Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why OO May Not Suck, or, Take a Ride on the Falsus Omnibus (Rick Minerich)
• The Ferengi Programmer (Jeff Atwood)
• Thoughts on the Future of Desktop Clients for Line of Business Applications (Jeremy Jarrell)
• A Scrum and Kanban Comparison (Karl Scotland)
• Why You Should Always Validate your Input (Jim Holmes)
• Great UI, Clarity, and Information Relevance (Mark Miller) – Link of the Day
• Patterns, Purists, and Sinkholes (Rob Conery)
• Today I’ve Realized How Far We Have to Go (Justin Etheredge)
• DDD: There Is No Database (Casey Charlton)
• Laws, Rules, Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Chad Myers)
• Ferengi Programmer and the Dreyfus Model (Mark Needham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows 7 Taskbar: APIs (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Modeling an Application in Oslo Part I: Discovery (Stephen Forte)
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: An Introduction to LINQ (Scott Mitchell)
• MathML Visualizer in C# on Windows 7 and Help! Drowning in Expression Trees, What Now? (Bart de Smet)
• IDisposable and WCF (Steve Smith)
• SharpDevelop – Release: v3.0 (CodePlex)
• Azure Services Training Kit – Febuary Update (Zhiming Xue)
• Automapper 0.2 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
• More LINQ Optimizations (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF, CheckBoxes, Design (Mike Taulty)
• Three Essential Expression Blend Add-Ins (Josh Holmes)
• Moonlight 1.0 Release (Scott Guthrie)
• Nice Video on MVC in WPF (David Solivan)
• Silverlight Is FIZZING, Not Fizzling (Tim Sneath)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #94 – Reading XML Through LINQ with Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Moonlight 1.0 Release – Open Source Silverlight 1.0 Implementation on Linux (Scott Hanselman)
• Moonlight 1.0 Released, Silverlight Script Updated – and a Chrome Hack (Tim Heuer)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# Programmers: Function Basics and Scope (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Dynamic Data: Putting a New Dress on an Old Model (Jonathan Carter)
• jQuery – Drop (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET MVC: Preventing XSS Attacks (Mark Needham)

Community / Events

• In Jersey? MSDN Suburban Roadshow Is Tomorrow 2/12! (Lindsay Rutter) – Today!

Miscellaneous

• Update Twitter from Any Browser with a Bookmarklet (Lee Matthews)
• Former Softies Aim to Make Office Work Like Google Docs (Mary Jo Foley)
• Top Ten Reasons Why the Most Important Machine Is Unlabeled (Brad Abrams)
• How to Annoy Your Boss (14 Real-Life Tips) (Jurgen Appelo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for February 11th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2009 — #514 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for February 11, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Link Listing – February 11, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Tech Twitterings #15 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #285 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day