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Top Links

• Nullable micro-optimization, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Introducing Kona Guidance for Windows 8 Application Development (Think of it as Prism for Windows 8, but not really) (Brian Lagunas)
• Different Deployment Options in Windows 8 (Peter Ritchie)
• Capturing Traffic from .NET Services with Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)

 

Web Development

• Tales from the trenches: resizing a Windows Azure virtual disk the smooth way (Maarten Balliauw)
• Badass JS Roundup: Literate CoffeeScript, JavaScript Amiga Emulator, Gnuplot.js and More! (Devon Govett)
• Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC (Paul Hammant)
• PHP 5.4 Available in Windows Azure Web and Worker Roles (Brian Swan)
• Recent Updates to the Windows Azure SDK – .NET 4.5, Windows Server 2012 and more (Craig Kitterman)
• Create and Manage Access Rule to folder in ASP.NET (Des Raj Chauhan)
• Using Unity for Dependency Injection with SignalR (Kevin Griffin)
• My Current JavaScript Design Pattern (Louis Lazaris)
• PhpStorm Type Inference and Mocking Frameworks (Maarten Balliauw)
• Node.Js / Express / Stylus / Jade / MongoDB / D3.js / Socket.IO (Sacha Barber)
• How to keep your ASP.NET database connection strings secure when deploying to Azure from Source (Scott Hanselman)
• SignalR – Simple Chat Application in C# (Shivanand Arur)
• Underscore.js and guid function (Veera Sundar)
• Modernizr Policy on Browser Bugs and Feature Detects (Modernizr Team)
• Web Developer Checklist (Mads Kristensen)
• Azure – Creating an Azure Cloud Service (Phillip Haydon)
• Designing For The Empty States (Craig Dennis)
• Extending Classes and Interfaces using TypeScript (Dan Wahlin)
• Does Browser Sniffing Still Have a Place? (Elijah Manor)
• Minify resources with source map at runtime using Web Essential (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Get Started with TypeScript – New Course (John Papa)
• Reuse and Recycle: SVG (Rob Larsen)
• Uploading Captured Canvas Images and Why Use The Bootstrap Grid? (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Localization (Peter Kuhn)
• Live Tiles in Windows Phone 8 Part2: Lock screen notifications (Windows Phone Geek)
• OCR using Silverlight 5 (Abdunnasar)
• Reversi XAML/C# Windows Store Sample Game (Greg Duncan)
• Splash Screens in Windows Phone 8–Who moved my cheese? and Windows Phone 8 – Persisting Conference Buddy to a JSON File (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #729 – Mouse.GetPosition Doesn’t Work While Dragging and #730 – Use QueryContinueDrag Event to Know When Mouse Button State Changes (Sean Sexton)
• Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone – Part 1 – Core & Main Gallery (Dennis Delimarsky)
• CODE Framework 4.0.30107.0 (CodePlex)
• Windows 8 App Design templates (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος)
• Need help on your Windows 8 app? Visit a Windows Store Lab or find online support (Susan Ibach)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• VS/TFS 2012 Release Candidate expiring and Team Foundation Service Update – Jan 7 and Git-TF 2.0.1 Released (Brian Harry)
• The key to better bindings… the Visual Studio Keyboard Bindings Editor Extension (Greg Duncan)
• Reading XML Using LINQ (Kamesh Kannan)
• Interview Question: Difference between a struct and a class in C# (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 1: Overview, Installation, MonoGame 3.0 Project Creation and Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game (Tara Walker)
• Extending Trials of TFS (Zain Naboulsi)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 Beta (MS Downloads)
• IntelliCommand and JustCode (Steve Smith)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 (Brian Keller)
• How to connect to TF Service without a prompt for LiveID credentials (Buck Hodges)
• It’s still essential! (Eric Lippert)
• Pointy, Sharp Shell Extensions with SharpShell and the ".NET Shell Extensions – Shell Context Menus" tutorial (Greg Duncan)
• My DotNetCurry Magazine Articles (Gregor Suttie)
• Collection initializers and Add method with more than one parameter (Kirill Osenkov)
• Argument Name Role Hint and Metadata Role Hint (Mark Seemann)
• Dual Mode Sockets – Never create an IPv4 Socket again (Chris Ross)
• Understanding the classical model for linking: Taking symbols along for the ride (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Schemaless Data Structures (Martin Fowler)
• Leveling Up Agile Requirements (David Starr)
• Webinar – Introduction to Unit Testing (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• ScrumMasters: Don’t be a Fixer (Chris Spagnuolo)
• SSDT – TSQL Unit testing in multiple environments (Dave Ballantyne)
• Designer-Client Relationship: Getting Engaged (Andy Rutledge)
• Introducing Contributions (Justin Palmer)
• Improving Your Website Usability Tests (Damian Rees)
• How to Become a Software Architect (Daniel Mohl)
• Article: Integrated ALM Tools Are Fundamental to Success (Dave West)
• 3 Great Articles on Technical Debt (Rodrigo De Castro)
• Build Pattern: Shipping Skeleton (Roy Osherove)
• Natural User Interfaces Part 2: Kinect at work (Steve Clayton)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Verifying Back-End Calls from Android Apps (Tim Bray)
• Android – customize EditText like a page in textbook. (Phat (Phillip) H. VU)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 080: Interview with Anarchy Comics publisher Jay Kinney (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Thiago Silva and Jeff Hewitt on Azure – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Inside Windows 8: Jon Berry – Desktop Activity Moderator and Connected Standby | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 155 – Ward Bell on Single Page Applications and Breeze (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 210 – PowerScripting Podcast – Eli White makes Mayhem (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Submitting your app to the Windows Store | Windows Store App Development for iOS Developers (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Video: Secure Your WCF 4.5 Services with Claims Based Authorization (Paul Ballard)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Timothy Olyphant (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 060 – January 5th, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
• Engadget Podcast 322: pre-CES special 01.07.2013 (James Trew)
• Defrag Tools: #22 – WinDbg – Memory Kernel Mode | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 163: Xbox Countdown, Programming language popularity, 3D presentations, Eye controlled computer | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 017 – Edwin Sarmiento (Denny Cherry)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 191: Massively Open Online Courses (SE-Radio Team)
• Video: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer crashes CES keynote (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Office Hours and Upcoming Events for January 7th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Webinar – When Hadi met Julie, “A story of Entity Framework, ReSharper, A Spaniard and The Data Farm Queen” (Robert Demmer)
• Charles Petzold on his DirectX Factor Column (Michael Desmond)
• CowTown Code Camp (Chris Koenig)
• 2013 Course Schedule (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• CES Las Vegas Drinkup – 1/10/13 (Garrett Bjerkhoel)
• YUI Is Hiring! (Jenny Donnelly)
• At CES 2013, Steve Ballmer officially ushers in the post-PC era (Joe Wilcox)

 

Database

• SQL Server Partition Wizard (Brady Upton)
• What to do when you are locked out of SQL Server (Deran Schilling)
• T-SQL Tuesday #38 – Resolving an SSIS package performance problem (Koen Verbeeck)
• Creating a SQL Server Database Project in Visual Studio 2012 (M. Lang)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #1 : locate the ROWGUIDCOL column in a table (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server – Which is faster INNER JOIN or LEFT JOIN? (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Register for NuoDB the Elastically Scalable, SQL/ACID Database and SQL Server – Using SSMS Commandline Parameters – Guest Post by Vinod Kumar M and SQL SERVER – How to Hide Yourself from SQL Server? – Guest Post by Balmukund Lakhani (Pinal Dave)
• Building Microsoft MEAP: Scaling Out SQL Server (Rob Tiffany)
• Use the sys.database_mirroring DMV to quickly check if the databases are in principal or mirror role and what state they are in and Giving users the ability to change a stored procedure without making them db_owner (Denis Gobo)
• RavenDB 2.0 RTM and What is next for RavenDB? (Oren Eini)
• Day 8 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery (T-SQL Tuesday #38): Resolutions for All DBAs (Robert Davis)
• Database Projects – Installing the Database Project Template (Axel Achten)
• The Big Data Explosion: Ingredients of a Great Data Scientist (Dr. Flavio Villanustre)

 

SharePoint

• How Baked is it? SharePoint 2013 Hotfix Regression and Other Thoughts (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Which 1 of Microsoft’s top 3 software development roles is right for you? (Anthony Rotoli)
• My 60 days with the Surface RT (Ed Bott)
• Finding the inner programmer in every Googler (Albert Hwang)
• Writing A Programming Book (Ade Miller)
• Devices and services? Microsoft needs to focus on apps (Kip Kniskern)
• Small Basic for Little Kids Series #02 – Loop (Ray Fast)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Word 2013 Step By Step (Rosemary Caperton)
• Infographic: There’s a career for everyone at Microsoft (Taylor Soper)
• Kraken video to be released (Xeni Jardin)
• Introduction To Go: Structures, Data and Instances (Karl Seguin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 8, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 9, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading January 7, 2013 and Geek Reading January 8, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1268 and The Morning Brew #1269 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1039 and Double Shot #1040 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly Links – January 7 2013 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Daily News Digest 1/8/2013 and Daily News Digest 1/9/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 9, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–December 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #14 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 8 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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