I’ll be back on Sunday, 12/26 with a fresh batch of links.
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Top Links
- Windows Phone 7: Saving Data when Keyboard is visible (Michael Washington)
 - Communication when it’s not going your way (Mark Needham)
 - JavaScript for C# developers: writing a library (part 4) (Julian M. Bucknall
)  - ASP.NET MVC 3 Extensionless URLs on IIS 6 (Phil Haack)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- MonoDevelop plugin for F# now available (Don Syme)
 - Design objects first, then create the DB (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - C# Closure Constructors (Mike Hadlow)
 - Application and Page Level Tracing (Zain Naboulsi)
 - A Text Parsing Helper Class (Jonathan Wood)
 - DXCore Services – Project (Alex Skorkin)
 - Talking Distinctions (Ariel Raunstien)
 
Web Development
- A Whistle-stop Tour of jQuery (Pete O’Hanlon)
 - Resetting Form Field Values in an ASP.NET WebForm (Scott Mitchell)
 - YUI 3.3.0 Preview Release 3 (Eric Miraglia)
 - Happy Hardware Accelerated Holidays (Rob Mauceri)
 - ASP.NET MVC: Using ProfileRequiredAttribute to restrict access to pages and ASP.NET and WIF: Showing custom profile username as User.Identity.Name (Gunnar Peipman)
 - Setting up a CloudFront Mirroring CDN in 5 minutes (Nick Berardi)
 - Twitter API Updates Mean an End to GeoAPI (Romin Irani)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Kanban and Systems Thinking (Karl Scotland)
 - Article:Doing Kanban Wrong (Tim Wingfield)
 - Duplicated Setup Code in Your Tests? Refactor to a Factory! (Jim Holmes)
 - [Tool Review] – Pivotal Tracker – Build Better Software, Faster (Peter Saddington)
 - The Designer’s Cross-Training Toolkit (Mark Cossey)
 - Are You Coding on Thin Ice? (James Shore)
 - Solving Problems, You Better Learn How (John Sonmez)
 - Best Practices for Endless Scrolling (Anthony)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- My Month with Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
 - MVVM and focus ListView element with complex template (Al Kampfer)
 - F#’ing SilverLight (F# SilverLight Template that is…) (Greg Duncan)
 - Windows Phone From Scratch – Animation Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
 - Windows Phone 7 Useful Links for Tile Push Notifications (Jason Zander)
 - New Book: Windows Phone 7 Game Development (Joey deVilla)
 - Announcing New Exam Drills for Windows Phone 7 (Kim Spilker)
 - Using Prism with Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
 - The XML content importer and Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
 - What I Learned in WP7 – Issue #9 (Jeff Blankenburg)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Eric Falsken Builds Object Databases (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Silverlight vs XNA for Windows Phone 7 (Laura Foy)
 - Deep Fried Bytes Episode 61: What should Developers know about SQL Server? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) – Welcome back boys!
 - Hardware Accelerated Holidays (Larry Larsen)
 - Distributed Systems Podcast Episode 1: Distributed Systems Host Introductions (Andreas Öhlund, Jonathan Matheus, Jonathan Oliver & Rinat Abdullin)
 - Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Research Part 3 – The Model Shop (Larry Larsen, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
 - Interview:Laurie Williams: Getting to Comparative Agility (Laurie Williams)
 - Community Megaphone Podcast Show #21 with Guest Julie Lerman (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Download VTD Video Session on LightSwitch: 23rd November 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - WP7 Minute Episode IV–Search (Daniel Egan)
 - Silverlight TV 51: Debugging and Deploying WCF RIA Services (John Papa)
 
Community / Events
- Silverlight Awesomeness In The East Coast (Dani Diaz)
 - Windows Phone 7 Federal App Contest Winners (Richard Hay)
 - Free Upcoming Event: jQuery Talk at Silicon Valley (Dr. Doris Chen)
 - Special thanks to everyone that helped me in 2010. (Michael Crump)
 - SQLBits 8 dates and venue announced (Martin Bell)
 
Database
- Modifying SSRS Rendering (David Dye)
 - Santa, in the form of Red Gate, has brought us a present, SQL Scripts Manager, a free SQL Server script management and execution utility… (Greg Duncan)
 - Filtered Index in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
 - SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Server Storage Internals Part 4 – How to read a Heap page (Ramkumar)
 - Interlude: SSMS tips (Don Halloran)
 - Strange issue while using IDENTITY values in INSTEAD OF triggers (Sam Bendayan)
 
SharePoint
- *** NOW AVAILABLE *** Creating Custom SharePoint 2010 Service Applications and Consumers (Visual How To) (Andrew Connell)
 - Providing Feedback about the SharePoint Developer Documentation (Uma Subramanian)
 - SP2010 AJAX part 6: Debugging jQuery/JavaScript (Chris O’Brien)
 
Miscellaneous
- Survey Indicates Key API Trends (Krishnan Subramanian)
 - Readers vote with their clicks: The 20 hottest Microsoft stories in 2010 (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Kinect Coming To PCs, Says Game Developer (Matt Rosoff)
 - Hyper-V Survival Guide (Bill Zack)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 22, 2010 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2010 12.13 ~ 12.23 (yuanjian)
 - Interesting .NET Links – December 22 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Daily News Digest 12/23/2010 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Morning Brew #757 (Chris Alcock)
 
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