Top Links
- WebMatrix 2 is Released (Vishal R. Joshi)
 - WebStorm 5.0 released: introduces Live Edit and Jade, better JSDoc and Sass/SCSS & more (Eugene Toporov)
 - Hacking Node.js on WebMatrix 2 (Nathan Totten)
 - Erik Meijer – Functional Programming From First Principles (Charles Torre)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook available (Brian Harry)
 - C#/.NET Little Wonders: Interlocked CompareExchange() (James Michael Hare)
 - Choosing the Right Tool for the Task to Manage Projects, Collaborate, and Monitor Progress in Visual Studio ALM (Kathryn E.)
 - 2012 Update: Running C# on the Browser (Miguel de Icaza)
 - Embracing UI on demand with the app bar (Jon Gordner)
 - WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.2.1 (CodePlex)
 - dotCover 2.1 Release Candidate (Daria Dovzhikova)
 - Code Contracts tab in VS2012 – Odd way to get it enabled (Derik Whittaker)
 - 5 points developers should know about WinRT/Windows 8 (Anoop Madhusudanan)
 
Web Development
- Using Ant to Build a JavaScript Library (David Mann)
 - How to Integrate HTML Color Code Generator in your Web Page? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Today in APIs: Amazon CloudFront Adds Cookies, Google Places API Developer Challenge for Good, and 14 New APIs (Wendell Santos)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Intro to Scalable Agile: Scale Your Teams and Release More Frequently (Andy Singleton)
 - Book Review: Disciplined Agile Delivery (Ben Linders)
 - Kanban for Skeptics: The 5 Most Common Arguments (Nick Oostvogels)
 - CQRS is too complicated (Rob Ashton)
 - Do you allow XSS in your passwords? You should! (Troy Hunt)
 - Software Engineering Priorities for Early Stage Companies: Put the Team First (Aaron Stannard)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Stupid question 38: Does Windows Phone 8 support Javascript apps? (Iris Classon)
 - XamlParseException in WinRT (Joe White)
 - A WPF Image Button (Paul Sheriff)
 - 2000 WPF Things #642 – Focusable and IsTabStop in Combination (Sean Sexton)
 - Memory Profiling: The Methods View (Pratap Lakshman)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes – Scott Hunter talks to the Entity Framework Team (Scott Hanselman)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Ambassador Class (Chris Hardwick)
 - The Verge Mobile Show 015 – September 5th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
 - Video from the first Pluralsight Study Group meeting (Sweden) (Iris Classon)
 - Shit Apple Fanatics Say (Joey deVilla)
 - Boagworld: Do you have a clear idea of when a native app is required? (Paul Boag)
 - Episode 199 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Reynolds talks PowerShell and Chocolatey (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 
Community / Events
- Quick news: Don’t miss the launch of Visual Studio 2012 (Devon Musgrave)
 
Database
- SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster Part 4 (Edwin Sarmiento)
 - Demystifying SQL Server Differential Database Backups (Wes Brown)
 - Prevent SQL Server Reporting Services Slow Startup (Norman Chan)
 - Meet the Author: Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar on SQL Server Performance: Introduction to Query Tuning (Paul Ballard)
 - SQL SERVER – Fun Post – Connecting Same SQL Server using Different Methods (Pinal Dave)
 - CHECKDB internals: what is the BlobEater? (Paul S. Randal)
 - T-SQL Window Functions – Part 1: The OVER Clause (Steve Hughes)
 - Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 2) (Basit Farooq)
 
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft and the GatherReader e-reader: More on Microsoft’s vision for reading (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite: Four Years in the Making (Ina Fried)
 - Kindle Fire HD is bad for Android, worse for iPad (Joe Wilcox)
 - Amazon Blows Up the Tablet Market (Lance Ulanoff)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Distributed Weekly 171 (Scott Banwart)
 - Geek Reading September 6, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #953 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily Links 06 Sep 2012 (Malcolm Jack)
 - The Morning Brew #1184 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-07 (Dan Rigby)
 - Daily News Digest 9/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 6 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Node.js and JavaScript Links (Tim Spann)
 
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