Top Links
- C++ AMP Open Specification (S. Somasegar)
- Get A Model From A Backbone Collection Without Knowing If The Collection Is Loaded and 3 Stages Of A Backbone Application’s Startup (Derick Bailey)
- If you’re using Node.js, you’re doing life wrong (Toby DiPasquale)
- Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps (Dan Mohl)
- Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon’s Kindle team (Mary Jo Foley)
- Windows 8 Secrets: What Windows Phone 8 Tells Us About Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)
.NET / Visual Studio
- The System.Type Class (Richard Carr)
- Extending Visual Studio Part 1 – Creating Code Snippets and Extending Visual Studio Part 2 – Creating Addins (Dave Kerr)
- From C# to C++, the short guide that isn’t (all that short) and Making your app a better listener… Using multiple grammars to improve speech recognition and to allow for runtime, state based recognition configuration (Greg Duncan)
- LINQ Query and Lambda Expressions (Tom Stickel)
- The Microsoft C++ Compiler Turns 20! (Visual C++ Team)
- Implementing Team Foundation Server 2010 In A Mixed Development Environment (Tim Murphy)
- JSON Serialization / Deserialization of DateTime Not Equal (Rick Anderson)
- New book: MCPD 70-519 Exam Ref: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
- Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and Runtime Update (Luis Cabrera)
- Debugger Canvas 1.1 Adds Easy On/Off, Improved Navigation (Jenni Konrad)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: IntX (Jason Jarrett)
- Code Template in Telerik JustCode (Dhananjay Kumar)
- From 0 to doing solution builds w/ PSake–Part 1 of N (Derik Whittaker)
- RavenDB Tutorial, Part 1 – Introduction and Basic Operations and RavenDB Tutorial, Part 2 – Simple Querying (Piotr Kwapin)
- Introduction to the Infragistics Word Library (Atanas Dyulgerov)
Web Development
- Why You Should Build Your Website Using Static .html Files (Ryan Hayes)
- DataSets, TableAdapters, and Transient Retry Logic For SqlAzure (Dave M. Bush)
- Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on() (Elijah Manor)
- 3D Gallery with CSS3 and jQuery (Pedro Botelho)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Tease Apart Inheritance (Giorgio Sironi)
- jQuery "Pinify" Plugin Tutorial for Building App-Like Sites (sagar.sjg)
- HTML5 Web Workers: Classic Message Passing Concurrency (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Streaming results to web page using MSMQ/WCF/SignalR/JQuery (Sacha Barber)
- Getting Started with Knockout.js (John Papa)
- MVVM in the web world (Marlon Grech)
- Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
- Mvc Controls Toolkit 1.8.0 (CodePlex)
- Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Updates (Nathan Totten)
- MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js) (Neil Mackenzie)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Backbone.js vs Ember.js (Chris Smitch)
- Adding ELMAH to an AppHarbor application (Jef Claes)
- Stack Exchange API V2.0 No Longer Beta (Kevin Montrose)
- Getting Started with IndexedDB Article (Gil Fink)
- Any port in the storm… Sailing Orchard into AppHarbor ("How to setup Orchard on AppHarbor") (Greg Duncan)
- Solving the upload progress bar problem–The History of Node.js (Jarod Ferguson)
- A convenient ‘super’ method for Backbone.js (Max Brunsfeld)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3 (Johanna Rothman)
- A year in review with CQRS (John Teague)
- Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
- Interview: The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption (Sanjiv Augustine & Arlen Bankston)
- Make Code Explicit and Stupid (Rinat Abdullin)
- Organizing Your Work With OneNote Page Templates (Tim Murphy)
- New Mocking Capabilities in JustMock Q3 2011 SP (JustMock Team)
- Drive Your Week with Skill (JD Meier)
- Testing DI bootstrappers (Jef Claes)
- Quick news: Microsoft Manual of Style ebook bundle on sale today (Devon Musgrave)
- Two phase release planning and Looking for information about composed refactorings (Brian Marick)
- Scope, Schedule, and Resources – You can’t have them all (TeamPulse Team)
- Limit your abstractions: Application Events–what about change? (Oren Eini)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- More Json With Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
- PSake and building Silverlight solutions (Derik Whittaker)
- Accessing Pictures from Media Library in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: DynamicXaml (Jason Jarrett)
- Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices – Project Separations (Lohith G N)
- Working with WP7 RadBusyIndicator control from Telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
- 2000 WPF Things #488 – You Can Change Drawing Attributes of Existing Strokes in an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
- Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #12 – Take picture via Camera in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
- Clouds using Expression Design with Expression Blend & XAML for WP7! (Surf4Fun)
- A tale of re-usablity – refactoring MangoTree parts and GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 – via a WCF service and Sending text messages from a Dell Venue Pro. Directly from the app and without SmsComposerTask. (Dennis Delimarsky)
- PivotViewer Basics: Custom Item Adorners (Tony Champion)
- Optimizing INPC Objects against memory leaks using WeakEvents (Abhishek Sur)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Herding Code 133: Derick Bailey on Backbone.js (Jon Galloway & Co.)
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 82: Going Beyond the Obvious in Innovation with Phil McKinney (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Technology & Friends Episode 195: Rich Dudley on Event Sponsorship (David Giard)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 428: Shank 2, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and more (Larry Hyrb)
- TWC9: 4 Years of TWC9, Kinect SDK, C++, & more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Martin Woodward)
- The GeekDads Episode #108: Aliens on Broadway (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 40 (Richard Hay)
- Gillmor Gang Live 02.03.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
- Engadget Podcast 279 – 02.03.2012 and The Vergecast 016 – 02.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Cloud Cover Episode 69 – SQL Azure Federations with George Huey (Wade Wegner)
- The JavaScript Show – jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Talks Windows Phone 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Recording of Gill Cleeren’s ‘Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer’ webinar is now available (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Weekly 246: Helsinki Syndrome (Paul Thurrott)
Community / Events
- Upcoming ASP.NET, HTML5 and Windows 8 Talks and Workshops at DevConnections 2012 (Dan Wahlin)
- RavenDB workshop in NDC, Oslo 4-5th June (Oren Eini)
- Windows Phone camp in 6 cities of India from 17th Feb to 29th Feb (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Philly Nerd Nite No. 11, February 8, 2012 (Nerd Nite Team)
- Develop a Windows Phone Game, Win A Dell Alienware M18x Gaming Rig (Peter Laudati)
- Testing Dependencies and Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)
Database
- List SQL Server Instances using Powershell and Get-ItemProperty (Jack Vamvas)
- SQL SERVER – Finding Count of Logical CPU using T-SQL Script – Identify Virtual Processors and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery and SQL SERVER – ERROR: FIX – Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner (Pinal Dave)
- Convenient ad-hoc bcp table loading (Erik)
- NoSql and a life without Schema continued (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Let’s Build Something Using Amazon’s DynamoDB (Karl Seguin)
SharePoint
- Loading Reference Data from a SharePoint List using SSIS (Nick Haslam)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- DZone’s Different! (Austin Kowitz)
- Finding Content in Files With Git (Christopher Bennage)
- Unicode’s "Pile of Poo" character (Cory Doctorow)
- Xbox co-creator brings together Atari ‘dream team’ for mobile gaming startup (Donald Melanson)
- Pin a OneNote page to the desktop (John Guin)
- Expand Your Touch Apps Selection on the Windows 8 Developer Preview (Richard Hay)
- Note about being an Independent Consultant (Jason Haley)
- Windows Phone lacks developer experience first thinking. (Scott Barnes)
- Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 – and the future of syncing and sharing (damaster)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 5, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 140 (Scott Banwart)
- The Morning Brew #1037 (Chris Alcock)
- Interesting .NET Links – February 3, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Pie in The Sky (February 3, 2012) (Larry Franks)
- Double Shot #811 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading Notes #32 (Franky)
- Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/3/2012) and Daily News Digest 2/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 29-January-2012 to 04-February-2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Windows Dev News for February 04, 2012 – #0036 (Dave Campbell)
- Re-blog – January 27 – February 2 (Jason Strate)
- Retrospective 70 – Online Agile Videos & Scrum Tools (Peter Saddington)
- Daily WP7 Development News 3 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- MVP Friday Five: February 3, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-03 (Bob Rhubart)
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