Top Links
- WebMatrix 2 is Released (Vishal R. Joshi)
- WebStorm 5.0 released: introduces Live Edit and Jade, better JSDoc and Sass/SCSS & more (Eugene Toporov)
- Hacking Node.js on WebMatrix 2 (Nathan Totten)
- Erik Meijer – Functional Programming From First Principles (Charles Torre)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook available (Brian Harry)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Interlocked CompareExchange() (James Michael Hare)
- Choosing the Right Tool for the Task to Manage Projects, Collaborate, and Monitor Progress in Visual Studio ALM (Kathryn E.)
- 2012 Update: Running C# on the Browser (Miguel de Icaza)
- Embracing UI on demand with the app bar (Jon Gordner)
- WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.2.1 (CodePlex)
- dotCover 2.1 Release Candidate (Daria Dovzhikova)
- Code Contracts tab in VS2012 – Odd way to get it enabled (Derik Whittaker)
- 5 points developers should know about WinRT/Windows 8 (Anoop Madhusudanan)
Web Development
- Using Ant to Build a JavaScript Library (David Mann)
- How to Integrate HTML Color Code Generator in your Web Page? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Today in APIs: Amazon CloudFront Adds Cookies, Google Places API Developer Challenge for Good, and 14 New APIs (Wendell Santos)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Intro to Scalable Agile: Scale Your Teams and Release More Frequently (Andy Singleton)
- Book Review: Disciplined Agile Delivery (Ben Linders)
- Kanban for Skeptics: The 5 Most Common Arguments (Nick Oostvogels)
- CQRS is too complicated (Rob Ashton)
- Do you allow XSS in your passwords? You should! (Troy Hunt)
- Software Engineering Priorities for Early Stage Companies: Put the Team First (Aaron Stannard)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Stupid question 38: Does Windows Phone 8 support Javascript apps? (Iris Classon)
- XamlParseException in WinRT (Joe White)
- A WPF Image Button (Paul Sheriff)
- 2000 WPF Things #642 – Focusable and IsTabStop in Combination (Sean Sexton)
- Memory Profiling: The Methods View (Pratap Lakshman)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes – Scott Hunter talks to the Entity Framework Team (Scott Hanselman)
- The Nerdist Podcast – Ambassador Class (Chris Hardwick)
- The Verge Mobile Show 015 – September 5th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
- Video from the first Pluralsight Study Group meeting (Sweden) (Iris Classon)
- Shit Apple Fanatics Say (Joey deVilla)
- Boagworld: Do you have a clear idea of when a native app is required? (Paul Boag)
- Episode 199 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Reynolds talks PowerShell and Chocolatey (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Community / Events
- Quick news: Don’t miss the launch of Visual Studio 2012 (Devon Musgrave)
Database
- SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster Part 4 (Edwin Sarmiento)
- Demystifying SQL Server Differential Database Backups (Wes Brown)
- Prevent SQL Server Reporting Services Slow Startup (Norman Chan)
- Meet the Author: Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar on SQL Server Performance: Introduction to Query Tuning (Paul Ballard)
- SQL SERVER – Fun Post – Connecting Same SQL Server using Different Methods (Pinal Dave)
- CHECKDB internals: what is the BlobEater? (Paul S. Randal)
- T-SQL Window Functions – Part 1: The OVER Clause (Steve Hughes)
- Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 2) (Basit Farooq)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft and the GatherReader e-reader: More on Microsoft’s vision for reading (Mary Jo Foley)
- Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite: Four Years in the Making (Ina Fried)
- Kindle Fire HD is bad for Android, worse for iPad (Joe Wilcox)
- Amazon Blows Up the Tablet Market (Lance Ulanoff)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 171 (Scott Banwart)
- Geek Reading September 6, 2012 (Rob Diana)
- Double Shot #953 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily Links 06 Sep 2012 (Malcolm Jack)
- The Morning Brew #1184 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-07 (Dan Rigby)
- Daily News Digest 9/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 6 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Node.js and JavaScript Links (Tim Spann)
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