Top Links
- Free eBook: OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers (Troy Hunt)
- Castle Windsor 3.0 is released (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- Top Three Reasons Phil Haack Quit Microsoft (D’Arcy Lussier)
- MVVM Light installers and Nuget (including Silverlight 5) #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Resources to write .Net based MapReduce jobs for Hadoop using F# (Avkash Chauhan)
- Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce and Using Hadoop on Azure JS Console for Data Visualizations (Carl Nolan)
- Tip of the day – Windows 8 Metro apps & frame navigation failure (Dennis Delimarsky)
- [Rumor] Pex and Moles to be part of Visual Studio 11? and Getting Started with the Netduino (Really) and Avoiding some Kinect SDK for Windows gotchas (Greg Duncan)
- Developing Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio (Jay Schmelzer)
- Team Foundation Server Power Tools December 2011 (Shai Raiten)
- Examples of depth API improvements coming in v1 (Rob Relyea)
- Programmatically controlling which handles are inherited by new processes in Win32 (Raymond Chen)
- Nuget Update Error (Michael Sync)
- ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support (Jenni Konrad)
- Craig’s Utility Library 3.0 (CodePlex)
- Tpl Dataflow (block structure) – Part 4 and Task != Thread (Bnaya Eshet)
Web Development
- What’s next in 2012 for the Telerik AJAX and MVC products (Stefan Rahnev)
- New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox (Chris Heilmann)
- The rise and rise of JavaScript (Dan North)
- Composite JavaScript Applications With Backbone And Backbone.Marionette (Derick Bailey)
- Custom Blank ASP.NET MVC Project Template (Joe Mayo)
- Choosing a CSS Framework (Joe Stagner)
- MVC: Handling file uploads (John Rayner)
- Book review: HTML & CSS (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Error Code with Exception (Giorgio Sironi)
- Handling CSS by using jQuery (R S Dodiya)
- "I want to optimize my JS application on V8" checklist (mraleph)
- How to Check if a Date is More or Less Than a Month Ago with PHP (Stoimen Popov)
- New in 3.0: Support of profiling with Zend Debugger (nnmatveev)
- Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project (Rob Hawkes)
- Sass: Introducing mixins (John-Daniel Trask)
- fubu new project (Josh Arnold)
- Online Javascript Compression Tool (BrightBit)
- A Case For Using CoffeeScript (Justin Etheredge)
- New book: Integrating PHP with Windows (Kim Spilker)
- Querying The Archivist API With JSON.NET (Karsten Januszewski)
- Announcing the Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs Release (Itai Raz)
- Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Linking Local Packages with npm (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Challenge: Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page and Node.js For Dummies (Davy Brion)
- WebSockets versus REST… fight! (Nathan Evans)
- Create a Node.js App on Azure in 3 minutes (Ryan Lowdermilk)
- How you can store decimal data in Windows Azure Table Storage? and Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI – first public CTP availability (Avkash Chauhan)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification (David Bulkin)
- From Agile to Elastic (Ralf Westphal)
- TDD Workflow (Sinatra / Haml / jQuery) Part 1 (Brian Marick)
- Learning Distributed Systems: Sockets and Event Store (Rinat Abdullin)
- Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN (Yann Trevin)
- The Lean Startup: Book Review (Mark Needham)
- 31 Days of Testing—Day 15: Cucumber is Not A QA Tool (Jim Holmes)
- Building Social Software for the Anti-Social (Jeff Atwood)
- Building Scalable Cloud Applications (David Aiken)
- 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework (Bobby Johnson)
- Getters are an antipattern? (Gian Maria Ricci)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Don’t forget about the databinding features of Silverlight 4 that you get with Mango! (Cheryl Simmons)
- Trying out jQuery Mobile on Windows Phone (UPDATED) (Chris G. Williams)
- Building Async WCF Services in Silverlight with Channelfactory (Derik Whittaker)
- Video on How to work with Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- WP7 Isolated Storage Snapshots and Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders (Daniel Egan)
- SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
- Displaying image inside Panorama Title in Windows Phone applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
- Kunal’s 13 for 5… 13 Silverlight 5 tutorials… and Pick up your pace on Silverlight 5 with Michael Crump’s 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Greg Duncan)
- Decoding Portable Bitmap (PBM) files in C# and displaying them in WPF (J. Broun)
- Want to change your Windows Phone emulator? (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Resources from the HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 Developer Camps (Lindsay Lindstrom)
- 2000 WPF Things #453 – The UseLayoutRounding Property Aligns Things to Pixel Boundaries (Sean Sexton)
- Step by Step WPF Data Binding with Comboboxes (Steve Aube)
- Dell Venue Pro – AT Commands while searching for interop unlock (Dennis Delimarsky)
- 6th Day of Silverlight : Binding in Style Setters (Tony Champion)
- Working with the Data Grid – Day 3 (Callum G.)
- Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 423: We get ready for Christmas (Larry Hyrb)
- Episode 169 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- The JavaScript Show – jQuery Plugins, Amber.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Karsten Wysk Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Expert Panel Q&A featuring Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich (Scott Guthrie, Mark Russinovich & Dave Campbell)
- Gillmor Gang Live 12.16.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.17.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
- Video: Microsoft’s Steve Kaneko on design unification and the challenges of moving to Metro (T.C. Sottek)
- Engadget Podcast 268 – 12.16.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 117 – 12.17.2011 and The Vergecast 006 – 12.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Windows Weekly 239: Outside My Wheelhouse (Paul Thurrott)
- The Engadget Show – 028: Boeing’s 787, the Tokyo Motor Show and the year in review (Brian Heater)
- Community Megaphone Podcast Show #32 with Guest Pete Brown (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
- Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks (Jesse Liberty)
- Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
- The Tablet Show – Shawn Wildermuth Builds XAML Apps on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- TWC9: December 16th – Silverlight 5, Azure, TFS PowerTools and XMPP (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
Community / Events
- tl;dr (Ryan Lowdermilk)
- Tales from the MNC: The team behind Windows Phone’s breakthrough design (MS JobsBlog)
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 with JRE7 getDate compatibility (MS Downloads)
- Import Data from Excel into SQL Server Using SSIS (Keshav Singh)
- SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device.Operating system error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified.) and SQL SERVER – Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 RC0 – Samples Database for SQL Server 2012 RC0 and SQLAuthority News – Introduction to expressor Connectivity to Salesforce – expressor Data Integration Applications (Pinal Dave)
- Bulk Insertion of Data Using C# DataTable and SQL server OpenXML function (Pranay Rana)
- SQL Advent 2011 Day 16: CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY and SQL Advent 2011 Day 18: Table-valued Parameters and SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
- Import Data from excel to SQL server using C# in ASP. NET (Suraj S Koneri)
- Building Apps Using SQL Azure and SQL Azure Reporting (Content) (Zhiming Xue)
- Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)
Miscellaneous
- Sells Manor: Running 64-bit Win8 on My MacBook Air (Chris Sells)
- Microsoft Touch Mouse Review (Michael Crump)
- Your New Year’s Resolution – Put an end to spinning rust and buy yourself a SSD (Scott Hanselman)
- Ever wonder what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956? (Steven Hodson)
- Signing in with a picture password (Steven Sinofsky)
- Introducing Android Training (Tim Bray)
- Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools (Xavier Ducrohet)
- Connecting Windows Home Server to web through two routers (Gunnar Peipman)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 12.13 ~ 12.19 (yuanjian)
- The Morning Brew #1005 (Chris Alcock)
- Distributed Weekly 133 (Scott Banwart)
- Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011 and Interesting .NET Links – December 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #775 and Double Shot #776 (Mike Gunderloy)
- MVP Friday Five: December 16, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
- Daily News Digest 12/16/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/16/2011) (Silverlight Show)
- Pie in the Sky (December 16, 2011) (Brian Swan)
- Windows Dev News for December 18, 2011 – #0012 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 5 – 11, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 16 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 12-18 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Great Sites and Blogs for Learning about .NET Gadgeteer (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Retrospective 63 – The Kanban Man and Agile Army (Peter Saddington)
- Reading Notes #25 (Franky)
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