Top Links
- Azure SDK for node 0.5.4 is out! More secure and now with less angle brackets (Glenn Block)
 - Creating First Windows Phone Application using Kendo UI mobile and PhoneGap or Cordova (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Time To Consider Node.js? (Mike Hadlow)
 - Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F# (Daniel Mohl)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Fluent Interfaces (Richard Carr)
 - Extension method for outputting formatted JSON in LINQPad (Elton Stoneman)
 - A Simple Search by Image Engine in F# (Francesco De Vittori)
 - .DumpJson() – LINQPad Extension Fun… and The Regular Expression Skidmarklet (Prepare for much boy poo humor as you learn RegEx) and tangible T4 For VS11 Beta (Greg Duncan)
 - C# Tutorial for log4net (huwyss)
 - TMap for TFS Windows Phone 7 App available in the marketplace. (Clemens Reijnen)
 - Test Scribe for Visual Studio 11 Beta (Shai Raiten)
 - Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 Alpha (CodePlex)
 - Set rich text into RichTextBlock control (Rockford Lhotka)
 - Windows 8 – UX Case Studies (Andrew Spooner)
 - ZLIB Compression in .NET and BigDecimal type in .NET (Nick Berardi)
 - The Task: Events, Asynchronous Calls, Async and Await (Jeremy Likness)
 - Pre-Processing Directives for Multi-Platform Support (Joe Mayo)
 - OData V3 demo services (Vitek Karas)
 - One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application (nycdotnet)
 - First Look: Hubble (Nigel Sampson)
 - Using System.Threading.Tasks On MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)
 
Web Development
- Client Side Keyword Search with jQuery UI Autocomplete and MVC 4 (Greg Arroyo)
 - Going Native in HTML5 Resources (Chris Love)
 - Using TPL to access Async WCF Endpoints in ASP.net MVC (Derik Whittaker)
 - ASP.NET Web API Updates – May 14 (Henrik F. Nielsen)
 - PHP 5.4 by examples (Giorgio Sironi)
 - HTML5’s Value For Mobile Event Apps (Rob Diana)
 - RavenHQ and ASP.NET MVC – Moving your Data to the Cloud using AppHarbor (Sumit Maitra)
 - My First Experience with ASP.NET Web API 101 (Sam Gentile)
 - BrowserID: Logging in with BrowserID, Passport and NodeJS (Alexander Yuen)
 - App Harbor and RavenDB (Gustaf Nilsson Kotte)
 - OOP in JavaScript: Objects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - Per-controller configuration in WebAPI (Mike Stall)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Kanban: The Secret of High-Performing Teams at Microsoft and Monthly Burn Rate (JD Meier)
 - How Kanban Can Change Your Life (Matt Simpson)
 - Business Optimization and Human Potential (Peter Saddington)
 - Saga SOA Pattern (Amon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Eric Bruno & Udi Dahan)
 - Easy Credential Caching for Git (Mark Groves)
 - “Fitting” Performance into the Software Development Lifecycle (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - The open plan fallacy (Jef Claes)
 - Doing Your First Mock (Mehfuz Hossain)
 - Email Notifications for New Pushes on GitHub (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
 - The Three Little Pigs (Redux) (Mark Rendle)
 - Why Things Don’t Work In Your World (Davy Brion)
 - Process Template Upgrade #7 – Overwrite retaining history with limited migration (Martin Hinshelwood)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 4 (Peter Kuhn)
 - Array Visualizer – VS 2010 Debugging array visualizer and WinForm/WPF control you can use too… (Greg Duncan)
 - I reduced my cloud bill 9% this month by favoring my most active Windows Phone app users (Live Tiles, Leaderboards, Toasts) (Jeff Wilcox)
 - Play with Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone and Messin’ with Bing Maps Directions Task in Windows Phone and Play with Media Player Task in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
 - 2000 WPF Things #557 – Using an Image As an Opacity Mask (Sean Sexton)
 - Display item count in WPF ListBox and reorder using ButtonSpinner (Tim Hibbard)
 - Use Built-In Application Icon Resources on Windows Phone and Adjusting The Player Size In a 2D RPG Built with XNA on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 051: Blair Butler of G4’s Fresh Ink (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - Technology & Friends Episode 212: Sarah Dutkiewicz on Powershell (David Giard)
 - Herding Code 143 – Paul Stack on Continuous Delivery (Jon Galloway)
 - The Metro Developer Podcast Episode 066 – “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - GeekWire Radio: Seattle and Silicon Valley, the inside view from the startup world (Todd Bishop)
 - The Vergecast 030 – 05.11.2012 and Engadget Podcast 293 – 05.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Video: Unleash Your Mobile UI Voodoo with jQuery Mobile (Paul Ballard)
 - The Tablet Show – Jeff Wilcox Locates us with 4th and Mayor (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - 013 JSJ Knockout.js with Steven Sanderson (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
 - TWC9: VS11 RC UI Updates, Portable Library v2 Beta, Hilo for Win 8 and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
 - The GeekDads Episode #114: Beard Sharing (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (Ken Denmead)
 - Cloud Cover Episode 80 – Getting Started with SQL Azure Data Sync Preview (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
 - Windows Weekly 260: ARMed and Dangerous (Paul Thurrott)
 - WPCentral 142 – Samsung gets a sequel & Nokia gets more apps (Daniel Rubino)
 
Community / Events
- Windows 8 at Night (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile – May 17 (Wally McClure)
 - Men In Tech (Rob Conery)
 - Meet the Author: Jon Flanders on Building Hybrid Mobile Apps with HTML 5 (Paul Ballard)
 - Webinar–Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
 - Announcing the Virtual Blogger Hub! (Staff of Geeks)
 - Leading BOF Session on Building SenchaTouch 2.0 App Coming to Mountain View May 25, 2012 (Peter Kellner)
 - TechEd Quick Shot – Enabling the Consumerization of IT (Robert Hess)
 - Interview with Fritz Onion, Editor in Chief (Aaron Skonnard)
 - Load Testing and Performance Webinar 5/16 (Jim Holmes)
 - NYC Metro Area Community Dinner (Becky Isserman)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Developer Training Kit for SQL Server 2012 and SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Choosing a Tabular or Multidimensional Modeling Experience in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and SQL SERVER – Columnstore Index and sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats (Pinal Dave)
 - Report Builder 3.0 – Report Parts (Jes Schultz Borland)
 - Choosing the cloud for your database (Емил Табаков)
 - Understanding data vs log usage for spills in tempdb (Paul S. Randal)
 
SharePoint
- How do I – Add a User Account to the Local Administrators security group of a Domain Controller (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
 
PowerShell
- Use Powershell script to verify backup files (James Xu)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 12, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 13, 2012 and Interesting Finds: May 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Distributed Weekly 154 (Scott Banwart)
 - Collective #11 (Mary Lou)
 - Pie in the Sky (May 11, 2012) (Brian Swan)
 - The Morning Brew #1104 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #879 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #18) (Himanshu Singh)
 - Daily News Digest 5/14/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/11/2012) (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-14 (Dan Rigby)
 - Everyman on Future Social, The People Widget, Mobile Preparedness, Likeable Hangars, 145 Inches (Dave Burke)
 - Retrospective 84 – Servant Leader #Fail & History of #Agile (Peter Saddington)
 - MVP Friday Five: May 11, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 11 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 11 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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