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Top Links

• Service Bus support in azure npm 0.5.2 (Glenn Block)
• Bad Metaphors (Eric Lippert)
• Quick fun with Mono’s CSharp compiler as a service (David Ebbo)
• Submitting your Windows 8 apps (Antoine Leblond)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: Commands vs. Tasks, did you forget the workflow? (Oren Eini)
• Fix for Visual Studio 11 ALM Developer Preview Virtual Machine (Brian Keller)
• StudioShell = PowerShell++ for Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
• APress Deal of the Day – 14/Feb/2012 – Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming (Tatworth)
• CSLA 4 version 4.3 beta available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Introducing TryJoinads.org and TryJoinads (I.) – Asynchronous programming (Tomas Petricek)
• Using Dynamic Classes to Pass Data (Peter Vogel)
• Gantt Control Print Preview Beta Available (Jason Beres)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: NaturalSpec (Jason Jarrett)
• Windows 8 ListBox 2 ListView (Joe Mayo)
• Rx and Time related operators (Bnaya Eshet)

 

Web Development

• Using jQuery.whenSync() For Asynchronous Form Validation And Processing (Ben Nadel)
• Thinking LESS of this blog (Julian M. Bucknall)
• MVC 3 Helper for Hover Images… (desalbres)
• Callback Functions in JavaScript (Louis Lazaris)
• Offline Files in HTML5: The FileSystem API (Phil Parsons)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Separate Domain from Presentation (Giorgio Sironi)
• ASP.NET MVC Model Binding (Roopesh Shenoy)
• A fresh new look for HTML5Rocks.com (Scott Knaster)
• Expression Design produces files for HTML 5!? This is just crazy talk. (Surf4Fun)
• CSS Column Breaks (Trent Walton)
• Web Dev PSA: Your Favorite Tools Have Been Updated (Siddharth)
• Windows application to a cross-platform web-based solution without a rewrite (Visual WebGui Team)
• First touch of RavenDb HTTP API (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Build Your Own Slide Presenter : Part 1 (K. Scott Allen)
• A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators (Dino Esposito)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Who Is Agile? A book on LeanPub (Johanna Rothman)
• Clean Code: Writing Readable Unit Tests with Domain Specific Languages (Steve Wilkes)
• In defense of Brainstorming: against Lehrer’s New Yorker article (Scott Berkun)
• Reader review: Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• The Flawed Eventually-upgrade Software Model (Peter Ritchie)
• Reading List on Big Data (Rinat Abdullin)
• Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves (Rian van der Merwe)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 14 Using the Windows Phone App Bar (Arturo Toledo)
• WP7 Rest … The Easy Way (Daniel Egan)
• HTML5 and CSS3 on Windows Phone: Simple Geolocation (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #494 – Using a Value Converter to Bind to a Visibility Property (Sean Sexton)
• Would you like Ads with that!–Intro to AdRotator for WP7 (Simon Jackson)
• Let your apps sell themselves! (Arian Kulp)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 039: Double Fine Donkey (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Clemens Vasters is Still on the Service Bus (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 176 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage on PowerShell Pipeworks (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Mash This Episode 1: Hello World (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events – February 13th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Gives Special Discount for All SilverlightShow Members (Silverlight Show)
• Philly MongoDB User Group: Python, MongoDB, and Asynchronous Web Frameworks (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis)
• Students, now is your chance to join the Kinect Effect! (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Private Cloud IT Camp Events: The Future of IT – Coming to US East Coast Cities in March & April 2012 (Peter Laudati)
• Last Call for PowerShell Deep Dive Session Proposals (Travis Jones)
• Functional Programming eXchange 2012, March 16, 2012, London (Don Syme)
• Mark Gillett: Inside Skype (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• Ignite Ubelly speaker line-up announced! (Luke)
• My favorite photos & stories from the “Smoked” tour of Southern California (Ben Rudolph)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Contained Databases (James Serra)
• Monday Morning Mistakes: SSIS Expressions Not Evaluating Correctly (Jorge Segarra)
• SQL SERVER – What is Big Data – An Explanation in Simple Words (Pinal Dave)
• Cannot Generate SSPI Context Error (Shaun Stuart)
• Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Getting Organized (John Sansom)
• View Collation in CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

PowerShell

• Time Zones in PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Programming Language Rankings (Chris Eargle)
• Can Software Increase User Adoption? (Joel Oleson)
• Checking in on the Microsoft Labs and Microsoft venture with GE gets a name and a CEO and How and when will enterprise apps be made Windows 8-ready? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Five Reasons you Should Consider DirectAccess (Jordan Krause)
• Bottle: a lightweight Python framework (Giorgio Sironi)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – February 13 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #817 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/13/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week February 6-12, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1043 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for February 13, 2012 – #0040 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #6) (Himanshu Singh)

 

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