• Exclusive: Microsoft’s LTE Plans for Windows Phone (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET Security Update Shipping Thursday, Dec 29th (Scott Guthrie)
• Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Six (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework December Sample Updates (Jialiang)
• New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Free resources (audio, fonts, graphics, tools, etc) for Dev’s and your next app… and Education and Educational tools, open source style (Greg Duncan)
• Dino Esposito: The O/RM and the chicken/egg dilemma (Devon Musgrave)
• How To: Bulk edit action recording? (Gautam Goenka)
• the concept of async \ await (Bnaya Eshet)
• On mutable state (Brian Marick)
• Practical Demonstration of Windows 8 Metro Style Application Lifecycle (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dropping in (Raymond Chen)

Web Development

• Peer to Peer Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket and PubSub Chat Using HTML5 Web Socket and em-websocket (Amar Daxini)
• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using PHP to HTML-ize Plain Text (Scott Eiler)
• The async and defer Script Attributes in HTML5 (Gil Fink)
• Subtyping JavaScript built-ins (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTTP Tools You Should Know About (John Sheehan)
• Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role (Gunnar Peipman)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 3 (Dan Wellman)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 1- Creating a new Windows Azure Cluster for Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 2 – Creating a Pi Estimator Hadoop Job and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)

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 #461 – Making a GridSplitter Look Three-Dimensional (Sean Sexton)
• Binding Formatting (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez and YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #155: Transitioning to SaveFile (James Shore)
• Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang Live 12.29.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 119 – 12.29.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• RavenDB videos on YouTube (Oren Eini)
• Agile 2011 – Ward Cunningham – Agile Manifesto, 10 years later and the Federated Wiki (Agile Toolkit)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Auston Bunsen Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• There and Back Again – My Return to .Net Development (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

• SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
• SQL SERVER – Year End Brain Teaser – Disabled Login and Associated User Without Disabled User Red Arrow (Pinal Dave)
• RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research Cambridge: Year in Review (Andrew Blake)
• Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
• Learning Android: Sharing with Twitter/the ‘share via’ dialog (Mark Needham)
• Is the Windows Phone story “starting to come together”? (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone users: LTE models may be closer than you think (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• 2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
• Fever Pitched Episode 6: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 28 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Double Shot #784 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1011 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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

• Protecting your digital identity (Steven Sinofsky)
• Starting work on Prism 4.1 (Blaine Wastell)
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 3: Screen Templates, Which One Do I Choose? (Beth Massi)
• Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #4: The Application Bar (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Integrating RoboHelp with TFS Source Control (Shai Raiten)
• Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• NuGet PowerShell Downloader Update – Adding Failed Download Retries, Better Paging Support (Jon Galloway)
• Manage Your Dependencies with Rake and NuGet (Josh Bush)
• Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations (Per Ökvist)
• I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! (Peter Kellner)
• Getting the most of the Kinect SDK (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• CSS3 Animations (Gil Fink)
• Interoperable HTML5 Quirks Mode in IE10 (Tony Ross)
• Debugging Application_Start and Module Initialization with IIS and Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 8 -Show SSRS Report in ASP.NET Web Page (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Downcast (and Wrapping) and jQuery plugins with jsTestDriver (Giorgio Sironi)
• Decoding jQuery – OOP and jQuery part 6 (Shi Chuan)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.02 (CodePlex)
• Good Summary of Bad Security Assumptions (S. Lott)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP Availability (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Process Reality Check (Ralf Westphal)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 13: Functional Test 201 (Common Problems) and Test Studio Webinar on Functional Test 201 (Common Problems) (Jim Holmes)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• E is for Estimable (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Annotated Source Code As Documentation, With Docco (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Is there a future for Microsoft Expression Blend for XAML? (Andrei Marukovich)
• Windows Phone LINQ to SQL and Data Virtualization (Andy Wigley)
• Just Published on Codeplex SDNavigation WP7 + MVVM + Navigation Framework (Braulio Díez Botella)
• Windows Phone testing for sensors (Daniel Egan)
• 2000 WPF Things #451 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, Part IV (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Basic User Comparison (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 2 (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Communicating at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 187: Charles Stacy Harris III on the Microsoft Technology Center (part 2 of 2) (David Giard)
• Grantophone LIVE! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Performance Profiling (Robert Green)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 006 – 12.14.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• What The Tech 97: Best of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• A Look Behind the Art of Touch Site (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Dream.Build.Play 2012 – Adding Windows Phone (XNA Team)
• A Coder Interview With Phil Haack (The Code Project)

Database

• Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQLAuthority News – Online Session Practical Tricks and Tips to Speed up Database Queries Today (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 14: EXCEPT and INTERSECT SET Operations (Denis Gobo)
• Troubleshooting Merge Replication Performance – Indexing Publications (Ted Krueger)
• Display Foreign Key Relationships and Name of the Constraint for Each Table in Database (Rodney Vinyard)
• Deleting Leading Zeros in a String (SQL) (Madhivanan)

SharePoint

• Installing SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012 RC0 (Bradley Schacht)

PowerShell

• A short round-up of PowerShell Quick Reference Guides & Cheat Sheets (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• The best way to handle unrelated experience on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
• Moving My Data To The Cloud: Stormy Weather (Chris Sells)
• Thoughts on ExcelMashup.com (and a rant) (Jamie Thomson)
• The peculiar cadence of executive mail messages (Raymond Chen)
• More Android Games that Play Nice (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 14, 2011 (#2,100 or so) (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 15 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #773 and Double Shot #774 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1003 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/14/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for December 13, 2011 – #0011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 14 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World by Estelle Weyl

• Welcome to ASafaWeb (Troy Hunt)
• What if you had to build software for undiagnosed adults that suffer from autism, Asperger’s, dyslexia, ADHD etc. (Scott Barnes)
• Asynchronous Programming with the Reactive Extensions (while waiting for async/await) | Programmation Asynchrone avec les Reactive Extensions (en attendant async/await) (Jerome Laban)
• What’s the difference? Remainder vs Modulus (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Simple Linq PIVOT to one row (Malisa L. Ncube)
• MSDN Article – Visual Studio ALM Rangers: Rise of the VM Factory (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Live SDK v5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Mono for Android 4.0 Comes with Incremental Build and Deployment (Abel Avram)
• No Alert in WinJS! Use console or MessageDialog instead (Adam Kinney)
• New NuGet.org Deployed! (Phil Haack)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator 3.0.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Automated Build and Deployment with Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (Tom Hollander)
• Why does my program still show up in the Programs and Features folder after my uninstaller exits? (Raymond Chen)
• From COM to Win8, one developers retrospective… (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Inside ASP.NET MVC: Instantiation of Controller (Alexander Beletsky)
• Getting JavaScript Significantly Fluent (Dion Almaer)
• ASP.NET MVC, Dependency Injection, and MEF 2 (Jonathan Allen)
• Understanding CSS’s vertical-align Property (Louis Lazaris)
• Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
• Build and publish an HTML5 game for iPad – Part 3 (Matteo Spinelli)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Remove Setting Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Handling footnotes and references in HTML5 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Book Review: Head First HTML5 Programming (Michael J. Ross)
• KsigDo. A Knockout, SignalR, ASP.net, MVVM, MVC and EF all mixed together into a multiuser real time sync To Do" example (Greg Duncan)
• Developer: Inexpensive WordPress Themes For Your Windows Phone App (Antonio Hernandez)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Bulk Editor Widget (John Lindal)
• Event-driven development with Backbone (Dave Mahon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Tribe Wars: The Prezi (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Agile reality check–what if Jesus was female? (Scott Barnes)
• Article: Is Agile Sub-Optimal? (Terry Bunio)
• Thoughts on Testing OSS Applications in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Continuous Delivery: Removing manual scenarios (Mark Needham)
• Future mocking with #IgnoreInstance (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Level Up: 4 Ways to Gamify Workplace Teams (Morgan Norman)
• If you could design the perfect computing device for clinicians and clinical workflow, what would you ask for? (Bill Crounse)
• 31 Days of Testing – Day 5: Choosing What To Test (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• REST with JAX-RS and Silverlight clients (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Windows 8 Dependency Property Strangeness (Charles Petzold)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 9 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Sites Around the World (Rene Schulte)
• MVVM Frameworks For .NET (Roopesh Shenoy)
• 2000 WPF Things #444 – Children of DockPanel Don’t Always Have to be Stretched (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kathleen Dollard and Son talk Algorithms (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 167 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Helmick on teaching PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Talks Android (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Paul Irish covers some of the impressive new Chrome Developer… (David Kaneda)
• Managing Distributed Agile Teams [Video] (Andy Singleton)
• New Series on Telerik TV: “That’s Neat!” (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for December 5th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Charlotte PowerShell Users Group (Jim Christopher)
• Coincidence or career kismet? (MS JobsBlog)
• Webcast: Friday, Dec 9, 2011 by Stephanie Krieger on VBA and XML for Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2010 (Kim Spilker)
• Last Day at Microsoft (Phil Haack)
• No excuse for poor code quality in 2012: Learn How to Start Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Windows Phone Workshop–SQL Databases (Daniel Egan)
• Ordered List is a GitHubber (Chris Wanstrath)
• Prairie Dev Con West – Sessions Announced and Registration Open! (Bil Simser)

Database

• Enable XA transactions for SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
• December Monthly SQL Server Checklist (Jason Strate)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 5 – Deploying a report to the Server (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers Available on Kindle Format as eBook to Download (Pinal Dave)
• Extended Events – inaccurate_cardinality_estimate (Dave Ballantyne)

SharePoint

• User control reuse for SharePoint web parts (daniearink)

Miscellaneous

• MacRuby and Objective-C (Michael Sokol)
• Crop video in a Live Broadcasting project (Elliot Meacham)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Reading Notes #23 (Franky)
• Kinect SDK Dev Resource Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Article Digest 12/5/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #996 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/05/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 05, 2011 – #0006 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 5 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe

• Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is released!! (Avkash Chauhan)
• Windows Phone Dev Ecosystem – One Year On (Brandon Watson)
• A .Net Dev’s journey creating his first Android app… (Greg Duncan)
• New Windows Phone 7 Content on MSDN Library (Mike Desmond)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Locking the Workstation Programmatically (Richard Carr)
• Search and Filters in Error List Window – Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Use the WinDbg Engine in Visual Studio User-Mode Debugging (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Preview Tab (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using ExtendedReflection To Manage Your .NET Code at Runtime (Jason Bock)
• Windows Azure SDK 1.6 (Build 1.6.41103.1601) installation Walkthrough and Windows Azure Training Kit November 2011 Update is available to download now!! (Avkash Chauhan)
• The challenges in changing the way Explorer hosts shell extensions (Raymond Chen)
• Guide to reduce TFS database growth using the Test Attachment Cleaner (Terje Sandstrom)
• Checking if an Unloaded Collection Contains Elements (Ricardo Peres)

Web Development

• jQuery Grids Unleashed – Flat Grid Architecture (JavaScript) (Angel Todorov)
• Installing NODE.js on Ubuntu Linux. (Joe Stagner)
• 15 Pragmatic JavaScript Tips for ASP.NET Developers (Jon Galloway)
• Compiling F# to JavaScript with Pit (Phillip Trelford)
• JQuery 1.7 Brings HTML5 To IE6-8, Gets Deprecation Policy (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Laying out HTML with CSS Grids (Mike Taulty)
• Add reCAPTCHA To ASP.NET MVC Web Application (Shai Raiten)
• Frictionless development: Web.config and connection strings (Oren Eini)
• Using Scala and the Play Framework in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Announcing YUI Compressor 2.4.7 (Satyen Desai)
• Introducing the Sueetie Wall (Dave Burke)
• The Untimely Demise of the Plugin (and how LOB developments will suffer) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Analysis Of Web API Versioning Options (Dilip Krishnan)
• Web.config Transformations and XML Namespaces (Mads Troest)
• Semantics in practice and mapping semantic value to its consumers (Paul Irish)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Monthly Planning with Agile Results (JD Meier)
• Velocity: Agile Killer or Unsuspecting Mark? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Should Developers Know the Business Customers? (Peter Saddington)
• Should Agile Coaches Have a Code of Ethics? (Todd Charron)
• Why We Need UX Designers (Tim Murphy)
• Why I love Test Driven Development (Wille Faler)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Localizing a Windows Phone app Step by Step (Windows Phone Geek)
• Get my first book… Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight (Caleb Jenkins)
• F# Silverlight Library Template in Visual Studio 11 (Daniel Mohl)
• Silverlight Cookbook: Switching to another IoC Framework (Dennis Doomen)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 6 of 10) and Information on upgrading Kinect Applications to MS SDK Beta 2. (Michael Crump)
• Sync’ing OData to Local Storage in Windows Phone (Part 1) (ggailey777)
• Developers’ Interest Growing in Windows Phone, Waning in BlackBerry (Ina Fried)
• Basis of Tactile Programming with WPF4 and Surface 2.0 SDK | Bases de la Programmation Tactile avec WPF4 et le SDK (Nicolas Calvi)
• 2000 WPF Things #430 – Setting Width and Height Using Different Units (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #15: The Progress Bar (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Spiking the Pomodoro Timer (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Web Development at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 126: Jeff Atwood on the overlap of Video Games and Learning (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 165 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell talks Splunk (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Gweek 026: A heavily medicated ren faire (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Kinectimals on Windows Phones from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 30 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for November 14th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• LeadingAgile Welcomes Dennis Stevens and Peter Saddington (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Baudboys: Kings of Geek A Cappella (MS JobsBlog)
• Win a Samsung Slate or Free Marketing for you Windows Phone Mango Apps (Dave Isbitski)
• More Windows Phone events this week! (Brian Seitz)
• Webcasts: Coming up this week (Kim Spilker)
• The Return of Oracle Wikis: Bigger and Better (Oracle TechNet)

Database

• Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping (Chad Miller)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to LEAD and LAG – Analytic Functions Introduced in SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Create Sparklines in SSRS (Samuel Vanga)
• SQL Azure Data Sync Agent Preview (MS Downloads)
• DBCC CHECKDB (Jack Vamvas)
• Many-to-Many Dimensions (James Serra)

SharePoint

• Client Object Model Request Batching in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• How To: Convert a PowerPoint Presentation from 4:3 ratio to 16:9 without distorted or stretched images and CSI: My Computer – What is netsession_win.exe from Akamai and how did it get on my system? (Scott Hanselman)
• Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft’s "Trivial" Patents and Strategy Against Android (Groklaw)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 11.08 ~ 11.15 (yuanjian)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/14/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #981 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 15 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #752 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 14-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn

• 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

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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

SharePoint

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins

• Let’s Get Chocolatey! Kind of like apt-get for Windows (Rob Reynolds)
• The Windows 8 Task Manager (Steven Sinofsky)
• Announcing The New SQL Azure Reporting CTP Release (Gregory Leake)
• The D in DVCS (Jimmy Bogard)
• ShoelaceMVC, My Newest Open Source Project – ASP.NET MVC 3 Starter Project for Building Fast AND Production Quality Webapps. (Ryan Hayes)
• jQuery 1.7 Beta 2 Released (Dave Methvin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Please submit, vote on and discuss F# and Visual Studio features (Don Syme)
• Build Service on Azure connected with Hosted TFS Service on Azure. (Clemens Reijnen)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Searching Strings With Contains(), StartsWith(), EndsWith(), and IndexOf() (James Michael Hare)
• New book: Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio (Kim Spilker)
• Sharing single Configuration in Multiple projects (Abhishek Sur)
• Announcing WCF Data Services Oct 2011 CTP for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 (Abhiram Chivukula)
• On Not Using owner With the Azure AppFabric Service Bus (Neil Mackenzie)
• RadChart for Windows 8 WinRT – Taking its First Breath (Georgi Atanasov)
• Windows Azure Autoscaling Block BETA is out (Grigori Melnik)
• Await a void (Async CTP) (Mark Pearl)

Web Development

• Inside ASP.NET MVC: IDependencyResolver – Service locator in MVC (Alexander Beletsky)
• logo.js – JavaScript has a (semi-)official logo (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTML5 Video Support in IE9 Mobile (Rick Xu)
• Tekpub Update, October 2011 (Rob Conery)
• Intercepting onclick event in JavaScript using JQuery (Veera Sundark)
• ASP.NET 4.5 Preview: Using model binding to update data (Gunnar Peipman)
• Vocabularies in OData (Turker Keskinpala)
• Nancy: v0.8.1 just out the door (Andreas Håkansson)
• The Noob’s Guide to Open XML Dev (If you know how to spell OpenXML but that’s about it, this is your Getting Started guide…) and Microsoft Private Cloud Solution Hub (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Testament to an Agile Team and Agile is for your WHOLE Business and The Lure of Specialization (Joel Semeniuk)
• Git Beyond the D in DVCS (Keith Dahlby)
• Standup // Daily Scrum – Can You See a Potential Problem? (Peter Saddington)
• Design With Dissonance (Tad Fry)
• Using a gmail account as a production bug tracking server (Patrick Smacchia)
• Why Calculators Need a Better User Interface (Anthony)
• The LOB Chronicles Episode 10: UI Consistency (Evan Hutnick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• DesignSurface – WPF Designer Extension (vallarasus)
• SilverLight 5 and Kinect, via the magic of P-Invoke (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Page Navigation Framework – Learn about UriMapper (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #408 – ShowGridLines Property Allows You to See Individual Cells in Grid (Sean Sexton)
• My New Silverlight Services Course is Live (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bart De Smet: Rx Update – .NET 4.5, Async, WinRT (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 038 – “It’s So Frickin HUGE” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 108 – 10.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #61: Live from HTML5.tx: Drifting Creatives destroys the DeveloperSmackdown.com website (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• The JavaScript Show – Dart, JavaScript++, CoffeeScript (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Inside Windows Phone #26: Windows Phone LOVES Student Developers! (Larry Lieberman)

Community / Events

• Rest In Peace, Mr Ritchie (Ted Neward)
• Day four of Summit – Keynote 2 #sqlpass (Tim Radney)
• ThoughtWorks Agile East (ThoughtWorks Team)
• DevTeach Comes to Ottawa! (Peter Ritchie)
• PASS Summit Day 2 – Women in Technology Live Blog (Jen McCown)
• MVPs: Mark Your Calendars for the MVP Twitter Chat! (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Announcing Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux (Raghu Ram)
• Uploading SSRS Reports with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)
• SSIS: Script component debugging comes to SQL Server Integration Services 2012 (Jamie Thomson)
• SSRS 2008 R2: Implementing Row-level Security and SQL Server 2012 SSIS – Why is my toolbox empty? (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Whats your longest running query (Simon Sabin)
• How to move table to particular file in database (Vishal Gajjar)
• RowNumber in Select Query (Abhishek Sur)
• Just Announced at SQL PASS Summit 2011: Upcoming Increased Database Limits & SQL Azure Federation; Immediate Availability of Two New SQL Azure CTPs (Cameron Rogers)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model, Part 1 and SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model, Part 2 (Mark Nischalke)

Miscellaneous

• Appsites Is Now AppKickstand (Ben Scheirman)
• Tip: Quickly getting to Zoom commands in OneNote (John Guin)
• Skype is now officially part of Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)
• One button to Bing now means so much more (Luke)
• Getting started with Android NDK (Per-Erik Bergman)
• SnagIt Live Writer Plug-in Updated (Rick Strahl)
• Feature Detection in #MonoTouch / iPhone (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly Link Post 211 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Double Shot #730 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #959 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/13/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Practical SQL Queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 by Art Tennick

• 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

• Reflecting on your comments on the Start screen (Steven Sinofsky)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Search Everywhere (Radhika Tadinada)
• Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications. (Michael Crump)
• Windows 8 wish list: 10 Metro-style apps I want to see (Ed Bott)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Debugging Optimized Code in Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 2 and What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
• FSharpChart new release available (version 0.55) (Carl Nolan)
• Large Object Heap And .NET GC Improvements (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Implementing Windows 8 Push Notifications – An Example (Peter von Lochow)
• The Cost of Async and Await (Jonathan Allen)
• Official release of “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric" (Alan Smith)
• Creating a Distributed Computing System Using a Windows Azure Queue (Buck Woody)
• Devpad 4.4 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Few Nice features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview for ASP.NET Developers (Abhijit Jana)
• Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns (Addy Osmani)
• Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments (Giorgio Sironi)
• KnockoutJS Custom Binding for Invoking an Action with Enter Key (Steve Michelotti)
• Share Your Windows Azure (Cloud Computing) Ideas (MS Public Sector Team)
• Backbone.js: Getting The Model For A Clicked Element (Derick Bailey)
• Modernizr.js : Feature Detection (K. Scott Allen)
• OAuth 2.0 in Web API (Howard Dierking)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Way of Success (J.D. Meier)
• Spiking RavenDB Design Decisions: Event Aggregation (Oren Eini)
• Event Sourcing as a strategic advantage (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New FREE e-book: Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• FSharpChart and WPF (Carl Nolan)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 1: Authorized navigation. (Kevin Dockx)
• 2000 WPF Things #406 – Creating New Controls by Layering One on Top of Another (Sean Sexton)
• Sending Windows Phone 7 Notifications from Ruby (Larry Franks)
• Quick Tip: Design-Time Views for Regions (Jeremy Likness)
• Accessing the Dispatcher Thread from your ViewModel (Mark Pearl)
• Background Audio (Jesse Liberty)
• A Touch-Scrolling Attached Behaviour for ScrollViewer (Matt Hamilton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET 4.5: Eric St. John – Reducing Reboots During Framework Installation (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 122: Bert Belder on porting Node.js to Windows (Jon Galloway)
• Engadget HD Podcast 269 – 10.11.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Ejecting USB devices, Game stopping Windows Button, Getting MKV File Thumbnails (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 120: Zune, Hotmail, Kinect, Steve Jobs and Office Show 911: The shortcut to keyboard shortcuts (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Some Great FREE Windows Phone and ALM Sessions coming to IL, IN and WI in November! (Angela Dugan)
• Project Lifecycle Management with EPM and TFS User Group MN Oct 21st (Charles Sterling)
• SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS – 100 SQL Wait Stats Book Print Copy Giveaway – A Book Every Minute for an Hour Tomorrow (Pinal Dave)
• PowerShell v3 at Deep Dive next week (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• My Silverlight, HTML5, OData and Kinect talks coming up. (Michael Crump)
• I’m Presenting at the New York City SharePoint Dev User Group Next Week (October 19th) (Andrew Connell)

Database

• Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server CTP3 (MS Downloads)
• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (DRAFT Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
• Useful queries #3: Get SQL Server Edition, Version, Build and Last Update date and time. (Jose Chinchilla)
• Generate SQL Server Test Data (Rob Bowman)
• Remove All Foreign Keys (Sedat Salman)
• Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware (Glenn Berry)
• Using Custom Code Functions in Reporting Services Reports (Paul Turley)

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Profile synchronization guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• RTM’d today: Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• Start Scheduled Task and Wait On Completion with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)

Miscellaneous

• Three Reasons I Love Functional Programming (Alex Rønne Petersen)
• NoReplyAll Updated (Since I last installed it at least…) – Also see related the seven part "How it was built" series (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft and Oracle part ways over multitenancy in the cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Lessons From Steve Jobs (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #957 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/11/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 10/12/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week October 3-9, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Dev Tweets 10-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #728 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery by Dan Wellman

• 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