Top Links
- Kinect for Windows is now Available! (Craig Eisler)
- One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman)
- jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released (Dave Methvin)
- Learn jQuery in 30 Days (Jeffrey Way)
- Debugger Canvas 1.1 Released (Cameron Skinner)
- Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension (Giles Davies)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Face Recognation in C# (Amir Ahani)
- Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C# (Rick Strahl)
- Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows – Details of API Changes from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) and Kinect for Windows Support Info Coming Soon (Rob Relyea)
- How to access a WCF Service behind ISA Server 2006 Forms Based Authentication (Stacy Vicknair)
- Enhancements to /GS in Visual Studio 11 (vcblog)
- Sandcastle Help File Builder v1.9.3.4 Beta 2 (VS2010 Support) (Codeplex)
- Simplify Your Projections with AutoMapper (Patrick Steele)
- StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released (TATWORTH)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: Enum Metadata Library (Jason Jarrett)
Web Development
- Using jQuery Deferred To Chain Validation Rules In An Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Environment (Ben Nadel)
- 2 Great JavaScript Data-Binding Libraries (John Papa)
- Creating the Perfect ASP.NET UI with Web Parts and User Controls (Peter Vogel)
- On the Viability of HTML5 Games (Dave Mahon)
- How to create animated tooltips with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
- ASP.net MVC Awesome – jQuery Ajax Helpers 2.0 and ProDinner – ASP.NET MVC Sample (EF4, N-Tier, jQuery) – Release Seven (CodePlex)
- An Ultimate HTML5 Cheat Sheet for Developers (Amit)
- My five favorite "hidden" features in Rails 3.2 (José Valim)
- Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 4 – Transformations (G. Andrew Duthie)
- psd.js: You Guessed It – A Photoshop Document Parser in CoffeeScript (Devon Govett)
- Authenticating & Working with the Salesforce REST API & OAuth (Andrew Connell)
- Why External Links Should Open in New Tabs (Anthony)
- Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2 (Avkash Chauhan)
- Firebug 1.9.1 (Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko)
- Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web (John Hrvatin)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Science of Kanban – Process (Karl Scotland)
- Hand Drawn UI Kit (Vladimir Carrer)
- The Open Group Releases ArchiMate 2.0 (Mike Walker)
- The top mistakes UX designers make: the writeup (Scott Berkun)
- Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback (Tapas)
- Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way (Derick Bailey)
- Software engineering—what’s missing? (Eric Brechner)
- Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App (Julie Stanford)
- [Review] – Mike Cohn’s eLearning Agile Videos (Peter Saddington)
- Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Resources (Dani Diaz)
- Code to send game invite to multiple user in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins (Jeff Wilcox)
- Codeproject Windows Phone Application (Lakamraju Raghuram)
- Windows Phone Labyrinth (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
- Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5 (Pete Brown)
- 2000 WPF Things #485 – Binding a ComboBox to an Enumerated Type’s List of Values (Sean Sexton)
- Top 10 Mango Features Article (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Memory Profiling for Application Performance (Pratap Lakshman)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 81: Looking at the Next .NET Compilers AKA “Roslyn” Project (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Episode 174 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Graeber using PowerShell in Infosec (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- HTML5 WebCamp Training VIDEO Available (Doris Chen)
- Let’s Play TDD #160: End of Week 1 (James Shore)
- The JavaScript Show – Backbone.js 0.9.0 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF (Jesse Liberty)
- The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (Ken Denmead)
- Engadget HD Podcast 284 – 01.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Community / Events
- Talking Cloud with ASP.NET/IIS MVP Eduardo Zabat Lorenzo (MVP Award Program)
- Agile .NET Conference in Dallas this month (Caleb Jenkins)
- Join the Conversation with Bill (The Gates Notes)
- Join Me for Lunch in Chicago on March 23rd (Brent Ozar)
- Call for Sessions for PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 – San Diego, CA – April 29 – May 2 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- February Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
- February Meeting Announcement (Don Burnett)
- Windows Azure + Node.js at NY Alt.NET (Peter Laudati)
Database
- "Introducing SQL Server 2012" second draft of free eBook now available (6 of the 10 final chapters) (Greg Duncan)
- SQL Server – Send email using Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
- 6 ways to get free SQL Server 2012 Training (John Sterrett)
- SQL SERVER – What is Slowly Changing Dimension – Quiz – Puzzle – 31 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- Embracing RavenDB (Oren Eini)
- Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Laying a Strong Foundation (John Sansom)
SharePoint
- Mobile SharePoint: Infragistics Acquires SouthLabs for End-to-End iPad, Android & Blackberry SharePoint Experience (Jason Beres)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary of Microsoft Certifications (MS PressPass)
- The Microsoft Interview Process (Kenji Yamaguchi)
- Using the Group Project Toolkit, Office Web Apps and SkyDrive to take some of the coordination nightmare out of group projects… (Greg Duncan)
- Great time to be a developer (Joshua Flanagan)
- Software Security Weekly (Mark Curphey)
- Microsoft’s Office 15: To Metro or not to Metro? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Tekpub Update: January 2012 (Rob Conery)
- Skype for Windows Phone app to begin beta testing soon, release imminent (damaster)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2012 01.20 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
- Monthly Summary – January 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Double Shot #808 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1034 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 2/1/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Dev News for January 31, 2012 – #0034 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 31 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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