Top Links
- A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4 (Part 2 of ?) (Michael Crump)
- Using the MVVM pattern requires a framework (Rockford Lhotka)
- GUID guide, part three (Eric Lippert)
- Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Looking back–what would we do differently (12 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Point-free programming style in F# (Christian Jacobsen)
- WCF Data Services, now with more releases! (Mark Stafford)
- Functional programming in C# (Jovan Popovic)
- TFS Integration Tools – What is the difference between cloaking and scoping branches? (Willy-P. Schaub)
- SharpDevelop 4.2 (CodePlex)
- Babel Obfuscator 5.5 Released (Alberto Ferrazzoli)
- One Bitmap to Rule Them All – WriteableBitmapEx for WinRT Metro Style (Rene Schulte)
- Convert number to its equivalent word (Sankar Subramanian)
- Updated Better Grid Application template (Brent Schooley)
- Microsoft Renames Azure Services (Martin Brinkmann)
Web Development
- 14 Reasons Why Nobody Used Your jQuery Plugin (Jonathan Cutrell)
- Decoding jQuery – Callbacks Object (Shi Chuan)
- API Improvements made in SignalR 0.5 (David Fowler)
- Announcing YUI 3.5.1 (Jenny Donnelly)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.2 EAP 117.369 (Alexey Gopachenko)
- HTTP Server Security Vulnerability: Please upgrade to node.js 0.6.17 (Isaac Schlueter)
- Dynamic Images and Performance Implications (Joel Ross)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The 5 Levels to Communicating More Effectively and 10 Free Leadership Tools for Work and Life (JD Meier)
- What does a good test case look like? (Phil Sams)
- Nancy : 0.11, more than the sum of its parts (Andreas Håkansson)
- Running MSTest in SharpDevelop (Jonathan Allen)
- Agile adoption changes organizations policies and facilities (Shane Hastie)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone (Greg Duncan)
- Working with Consuming an ODATA Service in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
- Pinterest blocks API and breaks third-party Windows Phone apps (Rich Edmonds)
- 2000 WPF Things #553 – Setting an Alpha Value in Blend (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Episode 184 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michiel Wories from Microsoft talks SQL 2012 and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 51 (Richard Hay)
- Countdown to TechEd North America 2012: Certification at TechEd (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
- [Video] Vimming – Hello World with vim (Roy Osherove)
- Video: Never Be Late Again with Android 4.0 Calendaring APIs (Paul Ballard)
Community / Events
- Announcing Metro Friday Hackathons! and Upcoming Events for May 7th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Thank You Microsoft! (Arturo Toledo)
- Philly Startup Weekend 3.0 (Tim Lytle)
- Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers” (Troy Hunt)
- Windows Azure and NODE.JS Meetup on 5/17 at Reston (Zhiming Xue)
- Upcoming Events : Speaking and Attending (Michael Crump)
- Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Introduction to PhoneGap (Paul Ballard)
- Webinar Windows 8 Metro apps and the outside world (Silverlight Show)
- Nokia Coding Challenge coming to Atlanta on May 15 (Glen Gordon)
- Telerik Testing Summit Wrapup (Jim Holmes)
Database
- Retrieve Column Names From Temporary Table in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to Hierarchical Query using a Recursive CTE (Pinal Dave)
- Which SELECT * Is Better? (Grant Fritchey)
- Getting Started with Apache Cassandra (Eric Genesky)
PowerShell
- Changing SQL Server Port with Powershell (Martin Bell)
- Using PowerShell to Publish a NuGet Package (Michael Ceranski)
- posh-git v0.4 (Keith Dahlby)
Miscellaneous
- Dear JobsBlog: Top Three Reasons to Work for Bing (Eugenia Sawa)
- "We’re unable to find the SkyDrive folder" Because You Have Too Many Files (Chris Love)
- 3 ways to get middle managers on board with flexible working (Jessica Stillman)
- New Git Homepage (Scott Chacon)
- The Nerd Parent’s Guide: When and how to introduce your kids to Star Wars (Scott Hanselman)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1100 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #875 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading Notes #45 (Frank)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-08 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 5/7/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week April 30 – May 6, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 7 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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