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Top Links

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

 

.NET / Visual Studio

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

 

Web Development

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

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

 

Community / Events

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

 

Database

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

 

PowerShell

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

 

Miscellaneous

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

 

More Link Collections

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

 

The Geek Shelf

CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development by Trevor Burnham

 

Top Links

• Visual Studio Async CTP (Version 3) Released – Lots of compatibility added, bugs squashed, features added and the EULA updated to allow Production usage (not encouraged, but it IS allowed now) (Greg Duncan)
• Project Liike (Josh Twist)
• Drive your application’s navigation through templated HyperlinkButtons and smart data binding to app-wide URIs (Jeff Wilcox)
• BlobShare – A File Sharing Sample Solution Built on Windows Azure (Zhiming Xue)
• Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode (Jon Galloway)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #1: The New Windows Phone Emulator Tools (Jeff Blankenburg)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Halloween: VB Style! (Anthony D. Green)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 2 online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Try It Now: Use PPL to Produce Windows 8 Asynchronous Operations (Visual C++ Team)
• Mini Rx: Observable Extensions (Phillip Trelford)
• Wish you had a cool and colorful poster with a snapshot of what’s new in .Net 4.5? and The "Kinect Effect" and the Kinect for Windows to get a "commercial program" early next year (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Workflow Foundation: Microsoft.Activities v1.8.8 (CodePlex)
• My presentation on AOP in .NET with PostSharp (Zubair Ahmed)

 

Web Development

• Sneak Peek at NetAdvantage for jQuery 2011 Volume 2 (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Using Ninject.MVC for better ASP.NET MVC integration (Alexander Beletsky)
• New Mobile Application and Web Application Templates in ASP.NET MVC 4 (Christian D. Yellington)
• T4MVC with separate view and controller projects (Geoff Hudik)
• HTML5 History in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Definition of Done in an MVC project (Mehdi Khalili)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Assertion and PHP on a Java application server (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML5 – Clean Code for Front End Developers (Paul Stack)
• NuGet Package of Week #11 – ImageResizer enables clean, clear image resizing in ASP.NET (Scott Hanselman)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Rails 3 – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Node.js and PHP together: DNode in PHP (John Esposito)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Networked Kanban (Jurgen Appelo)
• Attempts at TDD–Testing Private Methods (Mark Pearl)
• Some myths of ‘Textbook-TDD’, and why they are wrong (Thomas Weller)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Run Window Position (Shai Raiten)
• Working with external identifiers (Mark Needham)
• Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• Destabilization (Eric Brechner)
• Why do TDD? (Jimmy Bogard)
• A relaxed attitude towards the pragmatic delivery of ‘okay’ software (Rob Ashton)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What’s New in NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 11.2 Release (Mihail Mateev)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (2) – A simple application and Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (3) – Lifecycle management (Anders Poulsen)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 4 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Pure XAML pre-loader/indeterminate progress indicator for WPF (LearnWPF.com)
• 2000 WPF Things #420 – You Can Use Floating Point Values for Star Sizing (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7: Launcher and Choosers – Part 2 (Sudheer Kovalam)
• Introducing the XamCalculationManager (Damyan Petev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tomasz Janczuk Builds Web Apps with node.js (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• .NET 4.5: Size-on-disk improvements (Charles Torre)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 28 (Richard Hay)
• Windows Phone Radio 47 @ gdgt (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9: New Windows Phones, WP7 and Azure tools, Node.JS, & a Kinect to a Kill… (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• GoingNative 3: Marian Luparu answers about C++/CX (Diego Dagum)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 31st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – History of the Database – 5 Years of Blogging at SQLAuthority and SQLAuthority News – 5th Anniversary Giveaways (Pinal Dave)
• DCWEEK Hackathon + Dev Days (Zhiming Xue)
• Miss SQLBits 9? No problem, all videos are online (James Serra)

 

Database

• SSMS Assembly Error – Microsoft.SqlServer.Sqm.dll and SSIS Test yourself with these interview questions (Ted Krueger)
• Being an Effective DBA Remotely (John Sansom)
• Custom assemblies for Reporting Services (Jeff Krebsbach)

 

SharePoint

• Business Connectivity Services High-Level Architecture in SharePoint (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

PowerShell

• Using Powershell to remove strings in files (Martin Bell)

 

Miscellaneous

• On Google’s 20% time (Chris Smith)
• 10 things that should scare you about Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• Ask DZ: What Book Do You Think Every Programmer Should Read? (John Esposito)
• Kinect for Xbox 360 Celebrates A Year By Giving You Goose Bumps (Richard Hay)
• Nokia Maps Coming to ALL Windows Phones Soon (Antonio Hernandez)
• Can you hear… my new WebTone? Downloading and setting a Windows Phone 7.1(5) ringtones easily and quickly… (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 31, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 1 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #742 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Monthly Summary – October 2011 – 19 Posts You May Want to Recall (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 10/31/2011 and Weekly article digest 10/31/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/31/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #971 (Chris Alcock)
• Monthly Report October 2011: Total Posts 31 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 31 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 16 Tips on .NET, ASP.NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview, Profiler – October 2011 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.25 ~ 10.31 (gOODiDEA)

 

The Geek Shelf

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

 

Top Links

• The Dart Hello World (Jimmy Bogard)
• ScreenShots.cs: How to capture screenshots of your app on your device (Jeff Wilcox)
• Using node-inspector to debug node.js applications including on Windows (and using ryppi for modules) (Glenn Block)
• Announcing Microsoft Codename "Data Explorer" (Data Explorer Team)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio IDE Navigator Thumbnails (Richard Carr)
• What is wrong with this code? (Oren Eini)
• Teams in Visual Studio 11 CTP, The Bug Backlog. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.11011 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
• RadPropertyGrid for WinForms is getting new cool features in Q3 2011 (Telerik WinForms Team)
• WinRT BackgroundWorker type (Rockford Lhotka)
• New Book: Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Developer’s Handbook (Kim Spilker)
• Async using the old Async Begin / End Pattern (Mark Pearl)
• Retrieving Data: From Synchronous to Asynchronous (Paul Sheriff)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 3 Released (Blake Niemyjski)
• Blog Post: Unifying the CodeSmith Generator Experience (Eric Smith)

 

Web Development

• Native Audio with HTML5 (Emily Lewis)
• HTML5 Video Captioning (Frank Olivier)
• ASP.NET 4.5 Preview: Using model binding to display data (Gunnar Peipman)
• WURFL.NET and ASP.NET MVC 4 Display Modes (Imran Baloch)
• Viewmodel assemblers in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress (Peter Wilson)
• OAuth in headless applications (Giorgio Sironi)
• Article: Integrating PHP with .NET Using Phalanger (Tomas Petricek)
• Full-height app layouts: Animated transitions within panes (Steve Sanderson)
• Nancy: Expressing a vision in pixels (Andreas Håkansson)
• Why is PHP 5.3 on Windows faster than previous PHP versions? (Brian Swan)
• Some thoughts about Google’s new Dart programming language (Robert Pickering)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Does your Agile team look like it’s straight out of Dilbert? (Avi Kaye)
• Preparing an Organization to be Innovative – Agile Feng Shui (Peter Saddington)
• You Begin By Appreciating Mastery. (Rajiv Popat)
• Anatomy of a good bug report (Tim Heuer)
• The Metro Design Aesthetic and Windows 8 and the new Gesture Language (David Kelley)
• Architectural Tragedy of the Commons (K. Scott Allen)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Input Validation and Sanitization Framework (Danny Staten)
• How to Programmatically Switch between the HubTile Visual States (Windows Phone Geek)
• Fixing WP7 app not starting after project rename (Andreas Hammar)
• Creating reusable animations programmatically in Silverlight and Windows Phone (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• 2000 WPF Things #407 – Grid Contains Single Row and Column by Default (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Drive Electric Cars! and .NET Rocks! – Juval Lowy is a Business Architect (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Checking In: Stephan T. Lavavej – Inside STL (the person, not the library) (Charles Torre)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Customizing the Visual Studio Start Page (Robert Green)
• SE Podcast #22 (Alex Miller)
• Hot Apps: Sally’s Salon LE, Funny Jump, Darts Champ, Parodies, Vevo (Laura Foy)
• Migrating to the Cloud – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Chris Maunder (The Code Project)
• Want to tell the world how much you love your Windows Phone? Write a review for a chance to win (Luke)
• Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer (Xeni Jardin)
• SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS – Today FREE 100 SQL Wait Stats Book Print Copy – Book Signing (Pinal Dave)
• Day three of Summit Keynote and Second Day of Summit (Tim Radney)
• HTML5 Webcast/Webinar for ASP.NET Developers (Wally McClure)
• Call for Abstracts for Spring 2012 DevConnections Conference (Paul Sheriff)
• MVP Open Day Brazil (MVP Award Program)
• Red-Gate is sending a DBA to Space! (Jeff Julian)
• A DevTeach Winner! Week 5, The Art of Computer Programming Boxed Set! (Brendan Tompkins)
• All Star ALM Line up at DevTeach Ottawa Nov 2-4 (Charles Sterling)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Web Installer Preview (MS Downloads)
• Announcing sp_Blitz: Automated SQL Server Takeovers #sqlpass (Brent Ozar)
• Batch Download SSRS Reports with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)
• Big day for Big Data… Hadoop coming to Windows Azure, Windows Server and SQL Server (Greg Duncan)
• Error configuration in SSAS (James Serra)
• Creating Azure Table using CloudTableClient.CreateTableIfNotExist and Inserting Null Value for Integer columns in Windows Azure Table (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SSRS 2008 R2: Implementing Row-level Security and SQL Server 2012 SSIS – Why is my toolbox empty? (Patrick LeBlanc)

 

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Gamification (Jeff Atwood)
• IE 9.0.3 Available via Windows Update (Tyson Storey)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #729 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading October 12, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #958 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/12/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Game Dev links from BUILD and other sources. (Chris G. Williams)
• Daily News Digest 10/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug