Happy New Year! Have a happy and healthy 2012.
Top Links
- Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
- JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) and Part 2 (Julian M. Bucknall)
- SOLID JavaScript: The Liskov Substitution Principle (Derek Greer)
- A Windows Phone 7 behavior to show an image background for a search string (Joost van Schaik)
- Hanselminutiae-ten with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Application analysis: Northwind.NET (Oren Eini)
- AggregateException.WithoutCancellations Method (Richard Carr)
- Oracle Releases Provider with EF 4 Support (but not really EF 4.1 and EF4.2) (Julie Lerman)
- Rx – Window (Bnaya Eshet)
- Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Menu rearrangement (Raymond Chen)
- Resharper 6.1 – new nice features – 1 (Tatworth)
- On mutable state (Brian Marick)
- "Netduino – Getting Started with *" Series and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit December 2011 Release (Think "MVC3 VB and OData HOL Love" version) (Greg Duncan)
- New dotPeek Build: Base Types and Inheritors in Assembly Explorer and ReSharper 6.1.1 Early Access (Jura Gorohovsky)
Web Development
- Deploying independent web applications to Windows Azure using single web role and ASP.NET MVC: Helper method to display date ranges (Gunnar Peipman)
- ASP.NET MVC 3 – Creating a Simple Log-In Form (Vincent Maverick Durano)
- Has the hash DoS patch been installed on your site? Check it right now with ASafaWeb! (Troy Hunt)
- Day 6 – Getting canvas in on the web fonts fun (Val Head)
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 – Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 4- Remote Login to Hadoop node for MapReduce Job and HDFS administration and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 5 – Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with Teragen, TeraSort and TeraValidate Options and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 6 – Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with TeraSort Option and understanding MapReduce Job administration and Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster (Avkash Chauhan)
- PHP can perform better than Node.js (Henri Bergius)
- This Week In REST (John Sheehan)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test? (Gautam Goenka)
- Story in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
- API design challenge – builder (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- The Language of Risk and Yak Shaving: Tracking the yak stack (Mark Needham)
- Automating Daily Status Reports with Project Server and Team Foundation Server (Ryan Hayes)
- Problems Already Solved (Calvin Bottoms)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- From the All-in-One Framework team comes the Story Creator Sample Application for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure (Greg Duncan)
- 2000 WPF Things #462 – Drawing a Better Looking GridSplitter (Sean Sexton)
- StatLight v1.6 is Out (Jason Jarrett)
- WPF Textbox with hints (Rohit Sharma)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Corey Haines Code Retreats Globally (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More and YOW! 2011: Tony Morris – Functional Programming and Functional Thinking (Charles Torre)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 048 – “Crystal Balls” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 424: We look back at the year in gaming and choose our favorite titles (Larry Hyrb)
- Gillmor Gang Live 12.30.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
- Engadget Podcast 270 – 12.30.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- The JavaScript Show – A Tinge of Christmas (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Gweek 033: Jesse Thorn (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Video on How to work with AutoCompleteBox in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Community / Events
- Farewell Most Valuable Professional Status (Alan Stevens)
- FUSE Labs: Year in Review (Lili Cheng)
- Top Ten Microspotting Profiles of 2011 (MS JobsBlog)
- The World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Is In Critical Condition (MSFT) (Dylan Love)
Database
- SSIS Community Tasks and Components (James Serra)
- SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute (Martin Hinshelwood)
- The selected database contains foreign keys that create a cycle (Gunnar Peipman)
- RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA (Tim Radney)
- Estimated Completion Time for Backups and Restores (Jorge Segarra)
- SQL Azure to Developers: Some Basic Concepts (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Welcome to the Federation… SQL Azure Database Federation that is… (Or "Sharding for the New Year") (Greg Duncan)
Miscellaneous
- Getting Your Notes Into OneNote (Jeff Cardon)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 30, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 135 (Scott Banwart)
- The Morning Brew #1012 (Chris Alcock)
- 2011 Greatest Hits (Scott Hanselman)
- Retrospective 65 – NOT Scrum and Insane Agile Teams (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 29 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Double Shot #785 (Mike Gunderloy)
- MVP Friday Five: December 30, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
- Monthly Summary – December 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Top Official Microsoft Blog Posts of 2011 (Jeffrey Meisner)
- Daily News Digest 12/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 27-Dec-2011 and 28-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Windows Dev News for December 28, 2011 – #0018 and Windows Dev News for December 29, 2011 – #0019 (Dave Campbell)
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