Top Links
- Visual Studio Achievements – Remember Kids They’re Just For Fun (Bil Simser)
 - Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta (Karsten Januszewski)
 - Learning leadership from Congress (Seth Godin)
 - Introducing ReSharper 6.1 SDK (Dmitri Nesteruk)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?) (Maarten Balliauw)
 - Ask Ayende: Life without repositories, are they worth living? (Oren Eini)
 - [Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! – Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
 - Visual Studio Achievements Widget (Geoffrey K.)
 - TFS11 Scrum board update remaining work without opening the work item… (Clemens Reijnen)
 - Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development (Jeffrey Meisner)
 - Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (Karsten Januszewski)
 - An introduction to NDepend (Nathan Gloyn)
 - Don’t try to allocate memory until there is only x% free (Raymond Chen)
 - Querying an Uninitialized Collection with NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
 - P/Invoke Stack Imbalance MDA (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - async / await, some reasoning (Bnaya Eshet)
 - "Beginner’s Guide to Kinect Programming," from download to demo (Greg Duncan)
 - Per Project Settings or How to have different naming styles for my test project (Hadi Hariri)
 - Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article (Sacha Barber)
 
Web Development
- jQuery Bootstrap 0.2 Brings ‘Beauty’ to Widgets (Christopher Smith)
 - An analysis of SOPA and PIPA Protest "Blackout" HTML and CSS techniques (Scott Hanselman)
 - 160 Music APIs (Wendell Santos)
 - Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 3 – Paths and Text (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Add Google Plus One Extension to BlogEngine.NET (Joseph Guadagno)
 - Under the Covers: Let It Snow… (Bogdan Brinza)
 - HTTP is not a transport protocol, HTTP is not RPC (Glenn Block)
 - Format efficiency take 2: really clean JSON (Pablo Castro)
 - Windows Azure application VM and (virtual) IP Address (Avkash Chauhan)
 - Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability (Dilip Krishnan)
 - Easing Functions in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care (Steve Smith)
 - The next big thing is extremely small (Jimmy Nilsson)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Silverlight Toolkit ToggleSwitch Databinding Bug (Andy Wigley)
 - wp7 skydrive upload (babaandthepigman)
 - WP7 PhoneGap Backbutton Support Re-visited (Colin Eberhardt)
 - How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight (DawningTiger)
 - How to Use the ConnectionSettings Task for Windows Phone and Code to Share Status or Links on Social Media sites in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Comfortably numb… MVVM’ing Enums in ComboBox (Greg Duncan)
 - 2000 WPF Things #476 – Set ZIndex Values for Child Elements of Canvas (Sean Sexton)
 - New Ebook by SilverlightShow and Andrea Boschin: Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals (SilverlightShow)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Web Dev Radio Episode 95: Jeff Carouth at ZendCon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
 - The GeekDads Episode #107: And Anyone Who Says Otherwise Is Evil and Bad and Wrong (Ken Denmead)
 - Defrag: Gov’s Nest, Bitlocker Q’s, Win7 Defrag, (Larry Larsen)
 - Hot Apps: Bug Village, Hasta La Muerte, PixelTV, Make Way, WeatherDuck (Laura Foy)
 - The Verge Mobile Podcast 010 – 01.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio Achievements (Robert Green)
 - New Videos Uploaded (Jesse Liberty)
 - Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 (Bob Rhubart)
 - .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells Unplugged! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 
Community / Events
- Microsoft-ComponentOne Hands-On-Workshops for Windows Phone Series – January 24th and 26th 2012 (MS Public Sector Team)
 - Top 10 Reasons Why I Like Dating A Programmer (Lori Lalonde)
 - I have been awarded as Telerik MVP (Dhananjay Kumar)
 
Database
- Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 (MS Downloads)
 - SQL SERVER – Importance of Resource Database – Quiz – Puzzle – 18 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
 - SQL Performance Tuning – optimizing for response time (Jack Vamvas)
 
Miscellaneous
- Translating Military Experience to Real World Jobs (Joe Wallis)
 - Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn’t Enough (Jeff Atwood)
 - New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition) (Garr Reynolds)
 - Learning RegEx – Grouping and Backlinks and Lots-O-emote’s in WPCentral’s complete WP7 emoticons list (Greg Duncan)
 - Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building? (Kip Kniskern)
 - Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPA (Todd Wasserman)
 
More Link Collections
- Cheatsheet: 2012 01.10 ~ 01.19 (yuanjian)
 - Daily News Digest 1/18/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Morning Brew #1025 (Chris Alcock)
 - ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-18 (Bob Rhubart)
 - Windows Dev News for January 18, 2012 – #00029 (Dave Campbell)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 18 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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