Top Links
- jQuery 1.8.1 Released (Dave Methvin)
 - My Favorite Visual Studio 2012 Features (K. Scott Allen)
 - ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Tutorial Series Published – 10 Tutorials (Erik Reitan)
 - Build Single Page Apps – Part 9 – Navigation, Transitions, Storage, and Messaging (John Papa)
 - This is the Samsung ATIV S, the first of many amazing Windows Phone 8 devices coming this year (Ben Rudolph)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- NuGet Perf, Part III–Displaying the Packages page and NuGet Perf, Part IV–Modeling the packages (Oren Eini)
 - Lazy Initialisation with Lazy (Richard Carr)
 - Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts (Brian Harry)
 - Changing fields on the Visual Studio Extension Gallery page and Clearing the credentials for connecting to a Team Foundation Server (Charles Sterling)
 - OData 101: Bin deploying WCF Data Services and OData 101: Using the [NotMapped] attribute to exclude Enum properties (OData Team)
 - Tips: keyboard shortcuts (Nick Maidment)
 - WCF Data Service 5.0.2 Released (WCF Data Services Team)
 - Learning Path: C# – 24 Hours to Becoming a C# Master (Fritz Onion)
 - Watch out for VS2012 EDMX Code Generation Special Case (Julie Lerman)
 - Windows 8 Development–When Your UI Thread is not Your Main Thread (Mike Taulty)
 - In C# Passing Delegate As Parameter, Then Executing on Return (Peter Kellner)
 - Visual Studio Plugin: stop build at first error (Ricci Gian Maria)
 - C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction (Visual C++ Team)
 - New Items in ReSharper 7! (Tatworth)
 - Using the Microsoft Ad SDK in Windows 8 (Matt Harrington)
 - NHibernate Pitfalls: Custom Types and Detecting Changes (Ricardo Peres)
 - Simple.Data 0.18 / 1.0.0-rc1 (Mark Rendle)
 - ‘Stupid’ Question 33: Why was the DLR and Dynamic keyword introduced in .Net? and WinRT app guide: Step 4: Adding RadControls for WinRT/Metro (Iris Classon)
 - 30+ Excellent Windows 8 Development Tutorials (Ali Raza Shaikh)
 - Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP Availability in Windows Azure Virtual Machines (Himanshu Singh)
 - dotCover 2.1 Beta is available (Daria Dovzhikova)
 - New Hierarchical Views in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
 - LLBLGen Pro feature highlights: model views (Frans Bouma)
 - Microsoft’s Azure Mobile Services… and MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
 - RadControls for Metro (XAML)–Date and Time Pickers (Jesse Liberty)
 - Getting Started: Authoring HTML for Windows 8 Apps using Blend for VS 2012 (Kirupa)
 - Convert C# to VB or Vice Versa with Visual Studio 2012 and Adding Tools to Visual Studio 2012 (Deborah Kurata)
 - Getting Started: XAML Authoring with Blend for VS 2012 (Harikrishna Menon)
 
Web Development
- jQuery Editors: How to get started and improve productivity and experience (Damyan Petev)
 - Simple Way to Toggle on Hover with CSS (Deran Schilling)
 - A guide to asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET Web API RTM (Filip W)
 - Getting Symbols and Source with ASP.NET Nightly NuGet Packages (Henrik F. Nielsen)
 - New Course: Single Page Apps with HTML5, ASP.NET Web API, Knockout and jQuery (Jason Salmond)
 - SimpleMembership, Membership Providers, Universal Providers and the new ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC 4 templates (Jon Galloway)
 - Giving Data to JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
 - ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Handler Factories (Ricardo Peres)
 - One Line CSS Mobile Framework (Vladimir Carrer)
 - Fixing hash DoS good and proper (and breaking ASafaWeb) (Troy Hunt)
 - Multiple Area Charts with D3.js (Tyler Craft)
 - CRUD demo in Node.js with Windows Azure SQL Database (Shiju Varghese)
 - Using JSON.NET for dynamic JSON parsing (Rick Strahl)
 - Download My Web Apps Have HotKeys Too Sample App (Michael Kennedy)
 - Painting the DOM to Canvas with Domvas (Paul Bakaus)
 - Announcing AT&T API Platform SDK 2.1 (Kevin Cassidy)
 - Jade support in WebStorm 5 (Kirill Safonov)
 - Exploring Device Orientation and Motion (Abu Obeida Bakhach & Jacob Rossi)
 - jsfiddle.net – what is it and why is it so useful? (Gregor Suttie)
 - PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0 RC 121.150 (Alexey Gopachenko)
 - The Zen of Python (Axel Rauschmayer)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- NServiceBus Security Issue Fixed (Udi Dahan)
 - My Top 5 Best Ways to Improve Your Productivity (Paul Stovell)
 - Pluralsight Top 10: Building a Great Software Development Team (Keith Brown)
 - Evolutionary Project Structure (Jimmy Bogard)
 - Leadership Tip–Vent Up! (D’Arcy Lussier)
 - The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III (Bob McIlree)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Emulator Color Render Issue – Fix (Malcolm Jack)
 - Update WriteableBitmapEx for WinRT RTM, WPF, Windows Phone and Silverlight (Rene Schulte)
 - 2000 WPF Things #636 – Keyboard Events that Fire When A Key Is Held Down and #637 – Block Repeating Keys by Setting Handled to true (Sean Sexton)
 - Gesture-Driven To Do List Article Wins CodeProject Monthly Competition (Colin Eberhardt)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Chris Patterson Builds MassTransit (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Herding Code 149 – What I Did With My Summer Vacation (Jon Galloway & Co.)
 - Building Office and SharePoint Apps with "Napa" and Visual Studio | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
 - Microsoft DevRadio: Top 10 Windows 8 Secrets for App Success (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - The Verge Mobile Show 014 – August 28th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
 - ShopTalk Episode 31 (Chris Coyier)
 - Podcast: Better Requirements to Make Better Products (Kim Spilker)
 - Video: Get the Big Picture on Big Data with Hadoop and Azure (Paul Ballard)
 - What The Tech 130: Patent Wars (Paul Thurrott)
 - Radio TFS – The one with Brian Keller (Martin Woodward)
 - Cloud Plumbing Podcast – HTML5 for .NET Developers (Ryan Parsley)
 - Defrag: Clearing Frequent List, Keyboard Shortcuts, Window Always On Top | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
 - Boagworld – Do you make users go ooh! (Paul Boag)
 - ADPEast 2011 – Tom Paider and Dustin Potts – Going Big with Agile, Lean and CMMI at Nationwide (Bob Payne)
 
Community / Events
- I’m presenting at SharePoint Live in Orlando, FL on SharePoint 2013 December 10-14, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
 - Jobs in IT: The Hottest New Careers in Tech (MS JobsBlog)
 - MVPs Showcase Their Skills, Win Awards at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (MVP Award Program)
 - UXAustralia my take-away opinionitis filled rant. (Scott Barnes)
 - Come join us at Build Blogger Bash! (Kip Kniskern)
 - Mark your Microsoft calendars: Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 launch dates revealed (Mary Jo Foley)
 
Database
- SSRS Textbox Tips and Tricks (Scott Murray)
 - Recover access to a SQL Server instance (Aaron Bertrand)
 - SSAS Interview Questions on Deployment, Processing, Querying, and Accessing (Dattatrey Sindol)
 - SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 3 (Glenn Berry)
 - SQL SERVER – Beginning of SQL Server Architecture – Terminology – Guest Post and SQL SERVER – Error: Fix – Msg 208 – Invalid object name ‘dbo.backupset’ – Invalid object name ‘dbo.backupfile’ (Pinal Dave)
 - Install product update during SQL 2012 installation (James Xu)
 - Survey: transaction log files per database (code to run) (Paul S. Randal)
 
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Wintellect Code All in One Place (John Robbins)
 
Miscellaneous
- Bill Nye declares Todd Akin "fucking idiot"; issues debate challenge (Jason Weisberger)
 - Atari Online: IE Brings Classic Games to the Web with HTML5 and Multi-touch (Tobin Titus)
 - Getting OneNote text saved as PDF looking as expected (John Guin)
 - How to install unsigned drivers in Windows 8 (Martin Brinkmann)
 - Pinning Useful and Obscure Stuff to the Windows 8 Start Menu (Scott Hanselman)
 - Will.I.Am Says Coders Are Today’s Rock Stars (Todd Olmstead)
 - Nokia Lumia 820, 920 leak out: PureView coming to Windows Phone (Phone Arena Team)
 - Windows Phone 8 to get new “Kid’s Corner” parental control feature (damaster)
 - Microsoft unveils Samsung ATIV-S Windows Phone 8 device (Daniel Rubino)
 - First wave of Xbox LIVE games that will be coming to Windows 8 (Larry Hyrb)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 30, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Distributed Weekly 170 (Scott Banwart)
 - Geek Reading August 30, 2012 (Rob Diana)
 - Double Shot #946 and Double Shot #947 and Double Shot #948 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 8/30/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/31/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-30 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-31 (Dan Rigby)
 - The Morning Brew #1178 and The Morning Brew #1179 (Chris Alcock)
 - Windows Dev News for August 29, 2012 – #0120 and Windows Dev News for August 30, 2012 – #0121 (Dave Campbell)
 
The Geek Shelf
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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions (9780984782802): Gayle Laakmann McDowell: Books
The Walking Dead: Compendium One: Robert Kirkman,Charlie Adlard,Cliff Rathburn,Tony Moore: 9781607060765: Books
A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0 (9781430245933): Eric Gunnerson, Nick Wienholt: Books