Top Links
- Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released (Nathan Totten)
- jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released (Todd Parker)
- Modularity And Security In Composite JavaScript Apps (Derick Bailey)
- Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps (Joe Mayo)
- Infragistics Undo/Redo Framework CTP (Ambrose Little)
.NET / Visual Studio
- .NET Reflection (Richard Carr)
- Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow? (Oren Eini)
- Undertone – Programmable music in F# (Robert Pickering)
- C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion (James Michael Hare)
- Visual Studio 2010 Overview – IntelliTrace and Test Impact Analysis (Martin Hinshelwood)
- F# vs. Scala, My Take at Year Two (Neil)
- Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 3 (Bill Osuch)
- Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings (Tim Murphy)
- CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available (Rockford Lhotka)
- Most-Wanted Features in Entity Framework (Roopesh Shenoy)
- SqlBulkCopy for Generic List (useful for Entity Framework & NHibernate) (Jarod Ferguson)
Web Development
- Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
- Hiding Things using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- One reason why HTML5 gaming is limping along (Christian Heilmann)
- Skype-enabled JavaScript Restaurant (Elijah Manor)
- JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 2 (Shi Chuan)
- Upgrading to Rails 3.2.0 from Rails 3.1.3 (maciej)
- Resumable.js, Open Source Android WebGL Implementation, Coderbyte (Alex Young)
- Rails v3.2.1 has been released (with minor fixes) and Read This Before Installing Rails 3.2 and Deploying Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3 on Heroku (Daniel Kehoe)
- Using the Vibration API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: MongoDB and PHP – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Windows Azure Service Bus Demo from Brian Loesgen (Peter Laudati)
- New Management API for Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Michael Washam)
- 24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development (Siddharth)
- Making the web speedier and safer with SPDY (Roberto Peon & Will Chan)
- Pattern matching and guards in Less stylesheets (Ivan Towlson)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: Anna (Jason Jarrett)
- Animate to an Inline Style (Chris Coyier)
- Vibration API coming to Firefox 11 (Dave Mahon)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Project Management – Engaging Your Customer! (Bob Galen)
- Seven Options for Handling Interruptions on Agile Teams (Craig Smith)
- ScrumMaster Manifesto? (Peter Saddington)
- Article: New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Pen and paper wireframing without the hassle (Paul Boag)
- The n00b filter: Bad UX at its Finest in Eagle PCB (Pete Brown)
- Assert the order of expected calls over instances (Mehfuz Hossain)
- Community Question: Synching Remote Locations (Tobin Titus)
- (Ab)Using Conventions To Enforce Good Practices (Davy Brion)
- The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love (Tomer Sharon)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App (Dave Bost)
- MetroSky – End to end Windows Phone 7 SkyDrive sample code and app (Greg Duncan)
- 2000 WPF Things #482 – You Can Include Other Controls Inside an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
- 5 Reasons to use Azure when designing your Windows Phone Game (Surf4Fun)
- How I ended up using WebBrowser instead of a TextBlock in a Windows Phone application (Dennis Delimarsky)
- How To Connect Window Phone 7 and Windows 8 app to Microsoft pubCenter (Shai Raiten)
- Beginning LightSwitch–Address Book Sample (Beth Massi)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- A world of NUI: Steve Hodges (Steve Clayton)
- Video on How to work with Page State in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
- RadioTFS: Backup on that (Martin Woodward)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Bruce Burke (Ryan Parsley)
- WHOIS: Danah Boyd, MSR Social Scientist (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- April 23rd to 27th in New York City: The Art of Agile (Training) (James Shore)
- My Daughter’s First User Group Meeting (Cori Drew)
- It’s Time For Another PowerShell Deep Dive! (Travis Jones)
- MVPs Provide Great Advice in 4th Official MVP Twitter Chat! (MVP Award Program)
- A Conversation with Charles Petzold (Michael Desmond)
Database
- SSRS – Custom Code with External Assemblies (Devin Knight)
- SQL SERVER – Common Gotcha’s Associated with Common Table Expressions (CTE) – Quiz – Puzzle – 26 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- Collecting Index Usage Statistics (Bob Pusateri)
- Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic (Scott Klein)
- Understanding Database Choice (Jeremiah Peschka)
- Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh (Gregory Leake)
Miscellaneous
- Powertoys from the test team for 2011 (John Guin)
- Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza! (Kip Kniskern)
- Microsoft, don’t forget about Desktop Player — we haven’t (Mike Williams)
- Why doesn’t the Windows 7 Start menu have a pushpin for pinning items? (Raymond Chen)
- Android: Say Goodbye to the Menu Button (Tim Bray)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 139 (Scott Banwart)
- Collective #2 (Pedro Botelho)
- Double Shot #805 and Open Source Report #3 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #1031 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 1/26/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-26 (Bob Rhubart)
- Windows Dev News for January 26, 2012 – #0032 (Dave Campbell)
- Weekly Badass JS Roundup #6 (Devon Govett)
- Daily WP7 Development News 26 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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