Top Links
- Enabling accessibility (Steven Sinofsky)
 - Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option (Steven Martin)
 - Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 5.0 Performance Improvements (EF Team)
 - KnockoutJS NuGet Packages and New Pluralsight Course on MVVM, JavaScript Patterns and KnockoutJS (John Papa)
 - O’ Reilly 50% Deals to Feb/22 (Tatworth)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Limit your abstractions: All cookies looks the same to the cookie cutter (Oren Eini)
 - C# to C++–A Somewhat Short Guide (Update 1) (Michael B. McLaughlin)
 - Building a Windows 8 Metro App, Part 3: Putting it Together (Eric Vogel)
 - FSharpChart for Valentines Day (Carl Nolan)
 - A Look at MonoTouch.Dialog (Jonathan Allen)
 - Units of measure for array indices (Joh.)
 
Web Development
- Every Time You Call a Proprietary Feature “CSS3,” a Kitten Dies (Lea Verou)
 - Fluqi Makes JQuery Simpler (Roopesh Shenoy)
 - ASP.Net MVC vs Ruby on Rails Smackdown Results (Marc Jeanson)
 - Building Executable Scripts For The Mac OSX Command Line With Node.js (Ben Nadel)
 - A few thoughts on what I would like to see in Rails 4.0 (Joseph Le Brech)
 - Attention Developers: NewRelic is your Secret Weapon (Ryan Allen)
 - Hadoop Performance: How storage disk types in individual node will impact the job performance? and Solving SSL Certificate expiration problem with an existing Windows Azure Application (Avkash Chauhan)
 - Build Your Own Slide Presenter: Part 2 (K. Scott Allen)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- UX Anti Patterns for Security on the Web and in the Enterprise (Pete Brown)
 - Focus for next iterations in Lokad.CQRS Sample Project (Rinat Abdullin)
 - Article: Pattern-Based Architecture Reviews (Neil B. Harrison & Paris Avgeriou)
 - Clean Sweep and The Opposite of Mocking (Gil Zilberfeld)
 - NuGet Project Uncovered: FakeO (Jason Jarrett)
 - When Illusion beats Reality (Bill Wagner)
 - The aim of architecture (Brian Marick)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Unit Testing a MVVMLight Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) application (Etienne Giust)
 - A WPF/MVVM Countdown Timer (Barry Lapthorn)
 - Using YouTube API 1.9.0.0 with MVVM-Light-Toolkit (Bjorn Ranft)
 - WPF Elements: NEW Stock Charts! (Jason Fauchelle)
 - Windows Phone 10-step Submission Checklist (Jax)
 - If only Windows Phone was this popular everywhere… (Joe Wilcox)
 - 80% of Windows Phone Developers Not Using the Free Tools (Nick Landry)
 - 2000 WPF Things #495 – Binding to a Visibility Property Without Using a Value Converter (Sean Sexton)
 - Metro UI at it’s best: Designing beautiful interfaces for Windows Phone (Vangos Pterneas)
 - CBR: Comic Book Reader v0.55 (CodePlex)
 - Debugging Deep Links in Windows Phone (Derek Lakin)
 - Using IL Weaving to Inject INotifyPropertyChanged into Properties (Jonathan Allen)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- 50+ Windows Phone App Ideas (CodeTV)
 - Engadget HD Podcast 286 – 02.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 - Jez Humble and I speak on Continuous Delivery at YOW (Martin Fowler)
 - Ping 131: Kinect Star Wars, Microsoft in Austin, OneNote for Droids, Kinect helps people see (Laura Foy)
 - Let’s Play TDD #164: Core Data Type (James Shore)
 - Boagworld: Where is all the video? (Paul Boag)
 
Community / Events
- Free HTML5 Gaming Workshop at Microsoft NYC Office (Dave Isbitski)
 - SilverlightShow Webinar: Advanced MVVM for Windows Phone (Silverlight Show)
 - Speaking at Philly .NET Tomorrow (2/15/2012) (Kevin Griffin) – Tonight!
 - Microsoft Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference (Jennifer Marsman)
 - Join us at Game Developers Conference (Dani Diaz)
 - Announcing PowerShell Saturday Columbus (Brian Jackett)
 - Upcoming Telerik Webinars (Chris Eargle)
 - Editor’s Note, Telerik Newsletter, February 2012 (Chris Sells)
 - Talking Cloud with Office 365 MVP Brett Hill (MVP Award Program)
 
Database
- Doing a ProcessAdd in SSIS (Cathy Dumas)
 - New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant (Karen Szall)
 - An Introduction to SQL Server Clusters (Kendra Little)
 - SQL SERVER – T-SQL Errors and Reactions – SQL in Sixty Seconds #002 – Video (Pinal Dave)
 - Getting the list of parameters from a stored procedure by using sqlCmd.Parameters or INFORMATION_SCHEMA.parameters (Denis Gobo)
 - Do You Have Corrupt Databases? (Thomas LaRock)
 - Row-Level and Column-Level tracking in Merge Replication and Merge Replication – Filtered Data Publication Setup (Ted Krueger)
 - Full Version of AdventureWorks database for SQL Azure and and SQL Azure Federations (Scott Klein)
 - Troubleshooting MySQL Upgrade Performance Regressions (Peter Zaitsev)
 
SharePoint
- Creating and Customizing Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010 (Yvonne M. Harryman)
 - Book Review: SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight – It’s the SharePoint APIs on Steroids (Joel Oleson)
 - APress Deal of the Day – 15/Feb/2012 – SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide (Tatworth)
 
PowerShell
- Debugging Poor Error Messages in PowerShell v3 (Adam Driscoll)
 
Miscellaneous
- Hello! Python: Exceptions in Python (Anthony Briggs)
 - Open webOS delivers additional code, new Isis browser, and governance model (Chris Ziegler)
 - Unwrap Windows 7 in a Box (Mike Williams)
 - Adobe shows off Photoshop CS6’s content-aware move feature (Ryan Heise)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: February 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Interesting .NET Links – February 14 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
 - Double Shot #818 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 2/14/2012 and Daily News Digest 2/15/2012 (Silverlight Show)
 - The Morning Brew #1044 (Chris Alcock)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 14 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 
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