Top Links
- Keeping your family safer with Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
- Exclusive first look at the new Aviary photo tools & SDK for Windows Phone [Video] (Daniel Rubino)
- CQRS Journey – first pseudo-production release (Grigori Melnik)
- Using NuGet PowerShell to Replace Missing Macros in Dev 11 (John Robbins)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Getting an App in the Windows Store: What, Why, and How (G. Andrew Duthie)
- The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World (Jeremy Likness)
- WinRT Sample: A quick look at Semantic Zoom (Bill Wagner)
- Xamarin’s Mono for Android Now Includes a Visual Designer (Abel Avram)
- From Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro, one app’s journey (Greg Duncan)
Web Development
- JavaScript Identifier Length Distribution (Ariya Hidayat)
- Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 3 Placing Stones, Accounting for Resizing & Refactoring (Chris Love)
- Instant HTML/CSS Updating (Hadi Hariri)
- Annotation Overlay Effect with CSS3 (Manoela Ilic)
- Introducing Testing Domain – localtest.me (Scott Forsyth)
- Azure Real World: Optimizing PHP Applications for the Cloud (Brian Swan)
- Converting WordPress blog into statically generated site with help of Pretzel (Andrei Marukovich)
- Sharing Links from IE10 on Windows 8 (Alex Feldman)
- Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Passport (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- The Web Developer Toolbox: Raphaël (Jeremie Patonnier)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Lightweight agile test documentation (Fjodor Ekström)
- Leadership is Who You Are (J.D. Meier)
- Business Optimization and Human Potential (Peter Saddington)
- Specing out end-to-end scenarios (Microsoft patterns & practices)
- Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments (Geoff Hudik)
- Mock Expectations in .NET vs Ruby (Karl Seguin)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- How to use the Infragistics Color Tuner in XAML Applications (Jordan Tsankov)
- 2000 WPF Things #558 – Reversing a Gradient Using Blend (Sean Sexton)
- Comparison of Mobile Framework Solutions – Spring 2012 (Paul Ballard)
- How to use the Infragistics Barcode Reader (Damyan Petev)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Micheal Learned Tours Us Around Studio 11 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- E2E: Donna Malayeri, Gilad Bracha, Luke Hoban – Web Programming and More and Dare Obasanjo: SkyDrive – Personal Storage in the Cloud (Charles Torre)
- Episode 185 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski on v3 and the Jeffrey Snover Keynote from the 2012 Deep Dive (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- "What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11" Recording Available (Beth Massi)
- Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: The Center of IT (Mark DeFalco)
- Video: Logging Made Simple With The Enterprise Library Logging Application Block (Paul Ballard)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Tina Fey (Chris Hardwick)
- Project Detroit: An Overview (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
- Windows Phone Minute- Rocking the Lock Screen (Laura Foy)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for May 14th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Upcoming Free SharePoint + Social Webinars from NewsGator (Joel Oleson)
- Women in IT: Happy Mother’s Day to the thousands of working moms at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
- Visual Studio Live! NY Community Night – Wednesday 5/16/2012 and Java on Azure @ The NYC Windows Azure User Group – 5/16/2012: Cloudify: The PaaS Jailbreaker (Peter Laudati)
- Join us on May 29th and May 31st for the Let’s Build Something Mobile Webcast Series! (MS Public Sector Team)
- Meet the Author: Howard Dierking on REST Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
- And… That’s All Folks (Davy Brion)
- Webinar–Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
Database
- Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Community Technology Preview (MS Downloads)
- SQL SERVER – Get Schema Name from Object ID using OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME (Pinal Dave)
- Be careful which node you install a clustered instance from (Denny Cherry)
- Data Warehouse vs Data Mart (James Serra)
SharePoint
- New book: Working with Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Kim Spilker)
- SharePoint projects need software architecture too (Simon Brown)
PowerShell
- Test-Driving PowerShell v3: How To Install And Run CTPv2 (Tobias Weltner)
Miscellaneous
- Amazon hiring 1,000 new tech workers for Seattle offices (Emily Parkhurst)
- Please Don’t Learn to Code (Jeff Atwood)
- Adding a file to a OneNote page via extensibility (John Guin)
- A list of common HRESULT error codes (Kirill Osenkov)
- Windows Phone Marketplace up to 90,000 apps (Phone Arena Team)
- Programmer Competency Matrix (Sijin Joseph)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2012 05.04 ~ 05.15 (yuanjian)
- Smashing Daily #1: Mobile Device Lab, Browsers and Animated GIFs (Smashing Editorial)
- Double Shot #880 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1105 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-15 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 5/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Reading Notes #46 (Frank)
- Windows Dev News for May 14, 2012 – #0081 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 14 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily Big Data Feed – May 14, 2012 (CloudFeed)
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