Top Links
- Join us for the BUILD keynotes group liveblog: 13th & 14th September (Long Zheng)
 - Dart – will Google make HTML5 applications viable? (Colin Eberhardt)
 - New Book Brings Together More than a Dozen MVPs (MVP Award Program)
 - Why I Prefer JavaScript Over CoffeeScript (Davy Brion)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- C# Volatile Fields (Richard Carr)
 - New from Amazon, AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (Think "If you do AWS from VS, get this ASAP…") (Greg Duncan)
 - The Rise of F# (Phillip Trelford)
 - Sync Framework v4 is now Open Source, and ready to Connect any Device to SQL Server and SQL Azure (Rob Tiffany)
 - 7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version) (Simone Chiaretta)
 - The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus (Michael Dunn)
 - RavenDB: Multi Maps / Reduce indexes (Oren Eini)
 - Writing a Custom ConfigurationSection to handle a Collection (Abhishek Sur)
 - Code Issues specific to partial methods (Alex Skorkin)
 - NHibernate Pitfalls: Entity Refresh and NHibernate Pitfalls: Lazy Properties and Closed Sessions (Ricardo Peres)
 - Configure MySql .Net Connector with Entity Framework (Paul Petrov)
 - Matrix Multiplication with C++ AMP and Scheduling thread tiles with C++ AMP and tile_static, tile_barrier, and tiled matrix multiplication with C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
 - NH Mapping by code VS the Untouchable DB (Felice Pollano)
 - ApplicationException – Should you derive from it? (Tatworth)
 
Web Development
- Announcing Formlets for jQuery Mobile (Ramon Snir)
 - JavaScript: window.onbeforeunload Event – Show “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” Message (Chris Pietschmann)
 - CouchDB jQuery Plugin Reference (Bradley Holt)
 - Adding JQuery UI to MVC 3 Application causes a JScript Runtime exception (Derik Whittaker)
 - jQuery 1.6.4 RC1 released (Dave Methvin)
 - The XNA Platformer game ported to HTML5… as in wow (and you can get the source too. wow++) (Greg Duncan)
 - Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript with “Promises” (Matt Podwysocki & Amanda Silver)
 - How to create a simple jQuery plugin – jQuery Iconify (Andrea Salvadore)
 - Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Field (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Using HTML 5 data attributes with ASP.NET MVC (Ægir Þorsteinsson)
 - Foxy – CSS Framework (Vladimir Carrer)
 - How to change selected date background color of current week in ASP.NET Calendar ? and Conditional Binding Expression with ASP.NET GridView (Abhijit Jana)
 - An Introduction To LESS, And Comparison To Sass (Jeremy Hixon)
 - Learning node.js: Step (Mark Needham)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- An Observation about TDD (Jan Van Ryswyck)
 - Scrum basics: The daily standup meeting (John Rayner)
 - Cross-Cloud portability with Lokad.CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)
 - Listening to the team (Steve Rowe)
 - Performance and Optimization Isn’t Evil (Reed Copsey)
 - Commenting code is an anti-pattern (Mark Pearl)
 - Support for git’s fast-import format in Veracity (Eric Sink)
 - Repeated Failed Log-Ins: What’s Your Strategy? (Davy Brion)
 - The Six Pillars of Complete Developer Documentation (Pamela Fox)
 - One of the small costs of transparency (Howard Dierking)
 - The LOB Chronicles Episode 6 – Development Best Practices (Evan Hutnick)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Silverlight 5 PInvoke fun – System Font Dialog (Peter Kuhn)
 - Mapping a Route with Directions using the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)
 - WP7 AccelerometerProxy in F# (Daniel Mohl)
 - Simple Hand Tracking with MS Kinect SDK & WPF and Window Phone 7.5, ZXing and QR codes (Greg Duncan)
 - Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) (Michael Crump)
 - Silverlight Spy September 2011 Update (2) (Koen Zwikstra)
 - SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control (András Velvárt)
 - Starting with Mango — Developer View (Jan Slodicka)
 - 2000 WPF Things #384 – The Benefits of Flow-Based Layout (Sean Sexton)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 173: Steve Bohlen on Agile Methods (David Giard)
 - Major Nelson Podcast Show 410: PAX Prime and COD XP recap (Larry Hyrb)
 - Engadget Podcast 255 – 09.09.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 103 – 09.10.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Talking Shop Down Under Episode 69 – Mitch Denny on BDD, TEE, Cloudy Infrastructure and more (Richard Banks)
 - Gweek 016: The Postmortal (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - First RavenDB webinar is now on YouTube (Oren Eini)
 - Coding QA Episode 64 – What Do You Want To Hear? (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
 - This is my next Podcast 023 – 09.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
 - Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 033 – “Send Me an Angel” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - TWC9 September 9th 2011 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
 - SQL SERVER – Denali CTP3 – Step by Step Installation Video – 200 Seconds (Pinal Dave)
 
Community / Events
- Mid-Atlantic Folks at BUILD? and Updated User Group Map (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Let’s Do A LightSwitch Hack-A-Thon (Michael Washington)
 - Node.js Knockout 2011 Winners Revealed (Sarah Perez)
 - #WPAppItUp Wrap-Up (Ben Lower)
 - Windows Phone Camp – Malvern Pennsylvania on September 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - The Excitement BUILDs: Here Comes Windows 8 and BUILD: Live from Anaheim, CA (Paul Thurrott)
 - I am proud to announce that I have joined Telerik. (Michael Crump)
 - Women in Tech: I am my Own Worst Enemy (Becky Isserman)
 - Microsoft Build: Developer topics to watch and Microsoft Build: Tools and technologies hot buttons (Mary Jo Foley)
 - What I expect from Windows 8 (Ed Bott)
 - Architects and Architecture at JavaOne (Bob Rhubart)
 - BUILD: New Opportunities for Developers (Jeffrey Meisner)
 - Windows 8 Gets Ready for Its Big Debut (Ina Fried)
 - My last day at the evil empire – free from the borg collective ! (Joe Stagner)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – IIF() – A Quick Introduction and SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – CHOOSE() – A Quick Introduction and SQL SERVER – DBA Quiz 2011 – All was well few moments before all went wrong – Reasons and Resolutions (Pinal Dave)
 - Use common table expressions to simplify your updates in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
 - New Release of SQL Azure (Shaun Xu)
 - Earlier(), AddColumns() and row context (Chris Webb)
 - SQL Azure Q2 2011 Service Release Now Deployed (Part I of II) and What’s New in SQL Azure Management Portal? (Part II of II) (Gregory Leake)
 - Handling Flat File Headers and Errors in SSIS (Mike Davis)
 - SQL Server: Display Query Execution Plans–Different ways (Suprotim Agarwal)
 
SharePoint
- jQuery, SharePoint Picture Libraries, and automatic thumbnails (Bil Simser)
 - Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 1 and Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 2 (Walter Ferrari)
 - DB2 Stored Procedures and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)
 
PowerShell
- Group Membership Unions and Intersections (Dmitry Sotnikov)
 - Bulk-Renaming Files (and other magic) (Tobias Weltner)
 
Miscellaneous
- VMware tackles task management with Strides (Derrick Harris)
 - Internet 1996 vs. Internet 2011 [Infographic] (Richard Darell)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2011 09.07 ~ 09.12 (yuanjian)
 - Geek Reading September 9, 2011 and Geek Reading September 10, 2011 and Geek Reading September 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
 - Distributed Weekly 119 (Scott Banwart)
 - Interesting .NET Links – September 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Double Shot #706 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Link dump for September 9th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
 - Web Dev Tweets 8-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
 - Pie in the Sky (September 9, 2011) (Brian Swan)
 - The Morning Brew #935 (Chris Alcock)
 - Links of the week #161 (David Vidmar)
 - Today’s Links (9/9/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
 - Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2011 — #1145 (Dave Campbell)
 - Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 04-September-2011 to 10-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Retrospective 49 – #RageFace #Kanban and #Innovation (Peter Saddington)
 
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