Top Links
- Windows Phone Native Series – ExitApplication, PlaySystemSound, GetSystemInformation (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Recognition Compensation (Phil Haack)
- SocialViewer gets Windows Phone Mango treatment (Nick Randolph)
- Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency (Steven Sinofsky)
- Metro WebView Source and HTML workarounds (Brent Schooley)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Refactoring Code using Visual Studio Extract Method (Abhishek Sur)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods (James Michael Hare)
- LINQPad helps you learn LINQ (Jason Short)
- TFS 2010 Report Results are not up to date after installing Service Pack 1 (Sebastian Dau)
- GHI (non-beta) .NET Gadgeteer SDK released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
- List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Inside the Concurrent Collections (Simon Cooper)
- SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console (Matt Hinze)
- StyleCop 4.7 (CodePlex)
- New Refactorings in JustCode Q3 2011 (JustCode Team)
- Rx – Sample (Bnaya Eshet)
- Using the Kinect to build a NUI E-Book and F#, Kinect and a little LegoNXT (Greg Duncan)
- Global reach (Antoine Leblond)
- Parsing HTML in C# (Marlon Grech)
Web Development
- Comment and Uncomment for CSS Editor in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
- JavaScript for C# developers: converting arguments into an array (Julian M. Bucknall)
- CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available (Nicholas C. Zakas)
- Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms (Peter Gasston)
- Things Still Missing From CSS (Trent Walton)
- Using ProudMonkey Controls with ASP.NET AJAX Update Panel (Vincent Maverick Durano)
- PHP Performance: Bitwise Division (Stoimen)
- Update: Deploying Ruby Applications to Windows Azure (Larry Franks)
- When APIs Play Spoilsport? (Romin Irani)
- Easy steps to a mobile-friendly responsive design with an embedded YouTube video and a fluid resize (Scott Hanselman)
- Our AJAX Conventions – The AjaxContinuation and Our Ajax Conventions–Clientside Continuations (Josh Arnold)
- Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications (Chris Love)
- The digits of MUSIC.js (Dave Mahon)
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster and Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
- Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
- Understanding JavaScript OOP (Quildreen Motta)
- Photo Mosaics Part 9: Caching Analysis (Jim O’Neil)
- Programming Office 365 Jump Start 1 (Tanzim Saqib)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Contextualising just enough up front design (Simon Brown)
- No Class is an Island (John Sonmez)
- Announcing Lokad.CQRS vLean – SampleProject and Tools (Rinat Abdullin)
- 5 Do’s and Don’ts for Managing Distributed Teams – A Tech Lead Speaks (Adam Feber)
- test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank (Brad Frost)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Q3 2011 SP1 RadJumpList for Windows Phone 7 now adds support for bindable Data Descriptor collections (Deyan Ginev)
- Free SilverlightShow Ebook: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Silverlight Show)
- The Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
- Framework Exceptions in Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)
- Let me out – Facebook Logout in a Windows Phone App and SLARToolkit Samples Updated (Rene Schulte)
- Kung Fu Windows Phone – Capitalization (Rudi Grobler)
- 2000 WPF Things #467 – Use a UniformGrid for Evenly Spaced Rows and Columns (Sean Sexton)
- New Markets for Windows Phone Developers (Todd Brix)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Leveraging Azure for Windows Phone Devs’ now available (Silverlight Show)
- Start-Up Success Podcast Show #128: Predictions 2012 (Bob Walsh)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Harald Horgen Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Gillmor Gang Live 01.05.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
- WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- On Microsoft MVP Program (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives (Simone Chiaretta)
- A very few thoughts on the MVP program (Jeremy Miller)
- MVP Program, Award and my view on things (Dennis Vroegop)
- Windows 8 – First Apps Contest and Are you a Developer or Designer in the NY/NJ/PA area using Microsoft Software? (Dave Isbitski)
- Your Blog is The Engine of Community (Scott Hanselman)
Database
- 31 Days of SSIS in a PDF (Jason Strate)
- Reader Review: SQL Server 2008 Internals (Kim Spilker)
- SQL SERVER – Locking and Blocking – Important Aspect of Database and Effect on Performance – Quiz – Puzzle – 5 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- The Art of the Execution Plan (Brent Ozar)
PowerShell
- StudioShell 1.2 Released (Jim Christopher)
Miscellaneous
- Hot Topics: A Contest Formula that Works (Lauren Gundrum)
- Things We Wish Clients Would Say (Louis Lazaris)
- Programmers are born not made (Swizec Teller)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #790 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 1/5/2012 and Daily News Digest 01/06/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 04-Jan-2012 and 05-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
- Daily WP7 Development News 5 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- The Morning Brew #1016 (Chris Alcock)
- LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– December 2011 (Beth Massi)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 01/05/2012 (Bob Rhubart)
- Distributed Weekly 136 (Scott Banwart)
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