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1. Find & Purchase Data Subscriptions | Windows Azure Marketplace
2. Would A Ponzi By Any Other Name Smell As Bad? | ZeroHedge
3. Troy Hunt: ASP.NET session hijacking with Google and ELMAH
4. Troy Hunt: Free eBook: OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers
5. StructureMap and ASP.NET MVC 3 – Getting Started
6. CuBox
7. Unit Testing Myths and Practices
8. This Photograph Is Not Free
9. Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
10. Programming Isn’t Fun Any More
11. Matt Wrock’s Blog | Microsoft blogging platform gains 33% performance boost after adopting RequestReduce
12. Matt Wrock’s Blog | Adopt RequestReduce and see immediate Yslow and Google Page Speed score improvements not to mention a faster site!
13. The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code – Joel on Software
14. Developer declares ‘I am done with the Freemium Business Model’ | ITworld
15. University accuses Oracle of extortion, lies, ‘rigged’ demo in lawsuit | The Industry Standard – InfoWorld
16. calvin.jpg (JPEG Image, 900×628 pixels)
17. NuGet Package of the Week #10 – New Mobile View Engines for ASP.NET MVC 3, spec-compatible with ASP.NET MVC 4 – Scott Hanselman
18. The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives – Forbes
19. Everything for free, always: how Facebook ads show us the sad state of the Internet
20. Eight Different Ways to Transfer Data from One Page to Another Page
21. Stop using AutoMapper in your Data Access Code | Blog | DevTrends
22. Visual Representation of SQL Joins – CodeProject®
23. I, Interface – CodeProject®
24. MVC Techniques with JQuery, JSON, Knockout and C# – CodeProject®
25. The 11 Best Science Books of 2011 | Brain Pickings
26. Alexander Beletsky’s Development Blog: Using ASP.NET MVC Validation Mechanism without ASP.NET MVC
27. Amazon.com: The Flinch eBook: Julien Smith: Kindle Store
28. Best Practices for Handling Transient Conditions in SQL Azure Client Applications | Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT)
29. jQuery UI Development & Planning Wiki / Template-Comparison
30. ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor – ScottGu’s Blog
31. High-Performance ASP.NET Caching — Visual Studio Magazine
32. Free Databases in the Window Azure Marketplace — Visual Studio Magazine
33. Duck Programming
34. Writing an automatic debugger in 15 minutes (yes, a debugger!) « TripleEmcoder
35. Creating Bookmarklets for Fun and Profit | Think Vitamin
36. Math doesn’t suck, you do.
37. – tatiyants.com
38. A geek with a hat » Why programmers work at night
39. ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress
40. SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide – TechNet Articles – Home – TechNet Wiki
41. 6 Books Every Programmer Should Own
42. 10 Websites On How To Be A Better Programmer
43. A Professor explained Marketing to MBA students « Pulkit Arora
44. 91 Ways to become the Coolest Developer in the World « Pulkit Arora
45. Orchard Project
46. Extensions – Ninject
47. Chapter 1 – Welcome to the Library
48. Microsoft in 2011: How 13 Big Developments Shaped the Tech Giant
49. HTML EMAIL BOILERPLATE v 0.5 updated 11/5
50. Conditional Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3
51. ASP.NET MVC Diagnostics Using NuGet
52. Conversion from type ‘Object’ to type ‘String’ is not valid. : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
53. How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award – .NET & Funky Fresh – Devlicio.us – Just the Tasty Bits
54. Projects | code.nasa.gov
55. Progressively enable the mobile web with ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML5, and jQuery Mobile | BUILD2011 | Channel 9
56. Code First Migrations: Beta 1 ‘With-Magic’ Walkthrough (Automatic Migrations) – ADO.NET team blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
57. Code First Migrations: Beta 1 Released – ADO.NET team blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
58. Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012 – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review
59. Signs that you are a bad programmer (Bad Programmers)
60. This is why I don’t give you a job – Andor Jakab
61. A Shiny New Me • HTML5 Boilerplate In Visual Studio 2010
62. 9GAG – Can live with them can’t f**k without them

• January 13, 2012
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1. Dan Ariely: How to Pay People – Businessweek
2. Matt Wrock’s Blog | Unit Testing ASP.Net Http Handlers and a discussion of Auto Mocking and the Testable pattern
3. Simple Producer Consumer With Tasks And .NET 4
4. QUnit layout for JavaScript testing in ASP.net MVC3
5. Using QUnit with Razor Layouts
6. Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
7. HTML5 Forms with ASP.NET MVC and MvcContrib.FluentHtml | User InExperience
8. Licensing and Maintenance Terms – PostSharp
9. Really silly things to do with C# expression trees | Ryan Rauh’s Blog
10. Csajoknak! Egy ruha, tízféleképp | Nemkutya.com
11. Home: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
12. Nadeem Afana’s blog · ASP.NET MVC 3 Internationalization
13. Amazon.com: The Flinch eBook: Julien Smith: Kindle Store
14. 5 ways to view documents online without signing up | Tech Tips
15. Writing an automatic debugger in 15 minutes (yes, a debugger!) « TripleEmcoder
16. Some guidelines for a first time MVC developer : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
17. Dumping Objects Using Expression Trees – Paulo Morgado
18. InfoQ: Domain Driven Design Quickly

• December 16, 2011
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1. 7stacks | Alastria Software
2. WebSequenceDiagrams.com – Draw and Edit Sequence Diagrams in seconds
3. Custom remote Validation in MVC 3 : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
4. jQuery Time Entry with Time Navigation Keys – Rick Strahl’s Web Log
5. MSDN Blogs
6. Article Viewer
7. AutoCollage 2008
8. Framework Design Guidelines Digest v2 – Krzysztof Cwalina – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
9. Portable Library Tools – Visual Studio Gallery
10. Kodu – Microsoft Research
11. Moodle.org: Download standard packages
12. First, Understand Your Screen « James Pearce
13. Tyranny of the Tools
14. 9GAG – How to Teach Yourself Programming
15. Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
16. The World According to LINQ – ACM Queue
17. Dropdownlist with check boxes or multi-select (mvc3/jquery)? : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
18. Chosen – a JavaScript plugin for jQuery and Prototype – makes select boxes better
19. FUCK PASSWORDS – Blog – December 2011 – veekun: fuzzy notepad
20. 9GAG – Trust me, I’m an engineer
21. Custom Basic Authentication for RESTful services – Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)
22. InterKnowlogy Blogs » Blog Archive » ASP.NET Universal Providers
23. Custom Basic Authentication for IIS
24. Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery | ZDNet

• December 9, 2011
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1. Razor View Engine in MVC 3
2. Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining « Uncrunched
3. Navigating OData and WCF Data Services – CodeGuru
4. The right tool for the job | Growin’ up
5. 10 things to love about Windows 8 | TechRepublic
6. Open Source.NET — Visual Studio Magazine
7. ASP.NET Wire Format for Model Binding to Arrays, Lists, Collections, Dictionaries – Scott Hanselman
8. 9 Things That Motivate Employees More Than Money | Inc.com
9. Easier Is Better Than Better – Smashing Magazine
10. Asynchronous Programming – Pause and Play with Await
11. Asynchronous Programming – Easier Asynchronous Programming with the New Visual Studio Async CTP
12. Asynchronous Programming – Async Performance: Understanding the Costs of Async and Await
13. ASP.NET: Prevent IIS 7.5 from overriding custom error pages with IIS default error pages | Jan Jonas’ blog
14. T4 Templates: A Quick-Start Guide for ASP.NET MVC Developers – Web Development Tools @ Microsoft – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
15. Free eBook – Razor View Engine in MVC 3 – Greg’s Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day
16. Expression Tree Serialization – Home
17. Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re Wrong | Nettuts+
18. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2011UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx

• December 2, 2011
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1. FOODS
2. LINQ Between Operator – Stack Overflow
3. Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager – GeekWire
4. Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – Tournament-Database
5. Chess This Is Sparta!!
6. Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better – Scott Hanselman
7. MongoDB vs. RDBMS Schema Design
8. How Mature Is Your Continuous Integration? « James Betteley’s Devops Ramblings
9. UK unemployment: Meet the British bosses who say ‘give us foreign workers every time’ | Mail Online
10. Attempting to solve the INotifyPropertyChanged problem – simoncropp’s posterous
11. SQL Server 2012 RC News – Nick MacKechnie – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
12. SirSQL.net – Blog – Your "Five Nines" Means Nothing To Me
13. You Guys Are Millionaires Right? | Shifty Jelly’s blog of mystery

• November 25, 2011
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1. Introduction to PRISM – Online Training Course for .NET Developers
2. Free Databases in the Window Azure Marketplace — Visual Studio Magazine
3. Download: {0} – Microsoft Download Center – Download Details – Windows Azure Platform Training Kit
4. The Secret to Success at Work: Stop Working | Psychology Today
5. Author Guidelines – SQLServerCentral
6. How can I display the result of a View in a popup window? : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
7. Razor, Nested Layouts and Redefined Sections – Marcin On ASP.NET – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
8. Convert text into PDF using ASP.NET and C# – CodeProject
9. How to handle errors in ASP.NET MVC | jgauffin's coding den
10. Rands In Repose: How Can I Help You?
11. WhatsNewNET45-en.png (PNG Image, 4448×3145 pixels) – Scaled (26%)
12. jgauffin's coding den – Thoughts and ideas about architecture and programming (in c#/.net) | jgauffin's coding den
13. Quote by Marilyn Monroe: "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I ma…"
14. Being IN in LINQ to SQL – Or How I learned to Love Contains (aka Getting Linq to SQL to generate a T-SQL WHERE clause that includes an IN) – Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day
15. Everything SQL Server Compact: SQL Compact 3rd party tools
16. unfinished work – I Believe In The Internet – The Content Industry Doesn't
17. .NET Framework Libraries
18. Founder's Blog – Jitbit: "90% of your users are idiots"
19. Founder's Blog – Jitbit: Go Get A Cofounder [Mistakes I Made #5]
20. Using T4 to generate Configuration classes
21. Using T4 to Auto Generate web.config Files | Fryer Blog

• November 18, 2011
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1. SerialSeb: Why Mock frameworks suck, and how to write delegate-based test doubles
2. Mocks and Stubs – The difference is in the flow of information – Blog – Osherove
3. Mocks Aren't Stubs
4. Configuring Relationships with Fluent API
5. Some myths of 'Textbook-TDD', and why they are wrong
6. Mocking Comparison – Part 1: The Basics : Richard Banks – Agile and .NET
7. A delicious toolbox
8. The Pragmatic Bookshelf | PragPub 2011-11 | Self-Inflicted Scope Creep
9. Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman
10. Seeing the SQL Generated by LINQ to Entity Queries — Visual Studio Magazine
11. I am a programmer | jacquesmattheij.com
12. Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
13. Monitoring SQL Server database transaction log space
14. MSSQLTips Contribute
15. 9GAG – Seems legit
16. 20 Innovative Startups
17. Setup – App Inventor for Android
18. 25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools – AndiSmith.com
19. Field Level Auditing using Change Data Capture – Part 2 – SQLServerCentral
20. Update 4.0.2 for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – Runtime Update
21. Building HTML5 Applications – Better Web Forms with HTML5 Forms
22. Universal Type Extender – CodeProject
23. My 3 Favorite Connection String Tips | Brent Ozar PLF | Brent Ozar PLF
24. mvc-mini-profiler – A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET and WCF – Google Project Hosting
25. Home // Think Like (a) Git
26. On Programming Deadlines – Randall Degges
27. A List Apart: Articles: Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design
28. Roach Motel – Dark Patterns
29. Store / Xamarin
30. Extending DataTables Range Filter – CodeProject
31. Rapid Prototyping For Any Device With Foundation – Smashing Coding
32. ASP.NET MVC: Expression Trees as Parameter to Simplify Query – CodeProject
33. HTML Parsing with JavaScript – davidflanagan.com
34. JavaScript in the small | Ola Bini: Programming Language Synchronicity
35. Extension Method to help with EF Code First updating – CodeProject
36. nVLC – CodeProject
37. Fast Track to the Mobile App – Windows Phone App Design Challenge by Core77
38. WCF Data Services Providers – CodeGuru
39. How To Successfully Compete With Open Source Software
40. Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications: MicroISV on a Shoestring
41. Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics For Maximizing Productivity | Kalzumeus Software
42. Developers and Professionalism – Girl Developer
43. Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1 – Scott Hanselman
44. NuGet gallery
45. galaktor's blawg

• November 11, 2011
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1. New cool list of Linux must-have programs
2. calvin.jpg (JPEG Image, 900×628 pixels)
3. Google App Inventor – CodeProject
4. My 3 Favorite Connection String Tips | Brent Ozar PLF | Brent Ozar PLF
5. Fast Track to the Mobile App – Windows Phone App Design Challenge by Core77
6. Author information in search results – Webmaster Tools Help
7. NuGet – Manage Project Libraries with NuGet
8. Ubuntu One : Downloads : Windows : More Info
9. mvc-mini-profiler – A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET and WCF – Google Project Hosting
10. Home // Think Like (a) Git
11. On Programming Deadlines – Randall Degges
12. A List Apart: Articles: Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design
13. I am a programmer | jacquesmattheij.com
14. Roach Motel – Dark Patterns
15. Store / Xamarin
16. Extending DataTables Range Filter – CodeProject
17. Rapid Prototyping For Any Device With Foundation – Smashing Coding
18. ASP.NET MVC: Expression Trees as Parameter to Simplify Query – CodeProject
19. 4.3 Scripting — HTML Standard
20. HTML Parsing with JavaScript – davidflanagan.com
21. JavaScript in the small | Ola Bini: Programming Language Synchronicity
22. Extension Method to help with EF Code First updating – CodeProject
23. nVLC – CodeProject
24. Getting Started: Syntax Analysis
25. WCF Data Services Providers – CodeGuru
26. How To Successfully Compete With Open Source Software
27. Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications: MicroISV on a Shoestring
28. Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics For Maximizing Productivity | Kalzumeus Software
29. Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
30. Developers and Professionalism – Girl Developer
31. Building HTML5 Applications – Better Web Forms with HTML5 Forms
32. shanselman / Psuedoizer / overview — Bitbucket
33. Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1 – Scott Hanselman
34. NuGet gallery
35. galaktor’s blawg
36. Setup – App Inventor for Android

• November 4, 2011
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1. ASP.NET MVC Tabular Display Template

2. Manipulating Action Method Parameters
3. New cool list of Linux must-have programs
4. ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Overview
5. Foarte mic inventar de metode prin care noi, femeile, distrugem viata barbatilor | Jurnal roz de cazarmă și nu numai
6. calvin.jpg (JPEG Image, 900×628 pixels)
7. Why I Don’t Use the GPL – Radar or get the…
8. Local Storage – Dive Into HTML5
9. So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users – Microsoft Research
10. SVG World Map – CodeProject
11. JQuery Templates/View Engines in ASP.NET MVC – CodeProject
12. Google App Inventor – CodeProject
13. MSDN Magazine: Mobile Matters – Make Money with the Microsoft Ad Control
14. The Working Programmer – Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 10: Choosing an Approach
15. Producers
16. MSDN Magazine: MVC Filters – Easily Add Performance Counters to Your MVC Application
17. code · Video for Everybody!
18. Asynchronous Programming – Async Performance: Understanding the Costs of Async and Await
19. Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools – Smashing UX Design

• October 28, 2011
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1. 10 security problems you might not realize you have | TechRepublic
2. HTML to PDF Converter | amitpatelit
3. .NET Object Viewer Popup Control – TechNet Gallery
4. Export Tabular Data in PDF Format through the Web – CodeProject
5. ISO to USB
6. Never Mind the Controller, Here is the Orchestrator
7. Adding a Graphical Front End to your PowerShell Scripts
8. C# Snippet Tutorial – How to Get an Enum from a Number | Switch on the Code
9. The Parable of the Two Programmers
10. Cast<Customer>() causes exception – microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp | Google Groups covariance
11. Generic Operators
12. Copy Linq objects – microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp | Google Groups
13. creating ExecuteQuery method – microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp | Google Groups
14. Dependency Injection is Evil
15. Determine an Image’s Type using the JavaScript FileReader
16. WebSockets – MSDN UK Team blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
17. How to Build a Pinned Site in Less than 5 Minutes
18. Creating a Metro style app for banking
19. HTML5 Forms with ASP.NET MVC and MvcContrib.FluentHtml | User InExperience
20. The Labs | SQL Azure Labs
21. HTML5Labs – Info

• October 21, 2011
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