• SOLID JavaScript: The Open/Closed Principle (Derek Greer)
• Using the JavaScript Prototype Property to Structure and Extend Code (Dan Wahlin)
• What’s new in MEF 2 Preview 5? (Alok & Nick)
• Optimizing picture password security (Steven Sinofsky)
• Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and his impact on Azure: A six month report card (Mary Jo Foley)
• No gaps for Windows Phone 7 with latest PhoneGap (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Obtaining the Week Number for a Date (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8 Metro App Tip of The Day – reading/writing files without CAP declarations (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
• F# Pattern Matching (Ganesan Senthilvel)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 3–Anonymous methods (Kyle Burns)
• CXXI: Briding the C++ and C# worlds. (Miguel de Icaza)
• Sharing with CompositionScopeDefinition in MEF 2 (Alok)
• Tpl Dataflow (IDataflowBlock) – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Great Windows Azure announcements and fresh content! (Glen Gordon)
• MonoGame – Write Once, Play Everywhere and .NET Client Library for Google+ (Both in original binary form and decompiled/source version too) (Greg Duncan)
• What is the Lifecycle of Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class (Giorgi Dalakishvili)

Web Development

• Be Careful When Using The jQuery Proxy() Method Outside Of A jQuery Context (Ben Nadel)
• JavaScript for C# developers: calling functions and the ‘this’ variable (Julian M. Bucknall)
• CSS and mobile device orientation (Dave Mahon)
• Using CORS to access ASP.NET services across domains (Dave Ward)
• Solving Duplicate Content with Distinct URLs Issue in ASP.NET MVC (Imran Baloch)
• Experimental CSS3 Animations for Image Transitions (Pedro Botelho)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 1 – Introduction (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Creating an Awesome Search Box (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• 2012 Bing Maps Feature Wish List (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows Azure Resource: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, Second Edition – eBook Download and Windows Azure: Hands on Lab for Moving Applications to the Cloud (Avkash Chauhan)
• Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page: My Solution (Davy Brion)
• WebSocket servers on Windows Server (Nathan Evans)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are You A Unit Testing Ninja? Stuck with Legacy Code? (Avi Kaye)
• Can software succeed even if Agile failed? and 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Process of Change – The Agile Change Agent [Part 1/4] and The Process of Change – 3 Levels of Change-Implementation [Part 2/4] (Peter Saddington)
• Four cool colour tools (Paul Boag)
• 31 Days of Testing-Day 16: Testing Web Services (Jim Holmes)
• Management Models, Values & Principles? (Jurgen Appelo)
• Article: Succeeding with Dependency Injection (Mark Seemann)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• PAARC: Milestone Reached (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)
• Block Diagram on Windows Phone 7 Application Life Cycle Events (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Book Review: Window Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook (Matt Lacey)
• Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
• 2000 WPF Things #454 – UseLayoutRounding vs. SnapsToDevicePixels (Sean Sexton)
• The Case of the ModelBinding Failure (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Trying To Put A Horseshoe On A Car (Michael Washington)
• Muted audio even when the playback rate is set to a supported audio playback rate (Nitya Ravi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kathy Malone is a Green Developer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Mike Lee – The Road to Appsterdam (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 34 (Richard Hay)
• Gweek 031: The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Start-Up Success Podcast Show #127: Brad Feld on the Startup Marriage (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

• A Revolution in My Lifestyle (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT function (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
• Update Available for SSDT CTP4 (Adam Mahood)
• SQL: Calculated Fields (Shannon Lowder)
• The Mythical MySQL DBA (Sean Hull)
• Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Where, Oh Where, Is My Mashup Running? (James Terwilliger)

SharePoint

• Information Architecture in a SharePoint Context | Architecture d’Information dans un contexte SharePoint (Alain Lord)

PowerShell

• Configure Git in PowerShell So You Don’t Have to Enter Your Password All the Damn Time (Phil Haack)

Miscellaneous

• A Metro Themed PowerPoint Template (Colin Eberhardt)
• Code Signing For Individual Developers (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Android: Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText() (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #777 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1006 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/19/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily News Digest 12/19/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 12-18, 2011 and Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 19-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Reading Notes #25 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying by Itzik Ben-Gan

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Top Links

• Writing plug-ins for ReSharper: Part 1 of Undefined (Hadi Hariri)
• Castle Windsor 2.1, Dynamic Proxy 2.2 and more released! (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Weekly Source Code 47 – ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data: FilterRepeaters and Dynamic Linq Query Generation (Scott Hanselman)
• Don’t Let Your Code Marry An Axe Murderer (K. Scott Allen)
• A Ruby on Rails Tutorial for .NET Developers (Mike Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The TekPub LINQ Challenge And The Sieve Of Eratosthenes (Justin Etheredge)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 2 – Simple Optimizations (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How to transform old properties to automatic properties with a simple search and replace (Daniel Cazzulino)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 1A. A Delegate Factory Facility (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• Running FubuMVC on Mono (OSX) (Tobin Harris)
• Using ASP.NET 3.5′s ListView and DataPager Controls: The Ultimate DataPager Interface (Scott Mitchell)
• Take your MVC User Controls to the next level (David Ebbo)
• Ambiguous Controller Names With Areas (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 4 – CDN (Karl Seguin)
• Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery – Update (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Determining A Significant Change In A Web Page (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Non-functional Architectural Woes (Udi Dahan)
• Unit Testing Biztalk : Two possible frameworks (Roy Osherove)
• C# Test Builder Pattern: My current thinking (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight and Desktop .NET Integration (Jeremiah Morrill)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tutorial: Publish a Access 2007 database to the web and The Visual Studio Documentary: Tony Goodhew full length interview (Tina Wood)
• Hello Windows Azure! (Ryan Dunn)

Community / Events

• Pluralsight On-Demand! New Releases: Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, BizTalk and more! (Bob Familiar)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Upcoming Silverlight 4 talk: January 19 (David Makogon)
• OMG! Someone Stole My Code (Davy Brion)
• Wrox on the Road – Wrox authors coming to a conference near you (Jim Minatel)
• “Zero to XAML in 4 hours” – Free in person training from Microsoft and Paul Sheriff and Free in person day long Silverlight/Blend Training – “Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour” (Greg Duncan)
• Looking Back at my 2009 Technology Predictions (Stephen Forte)

Database

• The SQL developer gap (Warning: rant coming up) (Jamie Thomson)
• IN vs INNER JOIN (Gail Shaw)
• Mirroring SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (part 2) (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Migration QuickStart (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Announces SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade: Test-SPContentDatabase – Key to Successful Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
• Business Connectivity Services PassThrough & RevertToSelf (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• Android 2.1 SDK released for developers (PhoneArena Team)
• Coming Soon: Stack Overflow T-Shirts (Jeff Atwood)
• 4 Web Tools You May Have Missed (Darrell Etherington)
• 94 more secret Windows shortcuts (Ed Bott)
• Kodu for PC Technical Preview Available RIGHT NOW (Matthew MacLaurin)
• VUE Turns Your Mind-Mapped Ideas Into Presentations (Lisa Hoover)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: iPod: The Missing Manual, Eighth Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code PTM89 (O’Reilly Media)
• Using Kolb’s Model to learn about iPhone Development (Patrick Kua)
• The New Slide Show in PowerPoint 2010 (Office Team)
• Coder’s Game: The Queue ICPC Challenge Problem (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #516 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2010 — #776 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: January 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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.NET / Visual Studio

• How to use MongoDB from PowerShell and F# (Doug Finke)
• ReSharper Discount and Free Upgrade to ReSharper 5 (David Ridgway)
• Dense code (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with IronPython (Charlie Calvert)
• .Net Framework 4.0: System.IO.File supports now IEnumerable (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 2 – The Basics (Justin Etheredge)
• VS 2010 Intellisense Improvements (Michael Ceranski)
• UppercuT and Mono Migration Analyzer (Rob Reynolds)
• CSLA .NET 3.8 Beta 2 MVVM support and CSLA .NET 3.8.0 Beta 2 available (Rockford Lhotka)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Finally Some Real Improvements For Automated Testing In .NET and Prefixing Instance Fields? (Davy Brion)
• Unit Testing: An Introduction and Unit Testing: Execution and Unit Testing: Code Coverage (Deborah Kurata)
• Injecting an ILogger property with Autofac (Louis DeJardin)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part IV: Apply It Immediately (Patrick Kua)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer (Karl Shifflett)
• Introducing the WPF 4 Calendar control (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Fun with CollectionViews (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Audio Player for WordPress (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing (Bob Familiar)
• Integration Test Brought to you by Powershell & NUnit – with a Little Specification Syntax for Flavoring (Jason Jarrett)
• Major Nelson Show #336: NPD’s, Borderlands and more Tasty conversation (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 168 – 10.25.2009: The Engadget Show 002 with Steve Ballmer (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 89 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell V2 Launch Party with Jeffrey Snover (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Weekly 127: Hasta La Vista Baby (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• How to display long text in SSMS (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – A Dream Coming True (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions (Ed Bott)
• Scala: Converting an input stream to a string (Mark Needham)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/26 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Fixing Icon Overlays for Dropbox + TortoiseSVN (Rinat Abdullin)
• Light it Up: List of Applications that use new Windows 7 Features (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Store – engaging with consumers directly (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #462 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #95 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #76 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 384 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 116 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (10/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• StructureMap 2.5.3 Is Released – and the Future of StructureMap (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Generated by a Tool, not for Human Consumption (Sergio Pereira)
• using – There’s More There Than You Are Using (Dave M. Bush)
• WPF Color Picker (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• jQuery 1.3 Aftermath (John Resig)
• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 7) – The Controller (Nick Berardi)
• Creating a Cool UI Effect on ASP.NET Panels Using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• This Application Has Unique Business Rule Needs (Ken Downs) – Link of the Day
• Teaching, Symbology, and Intellectual Materialism – The Chasm Is a Vaccuum (Scott Bellware)
• Leadership 101: Stop Talking and Listen (Jim Holmes)

PowerShell

• Getting Started with PowerShell – Developer Edition (James Kovacs)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Development and Application Lifecycle Management (Paul Andrew)

Database

• SQL Server T-SQL Script for FizzBuzz Logic (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Technical vs. Managerial Career Ladder (David Starr)
• Windows 7 – Should a Developer Invest in the Upcoming OS? (Bart Czernicki)
• Don’t Use Arbitrary Limits (Justin Etheredge)
• Windows 7, Mac OS Make Gains in January (Jonathan Skillings)
• Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think (Max Pool)
• Who the Frag Has Time for Open Source? (Sara Chipps)
• Have Keyboard, Will Program (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Links of the Week #70 (David Vidmar)
• Links (2/1/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• LINKBLOG for February 1, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Weekly Link Post 79 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for February 01, 2009 — #504 (Dave Campbell)
• Link Listing – February 1, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Weekly Links #38 (Grant Palin)
• The Morning Brew #277 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day