Top Links
- Node v0.8.10 (Stable) (node.js Team)
 - GameSalad Embraces Windows 8 (Chris Koenig) – For $299/year.
 - The Prototype Pattern: Structuring JavaScript Code – Part II (Dan Wahlin)
 - Why SOLID Matters (Philip Japikse)
 
Web Development
- Git Publishing Orchard CMS to Windows Azure (David Hayden)
 - Getting Started with the <canvas> Tag – Examples to Get You Closer to the HTML5 Bliss (Nikodim Lazarov)
 - Partial Application in JavaScript (Ben Alman)
 - The CSS Cursor Property and Slide Image on Hover using CSS3 and Style Beautiful Tables Using Only CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - Create a blog for your next presentation (Magnus Mårtensson)
 - Storing WordPress Blog Images in Azure Cloud Storage (Mark Berryman)
 - PhantomJS 1.7 “Blazing Star” (Ariya Hidayat)
 - Internet Explorer 10 May Score Well with RoboHornet, but It’s Even Better for Web Browsing in the Real World (Roger Capriotti)
 
XAML
- New book: Windows Phone 7 Development Internals (Kim Spilker)
 - Windows 8 Developers – Do you “Blend for Visual Studio”? and Blend for Visual Studio Workspace (XAML) (Nishanth Anil)
 - 2000 WPF Things #655 – Bubbling Mouse Events Swallowed by Some Controls (Sean Sexton)
 - Windows Store App Xaml GridView with Variable Templates (Michael Scherotter)
 - Windows 8–Connecting to SkyDrive (Mike Taulty)
 - Adventures in Windows 8: Working around the navigation animation issues in LayoutAwarePage (Laurent Bugnion)
 - Windows 8 Development Snack: InvalidOperationException for Share & Settings (Robert MacLean)
 - Windows 8 App Bars (Jesse Liberty)
 
Miscellaneous .NET
- Default Objects with C# (Chris Eargle)
 - Adding and accessing custom sections in your C# App.config (Daniel Schroeder)
 - Stupid Question 52: What are preprocessor directives? (In c#) (Iris Classon)
 - Replacing EasyNetQ Components (Mike Hadlow)
 - Win a free copy of Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices (Peter Ritchie)
 - F# Type Providers – Why And How (Roopesh Shenoy)
 - DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2012 (Visual C++ Team)
 - Easier (and Free) Keyboard Shortcuts with VsVim (Peter Vogel)
 - C++ AMP Book Ships! (Ade Miller)
 - Community-Driven Research: What are the most widely used .NET practices and tools? (Dio Synodinos)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- From the MVPs: Managing an agile backlog with Team Foundation Server 2012 (David Wesst)
 - Roles and Responsibilities on Microsoft patterns & practices Project Teams and How We Adhered to the Agile Manifesto on the Microsoft patterns & practices Team and Visualize Your Workstreams (JD Meier)
 - Entity Framework 5.0 & Upgrading Project to FW 4.5 (Cori Drew)
 - News: I’m working on a UX book with Jackson Fish (Scott Berkun)
 - Test Studio 101: How To Record A Login Test (Stoil Stoichev)
 - Bad code exposed! Do you really know when your code smells? (Chris Eargle)
 - From Capability to Potential (Karl Scotland)
 - Hub Bug is released! (Nigel Sampson)
 - Integration Testing FTP Connections in .Net (Doug Rathbone)
 
Other Mobile Platforms
- Facebook SDK for iOS and the iOS 6 Facebook Integration (Eddie O’Neil)
 - Determine the size of a View by inspecting its NIB (Josh Smith)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Episode 202 – PowerScripting Podcast – Antoine Habert talks about PoshBoard (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 - Real Lumia 920 video stabilization demoed vs. iPhone 5 (John Callaham)
 - Windows Phone 8.0 Walkthrough [Emulator] (video) (Antonio Hernandez)
 - Windows Phone 8 OS video walkthrough via the finalized emulator and SDK and Stephen Elop gets interviewed by Engadget using a Lumia 920 for video (Daniel Rubino)
 - The Tablet Show – Scott Stanfield Does User Interactive Design (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - The Nerdist Podcast – Justin Willman (Chris Hardwick)
 - Christian Schormann: Windows 8 Design Tools (Chris Caldwell)
 - Ping 155: Skype it, Phone Specs, Xbox interactive, Win8 Keyboard | Ping! (Laura Foy)
 - People Talking Tech Episode 004 – Mark Rosenberg (Denny Cherry)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 317 – 09.25.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 
Community / Events
- State of Young Philly Conference Begins Sept 27th (David Goodman)
 - Shared Learning Collaborative Camp – Sept. 29/30th (Jim O’Neil)
 - DevReach 2012 Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts (Jon Gallant)
 - Join Me at Guerrilla .NET in November (Michael Kennedy)
 - Meet the Author: Donald Belcham on FakeItEasy (Paul Ballard)
 
Database
- How to Rename SQL Server Instance (Vinoth NM)
 - Identify blank and weak passwords for SQL Server logins (Manvendra Singh)
 - New Course: SQL Server: Introduction to Extended Events (Jason Salmond)
 - SQL SERVER – Copy Column Headers from Resultset – SQL in Sixty Seconds #027 – Video (Pinal Dave)
 - T-SQL Window Functions – Part 4: Analytic Functions (Steve Hughes)
 - Log File Full–Availability Group Database (Gethyn Ellis)
 
PowerShell
- TSTool3 – Tech Support Tool v3, powered by PowerShell (Greg Duncan)
 
Miscellaneous
- With a month to go until Windows 8’s launch, 2,000-plus Windows Store apps (Mary Jo Foley)
 - Software Pirates protect their booty too (pun intended) (Sebastian Holst)
 - The Pyramid of Programmer Badassery (David Starr)
 - [Insert required ‘May the…’] Source Code font [‘be with you’]. Source Code Pro font released by Adobe as open source (Greg Duncan)
 - Article: Programming in Go – An Interview (Jeff Martin)
 - New book: Windows 8 for Tablets Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
 
More Link Collections
- Geek Reading September 25, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #966 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Collective #30 (Mary Lou)
 - Daily News Digest 9/26/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-26 (Dan Rigby)
 - Daily Windows Phone Development News 25 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 25 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Interesting Finds: September 26, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 
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