Top Links
- The State of NuGet (Phil Haack)
 - Windows Phone Marketplace Requests (Scott Dorman)
 - Microsoft to launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Stack Exchange Keyboard Shortcuts (Jeff Atwood)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #2–Cohesion (Oren Eini)
 - TFS 2010 Grant Backup Plan Permissions Error (Bob Hardister)
 - YaWhiteBoard – A Simple Whiteboard using C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
 - A new Gadgeteer blog – VB Magic (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Solve ‘Complex Data Restructuring’ Using the ‘List’ Operations in the Service Bus EAI/EDI Mapper (Ravi Bollapragada)
 - The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm (Raymond Chen)
 - datatemplateselector winrt (babaandthepigman)
 - NuGet Project Uncovered: AboditNLP (Jason Jarrett)
 - Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0 (Jef Claes)
 - Using Fluent NHibernate for XML-Free Class Mapping (Joydip Kanjilal)
 
Web Development
- WebDev Playground: dabblet.com for HTML/CSS, jsfiddler.com for JS & HUrl.it for REST (Code Inside Team)
 - jQuery Tip #2: Manipulating the DOM in a Loop (Dan Wahlin)
 - Lighter Configuration Files and Better ASP.NET Support with WCF 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
 - The Decorator pattern, or its cousin, in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
 - Emerging Trends in Ruby on Rails Development in 2012 (Mich de Castro)
 - SignalR : Best thing since slice bread? (Sacha Barber)
 - Vendor Prefixes – about to go south (Remy Sharp)
 - Book Giveaway: The Book of Ruby (Louis Lazaris)
 - NEW! Wiki launched for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure (Michele Hart)
 - Getting Started with KendoUI and OpenAccess ORM (Joshua Holt)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- At a Single Glance – Interpreting and Acting Upon Agile Project Metrics (Joel Semeniuk)
 - Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
 - Finding Out When Something Happened in Your Git Repo (Christopher Bennage)
 - Avoiding Prescriptive Requirements (Jak Charlton)
 - [Email] – Short Projects and Estimating Velocity (Peter Saddington)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #6 Layout (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Treadmill Assistant Windows Phone 7 App Released (Michael Crump)
 - 2000 WPF Things #491 – Displaying a Hyperlink (Sean Sexton)
 - APress Deal of the Day – 9/Feb/2012 – Introducing Silverlight 4 (Tatworth)
 - Using RadDiagnostics for WP7 to receive error reports anonymously (Valentin Stoychev)
 - Part 2: Developing for a multitude of clients: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – John Petersen is Back on His SOPA Box (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - The Verge Mobile Podcast 013 – 02.08.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Boagworld: Don’t limit your options when wireframing (Paul Boag)
 - What The Tech 104: The Future Of Windows (Paul Thurrott)
 - Cloud Computing: Start Smart – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
 - Windows 7.5 Video: Fast Application Switching (Jesse Liberty)
 
Community / Events
- Visual Studio Live! – Las Vegas (Brian Peek)
 - Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines (Charles Sterling)
 - Win a free pass for Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas in SilverlightShow Contest (Silverlight Show)
 - WPUG Talk: Developing cross-platform mobile applications with PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7 (Colin Eberhardt)
 - Register for Telerik Webinars (Stephen Forte)
 - A Coder Interview With Dave Ward (The Code Project)
 - Philadelphia Star Trek Meetup: Sunday @ Hive 76 (Mikey Il)
 - Free DevExpress Day – 25th February 2012 – Bad Ems, Germany (Oliver Sturm)
 - Azure Update On February 15, 2012 @ NYC Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)
 - MADExpo Family Fun Feature #1 (Kevin Griffin)
 - OSS Rules of Engagement (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Isolating Code: A Quick Intro to Typemock Isolator (Avi Kaye)
 - FREE Webcasts: Temptations That Lead to the 5 Deadly Sins of SharePoint #in the Enterprise and FREE Feb 9 Webcast: The State of Enterprise Social w/ SharePoint #spsocial #mspartner (Dux Raymond Sy)
 - Upcoming Webinar – The iPad Invasion: Leveraging SharePoint for Mobile Enterprise Security (Joel Oleson)
 
Database
- It’s Hard To Be "Average": Mean, Median, and Mode in SQL Server (Jes Schultz Borland)
 - SQL SERVER – INNER JOIN Returning More Records than Exists in Table (Pinal Dave)
 
Miscellaneous
- Is it better to have coding experience in the US or abroad? (Kenji Yamaguchi)
 - Is AppStore bad for gaming business? (Scott Barnes)
 - Bliki: PresentationSmells (Martin Fowler)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Cheatsheet: 2012 02.01 ~ 02.08 (yuanjian)
 - Windows Client Developer Roundup 087 for 2/9/2012 and Maker Geek Roundup 007 for 2/8/2012 (Pete Brown)
 - Double Shot #814 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1040 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily News Digest 2/9/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-08 (Bob Rhubart)
 - Windows Dev News for February 08 – #0038 (Dave Campbell)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 8 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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