Top Links
- Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher v1.2 and source now available (Greg Duncan)
 - The Learn to Code Movement and Software Security (Mark Curphey)
 - Skype coming soon to Windows Phone (or is it?) – updated (Kip Kniskern)
 - 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #3 Ideation and Concept (Arturo Toledo)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- [Quick VS Tip] Using regular expressions do the find/replace in Visual Studio and WinRT People – A WinRT community effort and site (Greg Duncan)
 - Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance (Jef Claes)
 - When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. and EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation (Peter Kellner)
 - Input Parameters in Fluent API (Mehdi Khalili)
 
Web Development
- Understanding CoffeeScript Comprehensions (Karl Seguin)
 - Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)
 - Hosting A Node.js Site Through Apache (Davy Brion)
 - NetBash Updated – Formatting Helpers Added (Luke Lowrey)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Results for Time Management (J.D. Meier)
 - Book Review and my thoughts on UX (User Centered Design) (Rohit Sharma)
 - A meta post about negative code reviews (Oren Eini)
 - Focused Retrospectives: things to watch for (Mark Needham)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- One project, one declarative language, two platforms – A side-by-side XAML project on Silverlight 5 and WinRT (Greg Duncan)
 - Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1 (Senthil Kumar)
 - 12th Day of Silverlight: PivotViewer (Tony Champion)
 - WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 4of Many (Vijaya Malla)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 37 (Richard Hay)
 - Engadget Podcast 276: CES Finale – 01.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Announcing the GoingNative 2012 Full Schedule (Charles Torre)
 
Community / Events
- CodeMash 2012 report and Coding in the style of Glee (Jon Skeet)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Cases When Stored Procedure RECOMPILE – Quiz – Puzzle – 14 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
 - How to connect to SQL Server when your default database is unavailable (Denis Gobo)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
 - Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 08-January-2012 to 14-January-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
 
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