Top Links
- New CSS Editor Improvements in Visual Studio (ASP.NET 4.5 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
- Moving The Web Forward (Paul Irish)
- Roslyn Syntax Visualizer Tools (Chris Sells)
- The Future of TV Begins this week on Xbox 360 and Xbox Companion for Windows Phone coming December 6th (Larry Hryb)
- JavaScript Is Your Buddy (Rob Conery)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Obtaining a MAC Address (Richard Carr)
- Tasks in Visual Studio (Arian Kulp)
- Implementing RavenDB Indexes (Oren Eini)
- TFS Pills: merging conflicts during unshelve. (Gian Maria Ricci)
- How-to: download linked images from a website (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Natural Mouse Movement c# (Erwin van de Beek)
- How to Create a Windows 8 Metro Style Application using Visual Studio 2011? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- My CRM 2011 Validation Framework (Mark Schweigert)
- Don’t let more than one process try to read from stdin at the same time (Raymond Chen)
- Zero tolerance on broken windows (Mehdi Khalili)
- 5 reasons not to use a micro ORM (John-Daniel Trask)
- Windows Azure Development Resources (Kevin Grossnicklaus)
- New version of Rx Contrib v1.0.10621 – 1.1.10621.0 (Bnaya Eshet)
- Two cool NuGets of the day: FlickrNet (3.2.4310) and Lucene.net (2.9.4) (Greg Duncan)
- Simple Producer Consumer With Tasks And .NET 4 (Alois Kraus)
Web Development
- Timing Attacks on CSS Shaders (Adam Barth)
- Achieving Block Scope With Immediate Functions In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
- Custom Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3 using DataAnnonationsModelValidator (Mahesh Sabnis)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node – $14.99 (O’Reilly Media)
- Minify JS and CSS in Visual Studio Build Events (Steve Clements)
- Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress (Sameer Borate)
- New Sueetie Featured Product View Control (Dave Burke)
- Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.38 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Essential Setup To Begin Unit Testing (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Dr. Seuss Quotes (J.D. Meier)
- Thoughts on Kanban Thinking (Karl Scotland)
- Book Review: Continuous Delivery (Patrick Kua)
- Thoughts on Event Streams in Elastic Environments (Rinat Abdullin)
- 31 Days of Testing: Sustainable Pace, Sensible Flow and 31 Days of Testing: More Collaboration, Not Less (Jim Holmes)
- Sunday Thinking: Are you dealing with Risk or Uncertainty? (Dru Sellers)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Candlestick based off WPF Toolkit (Xavier John)
- How to work with WrapPanel in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Windows Phone 7.5 – Use Background agents (Andrea Boschin)
- PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #3: Sending SMS and intro to Plugins (Glen Gordon)
- You know the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone works in the UK right? (Mike Ormond)
- Re-imagining the behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background (Joost van Schaik)
- WPF 4.5: Adding a delay to your binding updates to reduce noise (Pete Brown)
- 2000 WPF Things #443 – Reversing the Flow Direction in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
- Deploy Visual Studio LightSwitch on a Shared Server (Chris D.)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 185: Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework (David Giard)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 044 – “Voice Control THIS!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Major Nelson Podcast Show 421: What we are playing, news and the 2011 Video Game Awards (Larry Hyrb)
- Cloud Cover Episode 66 – Using Windows Azure Storage from the Windows Phone (Wade Wegner)
- Video on How to work with WrapPanel in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Gillmor Gang 12.3.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
- Engadget Podcast 266 – 12.02.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 115 – 12.03.2011 and The Vergecast 004 – 12.02.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- TWC9: December 2nd – Nuget, HTML5, SignalR and an updated tool list from Scott (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
- Web Dev Radio Episode 94: Keith Casey Interview from Zendcon 2011 (Michael Kimsal)
- The JavaScript Show – Idiomatic JavaScript, HumaneJS, Traffic Cop (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
- Gweek 029: A grab bag of games, apps, books, and sex-farce comics we love (Mark Frauenfelder)
- Start Up Success Podcast Show #125: Cole Flournoy, LetsListen.com (Bob Walsh)
- Talking Shop Down UnderEpisode 78 – Eric Evans on the Birth of DDD (Richard Banks)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Todd McKellar Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- I get interviewed by Kevin Dee and Boagworld: When is the best time to reach your audience? (Paul Boag)
- Windows Weekly 237: Enterprise Zombies (Paul Thurrott)
Community / Events
- What I learned in the Global Day of Code Retreat (Giorgio Sironi)
- The Red Pill (Brady Gaster)
- Coderetreatin’ (Aaron Lerch)
- Woman in Leadership – Top Women in Agile Thought Leadership (Peter Saddington)
Database
- Activity Monitor in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper 5 Tips for a Smooth SSIS Upgrade to SQL Server 2012 and SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux Available Now and SQLAuthority News – SQL Saturday 116 – SQL Saturday in Bangalore, India on January 7, 2012 (Pinal Dave)
- How to call a user defined function with a default parameter and SQL Advent 2011 Day 3: Partitioning and SQL Advent 2011 Day 4: Schemas and SQL Advent 2011 Day 5: Common Table Expressions (Denis Gobo)
- Query Performance Tuning and Mindfreak (Thomas LaRock)
- Monitoring SQL Azure (Patrick Schwanke)
- Source-controlled database backups (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Moving Data from MySQL to PostgreSQL (Mario)
SharePoint
PowerShell
- How to Add Exchange Proxy Addresses from a CSV File with PowerShell (Mike Pfeiffer)
- Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #2 Available for Download (Travis Jones)
Miscellaneous
- Master Chief and Cortana Will Change in Halo 4 (Ian Steinberg)
- Responsive selection rendering for paint.net 4.0 (Rick Brewster)
- Can Badges Fix Developer Recruitment? (Rob Diana)
- Bing on Xbox: The Future of Entertainment Search (The Bing Team)
- Audible for WP7 possibly available in 3 months (Phone Arena Team)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 2, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – December 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Weekly Link Post 213 (Rhonda Tipton)
- MVP Friday Five: December 2, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
- Double Shot #766 (Mike Gunderloy)
- The Morning Brew #995 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/02/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Windows Dev News for December 04, 2011 – #0005 and Windows Dev News for December 03, 2011 – #0004 and SilverlightShow for November 21 – 27, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
- End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/2/2011) and Daily News Digest 12/2/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/5/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/5/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 28 Nov – 4 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 2 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 27-November-2011 to 03-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Pie in the Sky (December 2, 2011) (Larry Franks)
- Retrospective 61 – #PMI #Agile Exam and #LeanGiving (Peter Saddington)
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