• Introducing our Learning Portal for Kids (Manya Susoev)
• Building a Notes App with IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js (Jennifer Fong-Adwent)
• Spot the defect: rounding, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Building a Spreadsheet in 20 Minutes with Angular.js (David Graunke)

Web Development

• Smashing Magazine – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• HTML5 – It Just Got Real – Slides (Colin Eberhardt)
• Simple JavaScript Testing with QUnit (Leigh Shevchik)
• Red Gate Is Looking For Feedback On Its ASP.NET MVC Web Development Education Website (Paulo Morgado)
• Learn JavaScript Online (Ricky Onsman)
• Game Development Using JavaScript (Shai Raiten)
• APress Deal of the Day 17/May/2013 – Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 (Tatworth)
• AngularJS Abstractions: Scope (K. Scott Allen)
• DOM Clobbering (Gareth Heyes)
• Construct 2 Tip #4: Round Tripping With Event Variables (Jim O’Neil)

XAML

• Extending the Windows Phone Pivot (Nico Vermeir)
• 2000 WPF Things #822 – Deciding which TextFormattingMode to Use (Sean Sexton)
• Tips to grow your app revenue through in-app purchase (Bernardo Zamora)
• Thoughts on Monetization #4: In-app purchases (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Can we implement Inheritance in WCF ServiceContract : WCF Interview Series #2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• What is the difference between Reflection and Dynamic in C#? (Shivprasad koirala)
• 2000 C# Things #846 – A Call Stack Keeps Track of Methods that Have Been Called (Sean Sexton)
• .NET Security Part 3 (Simon Cooper)
• New Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial (Steve Danielson)
• Simple But Nice State Machine (Sacha Barber)
• Untangling the confusingly-named WM_UPDATEUISTATE and WM_CHANGEUISTATE messages (Raymond Chen)
• Enabling seamless integration with Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Professional and HP ALM with Opshub v5.3 (Charles Sterling)
• Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 2 – Getting Started (Mike Larah)
• Introducing new Management Infrastructure (MI) API (Osama Sajid)
• New Windows Dev Center release (Brian Harry)
• NuPattern 1.3.21.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Testing Reality is Always My First Test (Bobby Johnson)
• Move over TortoiseGit, welcome SourceTree (Jeffrey Palermo)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Social Gaming, Location, and More in Google Play Services (Greg Hartrell, Angana Ghosh, Francesco Nerieri & Francis Ma)
• Xamarin platform setup gotchas (Pascal Arnould)
• Apple’s New Objective-C to JavaScript Bridge (Nigel Brooke)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 166: Tomasz Janczuk on Edge.js (Jon Galloway)
• Hanselminutes – Integrating Office and the Open Web with LucidChart’s Brian Pugh (Scott Hanselman)
• Videos: Beautiful Builds, and a Second Look at Unit Testing (Roy Osherove)
• 059 JSJ jQuery Mobile with Todd Parker (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 90 (Richard Hay)
• Countdown to TechEd: All About Foundation Sessions, MS Store and Travel Tips | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

Community / Events

• Agile Interview with Elizabeth Harrin (Vesselina Tasheva)
• Free Webinar May 29th: PhpStorm Best Practices – The Perfect Workflow for PHP Developers (Mikhail Vink)
• Xbox Unveiled: Join CNET’s live coverage on Tuesday, May 21 (Josh Lowensohn)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – REPLICATE over 8000 Characters (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDb 2.0 on IIS with Windows Authentication returns a 401 #ravendb (Alexander Zeitler)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Browser Comparison Report Card (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

• Powershell functions to get an xml node, and get and set an xml element’s value, even when the element does not already exist (Daniel Schroeder)
• Automate SQL Server Analysis Services Tasks with PowerShell – Part 2 (Daniel Calbimonte)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft: Blame Google for lack of ads in the Windows Phone 8 YouTube app (Mihaita Bamburic)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 207 (Scott Banwart)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 16th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 16, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1358 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

• Where Is .NET Headed? (K. Scott Allen)
• Android Studio: An IDE built for Android (Xavier Ducrohet, Tor Norbye & Katherine Chou)
• Xamarin Evolve 2013 Talk Video – How C# Saved My Marriage (Scott Hanselman)
• Xamarin.iOS Netflix Style Grid (Brent Schooley)

Web Development

• JavaScript quirk 6: the scope of variables (Axel Rauschmayer)
• HTML5 Weekly – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• How to Write Testable and Maintainable Code in PHP (Chris Fidao)
• Importing External Files in JavaScript (Dmitry Sheiko)
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services – Part 4 (Larry Franks)
• Support for Google App Engine PHP in PhpStorm (Mikhail Vink)
• Multi-line strings in JavaScript and Node.js (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Extend WordPress – Contact Forms with Contact Form 7 (Grant Palin)
• DOM Clobbering (Gareth Heyes)
• Eventual consistency in REST APIs (Jimmy Bogard)
• WebMatrix Database Migration for Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• The Case Against Synchronous Worker APIs (Alex Russell)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #821 – Use TextFormattingMode to Make Text Look More Clear (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – ScrollViewer (Richard Carr)
• Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience (Keith Boyd)
• Thoughts on Monetization #3: Using Ads (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Prism for the Windows Runtime – Book Download (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Known Issue and Workaround for TFS 2012 Update 3 RC1 (Andrea)
• WCF Data Services 5.5.0 Prerelease (WCF Team)
• Working with WCF: Part Six–Fault Contracts (James Bender)
• CslaContrib 4.5.30 (CodePlex)
• Use the NotMapped Attribute with Entity Framework in Partial Classes (Kevin Logan)
• Native DirectX Audio for Windows Store Apps (Loek van den Ouweland)
• Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 2 – Getting Started (Mike Larah)
• May be this is the best time for Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Framework (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• What does GDI use biXPelsPerMeter and SetBitmapDimensionEx for? (Raymond Chen)
• Obtaining Reliable Thread Call Stacks of 64-bit Processes (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #845 – Using the Generic Queue Class (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to write a unit test (Dror Helper)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting rid of magic strings in iOS interface design (Matt)
• Objective-C Literals (Alex Curylo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tim Huckaby Brings Us Up to Date on Gesture (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• From Data to Insight & Impact using Data Explorer, Power View and GeoFlow (Marc Reguera)
• Mobile Architectures and Oracle ADF Mobile – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Fitz and the Tantrums (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 88: Vagrant, HashiCorp and beyond with Mitchell Hashimoto (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Windows 8 Tip 3: Using Windows File Explorer | Windows 8 Tips (Larry Larsen)
• Defrag: .hlp files on Win8, Cutting PC Power, Moving PageFile | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Local Poet & Designer Paul Siegell (Chris Urie)
• Announcing Party with Palermo: DevTeach 2013 edition! (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

• Creating a multi-server query SSRS report using Central Management Servers (Svetlana Golovko)
• SSAS – Find Cube Database Name, Size,Status and Total Size of SSAS Server (Prashanth Jayaram)
• The difference between Ordering & Boosting (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

• ScriptCS or PowerShell? part 1 (Jim Christopher)

Miscellaneous

• How to land a sales, marketing and services job at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why ‘Star Trek’ beats ‘Star Wars’ (Amanda Kooser)
• Why does Small Basic exist? (Ed Price)
• Hack yourself first – how to go on the offence before online attackers do (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 15th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 15, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1129 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1357 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 May 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 15 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

• Scripting ease with Script Packs (Glenn Block)
• Meet dotTrace 5.3.2 Performance with CLR 4.5 support (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Benchmarking mistakes, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Buy’ ngop! Bing adds Klingon to its popular Translator app for Windows Phone (Michael Stroh)

Web Development

• JavaScript Makes Browsers Behave (Elisabeth Robson)
• Introducing FubuMVC.CodeSnippets for living documentation (Jeremy D. Miller)
• PhpStorm 6.0.2 released (Mikhail Vink)
• Running scripts from a Windows Azure role’s OnStart method (Tom Hollander)
• Evented Github Adventure – Sentiment Analysis of Github Commits (Rob Ashton)
• Node v0.10.6 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• YUI 3.10.1 Released to Fix SWF Vulnerability (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Debugging CoffeeScript Line-by-Line (Jaco Pretorius)

XAML

• Book Review – Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development With F# (Damir Arh)
• Latest Twitter Bootstrap broken in Windows Phone (Mikael Koskinen)
• 2000 WPF Things #820 – Viewing Additional Font Properties in Windows Explorer (Sean Sexton)
• Android to Windows 8: Working with Files (Adam Grocholski)
• Thoughts on Monetization #2: Trials vs. Demos/Lite Versions (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using bit fields in C# (Filip Ekberg)
• Specifying Visual Studio Version in NPM Installs (Kevin Griffin)
• Quality enablement with Visual Studio 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• 2000 C# Things #844 – The Queue Data Type (Sean Sexton)
• Team Foundation Service Update – May 13 (Brian Harry)
• How to add .NET Assembly or Reference in Test Studio standalone version (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Creating plugins for dotPeek (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 12 Traits of a Great Leader and How To Use Tasks in Microsoft Outlook More Effectively (JD Meier)
• Saga patterns: wrap up (Jimmy Bogard)
• Team Foundation Service my new default GIT repository (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Microspeak: booked (Raymond Chen)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mum makes an app with Icenium and Kendo UI Mobile + GitHub Part 2/2 (Iris Classon)
• A Client- And Server-Side Approach: Providing The Best Mobile User Experience Possible (Luca Passani)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #98–Jeff Fritz and ASP.NET, HTML5, more… (Jesse Liberty)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Fitz and the Tantrums (Chris Hardwick)
• Podcast #47 – Do You Even Twitter Bro? (Alex Miller)
• Engadget HD Podcast 349 – 05.14.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Ping 177: Female CFO, Barnes & Noble, Facebook App, Working at Microsoft | Ping! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Welcome to SQLSaturday #225 Kosovo – 18-May-2013 (SQL Pass Team)
• Philly Appathon Winners announced at Code Camp! (David Isbitski)

Database

• Creating a multi-server query SSRS report using Central Managment Servers (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Puzzle of SET ANSI_NULL – Win USD 50 worth Amazon Gift Cards and Bubble Copter R/C (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Database owner ~~UNKNOWN~~ (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Customizing the SharePoint Chrome Control in LightSwitch (Brian Moore)

Miscellaneous

• Resume Power Words Part II: 5 ways to strengthen a weak CV (MS JobsBlog)
• Microsoft shares details about its next Windows Phone 8 update (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 14th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 14, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1127 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/14/2013 and Daily News Digest 5/15/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1356 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 14 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Top Links

• CLR Diagnostics with ClrMD and ScriptCS REPL – ScriptCS.ClrDiagnostics (Piotr Walat)
• Checkout New Prism Knowledge Base (Blaine Wastell)
• ReSharper 8 EAP: NuGet based Extension Manager (Matt Ellis)
• Sharing Code Part III: Conditional Compile and Sharing Code Part IV: Portable Class Libraries (Mark Arteaga)

Web Development

• CSS3 line height is important for drop caps (Julian M. Bucknall)
• JavaScript history: undefined (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Code School – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• Happy 10th Birthday CSS Zen Garden (Craig Buckler)
• Typescript Bundler Issue – Not transforming to JavaScript and TypeScript references not being created correctly during drag-n-drop (Derik Whittaker)
• JavaScript Makes Browsers Behave (Elisabeth Robson)
• Practical Azure #18 – Windows Azure Service Bus (Jim O’Neil)
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services – Part 3 (Larry Franks)
• Redirecting ASP.NET Legacy URLs to Extensionless with the IIS Rewrite Module (Scott Hanselman)
• Consuming Windows Azure Mobile Services REST API from ASP.NET Web API App (Shiju)
• Using XPath to set environment variables in ServiceDefinition.csdef (Tom Hollander)
• Clickjack attack – the hidden threat right in front of you (Troy Hunt)
• Trying Out Redis via NuGet and AngularJS Abstractions: Controllers (K. Scott Allen)
• SignalR Isn’t Working on Samsung Galaxy 3 (Shai Raiten)
• @model and beyond (Peter van Ooijen)
• Evented Github Adventure – Crossing the streams to gain real insights and Evented Github Adventure – Temporal averages (Rob Ashton)
• Media Manager and Image Editor in Orchard CMS 1.7 (David Hayden)
• Paul Irish on Chrome Moving to Blink (Mat Marquis)
• scriptcs and using Azure Mobile Services from your scripts (Filip W)
• RESTful Api and UI for Typed Views and Typed Lists with LLBLGen and ServiceStack (Matt C.)

XAML

• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Writing C# components for the Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)
• Okay, Okra! Windows Store Templates that make MVVM apps, and pages, easier and quicker (Greg Duncan)
• Quick Tip: Getting Device ID on Windows & Windows Phone (Mark Arteaga)
• TouchDevelop v3.0 beta for Windows Phone 8 (Nikolai Tillmann)
• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 4–updating the tests, fixing the final issues (Joost van Schaik)
• Latest Windows Phone app submission improvements (Rushmi Malaviarachchi)
• 2000 WPF Things #818 – Previewing Installed Fonts and #819 – Previewing TrueType Fonts in Windows Explorer (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store App Template to Live Data in 3 Easy Steps and Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Authentication Tips and Tricks (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Testing Tip #8: Double-check your graphics, tooltips, and other manifest information and Thoughts on Monetization #1: Trials and Trial Conversions (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to Capture a Screenshot as File in Microsoft Surface? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using SendKeys and Obtaining a List of Running Processes (Richard Carr)
• LINQ Tutorial for Beginners (d.ban)
• Method Overloading in WCF: WCF Interview Series #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Let’s Talk ASM – XOR-ing a String (Dennis Delimarsky)
• LLBLGen Pro v4.0 feature highlights: Visual Studio integration (Frans Bouma)
• Configure Test Plans for web access in TFS 2012.2 and TFS Integration Tools – Issue: unable to find a unique local path (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Commit, Push, Consume: continuous delivery of ReSharper extensions (Xavier Decoster)
• 2000 C# Things #842 – The Stack Data Type and #843 – Using the Generic Stack Class (Sean Sexton)
• [Sample Of May 13rd] Object persistence in Windows Forms (Philip Fu)
• If you want to use a name for your file mapping, don’t just use the name of the file itself and How can I display a live screenshot of a piece of another application? (Raymond Chen)
• Spot the defect: rounding (Eric Lippert)
• Programming Windows with Charles Petzold (Jeff Koch)
• The Neural Network Input-Process-Output Mechanism (James McCaffrey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project FAIL (John Sonmez)
• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity (Ben Nadel)
• Don’t assign a field from many methods (Patrick Smacchia)
• JustMock Adds Event Handling to Automocking (Phil Japikse)
• Go read “Implementing domain driven” design (Rohit Sharma)
• Enabling seamless integration with Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Professional and HP ALM with Opshub v5.3 (Charles Sterling)
• Amend Multiple Commit Messages with Git and How to Create a Patch with Git (Jaco Pretorius)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Nokia Asha A New Mobile SDK (Lucy Black)
• Mum makes an app with Icenium and Kendo UI Mobile + GitHub Part 1/2 (Iris Classon)
• All Google Play Developers Can Now Reply to User Reviews (Ellie Powers)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Marc Mercuri and Mark Simms Build Resilient Cloud Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 265: Chris Love on Touch Interfaces for Mobile Web Applications (David Giard)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 116 – “Take a Chanse on DVLUP.com” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Introducing The Get Up And Code Podcast! (John Sonmez)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Uses the Portable Class Library (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SDU Show 59 with guest Reza Rad (Greg Low)
• TWC9: 100MM licenses, Blue at build, VS2012.3 Go Live CTP, and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rod Roddenberry and John Champion and The Nerdist Podcast – Steven Yeun (Chris Hardwick)
• 058 JSJ Building Accessible Websites with Brian Hogan (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• MissionControl – A Flexible API for Remote Device Control (Clint Rutkas & Den Delimarsky)
• The Vergecast 077 – May 9th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Get up and code podcast with Iris Classon and John Sonmez (Iris Classon)
• Defrag Tools: #40 – WPT – WPR & WPA | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Open Source Podcast #2 (Nick Berardi)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for May 13th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Using source data from an SSRS report in PowerPivot for Excel (Siddharth Mehta)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL and CONCAT in SQL Server 2012 onwards and SQL SERVER – Puzzle and Answer – REPLICATE over 8000 Characters and SQL SERVER – How to use xp_sscanf in Real World Scenario? (Pinal Dave)
• 10gen Introduces Incremental Backup Service For MongoDB (Roopesh Shenoy)
• RavenDB & Locking indexes and RavenDB Clusters & Write Assurances (Oren Eini)
• Would I use RavenDb again? (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Data Explorer May update is available now! (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

• Test Lab Guide: Configure eDiscovery for SharePoint Server 2013 (MS Downloads)
• Rename SharePoint Content Database (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Product Analysis: The Next Generation harmon.ie 4.0 Enables True SharePoint Mobile Enterprise (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Resume Power Words Part II: 5 ways to strengthen a weak CV (MS JobsBlog)
• Scratch 2.0: programming for kids, now in the browser (Cory Doctorow)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson’s remake of Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ headed to Fox in 2014 (Jeff Blagdon)
• Chasing Wi-Fi as a Remote Worker: AT&T Unite LTE Mobile Hotspot Review (Scott Hanselman)
• Nokia ‘amber’ Windows Phone 8 update coming in July, enables FM radio and more (Tom Warren)
• Knowing More Programming Languages Will Make You Smarter (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 11, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 12, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 13, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 14, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 05.01 ~ 05.14 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 206 (Scott Banwart)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: April 24th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 10th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, May 13th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 10, 2013 and Geek Reading May 13, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1126 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – May 10, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (May 10, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #63 (Mary Lou)
• Reading Notes #94 (Frank)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 11, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: May 13, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: May 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/10/2013 and Daily News Digest 5/13/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1354 and The Morning Brew #1355 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Digest 13 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65) (Mark Brown)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 May 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 13 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #028 (Pinal Dave)

The Geek Shelf

• Publish Individual Files to your Server in Visual Studio 2012.2 (Rick Strahl)
• Toastr 1.3.0 Now Available (John Papa)
• Inside Windows Phone – Windows Phone and HTML5 (Larry Lieberman)
• My Conversation with Bill Clinton at the 2013 Fiscal Summit (Bill Gates)

Web Development

• Happy 10th Birthday CSS Zen Garden (Craig Buckler)
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services – Part 2 (Larry Franks)
• Uploading Multiple Files in Chunks from ASP.NET MVC app to Azure Blob Storage (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Updating The LightSwitch JavaScript Runtime (Michael Washington)
• Growing a API modularly with Node (Bobby Johnson)
• Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: You Can’t Do Everything (Rachel Andrew)
• W3C Transitions Pointer Events to Candidate Recommendation (Jacob Rossi)
• Custom Sorting in AngularJS (Jaco Pretorius)
• Architectural Changes in JSON.NET 5 (Jonathan Allen)
• Evented Github Adventure – Temporal queries, who doesn’t trust their hardware (Rob Ashton)
• Building Internet Explorer 10: a Browser that is Perfect for Touch (Roger Capriotti)

XAML

• MonoGame: Using Libraries with Windows Phone Projects (Simon Jackson)
• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 3–assembling the MVVMLight app (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #817 – Embedding a Font into Your Application (Sean Sexton)
• Android to Windows 8: Working with Key Value Pairs (Adam Grocholski)
• Adding secondary tiles to your app (Mehfuz Hossain)
• How to make Tab work inside a RichTextBox with Hyperlinks on Windows 8 (Robert Hedgate)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Better patching API for RavenDB: Creating New Documents (Oren Eini)
• Saving Data Across One-to-One Relationships (Beth Massi)
• Telerik OpenAccess ORM in action (Ivailo Ivanov)
• Basic universal reflection (Jon Harrop)
• Entity Framework Code First Fluent Validation (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #841 – Exceptions (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 1st principle of the Agile Manifesto 3.0 (Peter Gfader)
• The Business Model Canvas: Know Thy Business (Mike Walker)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Brave New World: Designing For A Maturing Android (A. Komarov & N. Yermolayev)
• C# To Objective-C – The Ultimate Guide (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Quick-Tip: Creating Grid Lines on the IGGridView (Objective-C) (Torrey Betts)
• Developing Mobile Applications with Force.com and Sencha Touch – Part 3 (Don Robins)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 095: Ruben Bolling and Nate DiMeo (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Hanselminutes – Bacon is bad for you – On Developer Monoculture with Garann Means (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone Central 159 – The Return! (Daniel Rubino)
• Developing in HTML5 and Javascript for Windows Phone | Inside Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro & Jeff Burtoft)
• The Changelog Episode 0.8.7 – Sustaining open source and building an open company with Chad Whitacre (Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp & Kenneth Reitz)
• Node PDX – Introducing Scott Hanselman, Tracy Abrahms, Matthew Lyons & J Chris Anderson (Adron Hall)
• 058 JSJ Building Accessible Websites with Brian Hogan (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Vergecast 077 – May 9th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 179 – 05.09.13 (James Trew)
• Developer Diaries: Erin Strange from Migration.Mobi | Developer Diaries (Laura Foy)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 89 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Game (and App) Jam, Windows 8 Style! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Philly Geek Awards: Returning on Saturday, August 17th, 2013! (Eric Smith)
• Yes, Xbox will be at Gamescom this year (Larry Hryb)
• Three reasons why we need more women in technology – How Microsoft empowers women (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• Using source data from an SSRS report in PowerPivot for Excel (Siddharth Mehta)
• SQL SERVER – Adding Column Defaulting to Current Datetime in Table (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• PowerShell function to create a password protected zip file (Daniel Schroeder)

Miscellaneous

• Scratch 2.0: programming for kids, now in the browser (Cory Doctorow)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 10, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 206 (Scott Banwart)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 9th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 9, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1125 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/10/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1353 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

• Introducing Objective Sharpie (Aaron Bockover)
• jQuery Migrate 1.2.1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• When To Comment Your Code (Steve Smith)
• Conversation #38– disrupt or die (Steven Sinofsky)

Web Development

• Developing a CRUD grid with IgniteUI, Node.js, Express, Mongoose, MongoDB and Nginx (Angel Todorov)
• Speed up Windows PHP Performance using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) (Ankit Asthana)
• Continuous Monitoring of JavaScript Code Complexity (Ariya Hidayat)
• How to Create a Toggle Switch in CSS3 (Craig Buckler)
• Debugging TypeScript Under DotNetNuke (Dave M. Bush)
• KendoUI + WebApi + Jsonp – How to get KendoUI working with WebApi and Jsonp (Jon Gallant)
• Working with TODO in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Screen Navigation and Advanced JavaScript Examples (Michael Washington)
• Custom MVC4 bundling for timezoneJS tz data (Rory Primrose)
• Here’s why you can’t trust SSL logos on HTTP pages (even from SSL vendors) (Troy Hunt)
• Responsive Retina-Ready Menu (Stéphanie Walter)
• Yeti 0.2.22 Released (Reid Burke)
• Designing the Octopus Deploy 2.0 HTTP API and Consistent error handling with Nancy (Paul Stovell)
• NancyFX – Revisiting Content Negotiation APIs (Part 2) (Phillip Haydon)

XAML

• An Overview of Expression Blend (Gradient Girl)
• More Metro… Syncfusion Metro Studio 2 released. 2500 icons, still free [reg-ware] (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #816 – Using a Font Dialog to Select Fonts (Sean Sexton)
• Sharing to your target app (Ishita Kapur)
• Store Certification Tip #11: Honoring all input modalities (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visualizing TFS Source History now with more source (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 C# Things #840 – Use an Anonymous Type as a Read-Only Subset of an Object (Sean Sexton)
• Make a shoot-em-up in 20 minutes (Seb Lee-Delisle)
• Entity Framework Code First Validation (Ricardo Peres)
• Creating Sortable Objects with IComparable and Planning Your Interface Strategy (Peter Vogel)
• Some thoughts on a comment about VS 2012.3 (Brian Harry)
• Utilize Roslyn to Create the Next Level Plugin Capability (Filip Ekberg)
• A console sink with property colouring (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Continuous Testing Feedback with Guard and Spork (Dave Burke)
• Merge Files with Git Merge Tool (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Gartner Says Smart Organizations Will Embrace Fast and Frequent Project Failure in Their Quest for Agility (JD Meier)
• Ditching two-phased commits (Jimmy Bogard)

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS XML Parser (Stephen Zaharuk)
• 7 Overlooked Features of Sencha Architect (Patrick Chu)
• C99 Initializer Syntax in Objective C (Jaco Pretorius)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Geeking Out on Nanotechnology (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 227 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett talks about Splunk (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 6) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Adding Authentication (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Prism for Windows Store Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 164: The Right Tablet Size (Paul Thurrott)
• Defrag: Explorer Won’t Run, Network Limited Access, Touch PC’s We Like | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

Community / Events

• Announcement: FREE LIVE Web Seminar—SharePoint2013: Key Strategies to Effectively Govern and Secure Sensitive Data (Joel Oleson)
• Nerd Nite No. 25, May 15, 2013 (Philly Nerd Nite Team)
• Geek of the Week: Local Musician Brad Podray (Chris Urie)
• Free Windows 8 App Development Training and Hackathon (Doris Chen)
• We’re going live from Google I/O (Emily Wood)

Database

• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #14 : script all data in a table (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – A New Approach to Scale .NET Applications (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Map/Reduce optimizations (Oren Eini)
• Modify a Power View Data Source (Koen Verbeeck)

SharePoint

• Reimagine SharePoint Development (Keenan Newton)

PowerShell

• Using Show-Command to make a simple UI for a non-PowerSheller (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Electronic Health Records – Still not good enough Part 2 (Bill Crounse)
• How two ‘Star Trek’ fans are restoring original series shuttlecraft (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• My Thoughts on the Microsoft Career Model – Do I have to get into management to be successful at Microsoft? (Jon Gallant)
• 10 Tips for Learning a New Technology (Pavan Podila)
• Neil Gaiman: I Would ‘Definitely Not’ Wear Google Glass (Pete Pachal)
• Bring out the GIMP: Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to become subscription-only (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading May 8, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1124 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 9, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/9/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1352 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

• Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live” CTP is now available (Brian Harry)
• Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 now available (Charles Sterling)
• scriptcs gets a REPL! (Glenn Block)
• Putting the Dynamic back into TypeScript (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB (Jason Gaylord)
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services – Part 1 (Larry Franks)
• Announcing Runtime Update 1 – Supporting jQueryMobile 1.3 (Heinrich Wendel)
• Absolute Center Images With CSS (Paul Underwood)
• How much REST should your web API get? (Jerome Louvel)
• HashKeyCopier – An AngularJS Utility Class For Merging Cached And Live Data (Ben Nadel)
• Evented Github Adventure – Who writes the sweariest commit messages (Rob Ashton)
• Use ECMAScript 6 Today (Sayanee Basu)
• AngularJS Abstractions: Organizing Modules (K. Scott Allen)
• Good Book for Learning Meteor: Discover Meteor (Stephen Walther)
• Defending Websites from XSS attacks with ModSecurity 2.7.3 and OWASP Core Rule Set 2.2.7 (Greg Wroblewski)
• A Collection of Page Transitions (Pedro Botelho)

XAML

• Building reactive XAML apps with ASP.NET SignalR and MVVM (Piotr Walat)
• 2000 WPF Things #815 – Filling a ListBox with a List of All Fonts (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – Expander (Richard Carr)
• Prism for Windows Runtime: Validating User Input (Francis Cheung)

Miscellaneous .NET

• The state of Rhino Mocks (Oren Eini)
• Fix: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 breaks Windows XP targeting with ATL and/or statically linking MFC (Eric Battalio)
• Peeking into NuGet packages with dotPeek (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using the Enterprise Library 6 Configuration Console with Visual Studio 2012 (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #839 – Anonymous Type Limitations (Sean Sexton)
• .NET Security Part 2 (Simon Cooper)
• Creating Secure .NET Applications (Sam Nasr)
• Fluent Kinect (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Downsizing: Why Agile Skills Improve a Project Manager’s Job Security (JD Meier)
• Embracing SCRUM and CMMI in TFS 2012 (Subodh Sohoni)
• Designing for touch screens (Daniela Panfili)
• Monitoring Tests – When This Runs Over (Wes McClure)
• The Perfect Project Status Report (Brad Egeland)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using custom Fonts in Xamarin.iOS (Michael James)
• Mobile Web versus Native Apps (Jaco Pretorius)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux: Inside Code Digger | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Ping 176: Windows Phone goes mainstream, Best ad ever, Facebook Beta app, MS exec makes a difference | Ping! and Windows Store Weekly- The Mothers Day Special | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – W. Kamau Bell (Chris Hardwick)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 16: Pitch Perfect with Daniel (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Engadget HD Podcast 348 – 05.07.13 (James Trew)
• Devnology Podcast 037 – James Robertson on the requirements process (Freek Leemhuis, Maarten Metz & Mendelt Siebenga)

Community / Events

• Seattle DotNet Startup Group: F# for Startups, Tuesday June 11 2013 (Don Syme)

Database

• Upgrading to SQL Server 2012 Express (Murali Krishnan)
• Extending SQL Server DDL Triggers for more functionality : Part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – RESEED Identity Column in Database Table – Rest Table Identity Value – SQL in Sixty Seconds #051 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Baseline Collection (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• Azure is the new SharePoint ‘layouts’ directory (Chris O’Brien)
• Optimizing SharePoint 2013 websites for mobile devices (Waldek Mastykarz)

Miscellaneous

• Smart Watches are finally going to happen – Pebble Watch Reviewed (Scott Hanselman)
• Office Web Apps update set to include real-time editing and Android tablet support (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, May 6th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 7th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 7, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Windows Dev News for May 07, 2013 – #0146 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #1351 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 8, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 May 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 7 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

• One ASP.NET: Nancy.Templates for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• An Editor Pattern for Knckout.js Using TypeScript Inheritance (Steve Michelotti)
• Producing permutations, part seven (Eric Lippert)
• Glimpse 1.3.1 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)

Web Development

• Windows Azure SQL Data Sync – The Maximum Limit For Index or Statistics Key Column List is 16 and Windows Azure SQL Data Sync – Optimizing The Initial Sync Process For Large Data Sets (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Adventures with JSONP and jQuery (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Build a Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Website From Scratch: CSS stylesheet (Annarita Tranfici)
• Using Windows Firewall to restrict access to Windows Azure instances (Tom Hollander)
• ASP.NET hosts six community created SPA templates now (Xinyang Qiu)
• Why JavaScript Is Doomed (John Sonmez)
• New Defaults In Web Design: How Much Has The Web Really Changed? (Vasilis van Gemert)
• XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Store Certification (Mark Arteaga)
• 10 CoffeeScript Features You Might Not Know (Jaco Pretorius)
• Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text 2 (Juri Strumpflohner)
• Reblogged: What should I learn to get started in .NET and web development? (Michael Kennedy)
• A Collection of Page Transitions (Pedro Botelho)
• How to move or archive your Napa app projects (Ricardo Loo)
• Attacking Web Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 5 Ways to Support High-Density Retina Displays (Craig Buckler)
• Are you a Developer looking for Office 365 directory APIs? (Edward Wu)

XAML

• To Do Today for Windows Phone 8 (Nigel Sampson)
• Integrating with the Windows Phone 8 Lock Screen (Christian Helle)
• Sometimes you just need a donut [chart]… Free ModernUI Charts for WPF, Windows Store Apps (and SilverLight too) (Greg Duncan)
• RSA cryptography between a WinRT and a .Net app (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #814 – You Can Specify a List of Fonts to Try (Sean Sexton)
• When does an app get resized? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• A Fluent Approach to Windows Store Tiles (Jeremy Likness)
• Background processing in Windows 8: Part 2: Allowing Windows 8 applications to execute in the background (Gill Cleeren)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Peeking into NuGet packages with dotPeek (Maarten Balliauw)
• Reading mouse input from a console program, and programmatically turning off Quick Edit mode (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #838 – Object and Collection Initializers as Parameters (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10 Ways to Make Agile Design More Effective (JD Meier)
• Open-Closed Principle in SOLID Object Orientation Rules Challenged (Jan Stenberg)
• Pretty good article advocating for a software testing degree (John Guin)
• Testing design: Testing users impressions of a design (Paul Boag)

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Infinite Scrolling (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Build Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build (Brian Rinaldi)
• Quick-Tip: Convert Coordinate System of a UIView (Torrey Betts)
• Getting in touch with TouchDevelop (Think "From What to Wow") (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 094: Director Chris Columbus and writer Ned Vizzini, authors of House of Secrets (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Pablo Santos Does DVCS with PlasticSCM (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 176: Windows Phone goes mainstream, Best ad ever, Facebook Beta app, MS exec makes a difference | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bob Saget (Chris Hardwick)
• Teaser Trailer: Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Coming July 2013) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Defrag Tools: #39 – Windows Performance Toolkit | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

• The Week Ahead: May 6th, 2013 and SQL Saturday Rochester – May 11th (Jim O’Neil)
• Introducing the Xamarin Speaker Program (Ryan Paul)

Database

• Upgrading to SQL Server 2012 Express (Murali Krishnan)
• SQLAuthority News – Sharding or No Sharding of Database – Working on my Weekend Project (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 2.5 Features: Import data to Excel (Oren Eini)
• Evented github adventure – database storage and backing up (Rob Ashton)

Miscellaneous

• What Microsoft is now saying (and not) about Windows Blue (Mary Jo Foley)
• Now in the Store: Hulu Plus for Windows Phone 8 (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading May 6, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1122 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #93 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1350 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 7, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/7/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for May 06, 2013 – #0145 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 6 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

• WinRT JS app guide: Introduction (Iris Classon)
• Using IntelliTrace With Entity Framework In Visual Studio 2012 (Peter Kellner)
• New .NET Debugging API Released (Keith Ward)
• The Tablet Show – State of Windows 8 Development at Code PaLOUsa (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

• Unheap.com: a Better jQuery Plugin Repository? (Craig Buckler)
• CSS Architectures: Refactor Your CSS (Denise Jacobs)
• The future is now – OWIN and multi-hosting ASP.NET web applications (Filip W)
• ASP.NET SignalR and LightSwitch (Matt Sampson)
• Automatically Declaring Namespaces in Javascript (namespaces.js) (Jon Davis)
• Upload Multiple Files to Azure Storage and Manage them from an ASP.NET MVC 4 Application (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Keeping diagnostics in sync across Windows Azure instances (Tom Hollander)
• Dynamically Creating Records In The LightSwitch HTML Client and Programmatically Constraining a List In a Popup (Michael Washington)
• The Benefits of a Reverse Proxy (Mike Hadlow)
• Introduction to Bootstrap in 3 Minutes (Paul Ballard)
• Designing Experiences for Responsive Web Sites (Rahul Lalmalani)
• How to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines (Steve Faulkner)
• REST lesson learned: Consider a self link on all resources (Mark Seemann)
• Introducing node-validation (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• White House Releases We the People API to the Public (Janet Wagner)
• Server WebSocket Clients, with Jetty (Tony Rasa)
• Infinite Scrolling: Let’s Get To The Bottom Of This (Yogev Ahuvia)
• My Blog: Creating a Custom Brand and Orchard Theme (Andrew Connell)
• Python Power Tools: virtualenvwrapper (Christopher Roach)
• Resources for Learning CoffeeScript (Jaco Pretorius)

XAML

• Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 1 (Adam Denning)
• Up Your Ratings on Windows Phone Apps Part 1 (Bill Reiss)
• XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample and XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Multiple Resolutions and XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: WebBrowser Control (Mark Arteaga)
• [Sample Of May 4th] Support multi-touch in WPF (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #813 – Applying TextDecorations in the Middle of a Block of Text (Sean Sexton)
• Kinect Interactions with(out) WPF – Part III: Demystifying the Interaction Stream (András Velvárt)
• Expanded developer opportunity – new payout markets and billing connections (Todd Brix)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Creating Fixed-Width Data Files (Richard Carr)
• Want a copy of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook for free in simple steps? (Abhishek Sur)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) ISOs available (Brian Harry MS)
• Announcing availability of ISOs for Visual Studio Updates (Eric Knox)
• Creating a WCF RIA Service for Visual Studio 2012 (Update 2 and higher) (Michael Washington)
• 2000 C# Things #837 – Object Initializers within Collection Initializers (Sean Sexton)
• StaleStateException for Entity with Assigned Id and Version in NHibernate (Sonya Rouje)
• [Sample Of May 5th] Drag-and-drop operations in Windows Forms (Philip Fu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How do you estimate on an Agile project? (ThoughtWorks)
• Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 5 (Johanna Rothman)
• Google’s Scaled Trunk Based Development (Paul Hammant)
• Creating Career Opportunities (JD Meier)
• Clean those folders on deploy. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Cloning test plans using Microsoft Test Manager (niveditabawa)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Taking a look at the various API levels available for Android (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 264: Hoop Somuah on Azure Services for Halo (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 475: Ted Price on Fuse and Michael Bien (Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon) (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 115 – “Elevator Twitch” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rooster Teeth (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog Episode 0.8.6 – Discourse, Ruby and more with Jeff Atwood (aka Coding Horror) (Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp & Kenneth Reitz)
• TWC9: WebMatrix 3, Azure SDK 2.0, EntLib 6, NuGet 2.5 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Ruby on Windows Azure, Web Sites Streaming Logs, and Brady Impersonates Elvis | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 2, Season 3 (Emmanuelle)
• Engadget Podcast 342 – 05.03.13 (James Trew)
• Edge Show 61 – System Center Advisor with System Center 2012 Operations Manager | Edge (Symon Perriman)

Community / Events

• I’m the newest Nokia Developer Ambassador! (Bill Reiss)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Data-Tier Application Framework (May 2013) (MS Downloads)
• Why Choose NoSQL and Document Databases over RDBMS (Michael Kennedy)
• SQL SERVER – sys.dm_xe_map_values – Reasons for Statement Recompilation and SQL SERVER – Azure SQL Databases Backup Made Easy with SQLBackupAndFTP (Pinal Dave)
• Raven’s Storage: Understanding the SST file format and Raven’s Storage: Memtables are tough (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Upgrading to the New SharePoint Online (C. Lake)
• Discovering the most popular items in a document library in SharePoint Online – Grid User Post (Josh T.)
• Solving WmiApRpl and BITS errors with SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 (Wesley Bakker)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell for SQL Server Analysis Services tasks – Part 1 (Daniel Calbimonte)

Miscellaneous

• Former Experience Designer for Windows Phone, Arturo Toledo, tells you why the new Facebook app is still very Modern (Daniel Rubino)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 5, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 6, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 205 (Scott Banwart)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 3rd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 3, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #62 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1121 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – May 3, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (May 3, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Windows Dev News for May 04, 2013 – #0143 and Windows Dev News for May 05, 2013 – #0144 (Geek Champ)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 6, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reblog: April 26 to May 2 and Weekly Digest 12 (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #027 (Pinal Dave)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 3 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #64) (Craig Kitterman)

The Geek Shelf

• Producing permutations, part six (Eric Lippert)
• Scott Hanselman: Ah, the thankless life of the Build Master (Devon Musgrave)
• Utilize Roslyn to create the next level plugin capability (Filip Ekberg)
• Working with UML class diagrams in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)

Web Development

• What is KnockoutJS? (DevToolsGuy)
• Open Source Plugin: Magnific Popup, A Truly Responsive Lightbox (For jQuery And Zepto.js) (Dmitry Semenov)
• Automatic Figure Numbering with CSS Counters (Hugo Giraudel)
• CSS loading behaviors when using WinJS page controls (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Preventing CSRF Hacks in ASP.NET WebAPI (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Infinite Scrolling: Let’s Get To The Bottom Of This (Yogev Ahuvia)
• Databus and Espresso (Kelly Sommers)
• REST lesson learned: Consider a home link on all resources (Mark Seemann)
• Less abstract, pumping data from Github into the EventStore (Rob Ashton)

XAML

• WPF Elements 6.0 Released! (Jason)
• Inside Windows Phone – Data binding (Larry Lieberman)
• Data Forms in your XAML LOB apps got you down? Let RadDataForm create your UI! (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #812 – Use TextDecorations Property to Underline or Strike Through Text (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Developing for Leap Motion in C# Tutorial (video, slides and code) (Iris Classon)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Three Tech.Pro Tutorials (James Michael Hare)
• 2000 C# Things #836 – Initializing a Generic List with an Object Initializer (Sean Sexton)
• Disable StyleCop settings for a project (Deepak Kapoor)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android DevBytes: Window Zoom Transitions (Mitch Pronschinske)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 226 – PowerScripting Podcast – The Virtual PC Guy Ben Armstrong talks virtualization and PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Hanselminutes – WordPress and Internet Security with Kellep Charles (Scott Hanselman)
• Video: Bring Your App Back to Life with Fast Resume in Windows Phone 8 (Paul Ballard)
• IWP54 | Windows Phone Data Binding and the Magic of XAML | Inside Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro & Larry Lieberman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rooster Teeth (Chris Hardwick)
• 057 JSJ Functional Programming with Zach Kessin (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Announcing TechEd Achievements (D. Begley & Karsten Januszewski)

Community / Events

• Why a Women In Technology Luncheon (Kathleen Dollard)
• Evolve 2013 Recap and Videos (Nat Friedman)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Data-Tier Application Framework (May 2013) (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #13 : reseed (reset) an IDENTITY column (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – DELETE From SELECT Statement – Using JOIN in DELETE Statement – Multiple Tables in DELETE Statement (Pinal Dave)
• Raven’s Storage: Understanding the SST file format (Oren Eini)
• Installing MongoDB on Windows and OS X (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• Discovering the most popular items in a document library in SharePoint Online – Grid User Post (Josh T.)

Miscellaneous

• My Thoughts on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft (Jon Gallant)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 2nd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 2, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1121 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-03 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 3, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1348 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 2 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 2 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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