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

.NET / Visual Studio

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

Web Development

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

Design / Methodology / Testing

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

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

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

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

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

Community / Events

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

Database

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

PowerShell

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

Miscellaneous

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

More Link Collections

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

The Geek Shelf

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

Top Links

• This Developer’s Life 1.0.3: Problems (Rob Conery)
• Trust Your Instincts! Or how to stay interested in programming (Mike Hadlow)
• Patterns of Windows Phone Architecture Part III (James Ashley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tips on Debugging : Using DebuggerHidden attribute (Abhijit Jana)
• Marble Diagrams and Rx (Abhishek Sur)
• Find out how long your method runs (Gunnar Peipman)
• Replace in Files: Tagged Expressions (Zain Naboulsi)
• Chained null checks and the Maybe monad (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Relative Date Time Converter (Nigel Sampson)

Web Development

• Using TemplateHint and other Model Metadata features in MVC (Arun Mahendrakar)
• SpreadSheetGear Made My Life Easy Today For Creating Excel File In ASP.NET A Little Background (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning: Study habits (Mark Needham)
• Dependency Injection (Richard Carr)
• Discussions On Software Development Are Good And So Is Programming. (Rajiv Popat)
• Estimates sucks, especially when I pay for them (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Direct Volume Licensing for Expression Encoder Pro Announced (Allan P.)
• Expression Encoder 4 Pro is getting GPU accelerated encoding (James Clarke)
• Google Weather API on Windows Phone 7 and GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF service (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WPF 4.0 Progress Bar Control using Dispatcher Thread (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Checking if a Remote (HTTP) File Exists (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Flash to Canvas Experiment: Bonsai Tree (Adam Kinney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WebDevRadio Episode 81: indieconf, client-side image resizing, moral dilemmas (Michael Kimsal)
• Windows Weekly 173: The Fiddly Bits (Paul Thurrott)
• Let’s Play TDD #13: The TaxRate Class (James Shore)

Community / Events

• Go That Way, Really Fast (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Soft Delete Conversation – Your Opinion Needed (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• "Masterminds of Programming" (Jason Bock)
• Configuring two wireless routers with one SSID (network name) at home for free roaming (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 09/12/2010 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu

Remember there is still a second contest that does not end until next Friday. Check out the original post for all the information. The competition is still wide open!

Best of luck and congratulations to Marc!!!

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 1 – Configuration, Actions and Conventions (Rob Eisenberg)
• Introducing WebMatrix (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft WebMatrix in Context and Deploying Your First Site (Scott Hanselman)
• The Controlled Calculator: An example of combining models while showing other features of Spec Explorer (Robert DuWors)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension is now officially a v1 (RTW/RTM, Released, Stable, etc, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• Using the Tika Java Library In Your .Net Application With IKVM (Kevin Miller)
• Custom Query Options on the WCF Data Services Client (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• TFS Event Handler for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Introducing Stacky: A .Net Client Library for the StackOverflow API (Luke Foust)
• Navigating Bookmarks (Zain Naboulsi)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extending LINQ – Adding Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• First MonoTouch Book is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• Hosting Windows PowerShell 2.0 under CLR 4.0 and The Case of The Failed Demo – StackOverflowException on x64 (Bart de Smet)
• Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE (Shai Raiten)
• Named Arguments versus Object Initializers (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

• Microsoft’s WebMatrix, The Simple ASP.NET Editor (Chris Love)
• WebMatrix & Razor: A new option for beginning developers (Dan Fernandez)
• ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & JSON (Dane Morgridge)
• Determining an ASP.NET Page’s View State Footprint (Scott Mitchell)
• New Windows Azure Book Now Available for FREE Download! (Windows Azure Team)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Base64 and Y64 encoding (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Generic Activity Indicator for Ajax Requests (Rey Bango)
• Using Stringify With the New window.msPerformance in Internet Explorer 9 (Karsten Januszewski)
• A GPU-Powered Shopping Experience with Amazon.com (Seth McLaughlin)
• Resources: Windows Azure for PHP developers (Glen Gordon)
• Pssst…Yeah you….Script Junkie…Check out this code… (Bob Familiar)
• Does Azure Debugging Cost Too Much? (Jonathan Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A short diagramed guide of a few Model-View-* patterns (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day – Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps – Only $9.99. Use code DDTAP (O’Reilly Media)
• Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile in the Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Group feedback (Mark Needham)
• Show Covering Tests with dotCover (Hadi Hariri)
• Short-Burst Work (J.D. Meier)
• Self-assessment – what have YOU learned lately? (Brian McNamara)
• The great Standup Report controversy (Andy Singleton)
• Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? (Vikas Hazrati)
• xUnit.net – Release: v1.6.1 (CodePlex)
• Your design sucks (Paul Boag)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft® Silverlight™ for Symbian Developer Tools (MS Downloads)
• Vuvuzela for Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• Using IDataErrorInfo for validation in MVVM with Silverlight and WPF (Jag Reehal)
• Banana SplitButton [A WPF-specific fix for SplitButton and some code analysis improvements for the Silverlight version, too] (David Anson)
• XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 version 6.1 Silverlight 4 Support and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 for Cider version 2.1 Silverlight 4 Support (Karl Shifflett)
• File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Printing in Silverlight 4 (Markus Egger)
• Three essential plugins for Expression Blend (Avivo)
• Smooth Morphing with Transition Effects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Don’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data (Rob Tiffany)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Kovacs on psake (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 117 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bartek Bielawski, Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson Scripting Games 2010 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• This Week In Silverlight – Kin RIP and Welcome new MVPs (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – ADP 2010 West – Ryan Martens – Rally Dev and the addition of Agile Zen (Bob Payne)
• Intro to "Small Basic" with Vijaye Raji (Robert Hess)
• Ping 64: IIS Express, IE Reversing the Trend, RIP Kin, Hulu Plus and more… (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #71: Must Have Bacon Beer! (Ken Denmead)
• Lane McCullough: Dell hardware running IE 9 Canvas demos and Simon Calvert & Scott Hunter: WebMatrix and the new Razor Syntax (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – July 6th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• CodePlex: Upgrading all TFS servers to TFS 2010 (Matt Hawley)
• Area 51: Asking the First Questions (Robert Cartaino)
• Announcing a Ruby with Shoes Course (Satish Talim)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Upper Case Shortcut SQL Server Management Studio (Pinal Dave)
• Network compression and database mirroring (Simon Sabin)
• Virtual Lab: Setting up Database Mail on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Setting Up Replication And Manually Initializing The Subscriber (Shaun Stuart)

SharePoint

• Practical Powershell for SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• Feature upgrade (part 2) – a sample to play with (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++ version 5.7 software update (Ben Palmer)
• Sacrificing some IDE capabilities (Jay Fields)
• New book: Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step (Carol Vu)
• Firefox 4 Beta 1 now available for download (Darren Murph)
• Reader Feedback: Is CompSci Education Failing? (Keith Ward)
• Developing for the iPhone and Android: The pros and cons (Jonathan Hassell)
• Remove Firefox 4.0′s big, ugly, unmovable orange button (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #637 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord

Top Links

• Stack Overflow Releases API Into Public Beta (Vineel Shah)
• PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio (Jeffrey Snover)
• FXCop 10 was Shipped with Windows 7.1 SDK (Jonathan Allen)
• Application extensibility model – working with MEF and Importing multiple extension assemblies in C# with MEF (Dennis Delimarsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Generic Type Generator (Alexander Van Berg)
• Now our Visual Studio is cooking with Power! The PowerGUI Visual Studio PowerShell extension that is… (Greg Duncan)
• Write Templates for Visual Studio 2010 (Kate Gregory)
• Use Preprocessor Directives for better debugging (Tim Hibbard)
• Great Uses of Using Statement in C# (Steve Smith)
• Document Well 2010 Plus: Hidden Options (Radames Cruz Moreno)
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part III: Adding a Metadata Class (Stephen Forte)
• Showing Hidden Tool Windows with the Auto Hide Channel (Zain Naboulsi)
• Update to "Creating Custom FieldData Classes in CSLA" (Jason Bock)
• Use Dovetail SDK in .Net (Sam Tyson)

Web Development

• Multi-Select List Box in ASP.NET MVC (Gary Pretty)
• Interested in web services interoperability with WCF? (Matt Milner)
• Internet Explorer Developer Tools: HTML (Pete LePage)
• Of .prototype and function() (K. Scott Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Story Sizing, Elephants and Mice (John Sonmez)
• Aspects of Kanban in Methods and Tools (Karl Scotland)
• Lokad.CQRS – Intro into App Engine Architecture, Multiple Message Subscribers (Rinat Abdullin)
• BDD-Style QUnit Testing ASP.NET MVC’s jQuery Validation (Elijah Manor)
• indentation of trailing lines of code (Anthony Steele)
• Widen People’s Job Titles (Jurgen Appelo)
• Coding: Controlled Technical Debt (Mark Needham)
• Top 10 Design Mistakes: #9 (Pete LePage)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 multitouch behavior: beta testers needed (#wp7dev)! (Laurent Bugnion)
• Readying myself for Windows Phone 7 "Hello, Operator?" (Mike Ormond)
• Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite (Rudi Grobler)
• I want more shell applications, especially for mobile (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pluralcast 18 : BDD in .NET with StoryQ (David Starr)
• This Week in Silverlight – Windows Phone 7 and Bus Tracking (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 17 – Silverlight with Miguel Madero (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 11 (Richard Hay)
• Radio TFS 29: Getting the Band Back Together (Martin Woodward)
• Windows Weekly 161: Paul’s Perihelion (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 95: Jay Wren on Mono (David Giard)
• ARCast.TV – UI of the New Era, Designing for Multiple Devices (Denny Boynton)

Community / Events

• New England GiveCamp: "Awesome, simply awesome" (Jim O’Neil)
• Tech●Ed 2010 Shows the Value of Microsoft MVPs (Toby Richards)

Database

• SQL SERVER – TRANSACTION, DML and Schema Locks (Pinal Dave)
• GROUP_CONCAT in SQL Server (Alex Bolenok)

SharePoint

• A short, sweet and concise four step guide for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64) (Greg Duncan)
• SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Save Even More Money with a TechNet Standard Subscription (Paul Thurrott)
• I Smell Smoke (Rob Conery)
• Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition? (Jeff Atwood)
• Dealing with Dates & Time Zones in Objective-C (Ben Scheirman)
• Setting the Arrow on Lines in Adobe PhotoShop or Elements (Dave Schinkel)
• Getting Started with iPhone and iOS Development (Joel Ivory Johnson)
• Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs (June Blender)
• Programmer Tip: The Virtues Of A Little Bit Of ‘Boredom Time’ In Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
• Teaching programming to kids (Vijaye)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/21/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Links #110 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #625 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Link Post 150 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Post… 6/14/2010 through 6/20/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

Top Links

• Repositories and the Save Method (K. Scott Allen)
• Using LINQPad to Query Stack Overflow (Nick Berardi)
• ‘Kinect for Xbox 360′™ is Official Name of Microsoft’™s Controller-Free Game Device (MS PressPass)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#: A failed attempt at F#-ish pattern matching (Mark Needham)
• Code Contracts Part 6 – Runtime Support (Kevin Hazzard)
• Opening GAC as folder (Greg Galipeau)
• List(T).ForEach or foreach, it doesn’t matter…or does it? (Mattia Baldinger)

Web Development

• Using Script reference Profiler to Improve the Performance of an ASP.NET AJAX page (Girish Dagdiya)
• jQuery AJAX with ASP.NET Web Forms & Sitefinity (Deran Schilling)
• Securing Dynamic Data 4 (Replay) (Steve Naughton)
• Google Sitemap Generation From A Custom SiteMapResult (Mike Brind)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The patterns & practices Way (J.D. Meier)
• Lokad.CQRS – Messages, Commands, Events and Ping Pong (Rinat Abdullin)
• Leadership Tip: Avoiding The Perils Of Organizational Procrastination. (Rajiv Popat)
• Silverlight Unit Testing (Jason Apergis)
• The Refactoring Dilemma (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Update: June 2010, User Interface Changes (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone 7 performance (Al Pascual)
• Getting offline help for Silverlight (and many other technologies) for VS2010.. (Cheryl Simmons)
• Coding4Fun Cannon – Coding for Windows Phone 7 (Clint Rutkas)
• Mahhala – Bag o’ Tricks (Rudi Grobler)
• What I’m Reading – 2 – Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook (Dave Campbell)
• Visual WebGui Rides the XAML Wave (Mitch Pronschinske)
• New tutorials on .toolbox on PathListBox and Fluid UI (Adam Kinney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi: Part Two (Tina Wood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 92: Steve Smith on Performance and Scalability and Episode 93: David Truxall on Team Foundation Server (David Giard)

Community / Events

• DDD Exchange 2010 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Effective specifications for agile projects (Gojko Adzic)

Database

• Parameterized Report using a Stored Procedure (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Review of “The ART OF XSD – SQL Server XML Schema Collections” by ASP.NET MVP Hima Vejella (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• Lookup Foreign Key Values in External Lists (Hrayr Diloyan)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s "Application Compatibility Toolkit" Updated to Support 64-bit Version of Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• New in PowerGUI 2.1 – Charts (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Google Chrome OS Will Allow Remote Desktop Access From Browsers [Google] (Erica Ho)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Best Android Apps – Only $9.99 use code DDBAA (O’Reilly Media)
• Xbox 360 Slim outed by Italian ad? (Tim Stevens)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Weekly Links #109 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 6/14/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for June 13, 2010 — #881 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #620 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #123 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

Top Links

• Way of MEF slides and Code (Glenn Block)
• Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer (Jeff Atwood)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Language-Integrated Query (Richard Carr)
• How to Install Bing Maps App SDK with Visual Studio 2010 (Derek Chan)
• Using a Simple Quick Find (Zain Naboulsi)
• Conditional Attribute (Miguel de Icaza)
• How To Reference A Property By Name Without Using String Constants (Jon Davis)
• Cache Retrieval Pattern (Gil Fink)

Web Development

• How to Execute SSIS Packages in C# ASP.NET Part II (Vuyiswa Maseko)
• jQuery: Storing and retrieving data related to elements (Rebecca Murphey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Kanban just Waterfall with Small Batches? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Refactoring: Convert static into instance (Patrick Kua)
• Scrum vs. Kanban attitudes (Roy Osherove)
• The Funq IoC Container (Anthony Steele)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WCF RIA Services Part 1 published (Brian Noyes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 83: Ayende Rahien on RavenDB (Jon Galloway)
• The Thirsty Developer 95: DBPro with Barclay Hill (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Web Directions @media 2010 (Rachel Andrew)

Database

• Calculate Average Time Interval in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Server and the Auto Close Setting (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – What is Denali? (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Two Incredible, Indispensable, Free Utilities (Jesse Liberty)
• Live Sync: life after Live Mesh (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Phone 7 to add Flash 10.1 support? (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 12, 2010 — #880 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

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Top Links

•  MonoDroid – Mono for Android Beta Program (Miguel de Icaza)
• Entity Framework Repository T4 Template v1.0 (CodePlex)
• CodeRush 10.1 Hits RTM (Rory Becker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing map-reduce in F# (James)
• Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Plugins for DXCore/CodeRushXpress/CodeRush/Refactor! Pro 2010.1.4 RTM Available (Steve Bohlen)
• Programming Data: .NET, SQL Server and You (Chris Sells)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC2 Client Validation (Venkata Subbarao)
• Spurious MachineToApplication Error With VS2010 Deployment (Chris Sells)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Advanced Migrations (Oren Eini)
• Why and how to create Microsoft Office Minibar with jQuery and CSS3 (Janko Jovanovic)
• Catching clicks with clickCatcher before your JavaScript files have loaded/events been applied (Robert Nyman)
• Make Your Own Bookmarklets With jQuery (Tommy Saylor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MIT researchers develop the most fabulous gesture control technique yet (Joseph L. Flatley)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What I’m Reading – Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner’s Guide (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 and Adding Project References (Derik Whittaker)
• Creating a Custom Out-of-Browser Window in Silverlight 4 (Karl Erickson)
• Silverlight Gantt Chart – Release v1.3 (SL4) (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 04 of 18): Hello World (MS Podcasts)
• Major Nelson Show 358.99: E32010, Ninja Bee, Blur, UFC 2010, Alan Wake & more (Larry Hyrb)
• Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• Pluralcast 16 : A Software Journeyman’s Journey (David Starr)

Community / Events

• Stack Exchange API Contest (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Check the Isolation Level with DBCC useroptions and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamically Pass a Table Name to TRUNCATE TABLE (Suprotim Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

• PAC-MAN rules! (Marissa Mayer)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: My Favorite Feature: Quick Steps (Diane Poremsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 05.18 ~ 05.24 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #606 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Implementation Patterns

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Top Links

• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 5. The Startable Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• The Value Driven Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• I Am Not CodeMash (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Learning to LINQ, provider that is – Writing a LINQ To Wikipedia provider walkthrough (Greg Duncan)
• Some Common Operations using List – Part II (Suprotim Agarwal)
• InjectionFactory and Automatic Factories in Unity 2 – Tutorials and Examples (David Hayden)
• Search for the currently-selected string without bringing up the Find window (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Accessing a Web Service Using Sys.Net.Webrequest (Anup Hosur)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pair Programming continued (Mark Nijhof)
• Programmer Tip: Have The Spine To Question Authority (And Your Manager). (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 3 of X – Repository implementation and Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 4 of X – DomainService, using DTO and Unity (Fredrik Normen)
• Persistable View Models & XAML for Config (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 139: Big Trouble In Little Paul (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9 – Clint Rutkas, Photoshop results, MVC 2 resources galore (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• On self-promotion, lies, and being a woman (Rachel Andrew)
• What three events brought you here? (Paul S. Randal)
• Interview with Silverlightshow.net and a sneak preview of my next articles (András Velvárt)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Get Server Version and Additional Info (Pinal Dave)
• Scripting Indexes (Patrick LeBlanc)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Live Meeting Console & Outlook Conference Add-In for Office 2010 and Microsoft Releases "System State Analyzer Tool" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• New, Improved Comments with @reply (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting Post… 1/11/2010 through 1/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

The Geek Shelf

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

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Top Links

• Ten things thou shalt not tweet (Xeni Jardin)
• UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil (Michael Feathers)
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Sandcastle Help File Builder – Release: v1.8.0.3 (CodePlex)
• Extending NHibernate data with one-to-optional relationships (Louis DeJardin)
• F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
• Comparing Bytes (Sean Timm)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –1) (Mehfuz Hussain)

Web Development

• Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure? (Martin Hinshelwood)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Business Applications Could (Or Should) Look Like (Davy Brion)
• Handling Concurrency: It’s a Matter of Trust (Dan Simmons)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 2: Making scenarios easier to read with tables (Gojko Adzic)
• Unity/Moq – AutoMocker or AutoMockingContainer (Jason Jarrett)
• Test Soon Development: a case study (Ward Bell)
• Programmer Tip: Do Not Waste Your Professional Trump Card On Funny Things. (Rajiv Popat)
• Balsamiq Roadmap for 2010 (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Silverlight 4 – Make Commanding use lesser code (Fredrik Normén)
• Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• MEF and Prism exploration, MEF module loading (Glenn Block)
• Configuration Files for Silvelright HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Dynamic Data Services in a WPF Application (Brady Kelly)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer – Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
• F# Parallel Programming Video (Talbott Crowell)
• ARCast.TV – Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator (Bob Familiar)

Community / Events

• Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2009 in Retrospective: Mike Cottmeyer Edition (Mike Cottmeyer)
• PowerShell, Virtually (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SQL Server WHILE Loops (Richard Carr)
• SQL SERVER – Unique Nonclustered Index Creation with IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler? (Thom Holwerda)
• Enable the secret ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7 (Imran Hussain)
• New, Lower Careers Pricing (Jeff Atwood)
• Why Windows Media Center is dead (Daniel Cazzulino)

More Link Collections

• Top 9 Posts from 2009 (Bart de Smet)
• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #509 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #104 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #86 (Grant Palin)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/4/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Links (1/3/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 126 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Best of Sources of Insight 2009 (JD Meier)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net