.NET / Visual Studio
- Using Extension Methods on Null Objects (Sebastien Lambla)
- Quickie StructureMap Update for Jan ’09 (Jeremy D. Miller)
- Pasting Code from Visual Studio (Julian M. Bucknall)
- Fun with Named Formats, String Parsing, and Edge Cases (Phil Haack)
- Language Envy – Hash Literals (Sergio Pereira)
- Save Time at Startup By Skipping the Splash (Darren Stokes)
Web Development
- Book Promotion on Facebook: Professional JavaScript for Web Developers 2nd Edition and Are Your ASP.NET Pages Ready for IE8? (Jim Minatel)
- OpenRasta Status Update (Sebastien Lambla)
- Using Your Own URL as Your OpenID (Jeff Atwood)
- Shift Focus to the Next Control During a PostBack Using ASP.NET and LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
- IIS7 – Classic Mode Weirdness: Failed to Execute URL (Sahil Malik)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Leadership 101: My Take on Fundamentals and Leadership 101: Dont’ Screw with My Crew (Jim Holmes)
- Agile: When Is a Story Done? (Mark Needham)
- Managing with Burndown Charts (Andy Singleton)
- "Pragmatic Architecture", in Book Form (Ted Neward)
- ARCast.TV – The Role of the Architect (Bob Familiar)
- Are You Creating Micromanagement Zombies? (Jeff Atwood) – Link of the Day
- Do I Put This Method Into a New Class? Decisions Decisions… (Dave Schinkel)
- Nordic Track Book Club Review: Tribes (Dave Burke)
Silverlight / WPF
- Silverlight DB Schema Editor (Silverlight Show)
- Building a WPF Application: Part 1 (Christopher Bennage)
.NET Community / Events
- 2008 – The Year That Was (Matthew Podwysocki)
- The MSDN Developer Conference Is Coming to DC! (Frank La Vigne) – I’ll be there!
Database
- Let SQL Server Tell You Which Indexes to Rebuild (Omer van Kloeten)
- Dictionary Based Database Upgrades (Ken Downs)
- SQL Server – sqlcmd vs osql – Basic Comparison (Pinal Dave)
Miscellaneous
- What’s in a Job Title? (Rod Paddock)
- 50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials (Jacob Gube)
- 10 Things to Embrace in 2009 (Jimmy Bogard)
- PS> Dir-A D The Screencast (Jeffrey Snover)
More Link Collections
- Silverlight Cream for January 04, 2009 — #475 (Dave Campbell)
- Links of the Week #66 (David Vidmar)
- Weekly Links #34 (Grant Palin)
- Links (1/4/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
- Weekly Link Post 75 (Rhonda Tipton)
- The Morning Brew #257 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight News for January 05, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
- Visual Studio Links #95 (Darren Stokes)
Book of the Day
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us: Seth Godin: Books