Top Links
- Balsamiq Mockups 2.1! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
 - 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know (Elijah Manor)
 - Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–The Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
 - Text templating using Razor the easy way (Phil Haack)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 1 and Learn WCF RIA Service: Day 2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
 - How to initialize the initial state from an external source (Xiang Li)
 - Creating a Many To Many Mapping Using Code First (Gil Fink)
 - Can we get a little Unity? and Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Preview 2 Released and Baby NUI… Using the Kinect as a Baby Monitor (Greg Duncan)
 - Custom Mail headers and EWS (Henning Krause)
 
Web Development
- Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released – What’s New? (Peter Cooper)
 - Introduction to HTML5 : Part 1 (Samaj Shekhar)
 - JavaScript: handy hint for jQuery document ready handlers (Julian M. Bucknall)
 - Build Accessible web sites with Visual Studio – WCAG reporting (Doug Rathbone)
 - Developers – introducing our GitHub code sample library with samples for iOS, PHP, ASP.NET and more (Dare Obasanjo)
 - HTML5 Part 1: Semantic Markup and Page Layout (Jennifer Marsman)
 - PHP 5.4 features poll: the results (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Ajax Control Toolkit July 2011 Release and the New HTML Editor Extender (Stephen Walther)
 - Streaming your music at home on the cheap… Using IIS to stream your music to your Windows Phone 7 (or iPhone/Android) (Greg Duncan)
 - How to Deploy Web Roles Quick & Easy (Maor David-Pur)
 - Welcome to Adobe Edge (Michael Chaize)
 - New WebSocket Protocol: Secure and Extensible (Ian Fette)
 - Exploring CoffeeScript Part 5 – Ranges, Loops and Comprehensions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Sad Truth About Agile Planning (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - Praveen on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
 - What is a Team? (John Sonmez)
 - No Organizational Charts in Agile? (Peter Saddington)
 - Standup isn’t about what you say, it’s about what you hear (Bill Wagner)
 - Why Another DVCS? (Eric Sink)
 - Supercharge Isolate.Verify (Dror Helper)
 - Disruptive versus iterative change (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Challenge: Modifying execution approaches (Oren Eini)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Building a Simple Windows Phone Dialer App (Mike Gold)
 - Windows Phone 7 Serialization: DataContract Serialization (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
 - There’s a new Windows Phone 7 project place in town… (Greg Duncan)
 - Windows Phone Logo Refresh Fits A Square Peg In A Round Hole (Jordan Crook)
 - Animating ViewBox for WPF (LearnWPF)
 - Creating a Silverlight 5 Helper for ASP.NET MVC3 Razor (Pete Brown)
 - Hosting a WPF control inside a Windows Form and Dealing with HWND in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
 - 2000 WPF Things #355 – Implementing Three-State CheckBox Dependent Behavior (Sean Sexton)
 - Be careful with phone navigation! (Arian Kulp)
 - Location Services–Using the Emulator (Jesse Liberty)
 - How to Prepare Your Class Library to Support Application Library Caching? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman Frames Our Entities (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Episode 156 – PowerScripting Podcast – Brandon Shell on The Coud, Bunnies and VDI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 - New Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series (Adam Kinney)
 - My Intern Life 3 – Episode 4 (Microsoft JobsBlog
)  - Ping 111: Mango Refresh, Could Server Heat, Avatar Kinect, Microsoft donations (Laura Foy)
 
Community / Events
- Android Developer Labs 2011 (Tim Bray)
 - Upcoming Events for August 1st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Agile 2011 Conference – Salt Lake City (Hadi Hariri)
 - Microsoft Build conference for Windows 8 sells out (in spite of a dearth of details) (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Windows Phone ads land Brandon Foy a job at Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)
 - Paul Betts is a GitHubber (Chris Wanstrath)
 
Database
- SQL Server “Denali”: Project Apollo (James Serra)
 - SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Wildcard – Querying Special Characters – Day 2 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
 - Find Table/Column Usages Searches Database Schema (Alexey Korsun)
 - Rolling your own index lookups (Dave Ballantyne)
 
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Author news: Mark & Aaron discuss their just-published Sysinternals book (Devon Musgrave)
 - August Oracle Technology Network Member Discounts (Oracle TechBlog)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 1, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Geek Reading August 1, 2011 (Rob Diana)
 - Windows Client Developer Roundup 077 for 8/1/2011 (Pete Brown)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 1 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Today’s Links (8/1/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
 - The Morning Brew #907 (Chris Alcock)
 - Links of the week #157 (David Vidmar)
 - Daily News Digest 08/01/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/02/2011 (Silverlight Show)
 
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