• Kinect for Windows is now Available! (Craig Eisler)
• One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman)
• jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Learn jQuery in 30 Days (Jeffrey Way)
• Debugger Canvas 1.1 Released (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension (Giles Davies)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Face Recognation in C# (Amir Ahani)
• Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C# (Rick Strahl)
• Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows – Details of API Changes from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows Support Info Coming Soon (Rob Relyea)
• How to access a WCF Service behind ISA Server 2006 Forms Based Authentication (Stacy Vicknair)
• Enhancements to /GS in Visual Studio 11 (vcblog)
• Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.4 Beta 2 (VS2010 Support) (Codeplex)
• Simplify Your Projections with AutoMapper (Patrick Steele)
• StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released (TATWORTH)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Enum Metadata Library (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• Using jQuery Deferred To Chain Validation Rules In An Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Environment (Ben Nadel)
• 2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries (John Papa)
• Creating the Perfect ASP.NET UI with Web Parts and User Controls (Peter Vogel)
• On the Viability of HTML5 Games (Dave Mahon)
• How to create animated tooltips with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
• ASP.net MVC Awesome – jQuery Ajax Helpers 2.0 and ProDinner – ASP.NET MVC Sample (EF4, N-Tier, jQuery) – Release Seven (CodePlex)
• An Ultimate HTML5 Cheat Sheet for Developers (Amit)
• My five favorite "hidden" features in Rails 3.2 (José Valim)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 4 – Transformations (G. Andrew Duthie)
• psd.js: You Guessed It – A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript (Devon Govett)
• Authenticating & Working with the Salesforce REST API & OAuth (Andrew Connell)
• Why External Links Should Open in New Tabs (Anthony)
• Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Firebug 1.9.1 (Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko)
• Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web (John Hrvatin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Science of Kanban – Process (Karl Scotland)
• Hand Drawn UI Kit (Vladimir Carrer)
• The Open Group Releases ArchiMate 2.0 (Mike Walker)
• The top mistakes UX designers make: the writeup (Scott Berkun)
• Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback (Tapas)
• Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way (Derick Bailey)
• Software engineering—what’s missing? (Eric Brechner)
• Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App (Julie Stanford)
• [Review] – Mike Cohn’s eLearning Agile Videos (Peter Saddington)
• Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Code to send game invite to multiple user in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins (Jeff Wilcox)
• Codeproject Windows Phone Application (Lakamraju Raghuram)
• Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #485 – Binding a ComboBox to an Enumerated Type’s List of Values (Sean Sexton)
• Top 10 Mango Features Article (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Memory Profiling for Application Performance (Pratap Lakshman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 81: Looking at the Next .NET Compilers AKA “Roslyn” Project (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 174 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Graeber using PowerShell in Infosec (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• HTML5 WebCamp Training VIDEO Available (Doris Chen)
• Let’s Play TDD #160: End of Week 1 (James Shore)
• The JavaScript Show – Backbone.js 0.9.0 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF (Jesse Liberty)
• The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (Ken Denmead)
• Engadget HD Podcast 284 – 01.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Talking Cloud with ASP.NET/IIS MVP Eduardo Zabat Lorenzo (MVP Award Program)
• Agile .NET Conference in Dallas this month (Caleb Jenkins)
• Join the Conversation with Bill (The Gates Notes)
• Join Me for Lunch in Chicago on March 23rd (Brent Ozar)
• Call for Sessions for PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 – San Diego, CA – April 29 – May 2 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• February Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• February Meeting Announcement (Don Burnett)
• Windows Azure + Node.js at NY Alt.NET (Peter Laudati)

Database

• "Introducing SQL Server 2012" second draft of free eBook now available (6 of the 10 final chapters) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server – Send email using Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
• 6 ways to get free SQL Server 2012 Training (John Sterrett)
• SQL SERVER – What is Slowly Changing Dimension – Quiz – Puzzle – 31 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Laying a Strong Foundation (John Sansom)

SharePoint

• Mobile SharePoint: Infragistics Acquires SouthLabs for End-to-End iPad, Android & Blackberry SharePoint Experience (Jason Beres)

PowerShell

• Prompts and Directories – Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary of Microsoft Certifications (MS PressPass)
• The Microsoft Interview Process (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Using the Group Project Toolkit, Office Web Apps and SkyDrive to take some of the coordination nightmare out of group projects… (Greg Duncan)
• Great time to be a developer (Joshua Flanagan)
• Software Security Weekly (Mark Curphey)
• Microsoft’s Office 15: To Metro or not to Metro? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tekpub Update: January 2012 (Rob Conery)
• Skype for Windows Phone app to begin beta testing soon, release imminent (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.20 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
• Monthly Summary – January 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Double Shot #808 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1034 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for January 31, 2012 – #0034 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 31 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK by Jarrett Webb

• Supporting sensors in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Get involved in Open Source today – How to contribute a patch to a GitHub hosted Open Source project like Code 52 (Scott Hanselman)
• Now, more than ever, you need a designer (Pete Brown)
• 01. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – The Team and Activities and 02. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Regression Test Sets and 03. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Test Automation and 04. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – Undone Backlog Item (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the Cloud – My Experience So Far (Buck Woody)
• LINQ to Twitter v2.0.23 Released (Joe Mayo)
• Rx – Aggregate vs. Scan (Bnaya Eshet)
• Sinister Bug is Sinister (Bobby Johnson)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection (Jeff Martin)
• Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentQueue (Simon Cooper)
• Enumerations And The CStr Function (Jesse Taber)
• What’s New In The Latest JustCode Internal Build (JustCode Team)
• Review – ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework (Brian Muirhead)

Web Development

• Resumable.js: Fault Tolerant Resumable File Uploads in JavaScript (Devon Govett)
• Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC views (Rachel Appel)
• Using oData with jQuery Hierarchical Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• JavaScript for C# developers: coercion (Julian M. Bucknall)
• More dynamic JavaScript value inspection (Christian Krebs)
• Some Thoughts On Functional JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Find the jQuery Bug #2: Point of No Return (Elijah Manor)
• Using HTML5, web sockets and some C# to build a multiplayer Space Shoot[er] (Greg Duncan)
• jQuery Grids in MVC with Wijmo (Kevin Griffin)
• Arctext.js – Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Form Template Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript Performance: for vs. while (Stoimen Popov)
• Rant: That’s Not Rest. (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Blob Storage Stream Wrapper (Puja Pramudya)
• Server-Sent Events (Remy Sharp)
• Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing Using SendGrid for Windows Azure Customers (Brian Goldfarb)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: xizzle (Jason Jarrett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to use Pex and Moles to generate unit tests for a project having external dependency(WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Atul Verma)
• Coming Soon: A New Perspective in Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Picking a domain for CQRS Journey RI (Grigori Melnik)
• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• The Rise of the Front End Developers (Veera Sundar)
• Ask Ayende: Handling filtering (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned while Introducing a New Programming Language (Jay C. Fields)
• How Do You Fix A Bug? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure – part 3: Remote Desktop (Larry Franks)
• Developer machine automation: Dependencies (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Missing Silverlight Resources and ASP.Net security (Derik Whittaker)
• See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer (Gil Yoder)
• Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Review of “Windows Phone 7.5 Data Cookbook” (Erik EJ)
• 2000 WPF Things #480 – ZIndex Values and Render Transforms (Sean Sexton)
• Catel – WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 MVVM toolkit – Release: v2.5 (CodePlex)
• PivotViewer Basics : Basic Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
• Caliburn Micro Part 3: More About Events and Parameters (Jason)
• Fixing the [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Troy Hunt Secures ASP.NET (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2010 Overview sessions and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Introduction (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Boagworld: Does your labelling cause confusion? (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 102: What Would You Do? (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 182: Domain-Specific Languages with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons (SE-Radio Team)
• Mike Downey on the HTML5 Player Framework (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• MVP Summit 2012 MVP 2 MVP Languages Sessions (Joseph Guadagno)
• My upcoming Talk: Introducing PRISM/MEF for the Agile Developer – February 2012 (Sam Abraham)
• First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond (Don Syme)
• Windows Azure User Groups in NYC and NJ (Peter Laudati)
• Philly Nerd Nite on the radio (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• GitHub Drinkup in Atlanta (Steve Smith)
• Talking Cloud with Windows Azure MVP Anton Staykov (MVP Award Program)
• Thinking About Developer Events (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows Azure and Cloud9 IDE at Node Summit (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft to replace Mix with a new developer conference (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Correct Value for Fillfactor – Quiz – Puzzle – 24 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• Many-to-Many Relationships and Partition Slices (Chris Webb)
• Take advantage of Database Mirroring in your applications and Automating Index Statistics Collection (Ted Krueger)
• Cheatsheet: Relational Database Management Systems Comparison (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

• Creating a custom XML indexing connector for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hacking and Securing iOS Applications – $9.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RedHawk to be part of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, too? (Mary Jo Foley)
• New WPAppInfo web site by WindowsPhoneGeek (Windows Phone Geek)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #803 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1029 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 1/24/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/25/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 16-22, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-24 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 News for Jan 16-22, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan

• Visual Studio Achievements – Remember Kids They’re Just For Fun (Bil Simser)
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta (Karsten Januszewski)
• Learning leadership from Congress (Seth Godin)
• Introducing ReSharper 6.1 SDK (Dmitri Nesteruk)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Ask Ayende: Life without repositories, are they worth living? (Oren Eini)
• [Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! – Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Achievements Widget (Geoffrey K.)
• TFS11 Scrum board update remaining work without opening the work item… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (Karsten Januszewski)
• An introduction to NDepend (Nathan Gloyn)
• Don’t try to allocate memory until there is only x% free (Raymond Chen)
• Querying an Uninitialized Collection with NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• P/Invoke Stack Imbalance MDA (Sasha Goldshtein)
• async / await, some reasoning (Bnaya Eshet)
• "Beginner’s Guide to Kinect Programming," from download to demo (Greg Duncan)
• Per Project Settings or How to have different naming styles for my test project (Hadi Hariri)
• Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article (Sacha Barber)

Web Development

• jQuery Bootstrap 0.2 Brings ‘Beauty’ to Widgets (Christopher Smith)
• An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques (Scott Hanselman)
• 160 Music APIs (Wendell Santos)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 3 – Paths and Text (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Add Google Plus One Extension to BlogEngine.NET (Joseph Guadagno)
• Under the Covers: Let It Snow… (Bogdan Brinza)
• HTTP is not a transport protocol, HTTP is not RPC (Glenn Block)
• Format efficiency take 2: really clean JSON (Pablo Castro)
• Windows Azure application VM and (virtual) IP Address (Avkash Chauhan)
• Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability (Dilip Krishnan)
• Easing Functions in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care (Steve Smith)
• The next big thing is extremely small (Jimmy Nilsson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Toolkit ToggleSwitch Databinding Bug (Andy Wigley)
• wp7 skydrive upload (babaandthepigman)
• WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited (Colin Eberhardt)
• How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight (DawningTiger)
• How to Use the ConnectionSettings Task for Windows Phone and Code to Share Status or Links on Social Media sites in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Comfortably numb… MVVM’ing Enums in ComboBox (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #476 – Set ZIndex Values for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
• New Ebook by SilverlightShow and Andrea Boschin: Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals (SilverlightShow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Dev Radio Episode 95: Jeff Carouth at ZendCon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
• The GeekDads Episode #107: And Anyone Who Says Otherwise Is Evil and Bad and Wrong (Ken Denmead)
• Defrag: Gov’s Nest, Bitlocker Q’s, Win7 Defrag, (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Bug Village, Hasta La Muerte, PixelTV, Make Way, WeatherDuck (Laura Foy)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 010 – 01.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio Achievements (Robert Green)
• New Videos Uploaded (Jesse Liberty)
• Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells Unplugged! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Microsoft-ComponentOne Hands-On-Workshops for Windows Phone Series – January 24th and 26th 2012 (MS Public Sector Team)
• Top 10 Reasons Why I Like Dating A Programmer (Lori Lalonde)
• I have been awarded as Telerik MVP (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Importance of Resource Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Performance Tuning – optimizing for response time (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• Translating Military Experience to Real World Jobs (Joe Wallis)
• Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn’t Enough (Jeff Atwood)
• New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition) (Garr Reynolds)
• Learning RegEx – Grouping and Backlinks and Lots-O-emote’s in WPCentral’s complete WP7 emoticons list (Greg Duncan)
• Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building? (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox (Mary Jo Foley)
• Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPA (Todd Wasserman)

More Link Collections

• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.10 ~ 01.19 (yuanjian)
• Daily News Digest 1/18/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1025 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-18 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 – #00029 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 18 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Entity Framework: Code First: Code First by Julia Lerman

• JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 3) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 22: Why Collaboration Matters (A Real World Example) (Jim Holmes)
• Channel 9 New feature: your own personal video queue (Duncan Mackenzie)
• The Likes & Dislikes of Microsoft in 2011 (Scott Barnes)
• Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology (Soulskill)

.NET / Visual Studio

• XML Documentation Comments (Richard Carr)
• I am reviewing Microsoft’s 70-515 C# exam PrepKit from UCertify (Abhishek Sur)
• Getting Assembly Information Using Reflection (Michael Ceranski)
• With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory and Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background (Peter Kellner)
• Working with DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro App and Working with Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML Metro App (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Hashtables vs. Arrays (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New GhostDoc Pro in Beta soon (Tatworth)
• New Resharper Code Style Sharing in v6.1 Features. (Mark Pearl)
• Mapping and Auto-Mapping Objects (Elton Stoneman)
• Graphite with .Net and Ubuntu 11.10 (Henrik Feldt)
• Sandcastle Help File Bbuilder v1.9.3.3 Beta 1 (VS2010 Support) (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 10 – Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job from Interactive JavaScript Console (Avkash Chauhan)
• HTML5 Progress Bars (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET Tutorial – Creating Web.Config file (Chris D.)
• Introduction to Column Hiding in jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
• CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• CSS Selector Profiler, Source Mapping and Software Rendering (Peter Beverloo)
• Checking if a view has changed in ASP.NET (Tim)
• APIs in 2012: Predictions From the Experts (Adam DuVander)
• Day 11 – Animating with sprite sheets (Val Head)
• Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 4 (Dan Wellman)
• Batman.js: Micro-framework with macro features (Dave Mahon)
• IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells (Rick Strahl)
• Do you need to worry about the cookie crisis? (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automating PHPUnit Tests in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• Out of context, architecture is nothing but modern art (Oren Eini)
• Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas (Bobby Johnson)
• More flexibility at work equals better health, new study confirms (Jessica Stillman)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Donald Reifer: “Software Change Management: Doing More With Less” (Devon Musgrave)
• xUnit.net 1.9 (CodePlex)
• Interview: Jeff Sutherland: Are Agile Teams Truly Agile? (Jeff Sutherland)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Running Windows Phone Unit Tests via MSBuild (Francis Cheung)
• WPF TextBox With Ellipsis (Mark)
• 2000 WPF Things #465 – Using GridSplitters with Nested Grids (Sean Sexton)
• Vibrating the phone (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet (Jonathan Allen)
• Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without (Loek van den Ouweland)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2011: Scott, Andrei and Herb – Ask Us Anything (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #156: Persistence, for Realsies (James Shore)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 35 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 008 – 01.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hot Apps: Minesweeper, Cheezia. Interior Design, Talking Alien, Zombie Squish (Laura Foy)
• The GeekDads Episode #106: Skylanders Farming (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Maine’s First SharePoint User Group (Jim O’Neil)
• Engadget’s 2012 CES Preview (Engadget staff)

Database

• CSV to SQL Server Compact scripting utility (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding Identity Beyond its Every Increasing Nature – Quiz – Puzzle – 3 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment service released (Denis Gobo)
• Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft patent could signal Xbox digital video recorder (Greg Lamm)
• Metro Style Desktop Wallpaper Calendar – January 2012 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Cropping screenshots in OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
• Learn to Code in 2012 with Free Weekly Programming Lessons from Codecademy [Programming] (Melanie Pinola)
• UX service consulting: It’s all about motivation! (Miao Wang)
• 5 Awesome Learning Resources For Programmers (To help you and your kids to grow the geek neurons) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Holo Everywhere (Tim Bray)
• Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace (Ed Oswald)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #788 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 04/01/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1014 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/03/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2011 – #0021 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Oracle Database 11g The Complete Reference (Oracle Press) by Kevin Loney

• Be A Creator, Not a Consumer (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Introduction to jQuery Mobile (Joseph Guadagno)
• Announcing FsUnit 1.0 (Daniel Mohl)
• Windows Phone Challenges for Microsoft (John Papa)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Application review: Northwind Starter Kit (Oren Eini)
• Repository Pattern with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Massimiliano Peluso)
• Optimizing Assembly References with ReSharper 6.1 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Shortest String That Contains All Words (Chris Eargle)

Web Development

• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 9 – Using Interactive JavaScript for Data Visualization (Avkash Chauhan)
• APress Deal of the Day 3/Jan/2011 – Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development (Tatworth)
• Day 10 – Drawing rotated images into canvas (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Web Forms with HTML5 (Mark Michaelis)
• SoMvc – ASP.net MVC 3 Application Template 1.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft’s cloud roadmap for 2012: What’s on tap (Mary Jo Foley)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah, What’s the Difference? (Abby Fichtner)
• The Value is in the Change (J.D. Meier)
• [Tool Review] – Team Pulse – Full Enterprise Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• TDD for multithreaded applications (Giorgio Sironi)
• Article: Dialogue Sheets: A new tool for retrospectives (Allan Kelly)
• Notes on Scalability (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Formula for project success (Jimmy Bogard)
• Composition Of Responsibility vs. Interface Implementation (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Article Series by SilverlightShow and Gill Cleeren: Windows 8 and the future of XAML (Silverlight Show)
• Adding Cookies to a Windows Phone 7 HttpWebRequest (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #464 – ShowsPreview Property Delays Row/Column Size Change Using a GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 (Subodhn Pushpak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Holmes Tests Everything (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 170 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffery Hicks Manages Windows Server with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Legacy Refactoring Using Isolator (Avi Kaye)

Community / Events

• Check Out the Slides for Tomorrow’s Webinar "Azure for the Windows Phone Developer" (Silverlight Show)
• Looking forward to CodeMash: Inside and Outside (Bill Wagner)

Database

• SQL SERVER DISABLE INDEX (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server Login Auditing (Tim Radney)
• MongoDB’s Write Lock (Rick Copeland)

Miscellaneous

• Ten Things To Do to Secure an Important Person’s Computer (or even Ashton’s or a Kardashian’s) (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #787 (Mike Gunderloy)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 and Windows Dev News for January 02, 2011 – #0020 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 26, 2011 – January 01, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1013 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know by Richard Monson-Haefel

• Windows Phone Native Series – Enumerating drivers (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Tech Predictions, 2012 Edition (Ted Neward)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design | #1 Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language (Arturo Toledo)
• Structuring Unit Tests (Phil Haack)
• Structuring your Unit Tests, why? (Oren Eini)
• New MVVM Light templates with bug fixes (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

• AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method and Attaching Continuation Tasks to the UI Thread (Richard Carr)
• Regions and navigation bar for F# in Visual Studio (Tomas P.)
• Be Hip in 2012 with Sublime Theme/Colors for Visual Studio (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• A lazy evaluation of F# Seq.groupBy for sorted sequences and Hadoop Binary Streaming and PDF File Inclusion (Carl Nolan)
• Moving UIElements around in Metro (Dave Campbell)
• ESE C#/C++ Toolkit v1.2 for Microsoft Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) (ESE is the database engine that’s been in the box since Windows 2000) (Greg Duncan)
• Start Here!™ Learn Microsoft® Visual C#® 2010 by John Paul Mueller; O’Reilly Media (Mark Pearl)
• Your First Metro style App in JavaScript (Chris Sells)
• XmlWriter and lower ASCII characters (Rick Strahl)
• Implementing Custom TPL Dataflow Blocks (Jonathan Allen)
• A generic repository (Nathan Gloyn)

Web Development

• Why Use jQuery for Simple JavaScript Tutorials? (Louis Lazaris)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Constructor Body (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML 5 Geo-Location in ASP.NET MVC Web Apps (Part 1) (Sumit Maitra)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 8 – Hadoop Map/Reduce Administration from command line in Cluster (Avkash Chauhan)
• Using the Geolocation API (Rob Larsen)
• Day 8 – Photo fun with CamanJS (Paul Neave)
• Reducing Backbone Routers To Nothing More Than Configuration (Derick Bailey)
• Create Hosted Service using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile’s Coming of Age (David Starr)
• Best Time To Write Code – Not the Holidays (Peter Saddington)
• Microsoft Test Manager stuck in "waiting for test controller" state (Gautam Goenka)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.1 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone’s Achilles’ Heel (Peter Kuhn)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 App with Phone Gap (Don Burnett)
• Microsoft to quash homebrew on Windows Phone? Not so fast (Mary Jo Foley)
• WPF Language Translator (Meshack Musundi)
• Windows Phone Developers: Get Your Metro Design Hats On (Paul Thurrott)
• WP7 updates are cumulative, really? (Rohit Sharma)
• 2000 WPF Things #463 – Multiple Parallel GridSplitters (Sean Sexton)
• 2011 in review for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 130: Dave Weaver on Loggr – a realtime analytics service built with MVC MongoDB and SignalR (Jon Galloway)
• YOW! 2011: Aslak Hellesøy – Web Sockets and Webbit and YOW! 2011: Bjorn Freeman-Benson – Software Psychology (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 80: Learn What You Need to Know about WinRT (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Geekadelphia_ The Podcast Episode 1 – Eric Smith Interview.mp3 (Dan & Jo)
• The Tablet Show – Ronan Cremin Detects Mobile Devices (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)

Community / Events

• Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Congratulations to the First New and Re-Awarded MVP Awardees of 2012! (MVP Award Program)

Database

• Implementing SQL Server solutions using Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects – a compendium of project experiences (Jamie Thomson)
• January 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist (Jason Strate)
• A Better Way to Work with SSIS Variable Expressions (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Perspectives of an Author and SQL SERVER – Importance of ANSI ISOLATION Levels in SQL Server Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 1 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Significance of Various Kinds of Triggers- Quiz – Puzzle – 2 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Auditing: Managing Your Audits (SQLArcher)
• Scripting data in SQL Server 2012 (Denis Gobo)
• Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes? (Thomas LaRock)
• Creating dynamic pivot reports on SQL Server (Gunnar Peipman)
• Survey results: How cluster key size can lead to GBs of wasted space (Paul S. Randal)
• Displaying and Saving Unicode data in Visual FoxPro desktop application (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• SQL Index Fragmentation and sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (Jack Vamvas)

SharePoint

• Product Review: harmon.ie for SharePoint – Increase Adoption and Simplify User Experience (Joel Oleson)
• HTML 5: Predictions for the Future of Silverlight in SharePoint (Becky Isserman)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators and A magic means to exit Windows Explorer without using Task Manager (or command line) (Greg Duncan)
• MAME ported to Google Chrome (Jamie Keene)
• Building the same app for iOS and Android (Billy Coover)
• Learning Android: ‘Unable to start service Intent not found’ and Learning Android: Authenticating with Twitter using OAuth (Mark Needham)
• Rise of the Popped Collar Programmer (Aaron Stannard)
• Why Should You Become A Software Engineer (Rob Diana)
• 30 Free Programming Books (Tatworth)
• Windows Phone Running on a 10 Inch Tablet (Antonio Hernandez)
• Rails Has Turned Me Into a Cannibalizing Idiot (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: January 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.29 ~ 12.31 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #786 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Catch Up on a Full Year of MVP Mondays (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 01/02/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #27 (Franky)
• Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 19-25 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 25-December-2011 to 31-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework by Steven Sanderson

Top Links

• A holiday.js gift for Azure Node.js developers (Glenn Block)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
• Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor (Alexia Tsotsis)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Unit Testing with Func<TResult> Generators (James Michael Hare)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 19: Refactoring a “Monster” Functional Test, Part 1 (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generate Return Values Using Lambdas in Moq (Richard Carr)
• Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce (Carl Nolan)
• Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts? (Charles Sterling)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
• Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 (Mike Fourie)
• Roslyn CTP: Three Introductory Projects (Whaeth)
• Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features (Jeff Martin)
• Rx – Buffer (Bnaya Eshet)
• LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.5 (CodePlex)
• Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
• How do I determine programmatically whether a particular language is LTR or RTL? (Raymond Chen)
• XSLT 2.0 in .NET (Akram El Assas)
• Treat a plain string as URL and fetch query string values (Jyothikarthik_N)
• SqlMapperHelper – A Helper Class for Dapper-Dot-Net (Peter Bromberg)

Web Development

• CSS Filter Effects Landing in WebKit (Eric Bidelman)
• Typography effects with CSS3 (Leigh Howells)
• Async file upload with jquery and ASP.NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress (Stephen Walther)
• Knockout 2.0.0 is Available (John Papa)
• Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Facebook: Platform Updates for Games Developers (Namita Gupta)
• Adobe Muse Beta 5.1 released (Ron)
• Custom Events are Pretty Cool (Chris Coyier)
• Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners) (Daniel Pataki)
• Umbraco CMS 5.0 RC 1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visualising Kanban Dimensions with TIPs (Karl Scotland)
• The Process of Change – Complexities of Attitudinal Change – Axiology [Part 4/4] (Peter Saddington)
• Return-Oriented Programming (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Advice for Young Developers: Learn to Make Your Own Decisions (J. Boyer)
• Functional version of the visitor pattern (Akram El Assas)
• Getting Gilded Rose Under Test (Bobby Johnson)
• Dynamic binding for data-driven tests in MbUnit v3 (Yann Trevin)
• Get into the flow with Spinning (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #4 First Visual Studio project and How to Update Secondary and Application Tiles in Windows Phone apps and Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to set the HTML string in the webbrowser control in Windows Phone in MVVM context (Nicolas Humann)
• How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Mango Apps: Designspire Gets Huge Update (Functions Like Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows Phone Mango Sample: Input Scope (Jerry Nixon)
• Silverlight 5: MVVM got more fun with Implicit Data Templates (Michael Sync)
• Silverlight security overview paper has been updated for Silverlight 5 (Nick Kramer)
• Color Reflector for WP7 and Silverlight (Punit Ganshani)
• 2000 WPF Things #457 – Use a GridSplitter to Let a User Change Row or Column Size in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• 8th Day of Silverlight : Vector Printing (Tony Champion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• YOW! 2011: Joe Albahari – LINQ, LINQPad, and .NET Async (and a little Rx, too) (Charles Torre)
• Making Learning More Interactive and Fun for Young Children (Sheridan Jones)
• Coming in 2012: The Geekadelphia Podcast (Jo Pincushion)
• Introducing the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series (Zhiming Xue)
• Let’s Play TDD #153: Push the Button (James Shore)
• Fever Pitched Episode 5: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 21 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Roman Karachinsky Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4 webcast: 17 January (Simone Chiaretta)
• A Thing To Do in the New Year: Learn XAML on Silverlight 5, WP7, Win8 & WPF (London Training) (Silverlight Show)
• Call for C++ Community folks in Belgium – January 10th meeting and Join us for the first PHP & Windows Azure Hackthon in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
• 11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012. (Michael Crump)
• Interview with Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework: Code First (Jean Lambert)
• Five years of Encosia (Dave Ward)
• Women Want to Hack! (Emily Smith)
• Kinect at Chippewa Valley Code Camp (Greg Duncan)
• “Earned a Stack Overflow gold badge” Badges! (Laura Dobrzynski)

Database

• 101 with the Interactive Feature of SQL Server Integration Services (Keshav Singh)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Script for Point in Time Recovery – Back Up and Restore (Pinal Dave)
• Replacing Cell Security with Dimension Security (Chris Webb)

PowerShell

• 2 PowerShell Cmdlet Updates (Josh T.)

Miscellaneous

• Gathering, viewing and understanding performance data with the new PerfView utility (Greg Duncan)
• Can Microsoft and Nokia win in indoor location services? (Kip Kniskern)
• 6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012 (Lance Ulanoff)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
• Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1009 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure

• Beginning LightSwitch Part 6: I Feel Pretty! Customizing the "Look and Feel" with Themes (Beth Massi)
• Taking a look at the Windows Simulator in Visual Studio 11 (Michael Crump)
• JavaScript as a First Language (John Resig)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 18: Baseline Datasets (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mixing Integrated Authentication and Anonymous Authentication with PreAuthenticated = true doesn’t work (Oren Eini)
• How to enable REST and SOAP both on the same WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to Get Elevated Process Path in .Net (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
• iSpy with my little… OSS security camera/audio software suite and Windows Forms Toolkit v0.2… A little WinForm love for the holidays… and A VB.Net and C# Side-by-side Syntax Comparison (Greg Duncan)
• TFS API Part 42 – Getting Started With Lab Management API (Shai Raiten)
• New book: MCPD 70-518 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Mono in 2011 (Miguel de Icaza)

Web Development

• CSS3 2D and 3D Transform (Gil Fink)
• Building Apps and deploying them from GitHub (Joe Stagner)
• Developing Metro Style App using JavaScript and Visual Studio 2011 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 3D experience in a browser with Three.js (Giorgio Sironi)
• Facebook: Deprecating the REST API (Doug Purdy)
• PHP 5.4 To Have A Built-In Development Web Server (John Sheehan)
• Introducing mod_spdy, a SPDY module for the Apache HTTP server (Bryan McQuade & Matthew Steele)
• It’s time for your site to play nicely with social media (Paul Boag)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spinning – Getting Agile at the Core (Ralf Westphal)
• Designing app-centric sharing for SkyDrive, part 1 of 2: Complexity of “simple” (Tony East)
• The Problem with Precision (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Testing item values in lists (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Book review: I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code,” Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• The Four Rules of Simple Design (Bobby Johnson)
• 10 Design Rules You MUST Follow If You Want Apple To Approve Your App (AAPL) (Dylan Love)
• Making APIs is hard (James Padolsey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #3 Getting Help (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Festive and Fun Windows Phone 7 Maze Game (Colin Eberhardt)
• RadDate- & RadTimePicker for Windows Phone 7 extended to support custom selector intervals (Deyan Ginev)
• New Microsoft Press Book: XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Title Added to SilverlightShow Ebooks Shelf: Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Silverlight Show)
• WPFSpark gets all V1.0! (Greg Duncan)
• Customize Tab Control in Silverlight (create tab control with side bar) (Hiren Khirsaria)
• WPF Diagrams: New tree layout algorithm (Jason)
• XAML Developer Reference–A Great Holiday Gift (Kim Spilker)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring INSERT performance–5 power tweaks (Erik EJ)
• WPFSpark: 5 of n: FluidPivotPanel and WPFSpark: 6 of n: FluidProgressBar and WPFSpark: 7 of n: FluidStatusBar and WPFSpark: 4 of n: SparkWindow (Ratish Philip)
• 2000 WPF Things #456 – An Element in a Grid Can Span Multiple Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Get Started with Silverlight 5 (Zhiming Xue)
• Announcing RadControls for WindowsPhone Q3.11 Service Pack1 release and Create beautiful and dynamic Live Tiles with Telerik LiveTileHelper (Valentin Stoychev)
• DecryptR Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Photo Mosaics Part 8: Caching (Jim O’Neil)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks!j – Startups and Cyborg Anthropology at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• YOW! 2011: Allen Wirfs-Brock and Rob Manson – Ambient Computing, Augmented Reality, and JavaScript (Charles Torre)
• videos: Learn Bugzilla (Paul Rouget)
• What The Tech 98: Worst Tech of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Influence over Enforce (Martin Woodward)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 007 – 12.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Apps for Kids 001: a new Boing Boing podcast (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Training Courses and Kits (Robert Green)

Community / Events

• vNext Global Vision Goes Live (David Kelley)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Robert Scoble (Thomas Houston)
• 2 Days 2 Kinect in Dallas (Jan 28 – 29 2012) (Greg Duncan)

Database

• Backing up SSRS Encryption Key with Powershell (John Pertell)
• SQL SERVER – Mastering the Basics – Igniting Learning – A Unique Learning Experience (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 21: TRY CATCH and SQL Advent 2011 Day 22: Dynamic Management Views (Denis Gobo)
• Analysis Services Stored Procedure Project 1.3.6 Release (CodePlex)
• Filtering in SSMS (Jason Brimhall)
• SQL Azure – Backup (Nicolas Humann)
• Replacing sysfiles With sys.database_files (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Querying RSS feed subscriber count on Google Reader using Data Explorer‏ (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Sharepoint and PowerPivot: Connections fail to refresh in SQL Server 2008 Denali CTP3 (Jen Stirrup)
• SharePoint Site Collection Administrator vs. Site Owner (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• MIT takes over Google App Inventor from Google (Don Burnett)
• Living a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products – Lync, OneNote, Xbox for iPhone and iPad and more, oh my (Scott Hanselman)
• Holiday In Tekpubland (Rob Conery)
• How Microsoft Can Fix Windows Phone In 2012 (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News 21 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #779 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1008 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for December 21, 2011 – #0014 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Badass JS Roundup #4 (Devon Govett)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Reading Notes #26 (Franky)
• Daily News Digest 12-22-2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets – 21-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Games: Creating Fun with HTML5, CSS3, and WebGL by Jacob Seidelin

• New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Firefox – tons of tools for web developers! (Robert Nyman)
• Just ___ It (Mike Brown)
• Handling the back-stack in Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap applications (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual C++ CLR Class Library – where is the DLL? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the Static Code Analysis feature of Visual Studio (Premium/Ultimate) to find memory leakage problems (Terje Sandstrom)
• What are Charms and how to use them (Abhishek Sur)
• Reflection, performance and runtime code generation (Ivan Towlson)
• Using The DataContext In EntityFramework To Retrieve Nested Objects (Peter Kellner)
• Tips for using Statement Visualization (Omer Raviv)
• Simple.Data for Mono (Mark Rendle)

Web Development

• How To Write Plugin in jQuery (Shakeel Iqbal)
• Are jQuery Users Fools? (Jeffrey Way)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Parameter with Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Windows Azure Cloud Drive and Snapshots limit and Windows Azure instance uptime and instance re-initialization (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Reasons to Write Unit Tests (Avi Kaye)
• When should you take performance into consideration? (Jef Claes)
• Things I love about the new RavenDB UI (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Picture Browser app for Windows Phone using RadSlideView and RadDataBoundListBox (Georgi Atanasov)
• How can you Add Network Connection Settings Page in your WP7 Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #438 – Border Element Can Have a Background (Sean Sexton)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #28: Media Library (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Mango Sample: External Data and Mango Sample: Data Validation (Jerry Nixon)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – What it looks like (Dennis Delimarsky)
• XamGrid: Now with Excel Style Filtering (Damyan Petev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 184: Scott Hunter on ASP.NET 4.5 (David Giard)
• Gweek 028: The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones (Unknown Author)
• The Tablet Show – WinRT Panel Discussion from DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

• Need Help With Your Chapter? Join the vNext Monthly Q and A call (David Kelley)
• On Microsoft Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• APress cyber Monday sale is today!" (Tatworth)
• UX at this year’s Web 2.0 NYC Conference (jsalvador)
• O’Reilly / MS Press Cyber Monday Ebook Deal (Zain Naboulsi)
• Brent’s 2012 Conference Schedule (Brent Ozar)

Database

• Some interesting links for SQL Server 2012 data tools (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Are you ready for SQL Server 2012 or are you still partying like it is 1999? (Denis Gobo)
• Installing SQL Server 2012 RC0 from an iPhone (Steve Turner)
• SQL Dirty Pages (Jack Vamvas)

SharePoint

• Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint – Part 2 (Walter Ferrari)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #990 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #761 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 085 for 11/28/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Reading Notes #22 (Franky)
• Everyman on Pictures Under Glass, Ruining Sharing, Blog As Application Template, Rumble Strips (Dave Burke)
• Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 21-27 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 27, 2011 — #1176 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share by Ken Denmead

• REPL for the Rosyln CTP 10/2011 (Chris Sells)
• Building F# Solutions in Visual Studio 11 (Daniel Mohl)
• Eduasync part 17: unit testing (Jon Skeet)
• Razor Donut Caching and Musings On Software Community (Phil Haack)
• Yes, The Forest Is Full of Trees (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Task Cancellation (Richard Carr)
• How to pass parameters to reports using Infragistics Reporting with WCF RIA Services and Client-Side Rendering (Mihail Mateev)
• Visual Studio, the AVR Studio 5 and some non-.Net Micro Framework hardware (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic Delegates (James Michael Hare)
• Introduction to Metro UI in Windows8 (Abhishek Sur)
• Developing Device Drivers in Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• TeamCitySharp (Paul Stack)
• Rewriting an if (Jef Claes)
• Metro Pandora SDK V1 and Terminals Version 2 – Beta 4 Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• Developing Your First HTML5 Game – Lesson 1 and HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 2 and HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 3 – Navigating Your Spaceship (Andrey Prikaznov)
• OData Binding for Navigation Controls (ASP.NET AJAX) (Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Team)
• Got CSV in your javascript? Use agnes. (Leon Bambrick)
• ASP.NET 4.5: Filtering using Model Binding in ASP.NET Web Forms (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Telerik components for asp.net: learning to live with RADical family. (On using radScheduler in an MVC app) (Peter van Ooijen)
• WebMatrix Start Building Better Websites (Nigel Parker)
• Node.js release: Node v0.6.3 (Bert Belder)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v4.0.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Features vs Behaviour (Simon Brown)
• Pattern Templates (JD Meier)
• Killer instinct as a driving force (Alex Kessinger)
• All our work should be like Calvin and Hobbes (Chris Heilmann)
• Can you really commit to delivering work? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• References on the Actor Programming Model (Chris Patterson)
• Test Driven Development–Testing Private Values (Jesse Liberty)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get user Input from a Popup in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
• A WPF TileView Control (VallarasuS)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Developing the core (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Playing sounds in Windows Phone 7 applications and Displaying Subtitles using Timeline Markers in Windows Phone 7 media applications and Multi-column StackPanel for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• Lua for you’ah… Adding Lua scripting support to your .Net/WPF app or game (Greg Duncan)
• Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #437 – Showing Rounded Corners on a Border (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch: It Is About The Money (It Is Always About The Money) (Michael Washington)
• PhoneGap Status: Moving to Apache and Adobe, Plugin Modularization, PhoneGap/Build Service (Werner Schuster)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #25: Background Agents and 31 Days of Mango | Day #26: Background File Transfer and 31 Days of Mango | Day #27: Microphone API (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Advanced Windows Phone Enginering Tool – WPE Downloads (Alpha) (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SPLASH 2011: Kresten Thorup – Erlang, Erjang, and Building Reliable Systems (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 128: Corey Haines on Global Day of Coderetreat (December 3) (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 114 – 11.25.2011 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 003 – 11.25.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video on How to work with System Tray Progress Indicator in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Apple’s Siri On iPhone 4S vs Microsoft’s Tellme On Windows Phone – The Ultimate Voice Assistants Head-to-Head [VIDEO] (Edward Marquez)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery mobile 1.0, jQuery 1.7.1, node vs RoR (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 93: Brian Hitney – The Cloud and Beyond (Michael Kimsal)
• Tech News Today 378: Interlocking Directorates (Paul Thurrott)
• "Kinect with your Eclipse IDE" (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Draft agenda published for Six Weeks of Windows Azure #6weeksazure (Eric Nelson)
• Free Webcast on “How to Increase Performance of Web Apps using jQuery” (Kunal Chowdhury)

Database

• SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Get Directory Structure using Extended Stored Procedure xp_dirtree and SQL SERVER – Powershell – Get a List of Fixed Hard Drive and Free Space on Server (Pinal Dave)
• Data Loading Performance Guide (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• My Tools of the Trade – 2011 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Objective C Categories (Steve Tibbett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 130 (Scott Banwart)
• Double Shot #760 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five November 25, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Re-blog – November 18 – November 24 (Jason Strate)
• Daily News Digest 11/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #989 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 Nov 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 25 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2011 — #1174 and Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2011 — #1175 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 20-November-2011 to 26-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Retrospective 60 – Invest in Your Team & #Agile Cults (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Programming Node.js (Pragmatic) by Travis Swicegood