Top Links
- The perils of conditional mutability (Jon Skeet)
 - Develop Mobile Applications using PhoneGap and Kendo UI: Part 1 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
 - Updated NUnit Plugin for VS11 Released (Peter Provost)
 - Improve Mobile User Experience With an HTML5 Metro UI Tiles (Chris Love)
 - Snoop, the WPF Spy Utility – Release: v2.7.1 (CodePlex)
 - E2E: Erik Meijer and Robert Griesemer – Going Go (Charles Torre)
 - Visual Studio 11 beta – Tooling for SQL Server Compact (Erik EJ)
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Implementing WebSockets in WCF 4.5 (Peter Vogel)
 - Creating Parallel Tasks with TaskFactory and Detecting Power Events (Richard Carr)
 - Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool (Terje Sandstrom)
 - Pinpointing Memory Leaks with CLR Profiler Heap Graphs (Sasha Goldshtein)
 - JSON deserialization with JSON.net: caching results (Joost van Schaik)
 - Sample Browser v5.1–a small refresh with support of Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Jialiang Ge)
 - Windows 8 Metro: Layout, view states and navigation (Andrea Boschin)
 - A look at the CLR 4.5, Improved Large Object Heap Allocator, Server GC Background Mode and Auto NGen (Greg Duncan)
 - Porting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Background agents (11 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
 
Web Development
- Object Calisthenics In JavaScript – An Introduction (Ben Nadel)
 - Native HTML5 push notifications with ASP.NET Web API and Knockout.js (Filip W)
 - ASP.NET MVC Authentication – Customizing Authentication and Authorization The Right Way (Jon Galloway)
 - Using RavenDB and ASP.NET MVC 4 to create a Twitter Clone Chirpy (Sumit Maitra)
 - APress Deal of the Day – 7/May/2012 – Applied ASP.NET 4 in Context (Tatworth)
 - What the requestAnimationFrame API Should Have Looked Like (Dominic Szablewski)
 - Orchard 1.4.1 (CodePlex)
 - JavaScript for the C# Guy: The Global Object (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Variables in JavaScript and Introduction to JavaScript and Functions in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
 - Introducing Windows Azure Media Services (Sam Ng)
 - Experimental Page Layout Inspired by Flipboard (Pedro Botelho)
 - node.js Version 0.6.17 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
 - Move that parenthesis! (James Padolsey)
 - Top Benefits of Running Node.js on Windows Azure (Hanu Kommalapati)
 - How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App, Part 5 (Jorge Ramon)
 - Wrapping $.ajax In A Thin “Command” Framework For Backbone Apps (Derick Bailey)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Management View of Agile – Unaware or Unwilling? (Craig Smith)
 - 10 Ways to Defeat Decision Fatigue (J.D. Meier)
 - User Stories Help Build Sales’ Stuff (Peter Saddington)
 - Logically Distributed, Physically Centralized (Udi Dahan)
 - Move Forward by Discarding Complex Tech (Rinat Abdullin)
 - TechEd Quick Shot – ALM: It’s A Team Sport (Robert Hess)
 - A brief introduction of Test Automation… (Shrini Kulkarni)
 - #Ebook Deal/Day: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery – $9.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
 - Reshaping Our Perception of Success (Jeffrey Way)
 - There’s a Kanga in my Model… Using KangaModel to easily and painlessly create,share and display sequence diagrams (Greg Duncan)
 - This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details (Jeff Atwood)
 - Three Strikes And You Refactor (Davy Brion)
 - You should invest in Code Reading skills (Samnang Chhun)
 - Testing Rhino Service Bus applications (Oren Eini)
 - The Configuration Complexity Clock (Mike Hadlow)
 
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Silverlight Double Animation Helper (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
 - Learn about RadPhoneApplicationFrame for Page Animations using the Telerik Controls for WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
 - Add the Error Diagnostics Control to Your Windows Phone App with 3 Lines of Code (Telerik Marketing Team)
 - Windows Phone Apps – Code, But Don’t Hardcode and Create A Moving Background In A XNA Game on Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
 - 2000 WPF Things #552 – Setting a Property to Use an Existing Resource (Sean Sexton)
 - WPF Sliding Controls Collection – Part 1: Sliding Image Control (Tefik Becirovic)
 - Visual Studio LightSwitch and Windows Phone 7 OData Full CRUD Example (Michael Washington)
 - Installing Visual Studio 11 and Visual Studio 2010 with Lightswitch (xpert360)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Gweek 050: Robot movies, Stupid Fun, and Zombie Boobs (Mark Frauenfelder)
 - Cloud Cover Episode 79 – Adding Push Notifications to Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
 - Technology & Friends Episode 211: Jennifer Marsman on the Windows 8 App Store (David Giard)
 - Major Nelson Podcast Show 438: E3 is coming (Larry Hyrb)
 - SharePoint Pod Show – What’s involved with getting a SharePoint MCM/MCA certification?-Episode 71 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
 - The Tablet Show – Josh Clark Touches On Next Generation Interfaces (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
 - Geekadelphia The Podcast Episode 4 – Operation Nice Interview (Jo Pincushion & Dan Tabor)
 - TWC9: CodePlex Facelift, a little Mayhem, Targeting Async, GUIDs and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
 - ShopTalk Show #17 (Chris Coyier)
 - Office 911: Lync (Laura Foy)
 - Windows Weekly 259: Live is Dead (Paul Thurrott)
 - The Vergecast 029 – 05.04.2012 and Engadget Podcast 292 – 05.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
 
Community / Events
- Coder Society Seattle, Inaugural Report! (Adron Hall)
 - Article: Rob Eisenberg on Caliburn.Micro and MVVM (Jonathan Allen)
 - Meet me at Code Camp for Freebies (Chris Eargle)
 - I’ll be at GOTO CPH and QCON NYC spreading the node.js love (Glenn Block)
 - Building Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast (Jaime Rodriguez)
 - Meet the Author: Todd Ropog on Mercurial Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
 - Nerd Nite No. 14, May 9th, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
 - Inside Red Gate – Ricky Leeks (Simon Cooper)
 - Cloud Reality: Improving Efficiency & Scaling in the Cloud Environment With TechinMotionPhilly (Jon Santos)
 - I’m Speaking Next Week on What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)
 
Database
- Why is my SSAS Query Log Table Empty? (Melissa Coates)
 - Installing SSAS 2012 (Garrett Edmondson)
 - Amazon updates their SQL Server 2012 AWS AMI’s (SQL Server 2012 RTM, Web Edition and more Instance types) (Greg Duncan)
 - SQL SERVER – Migrate a SQL Server Reports from one server to another server and SQL SERVER – Four Tutorial for SQL Server 2012 New Features and SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to SQL Server Security (Pinal Dave)
 - Can You Dig It? – Determining Index Plan Usage (Jason Strate)
 - Denali — Day 6: indirect Checkpoint (Vinay Thakur)
 - SQL 101: Sub Queries (Shannon Lowder)
 - Implementing a replication agent progess bar (Brandon Williams)
 
SharePoint
PowerShell
- Export-CSV Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
 
Miscellaneous
- GIMP 2.8.0 (RTW) for Windows now available (Greg Duncan)
 - The Windows Phone Predictions that IDC, Gartner and Pyramid Research Probably Hope You’ve Forgotten (Joey deVilla)
 - Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won’t cost you a penny (Kim Spilker)
 - BizTalk Anti-Pattern: Chuck it in the config file because its an easy place to put it (Michael Stephenson)
 - Teaching kids electronics, electricity, and logic using littleBits (Pete Brown)
 - Updates to Windows Azure Marketplace Offer More Flexibility and Opportunity (Peter Horsman)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: May 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
 - Distributed Weekly 153 (Scott Banwart)
 - Collective #10 (Mary Lou)
 - Double Shot #873 and Double Shot #874 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Daily News Digest 5/7/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/4/2012) (Silverlight Show)
 - Reading Notes #45 (Frank)
 - Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-07 (Dan Rigby)
 - Everyman on Competition For One, Sony’s Fall, Glass in Your Future, the Screenularity (Dave Burke)
 - Retrospective 83 – Agile Gamification, Giveaway, More Agile Lists (Peter Saddington)
 - Daily WP7 Development News 4 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
 - SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 23 – 29, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
 - Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #17) (Himanshu Singh)
 
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