• 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

• 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

• 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

• New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Implicit Data Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• Improving developer productivity with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Visual Studio Team)
• SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 has been released (Denis Gobo)
• Modernizr.js (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Comparing Profiler Performance Reports in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Kinecting with F# (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a "Safer" Task Dispose() (James Michael Hare)
• WCF REST tip 3: WebOperationContext (Pieter de Rycke)
• Additional Mime Types in Visual Studio 2010 Development Web Server (Shawn Cicoria)
• Authoring Type Providers with the TypeProviderDSL from FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
• Windows 8 Metro declarations: Protocol (Andrej Tozon)
• Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh and Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 Refresh (MS Downloads)
• Generic Types and Static Members (Abhishek Sur)
• WASABi scale groups (Grigori Melnik)
• Spatial Data Introduced to Entity Framework (Jenni Ripley)

Web Development

• Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
• SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 3: The Video (Derick Bailey)
• Pondering Amazon Silk (Chris Love)
• Integrating Facebook Authentication for your website using WebMatrix 2 Beta (Harish Ranganathan)
• A review of Crafting Rails Applications (Luca Pette)
• Debug command line scripts with PhpStorm 2.1 (Nikolay Matveev)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.4.0 (CodePlex)
• O Reilly – Deals of the day 7/Oct/2011 – 50% off HTML5 books and 2 free books (Tatworth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Get a Free Chapter of The Art of Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Book review: The Art of Unit Testing (Jef Claes)
• Updates on the Latest Quince Release (Amy Quinn)
• How mocks can cut down on test maintenance (Brian Marick)
• How to make software development decisions based on facts (Laila Lotfi)
• Theories And Technologies Are Not Solutions (Rob Diana)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 9: The Repository Pattern + Source Code Is In! (Evan Hutnick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Binding to HubTile Events using MVVM Light EventToCommand (Windows Phone Geek)
• Optimizing Windows Phone 7 Applications (Part 1) (Atanas Dyulgerov)
• Windows Phone 7.1(5) "Controls and Toolkits" cheat sheet (Greg Duncan)
• Migrating From WP7 To Mango–Getting Started (Jesse Liberty)
• MadProps.MvvmLight 2.0.0 (Matt Hamilton)
• Using screenshot and camera feed to create funny Windows Phone 7 pictures (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #403 – The Order of DockPanel Children Matters (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Silverlight Poor Man’s Double-Tap (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Mahmoud Saleh – Advanced CRT (Charles Torre)
• Episode 161 – PowerScripting Podcast – Gaurav Mantri from Cerebrata and their Azure Management Cmdlets (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery Mobile 1.0rc1, JavaScript books, and new libraries (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Micah Baldwin Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 107 – 10.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #122: Mark Smith and Adam Wride, founders of DigMyData (Bob Walsh)
• Play by Play: Ryan Singer: UI Prototyping (Peepcode)
• Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Risk and Innovation (The Takeaway)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Garage at Richmond Code Camp (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Reminder: RavenDB and NHibernate courses–New York coming up (Oren Eini)
• New England Code Camp–Sweet Sixteen (Jim O’Neil)
• Winnipeg Code Camp 2012 Date (D’Arcy Lussier)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP3 Reporting Services Report Builder and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server CE (Compact Edition) (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Views and Metadata (Ted Krueger)
• Sync SSMS Tools Pack Across Computers Using SyncToy (Eric Humphrey)
• Expiring Databases and Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• APress Deal of the Day – 7/Oct/2011 – Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010 (Tatworth)
• Always pay attention to uniqueness to SQL Index (Gian Maria Ricci)

PowerShell

• Recordings from the First PowerShell Deep Dive (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Sharing Vim Configuration Between Machines (Ben Scheirman)
• Samsung Series 7 Slate now up for pre-orders, shipping date still MIA (Jesse Hicks)
• Setting procmon to put logs in the TEMP folder (John Guin)

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 123 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #725 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #954 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 6, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Daily Links 06/10/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 10/06/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 5-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More by Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek

• Automated installer for MVVM Light V3! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 is available! (Phil Haack)
• C# Async examples in F# – Part 1 (Chris Marinos)
• The LightSwitch Control Extension Makers Dilemma (Michael Washington)
• A comprehensive list of resources about JavaScript (Incandescent Software Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Co-Ordinated Thread Shutdown with and without using CancellationTokenSource and Use Visual Studio Server Explorer to Add New or Existing SQL Server CE Database (Abhijit Jana)
• New F# PowerPack Packages on NuGet Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• XNA 3D Primer Examples Updated, XNA 2D Example Added, Talks on Both at DevLINK (Michael C. Neel)
• Controlled Vocabulary 1.5.1 and MSBuild Explorer v2 — it does exist… and Community TFS Build Extensions — we’re at it again (Mike Fourie)
• Translating with Google Translate without API and C# Code (Rick Strahl)
• C#: Using IDictionaryEnumerator with HashTable (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Visual Studio Testing Tools–Two new hotfixes released (Terje Sandstrom)
• Invoke any Method on any Thread (Fredrik Olsson)
• Transactional File Manager Version 1.2 .1 Released (Chinh Do)
• How To Build A Simple Text Editor? A Tutorial (Forest House)

Web Development

• Review of The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston (Brian Bondy)
• Html 5 Controls for ASP.Net MVC (Saleth Prakash)
• Prototype for Google + similar Feedback-Module with Html2Canvas-Screenshots with Javascript für Beitrag eingeben (Code Inside Team)
• Mobile HTML5 Charts by Sencha (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Using the HTML5 Filesystem API – Only $9.49 w/code DD237 (O’Reilly Media)
• JavaScript: Prototype is not overriding the function/method (Raghav Khunger)
• JavaScript’s JSON API (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTTP Request Lifecycle Events in IIS Pipeline that every ASP.NET Developer Should Know (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Article: HTML 5 or Silverlight? (Daniel Jebaraj)
• Picking a Web Client Side Persistence Mechanism (Gil Fink)
• talkasaur.us – dirt simple conference calling (Aaron Lerch)
• Authoring SVG with a text editor (Bertrand Le Roy)
• What I Love About PHP (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
• Prevent User Navigating Away from Page with Unsaved Changes (Jonathan Wood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning the Agile Vocabulary (Ben Harden)
• Being honest vs Making excuses (Corey Haines)
• Considerations when choosing hardware for CI (Paul Stack)
• Surviving As A Guerilla Entrepreneur – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• 8 Principles of Continuous Delivery (James Betteley)
• Two Important Blogposts for Functional Test Writers (Jim Holmes)
• The Chaos Addiction (Roy Osherove)
• Thought Questions (Dru Sellers)
• Macto: The Main Screen (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• wp7 – custom control project template (Baba)
• Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two (Colin Eberhardt)
• Multi-Touch Behaviors updated: Windows Phone “Mango” support, Manipulation / Inertia Processors and more (Davide Zordan)
• Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Building a simple Isolated Storage explorer system in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Setting the Start page in Windows Phone 7 application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Passing values between Windows Phone 7 pages: Current context of Application and Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract JSON (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Rumors Of XAML’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Jon Davis)
• Create Thematic Maps in Visual Studio LightSwitch with Infragistics Geospatial Map (Mihail Mateev)
• Removing Strings in INotifyPropertyChanged and OData Expands (Nick)
• 2000 WPF Things #359 – ToggleButton Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Looking at LightSwitch – Part 1 (Gill Cleeren)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 406: What we’re playing and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 220: SharePinters (Paul Thurrott)
• New Video – Windows Phone 7 Guide – Part 7 – Unlock apps in a locked emulator and Another new Windows Phone 7 Guide video – using your phone as a storage device (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Path to Agility 2011 – Ken Schwaber – Scrum and the Product Owner (Agile Toolkit)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 65 – Jim Pelletier and Lessons Learned with NServiceBus (Richard Banks)
• The GeekDads Episode #97: A Whole New World Behind the Grotto (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• Deep Dive video: Constrained PowerShell Endpoints – Aleksandar Nikolic (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• I am now a DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Considering Attending STARWEST? We have Discount Codes! (Jim Holmes)
• August Webcast Schedule: Microsoft Technologies (Kim Spilker)
• rubylang.info: A Solid 3rd Party Attempt at a Site for Ruby (Peter Cooper)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.3–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server book from Pinal Dave (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL Server Migration Assistant for Denali CTP3 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Dirty Records and Table Hints – Day 7 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• Data Warehousing with SSIS (Tim Radney)
• Download free SSMS Add-In to create custom folders for database objects (Jakub Dvorak)

Miscellaneous

• Why I Use Powershell (Daniel Moore)
• Forbes: Microsoft not as innovative as Apple and Google (Stefano Elia)
• C’mom Microsoft, how about fixing some of the stupidest Zune Desktop problems. (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 6, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 08.01 ~ 08.07 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 6, 2011 and Geek Reading August 7, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #911 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 31-July-2011 to 06-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 44 – #Agile Requirements and Org Structure (Peter Saddington)
• Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 — #1125 and Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 – 2 — #1126 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 08/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 by Jon Galloway

• NuGet 1.4 Released (Phil Haack)
• Updated Windows Azure AppFabric SDK Now Available for Download (Windows Azure Team)
• The Busy Developers Guide to the Kinect SDK Beta (Michael Crump)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 game at the Kinect Code Camp (Adam Kinney)
• The Debugger Mindset (John Sonmez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• using “Default” Keyword in C# (Abhijit Jana)
• Internal classes to understand WCF Message: XmlDictionary Class and Internal classes to understand WCF Message: XmlDictionaryWriter Class and Reading XML file through LINQ: few Tips (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Collection Class (James Michael Hare)
• WCF 4: Download Files using WCF REST EndPoints (Mahesh Sabnis)
• C#: String.Compare ignore case (Raghav Khunger)
• Kinect – Getting Started – Control Camera Angle and Kinect – Getting Started – Become The Incredible Hulk (Shai Raiten)
• Binding Box now supprots the Wcf Interop Bindings (Yaron Naveh)
• Getting started with Kinect SDK (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• NuGet with MEF and Using NuGet for Application Plug-Ins (Matt Hamilton)
• WTF Azure! (As in get a free The Daily WTF Mug just for trying out Windows Azure for 30 days, no Credit Card needed… US only though) (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• CSS 3.0 as the only schema in Visual Studio (Daniel Fisher)
• An Example to Use jQuery Validation Plugin (Song Li)
• Get started with ASP.NET MVC and PetaPoco (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• New features and improvements in ASP.NET vNext (Zubair Ahmed)
• Windows 8 and the Two Worlds of HTML (James Ashley)
• Filtering an ASP.NET GridView control with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• CitiBank: It was not a breach of security, but a breach of stupidity (Rachel Appel)
• Microsoft Rejects WebGL for Security Reasons (Abel Avram)
• Netflix API Ditching DVD Endpoints to Focus on Streaming (Adam DuVander)
• Web Application Project vs. Website (Steve Naughton)
• What’s new in OpenWrap 1.1? (Sebastien Lambla)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is Agile Results? and Email Therapy (JD Meier)
• Have a Customer Advocate in Agile (Peter Saddington)
• Lokad.CQRS – Framework that is Designed for Farewells (Rinat Abdullin)
• Enterprise, SaaS, and Platforms (Udi Dahan)
• Mocking Events with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Test Maintenance; Or, The Third Era of Programmer Testing (Brian Marick)
• New Books on Software Architecture (Michael Stal)
• Git tutorial – comparing files with diff (Veera)
• Getting Started with Pub/Sub using Rhino Service Bus and Consuming Events in the Same Process as the Publisher with Rhino Service Bus (Eric Quist)
• Git on Windows: Creating a network shared central repository. (Jason Jarrett)
• Arrogance vs. Confidence: what’s the difference? (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Reusable ICommand implementation for Windows Phone Mango MVVM apps (Windows Phone Geek)
• Screenshot Tools for WP7 (Rudi Grobler)
• ChevronWP7 Labs to provide official Windows Phone unlocking service for homebrew developers (damaster)
• XAML with .NET Primer Part One (Don Burnett)
• Will the real Windows Phone 7 SketchFlow Template please stand up… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone API mapping tool for Android Developers (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 14 – Detecting Network Information of the Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Using Isolated Storage to save, load and delete Pin Codes (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Inside IronJS – A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR (Scott Hanselman)
• Herb Sutter – Heterogeneous Computing and C++ AMP (Charles Torre)
• Daniel Moth: Blazing-fast code using GPUs and more, with C++ AMP (Charles Torre)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #50: Developer Smackdown is 2 and we just hit show #50!! How do you learn? (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Engadget Podcast 244 – 06.17.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 57 – Optimal Test Automation (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 021 – “More Mango Down Under” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• This is my next Podcast 011 – 06.18.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Video: The 3 amigos at NDC2011 (Roy Osherove)
• C++ AMP recording and slides (Daniel Moth)
• Windows Phone Radio – 32 (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• How Transparency and Social Media are Evolving the SharePoint Community (Paul J. Swider)
• Houston Code Camp Registration is Now Open (Ben Scheirman)
• BizSpark / Windows Phone 7 Application Contest for Startup Companies (Zain Naboulsi)
• Kinect Code Camp – We made a Kinect project in 24 hours. (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

• Thoughts on Nexus in SQL Server PDW (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Puzzle – Statistics are not Updated but are Created Once and SQL SERVER – Selecting Domain from Email Address and SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper Using SharePoint List Data in PowerPivot (Pinal Dave)
• Prevent SQL Logins from using SSMS … or any other app (Eric Humphrey)
• SSMS Add-in for Analysis Services (James Serra)
• Instantly Find Size of Tables on Disk (Larry Leonard)

SharePoint

• Dynamic Authorization for FBA based WCM Applications (Sanjay Arora)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect- Caught between Community & MSFT support (Don Burnett)
• Building a MIDI Thru Box Part 2: Manufacturing a PCB (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 17, 2011 and Interesting Finds: June 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.14 ~ 06.19 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #875 (Chris Alcock)
• Link dump for June 16th and Link dump for June 16th through June 17th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 06/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Kinect SDK – resources for developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Distributed Weekly 107 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Links– 2010_22 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Retrospective 37 – Customers, Skype, and Shoe Kanban (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2011 — #1108 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 12-June-2011 to 18-June-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

Top Links

• You Really Should Be Using NuGet (Justin Etheredge)
• NuGet Package of the Week #1 – ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization (Scott Hanselman)
• Effective Tests: Introduction (Derek Greer)
• MVVM Charting – Binding Multiple Series to a Visiblox Chart (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using CUDA and Thrust with Visual Studio 2010 (Ade Miller)
• Adding vcard support and bookmarked URIs for specific representations with WCF Web Apis and WCF Web APIs Roundup–Volume 2 (Glenn Block)
• One Thousand Views of AppHub (Zain Naboulsi)
• Auto updating a desktop app (Louis Salin)
• A Case for WinForms (Jonathan Allen)
• EntityDataSource Control Basics (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Part 1 of a tutorial on monads (Brian Marick)
• ReSharper Easter Egg? (Chris Missal)
• ILSpy – yield return (Daniel Grunwald)
• Logging Best Practices Using Crypto Logger (G. Himangi)
• Using Code First Model Configurations Classes (Gil Fink)
• How Dynamic Language Runtime(DLR) feature in .NET Framework 4 is a boon for debugging COM objects (Abhijit Jana)
• All about .NET Timers – A Comparison (Abhishek Sur)
• Upgrading TortoiseHg to v2.0 (Igal Tabachnik)

Web Development

• Bing HTML5 preview to coincide with IE9 launch? (damaster)
• Using a custom build of MVC 3 (David Ebbo)
• What is jQuery Connect ? How to use jQuery Connect? (Hima)
• Output Caching Actions Gotcha in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning about CQRS and Event Sourcing (Eric Quist)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine-Node Sprinkled With Some Should (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Stub (Giorgio Sironi)
• A Paradox of Reification – A Tool or a Fallacy? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Developer Driven Culture (Rob Diana)
• Quests and powerups (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Discovering New Keywords with a Search Combo Box (Anthony)
• Getting Up to BAT: Picking a Browser Automation Tool (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get and edit the default Styles of the Silverlight for WP7 Toolkit controls and Mindscape Phone Elements WP7 controls released and 12 WP7 Coding4Fun Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using Mole 2010 to compare objects (Josh Smith)
• Native Extensions 2.0 For Microsoft Silverlight Released (Davide Zordan)
• Why We’re Going With HTML(5) Instead Of Silverlight (Davy Brion)
• Reading files asynchronously using WebClient class in Silverlight (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A penny for your thoughts on Windows Phone 7 tombstoning (Peter Torr)
• Mole 2010 Demo Released (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 389: Dragon Age 2, Yoostar 2, Homefront (Larry Hyrb)
• Yet Another Podcast #27–Paul Betts (Jesse Liberty)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Improve Performance with Caching and WPF 3.5 Training Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 006 –“There’s a New Kid in Town” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Technology & Friends Episode 141: Alexei Govorine On VS DB Tools (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 198: Smart, Very Smart (Paul Thurrott)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 51 – New Owners and Test as Dev (Federico Silva & Matthew Osborn)

Community / Events

• NYC .NET Developers Group->Next Meeting (St. Pats Day!) (Stephen Forte)
• Test Driven Development Firestarter (Kevin Griffin)
• Visual Studio ALM MVP of the Year 2011 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• JetBrains night at Bristol .NET User Group (Hadi Hariri)
• Is your Kanban worth a new iPad? @TargetProcess (Tal Druyan)
• IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps (Joey deVilla)
• Stack Overflow and the Computer History Museum (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• Storing images in SQL Server with RIA Services (Unknown Author)
• SQL SERVER – Running Multiple Batch Files Together in Parallel and SQL SERVER – Enable PowerPivot Plugin in Excel (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS:Multi Instance Management made easy. (SQL Archer)
• Not Only SQL (Peter Ritchie)
• Best Practice: version check, data base and DB updates… how to split the db in the team? (Code Inside Team)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates (Jason Strate)

Miscellaneous

• Transferring/Moving a VHD from Windows Virtual PC (Windows XP Mode) to another computer (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #806 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 03.01 ~ 03.06 (yuanjian)
• March 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, EF, .NET (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2011 — #1054 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 03/07/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 03/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Links of the week #143 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Advanced MVVM by Josh Smith

Top Links

• MonoDroid (Part 1): Installation (Rudi Grobler)
• WP7 Contrib – we made it! (Richard Griffin)
• Migrating a Silverlight Application to Windows Phone 7–Part II (Dan Wahlin)
• Back To Basics: Unit Testing Without Mocks (John Sonmez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WorkflowApplication throws ObjectDisposedException on ActivityContext with LINQ queries (Rory Primrose)
• Internals to C# iterators and Different approaches to Casting (Abhishek Sur)
• How to Connect to a WCF service from LightSwitch- Part One and How to Connect to a WCF service from LightSwitch- Part Two (Dan L. Moyer)
• NuGet isn’t just for Visual Studio anymore… NuGet coming soon to SharpDevelop (Greg Duncan)
• UppercuT v1.2–NuGet Support (Rob Reynolds)
• TFS API Part 34– Build Basic Actions (Shai Raiten)
• Pre-Order for Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio is Available (Zain Naboulsi)
• 3-Screen Coding Is Here: Portable Library Tools allow you to target multiple .NET platforms with one binary! (Shawn Burke)
• FSRepository – A New NuGet Package (Daniel Mohl)
• Creating Downloadable Content Dynamically and Encrypting Source Code (Jonathan Wood)
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)

Web Development

• How to expand specific Tree View Node programmatically in ASP.NET ? and Display custom messages or images when there is no records in GridView Data Source (Abhijit Jana)
• Leveraging Business Primitives in FubuMvc (Dru Sellers)
• Only 3 simple steps to create jQuery UI tabs content navigation in your ASP.NET Website (Hajan Salmani)
• If you are using StructureMap with MVC3, please read this: (Jeremy Miller)
• Dependency Injection with ASP MVC 3–Distilled and Simplified (John V. Petersen)
• Creating a Website Using JQuery Mobile, Part 1 (Jorge Ramon)
• Using Functions and Helpers in ASP.NET Web Pages – WebMatrix (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Publishing your site with Microsoft Expression Web (Pad Gallagher)
• Debugging, Tracing and Instrumentation in .NET and ASP.NET (14 FAQ) (Shivprasad koirala)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Web Design – $19.99 (Save 50%) Code DDHFW (O’Reilly Media)
• Hello world with Kayak and OWIN (Jef Claes)
• Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Training (David Hayden)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum has 3 advantages over XP (but XP is better) (Allan Kelly)
• Running the same tests with multiple browsers in FitNesse (Gojko Adzic)
• Distributed Agile: Stories – Negotiable and While in India: Osmotic communication (Mark Needham)
• Traps and Pitfalls of Agile Software Development (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Chained Tests (Giorgio Sironi)
• Code Review tools (Oren Eini)
• Book review: The Art of Non-Conformity (Jef Claes)
• Easy and effective (Daniela Panfili)
• Your Sources Of Motivation After Your Warm Up Period (Rajiv Popat)
• Handling Concurrency in Cloud Views (Rinat Abdullin)
• I hate pair programming (and your code and you) (David J. Bland)
• Don’t Be Afraid To Change Your Mind (Davy Brion)
• Six ways to be a better client for your developer – Point 5 (Cal Evans)
• HowToCode: Development at the Speed and Scale of Google & Continuous Delivery/X (Code Inside Team)
• Dependency Inversion Principle (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 MUST HAVE Toolkits (Rudi Grobler)
• Maximizing your Silverlight LOB investment with Web Parts (Bart Czernicki)
• Microsoft to officially support homebrew developments on Windows Phone 7 (Brenton Currie)
• My Top 10 Windows Phone 7 Apps (Jan) (Daniel Egan)
• Presentation layer for a Windows Phone 7 application – the idea and Altering pixels in a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight-based app (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Populating a DataGrid in a Silverlight Application and Populating a DataGrid in a Silverlight Application using MVVM and Populating a DataGrid with Dynamic Columns in a Silverlight Application using MVVM (Deborah Kurata)
• Switching keyboard language in WP7 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Notifyting the ViewModel when a WP7 PivotItem is displayed (András Velvárt)
• Closable Tabbed Views in Prism (David Hill)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Professional Technical Speaker Tips from Scott with Drew Robbins (Scott Hanselman)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 385: Homefront, Coming soon to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace and your Antarctica travel tips (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Phone 7 – Episode 1 – Getting the tools and Windows Phone 7 – Episode 2 – What do you have available? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 42 – Tarn Barford, the Polyglot Programmer (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #21–Jeremy Miller (Jesse Liberty)
• 3-min. Quickie: Compiling C++ Projects using only the Windows SDK and the Command Prompt (Gus Class)
• TWC9: AutoTune.NET, Portable Libraries, Facebook + Azure, SQLR2 BI, (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Technology & Friends Episode 133: Richard Campbell on Developers in Developing Nations (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 192: Holy Schmidt (Paul Thurrott)
• WP7 Minute–Episode VII–Cool Diagnostics (Daniel Egan)

Community / Events

• In a new world, my new job and coming to terms with ExtJs (Scott Galloway)
• Giveaway: Win DotNetBar for Silverlight controls worth $219 FREE (Kunal Chowdhury)
• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me Monday (Scott Guthrie)
• MVP2MVP Sessions at the MVP Summit (Stephen Forte)
• Stack Exchange 2011 Elections Begin (Jeff Atwood)
• State of the Stack 2010 (a message from your CEO) (Joel Spolsky)
• Further Down the Rabbit Hole (Ade Miller)
• Microsoft revives annual embedded developer conference (Jonathan Angel)
• The F# Team Are Hiring! Come and be the Senior Program Manager for F#… (Don Syme)

Database

• JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server CTP (MS Downloads)
• Migrating Data Base from SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise to SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Data Flow Expressions (22/31) and 31 Days of SSIS – Generating Row Numbers (23/31) (Jason Strate)
• UNPIVOT example in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER- Differences Between Left Join and Left Outer Join and SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Enabling and Securing Data Entry with Analysis Services Writeback and SQL SERVER – 2011 – Multi-Monitor SSMS Windows (Pinal Dave)
• The under-used OVER clause! (Martin Bell)
• Preview of SQL Azure Federations Connectivity Model (James Vastbinder)

SharePoint

• Mastering Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Part 2) (Mark Kendall)

PowerShell

• Parenthesis in PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
• Advanced PowerShell Options in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Powershell debugging II (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• WindowsPhoneGeek App Hub is live (Windows Phone Geek)
• Nerdy Monday: How many retro or geek things can you find in my home office? (Pete Brown)
• Wishing Internet Explorer would finally be a real browser… (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: January 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 01.19 ~ 01.23 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #776 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 22 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 21 January 2011 and Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 23 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2011 — #1032 and Silverlight Cream for January 23, 2011 — #1033 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 01/24/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Week Retrospective 16 – Test-Driven Development and Agile Misunderstanding (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Interfaces, 2nd Edition – $19.99 (Save 50%) Code DDD2F (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Windows Phone Gestures as Triggers (Nigel Sampson)
• Demystifying Silverlight Dependency Properties (Dan Wahlin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Why I Believe Visual Studio LightSwitch will be a Win and Extending a Legacy Application by Associating Local Data with External Data (Dan L. Moyer)
• Call a Method Asynchronously using Delegate BeginInvoke and EndInvoke Pattern (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

• Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery, HTML 5 Style (Mike Ormond)
• FubuMVC’s Internal Runtime, the Russian Doll Model, and how it compares to ASP.Net MVC and OpenRasta (Jeremy Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Prebuilt Fixture (Giorgio Sironi)
• Foundations of Programming: Why Markdown? (And why not Word?) (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM Framework Explorer update and top MVVM Frameworks (Jeremy Alles)
• What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 15 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• 500 Metro Style WP7 Icons (Bil Simser)

Community / Events

• Ubelly picks from CES (Andrew Spooner)
• SQLAuthority News – Free Trip on SQL Cruise (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing Philly Code Camp 2011.1 – Saturday, April 9, 2011 (John V. Petersen)
• HIMSS back in Chicago, as is ignorance about health IT (Neil Versel)
• Agile 2011 Early Bird Submissions (Mike Cottmeyer)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 4.0 release on Jan 13? (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Override Variables (9/31) (Jason Strate)
• SSMS Addin Wrapper – Source Code and Usage (Don Halloran)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #766 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Eric T Freeman

Top Links

• Methodologies for the Design of Robotic and Multi-Agent Systems (Billy McCafferty)
• In-depth look at Customizing Type Layout with ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Making Sites Shine with @font-face (Emily Lewis)
• Windows Phone 7 codenamed “No Donuts” update details leaked ahead of CES (damaster)
• The developer’s true goal (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Set Breakpoint to multiple Functions at a same time in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Logging errors with MonoDroid and Android (Wally McClure)
• Controlling XML Serialization of the Root Element (Richard Carr)
• IT Book of the Year: Professional Visual Studio 2010 (Nick Randolph)
• IO throughput: Haskell vs F# (Flying Frog)
• CodeSmith Tools 2011 Roadmap (Thomas DuPont)
• Reset Window Layout (Zain Naboulsi)
• The Weekly Source Code 58 – Generating (Database) Test Data with AutoPoco and Entity Framework Code First (Scott Hanselman)
• Book Review – Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Jeremiah.Clark)
• Looking at the code for the image importer (John Guin)
• Preprocessed T4 Templates (K. Scott Allen)
• Using CSLA 4: Creating Business Objects draft online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Project of Projects with team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)

Web Development

• Displaying a Paged Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• The Robots Are Taking Over (Justin Etheredge)
• The significance of the $ in jQuery (Matthew David)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning iOS 4 SDK for JavaScript – $13.99 (Save 50%) Code DD4JP (O’Reilly Media)
• Using jQuery and Javascript in WordPress (Per Ola Sæther)
• HTML5 Recipes: Forms Enhancements (Romin Irani)
• Sueetie.com Now Running BlogEngine.NET 2.0 (Dave Burke)
• Browser + hardware working together to deliver a richer web (Ryan Gavin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Implicit Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• Don’t avoid difficult tasks (Dror Helper)
• The Makings of a Great Team (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• You Against Your Lists (J.D. Meier)
• Theorems Regarding Business Logic (Ken Downs)
• Book Review: Driving Technical Change (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Searching the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Programmatically (Doug Holland)
• Creating a Location Aware Mapping App for Windows Phone 7 (Frank La Vigne)
• (WPFS) MVVM Light Toolkit: Soup To Nuts Part I (Jesse Liberty)
• A guide to cleaner XAML with custom namespaces and prefixes (WPF/Silverlight) – by Sandrino Mattia (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Amazon Kindle for Windows Phone 7 now available (Lee Mathews)
• A better way to organize your Silverlight Code Snippets. and Cellbi Silverlight Controls Giveaway (5 License to give away) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight: Fixing the BookShelf Sample (Peter Kuhn)
• Metro, Windows Phone 7 design language (Andrew Spooner)
• PathListBox: making data look cool (Alex Knight)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint 2010 (MS Podcasts)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 170: Large Agile Software Development with Bas Vodde (SE-Radio Team)
• Yet Another Podcast #19 – Lisa Feigenbaum (Jesse Liberty)
• Runas Radio Discussion on Upcoming Office 365 (Joel Oleson)
• Meet the PowerShell Team: Jon White (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 4th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Web Camps: MVC & jQuery Free Training (Doris Chen)
• Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) – March, 2011 in San Francisco (Wally McClure)
• Microsoft at 2011 CES, January 6-9, 2011 (Doug Holland)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 2, Jan. 13, 2011 (Nerd Nite)
• Microsoft to Tease Windows 8 at CES Today ! (Haras)
• Upcoming CodeRush Webinars (Mark Miller)
• Snow and SQL mix for Microsoft’s Cascade Skier (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Folder Structures (4/31) and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Binary Values (Jason Strate)
• Deny Delete on a Table to All Users Except a Few – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Copy Statistics from One Server to Another Server (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS addin (and wrapper) (Don Halloran)

SharePoint

• Capacity planning for SharePoint Server and Planning for server farms for SharePoint Server (MS Downloads)
• SP2010 AJAX part 7: Useful tools when building AJAX applications (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft set to ‘turn on’ new Washington datacenter (Mary Jo Foley)
• Silverlight Cream Monday WP7 App Review # 2 (Dave Campbell)
• Metro Home brings a little Windows Phone 7 style to your desktop (Lee Mathews)
• C# Silverlight Developer Jobs at Inviso in Bellevue, WA (Michael S. Scherotter)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Zone: News Archive – #3 – 4th January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for Dec 27-Jan 2, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for January 04, 2011 — #1022 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #763 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Donald Belcham