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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Windows Phone 8 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Setting Up Git on Windows in Four Easy Steps (Adam Feber)
• A Handy Script For Compiling CoffeeScript On The Fly (Rob Conery)
• Clean Up NuGet Dependencies With Chewie (Ian Davis)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way (Oren Eini)
• Retrieve and Update YouTube Content in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Visual Expression Builder for Dynamic Linq (Rabb Moshe Plotkin)
• 30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
• How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11 (Willy-Peter Schaub)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro (Jason Jarrett)
• Naming Conventions in JustCode (JustCode Team)
• Reviewing 70-562 .NET Framework 3.5 Preparation Kit from uCertify (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0-Intellisense Improvements (Blake Niemyjski)
• Rx – DistinctUntilChanged (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

• Node.js, Require and Exports (Karl Seguin)
• The Telerik Q1 2012 MVC Beta is here with new Area chart and galore of charting features (Stefan Rahnev)
• HTML5 and the Web Audio API are BFFs! (Eric Bidelman)
• CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
• Inside the CSS WG: A New Reality Series (Molly E. Holzschlag)
• HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive (Peter Kellner)
• Creating a Vertical CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
• Umbraco v5 released (The "OMG, it’s really fast now" version) (Greg Duncan)
• Using PHP to Add Content to Plain Text (Scott Eiler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: But I’m not a .NET developer (Giles Davies)
• The Science of Kanban – Conclusions (Karl Scotland)
• Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)
• Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
• Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests (Piotr Solnica)
• Talking to Customers: What a Concept (Patrick Foley)
• How To: Get all test points assigned to you? (Gautam Goenka)
• A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development (Mike Cottmeyer)
• When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need the information for (Raymond Chen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Daddy, tell me a story of how VB, WP7, Azure and my photos can be combined in the cloud to create a video story… (Greg Duncan)
• Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2 (Rabeb Othmani)
• 2000 WPF Things #487 – Specify DrawingAttributes When Drawing to an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
• How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker (Andy Wigley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 053 – “5.9″, QUAD CORE, NFC, 3D, LTE, 128GB Windows Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Let’s Play TDD #161: The UserEnteredDollars Value Object (James Shore)
• Inside Windows Phone #31 | Windows Phone Partners (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Larry Lieberman)
• Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

• MADExpo 2012 Call for Speakers is Open! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do (Jeff Atwood)
• Sharpen your Ninja Skills with Telerik Webinars from Feb20 – Feb 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• SQL Server – COPY TABLE from another SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
• Learn about the new SQL Server Data Tools from the original DataDude (Richard Erwin)
• SQL Server NOLOCK (Tom Stickel)
• Don’t Splint Your Database Server To Death (Mike Walsh)
• Sniff that Parameter (Chris Yates)
• Ready for SQL Azure? New Service Tells You (David Ramel)
• Quick Review of Backup tools for SQL Azure (Herve Roggero)

SharePoint

• So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products – Happy Days (Joel Oleson)
• Using Twilio with SharePoint to send SMS messages (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 consumer preview (Beta) installation screenshots leaked (Ankur Mittal)
• The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
• Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from? (Ed Bott)
• I’m from the Cloud and I’m here to help… No really, trust me… Looking at Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" (Greg Duncan)
• New Social APIs in Android ICS (Tim Bray)
• Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work! (Kent Nguyen)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 2 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #810 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1036 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-02 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for February 02, 2012 – #0035 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012 (Beth Massi)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus by Juval Lowy

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

• Vulnerability in AntiXSS Library Could Allow Information Disclosure (Barry Dorrans)
• jQuery UI 1.8.17 (Scott González)
• JavaScript Needs Blocks (Yehuda Katz)
• jsFiddle is Well Worth 3 Minutes (John Papa)
• I’ve got $100 that says your smartphone will get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access and the essence of needless work, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Changing the default Framework from Client Profile to Full in five minutes and five steps (aka Editing a Project Template to change its default Framework) (Greg Duncan)
• DateTime.UtcNow is generally preferable to DateTime.Now (Kirill Osenkov)
• SQL Azure Federations and the Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Phalanger – The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework – Release 3.0 (January 2012) for .NET 4.0 and C# LinkedList Tutorial – Learning C# (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Using The RequireJS Build / Optimizer To Concatenate Modularized CSS Files (Ben Nadel)
• Using ASP.NET MVC Validation Mechanism without ASP.NET MVC (Alexander Beletsky)
• A Really Empty ASP.NET MVC 3 Project Template (Phil Haack)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Subclass (Giorgio Sironi)
• Show Large Image on Mouseover with jQuery (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Levels in Renderscript (Tim Bray)
• iHeartRadio Launches Developer API (Sarah Perez)
• Full Screen API embiggens the lowliest of web apps (Dave Mahon)
• Accessing Windows Azure blob Storage as Network Drive and Running Apache Pig (Pig Latin) at Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Facebook Mobile Evangelist Tries To Convince Developers To Build Web Apps (Boonsri Dickinson)
• Running VisualPHPUnit in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• (Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders (Chris Coyier)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.7.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Top 10 Ways to Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin (J.D. Meier)
• Scrum (2012) – Should I fire my testers and replace them with developers? (Mark Pearl)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Coded UI Tests : Property “ReadOnly” cannot be retrieved due to the current state of Edit (Jonathan Antoine)
• Why Scrolling is the New Click (Anthony)
• Non-trivial and real-world feedbacks on writing Unit-Tests (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Localization Improvements for YLAD (Peter Kuhn)
• Data from Cloud on Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Real-time Direct2D Graph for WPF (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit January 2012 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• WP7 Tips: How to Unpin an Application from the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Threading Considerations for Binding and Change Notification in Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #470 – Elements that Support RightToLeft Flow (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #6 – Make your WP7 Vibrate (Senthil Kumar)
• Tombstone Territory: Saving Silverlight/XNA State of your WP7 Game and Free Tool for XAML: XamlPadX 4.0 (Surf4Fun)
• Living the Dream: Make the Video Game You’ve Always Wanted and Get Paid For It (Dave Isbitski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Hanselman and the Web Stack of Love! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 272: CES 2012 Day 2 – 01.10.2012 and The Vergecast 009: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Admin Accounts, Block Sizes, PerfView (Larry Larsen)
• Boagworld – Integrating Facebook and your website and Don’t allow form to compromise function (Paul Boag)
• Hot Apps: Earthworm Jim HD, Mini Squadrom, Dress Pal, Grantophone, Ski Guide (Laura Foy)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #129: Michael Sliwinski, CEO of Nozbe (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• January 18th in Portland, OR: Agile Tune-Up (James Shore)
• Lead Better Austin, TX – April 2012 (Roy Osherove)
• What’s in Microsoft’s What’s Next booth at CES? (Steve Clayton)
• Sharing The Point Venues in Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile Announced! (Joel Oleson)
• SF Drinkup #33 (Kami Lott)
• ComponentOne is taking on CodeMash (Kevin Griffin)

Database

• SQL Server Can Run Databases from Network Shares & NAS (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server – Maintaining different environments (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Reasons for Using Output Clause – Quiz – Puzzle – 10 of 31 and SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at expressor Data Quality Solutions (Pinal Dave)
• How To Improve Database Performance Without Changing Code (Thomas LaRock)
• Getting Started with MongoDB – Part 2 (Matthew Setter)
• MySQL MyISAM and InnoDB Engine Differences (Jes Schultz Borland)

SharePoint

• Office 365/SharePoint Online + Windows Azure Authentication Challenges – About this Series (Andrew Connell)
• Quick hint: How to Find the Installed Language Packs of a MOSS 2007 Installation (Martin W. Angler)

Miscellaneous

• Squeezing Python into an Android with a Single APK (Christopher Smith)
• Windows Store is coming in February – will your company have an application in it? (Eric Nelson)
• Windows 8 on ARM: The desktop remains (or does it?) (Mary Jo Foley)
• 2012 is a very important year for Microsoft and it starts it with a bang (Michael Gillett)
• Everything to Everyone – The Mobile Landscape (Tommy Rausch)
• Microsoft’s Windows Phone Strategy for 2012 (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – Jaunary 11 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #793 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1019 (Chris Alcock)
• MySQL Resources and ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-10 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 – #0023 and Windows Dev News for January 09, 2011 – 2 – #0024 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for January 2-8, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 10 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript 24-Hour Trainer (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jeremy McPeak

• Hypermedia and Web API. Design brain dump and samples (Glenn Block)
• TWC9: January 6, 2012 – C9 Video Queue, Silverlight 5, Metro and WP7 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Is PhoneGap Right for You? (David J. Kelley)
• What You May Not Know About jQuery (Burke Holland)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Stein’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Stack Unwind Does Not Occur When C++ Exceptions Propagate Into Managed Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The Windows Libraries for JavaScript: Part I (Chris Sells)
• How to work with NuGet? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: SQL Queries and Parameter Prefix (Ricardo Peres)
• A bit more about Using Ninject 2.2 – factory methods (AngelEyes)

Web Development

• jQuery Splitter and jQuery Tooltip (jqwidgets)
• ASP.NET Page Methods with Parameters (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Intro to Property-Based Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Our Ajax Conventions–Request Correlation and Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
• Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• Hadoop Streaming and Reporting and Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage (Carl Nolan)
• JSON.net and Deserializing Anonymous Types (David Hoerster)
• New Year – Updated Ubuntu Rails Setup (Eric Proctor)
• Microsoft Previews Windows Azure Application Integration Services (Richard Seroter)
• Programming Office 365 Jump Start 2 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting Results the Agile Way – Top 10 Best Seller on Amazon in Time-Management and 10 Things Great Managers Do and 30 Days of Getting Results – Free Time-Management Training (JD Meier)
• CRUD it’s now CQRS … or is it? (Jeremy Likness)
• Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile Adoption and Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic (Peter Cooper)
• You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it… (Jason Jarrett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Show a deleted List Item with a Strike Through in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
• New maintenance release for Windows Phone (Eric Hautala)
• Windows Phone 7 Info Hub – All the phone info, one helpful hub [#wpdev] (Greg Duncan)
• WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrieving a WebPage Title and Sharing it with the ShareLinkTask in WP7 (Michael Crump)
• Follow Up: How Many Apps Are on Your Windows Phone Handset? (Richard Hay)
• Kung Fu Windows Phone – User Feedback (Rudi Grobler)
• WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 1of Many and WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 2of Many (Vijaya Malla)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 049 – “Dial 666 For Evil Carrier” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 425: Hello 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
• WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)
• Using the Windows Phone Storage NuGets for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 120 – 01.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• New Video: Integrating Test Studio with TFS (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• RavenDB Course in London: 28–29 February (Oren Eini)
• Nerd Nite No. 10, January 11, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Microsoft Free Virtual Private Cloud Event, Jan 17th and code.NASA – Coding opportunities for wanna-be space cowboys and girls. NASA says "We’ve got our OSS space app’s right here…" (Greg Duncan)

Database

• The officially easiest way to play with SQL Server 2012… The SQL Server Virtual Labs (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Collation and Collation Sensitivity – Quiz – Puzzle – 6 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Indexed Views and Restrictions – Quiz – Puzzle – 7 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Federation – Introduction (Shaun)
• Normalizing Your Database (James Serra)
• Does My MongoDB Replica Set Need An Arbiter? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – About this Series and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Why You Should Care & the Development Story and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Breaking Out of the Sandbox and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Integration Options (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Best way to browse iOS documentation (Deepak Kapoor)
• Excerpt Old Posts – A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit (Jon Galloway)
• Weekend project: Create a family calendar (Juliette Guilbert)
• Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver and Learning Android: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with android-maven-plugin (Mark Needham)
• Why I think Windows Phone is superior phone OS? (Slobodan Pavkov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Pie in the Sky (January 6, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Maker Geek Roundup 005 for 1/7/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Windows Dev News for January 07, 2011 – #0022 and SilverlightShow for Dec 26, 2011 – Jan 1, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-January-2012 to 07-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 66 – Enterprise Scrum Tool Review & Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
• MVP Friday Five: January 6, 2012 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen

• Refresh and reset your PC (Steven Sinofsky)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 23: Acceptance Tests & Criteria in the Real World (Jim Holmes)
• Give us your feedback on Visual Studio 11 etc. and receive a gift! (Karl Melder)
• Metro style JS Apps in Visual Studio 11 (Chris Sells)
• Building a Windows 8 RSS Reader (Eric Vogel)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Image Preview in Solution Explorer – Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• You’re my FavorIt code file… FavorIt adds favorites to your Visual Studio Solution and SocialCounter.Net, a .Net Library to get all those Social counts (Greg Duncan)
• Setting a default value for C# Auto-implemented properties (OriginalGriff)
• The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs. Team Foundation Server (Shai Raiten)
• Use the Caching Service for your Windows Azure Applications (Zhiming Xue)
• Blog Post: Version Control Improvements in CodeSmith Generator 6.0 (Eric Smith)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects from IDataReader (Elton Stoneman)

Web Development

• What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support (Ben Nadel)
• An In Depth Overview of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility (Ian Devlin)
• Installing and Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Application (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Push Down Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Matador: The Obvious MVC Framework for Node (Dustin Diaz)
• Using HTML 5 Geo Location in an ASP.NET MVC Bing Maps Application (Part 2) (Sumit Maitra)
• Random Numbers in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Day 12 — 3D pixel particles (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Nancy running on Heroku (Andreas Håkansson)
• How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress (Kevin Leary)
• Stack Exchange V2 Goes Beta, Launches Contest (Romin Irani)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: How Hadoop cluster was setup on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Leap of Faith and Nailing Your Goals for 2012 (JD Meier)
• Executable Attributes in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• Agile Teams to Avoid (Peter Saddington)
• Printing Story Cards for Physical Scrum Board (Petr Pechovic)
• On Infinite Scalability (Oren Eini)
• Fluentator – generate fluent API for your structures (Pavel Savara)
• Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows (Morgan Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Silverlight: Behaviors for TextBox (Denis Gladkikh)
• FastClick for WP7 – Improving Browser Responsiveness for PhoneGap Apps (Colin Eberhardt)
• Top 10 SilverlightShow Ebooks for 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Infragistics Silverlight 5 Installers Available for Download (Jason Beres)
• 2000 WPF Things #466 – Using a GridSplitter in Conjunction with a SharedSizeGroup (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Papa Looks at the Microsoft Client Landscape (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 131: Chris Williams and Matthew Podwysocki on the Javascript community (Jon Galloway)
• YOW! 2011: Nigel Dalton – Agile Product Development (Charles Torre)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Manual Testing (Robert Green)
• Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC (Larry Larsen)
• Office 911: Don’t panic, build your skills (Laura Foy)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 008 – 01.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Yet Another Podcast #56–Jeff Blankenburg: Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award (Rob Eisenberg)
• MVP Program Thoughts for New Awardees (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• Assess your SQL Server to SQL Azure migration using SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment Tool by SQL Azure Labs (Avkash Chauhan)
• SQL SERVER REBUILD INDEX and SQL Server Disable Indexes and Rebuild Indexes dynamically (Jack Vamvas)
• Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – An Important Part of Most SELECT statement – WHERE clause – Quiz – Puzzle – 4 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Identifying default data directory for multiple instances through registry (Vishal)
• Bliki: NosqlDistilled (Martin Fowler)
• SQLCop integration with Red Gate’s SQL Test (George Mastros)

PowerShell

• PowerShell 3 – Finally on the DLR! and Did you know PowerShell can use Selenium? (Joel Bennett)
• PowerShell Check for Empty SecureString Entry (Brian Jackett)

Miscellaneous

• 3 Tips for Getting What You Want in the New Year (MS JobsBlog)
• Best Online File Comparison Tool (Aaron Grogg)
• 40 Most Anticipated Xbox 360 Games of 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• 5 Unusual Ways to Raise Successful Children (April Dykman)
• ★ You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking (John Gruber)
• Learning Android: Getting a service to communicate with an activity (Mark Needham)
• Look who’s back: Ray Ozzie, Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect (Mary Jo Foley)
• Oracle’s copyright / patent infringement trial against Google set to begin in March (Matt Macari)
• How To Resize An Image Using Snagit 10 (Muhammad Omer Khan)
• Windows Phone Update 8107 Rolling Out – Fixes Disappearing Keyboard, Exchange & More (Antonio Hernandez)
• Life Satisfaction – Nerds Win (Peter Saddington)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #789 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1015 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• DZone’s Top 5 Agile Articles of 2011 and DZone’s Top Web Builder Articles of 2011 (Mitch Pronschinske)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer) by Kalen Delaney

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

Miscellaneous

• Getting Your Notes Into OneNote (Jeff Cardon)

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010 by Matthew MacDonald

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

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