Top Links
- Windows Store details announced and a contest (Tim Heuer)
- Windows Store event and blog (Steven Sinofsky)
- Microsoft previews Windows 8 app store, launching with the beta in late February (Mary Jo Foley)
- Analyzing Windows Store tidbits (Long Zheng)
- Announcing the Labs release of Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” (Data Explorer Team)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Rhino Service Bus & RavenDB integration (Oren Eini)
- Getting Started with WCF Part 8 – REST Services: the Basics and Building Your First REST Service (James Bender)
- Viewing the User Token from Visual Studio 2010 Debugger (Shawn Cicoria)
- VS11 Async Demo and VS2010SP1 Async Demo (Paulo Morgado)
- VHD Test Drive – Lync Server 2010 VHD (Dev) and Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (MS Downloads)
- Mono for Android 1.x to 2.0 changes in the Menus (Wally McClure)
- A new version of GhostDoc is coming! (Tatworth)
- Integrating with TeamPulse data (oData) (TeamPulse Team)
- Windows Store and Developers (Richard Hay)
- Runtime code generation for types (Ivan Towlson)
- Behind the Scenes of Roslyn (Jeff Martin)
- ReSharper 6.1 Settings: DropBox and Company-wide (Hadi Hariri)
- The Road To LINQ-dom Part 1–the var keyword (Kyle Burns)
Web Development
- A Brief History of HTML5 (Jeffrey Way)
- Using Column Summaries in the jQuery igGrid (Jordan Tsankov)
- Testing and specifying JavaScript code with Jasmine (Giorgio Sironi)
- NuGet And Orchard? (Rob Conery)
- What’s the deal with Orchard and NuGet? Does Orchard suck? (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Use JavaScript Now to Access Many Google APIs (Romin Irani)
- Testing Ruby Applications on Windows Azure – part 1: Overview and Challenges (Larry Franks)
- jQuery 1.7 Visual Cheat Sheet (woork up)
- Beyond YSlow – Squeeeezing out website network performance (Troy Hunt)
- The need for parallelism in HTTP (Brian Pane)
- Loggr – Your SignalR based real time "event" application monitor (think "Cool web based major/high level event UI" or "A logging solution with data you can actually use…") and Moving Applications to the Cloud 2nd Edition guide (and Hands on Labs) (Greg Duncan)
- How Microsoft helps you NOT break your Windows Azure Application: Storage Services Versioning (Buck Woody)
- Providing Intellisense, Navigation and more for Custom Helpers in ASP.NET MVC (Hadi Hariri)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Introduction to Unit Testing: xUnit Frameworks (Avi Kaye)
- Clarifying purpose (Wendy Friedlander)
- Effective User Research And Transforming The Minds Of Clients (Leonard Souza)
- 31 Days of Testing—Day 6: Types of Automated Testing (Jim Holmes)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 8 – What other people are blogging (Morten Nielsen)
- Drawing Objects in Expression Blend (Andrea Haubner)
- Rumor: Microsoft to bring “beaming” file transfers across Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox in the future? (damaster)
- SkyDrive APIs for Docs and Photos—now ready to cloud enable apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone and more (Dare Obasanjo)
- Testing the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps (Doug Holland)
- Windows 8 XAML Metro Apps with OData – Part 1 (Samidip Basu)
- Windows Phone 7 System Tray (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
- Developers: Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours (Antonio Hernandez)
- 2000 WPF Things #445 – DockPanel Can Be Used Like a StackPanel (Sean Sexton)
- Here’s Why Android’s UI Will Never Be As Smooth As iOS Or Windows Phone 7 (Awais Imran)
- Tip Tuesday: More fun with emoticons (Michael Stroh)
- Panorama? Pivot? What’s the diff? Here’s a Boss Eyed View of the two… (Greg Duncan)
- Beginning LightSwitch Part 1: What’s in a Table? Describing Your Data (Beth Massi)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 181: Distributed Scrum with Rini van Solingen (SE-Radio Team)
- Engadget HD Podcast 277 – 12.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 32 (Richard Hay)
- Defrag: Reset Zoom in IE, Display Properties via CL, AppData Compression (Larry Larsen)
- Keyvan.TV Episode 9: Writing Good Software Engineering Research Papers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- C9 Lectures: Mahmoud Saleh – Advanced CRT, 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
Community / Events
- Kinect at Tech Valley .NET User Group (Brian Peek)
- Windows 8 First Apps Contest (Doug Holland)
- What a night! into insider social with Alex James (Luke)
Database
- SQL Server Latency and DATEADD and variables in SQL (Jack Vamvas)
- Ten Reasons PostgreSQL is Better Than SQL Server (Jeremiah Peschka)
- SQL SERVER – Plenty of SQL Community Updates (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Advent 2011 Day 6: Windowing functions (Denis Gobo)
- A DBA is a Data Professional (Grant Fritchey)
- Maximum length of data in every column in a table (Naomi Nosonovsky)
- What Makes The Perfect DBA Role? (John Sansom)
- Data Explorer walkthrough – Parsing a Twitter list (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- How does Remote Desktop works in Windows Azure? (Avkash Chauhan)
- RTM’d Today: Microsoft Excel 2010 Formulas & Functions Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
- So You Want To Build Apps? (David Kelley)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Data Analysis – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- A feature I didn’t even know existed much less had a name: Color hot-track (Raymond Chen)
- Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective (Peter Cooper)
- Metro dashboard makes Xbox 360 feel like a brand new console (Travis Brown)
- How do you get the Virtual Keyboard (aka Soft Keyboard) in the Android 4.0 Emulator? (Wally McClure)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: December 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – December 7 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #768 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 12/7/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #997 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/06/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
- Windows Dev News for December 06, 2011 – #0007 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 6 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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