Top Links
- Review: Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
- Microsoft to focus on HTML5 and JavaScript for Office 15 development (Mary Jo Foley)
- Google’s “What’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander” patent whining (Steven Hodson)
- Microsoft Tweets Out An Email Showing It Tried To Work With Google On Buying Patents (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL) (Jay Yarow)
- Microsoft Research’s .NET Gadgeteer steps out into the light, shoots daggers at Arduino (video) (Joseph Volpe)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio QuickWatch (Richard Carr)
- C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime (Raghav Khunger)
- Announcing the August 2011 Release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and NOW AVAILABLE: August 2011 Update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
- The Time is Now to Try JustTrace (Chris Eargle)
- A .NET generic limitation (Patrick Smacchia)
- RavenDB Session Management with NServiceBus (Oren Eini)
- Visual Basic Sudoku Solver and Generator (ZiggyG)
Web Development
- Building Mobile JavaScript WebApps With Backbone.js & jQuery: Part I (Addy Osmani)
- Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Prototype Pattern (Dan Wahlin)
- HTML5 Part 3: Audio and Video (Jennifer Marsman)
- PHP Static Analysis Tool Usage (Lorna Wilson)
- Dive into the summer with MSDN: HTML5 (Katrien de Graeve)
- Assetic: JavaScript and CSS files management (Giorgio Sironi)
- You can’t build a quality website in a factory (Paul Boag)
- Announcing Windows Azure Storage Analytics (Windows Azure Storage Team)
- Backbone: Don’t Route What Should Be A Command Or Event and Stop Using Backbone As If It Were A Stateless Web Server (Derick Bailey)
- Google App Engine Builds Steam, Updates Datastores and Task Queues (Romin Irani)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Take Advantage Of Your BDD Framework (Davy Brion)
- Tim Kropp on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
- Algorithmically Estimating Developer Time (Peter Saddington)
- Building Android projects with Jenkins, Ant and Mercurial (Mendelt Siebenga)
- Message-Oriented Architecture is a Misleading Term (Peter Ritchie)
- Getting version numbers and names right is hard (Matt Lacey)
- The forgotten control flow construct (Joh)
- Where is the greatest friction? (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
- The War Between Developers, Designers and Project Managers (Joey deVilla)
- Choosing the Correct CI Tool (Paul Stack)
- New Manager, New Product Owner, Too Much Work (Johanna Rothman)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Column] attribute and 7 Mistakes Developers make when implementing Windows Phone Custom Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
- Understanding NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch – Dealing with Charts (Part 1) (Mihail Mateev)
- Know your cookies (Peter Kuhn)
- Windows Phone 7 Feature Requests (Daniel Egan)
- Adding a system-wide keyboard hook to your WPF Application (LearnWPF)
- Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. (Michael Crump)
- Working with animations on the Windows Phone (Surf4Fun)
- 2000 WPF Things #357 – RadioButton is a ContentControl (Sean Sexton)
- Summer Fun in the Mango Sun… Sample Data, Locations and Accelerometer (Greg Duncan)
- Simple Tips: Application Image Processing (Deborah Hanamura)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Cristian Libardo Builds a CMS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- SE Podcast #14 (Alex Miller)
- Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
- Hot Apps: Words By Post, Fractal Graphics, ScriptTD, Drynks, Penguin (Laura Foy)
- MVP Talks Hyper-V in Taiwan (Lonnie Webb)
- The GeekDads Episode #97: A Whole New World Behind the Grotto (Ken Denmead)
- Developer Smackdown Musing #55: Kinecting with the Cosmos with Jonathan Fay, Dr. Mark SubbaRao & Michelle Yehling (Part 2) (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
- Coding4Fun Kinect Turret (Greg Duncan)
- Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live (Dan Fernandez)
- Look who’s talking: Speech in Mango (Bill Pardi)
Community / Events
- Upcoming FubuMVC Webinar Series and FubuMVC Webinar: F101 – Behaviors, Configuration, and Runtime (Josh Arnold)
- HTML5 and IE workshop by the water, powered by Microsoft Webcafe – 25th August 2011 in Brussels (Katrien de Graeve)
- August Silverlight Giveaway by Telerik and First Floor Software! (Michael Crump)
- The First Day of School (Mike Desmond)
Database
- SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Get T-SQL query metadata without executing it (Jakub Dvorak)
- SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Efficient Query Writing Strategy – Day 4 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server – T-SQL – Comparing table data/structure using UNION, EXCEPT and INTERSECT (Vishal)
- SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY function (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Two New Free Xbox Live Games Next Week (August 10th) – Sudoku & Minesweeper (Hyde13)
- Developer interest in Android increases, approaches iOS (Joe Wilcox)
- Powershell to HTML (Jack Vamvas)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 3, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Daily WP7 Development News 3 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Geek Reading August 3, 2011 (Rob Diana)
- Today’s Links (8/3/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #909 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 08/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
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