Top Links
- ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta (Scott Guthrie)
 - Becoming an iOS Developer (Josh Smith)
 - The XAML Project is live! (Davide Zordan)
 - Transforming HTML with Node.js and jQuery (Axel Rauschmayer)
 - Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfalls (1 of n) (Peter Kuhn)
 - Using jQuery, Plugins and UI Controls With Backbone (Derick Bailey)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- The Law of Demeter (Richard Carr)
 - Limit your abstractions: Refactoring toward reduced abstractions (Oren Eini)
 - Writing F# Type Extensions for Nullable (Dustin Campbell)
 - Visual Studio 2010 SDK Samples – One 30MB download, 68 samples, tons of learning… (Greg Duncan)
 - TeboScreen: Basic C# Screen Capture Application (Guy Thiebaut)
 - LINQ to CSV library (Matt Perdeck)
 - Gravatar avatars in C# for .NET (qenn)
 - Windows Phone 7 – Build Puzzle Game (Shai Raiten)
 - A Super-Fast C# Extension Method using Expression Trees to Create an instance from a Type (Steve Wilkes)
 - What Can You Do with .NET Gadgeteer? (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - iOS Development with MonoTouch Cookbook (Wally McClure)
 - NuGet Project Uncovered: TranslatorService.Speech and NuGet Project Uncovered: Nancy (Jason Jarrett)
 - How to truncate string without breaking a word in half (hmloo)
 - TryJoinads (III.): Agent-based programming (Tomas Petricek)
 - Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.2 (MS Downloads)
 
Web Development
- JavaScript Test Frameworks: more than 30 + 1 (Andrea Giammarchi)
 - Using JSON.NET with ASP.NET Web API and Using MongoDB with ASP.NET Web API and Push and Pull Streams using HttpClient and HttpClient: Downloading to a Local File (Henrik F. Nielsen)
 - SwiftShader brings software 3D rendering to Chrome (Ilmari Heikkinen)
 - ASP.NET MVC4 Installer is incompatible with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (Jef Claes)
 - jQuery.continuations In Action (Josh Arnold)
 - ASP.NET MVC3 JQuery inline editor – a nice alternative to HTML5 content editable feature (Jovan Popovic)
 - Track a Moving Ball in Real Time using HTML5 and JavaScript (Luis Sobrecueva)
 - CanML– Creating simple Markup language using XML + T4 for drawing shapes in HTML5 Canvas in your ASP.NET/C# applications (Anoop Madhusudanan)
 - Add Google Login Support In ASP.NET With OAuth (Prashant Khandelwal)
 - JavaScript Pattern Roundup – Issue 4 (Shi Chuan)
 - Nettuts+ Quiz #10: Basic CSS3 Techniques (Siddharth)
 - Detecting CSS3 Transition Support and CSS: Opacity vs Alpha (via rgba and hsla) and JavaScript animation timing made easy (requestAnimationFrame, cancelRequestAnimationFrame) and Cross-browser event hookup made easy (Tobin Titus)
 - How to create a Web Deploy package when publishing a ClickOnce project (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
 - Windows Azure with PHP – Listing a Table in Storage (Puja Pramudya)
 - Do We Need A Standardization Around Amazon APIs? (Krishnan Subramanian)
 - Function.prototype.bind (David DeSandro)
 - RavenDb Repository using HttpClient (Glenn Block)
 - Dropbox REST API Part 3: Create, Delete and Move Folders (Christophe Geers)
 - Auto-Setting Terminal Titles for Python Virtual Environments (David Winterbottom)
 - PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 Early Access Program started (Alexey Gopachenko)
 - Renaming a property in RavenDb with HTTP API (Gian Maria Ricci)
 - Lose The Wait: Optimizing GIF Images (Billy Hoffman)
 - Introduction to Telerik Kendo UI (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - ExpectThat with CoffeeScript, Zombie, Mocha, and Node (Dan Mohl)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Discover A New Perspective on Unit Testing – Isolator V7 (Avi Kaye)
 - Process for Process Sake and Idea to Done: How I Use a Personal Kanban for Getting Results (JD Meier)
 - When NOT to use CQRS? (Rinat Abdullin)
 - APress Deal of the Day – 20/Feb/2012 – Design Driven Testing (Tatworth)
 - Mikado Method For Refactoring Legacy Software (Roopesh Shenoy)
 - Tech Leads & The Progress Principle (Mark Needham)
 - The Role of Emotions in Software Engineering (Michael Stal)
 - Sometimes It’s Okay to Incur Technical Debt (Geoffrey Papilion)
 - There’s no place for monogamy in technology (Jef Claes)
 - Using Sublime Text 2 to Edit Git Commit Messages on Windows (Dustin Campbell)
 - DTO’s Should Transfer Data, Not Entities (Davy Brion)
 - Don’t cheat with the user interface (Jimmy Nilsson)
 - Hosting a Git Repository in Windows (Derek Greer)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone Local Database Schema Upgrade Part1 – Adding new columns (Windows Phone Geek)
 - Visualising StackOverflow Tag Relationships with Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
 - Page Stack in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - WPF Control Composition (Part 1 of 2) and WPF Control Composition (Part 2 of 2) (Dirkster99)
 - Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 3: Using WinRT (Gill Cleeren)
 - Windows Phone Login Navigation (Geoff Hudik)
 - NuGet Project Uncovered: Extended.Wpf.Toolkit (Jason Jarrett)
 - How to Unlock Your WP7 Device for Development? (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - What is a Public Sector Windows Phone App? and FREE DEVICES FOR DEVELOPERS (Joel Reyes)
 - #498 – A List of WPF Blogs and Forums (Sean Sexton)
 - Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone – Article #1 – Introduction and Installation (Senthil Kumar)
 - Windows Phone Performance – Part 2 of many – It’s Full of Stars! (András Velvárt)
 - Developing Windows Phone apps for the Marketplace? Here are some tips you should probably follow. (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - Solving the ObservableCollection bug on Windows 8 and Impressions, slides and code from TechDays Belgium and Netherlands (Laurent Bugnion)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 040: My Friend Dahmer (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - Technology & Friends Episode 197: Rob Reynolds on NuGet and Chocolatey (David Giard)
 - Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 055 – “Avatar Smackdown” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
 - Major Nelson Podcast Show 430: We catch up on what we are playing (Larry Hyrb)
 - The JavaScript Show – JavaScript Design Patterns (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
 - GeekWire Radio: Microsoft’s Windows Phone vs. our iPhones in an on-air speed test (Todd Bishop)
 - Kanban Thinking on SPaMCAST (Karl Scotland)
 - The Tablet Show – Paul Thorsteinson on the Business of Selling Mobile Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - TWC9: Windows Store for Win8 Dev’s, Faster IE, Cheaper Azure, New EF and more (Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie & Greg Duncan)
 - Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber previews HIMSS12 (Neil Versel)
 - What The Tech 105: No Compromises and Windows Weekly 248: We Just Don’t Know (Paul Thurrott)
 - Engadget Podcast 281 – 02.17.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 126 – 02.18.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 126 – 12.18.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - New Video: Manual Testing (And What NOT to Automate!) (Jim Holmes)
 - The GeekDads Episode #109: R2′s Freakin’ Jets — With Special Guest @Stepto (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (Ken Denmeade)
 
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for February 20th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - Developer Event (Seattle): Agile Development using Visual Studio ALM (PubSec)
 - Microsoft To Talk Windows 8 Gaming at GDC 2012 (Robert Boland)
 - MySQL Meetups in North Carolina this week (Peter Zaitsev)
 - Stacking up the Open Source Projects, Stack Exchange is… (Greg Duncan)
 - Reasons to Come to Functional Programming eXchange 2012 (Robert Pickering)
 - Hackathons make more sense than you think (Den Delimarsky)
 - Windows Metro Experts Group on Linkedin! (Davide Zordan)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER – Case Sensitive Database and Database User – Fix: Error: 15151 – Cannot find the user , because it does not exist or you do not have permission. and SQL SERVER – Migration Assistant for Oracle, MySQL, Sybase and Access v5.2 and SQL SERVER – Disable Guest Account – Serious Security Issue (Pinal Dave)
 - RavenHQ goes beta–RavenDB reaches the cloud (Oren Eini)
 - Can we improve MySQL variable handling ? (Peter Zaitsev)
 
SharePoint
- Top 10 Best SharePoint Sites of 2011 (Ali Raza Shaikh)
 - Working With SharePoint 2010 Search – Part 1 (Saifullah Shafiq)
 
Miscellaneous
- Want to Get and Keep a Job…Coding Seems to be the Key (Bob Familiar)
 - "Learning C The Hard Way" free webook (Greg Duncan)
 - Microsoft planning a “new” music service? Well of course they are. (Kip Kniskern)
 - Must-have Tools on Windows – Part 1 of 2 (Punit Ganshani)
 - Windows 8 Developer Preview Expiration Date Fix (Richard Hay)
 - Xbox 720’s Codename Is Durango (Sumeeth Evans)
 - $4.99 E-Book upgrades from O’Reilly and Another O’Reilly Deal to Feb/22 – Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition (Tatworth)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 18, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Double Shot #821 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - The Morning Brew #1047 (Chris Alcock)
 - MVP Friday Five: February 17, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
 - Pie in The Sky (February 17, 2012) (Larry Franks)
 - Daily News Digest 2/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - Reading Notes #34 (Franky)
 - Everyman on Creative Pricing, a Productivity Handbook, Insanely Simple, Fill My Screen STTNG (Dave Burke)
 - Windows Dev News for February 18, 2012 – #0042 (Dave Campbell)
 - Retrospective 72 – Pink and Agile Couches (Peter Saddington)
 
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