Top Links
- 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)
 
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