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Top Links

• First Encounters of the MEF Kind (Mike Ceranski)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 5 – Magellan and more with Paul Stovell (Richard Banks)
• Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects? (Richa Prasad)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Layered diagram extensions (Pieter de Bruin)
• Visual Studio Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) (MS Downloads)
• Better error messages – Part 2 (Aeshen) and Better error messages – Part 3 (Aeshen) (Arian T. Kulp)
• Using FTP to access Windows Azure Blob Storage (Maarten Balliauw)
• Bruger Test Automation med Visual Studio 2010 (Martin Esmann)
• NHibernate Tip: Use set for many-to-many associations (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Collapsing Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• node.js: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Be Honest And Committed To Shipping – Whether It Is In Or Outside Your Organization. (Rajiv Popat)
• Are You Playing Checker or Chess? – YAGNI Revisited (Tim Barcz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio Special – Niklas Gustafsson om Axum (Dag König)
• Screencast: Best Practices in SharePoint User Management (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Major Nelson Show 353: Wil Wheaton, MW2 Stimulus Package and Supreme Commander (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 105- PowerScripting Podcast – PSCX 2.0 with Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services (Pete Brown)

 

Community / Events

• Mix Session: Windows Phone UI and Design Language (Christian Schormann)
• Watch Microsoft MIX10 Live Keynotes March 15 & 16 (Zhiming Xue)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – MAXDOP Settings to Limit Query to Run on Specific CPU (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS – Please get keyboard shortcuts working for schemas (Simon Sabin)

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal of the Day: CouchDB: The Definitive Guide – Only $9.99! Use code DDCDB (O’Reilly Media)
• Daily Dose – Apple Doesn’t Win Case Against Users of "i" (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #559 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #111 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #96 (Grant Palin)
• Weekly Link Post 136 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (3/14/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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Top Links

• T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features (David Ebbo)
• A Vision of the Future for Home and Work Experiences by Microsoft Surface (Arturo Toledo)
• Game Developers Have a Great Opportunity with Windows Phone 7 Series (Ron Pessner)
• pluralsight and InnerWorkings (Meagon Marshall)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2010 (so far) (Joe Wilcox)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Go To a Line Number and Print with Line Numbers / Summary Info Poll and Reuse the Same Editor Window When Opening Files (Zain Naboulsi)
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive) (Scott Mitchell)
• Tuning C++ build parallelism in VS2010 (Dan (VS Team))
• ThinkGearNET Library (Brian Peek)
• VB and C# coevolution (Scott Wiltamuth)
• Slicing and Dicing Strings with CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# and How to tell if a type is a delegate (Mike Hadlow)
• The yield statement cannot be used inside an anonymous method or lambda expression and Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in F# (Oliver Sturm)
• IronRuby Unleashed Is Out Now (Justin Etheredge)
• WCF Service Cannot Be Activated Because of ASP.NET Compatibility and WCF Data Service Error – Request Error (Keith Elder)
• .Net, Native, P/Invoke marshaling just like magic… “Marshaling with C# Pocket Reference” (Think “Marshalling Guide for the Busy Dev Guy”) (Greg Duncan)
• XNA Game Studio 4 News (GDC 2010) (Greg Duncan)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• TMap for VS2010 Testing Process Template RC published on Codeplex. and VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
• MindBlaster Article Posted (Brian Peek)
• Save a diagram to Image File (Cameron Skinner)
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part II: Semantic Changes and +=/-= (Chris Burrows)
• Michael Klucher on XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
• Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C# (Chris Sells)
• Using Copy-On-Write In Multithreaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead (Davy Brion)
• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Web Development

• Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET (Steve Sanderson)
• Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink (Hadi Hariri)
• Working with the HTML5 Community (Adrian Bateman)
• ASMX ScriptService mistakes: Installation and configuration (Dave Ward)
• Displaying Multimedia Content In A Floating Window Using FancyBox (Scott Mitchell)
• Using Lucene – External Indexes (Oren Eini)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• VCS Survey (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Animations – Big Teams (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Git/Branch-Per-Feature – Composable Deployments/Releases? (Joey Beninghove)
• Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time (Jurgen Appelo)
• The 8th Phase (Karl Seguin)
• Getting real: Book review and Pair Programming: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Review: The Productive Programmer (Grant Palin)
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models (Derick Bailey)
• State Pattern Misuse (Greg Young)
• The Dissatisfied Designer (Dave Laribee)
• Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks (Oren Eini)
• Work is a Rubber Ball that Bounces Back (J.D. Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer and Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight and Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity (Scott Hanselman)
• Small Basic – Now with SilverLight (Vijaye)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation (Paul Harrington)
• Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again ) (Mike Taulty)
• A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight Catastrophic Failure Message (Kathleen Dollard)
• Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty (Christopher Bennage)
• Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
• Pixel Perfect Development (Dave Schinkel)
• Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API (Daniel Cazzulino)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger (SE-Radio Team)
• endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries (Ron Jacobs)
• Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Conversation with Gary Bernhardt (Corey Haines)
• Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood! and What is the Cloud? (Laura Foy)
• Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging) (Tess Ferrandez)
• David Anderson on kanban – radio interview (Christophe Louvion)
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport – Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems (Charles Torre)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit Edition (Andrew Connell)
• I love Codeplex! (Arian T. Kulp)
• Silverlight @ #MIX10 – The Next Web Now (Silverlight Team)
• You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft at SXSW 2010 (Dominic Carr)
• Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out (Kip Kniskern)
• Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 (John Papa)
• 2010 Summit – in a word, “more!” (Joseph Mirabella)
• Speaking on “Ignite your coding” (Glenn Block)
• Getting ready for MIX10 (Ed Bott)
• Events This Week – March 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Looking for more SharePoint 2010 Info? Check out these Free Webcasts by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Improve Performance by Reducing IO – Creating Covered Index and SQLAuthority Book Review – Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Pinal Dave)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 4: network optimization) (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Server Locking & Block Scripts (Joe Webb)
• Why abbreviate schema names? (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Readying SharePoint For Teleworking (Will Kelly)
• Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 (Tim McConnell)
• Configure SharePoint Server 2010 for Mobile Device Access (Office Team)
• Training from Microsoft on SharePoint 2010 (Paul Andrew)
• Beyond F5 deployment – my top 5 benefits of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kodu (MS Downloads)
• A Trip Down Memory Lane – Presentations over 10 years old (Scott Hanselman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDNUT (O’Reilly Media)
• Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI and PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Office Web Apps to graduate with Windows Live Wave 4: gives clue to final release date? (damaster)
• The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests (Chris Sells)
• UITableView Example Code (Wally McClure)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 – Special Edition (Pete Brown)
• Interesting Finds: March 8, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #555 and The Morning Brew #556 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 — #809 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Mar-2010 and Tech Tweets for 9-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.9.2010 (Bob Familiar)

 

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Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET

 

 

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Top Links

• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using xUnit.Net with .Net 4.0 (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC Don’t Serve the Same Master (K. Scott Allen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• A new and *good* "VB" (Jimmy Nilsson)
• New Book Project – Learning WCF 2nd Edition (Brian Noyes)
• Hidden Gems: Why .NET Developers Need to Take a 2nd Look at Project Rosetta (John Papa)
• Leveraging VS2010’s Entity Data Model Designer for .NET 3.5 Projects and Some Visual Studio tips I picked up recently (Julie Lerman)
• How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed? (Scott Hanselman)
• Using the VSIX Manifest Editor (Lance Collins)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 7. How to Write a Facility (Mike Hadlow)
• Reading ID3 Tags from MP3 Files (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• .NET Framework 4.0 Poster (Prashant Khandelwal)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript version of Flash (Michael Kimsal)
• Are Enterprise AJAX Applications Doomed…Or Are We? (Roy Goffey)
• FastCGI for IIS6 and IIS5.1 has been released. (Lawrence Moroney)
• Book Review: 51 Tips, Tricks, and Recipes with jQuery & ASP.NET Controls (Elijah Manor)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Constructor over-injection anti-pattern (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Do You Know What’s Really Going On? (Davy Brion)
• Value Driven… The Book’s Layout (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The limits of innovation (Scott Berkun)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Cutting Edge Silverlight4 COM+ Features (Justin Angel)
• FlexibleBehavior class: More on reuse and Behaviors (Bob Bartholomay)
• Exploring: XamlPad to XamlDesigner (Rob Relyea)
• Sometimes it takes a village to solve a problem [Workaround for a Visual Studio 2008 design-time issue with the WPF Toolkit when Blend 3 is installed] (David Anson)
• Extract styles in Expression Blend (András Velvárt)
• Avoiding issues when typing text in Bindings (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DeepFriedBytes Episode 42: How to Get More Business from Microsoft Pinpoint (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #159: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 2 (Derik Whittaker)
• Office Casual: Ribbon Hero (Tina Wood)
• The Dev Behind Ribbon Hero and Build a CableCard MCE PC with Ceton TV Tuner (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Whither Alt.Net? (Ian Cooper)
• Active vs. Activist (Derick Bailey)
• Your story: the Microsoft interview (Microsoft JobsBloggers)
• On ALT.NET and patience (Sergio Pereira)
• Talking in Las Vegas: MIX2010 and MVVM (Laurent Bugnion)

 

Database

• .NET Culture and SQL Server (Steve Burch)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 to be released in May and Use alter table alter column to change datatypes for a column in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• Remote DB maintenance auditing promotion (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Upgrades HealthVault Connection Software for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• MSDN Flash Editorial for January 18th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Bing Maps out of beta (Kip Kniskern)
• Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical (Michael Robertson)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Your Body: The Missing Manual — Only $9.99! Use discount code YBMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
• 3 Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
• Console Battle Heats Up Between Wii and XBox: Netflix, ESPN Rumors Up the Stakes (Natania Barron)
• Daily Dose – IBM has the Most Patents, but Microsoft’s Could be Worth More (Mitch Pronschinske)
• “Everything I need to know [about developing software] I learned from Dungeons and Dragons.” (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 19, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 20, 2010 and Independent Consultant Notes: January 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #520 and The Morning Brew #521 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 19-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)

 

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Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer)

 

 

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Top Links

• How Fanboys See .NET ORMs (Kevin Pang)
• Kodu Tutorial #1 Basic Navigation (Stephen Coy)
• jQuery Podcast: 7 – jQuery 1.4 (John Resig) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Eagerly loading entity associations efficiently with NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010: Part Two (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance (Clemens Reijnen)
• Managed code isn’t always the best solution (Kevin Jones)
• Free your Document windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – December Update (Pinal Dave)
• C#: A functional solutional to a modeling problem and Nant: Populating templates (Mark Needham)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 4 – More on Sieves and IsBadXxxPtr Is Really Harmful – Please Don’t Use These Functions (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Web Development

• Deploying your Server Roles: Using MSDeploy for Enterprise Deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Web Client Guidance Drop #6 Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Choosing web hosting (Rachel Andrew)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Amazon Clouding it – “Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices” Whitepaper (Greg Duncan)
• Agile Tenet #10 – Simplicity is Essential (Julie Stickler)
• Pex 0.21.50115.2: Bugs fixes and Stubs renamed to Moles (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Developer, You Have a Voice (Kirk Knoernschild)
• TDD: Hand written stubs vs. Framework generated stubs and TDD: Thoughts on using a clock in tests (Mark Needham)
• Pair Programming session (Mark Nijhof)
• Sometimes, Agile Alone Isn’t Enough (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Programmer Tip: Start Re-Investing In Yourself Consistently. (Rajiv Popat)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight: Centering a RadioButton (Deborah Kurata)
• Silverlight Isolated Storage Paths on Windows and MacOS (Frank La Vigne)
• Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 1 of X and Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 2 of X – MEF and EF 4 code-only (Fredrik Normén)
• Prism 4.0 (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlight, MVVM and Validation Part III (Josh Twist)
• IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 2 released (Silverlight Team)
• Silverlight 3 API listing in one big text file and Silverlight 4 beta API listing in one big text file (Nick Kramer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Open Source, Microsoft and The WiX Project with Rob Mensching (Scott Hanselman)
• Premier of Silverlight TV and Silverlight TV Episode 1: The Joys of Trusted Out-of-Browser Applications (John Papa)
• ARCast.TV Special – An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 (Jeff Barnes)

 

Community / Events

• Pluralsight ASP.NET MVC + AJAX Course in Waltham (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• A Little XML Can Go a Long Way (Alex Ullrich)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Updates Live Meeting Console & Outlook Conference Add-In for Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Give The Power of Speech and Sound to Your PowerShell Scripts (Chinh Do)
• Xbox Engineering Blog (Larry Hyrb)
• Some Fun Blogs I Subscribe to (Pete Brown)
• Newbie Win32 Development Using Python (Ryan Svihla)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2010 — #779 and Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2010 – 2 — #780 (Dave Campbell)

 

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ASP.Net MVC in Action

 

 

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Top Links

• Favor – Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU) (Scott Hanselman)
• The Illusion of Performance (John Stockton)
• Introducing the Portable Extensible Metadata (Irinel Crivat)
• Visual Studio 2010 Ranger News (Clemens Reijnen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit updated (Pieter de Bruin)
• Creating Ribbon Applications on Windows 7 (Zhiming Xue)
• Visual Studio Myth Buster (Innovation Showcase)
• The Project Location is not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 3. How to resolve arrays (Mike Hadlow)
• Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010 (Brittany Behrens)
• The RDLc Disconnect – they’ve done it again (William Vaughn)
• Pasting a single selection into a box selection and Zero-length box selection (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• IE8 Accelerator Creation Guide (Innovation Showcase)
• SEO Tips for Developers : Page Speed (Chris Missal)
• Of Web Browsers and Humanity (K. Scott Allen)
• Awesomium v1.5 (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 5 – Nginx (Karl Seguin)
• Search Engine Optimization got a lot easier (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, the removal of test detail, and dynamically-typed languages (Brian Marick)
• Know Your Product Specifications (Buck Woody)
• Designing the Entity Framework 2nd level cache (Oren Eini)
• Lessons Learned from Tony Robbins and 10 Ways to Improve How You Manage Information (JD Meier)
• Separating Passion & Common Sense from Bad Decisions (Dave Schinkel)
• I. M. Wright: “One to one and many to many” (Eric Brechner)
• All about the “M” (Rockford Lhotka)
• How to create great work environments (Scott Berkun)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 4 – How to Capture Audio and Video from a Web Cam (Innovation Showcase)
• Free Developer Training for WPF 4 (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?” (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight: Tooltip for each ListBox item (Steve Pietrek)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ivar Jacobson on the Unified Process (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Community Megaphone Podcast – Show #1 with guest Kevin Griffin (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Community / Events

• SilverlightShow Eco Contest – win a trip to MIX10 (Adam Kinney)
• The Software Craftsman Cooperative (David Starr)
• [ANN] DC ALT.NET – 1/27/2010 – Clojure (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Announcing the Microsoft Azure Application Development contest for U.S. state and local government partners! (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Looking back at 2009, and looking forward at 2010 (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Database

• Find Out What Percent Of The Log Is Being Used For Each Database In SQL Server 2005 and 2008 and Interview with Brent Ozar about the book Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Denis Gobo)
• SQL SERVER – Find Busiest Database (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• How To Install SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Standalone) on VMWare (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published (Paul Andrew)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to not suck at a techincal interview (Brad Cunningham)
• Where is Rename-Computer? (Lee Holmes)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: Apprenticeship Patterns — Only $9.99! Use discount code AP999 (O’Reilly Media)
• Intellisense in MobileShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• ZScreen is now a more kick-ass screenshot tool, especially on Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• The science behind Project Natal (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #517 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2010 — #777 (Dave Campbell)
• F# Discoveries This Week 01/13/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• What You Wanted to Know: Top “How to” Posts of 2009 (Silverlight Team)

 

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Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

 

 

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