Design / Methodology / Testing

• The difference between Infrastructure & Application (Oren Eini)
• Practical Example of YAGNI: Good Intentions Gone Horribly Wrong and How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos with Specification Tests (Bobby Johnson)
• The Scatology of Agile Architecture (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Pimp my architecture – Dan North and OO with a bit of functional mixed in and Writing unit tests can be fun (Mark Needham)
• Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
• Help Us Name This Method (Davy Brion)
• A Language for Architecture (J.D. Meier)

.NET / Visual Studio

• My Oslo “M” end-to-end demo (Brian Loesgen)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Properties and __clrtype__ Metaclasses Demo: Silverlight Databinding (Harry Pierson)
• Automating Visual Studio Solution Builds (Srinath M.)
• Fluent NHibernate Automapping (Peter Bromberg)
• F#: Not equal/Not operator (Mark Needham)
• 5 things you’d be willing to chop off System.Byte for (Sergio Pereira)
• No bandwidth MSDN: Reflector (James Newton-King) – Link of the Day

Web Development

• Is ASP.NET MVC a half-baked solution? (Karl Seguin)
• Logging modules for ASP.NET (MVC) and also for Windows Azure (Tom)
• New Processing.js and Sizzle.js Sites (John Resig)
• JSON Serialization is not just for Web Services (Jason Grundy)
• My Quick Oversimplified ASP.Net MVC Pros and Cons (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Tip #54: Did you know…How you can turn off intellisense for HTML/ CSS editors (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
• Tip #55: Did you know…How to change Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution (WebDevTools Team)
• Tip#56: Did you know… How to update JScript Intellisense manually (Masako Omoto)
• JSON Serialization of a DataReader (Rick Strahl)
• …In Which We Discuss Writing a Book on MVC (Rob Conery)
• Little hack: CSS Combiner / Minifier ASP.NET Control (Scott Galloway)
• Syntax Highligher (Kevin Miller)

Silverlight / WPF

• Easing is… Easier (Jesse Liberty)
• Databinding the videogame, part 3: actual databinding (Joe White)
• WPF TestApi v0.2 has released! (Vincent Sibal)
• What is Silverlight? (Part 1 of many) and Getting Started with Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Read and Display ASP.NET Query Strings using Silverlight (Malcolm Sheridan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes Show #159 – IronPython with Michael Foord (Scott Hanselman)
• Sod This 3: On Dynamic Languages, The Irish and Giving Away your Daughter (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• WebDevRadio Episode 63: Talking YUI3 with Satyen Desai from Yahoo! (Michael Kimsal)
• This Week on C9: New Downloads, Design for Devs, TFS 2010, and underground Script Clubs (Dan Fernandez)
• Free Azure Services Platform “How Do I” Videos (Bill Zack)
• Dominick Baier on DevWeek and WCF and Dominick Baier on Identity, Geneva and OpenID (Mike Ormond)
• Podcast: Best Practices in Silverlight – MVVM (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• New Video — New CodeRush Features for ASP.net Development (Mark Miller)

Community / Events

• JSMag @ JSConf (Michael Kimsal)
• Silverlight – 7 Twitter Accounts I Follow (and have found valuable) (Chad Campbell)
• How “Being Lazy” is a Good Thing: Daniel Nerenberg (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Arizona: Silverlight, MVC, MEF, WPF (Tim Heuer)

Database

• Blocking due to fragmented HEAP Tables (Ted Krueger)
• How to pad positive and negative number with zeroes in SQL Server? (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server UNION Operations (Richard Carr)

Windows 7

• Windows 7 RC Build 7100: Leaked (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows XP Mode Internals – Part 1 (Overview) (Rafael Rivera Jr.)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate Screens and Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 Screenshots and Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 and Revealed: More Windows 7 RC details (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate Update (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance (Ameet Chitre)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate 1′s Best Surprise New Features (Matt Buchanan)

Miscellaneous

• Foundations of a Good Programming Language (Michael Ceranski)
• Work from home, save the world (Mike Walker)
• The Twitter Book, by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Get free invites to Microsoft DreamSpark (Taimur Asad)
• May’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
• SQLAuthority News – Interview of Author on 60 Seconds with Pinal Dave (Pinal Dave)
• Wolfram Alpha Getting A Public Preview On Tuesday (MG Siegler)
• Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• Tricky Question (Greg Young)
• Re-review of Kinesis (Kyle Baley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for April 24, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Visual Studio Links #113 (Darren Stokes)
• CloudNews for April 24th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Nice collection of .NET 4 links (Daniel Moth)
• Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 — #578 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day