Design / Methodology / Testing
- The difference between Infrastructure & Application (Oren Eini)
 - Practical Example of YAGNI: Good Intentions Gone Horribly Wrong and How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos with Specification Tests (Bobby Johnson)
 - The Scatology of Agile Architecture (Uncle Bob Martin)
 - Pimp my architecture – Dan North and OO with a bit of functional mixed in and Writing unit tests can be fun (Mark Needham)
 - Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 1 (Rajiv Popat)
 - Help Us Name This Method (Davy Brion)
 - A Language for Architecture (J.D. Meier)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- My Oslo “M” end-to-end demo (Brian Loesgen)
 - __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Properties and __clrtype__ Metaclasses Demo: Silverlight Databinding (Harry Pierson)
 - Automating Visual Studio Solution Builds (Srinath M.)
 - Fluent NHibernate Automapping (Peter Bromberg)
 - F#: Not equal/Not operator (Mark Needham)
 - 5 things you’d be willing to chop off System.Byte for (Sergio Pereira)
 - No bandwidth MSDN: Reflector (James Newton-King) – Link of the Day
 
Web Development
- Is ASP.NET MVC a half-baked solution? (Karl Seguin)
 - Logging modules for ASP.NET (MVC) and also for Windows Azure (Tom)
 - New Processing.js and Sizzle.js Sites (John Resig)
 - JSON Serialization is not just for Web Services (Jason Grundy)
 - My Quick Oversimplified ASP.Net MVC Pros and Cons (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Tip #54: Did you know…How you can turn off intellisense for HTML/ CSS editors (Ranjini Mathrubootham)
 - Tip #55: Did you know…How to change Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution (WebDevTools Team)
 - Tip#56: Did you know… How to update JScript Intellisense manually (Masako Omoto)
 - JSON Serialization of a DataReader (Rick Strahl)
 - …In Which We Discuss Writing a Book on MVC (Rob Conery)
 - Little hack: CSS Combiner / Minifier ASP.NET Control (Scott Galloway)
 - Syntax Highligher (Kevin Miller)
 
Silverlight / WPF
- Easing is… Easier (Jesse Liberty)
 - Databinding the videogame, part 3: actual databinding (Joe White)
 - WPF TestApi v0.2 has released! (Vincent Sibal)
 - What is Silverlight? (Part 1 of many) and Getting Started with Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
 - Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
 - Read and Display ASP.NET Query Strings using Silverlight (Malcolm Sheridan)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes Show #159 – IronPython with Michael Foord (Scott Hanselman)
 - Sod This 3: On Dynamic Languages, The Irish and Giving Away your Daughter (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
 - WebDevRadio Episode 63: Talking YUI3 with Satyen Desai from Yahoo! (Michael Kimsal)
 - This Week on C9: New Downloads, Design for Devs, TFS 2010, and underground Script Clubs (Dan Fernandez)
 - Free Azure Services Platform “How Do I” Videos (Bill Zack)
 - Dominick Baier on DevWeek and WCF and Dominick Baier on Identity, Geneva and OpenID (Mike Ormond)
 - Podcast: Best Practices in Silverlight – MVVM (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
 - New Video — New CodeRush Features for ASP.net Development (Mark Miller)
 
Community / Events
- JSMag @ JSConf (Michael Kimsal)
 - Silverlight – 7 Twitter Accounts I Follow (and have found valuable) (Chad Campbell)
 - How “Being Lazy” is a Good Thing: Daniel Nerenberg (Jas Dhaliwal)
 - Arizona: Silverlight, MVC, MEF, WPF (Tim Heuer)
 
Database
- Blocking due to fragmented HEAP Tables (Ted Krueger)
 - How to pad positive and negative number with zeroes in SQL Server? (Denis Gobo)
 - SQL Server UNION Operations (Richard Carr)
 
Windows 7
- Windows 7 RC Build 7100: Leaked (Stephen Chapman)
 - Windows XP Mode Internals – Part 1 (Overview) (Rafael Rivera Jr.)
 - Windows 7 Release Candidate Screens and Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 Screenshots and Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 and Revealed: More Windows 7 RC details (Paul Thurrott)
 - Windows 7 Release Candidate Update (Brandon LeBlanc)
 - Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance (Ameet Chitre)
 - Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features (Matt Buchanan)
 
Miscellaneous
- Foundations of a Good Programming Language (Michael Ceranski)
 - Work from home, save the world (Mike Walker)
 - The Twitter Book, by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - Get free invites to Microsoft DreamSpark (Taimur Asad)
 - May’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
 - SQLAuthority News – Interview of Author on 60 Seconds with Pinal Dave (Pinal Dave)
 - Wolfram Alpha Getting A Public Preview On Tuesday (MG Siegler)
 - Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files (Jason Fitzpatrick)
 - Tricky Question (Greg Young)
 - Re-review of Kinesis (Kyle Baley)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 24, 2009 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
 - LINKBLOG for April 24, 2009 and LINKBLOG for April 25, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
 - Visual Studio Links #113 (Darren Stokes)
 - CloudNews for April 24th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
 - Nice collection of .NET 4 links (Daniel Moth)
 - Silverlight Cream for April 25, 2009 — #578 (Dave Campbell)
 
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