• 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

• Apps are too much like 1990′s CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Apps Are Like the Web, When They Want to Be and More on Apps and Links (John Sheehan)
• Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview and documentation are here! (Ragavan Srinivasan)
• What’s new in CSS 4 selectors (Axel Rauschmayer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Formatting Enumeration Constants (Richard Carr)
• Cleaning Up Your Git Repository For NuGet 1.6 (Nick Berardi)
• Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
• C.B.R.: Comic Book Reader 0.4 (CodePlex)
• [Cool Tool] Checking Out VsVim (Roy Osherove)
• I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! (Peter Kellner)
• VMware Cloud Foundry cloud platform now supports .Net (Mary Jo Foley)
• ReSharper 6.1: The Finish Line (Jura Gorohovsky)
• The absolutely most important thing developers need to know about Windows 8 (Matt Lacey)
• Entity Framework Error–New Transaction is not allowed because there are other threads running in the session (Derik Whittaker)
• Where to get the latest news on ALM topics? (Charles Sterling)
• Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations (Per Ökvist)

Web Development

• Android – Ice Cream Sandwich: The HTML5 Developer Scorecard (Aditya Bansod)
• Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• WebDriver: Getting it to play nicely with jQuery ColorBox (Mark Needham)
• Rails from the point of view of a PHP developer (Giorgio Sironi)
• Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again (Adam J. Sontag)
• Windows Azure SDK for Node.js Installation Walkthrough and MATLAB and Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
• If and Else Statements in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Adding Tweet Buttons to a FunnelWeb Post (Michael Crump)
• One API for the Web, Oh the Possibilities (Shion Deysarkar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile (Johanna Rothmann)
• Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
• New programmer’s survival manual (John D. Cook)
• Performance Profiling your application is FTW (Derik Whittaker)
• Agile Process Reality Check (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Encrypting your Credentials on Windows Phone 7.5 (Rob Tiffany)
• Why do we have circles around icons in the Windows Phone app bar? (Arturo Toledo)
• Just Published on Codeplex SDNavigation WP7 + MVVM + Navigation Framework (Braulio Díez Botella)
• How to work with ToggleSwitch in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Getting started with the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 and WPF (Greg Duncan)
• FREE: 5 Professional WPF Themes (John-Daniel Trask)
• Mango’s live tiles get footloose and fancy free with Themes for Windows Phone 7 (video) (Joseph Volpe)
• 2000 WPF Things #450 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part III (Sean Sexton)
• Using JSON.NET To Load Twitter Search Results In WP7 (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Damian Edwards and David Fowler Persist Connections with SignalR (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Building on Azure: GigaSpaces – Cloudify Java Application Platform and Building on Azure: Sneaky Games (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 187: Charles Stacy Harris III the Microsoft Technology Center (part 2 of 2) (David Giard)
• Herding Code 129: Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey and the Chuck Norris Frameworks (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 168 – PowerScripting Podcast – Randy Roffey on MP Studio and a Bonus Interview (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 278 – 12.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Learn About the Windows Azure Access Control Service from Vittorio Bertocci (Vittorio Bertocci & Charles Torre)
• ALM Summit 2011 Content Now Live and available (Charles Sterling)
• Let’s Play TDD #150: Mulling Over the Persistence Design (James Shore)
• Learn About the Windows Azure Service Bus from Clemens Vasters (Clemens Vasters & Charles Torre)
• Interview with Glenn Block Talking About Node.js on Windows Azure (Glenn Block & Charles Torre)
• Video: Effectively Manage Enterprise Projects w/ #MSProject Server 2010 #in #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Learn About SQL Azure Federations from Cihan Biyikoglu (Cihan Biyikoglu & Scott Klein)

Community / Events

• OTN Architect Day Presentations – Phoenix, AZ – December 14, 2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Tom Warren moves to the Verge (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft Announces 15 Imagine Cup Grants Finalists and Judging Panel (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Telerik! (Chris Sells)

Database

• My Thoughts on SQL Server 2012′s Licensing Changes (Brent Ozar)
• Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components (Jose Chinchilla)
• SQL SERVER – Explain Error:166 : does not allow specifying the database name as a prefix to the object name – Puzzle to Win SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers Book (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 13: DDL Triggers (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server FineBuild Version 3.0.1 (CodePlex)
• Fixing orphaned database users in 2005 to 2012 – T-SQL Tuesday #025 (Ted Krueger)
• Deleting Leading Zeros in a String (SQL) (Madhivanan)
• T-SQL Tuesday #25 – The Best Tool You’ve Never Used (Mark Broadbent)
• T-SQL Tuesday: What’s Currently Running? (John Sterrett)
• Zero-One-Some Testing (George Mastros)

PowerShell

• Better Git with PowerShell (Phil Haack)
• How to Generate an Exchange 2010 Room List Report with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Scheduling TeamCity backups in Windows (Doug Rathbone)
• Searching for an answer has become clear with http://www.pluralsight-training.net (Allan Gagnon)
• New Apps now available for your Xbox 360 (Larry Hryb)
• Windows 8 Store and Music Beta App Screenshots Leaked! (Sagar Sawant)
• Portable tools rock–my current favorites and a great tool (Tim Heuer)
• Introducing SkyDrive for iPhone and Windows Phone (Mike Torres)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #772 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1002 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/14/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 5-11, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 12-Dec-2011 and 13-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Dev News for December 13, 2011 – #0011 (Dave Campbell)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/13/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 13 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Head First jQuery by Ryan Benedetti

• Install-Package Roslyn (Kirill Osenkov)
• Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js (Yehuda Katz)
• Improved Developer Experience, Interoperability, and Scalability on Windows Azure (Bob Kelly)
• What’s in (and missing from) Microsoft’s latest batch of Azure cloud updates (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Porting Bryan’s Erlang Function to F# (Daniel Mohl)
• Shadowcasting in C#, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• New VB XNA Sample – showing Xbox, Windows and Phone targetting (VBTeam)
• Integrating with COM Components In C# (vijayksh111)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Code Clone Detection (aka Code Clone Analysis) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Converting FS project files to target Xbox 360 (Joh)
• How can I tell whether a window is modal? and What is the API for accessing content on SkyDrive? (Raymond Chen)
• EFProviders require MultipleActiveResultSets=True for System.Data.SqlClient connection strings (Harish Ranganathan)
• Hello Kinect for Windows Beta 2 NUI/VUI World (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• Why I’m Excited about Names in JavaScript (Tab Atkins, Jr.)
• Composite JS Apps: Regions And Region Managers (Derick Bailey)
• New Pluralsight Course – Structuring JavaScript Code in HTML5 Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• Building Apps with HTML5 – Desktop, Tablet, Phone ! (Joe Stagner)
• An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) (Louis Lazaris)
• Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck (Scott Kosman)
• Windows Azure December Update – What’s Important for OSS Developers (Larry Franks)
• YUI 3.5.0 PR1 Is Now Available (Allen Rabinovich)
• Create a JS builder with node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
• App Framework Changes in YUI 3.5.0 (Ryan Grove)
• Espresso Tip: IHttpHandler and IsReusable (David Neal)
• WordPress 3.3 Released (Richard Hay)
• New Windows Azure Management Portal with updated SDK for Java, MongoDB, Node.js, Solr/Lucene, PHP and many more (Avkash Chauhan)
• New Windows Azure Guidance Topics Published (Glen Gailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• One-Piece Continuous Flow – an alternative to Kanban? (Anand Vishwanath)
• 4 Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining (Gil Zilberfeld)
• A short summary about DI and using Ninject not as a Service Locator (AngelEyes)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 11: Maintainable Functional Automation and 31 Days of Testing—Day 12: Functional Test 101 (Jim Holmes)
• Why Focus on Continuous Integration for Programs? (Johanna Rothmann)
• How to be an effective code coach (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Let’s explore Silverlight 5! (Anthony de Bruyn)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 10 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• My new Windows Phone Emulator theme–simple and sleek (Jeff Wilcox)
• Turning XAML into an image (jpg) in WP7 isolated storage and to the Phone Media Library (David Kelley)
• Silverlight huh, bit of a …hot topic..wouldn’t you say? (Scott Barnes)
• 2000 WPF Things #449 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Storage (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Working with the Data Grid – Day 1 (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gillmor Gang 12.12.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 116 – 12.12.2011 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for December 12th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Critical Path Training SharePoint 2010 Developer Training in Europe in Early 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• 2011 In Retrospect: A Year of Writing F# Professionally (Rick Minerich)
• Want to win $25 worth of apps? Tweet us! (Michael Stroh)
• Winding Down 2011… Nearing Blog Post 400 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Happy 4th Birthday To Regular Geek (Rob Diana)
• Win Free Copies of NHibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Gabriel Schenker)

Database

• Power View and PowerPivot HelloWorldPicnic Samples for SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) (MS Downloads)
• Changes to SQL Server 2012 Execution Plans (Greg Low)
• Top SSAS white papers (James Serra)
• Getting Started with SSRS – Part 7 – User Roles and Permissions in SSRS Server (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
• SQL SERVER – A Quick Look at Performance – A Quick Look at Configuration (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 12: Table Value Constructor (Denis Gobo)
• Troubleshooting Merge Replication – Logging (Ted Krueger)
• Now Available: SQL Azure Q4 2011 Service Release (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

• Best Description of Claims Based Security and a Great new SharePoint+Azure Book and Great Resource for SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight (Andrew Connell)
• What Is Included in Business Connectivity Services? (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

• How to Generate an Exchange 2010 Room List Report with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)

Miscellaneous

• Formatting JSON From Terminal (Ben Scheirman)
• Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition (Jeff Atwood)
• Back from a week of interviewing (John Guin)
• Microsoft Already Won The Battle For The Living Room When Nobody Was Looking (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Add Voice Typing To Your IME (Tim Bray)
• Exclusive: Microsoft Replaces Lees as Head of Windows Phone Business (Ina Fried)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 12.01 ~ 12.12 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #771 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Open Web Platform Weekly Summary – 2011-12-05 – 2011-12-11 (Karl Dubost)
• The Morning Brew #1001 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/12/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #24 (Franky)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/12/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 12, 2011 – #0010 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 12 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed by Ray Rankins

• New CSS Editor Improvements in Visual Studio (ASP.NET 4.5 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Moving The Web Forward (Paul Irish)
• Roslyn Syntax Visualizer Tools (Chris Sells)
• The Future of TV Begins this week on Xbox 360 and Xbox Companion for Windows Phone coming December 6th (Larry Hryb)
• JavaScript Is Your Buddy (Rob Conery)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Obtaining a MAC Address (Richard Carr)
• Tasks in Visual Studio (Arian Kulp)
• Implementing RavenDB Indexes (Oren Eini)
• TFS Pills: merging conflicts during unshelve. (Gian Maria Ricci)
• How-to: download linked images from a website (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Natural Mouse Movement c# (Erwin van de Beek)
• How to Create a Windows 8 Metro Style Application using Visual Studio 2011? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• My CRM 2011 Validation Framework (Mark Schweigert)
• Don’t let more than one process try to read from stdin at the same time (Raymond Chen)
• Zero tolerance on broken windows (Mehdi Khalili)
• 5 reasons not to use a micro ORM (John-Daniel Trask)
• Windows Azure Development Resources (Kevin Grossnicklaus)
• New version of Rx Contrib v1.0.10621 – 1.1.10621.0 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Two cool NuGets of the day: FlickrNet (3.2.4310) and Lucene.net (2.9.4) (Greg Duncan)
• Simple Producer Consumer With Tasks And .NET 4 (Alois Kraus)

Web Development

• Timing Attacks on CSS Shaders (Adam Barth)
• Achieving Block Scope With Immediate Functions In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Custom Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 using DataAnnonationsModelValidator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node – $14.99 (O’Reilly Media)
• Minify JS and CSS in Visual Studio Build Events (Steve Clements)
• Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress (Sameer Borate)
• New Sueetie Featured Product View Control (Dave Burke)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.38 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Essential Setup To Begin Unit Testing (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Dr. Seuss Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Thoughts on Kanban Thinking (Karl Scotland)
• Book Review: Continuous Delivery (Patrick Kua)
• Thoughts on Event Streams in Elastic Environments (Rinat Abdullin)
• 31 Days of Testing: Sustainable Pace, Sensible Flow and 31 Days of Testing: More Collaboration, Not Less (Jim Holmes)
• Sunday Thinking: Are you dealing with Risk or Uncertainty? (Dru Sellers)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Candlestick based off WPF Toolkit (Xavier John)
• How to work with WrapPanel in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Use Background agents (Andrea Boschin)
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #3: Sending SMS and intro to Plugins (Glen Gordon)
• You know the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone works in the UK right? (Mike Ormond)
• Re-imagining the behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background (Joost van Schaik)
• WPF 4.5: Adding a delay to your binding updates to reduce noise (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #443 – Reversing the Flow Direction in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
• Deploy Visual Studio LightSwitch on a Shared Server (Chris D.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 185: Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 044 – “Voice Control THIS!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 421: What we are playing, news and the 2011 Video Game Awards (Larry Hyrb)
• Cloud Cover Episode 66 – Using Windows Azure Storage from the Windows Phone (Wade Wegner)
• Video on How to work with WrapPanel in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Gillmor Gang 12.3.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Engadget Podcast 266 – 12.02.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 115 – 12.03.2011 and The Vergecast 004 – 12.02.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: December 2nd – Nuget, HTML5, SignalR and an updated tool list from Scott (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 94: Keith Casey Interview from Zendcon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
• The JavaScript Show – Idiomatic JavaScript, HumaneJS, Traffic Cop (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Gweek 029: A grab bag of games, apps, books, and sex-farce comics we love (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Start Up Success Podcast Show #125: Cole Flournoy, LetsListen.com (Bob Walsh)
• Talking Shop Down UnderEpisode 78 – Eric Evans on the Birth of DDD (Richard Banks)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Todd McKellar Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• I get interviewed by Kevin Dee and Boagworld: When is the best time to reach your audience? (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 237: Enterprise Zombies (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• What I learned in the Global Day of Code Retreat (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Red Pill (Brady Gaster)
• Coderetreatin’ (Aaron Lerch)
• Woman in Leadership – Top Women in Agile Thought Leadership (Peter Saddington)

Database

• Activity Monitor in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper 5 Tips for a Smooth SSIS Upgrade to SQL Server 2012 and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux Available Now and SQLAuthority News – SQL Saturday 116 – SQL Saturday in Bangalore, India on January 7, 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• How to call a user defined function with a default parameter and SQL Advent 2011 Day 3: Partitioning and SQL Advent 2011 Day 4: Schemas and SQL Advent 2011 Day 5: Common Table Expressions (Denis Gobo)
• Query Performance Tuning and Mindfreak (Thomas LaRock)
• Monitoring SQL Azure (Patrick Schwanke)
• Source-controlled database backups (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Moving Data from MySQL to PostgreSQL (Mario)

SharePoint

• Is SharePoint really a 3 role environment? An Overview. Part 1 of 5 (Enrique Lima)

PowerShell

• How to Add Exchange Proxy Addresses from a CSV File with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)
• Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #2 Available for Download (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

• Master Chief and Cortana Will Change in Halo 4 (Ian Steinberg)
• Responsive selection rendering for paint.net 4.0 (Rick Brewster)
• Can Badges Fix Developer Recruitment? (Rob Diana)
• Bing on Xbox: The Future of Entertainment Search (The Bing Team)
• Audible for WP7 possibly available in 3 months (Phone Arena Team)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 2, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 213 (Rhonda Tipton)
• MVP Friday Five: December 2, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #766 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #995 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/02/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Windows Dev News for December 04, 2011 – #0005 and Windows Dev News for December 03, 2011 – #0004 and SilverlightShow for November 21 – 27, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/2/2011) and Daily News Digest 12/2/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/5/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/5/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 28 Nov – 4 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 2 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 27-November-2011 to 03-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Pie in the Sky (December 2, 2011) (Larry Franks)
• Retrospective 61 – #PMI #Agile Exam and #LeanGiving (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Developing Applications for the Cloud on the Microsoft® Windows AzureTM Platform (Patterns & Practices) by Matias Woloski

• List of freely available programming books (Stack Overflow)
• November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Jeff Wilcox)
• JavaScript Closures for Dummies (Morris Johns)
• “Explicit” Tests with Resharper (Peter Ritchie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Actor Model Programming in C# (Chris Patterson)
• Guide to reduce TFS database growth using the Test Attachment Cleaner and Build Explorer version 1.1 for Visual Studio Team Explorer is released (Terje Sandstrom)
• Greatest Hits: Make IntelliSense Transparent (Zain Naboulsi)
• DevPad 4.7 and Fluent Validation 3.2 (CodePlex)
• Ninject and NLog with Multiple Loggers (Geoff Hudik)
• Skeletal Tracking Example (Greg Duncan)
• Partial Application (Chris Eargle)
• Robotium 3.0 – Stepping It Up! (Renas Reda)

Web Development

• Selenium 2 from PHP code and Practical PHP Refactoring: Parameterize Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 1 (Jorge Ramon)
• Visual Studio 2010 HTML5 (Renso Hollhumer)
• How you clear your HTML5 Canvas matters (Simon Sarris)
• Addressing Sueetie Wall Permalinks (Dave Burke)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v4.0.4 (CodePlex)
• HTML5: Pushing and Popping with the History API (Mike Robinson)
• Multiple domains with HTTP and HTTPS endpoint and UCC SSL Certificate in Windows Azure Web Role (Avkash Chauhan)
• YUI 3.5.0 Roadmap and Timelines (Jenny Donnelly)
• A Pinch of CoffeeScript Sugar – Part 1 (Daniel Mohl)
• Making hashchange Work Better on Windows Phone (Chris Love)
• Using JsonValue and JsonArray in WCF Web API (Alexander Zeitler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Should Developers Know the Business Customers? (Peter Saddington)
• Leveraging Microsoft Patterns and Practices (Tim Murphy)
• Hash Tables as an Efficient Means of Search (Andy)
• Writing stable code (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience (Rian van der Merwe)
• Inside Red Gate – Exercises in Leanness (Simon Cooper)
• The required infrastructure frees you from infrastructure decisions (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Lync SDK: Lync controls for Wpf and Silverlight ! (Nicolas Humann)
• Windows Phone, The Xbox of today (Daniel Egan)
• Blend 4 + VS 2011 (Preview) = Problem? (Michael Sync)
• Updates to the Expression Blend User Guide (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #431 – Binding a Control’s Width to Its Height (Sean Sexton)
• Two Ways to Create a Database for Your Mango App (David Pell)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #16: Isolated Storage Explorer (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C&B 2011 Panel: Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu and Scott Meyers – Concurrency and Parallelism and SPLASH 2011: Mark Miller – Secure JavaScript (Charles Torre)
• ADP West 2011 – Ken Pugh – Acceptance Test Driven Development and Tips and Advice – Test Driven Development – Bob Payne and George Dinwiddie (Agile Toolkit)
• On The Verge, Episode 001: Matias Duarte (Verge Staff)
• Here’s What It’s Like To Use Nokia’s Stunning New Windows Phone [VIDEO REVIEW] (NOK, MSFT) (Ellis Hamburger)
• Gil Zilberfeld interviews Uncle Bob Martin (Avi Kaye)
• Hot Apps: Kinectimals, Monopoly, Find the Lady, INRIX traffic, PhotoBucket (Laura Foy)
• Engadget HD Podcast 274 – 11.15.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld: With Adobe backtracking on Flash, its time we did too (Paul Boag)
• The GeekDads Episode #103: If You Can Make Something Light Up, Make it Light Up! (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Tonight at F#unctional Londoners: Byron Cook: Proving program termination with F# (Don Syme)
• FREE Windows Azure Developer Camps Coming to A City Near You; Sign up Now! (Himanshu Singh)
• Window Phone Marketing team really is hungry… Café Mango food truck roams the streets of NYC (Greg Duncan)
• Infographic: Freelancers On The Job (Richard Hay)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book – Write T-SQL Self Join Without Using LEAD and LAG (Pinal Dave)
• List all stored procedures that run at startup in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• The Data Scientist (Buck Woody)
• Creating a Partitioned View in the BAM Archiving Database and Adventures in TSQL: Comma separated string from column values and Adventures in TSQL: Adding date and time values and Adventures in TSQL: Using CTEs when performing DELETE/UPDATE operations (Carl Nolan)
• The First Thing To Do After Creating Keys (Steve Jones)
• The CASE of the missing non-NULL T-SQL Error: None of the result expressions in a CASE specification can be NULL. (Jose Chinchilla)
• Quotename in SQL (Jack Vamvas)
• SQLCop is now available via chocolatey (Christiaan Baes)

SharePoint

• Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: a Silverlight menu for Sharepoint – Part 1 (Walter Ferrari)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu Game Lab (MS Downloads)
• First step with Ruby: Kindle Clipping Extractor (Franky)
• Windows 8 is NOT coming to Phones (Mike Halsey)
• Xbox – 10 years of epic (Steve Clayton)
• Inside Microsoft’s secret "Socl" network (Tyler Holman)
• Google Programming Language is Go for 2012 launch (Zach Honig)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #753 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 11/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #982 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/15/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 15 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week November 7-13 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code by Allen Holub

• S#arp Lite: The Basics (Billy McCafferty)
• Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Nick)
• Eduasync part 15: implementing COMEFROM with a horrible hack (Jon Skeet)
• F# Dynamic Lookup Operator and Regex (Carl Nolan)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 78: Migrating Silverlight apps to Windows 8 Metro with Derik Whittaker (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using the Simplest Type Name in a Snippet and Child Tasks (Richard Carr)
• Information on upgrading Kinect Applications to MS SDK Beta 2. (Michael Crump)
• Kinect SDK – resources for developers and Hosting a WCF service on GoDaddy (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Tool for Debugging Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 11 (Jenni Konrad)
• Hosting WCF Service in Windows Server AppFabric (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Implementing Chain of Responsibility Design Pattern in C# using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• With Visual Studio 2010 (and vs2011 preview) Fast Launch Not Helpful Often (Peter Kellner)
• TFS API Part 40–Build Service Host (Shai Raiten)
• Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK and Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.11111 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
• Mounting a Microsoft Azure CloudDrive in a VMRole (Sean Barlow)
• .NET Gadgeteer Module Contest at GHI and Update to .NET Gadgeteer Larson Scanner (Pete Brown)
• Data breakpoints to find points where data gets broken (Timo Heinäpurola)
• Book Review – Developer’s Guide To Collections in Microsoft® .NET (Lori Lalonde)
• Interactive, free and just plain cool, .Net Tutorial (Greg Duncan)
• WinRT Wishlist: Live Tiles for “Classic” Apps (James Ashley)
• MsBuild finding directories if not given as parameter (Daniel Fisher)
• XPath Visualizer v1.3 Latest and MSBuild Extension Pack – November 2011 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML5 is on a killer spree, Web Sockets May partially “kill” HTTP as well (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Separate Query from Modifier (Giorgio Sironi)
• JavaScript in different browsers (PointsToShare)
• Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture (Martin Beeby)
• Build business apps in .NET – not HTML & JavaScript (Ward Bell)
• Test your App Fabric ACS v2 RPS Application to use actual REALM and Return URL in Cloud and localhost URL in Compute Emulator and Windows Azure Load Balancer Timeout Details (Avkash Chauhan)
• Creating an E-Mail Contact Form (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Solving the Shakespeare Million Monkeys Problem in Real-time with Parallelism and SignalR (Scott Hanselman)
• New Game 2011: HMTL5 Gaming FTW (Carter Rabasa)
• rails_best_practices 1.3.0 released (Huang Zhimin)
• Common Areas For Securing Web Services (DotNetBlocks)
• Better ASP MVC Select HtmlHelper (Sacha Barber)
• Web.config Transformations and XML Namespaces (Mads Troest)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Monthly Planning with Agile Results and Simplified Site and Knowledge Base for Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• BDD XAF Project Released and Setup and Use SpecFlow BDD with DevExpress XAF (Patrick Liekhus)
• New Articles on Event Sourcing and CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
• Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010-Part 2 and Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010-Part 3 (Tarun Arora)
• New Article: Managing and Testing Topics, Queues and Relay Services with the Service Bus Explorer Tool (Paolo Salvatori)
• The 5 whys: Another attempt (Mark Needham)
• The Happiness Door, Another Great Feedback Method (Jurgen Appelo)
• Mitigate your merge issues (Mehdi Khalili)
• Merge Business Logic Handler Custom Conflict Resolver (Brandon Williams)
• What Good is a Pig? (Brent Ozar)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Death to banding: Windows Phone devs, please upgrade your apps to 32 BitsPerPixel (Windows Phone Geek)
• Is the Future of Silverlight Coming to an End? Do We Really Need to Worry About Silverlight 6 Yet? (Devin Jordan)
• Windows Phone 7.5 – Manipulating camera stream (Andrea Boschin)
• F# Silverlight Library Template in Visual Studio 11 (Dan Mohl)
• Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Binary Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
• 2000 WPF Things #429 – Child Element Properties that Affect Layout (Sean Sexton)
• Developing Snowfight – Basic particle engine (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Improving CSLA 4 MobileFormatter behavior (Rockford Lhotka)
• TouchDevelop v2.4: push notifications, updates, discussions, … (Nikolai Tillmann)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #12: Beta Distribution and 31 Days of Mango | Day #13: Marketplace Test Kit and 31 Days of Mango | Day #14: Using OData (Jeff Blankenburg)
• xamGrid vs. xamDataGrid: Conceptual and Feature Comparison (Pamela Brasil)
• Visual State Manager (VSM) – part II (Alex Mukora)
• Have an Idea? Need an Idea? (Ben Lower)
• Storyboards in Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – History of HTTP and the World Wide Web with Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (Scott Hanselman)
• SPLASH 2011: Andrew Black and James Noble – The Grace Programming Language Project (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 182: Mark Minasi on Windows Server 8 (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 042 – “WOW, That’s a Big Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 419: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Larry Hyrb)
• Boagworld: The challenge of context in modern UX design (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 234: Paul of Duty (Paul Thurrott)
• Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs Video and There’s Something About Nolock: Webcast Video (Brent Ozar)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Jeff Truman Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 76 – John Bristowe and Kendo UI (Richard Banks)
• Bill Gates Jumps Over Chair (Gillian)
• Vergecast 002 – 11.11.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Engadget Podcast 264 – 11.11.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 112 – 11.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: VS11, HTML5, Debugging, and guest host Habib Heydarian (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• TDD Master class – Videos Available For Purchase at TekPub (Roy Osherove)
• Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Better Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• The Tablet Show – WinRT Panel Discussion from DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Getting Involved With Open-Source In 10 Minutes (Addy Osmani)

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – A Real Story of Book Getting ‘Out of Stock’ to A 25% Discount Story Available (Pinal Dave)
• Windows Azure DevCamps in DC, Dec. 14, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• Workshop Agile + UX (Caleb Jenkins)
• My shift from WPF-XAML to Kinect for Windows (Rob Relyea)
• Upcoming jQuery Events (Addy Osmani)
• Ever Thought to Yourself “Wow, Angela has a FUN and AWESOME job in DPE”? Well, we are currently looking for a few good folks to join us! and Clint and Zain Return to the Midwest in December to WOW us with Visual Studio and TFS Goodness! (Angela Binkowski)
• A Conversation from the Trenches of Agility with David J Bland, Brad Murphy and Peter Saddington (Christopher Goldsbury)

Database

• Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar‘s SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: Book review (Dhananjay Kumar)
• An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 5: Incorrect Calculation Results, Miscellaneous and MDX Studio Errors (drweed)
• Parallel execution in SSIS (James Serra)
• SQLAuthority News – Various Microsoft SQL Server Documentations Available for Download and SQL SERVER – CSVExpress and Quick Data Load (Pinal Dave)
• Third Normal Form is Snake Oil (Brent Ozar)
• Sharding vs. Having multiple databases (Oren Eini)
• Synchronize Data from Cloud to Cloud (C2C) using SQL Azure Data Sync (Sudhesh Suresh)
• Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping (Chad Miller)

SharePoint

• #Ebook Deal/Day: SharePoint for Project Management – $17.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 2) (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

• Google Reader Is Not About Reading News It Is About Curation (Rob Diana)
• Updated NDK for Android 4.0 (Xavier Ducrohet)
• Next-Gen Xbox codenamed "Loop" and will run Windows 9? (Zac)
• Developers’ Interest Growing in Windows Phone, Waning in BlackBerry (Ina Fried)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 12, 2011 and Interesting Finds: November 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• This Week’s Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What’s New in Bundler 1.1? (Peter Cooper)
• The Morning Brew #980 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/14/2011 and Weekly article digest 11/14/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (11/11/2011) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (November 11th) (Larry Franks)
• Reading Notes # 20 (Franky)
• Double Shot #751 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: November 11, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
• Retrospective 58 – People Over Technology (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 06-November-2011 to 12-November-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 7-13 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

• New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.8 officially released (Windows Phone Geek)
• Launching PowerShell 2.0 into .net4 via F# Interactive or IronPython 2.7 (Steve Gilham)
• Dart: A language for structured web programming (Lars Bak)
• MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike (Jeff Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Inspecting Tier Interaction Profiling (TIP) results in Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Abhijit Jana)
• .NET Math Library (Richard Carr)
• F# Parallel Array Sorting (Carl Nolan)
• Teams in Visual Studio 11, the basics. and Teams in Visual Studio 11, feature teams and backlogs. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Code smell – LINQ to SQL Datacontext usage and more… – Look from a bird’s eye view (Peter Gfader)
• An easy way to create Side by Side registrationless COM Manifests with Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
• Using Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions with WCF (Tom Hollander)
• Actions in OData (Alex James)
• How to Resolve the ‘Manifest Reference file ‘XYZ’ is not part of the payload in Metro and How to setup a clean error message when your Metro Application does not support Data Sharing (Derik Whittaker)
• Reading EXCEL FILE in a collection using Open XML SDK 2.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• C#’s String.Format For JavaScript (Geek Daily)
• Cool stuff in FubuMVC No. 2: Action Conventions (Chad Myers)
• ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Mobile Template (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Consolidate Conditional Expression (Giorgio Sironi)
• Getting Your HTML5 Fix: HTML5 At DZone (Rob Diana)
• Viewport Meta Tag and Using HTML 5/CSS3/jQuery to Build Mobile Interfaces (Sam Gentile)
• 10 super useful PHP snippets (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Use Local Storage to Make Your Single Page Web Application Rock (Chris Love)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.00 Beta (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Metrotastic– Palette Generator Preview. (Scott Barnes)
• Test Data Builder pattern with object initializers in .NET (Stacy Vicknair)
• Change the Environment, Not the People (Jurgen Appelo)
• How’s mentorship seen in Software Craftsmanship? (Sandro Mancuso)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Progress Bar using Threads (R. Carty)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–using the BusyIndicator (Brian Lagunas)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 1 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Detecting System Information of WP7 Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #404 – A Grid Hosts Child Controls in Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Ringtones from existing content on WP7 – why can’t you do that? and Using system alerts with the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Random Airplane Mode in Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Visual States to Set Focus on a Control (Jeremy Likness)
• Isolated Storage for Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 177: Jeremy Likness on Sterling database (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 414: Dragon Age II Mark Of The Assassin, Rocksmith, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (Larry Hyrb)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 179: Cassandra with Jonathan Ellis (SE-Radio Team)
• Gillmor Gang 10.8.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• Windows Weekly 229: What’s It Called And What’s It Cost? (Paul Thurrott)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 72 – CodeMania NZ and a Build Windows 8 Recap (Richard Banks)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 25 (Richard Hay)
• The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• TWC9: C9 goes global, Fast App Switching, Geo AR Toolkit, MEF 2.0 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Radio – 45 (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools Live Roadshow Double Feature: Managing Your Software Lifecycle and Agile Management using Visual Studio Team Foundation in a town near you (US) (Charles Sterling)
• Welcome to our First MVP Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Upcoming MSDN Webcasts on Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Azure, Orchard and VS Team Build (Katrien de Graeve)
• Want to Learn iOS or Android? (Shawn Wildermuth)

Database

• Book Review – MDX with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services: Cookbook (Darren Gosbell)
• SQL Server Temp Tables (J. Verheul)
• SSIS: Word-wrapping Annotations (Using Only Notepad) (Larry Leonard)
• SQLAuthority News – System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance (Pinal Dave)
• DBCC checktable (Jack Vamvas)
• Review of Redgate SQL Prompt (Tatworth)
• Search and Replace in MySQL (Tom Hearn)
• MIT introduces Oracle for Object-Oriented Programmers (Michael Stal)

Miscellaneous

• Personal Development Hub on Sources of Insight (JD Meier)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Early Release Edition of #Android Cookbook – $21.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Paint.NET v3.5.10 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Negative hiring decisions, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Silverlight to power apps on the new Xbox 360 dashboard update (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Pie in the Sky (October 7, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #955 (Chris Alcock)
• Retrospective 53 – #Agile Tool Reviews and #Giveaway #Contest (Peter Saddington)
• Double Shot #726 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 7-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 02-October-2011 to 08-October-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 10.01 ~ 10.10 (gOODiDEA)

The Geek Shelf

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript by Eric T Freeman

• Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
• Expression Blend… for HTML (Christian Schormann)
• Build HTML 5 apps with Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview (Pam Keesey)
• Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
• BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio (Somasegar)
• I_See_What_You_Did_There (Anonymous)

Windows 8 / BUILD

• Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The BUILD Report #1: Sinofsky keynote (Ward Bell)
• Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance (Jeff Wilcox)
• Bullet Points from Build–Day 1 and my thoughts (Michael Crump)
• Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware (Grant & Jeff)
• Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Server: Screenshots + What’s new (Owen Williams)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows 8 Developer Preview Screenshot Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts (Ron Fosner)
• Xbox LIVE and Windows 8 (Larry Hryb)
• Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI and Mike Angiulo Unboxes the Build Hardware With Us (Larry Larsen)
• //build conference in Anaheim: Keynote notes #bldwin (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows 8 Forces Some Compromises After All (Ina Fried)
• Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts (Jeremy Likness)
• BUILD Keynote Day 1 – Windows 8 Experience (Brent Schooley)
• The Windows 8 Developer Ecosystem (Chris Eargle)
• Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos (damaster)
• BUILD apps that use C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• Getting Hands On With Virtual Machine of Windows 8! (Matt Griffin)
• Windows 8–First thoughts and Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (Peter Kuhn)
• PreEmptive Provides More Application Intelligence to HTML5 Developers #bldwin (Josette Rigsby)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What is the cost of try/catch (Oren Eini)
• Why Write a .NET API For RabbitMQ? (Mike Hadlow)
• TeamPulse TFS Sync Tips & Tricks (TeamPulse Team)
• WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32 (Jonathan Allen)
• Programmatically Get Assembly Version and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part I) – Installation and Development Environment Setup (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Custom Web.config Transformations in MSBUILD (Doug Rathbone)
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• Sync Framework Toolkit Connects Phones, Desktops, HTML5 to SQL Server, SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

• Secure development of Metro style apps with HTML5 (MS Downloads)
• Advantages of CoffeeScript When Working with jQuery Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• Backbone.js: MVC in JavaScript and Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Collection (Giorgio Sironi)
• Thinking Like a Web Designer (Tim Bray)
• Getting Role Instance Information with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP Command Line Tools (Brian Swan)
• Resources For, And How I Learned Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
• Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview (Dean Hachamovitch)
• The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples (Tom Waterhouse)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Four Basic Insights on Confidence (J.D. Meier)
• You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do! (Martin Hinshelwood)
• RTM’d today: Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life (Kim Spilker)
• TeamPulse – A Project Management Solution from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 9 Things Designers Can Learn from Target’s Checkout Form (Anthony)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• Adding to MoXAML. (Pete O’Hanlon)
• 2000 WPF Things #386 – Layout = Panels + FrameworkElements + Alignment/Margins/Padding (Sean Sexton)
• Expression Blend for HTML (Somasegar)
• TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Prism 4 MEF Application (Danny Siew)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #139: File → Close (James Shore)
• Engadget HD Podcast 265 – 09.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Pluralcast 48 : Jeffrey Palermo on Career and Management (David Starr)
• The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• Webcast: Office 365 & SharePoint Online (Kim Spilker)
• Take a Ruby on Rails course from Rails Rookies (Charles Max Wood)
• //BUILD/: What a great conference -celebrating this new era by starting a new ALM Team blog (Charles Sterling)
• Say “Hello” to BlendInsider (Kirupa)
• WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program is Live! (Windows Phone Geek)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server OLEDB Provider Deprecation Announcement (Luiz Santos)
• SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Four new useful DMV (Jakub Dvorak)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to expressor 3.4 Lookup Tables (Pinal Dave)
• Understanding SQL Azure Federations No-MARS Support and Entity Framework (James Podgorski)
• Backing up SQL Azure with Backup from Red-Gate (Eric Nelson)

SharePoint

• RTM’d today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
• Business Connectivity Service Associations using DB2 Stored Procedures in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

PowerShell

• First Glimpse at PowerShell v3 and Video: Richard Siddaway – WMI: Gems and Gotchas (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• The PowerShell Magazine launches… (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Some Basic Bash Commands I found useful for Git Bash (Mark Pearl)
• Xbox 360 won’t Auto Login to Live – Fixed due to RSTP and Spanning Tree setting in a NetGear Managed GS724TP Switch and Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) – Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web’s Social Glue (Scott Hanselman)
• This is why OEMs in the Windows world get slapped with the Fugly Stamp (Steven Hodson)
• Windows Phone “Tango1”, “Tango2”, and “Apollo” confirmed (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #937 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – September 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading September 13, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #708 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Link dump for September 12th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 09/13/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Today’s Links (9/13/2011) (Bob Rhubart)

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble

• Interesting Blog: Speculation on BuildWindows.com (Don Burnett)
• Is “Jupiter” the Future of Windows…PC, Phone &Tablet? (Sarah Perez)
• Windows Phone 7 Challenge: Week 2, the verdict (Molly Wood)
• Where the PC is headed: Plus is the New “Post” (Frank X. Shaw)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ThreadLocal storage in .NET and What is SynchronizationContext all about (Abhijit Jana)
• Using Custom Classes with Application Settings (Richard Carr)
• NuGet’ing inside the firewall, with TFS Continuous Integration bonus power too (or "How to go from TFS CI to your Private NuGet server with TeamBuild") and Kinect to transform video training/podcasting/teleconferencing? and Adding awesome lighting effects to your XNA game… and Flight Kintroller (Greg Duncan)
• New e-book: FRIENDLY F# with game development and XNA (Joh)
• Kinect: Using VC++ with Kinect (Surf4Fun)
• TeamPulse R2 2011 is Here! (Team Pulse Team)
• Using Rollback in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools and Using Work Item Tracking Search in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools (Mike Fourie)
• The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for .NET Developers (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Slow OracleConnection Creation (Geoff Hudik)
• Thoughts on MassTransit on other languages (Dru Sellers)

Web Development

• Trigger update to jQuery Tablesorter on dynamically modified table (Hajan Selmani)
• Video Sitemap Action Result for ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Changing Selection Color using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Using and Writing Polyfills for Building Modern Applications (Rey Bango)
• Fetching Web Roles details using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pain Driven Development (Mark Needham)
• The Pomodoro Technique Summary (Evgeny Goldin)
• New book: Solid Code (Optimizing the Software Development Life Cycle) (Devon Musgrave)
• Generate easy, up-to-date Rails API docs with Cucumber (Matthew Nielsen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Writing inline Code in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• Using WCF RIA Services With LightSwitch: I Know You’re Scared, I Understand (Michael Washington)
• Upload Files from Windows Phone (Chris Koenig)
• Nested ListBox binding in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Frameworks used inside my WP7 application (Pieter de Rycke)
• Publishing a Mango Update to an Existing App (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 408: Pre-Pax, Cake and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 253 – 08.19.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 100 – 08.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 56 – Logging, Tracing, and ELMAH in Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• TWC9: August 19 2011 (Brian Keller & Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Phone Radio – 39 (Brian Seitz)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Building 4 Refurb (Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Weekly 222: Bye Bye webOS (Paul Thurrott)
• The GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
• This is my next Podcast 020 – 08.19.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

Community / Events

• We Need Your Help! (Kevin Griffin)
• Speaking at BUILD (Josh Twist)

Database

• Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer – Book Review (Mark Broadbent)
• Repeating Column Headers on Every Page in SSRS Doesn’t Work! …Or Does It? (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Introduction to Page Split – Day 20 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – All about SQL Statistics – Day 21 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – "Denali" – PERCENT_RANK() Analytic Function (Vishal)
• What Will Be New for Reporting Services in 2012? (Paul Turley)
• Thoughts on DBA Professional Development (Jeffrey Yao)
• Methods for populating a data warehouse (James Serra)
• Free online class, "Introduction to Databases," coming this fall from Stanford University (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Simple guide to running Git server on Windows, in local network (kind of) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• How to REALLY hurt yourself with PSEXEC – Deleting the Undeletable Registry Key and More (Scott Hanselman)
• I’ve Built A Windows Azure Application… How Should I Market It? (Yvonne Muench)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 19, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 20, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 20 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – August 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading August 19, 2011 and Geek Reading August 20, 2011 and Geek Reading August 21, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (8/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily WP7 Development News 19 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2011 — #1132 and Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 — #1133 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 14-August-2011 to 20-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Links of the week #159 (David Vidmar)
• Retrospective 46 – #Agile #Games and #Kanban Monsters (Peter Saddington)
• Friday Links 08-19-2011 (JD Meier)
• Link dump for August 18th through August 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

• The easy way to set up NuGet to restore packages (David Ebbo)
• Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
• "BECAUSE WE’RE ALL PERSONS": EMPATHY AND OPEN SOURCE (Mattt Thompson)
• I’m a phony. Are you? (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some special monads in F# – Part 5 of n – Application: Poker (Steffen Forkmann)
• Real World .NET 4 and C# (Christian Nagel)
• Manually set tag colours in TeamPulse (Telerik Team Pulse)
• MVVM your Kinect code (Greg Duncan)
• DXCore Expression Lab tool window for observing the parsed source code trees (Alex Skorkin)
• Clojure and the CLR (K. Scott Allen)
• Interactive IdP With SAML-P WIF Extension (Jimmy Larkin)
• Mono.Addins – Release: v0.6.2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm (Derek Johnson)
• Dealing with singular plural phrasing (Phil Haack)
• An Issue with Area in ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB.NET) (Imran Baloch)
• ASP.NET Password Strength Indicator with jQuery Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) w/code DD246 (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows Azure Storage Libraries in Many Languages and Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
• PHP: Fetch $_GET as String with http_build_query() (Stoimen Popov)
• CSS3: Animations vs. Transitions (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to execute/run a shell script as root from a PHP script? (Svetoslav Marinov)
• Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element (Gil Fink)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Value to Reference (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum basics: The process (John Rayner)
• Understanding Enterprise Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Agile Innovation Games (Peter Saddington)
• Are Workflows Really That Bad? (Hint: Maybe They Aren’t) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• A New Era in Application Development, Part I (Stephen Forte)
• Technical Debt (Charles Max Wood)
• Macto: Looking at warrants (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Beginners How to: Programmatically set common Control properties and How to port your WP7 custom application Theme to Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight testing framework support in the Unit Testing Service (Alex Skorkin)
• Windows 8 and the Death of Silverlight (Chris Eargle)
• Screen Orientations in Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
• RelativeSource Binding in Silverlight (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building a Twitter client for Windows Phone – OAuth client & basic infrastructure (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 2000 WPF Things #366 – Binding a Calendar Control’s SelectedDate Property to a Nullable DateTime (Sean Sexton)
• On a path to a generic About page (Andrej Tozon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 03 of 19): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 (MS Podcasts)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 74: Mobile Web Is Not What The Other Guys Say It Is (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Episode 158 – PowerScripting Podcast – Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse Talk NuGet and PSGet (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Engadget HD Podcast 261 – 08.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Keyvan.TV Episode 1 – Pilot (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Community / Events

• Let Critical Path Training send you to the SharePoint Conference 2011! (Andrew Connell)
• Will Microsoft reveal a new IDE at the BUILD conference? (Daniel Fisher)
• Get Trained on Sweet, Sweet Mango! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Author news: Sign up for Mango Jump Start August 23-24 (Kim Spilker)
• Empathy and Open Source (Joe Mayo)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2 (Glenn Berry)
• Deleting Data in Small Chunks on SQL Server (Jason Crider)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Sparse Data and Space Used by Sparse Data – Day 17 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server – Copy Results with Headers – Management Studio (Vishal)
• T-SQL Enhancements: OVER clause (Henrik Sjang Davidse)
• Adding custom folders to your SSMS Object Explorer with this free addin… (Greg Duncan)
• Knowing what your doing with NOLOCK… (Greg Duncan)
• Calculate table size with existing data (Jack Vamvas)
• Top 5 Oracle Nuances I learned Today (Jason Brimhall)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to cut its low-end Windows Azure cloud pricing (Mary Jo Foley)
• The anatomy of Xcode’s project window (O’Reilly Media)
• Gamescom: New Xbox LIVE games and features coming to Windows Phone (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 206 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Today’s Links (8/16/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #918 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_29 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

The Geek Shelf

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