Top Links
- Service Bus support in azure npm 0.5.2 (Glenn Block)
- Bad Metaphors (Eric Lippert)
- Quick fun with Mono’s CSharp compiler as a service (David Ebbo)
- Submitting your Windows 8 apps (Antoine Leblond)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Limit your abstractions: Commands vs. Tasks, did you forget the workflow? (Oren Eini)
- Fix for Visual Studio 11 ALM Developer Preview Virtual Machine (Brian Keller)
- StudioShell = PowerShell++ for Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
- APress Deal of the Day – 14/Feb/2012 – Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming (Tatworth)
- CSLA 4 version 4.3 beta available (Rockford Lhotka)
- Introducing TryJoinads.org and TryJoinads (I.) – Asynchronous programming (Tomas Petricek)
- Using Dynamic Classes to Pass Data (Peter Vogel)
- Gantt Control Print Preview Beta Available (Jason Beres)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: NaturalSpec (Jason Jarrett)
- Windows 8 ListBox 2 ListView (Joe Mayo)
- Rx and Time related operators (Bnaya Eshet)
Web Development
- Using jQuery.whenSync() For Asynchronous Form Validation And Processing (Ben Nadel)
- Thinking LESS of this blog (Julian M. Bucknall)
- MVC 3 Helper for Hover Images… (desalbres)
- Callback Functions in JavaScript (Louis Lazaris)
- Offline Files in HTML5: The FileSystem API (Phil Parsons)
- Practical PHP Refactoring: Separate Domain from Presentation (Giorgio Sironi)
- ASP.NET MVC Model Binding (Roopesh Shenoy)
- A fresh new look for HTML5Rocks.com (Scott Knaster)
- Expression Design produces files for HTML 5!? This is just crazy talk. (Surf4Fun)
- CSS Column Breaks (Trent Walton)
- Web Dev PSA: Your Favorite Tools Have Been Updated (Siddharth)
- Windows application to a cross-platform web-based solution without a rewrite (Visual WebGui Team)
- First touch of RavenDb HTTP API (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Build Your Own Slide Presenter : Part 1 (K. Scott Allen)
- A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators (Dino Esposito)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Who Is Agile? A book on LeanPub (Johanna Rothman)
- Clean Code: Writing Readable Unit Tests with Domain Specific Languages (Steve Wilkes)
- In defense of Brainstorming: against Lehrer’s New Yorker article (Scott Berkun)
- Reader review: Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition (Devon Musgrave)
- The Flawed Eventually-upgrade Software Model (Peter Ritchie)
- Reading List on Big Data (Rinat Abdullin)
- Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves (Rian van der Merwe)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 14 Using the Windows Phone App Bar (Arturo Toledo)
- WP7 Rest … The Easy Way (Daniel Egan)
- HTML5 and CSS3 on Windows Phone: Simple Geolocation (Rob Tiffany)
- 2000 WPF Things #494 – Using a Value Converter to Bind to a Visibility Property (Sean Sexton)
- Would you like Ads with that!–Intro to AdRotator for WP7 (Simon Jackson)
- Let your apps sell themselves! (Arian Kulp)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 039: Double Fine Donkey (Mark Frauenfelder)
- .NET Rocks! – Clemens Vasters is Still on the Service Bus (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Episode 176 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage on PowerShell Pipeworks (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Mash This Episode 1: Hello World (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events – February 13th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Gives Special Discount for All SilverlightShow Members (Silverlight Show)
- Philly MongoDB User Group: Python, MongoDB, and Asynchronous Web Frameworks (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis)
- Students, now is your chance to join the Kinect Effect! (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft Private Cloud IT Camp Events: The Future of IT – Coming to US East Coast Cities in March & April 2012 (Peter Laudati)
- Last Call for PowerShell Deep Dive Session Proposals (Travis Jones)
- Functional Programming eXchange 2012, March 16, 2012, London (Don Syme)
- Mark Gillett: Inside Skype (Thomas Kohnstamm)
- Ignite Ubelly speaker line-up announced! (Luke)
- My favorite photos & stories from the “Smoked” tour of Southern California (Ben Rudolph)
Database
- SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Contained Databases (James Serra)
- Monday Morning Mistakes: SSIS Expressions Not Evaluating Correctly (Jorge Segarra)
- SQL SERVER – What is Big Data – An Explanation in Simple Words (Pinal Dave)
- Cannot Generate SSPI Context Error (Shaun Stuart)
- Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Getting Organized (John Sansom)
- View Collation in CouchDB (Jan Van Ryswyck)
PowerShell
- Time Zones in PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)
Miscellaneous
- Programming Language Rankings (Chris Eargle)
- Can Software Increase User Adoption? (Joel Oleson)
- Checking in on the Microsoft Labs and Microsoft venture with GE gets a name and a CEO and How and when will enterprise apps be made Windows 8-ready? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Five Reasons you Should Consider DirectAccess (Jordan Krause)
- Bottle: a lightweight Python framework (Giorgio Sironi)
More Link Collections
- Interesting .NET Links – February 13 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
- Double Shot #817 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 2/13/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week February 6-12, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1043 (Chris Alcock)
- Windows Dev News for February 13, 2012 – #0040 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 13 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #6) (Himanshu Singh)
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