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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

• Stack Exchange API V2.0 Public Beta (Kevin Montrose)
• GUI REPL for Roslyn (Chris Sells)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Has Reached 50,000 Apps (Antonio Hernandez)
• Charlie Kindel, ex-Microsoft, posts thoughts on Windows Phone’s successes and failures (Chris Ziegler)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Cancelling Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
• Renaming Project Files in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly Into TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• VSColorOutput – Visual Studio Output Coloring Extension (Think "Adding color to the Build/Debug Output window text") and Virtual Postcard with Kinect and The Android Eye for the .Net Guy… The Android for .NET Developers Series by Dino Esposito (Greg Duncan)
• StyleCop 4.7.0.0. is out (Tatworth)
• Extending Unity (Robert May)
• Features Nuget Would Benefit From (Paul Stack)
• Why is the file size reported incorrectly for files that are still being written to? and Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dragging out (Raymond Chen)
• Yield Operator Fun (Sebastian Dau)
• ReSharper 6.1: Improvements in IntelliSense Options (Hadi Hariri)
• TPL – Continuation (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• Deploying a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 to Azure with SQL Server Compact (Al Pascual)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.41 (CodePlex)
• Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• Working with the JavaScript “this” Keyword (Dan Wahlin)
• CSS3 Images Pre-Last Call WD Published (Elika J. Etemad)
• Little HTML5 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• CSS3 Lightbox (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Field and Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft helps extend JavaScript (Sara Allison)
• Performance testing with Selenium and javascript (JP Castro)
• Packaging a JavaScript Library with Nuget (Sumit Maitra)
• Microsoft Developers finally get a .NET Framework for HTML5 Mobile Applications (Webgui)
• Binding And Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater and 30 Minutes To Grasp ASP. NET jQuery Repeater and Using jQuery Repeater to Mark a Multi-line EMail Message As Spam and Show Progress (zoyobar)
• Day 2 – GPU accelerate your DOM elements (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Windows Azure Trial Account Spending Limit and The New, Improved No-Risk Windows Azure Trial (Jim O’Neil)
• Knockout.js Observable Extensions (Josh Bush)
• Orchard Hands-On Lab available (Greg Duncan)
• Making the First Letter Stand Out (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Introducing filer.js (Eric Bidelman)
• Deployment of Applications with Infragistics Reporting in Windows Azure (Mihail Mateev)
• knockoutjs: Uncaught Error: ko.applyBindings: first parameter should be your view model; second parameter should be a DOM node (Alexander Zeitler)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.1 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github and The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• First Experience Building Something With Clojure (Gareth Rushgrove)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
• Introduction to bddify and Method name conventions in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• NOT Doing Scrum – Back to the Basics and Teams Over Processes – Don’t Be Insane (Peter Saddington)
• Example of Self-documenting Unit Test with Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Introducing the for-if anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 20: Refactoring a Monster Test, Part 2 and 31 Days of Testing—Day 21: Data Driving Your Functional Tests (Jim Holmes)
• Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test (Gautam Goenka)
• How-To: Returning a Class By Value with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Expanding your horizons: Actions (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Testing Windows Phone 7 Apps with Typemock (Avi Kaye)
• Silverlight & XNA – A Tale of Two Cities (Simon Jackson)
• Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
• 23 skins and counting with v1.1 of the Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.5.0 Now Available… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started (Senthil Kumar)
• Book Review: Fun with Silverlight 4 authored by Rajesh Lal (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Real World Windows Phone Dev Part 4: The Panorama (Matt Hidinger)
• Adding an Easter Egg to your WP7 Application (Michael Crump)
• My Top Frameworks for Windows Phone Development (Pieter de Rycke)
• 2000 WPF Things #458 – Properties to Set When Using a Horizontal or Vertical GridSplitter and #459 – Using Two (or More) GridSplitter Elements in the Same Grid and #460 – A GridSplitter Can Share a Cell with Another Control (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Final notes before the beta and Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Caliburn.Micro: RadTransitionControl custom convention (Mikael Koskinen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve McConnell Studies Development Practices and The Tablet Show – Richard Griffin Programs in WinJS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell and YOW! 2011: Martin Thompson – On Concurrent Programming and Concurrency Folklore and GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 189: Paul Litwin and Suzanna Moran on Geeks Giving Back (David Giard)
• What The Tech 99: Wishlists and Predictions For 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
• Gillmor Gang Live 12.28.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 118 – 12.26.2011 and Engadget HD Podcast 280 – 12.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Play TDD #154: Save and Cancel… Done! (James Shore)
• Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go (Mark Frauenfelder)

Community / Events

• Changes, changes, changes and CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Ted Neward)
• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• OSS and .NET Year In Review 2011 (Phil Haack)
• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

• Dynamic Sorting in SSRS (Unknown Author)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 15138 – The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped and SQL SERVER – Target Recovery Time of a Database – Advance Option in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Effect of Compressed Backup Setting at Server Level on Database Backup (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Database Specification (SQLArcher)
• Free O’Reilly eBook "Oracle Essentials, 4th Edition" (Tatworth)
• Case Sensitive search with SQL (koolprasad2003)
• Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Why Management Studio forces you to know SQL (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

• Three Degrees of the SharePoint Community Challenge (Joel Oleson)
• Understanding Business Connectivity Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• 10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Developer Should Make (Andrew Burgess)
• Here are three Ruby functions… (Brian Marick)
• Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
• The Case For Developer Platforms (James Yu)
• Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny (Chris Sells)
• Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release Dates (Vygantas)
• Windows 8 Slate Review (Jeremy Likness)
• iOS Rich Text Editing : Sample Project (Josh Garnham)
• Learning Android: WebView character encoding (Mark Needham)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 and Kindel: Yes, Windows Phone is Superior, But Here’s Why It’s Not Selling (Paul Thurrott)
• So, just what IS the problem with Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
• My next year TOP5 wishlist for Windows media, WP7 and XBox teams in Microsoft (Gunnar Peipman)
• Results of the reverse engineering poll – people do it, whether you want it or not (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 26, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.20 ~ 12.28 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – #0016 and Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – 2 – #0017 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #781 and Double Shot #782 and Double Shot #783 (Mike Gunderloy)
• 2011 Yearly Link Roundup (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Daily News Digest 12/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 22-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #1010 (Chris Alcock)
• Backbone Fundamentals, Three.js Boilerplate, zoom.js and Node Roundup: Clarinet, Sandbox, actionHero and jQuery Roundup: jQuery-inlog, -prefix-free, jquery.animate-enhanced (Alex Young)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Recently in Web Development (December Edition) (Siddharth)
• MVP Mondays: Popular Posts from 2011 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) by Jeremy Osborn

• Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th) (Scott Guthrie)
• Hello GitHub! (Phil Haack)
• A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips (Colin Eberhardt)
• MVVM Light template and WCF services (or any ASP.NET application for that matter) (Laurent Bugnion)
• NuGet: little known features (Peter Kuhn)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preview Tab in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• MSSQL & NHibernate – mapping week numbers to properties (Gunnar Peipman)
• Use Projections and a Repository to Fake a Filtered Eager Load (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Gibraltar 3.0 Beta 2 Available – More scalable, lighter weight agents, and real time data. (Kendall)
• Download .NET Reflector 7.5 EA Build 3 (RedGate)
• LINQ to Reports… As in transform your LINQ queries into reports, with extensible formats like Excel, PDF, CSV, HTML (Greg Duncan)
• A Key Code Checker for DOM Keyboard Events (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.0 (beta) Released (Nathan Totten)
• What is Package.appxmanifest File in Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Group Chat SDK (Steve Jones)
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta 2 (MS Downloads)
• Using a bar code scanner in .NET (Chad Z. Hower)
• Setting up your first use of the Animation library in WinJS (Adam Kinney)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 2–Delegates (Kyle Burns)

Web Development

• The CSS profilers are coming! (Lennart Schoors)
• HTML Forms in HTML Emails (Chris Coyier)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Hide Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• IIS Tuner 1.1 and ProDinner ASP.net WebForms Awesome Sample Application (CodePlex)
• Set the AsyncTimeout attribute for your async controllers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Updated Live Connect API announced (Kip Kniskern)
• Moving to Standards-based Web Graphics in IE10 (Ted Johnson)
• MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud (Jeff Wilcox)
• Running PHPUnit in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing with CRM 2011 (Mark Schweigert)
• Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox’s attention to detail on their download page (Scott Hanselman)
• Design It to Build It: What to Consider When Designing for the Web (Patrick Cox)
• It’s okay for your UI to know some business process (Kyle Szklenski)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 7: Automated Test Basics (Jim Holmes)
• A Manifesto For Sofware Team Leaders – Take 1 (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator – Project Setup (Weidong Shen)
• Building an Augmented Reality XAML control (Morten Nielsen)
• Syncing Windows Phone database with backend SQL Server (Andy Wigley)
• Have an idea for a Windows Phone Starter Kit? and Windows Phone Starter Kit for Schools v2.0 Released! (Chris Koenig)
• Debugging the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps (Doug Holland)
• Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone Survey Application and Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7.5 (Francis K. Cheung)
• WPF Elements 5 Released! (John-Daniel Trask)
• 2000 WPF Things #446 – Default Docking for DockPanel Children (Sean Sexton)
• Calling WCF REST Service with Basic authentication from Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to add and remove Secondary Tiles in Windows Phone apps (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Development Practices at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 005 – 12.07.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing the Learn Windows Azure Live Event! (Wade Wegner)
• Project Compatibility in Visual Studio 11 (Robert Green)
• Let’s Play TDD #148: Asynchronous Assertions (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Farm Frenzy 2, Pocket Party Game, Archie, Race & Battle, Double Jumper (Laura Foy)
• A little responsive video demo (Leigh Howells)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Win Free Copies of Nhibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Oren Eini)
• Phil Haack is a GitHubber (Tim Clem)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Paul Thurrott (Thomas Houston)
• Nokia and T-Mobile USA making announcement on December 14th (Chris Ziegler)
• thatConference Announced! (Dave Bost)

Database

• SQL Server Storage: Files and Filegroups Video (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Error: Deleting Offline Database and Creating the Same Name (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 7: Crosstab with PIVOT and  SQL Advent 2011 Day 8: UNPIVOT (Denis Gobo)
• Dynamic Connections in SSIS – Extract, Transform and Load and SQL Server Integration Services tools to have – Expression Editor & Tester (Ted Krueger)
• Data Explorer Feedback part 1 (Jamie Thomson)
• Community created Forward Engineer Database Diagrams Addin for Visio 2010 (Think "Diagram to T-SQL," like in past versions, but with source) (Greg Duncan)
• The Day-to-Day Tasks of the Average DBA (Brad M McGehee)

SharePoint

• Renaming SharePoint Service Apps Databases (Brian Farnhill)

Miscellaneous

• Power Tools for Windows (Steve Jones)
• Ruby On REST: Introducing the Representer Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
• Get your app in the Store on opening day (Antoine Leblond)
• I’ve got my XBox Live Avatar, right here…. on my T-Shirt! and Getting Started with Scratch – A Programmer’s Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing the official Xbox LIVE iOS App (Larry Hryb)
• Just how important is Desktop App support for Windows 8 ARM tablets? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Pinworthy: 7 apps for entertaining kids during the holidays (Michael Stroh)
• Windows 8 –Trust me, we got this covered this time I promise… (Scott Barnes)
• Xbox Companion App Available Now (Control Your Xbox From Your Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
• O’ Reilly Deals on Cookbooks to Jan 19th (Tatworth)
• Welcome to the New Xbox 360 Dashboard (XNA Team)
• Rumor: Amazon Retail Stores Coming & Predatory Pricing Channel Destruction (Jason Calacanis)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #769 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #998 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/07/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for November 28 – December 4, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 12/8/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: December 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel

• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is here! (Ted Krueger)
• jQuery 1.7.1 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• A Few of My Favorite HTML5 and CSS3 Online Tools (Dan Wahlin)
• Visual Studio 11 IDE Advances (Somasegar)
• Working with Subversion Part 2 (or Subversion for the Less Subversive) (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 (Todd Parker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop (Don Syme)
• Dynamic LINQ to NHibernate (Felice Pollano)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The EventHandler and EventHandler<TEventArgs> delegates (James Michael Hare)
• CSS speed typing for Visual Studio (Mads Kristensen)
• ExportFactory in MEF 2 (Alok)
• Analyzing Memory Leaks from Dump Files with SciTech .NET Memory Profiler (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Storing Complex Types, Binary Resources, and Other Tricky Things (Glen Gailey)
• Updated libraries and projects for Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 (Greg Duncan)
• Why can’t I install this DLL via Regsvr32 /i? (Raymond Chen)
• Compare .NET Objects – Version 1.3.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Generating Mandelbrot fractals using HTML5 (Chris)
• Convert Ruby Regexp to JavaScript RegExp (Brian Cardarella)
• Learning HTML5 – Best of RSS (Steve Albers)
• Introduction To Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.437 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Box debuts /bin platform with $2M app developer fund (Colleen Taylor)
• Execute code each time the Node.js REPL starts (Axel Rauschmayer)
• REST API Design: Put the “Type” in “Content-Type” (Mark Massé)
• Building A More App-y Web (Pete LePage)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: SpecificationByExample (Martin Fowler)
• 15 Tenets For The Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
• How I view OneNote automation (John Guin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight: Bugs in the multicast client (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Delete data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Disable Javascript errors in WPF Web Browser Control take2 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• New! Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts (Chris Koenig)
• Suppressing Zoom and Scroll interactions in the Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Simulating GPS position changes using Reactive Extensions in Windows Phone environment (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Socket Sample (Michael Sync)
• 2000 WPF Things #433 – Preservation of Margins While Editing Grid in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #18: Using Sample Data (Jeff Blankenburg)
• How-to: Apps for creating custom ringtones (Andy Colley)
• Custom ringtones: A visual guide (Drew Williams)
• MultiBinding in Silverlight 5 (Henrik Jonsson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: David Ungar – Self, ManyCore, and Embracing Non-Determinism (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 043 – “Ben the Phone Charity Guy” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: JetBrains ReSharper (Robert Green)
• High Performance Computing with Wenming Ye (Larry Larsen)
• Five Kindle Fire Unboxing and Review YouTube Videos (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Michael Sync (The Code Project)
• Juicy Bits (Mike Swanson)
• Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest (Stephanie Taylor)
• FREE ALM Webcast Series in November/December (Angela Binkowski)
• UGIALT.net conf 7: proposals, dates and voting (Simone Chiaretta)
• Infragistics speaking at New York City Windows Phone User Group (Tobias Komischke)
• SQL Azure MVP Herve Roggero on the Value of Being an MVP (MVP Award Program)
• Northwest Harvest at MVP Summit 2012 (MVP Summit Events)

Database

• Great tool for SQL Server Compact Databases (Arian Kulp)
• SQL Server 2012 RC0 is now available. Here’s a download link round-up. (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to PERCENT_RANK() – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Location of files for new database in SQL Server and Showing sysjobhistory run_duration in HHMMSS format (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server – When will my backup finish? (Vishal)
• Compatibility Matrix 1.2 (Mark Broadbent)
• The Data Explorer Formula Language (Data Explorer Team)
• Table Space revised Again (Jason Brimhall)
• Excel worksheets from variable – revisited (John Pertell)

SharePoint

• Deploying WSPs as part of an automated build (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Samplers From O’Reilly (Tatworth)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #755 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/17/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #984 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2011 — #1168 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

• Using Task Manager with 64+ logical processors (Steven Sinofsky)
• Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET 4.5 (Grigori Melnik)
• Getting Started with JavaScript… again (Christopher Bennage)
• Calling F# Libraries from Metro Style Apps (Daniel Mohl)
• Lighting up your C# Metro apps by being a Share Target and Tip/Trick when working with the Application Bar in WinRT/Metro (C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• What’s new in MEF ‘version 2’ Preview 4? (Alok & Nick)
• Phree Book Reader Now Available (Charles Petzold)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.8.5 Now Available (Rene Schulte)
• LINQ to XML in a Nutshell (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WCF Data Services October CTP Updates OData Libraries, Adds Spatial Data Types (Jenni Konrad)
• F# under the covers XIV — Match expressions : Does my complexity look big in this? and F# — where has our Roslyn been? (Steve Gilham)
• Inner Fields and Lazy Initialization in C# (Steve Smith)
• .NET Framework 4 Now Supports LocalDB (Abel Avram)
• MEF 101 – Part2 (Abhijeet Patel)
• Understanding basic WinRT Metro Applications and Application Capabilities and Layout adjustments Snapping and OrientationChanges in Metro Applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Azure AppFabric ServiceBus Relay Load Balancing (Scale & Availability Feature) and Whats new in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 – Packages are no longer encrypted and How to upgrade only one specific role from your Windows Azure Application and Communication between Windows Azure Roles (Avkash Chauhan)
• VS11DP Microsoft Parallel Visualization Pack (Greg Duncan)
• OpenWrap 2.0.1–a better way to look at dependencies (Sebastien Lambla)
• Building a .NET Gadgeteer Compatible Hardware and Software Module: Der BlinkenLED (Pete Brown)
• Three .NET "tools" that I use every day and you want to know about (Dror Helper)
• Convention-based part registration available in a new MEF preview! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Fluent Assertions is finally gaining some momentum (Dennis Doomen)
• 5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic GC Collections (Michael McLaughlin)
• Enterprise Library Contrib – 5.0 (Oct 2011) (CodePlex)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

• HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails Developers (Daniel Kehoe)
• ASP.NET MVC: Expression Trees as Parameter to Simplify Query (SummiG)
• HTML5 canvas – Creating Your Own Paint Program (Aramis GC)
• Update NuGet Docs in the Browser with Github (Phil Haack)
• Codeigniter + HTML5 Boilerplate = win (John Esposito)
• Razor and CSS in JustCode (Just* Team)
• Simple Membership MVC3 1.2 available on NuGet (Kevin LaBranche)
• Definition of Done in an MVC project (Mehdi Khalili)
• HTMLApplicationHost Framework Posted to Codeplex (David Kelley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Assertion (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript: Why the hatred for strict mode? (Acel Rauschmayer)
• Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers (Vitaly Friedman)
• JavaScript YouTube Downloader–The Compact Edition (Shai Raiten)
• Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Embrace Authorship – The importance of rel=me and rel=author on your content’s SEO and Google (Scott Hanselman)
• Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? (Peter Kellner)
• New PHP formatting options in PhpStorm 3.0 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
• Deploying Node.js Applications to Windows Azure via Blobs or Git Sync (Steve Marx)
• Best Practices for Getting Started with SVG (Jennifer Yu)
• A Best Practice for Programming with Vendor Prefixes (John Hrvatin)
• Guide to Claims-based Identity and Access Control (2nd Edition) (Jimmy Larkin)
• CoffeeScript’s for loops don’t work on strings (despite appearances to the contrary) (Joe White)
• Piwik ≤ 1.5.1 multiple XSS vulnerabilities (Krzysztof Kotowicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simple Design with Design Patterns (Cory Foy)
• Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party controls – the basics explained and Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party Windows Forms controls–How to? (Shubhra Maji)
• Getting Started with Getting Results Free eBook (JD Meier)
• The gift of legacy (Jef Claes)
• Software Development as Risk Management (Christopher Goldsbury)
• Are Project Managers Living a Lie? (Peter Saddington)
• A case study in responsive design (Dan Sheerman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Commands in MVVM (Dave Kerr)
• Getting Started with Windows Phone Alarms (Windows Phone Geek)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (1) (Anders Poulsen)
• Grouping & CheckBoxes in RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 (Deyan Ginev)
• Microsoft: Windows Phone Mango now being delivered to ’100 percent’ of compatible devices (Donald Melanson)
• HTML5 Mobile and Windows Phone 7 (Doris Chen)
• WPF 4: Changing DataGrid Cell Appearance on Mouse Events (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 2000 WPF Things #418 – Star Sizing Allows Setting Row and Column Sizes Relative to Each Other and #419 – How Cell Sizes are Calculated when Using Star Sizing (Sean Sexton)
• Custom Versioning Strategy on TFS 2010 for Windows Phone (Henry Lee)
• 31 Days of Mango (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 180: Brian Korzinski on Codeslingers (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 417: BF3, Kinect Sports Season 2, Goldeneye 007: Reloaded (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 164 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro with Devfarm (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 91: Zendcon 2011 – Jeff Kibler interview (Michael Kimsal)
• Engadget Podcast 262 – 10.28.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 110 – 10.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Migrating to the Cloud – Part 3/3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 74 – Mahesh Krishnan on Azure (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 232: Mango Is To Tango (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Robert Collazo Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Cloud Cover Episode 63 – Securely Sharing Files with Windows Azure (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
• This is my next Podcast 030 – 10.30.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Kinect to Kill: A Channel 9 Halloween Special (Laura Foy)
• Video on How to Start developing for Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to change Theme and Skin of Windows Phone 7 Emulator and Video on How to work with Orientation Changes in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Online Webcast How to Identify Resource Bottlenecks – Wait Types and Queues (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing a new user group (Andrej Tozon)
• ALM Events in Redmond by Northwest Cadence and Agile Scrum and Kanban presentation by David Starr Nov 3rd at ODNC and free bonus sessions at DevTeach (Charles Sterling)
• Get in the game! Announcing a round of free, HTML5 game camps from Microsoft (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight in the Enterprise Training at MS NYC (Dani Diaz)
• WordPress Geeks Rejoice, WordCamp Philly 2011 Scheduled For November 6th (Joe Ross)
• KolkataGeeks Pleased to Announce Developer Conference 2011 (#DevConKol2011) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft holding Windows Phone press event in NYC Nov. 7 (John Callaham)
• November Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Updatable Subscriptions Deprecated in SQL Server 2012 (Brandon Williams)
• SQL SERVER – Fundamentals of Columnstore Index and SQL SERVER – How to Ignore Columnstore Index Usage in Query and SQL SERVER – Database Dynamic Caching by Automatic SQL Server Performance Acceleration (Pinal Dave)
• Add Client Name in SQL Profiler Results (Madhivanan)
• Creating a Table Report with Dynamic Columns (Paul Turley)
• Save a step: Using Computed Columns in a Table Variable (or Temp Table) (sognibene)
• Installing the AdventureWorks Community Sample Database content and Installing the AdventureWorks OLAP Sample Database (Enrique Lima)
• How To Estimate Data Utilization (Michelle Ufford)

SharePoint

• Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – About this Series… and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – How I do MVVM and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – My favorite MVVM toolkit : MVVM Light Toolkit and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Commands and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Messages and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Working with Dialogs and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the Business Logic and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Testing the User Interface and Silverlight, MVVM & SharePoint – Using Data Services (Andrew Connell)
• How do I – Resolve the Powershell New-SPConfigurationDatabase command error – The pipeline has been stopped, This SharePoint farm currently has pending upgrades (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• A follow up to installing a Dev SharePoint 2010 environment on Windows 7: Using the Farm Configuration Wizard Part 1 of 2 (Enrique Lima)
• New book: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• My Favorite PowerShell Script: Reading Log Files (Jes Schultz Borland)

Miscellaneous

• The Great Place to Work Institute Names Microsoft World’s Best Workplace (MS JobsBlog)
• Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth (Joe Ferris)
• RubyMine, Part 4. Editing Code (Victor Savkin)
• Control Your Vim Editor (Dalibor Nasevic)
• CodePlex Activity Stream (Jahmai OSullivan)
• Windows Azure Special offer for MSDN Subscribers (PubSec)
• Google TV gets generally more ‘Googly’ with Android apps, new YouTube (Tim Conneally)
• So what about Windows Phone 7 adoption rates? (Joost van Schaik)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 28, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 126 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 31 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Bi-Weekly Link Post 212 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Geek Reading October 28, 2011 and Geek Reading October 29, 2011 and Geek Reading October 30, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #740 and Double Shot #741 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: October 28, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Friday Links 2011-10-28 (JD Meier)
• The Morning Brew #969 and The Morning Brew #970 (Chris Alcock)
• Pie in the Sky (October 28, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Daily News Digest 10/28/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/28/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 23-October-2011 to 29-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Web Dev Tweets 26-Oct-2011 and 27-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #18 (Franky)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/28/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Retrospective 56 – #CTO #Blog and #SEO #Giveaway (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph

• Updated Win 8 Dev Platform diagram (Rockford Lhotka)
• SemVer, NuGet, and Nightly Builds (Phil Haack)
• Nokia’s First Two Windows Phones Are Here. And They’re Awesome. (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows Phone Tombstoning with PhoneGap and Knockout.js (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Build VB6 Apps with TFS Team Build 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• Using the ToggleSwitch in WinRT/Metro (for C#) (Derik Whittaker)
• Searching the Global Address List – C# Edition (Henning Krause)
• Building Visual Studio Extensions with Roslyn (Jonathan Allen)
• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 – now available on Microsoft Update (Visual Studio Blog)
• Microsoft Speech Platform – Software Development Kit (SDK) (Version 11) (MS Downloads)
• Install Application as Service on Windows Server 2008 (Steve Smith)
• Code Documentation Generation with SandCastle (Stacy Vicknair)
• Packaging an Executable as a Windows Azure Application From the Command Line (Steve Marx)
• Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New refactorings in JustCode (Just* Team)
• FSharpChart minor release available (version 0.56) (Carl Nolan)

Web Development

• Connecting your WinPhone 7 app to an ASP.Net Razor page with a little REST and JSON (Greg Duncan)
• Building the Internet of Things: HTML5 for Microcontrollers (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Empty Charsets in IE 9 Causing JSON Parsing Errors (Rob Conery)
• Reuse in action: Bing Maps REST API and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Telerik AJAX Q3 2011 Beta – New Org Chart and Social Share controls, Metro skin and more (Stefan Rahnev)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Social Media (Buck Woody)
• Rebuilding My Backbone.js Plugins With Modules, SRP and More (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Questions when Measuring Agile Adoption (Craig Smith)
• Now Available: Getting Results the Agile Way on Kindle (JD Meier)
• Scrum with dev11 – Creating a new Team Project (Martin Hinshelwood)
• My Ideal Development Shop (Bobby Johnson)
• The broken window theory in the real world (Peter Gfader)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator v2.5.0.0 (CodePlex)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Tip for Using HyperlinkButton or Hyperlink in Silverlight for Windows Phone (Cheryl Simmons)
• Expression Blend Step By Step Review (Don Burnett)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Visual Studio XAML Designer: New Grid Features (Erik Arthur & Jeffrey Ferman)
• Property change notifications when using SQL CE on Windows Phone 7.1 (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #416 – Setting Grid Rows and Columns to Autosize (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 271 – 10.25.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage (Larry Larsen)
• The Engadget Show – 026: A visit from Intel, a trip to New York Comic Con, haunted houses and costume contests (Brian Heater)
• Video on Creating and Uploading Certificate for Windows Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

• HTML5 Game Camps Coming Soon (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Signing Event – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• Reflections on GiveCamp (Reed Copsey)
• Win 3 Free Licenses for InVision Prototyping Tool (Scott Hutcheson)

Database

• Verify a connection before using it [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• Wanna Get Good at SQL Server? (Thomas LaRock)
• CLR Sprocs Deployment (Ken Spencer)
• Multiple query plans for the same query? (Geniiius)
• Import MS Best Practice Policies (Ryan Adams)
• Inside the Oracle Database Cloud Service (Oracle TechBlog)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 5: Install Language Packs for SharePoint 2010 and SharePointFive: Move Site Collections Using PowerShell (Martin W. Angler)

Miscellaneous

• A Quick Introduction to Rack (Satish Talim)
• Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry (Dan Rayburn)
• Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and Nokia Pulse for Windows Phone announced (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 25, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #967 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 10/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 24-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

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

• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone (V1.3.1) is released (Avkash Chauhan)
• jQuery 1.7 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Announcing The jQuery Standards Team (Addy Osmani)
• Using If This Then That to Automate Your Life (Steve Smith)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Rewriting with Symbol Information (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Windows Phone design Grid – Love it! (Arturo Toledo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using MongoDB with the Official C# Driver (Ercan Anlama)
• Automatic Tag Update in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• C# As A Scripting Language In Your .NET Applications using Roslyn (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Designing Action and TryAction members (Rory Primrose)
• Entity Framework, The Five Years Plan, And Building Software on Future Features (Oren Eini)
• Continuation Tasks (Richard Carr)
• OpenRA = C# Red Alert/Command and Conquer Clone (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection (James Michael Hare)
• OData Service Validation Tool Update: New feature and rules (Turker Keskinpala)
• CodeRush Code Issues for interfaces (Alex Skorkin)
• Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API and Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Window Manipulation with the Microsoft Touch Mouse – Window Touch v1.0 (CodePlex)
• APress Deal of the Day – 25/Oct/2011 – Beginning WF Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Tatworth)
• Calculating Distance In Bing Maps (Dani Diaz)
• Enterprise Library community extensions ported to v5, released via NuGet (Grigori Melnik)
• .Net Framework 4.0.2 Release Information Rollup (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Development Platform Clarified and Updated Code Mastery demo (Rockford Lhotka)
• If the shell is written in C++, why not just export its base classes? (Raymond Chen)
• Getting Started with the .NET Gadgeteer – Part 1: Background, Setup, and Hello World (Pete Brown)
• Displaying Lync Online Meeting Appointment Details using the EWS Managed API (Glen Scales)

Web Development

• Typemock: Better support for ASP.NET MVC (Avi Kaye)
• Magic: The Gathering in JavaScript and HTML5 (John Esposito)
• CSS3 Advanced Selectors (Pad Gallagher)
• A Fun Little JSON Murder Mystery With IE9 and Rails, Models and Business Logic (Rob Conery)
• Some More Thoughts On OAuth 2 Sample (Howard Dierking)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ScrumPig 2 Backlog Filter Syntax (Howard Dierking)
• Scrum with dev11: Creating a Scrum team identity (Martin Hinshelwood)
• How to Design Content Filters for Better User Browsing (Anthony Tseng)
• Models for a view (some objects are more equal than others) (Peter van Ooijen)
• Retrospective: The 5 whys (Mark Needham)
• How to Setup New Stories and Tasks in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Command-Query Separation on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• XAML Magic: Turning an Ugly Silverlight Duckling into a Beautiful Photoshopped Swan (Samuel Jack)
• The Windows Phone Inner Circle is coming to your city! (Brian Seitz)
• Tombstoning with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (and KnockoutJS) (Colin Eberhardt)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 3 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• The Financial Face of RadChart for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
• Designing My First (Public) Windows Phone App (Glen Gailey)
• Build Scalable Mobile Apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone on Windows Azure (Himanshu Singh)
• 2000 WPF Things #415 – Setting Grid Row Height and Column Width Properties to Absolute Values (Sean Sexton)
• LOB Chronicles Episode 11: Bringing in the Controls (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Alexander Groß Deals with Machine Specifications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 124: Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar on Glimpse (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 10: /dev/random (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 27 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Idea Week for student developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
• I am Coming to Washington DC for 2 Classes (Shawn Wildermuth)
• SQLAuthority News – Meeting SQL Friends – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• sharepoint saturday uk–12th november 2011 (Brett Lonsdale)
• Interview: Maarten Balliauw, Main Contributor to the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (and much more) (Brian Swan)
• Want to be a Microsoft Student Partner? (Chris Koenig)
• YUIConf 2011 Update: Announcing More Talks and a Free Workshop! (Jenny Donnelly)
• Upcoming events (Michael Eaton)

Database

• Dataflow mechanics [SSIS] and Thoughts on Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance: Part 2 (John Pertell)
• Database space use (David Forck)
• When will you be able to start using "Data Explorer"? (Data Explorer Team)
• My 3 Favorite Connection String Tips (Brent Ozar)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the New Microsoft Press Exam Ref Series (Karen Szall)
• Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule Announced: Roll on 2013! (Peter Cooper)
• Nokia May Offer Windows 8 Tablets (Robert Boland)
• Reading more than ever: An analysis of four lazy years with an Amazon Kindle and no dead trees (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.18 ~ 10.24 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 25 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 24, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #966 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/24/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Double Shot #737 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 17 – 23, 2011 and Weekly article digest 10/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 10/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Rails 3 in Action by Ryan Bigg

• RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning and DropkicK–Deploy Fluently (Rob Reynolds)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Introduction and Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Rewriting (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Dependencies Break Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why if you have implemented or in the process of implementing Scrum and are considering adding Kanban, you will want to evaluate that decision carefully (John Petersen)
• New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Using pInvoke (Dan Wahlin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the Processor Speed and Number of Cores (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft® Visual Studio® Agents 11 Developer Preview (ISO) (MS Downloads)
• Implementing Programming Languages using C# (Christopher Diggins)
• Steamlining RavenDB, Part II – Why RavenDB Lazy Requests are in the Advanced section? (Oren Eini)
• Tutorial: free and paid game versions in Visual Studio (John Esposito)
• Code First and DbContext are now “The Entity Framework” (Julie Lerman)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… – Refactoring work in progress (Peter Gfader)
• Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! (Peter Kellner)
• List of recommended books on TFS, Visual Studio, C# and C++ coding, Design and Development Process (Terje Sandstrom)
• Setting up Separate Visual Studio Instances and Opening Visual Studio From the Task Bar (Deborah Kurata)
• Times Tables (Phillip Trelford)
• LittleWife™ (Rudi Grobler)
• Editing a Local Windows Azure Project with the Emulator Running (Nathan Totten)
• Scripting and Code Analysis using Roslyn – And a first look at Roslyn CTP (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• The Non-Typical .NET Job (Davy Brion)
• WinRT/Metro–Problem with the data from error (Derik Whittaker)
• Publish Azure Project using Windows Azure SDK 1.5 Publish Setting wizard and Roslyn Syntax API: First Look and Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ObjectStorageHelper – A WinRT utility for Windows 8 (Jamie Thomson)
• WinRT and Windows Property System part 2: searching for files by metadata (Andrei Marukovich)
• State of .NET Image Resizing: how does imageresizer do? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Page Inspector Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• OpenRA = C# Red Alert/Command and Conquer Clone (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• JSON Serialization and Deserialization in ASP.NET (SummiG)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Conditional with Polymorphism (Giorgio Sironi)
• Entity Framework in Three-Layered Services Application Pattern, ASP.NET MVC and Firewalled Layers? (Sam Gentile)
• Make YouTube links Windows Phone 7 – compatible (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Simple XML to JSON with PHP (Sean Biefeld)
• Printing JSON data on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Moving to Azure: Worker Roles for Nothing and Tasks for Free (Michael C. Neel)
• Running Memcached on Windows Azure for PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• How To Write JavaScript \ JQuery Plugins (Shai Raiten)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 3 Criteria for Agile Leadership Practices (Jurgen Appelo)
• Confusion As A Usability Defect (Rob Diana)
• Process Template Upgrade #3 – Destroy all Work Items and Import new ones (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Best Practices for Build and Release Management: Part 1 and Best Practices for Build and Release Management: Part 2 (James Betteley)
• UX guidelines for Metro style app development (Billy Chow)
• I Am Sold on Pair Programming (Bobby Johnson)
• Developers Need To Keep Challenging Themselves (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Validation in WPF Toolkit’s DataGrid (Frank Augustin)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–the updated PropertyGrid (Brian Lagunas)
• Adding Error Bars to Visiblox Silverlight Charts (Colin Eberhardt)
• Block diagram for Push Notification in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• CODE Framework 4.0.11021.0 (CodePlex)
• A run at runtime stats for your Windows Phone 7 apps with Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework and Google Analytics (Greg Duncan)
• How to enable Windows Phone Application Tombstone in the Emulator when Debugging and Using the BingMapsDirectionsTask in Windows Phone Mango (Senthil Kumar)
• Using Jounce Navigation to Create OOB Child Windows in Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
• applicationbar opacity in mango (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #414 – Creating a Grid in Expression Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Telerik XAML controls – Q3 2011 Beta introduces new and empowered ChartingKit (Silverlight Team)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Considerations (Sudheer Kovalam)
• The XamPivotGrid gets slicers. Data analysis just got a little simpler (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #3: Alarms and Reminders (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Mango Live Tile Helper (Jay Kimble)
• Using the motion API to check what direction the camera is looking (Joost van Schaik)
• CollectionView.Count : Is my CollectionView empty after I apply a filter on it ? (Jonathan Antoine)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 023: Cool apps and websites (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 77: Project Silk and Open Web Standards (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 179: Bryan Hunter on Erlang (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 039 – “Hiding-er Keyboards” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Extensions with CodeRush (Robert Green)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 416: New Holiday Bundles, Deus Ex: Game add-on and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 62 – Marketplace with Christian Liensberger (Steve Marx)
• Engadget Podcast 261 – 10.21.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 109 – 10.23.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: Roslyn, Angry Birds in Expression, VS 11 Training Kit, BUILD Hands-on Labs and a Holodesk (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 73 – Andrew Coates Lights it up (Richard Banks)
• Windows Weekly 231: Why Can’t We Just Shoot Things? (Paul Thurrott)
• This is my next Podcast 029 – 10.21.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• The JavaScript Show – JavaScript MVC, money.js, RequireJS (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Story of Seattle – SQLPASS 2011 Event Log (Pinal Dave)
• Fix the date and call for presenters: 7th UGIALT.net Conf, 21 January 2012 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Nerd Nite No. 8, November 9, 2011 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• indieconf – want to go? (Michael Eaton)
• MVP Friday Five: October 21, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• To Every Thing There Is a Season (Karl Shifflett)
• Moving away from the local .NET User Group Community (Don Burnett)
• Looking for Big Ideas! (Ben Lower)
• Los Techies at CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Keith Dahlby)

Database

• Gaining SQL Server SysAdmin Access (Chad Miller)
• Pros & Cons of Using the OLE DB Provider for SSAS 10.0 when Reporting in SSRS (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Dedicated Access Control for SQL Server Express Edition – An error occurred while obtaining the dedicated administrator connection (DAC) port. (Pinal Dave)
• Entrance into mongoDB (Code Inside Team)
• A MongoDB Guy Learns CouchDB (Karl Seguin)
• Thoughts on Data Explorer (Jamie Thomson)
• Monitoring SSRS Report Performance: Part 2 (John Pertell)

SharePoint

• Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Nice to have tools for the SharePoint IT Pro (Enrique Lima)
• Sharpoint 2010 deployment using Powershell (manibe2k5)

Miscellaneous

• Ruby/Rails centric Vim with support for Git, RVM and more! (Kris Leech)
• RubyMine, part 3. Shortcuts (Victor Savkin)
• Diablo III Collector’s Edition announced with lots of extras (John Callaham)
• Halloween Desktop Themes for Windows 7 (Richard Hay)
• Kindle Format 8: with HTML5 and CSS3 (John Esposito)
• Announcing the LiveSide Windows Phone Device Gallery: tables gone wild! (Kip Kniskern)
• we have A book cover! (Julie Lerman)
• Comfirmed: Skype Still Scheduled For Fall 2011 Release on Windows Phone (Antonio Hernandez)
• LCARS Lock Screen for WP7 (Scott Spradlin)
• Beginning Storyboards in iOS 5 Part 1 (Ray Wenderlich)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: October 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 125 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 22 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – October 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/21/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Pie in the Sky (October 21, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #965 (Chris Alcock)
• Web Dev Tweets 20-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #17 (Franky)
• Geek Reading October 21, 2011 and Geek Reading October 22, 2011 and Geek Reading October 23, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 16-October-2011 to 22-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 Oct 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 17-23 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (10/21/2011) and Daily News Digest 10/24/2011 and Weekly article digest 10/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Retrospective 55 – Winners and FengShui (Peter Saddington)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 20th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #736 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.18 ~ 10.24 (gOODiDEA)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview (James Conard)
• First look at Windows Simulator (Navneet Gupta)
• New Debugging Book – Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands (Roberto Alexis Farah)
• Developing Windows Phone 7 HTML5 apps with PhoneGap (Colin Eberhardt)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First jQuery – $15.99(Save 50%) and FINAL DAY: Back to School Special – *Free to Choose* – Save 50% All Ebooks & Videos – Use code: B2SDEAL (O’Reilly Media)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers (Abhishek Lohani)
• Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Some fundamentals (Nishant Sivakumar)
• AutoMapper 2.0 – Nested/Child Containers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Local workspaces (Gian Maria Ricci)
• A Simple AppSettings Type Provider (Daniel Mohl)
• Microsoft HealthVault SDK v2 released (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest (Andrej Tozon)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (MS Downloads)
• VisualStudio 2010 JavaScript & CSS Outlining – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)
• Getting Touch Support in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps Now (Carl Bergenhem)
• CSS3 text-shadow in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Tips for Speeding Up Octopress Site Generation (Pavan Podila)
• A convention for using CoffeeScript in Rails (Marko Anastasov)
• Stack Exchange API Usage Stats and API 2.0 Plans (Jeff Atwood)
• How to prevent the user to post page twice, by using refresh (Jeroen Bourdeaud’hui)
• A PHP on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pretotyping: a complete example (Giorgio Sironi)
• Document based modeling: Auctions & Bids (Oren Eini)
• Model-View-What? (Stacy Vicknair)
• Delegation Poker (Free Exercise) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: Updated all "Mango" posts (Peter Kuhn)
• Pinworthy: 5 apps to try with Windows Phone 7.5 (Andy Colley)
• New SilverlightShow Ebook: "Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies" (Silverlight Show)
• Why the Frame Rate Counter is not Available in my WP7 Emulator? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Behind the XAML of the Windows Phone Silverlight Game – Numbertap (Luke Lowrey)
• A word on WPF4 manipulations. (Luis Cabrera)
• 2000 WPF Things #398 – WrapPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
• SurfCube on Mango Part 5 – Getting email addresses for Beta testers and SurfCube on Mango Part 6 – Join SurfCube V4 Beta! Here’s what’s coming (András Velvárt)
• Taking a Tougher Stance on Bulk App Publishing (Todd Brix)
• New Extension Introduces Microsoft Office to LightSwitch (Jenni Ripley)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 8: Solving a MEF Dilemma (Evan Hutnick)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 019: Mail Order Mysteries (Mark Frauenfelder)
• How Do I: Internet Explorer 8 – Selectors API (MS Podcasts)
• GoingNative Live at BUILD: Herb Sutter, Joanna Mason, Tony Goodhew and GoingNative 2: C++ at BUILD, Windows Runtime Library(WRL), Meet Tarek and Sridhar (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #144: Cost vs. Benefit (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.7 beta 1, Toggler, Face Detection (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• What The Tech 86: Topical Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast: SendGrid Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• "Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK" TechEd Session (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Announcing the Revival of the Blenders SIG (Don Burnett)
• FREE Software Process & Scrum On-line Event Series by Northwest Cadence in October and November! (Angela Dugan)
• MVP in Residence Helps with BUILD Demo (MVP Award Program)
• Meet Up With DZone @ JavaOne 2011 and Oracle Open World In San Francisco!! (Jim Moscater)

Database

• SQL Server: Removing Deprecated Code and Future Proofing your Queries (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume and SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Development (Zhiming Xue)

SharePoint

• SharePoint is NOT Dropbox: But User Beware! (Joel Oleson)
• New book: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Threading in PowerShell (Oliver Mantl)

Miscellaneous

• Code your own Mult-User Private Git Server (with ruby) (Richard Taylor)
• Time Off, Vacations and Sabbaticals for Programmers (Krishna Kumar)
• Zune expands to Canada, drops Zune Pass price in US (Michael Stroh)
• Android’s HTTP Clients (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 29, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 09.26 ~ 09.30 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 30 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #720 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 29th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• The Morning Brew #949 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 28-Sep-2011 and 29-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/29/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow for Sept 19 – 25, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 — #1152 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links– 2010_33 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands by Roberto Alexis Farah