create their own collaboration tools? (Terri Griffith)
• Microsoft to retire, refocus Windows Phone MVP program (Mary Jo Foley)
• Six Years of Blogging (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Oracle TechBlog)
• Mono Consultants (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

• FileLinking Using SSIS (Brian K. McDonald)
• SSRS Importing an Assembly (David Dye)
• SSIS OLEDB Command and procedure output params (Josef Richberg)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Complete Downloadable List – Day 0 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Introduction – Day 1 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Functions – NTILE() (Vishal)
• Why Does It Hurt When I Audit? (Tim Ford)
• What’s UNPIVOT good for? (Quassnoi)
• The difference between REVOKE and DENY (Steve Jones)
• Excel 2010 Data Source "From Microsoft Query" Missing DSNs (Jes Schultz Borland)

SharePoint

• Using jQuery Templates with SharePoint List Data (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• CODE Magazine: 2011 Jul/Aug (CODE Magazine)
• Instant email: how we made Hotmail 10x faster (Dick Craddock)
• MSDN & TechNet Subscriptions 2.0 Experience Preview (Mark Curphey)
• Developer API for Google+: It’s coming (Rafe Needleman)
• MediaMall’s PlayLater brings DVR to internet video (Sean Buckley)
• The Windows Phone 7 Apps Everyone Should Have June 2011 [Apps] (Casey Chan)
• Why Big Software Companies Fail at Hiring Good Talents (Keyvan Nayyeri)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.20 ~ 06.30 (yuanjian)
• T-SQL, SQL Server BI Articles Link List – June 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• ASP.NET, MVC, Silverlight, SharePoint, WPF, VS 2010, LINQ Articles in May-June 2011 (Admin)
• The Morning Brew #885 (Chris Alcock)
• Today’s Links (6/30/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 07/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti

Top Links

• Task Parallel Library 1 of n (Sacha Barber)
• Hitting the Ground Running with Parallel Extensions in .NET 4.0 (Jeremy Jarrell)
• Scrum : Effective Sprint Zero (Geert Bossuyt)
• The Full Stack: Entity Framework To Phone, The Server Side (Jesse Liberty)
• No more .NET Reflector for free (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Third-Party Support for Visual Studio Coded UI Testing (Ed Blankenship)
• Community TFS Build Extensions – Alpha 1.0.0.0 (Mike Fourie)
• Facebook C# SDK V5.0.0 (BETA) Released (Nathan Totten)
• CLR Profiler 4 (MS Downloads)
• New book: Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now! (Kim Spilker)
• Entity Framework Invalid Object Name dbo.Albums and Getting Next Month in MSBuild (Steve Smith)
• Reference and Value Types (Rob Miles)
• Using DebuggerStepThrough attributes to stepped over code during debugging (Abhijit Jana)
• Chemistry Add-in for Word Goes Open Source (Josh Lowensohn)
• Windows Azure Emulators On Your Desktop (Buck Woody)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 7: Local Data (Arthur Vickers)
• Windows Live Calendar Desktop Gadget (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Pausing and Resuming the jQuery / ASP.NET News Ticker (Scott Mitchell)
• How to Write Maintainable OO JavaScript Code (Ara Pehlivanian)
• Recommended Book: jQuery In Action (Davy Brion)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Optional Parameter Routing Issue (Simon J. Ince)
• 27 Ways To Be A Better PHP Developer (Lorna Mitchell)
• Paging Data with Different Cursor Types (Brian Swan)
• Make It Yours (K. Scott Allen)
• HTML5 and Web Video: Questions for the Industry from the Community (Dean Hachamovitch)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Custom Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
• Good Refactoring / Patterns For Simple UI Logic? (Derick Bailey)
• How To Include HTTP Headers In Web Test Recording (Shai Raiten)
• Lean Principle #6 – Respect People (Kelly Waters)
• The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III (Bob McIlree)
• Crowd Testing – The Kindness of Strangers (Anne Currie) – A new beta of Qlockwork 3.0 (An Outlook plugin to track time spent on tasks) is available for testing.
• RESTful SOA or Domain-Driven Design (Eric Evans)
• Test Driven Source Control–Safe Points (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Remove one pixel white border from WPF listview (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Silverlight and NESL Redux–Touch (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight, P/Invoke, and Local Databases, Oh My! (Don Burnett)
• “Silverlight for Windows Phone” free 157 page eBook and Windows Phone 7 Development for Android Dev’s Series (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #2 (Jeff Prosise)
• Windows Phone 7 Documentation Landscape (Mark Hopkins)
• Model-View-Model (MVVM) Explained (Jeremy Likness)
• WP7 working with Images: Content vs Resource build action (Windows Phone Geek)
• Ria Services Vs Idea Blade’s DevForce (Greg Gum)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Learn SharePoint Search at FAST University (Donovan Follette & Paul Stubbs)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 171: Scala Update with Martin Odersky (SE-Radio Team)
• Video: Prepare & Deliver SharePoint Success #in 2011 w/ @curryben + @meetdux (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Episode #5 – Stefan Schackow – ASP.NET Team Guru and Super Smart Guy and VIDEO – Microsoft WebMatrix – The IDE DataBase Tools (Joe Stagner)
• Web Camp Belgium on ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet, HTML5, jQuery and OData: videos and slides online (Katrien de Graeve)
• Let’s Play TDD #82: Constructors, Folklore, and the Java Language Spec (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Brain Challenge, Fireworks, Music Buzz, Swipy Man, Colorizer (Laura Foy)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #187: WP7: Writing and Reading from Isolated Storage (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• FunnelWeb vs. Magellan Community (Paul Stovell)
• The Nineys are coming! VOTE NOW! (Laura Foy)
• London .Net User Group – Raven DB and CQRS (Michelle Flynn)
• Interview: Rachel Davies on Scrum Coaching and Women in Tech (Rachel Davies)
• New Microsoft Technology Center Opens in Detroit (Jeffrey Meisner)

Database

• Export all SSIS packages from msdb using Powershell (Jamie Thomson)
• Calculate Median in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Single Wait Time Introduction with Simple Example – Wait Type – Day 2 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Contained Databases in SQL Server Denali (Pradeep Adiga)
• Escaping the Relational Schema Trap (Steven Lott)
• Is a clustered index best for range queries? (Gail Shaw)

SharePoint

• F1 or F2? Getting Help to End Users (Mary Lee)

Miscellaneous

• Thoughts on Binggate (Chris Smith)
• Objective-C Here I Come! (John Sonmez)
• #Ebook/Video Deal/Day: Save 50% on 3 new Mining #SocialWeb titles #GroundHogDay (O’Reilly Media)
• Interfacing with a DAC (Digital/Analog Converter) for Sound Synthesis with the Netduino (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 1 February 2011 – #17 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SilverlightShow for Jan 24-30, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 02/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 31-Jan-2011 and 1-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #783 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 1th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC (Pragmatic Programmers) by Jonathan McCracken

Top Links

• Announcing Silverlight 5 (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight 5 Announced, RIA Services Toolkit December 2010 Released (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 5 Plans Revealed (Tim Heuer)
• MonoTouch for iOS 4.2 is out. (Miguel de Icaza)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Toolbox: Generic Reversing Comparers (James Michael Hare)
• LINQ Secrets Revealed: Chaining and Debugging (Michael Sorens)
• Visual Studio Permissions Needed on Windows Vista or Later (Zain Naboulsi)
• New HiDef Education and Avatar Samples for XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Team XNA)
• How to use IssueProvider DXCore component (Alex Skorkin)
• Exploring Reactive Extensions (Rx) through Twitter and Bing Maps Mashups (Colin Eberhardt)
• New Book: Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Merging CodeRush Templates (via Export and Import) (Rory Becker)
• Don’t Upgrade to Windows Azure SDK 1.3 Yet (Rinat Abdullin)
• Some NHibernate Best-Practices (Nick Harrison)
• Quick Tip: Right-click VS 2010 Command and Admin Command Prompt (Jeremy Likness)

Web Development

• Functional vs. Object-Oriented JavaScript Development (Dino Esposito)
• jQuery Templates, composite rendering, and remote loading (Dave Ward)
• Grouping Routes Part 1 (Phil Haack)
• WebGrid WebHelper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• JavaScript Objects Coding Style Reviewed (Stoimen Popov)
• Different Routes for Different Hosts Using Constraints (Simon Ince)
• A Book Review of Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices) (Stephen Robillard)
• JSON Continues its Winning Streak Over XML (Romin Irani)
• The Problem Is Not JSON Or XML, It Is About Data Context (Rob Diana)
• An update to nuget support in OpenWrap (Sebastien Lambla)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Easy ways to maximize the value of TDD (Matt Hinze)
• [White Paper] – 3 Planning Stages in Agile and Code Inspections – Review Code with Two Developers (ScoutMaster)
• The case against Interfaces in TDD (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Three "R"s of Clean Code (Michael Norton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 cool things in Silverlight 5 (Rudi Grobler)
• Does Anyone Know What Silverlight Is? (Karl Seguin)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit December 2010 (Silverlight Show)
• WPF MVVM and calculated properties (Al Kampfer)
• Monitoring Web Requests on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 1) (Mike Taulty)
• Why a 64-bit runtime for Silverlight 5 Matters (Bart Czernicki)
• Silverlight 5 (Christian Nagel)
• The validation story in Silverlight (Part 1) (Gill Cleeren)
• WPF Custom Chrome Library (gbahns)
• Silverlight 5 Timeline And Lots of Questions (James Vastbinder)
• From Silver to Gold in One Release: Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
• Chrome to Windows Phone 7 Pushes Links to Windows Phone 7 from Chrome [Downloads] (Kevin Purdy)
• New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• I just Upgraded my WPF application from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4 and Now My Images Look Terrible–A Visual Guide to the BitmapScalingMode property. (LearnWPF)
• Hiding/Showing Windows Phone 7 Emulator Performance Count Numbers and Taking Screen Shots of Windows Phone 7 Panorama Apps (Markus Egger)
• Silverlight 5 – 5 Quick Things (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Connecting your Windows Phone 7 Device to PC (Zhiming Xue)
• My first WP7 application (published) (Derik Whittaker)
• Laurent Duveau on Morse Code Flash Light WP7 Application (Silverlight Show)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Orleans: A Framework for Scalable Client+Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #60: Layout Managers (James Shore)
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie (John Papa & Nic Fillingham)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Xbox (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) – San Francisco, CA – March, 2011 (Wally McClure)
• 13 years at Microsoft. What’s Next (Steve Clayton)
• Come and join the F# Compiler & Tools team! (Don Syme)
• Why We Built the JSMentors.com JavaScript Mailing List (Rey Bango)
• system.data.objects dev guy becomes a compiler padawan (Danny Simmons)

Database

• Please allow us to cancel loading of log in SQL Server Management Studio Log Viewer (Simon Sabin)
• Do you know the difference between .mdf, .ndf and .ldf files? (Martin Bell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of SQL – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDRSQ (O’Reilly Media)

SharePoint

• Cross web application roll up web part (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.2 (MS Downloads)
• A OneNote 2010 powertoy to bulk erase ink (John Guin)
• Static type langagues (Louis Salin)
• Type systems and their advantages (Matt Hinze)
• The Power of WordPress (Richard Hay)
• Halo: Reach Art Inspiration Windows 7 Theme (Richard Hay)
• Woz’s tour through computing history (and his favorite iPhone apps) (Robert Scoble)
• Dipping into C (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Facebook Client for Your Desktop (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 79 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily News Digest 12/03/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #743 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of SQL by Stephane Faroult

Top Links

• Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part – 4) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Updated summary of our ebook giveaways (Devon Musgrave)
• Using the MVVM Light Toolkit & Silverlight Behaviors with the DevExpress Data Grid (AGDataGrid) Control  (Andrew Connell)
• Code Inspections – Review Code with Two Developers (ScoutMaster)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# Math: Extreme Optimization 4.0 Released + 50 Quick Start samples in F# (Don Syme)
• Launching Visual Studio in Safe Mode (Richard Carr)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit (MS Downloads)
• Visualization of sorting algorithms in C# (Kanasz Robert)
• Project Euler Problem 15 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Creating and Using a Macro (Zain Naboulsi)
• Creating Custom Action for WIX written in managed code without Votive (Petr Pechovic)
• How to have NHibernate use a SQL MERGE INTO statement (Merrick Chaffer)
• LightSwitch Bug: Do not name entity System or User (Rudi Grobler)
• How to use out of scope object with in Conditional Breakpoint ? (Abhijit Jana)

Web Development

• Standardizing HTML6 through the W3C – My Trip to TPAC 2010 (Patrick Dengler)
• p & p Web Guidance Survey (Karl Shifflett)
• Testing Basic ASP.NET MVC View Model Validation With Brevity (Jon Davis)
• Prepare web.config for HTML5 and CSS3 (Mads Kristensen)
• The Decline of Internet Explorer 6 and the Rise of Internet Explorer 9 (Roger Capriotti)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The principle of symmetric change (Gojko Adzic)
• Scalable System Design Patterns (Jean-Jacques Dubray)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Big props for Laurent’s Silverlight 4 Unleashed book (Andrew Connell)
• SQL Azure + OData + WP7 = AWESOME (Rudi Grobler)
• Updated In the Box MVVM Training (Karl Shifflett)
• First homebrew app for Windows Phone 7 brings custom ringtones (Lee Mathews)
• Fixing the ListPicker / ScrollViewer Problem in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Free versus Trial Windows Phone 7 Applications (Nick Randolph)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 99: David Ebbo on NuGet (Jon Galloway)
• Let’s Play TDD #59: Application… Tested! (James Shore)
• Crackdown 2 Project Sunburst on WP7 & Xbox LIVE (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• TechEd Europe 2010 Recordings and Downloads (Peter Provost)
• Announcing Dream.Build.Play 2011 (Team XNA)
• PASS Summit is NOT a Conference (Ryan Adams)
• Windows Azure Bootcamps (Chris Koenig)

Database

• When Were The Statistics In SQL Server Last Updated? (Joe Webb)
• SQL Azure Federation – Partitioning (Simon Sabin)
• The Development DBA Role (Bill Nicolich)
• How to deploy a database (Paul Stovell)

SharePoint

• October 2010 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint & Project Server 2010 Republished (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Is Dead, Long Live Windows Home Server? (Matt Burns)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Ed. $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDMST (O’Reilly Media)
• Xbox Live Opens Up Xbox Live Rewards Program (Richard Hay)
• Powershell Recipe 1: Clean up binaries before build (Shafqat Ahmed)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #742 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 01, 2010 — #1002 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives by Paul Nielsen

Top Links

• Win7 Mobile Back Arrow Key Interception (Mike Snow)
• WCF RIA Services Part 9 – Structuring Your Application is Online (Brian Noyes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Sharing Files Between Projects (Richard Carr)
• Named Resource Streams for WCF Data Services (Jonathan Allen)
• Command / Query service in WCF (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Undo Quick Replace and Replace in Files (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• ReCaptcha Web Helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Finding elements using jQuery – Part 3 (Ryan Sukale)
• Create Sound Mashups with the Freesound API (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Rapid Dev – a new unit testing tool is born (Dror Helper)
• Thanksgiving and Agile – 10 Reasons We’re Thankful for Agile (ScoutMaster)
• Great Books, Great People, Great Quotes (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Reposition a WPF Modal Window at the center of the Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Mark Russinovich: Windows Azure, Cloud Operating Systems and Platform as a Service (Charles Torre)

Community / Events

• Dallas Days of .NET – March 4-5 (Oren Eini)
• Stack Overflow Hits 10M Uniques, Boldly Goes Where No Q&A Site Has Gone Before (Alexia Tsotsis)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU 6 includes small changes to .dtsx files (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Concat Function in SQL Server – SQL Concatenation (Pinal Dave)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Resources (Jason Strate)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #737 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/25/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2010 — #999 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

WPF 4 Unleashed by Adam Nathan

Top Links

• CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project (Jonathan Wanagel)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming C# 4.0 – Only $9.99. Use code DDP4E (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TIP support for any ADO.NET app (Cameron Skinner)
• Automatic Delimiter Highlighting (Zain Naboulsi)
• One-Click Publishing of .NET4 Workflow (XAML) Definitions for Services hosted in AppFabric – similar to the ‘Activate’ Workflows in SharePoint Server 2010! (Suren Machiraju)
• DevForce & RIA Services Part 2a: Querying (Ward Bell)
• What is Functional Programming? (Christopher Bennage)

Web Development

• DZone’s Top 10 JavaScript and Web Design Books (Mitch Pronschinske)
• BankSimple: Banking as a Service, API and All (Alex Stone)
• Dallas on PHP (via WebMatrix) (Jim O’Neil)
• AppFabric cache event notification (Ed Kisinger)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Gartner Shares 10 Ways the World of Work will Change (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Padded Grid (Dave Kerr)
• Sticky v1.0.50906 Released for Seesmic Desktop 2 (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from Tech Ed Australia! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Episode 114: Keith Elder on WCF 4 (David Giard)
• Ping 73: Double Rainbow, Windows Phone RTM, Xbox Controller, 3D engines (Laura Foy)
• Learn about Windows Phone 7 in 7 minutes (Sara Allison)
• WinExtra’s Daily Brief Ep. 4 … it’s a ZunePhone (Steven Hodson)

Community / Events

• .NET Community Session : ASP.NET 4.0 In-Depth (Abhijit Jana)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Index Levels and Delete Operations – Page Level Observation (Pinal Dave)
• “select *, %%bmk%% from tablename” while rebuilding the index (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

• Docs.com Creates a Resume and Analysis of Your Friends from Your Facebook Account [Microsoft] (Adam Dachis)
• Sorting Data in Zoho Writer (Arvind Natarajan)
• Processing Email in Outlook (Daniel Moth)
• Introducing Presdo Link: a breakthrough in scheduling (Eric Ly)
• Amazon steals Microsoft’s Director of Game Platform Strategy for some reason (Thomas Ricker)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #680 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 160 (Rhonda Tipton)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn

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Top Links

• A sneak peek at IE9 UI: What do you think? (Kip Kniskern)
• Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM (Jeremy Likness)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–III) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• TWC9: LightSwitch available, Windows Phone, OData, HTML 5 File API (Dan Fernandez)
• Script Junkie (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Public Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• F# for puzzles (Morse code decoder) (Brian McNamara)
• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• The Profiler New Features: Starring & Renaming (Oren Eini)
• MSDN Keeps getting better (Cameron Skinner)
• Managing business object locks on application level (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 Parallel Stacks – Debugging enhancement in VS2010 (Hima)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-In-One book is close to the finish (András Velvárt)
• Big Enhancements to our documentation: Now with a Version Selector! (Charles Sterling)
• Coding4Fun: Feeling the Earth Move (Arian T. Kulp)
• 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 Minutes (Wes Yanaga)
• Enumerable.Skip vs Seq.skip (Mauricio Scheffer)
• The Misnamed and Misunderstood Object Browser and The Object Browser: Browsing Scope and The Object Browser: Navigation and References (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 version 4.0.1 released (Rockford Lhotka)
• Lazy(Of T) class in .Net Framework4.0 (Venu Gopal)
• ANTS Performance Profiler 6 (Ryan O’Neill)
• Microsoft won’t stop .Net on Android (Rodney Gedda)
• PSSCor2: GC Heap Analysis Commands and Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution (Sasha Goldshtein)
• MSBuild Extension Pack August 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Know Your Debugger Part 2: Ok, I’m Broken. Now What? (Dane Morgridge)
• Must I release everything when using Windsor? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Strong naming an assembly without having the actual source code (Marlon Grech)
• Windsor 2.0 and Log4Net (Jonathan McCracken)
• Behaviour – Lesson 7 (Simon Jackson)
• Microsoft Surface and Magical Object Interaction (Josh Blake)
• Introducing CountdownEvent (Dror Helper)
• What’s New for Office 2010 Developers white paper is live (Frank Rice)
• Debugging the Undebuggable (Gil Zilberfeld)
• NHibernate – prepare_sql and some considerations on mapping very long string fields (Giorgetti Alessandro)

Web Development

• File uploads and MVC Controllers (Jason Grundy)
• jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In? (Jon Raasch)
• ASP.NET MVC HTML Helpers (Dane Morgridge)
• A quick primer on .NET web frameworks (Chad Myers)
• Great Twitter Accounts to keep up to date on jQuery news (Matthew David)
• Elegant MVC with Spark – The way views were meant to be (Robert Greyling)
• Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions (Scott Mitchell)
• New DevNugget: Installing Microsoft WebMatrix (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Chakra: Interoperability Means More Than Just Standards (Allen Wirfs-Brock)
• More on SVG (Jennifer Yu)
• Extending the SiteMap (Rudi Grobler)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Buffering (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Empathy and web design (Janko Jovanovic)
• PHP: What is More Powerful Than list() (Stoimen Popov)
• NetBeans vs. Vim for PHP development (Giorgio Sironi)
• Get File Length over http before you download it (Peter Bromberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 4: Adopting XP (James Shore)
• First Experiences With RSpec/BDD (Davy Brion)
• I am an Exception Extremist (John Sonmez)
• We’re Not Paid To Write Code (Phil Haack)
• The Downside Of Providing An API Through Extension Methods and Compiler|Interpreter Warnings Are Important Learning Opportunities (Davy Brion)
• Day 26 – Solve Problems with Skill and Day 27 – Do Something Great and Day 28 – Find Your One Thing (J.D. Meier)
• Design Patterns by Metaphors – Part I (Creational Patterns) (Kiran Kumar G)
• The Case of the Unit Test and the Native DLL (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why Hg branches are broken (or at least less useful) (Jimmy Bogard)
• Prototyping NUI on paper (Steve Clayton)
• The Open Source Project Spec: With Reference To Me (Jesse Liberty)
• Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources (Aquil Akhter)
• Programmer Tip: The Meaning Of Mentorship And How You Grow As A Person (Rajiv Popat)
• Introducing Yeti: The YUI Easy Testing Interface (Reid Burke)
• A Case for Feature Branches (Matt Stine)
• Multitouch on Windows book update (Josh Blake)
• posh-git Release v0.2 (Keith Dahlby)
• Coding: Mutating parameters (Mark Needham)
• Test Behavior, Not State (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Deep Linking Into A SketchFlow Prototype (Christian Schormann)
• DroppyPop for WP7 Update (Andy Beaulieu)
• Think twice before putting another grid inside a WPF window (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF RIA Services Part 6 – Validating Data (Brian Noyes)
• WP7 Tip: tombstoning simplified (James Ashley)
• On Socks and Windows Phone 7 and Calling JavaScript Functions in Windows Phone 7 and XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 – The Microphone (Mike Ormond)
• Eeny, meeny, miny, moe and TimeslotPanel (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating a Toast Like Notification Popup on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• My favorite feature of the WPF and Silverlight Tools update (Carole Snyder)
• Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App (Cheryl Simmons)
• My “Hello World” Windows Phone 7 Application (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Forms and WPF Interop: Sharing WPF Resources (Christian Nagel)
• Your phone can turn into a robot [LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform] (David Anson)
• Saving State: Execution Model Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application (Jesse Liberty)
• WPF DataGrid Control – Performing Update and Delete Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Flashing Text (using behavior/storyboard) in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Application Template Themes by Microsoft (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 and Compression using Accept-Encoding Header (Nick Randolph)
• Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7) and 10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know (Pete Brown)
• Windows Phone 7 security for developers (Steven Hodson)
• Introducing the concept of “Places” and Redirecting an initial navigation (Peter Torr)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ethan Winer, Very Old School (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Silverlight TV 42: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes (John Papa)
• Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch and Wes Dyer and Jeffrey Van Gogh: Rx Virtual Time (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 92: Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds on Nu (Jon Galloway)
• geekSpeak Recording – WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed and MSDN Radio: Shazzam and Windows Phone 7 with Walt Ritscher and MSDN Radio: Game Building for Windows Phone 7 using XNA/Game Studio with Dan Waters (Emily Gibson)
• New Show on Channel 9: Web Camps TV (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone Design Days Presentations (Don Burnett)
• Web Camps TV #1 – ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and Razor Tips with Phil Haack and New: Windows Azure Storage Helper for WebMatrix (James Senior)
• Bytes by MSDN: Brandon Watson and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Rockford Lhotka and Tim Huckaby discuss Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Tim Huckaby and Mike Benkovich discuss Developing Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis discuss Silverlight 4 and Bytes by MSDN: Richard Campbell and Mike Benkovich and Bytes by MSDN: Bill Lodin and Mickey Williams discuss Windows Azure Resources and Bytes by MSDN: Brian Noyes and Rob Bagby discuss Service Bus and Windows Azure and Bytes by MSDN: Clemens Vasters and Rob Bagby discuss "Project Sydney" and Hybrid Apps (Bytes by MSDN)
• MSDEV Video Series Highlights Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (Bruce Kyle)
• Video of Windows Phone 7 in action and a true image of the LG E900 surface (Phone Arena)
• Free Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations (Joel Oleson)
• BPC10 Screencast: How to Best Gather Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Community Megaphone Show #16 with guest John Blumenauer (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• jQuery Podcast 32 – Dave Ward (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Cloud Cover Episode 23 – AppFabric Service Bus (Ryan Dunn)
• Countdown to PDC10: And the winner is . . . (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• The Programmer’s Body (Scott Hanselman)
• Ever thought of being a writer? (Ted Neward)
• The patterns & practices symposium Redmond 2010 (Grigori Melnik)
• 20 MVPs and 4 former MVPs at SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
• Keep the Fire(starters) Burning: Web Platform Edition! (Jim O’Neil)
• DreamSpark provides Free Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Chris Koenig)
• Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins) (Jeff Atwood)
• Imagine Cup 2011 to be hosted in New York City (Bob Familiar)
• Typemock Sponsors See# Party 2010 (#ssp2010) (Britt King)
• Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part1 (Dan Mezick)

Database

• Display DDL Triggers in your SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Adding Column is Expensive by Joining Table Outside View – Limitation of the Views Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t index on dates (Simon Sabin)
• Database indexes are your friend (Jimmy Bogard)
• Generate Insert Query in SQL (Abhijit Desai)
• The Lazy DBA Series: Wizards! (Ted Krueger)
• Ten Things I Hate to See in T-SQL (Michael Swart)

SharePoint

• Tips and Tricks for setting up a SharePoint 2010 development environment (Greg Galipeau)
• SharePoint 2010 and SQL Hotfix Dependencies (Joel Oleson)
• I’m Done with SharePoint (William Vaughn)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server Update Rollup 1 Released (Nigel Wilks)
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Update to Increase Video Performance and "Sort Sections" OneNote PowerToy Upgraded for Microsoft Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Windows Live Sync to be named Windows Live Mesh (Allison Omahony)
• Microsoft Offers New Certification Exam Discount (Brad M. McGehee)
• Become a Better Mindmapper: Chuck Frey Shows You How (Chance Brown)
• PowerShell, GAC, and build servers (Christopher Bennage)
• Docs.com Update adds tags support, search, sort and filter, and new Social Doc Templates (damaster)
• Auto-Wiring Ruby Events (Davy Brion)
• Page Tab Floatie (Jeff Cardon)
• Programmer Superstitions (Jesse Liberty)
• How to prepare questions for your interview (Angela McLaughlin)
• Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 and Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Our Product Strategy: How Zoho Services Fit Together (Sridhar Vembu)
• Startup Business Checklist 2010 (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft’s FUSE Labs releases teamcrossword beta (Steve Clayton)
• Call phones from Gmail (The Gmail Team)
• My new Kindle 3 review–comparing against Kindle 2 (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 25, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 26, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #673 and The Morning Brew #674 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 25-Aug-2010 and Tech Tweets for 26-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 08/27/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Distributed Weekly 65 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 25, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 26, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2010 – 2 — #933 and Silverlight Cream for August 27, 2010 — #934 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Archives 14th Aug 2010 – 28th Aug 2010 (Abhijit Jana)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 2 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jon Galloway