Hurray! I am a Guinness World Record holder now

Live Reader Demo available on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d21pqewa6GY

My first windows 8 app Live Reader (http://flpbd.it/cbymb)  is listed under Top free apps in Windows 8 store :)

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 16-18, 2010

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult in controller tests - Gunnar Peipman
• ASP.NET MVC meets HTML5 - Gunnar Peipma
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Global action filters - Gunnar Peipman
• Named Routes with ASP.NET MVC - Dane Morgridge

Web Design

• The Future of the Internet - Dan Redding
• Thoughts About Redundancy In Web Design - Steven Bradley
• 40 Highly Effective FaceBook Business Pages - apaulandrew
• 3 Advanced CSS3 Techniques You Should Learn - Jacob Gube
• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.54 - apaulandrew
• Showcase Of Delicious Coffee Websites - Katie Thompson
• 25 Useful Videos and Presentations for Designers - Otba Mushaweh

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Validating Data in Silverlight 4 Applications - IDataErrorInfo - Dan Wahlin
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–I) - Kunal Chowdhury
• Debugging Silverlight in Firefox - Corey Miller
• Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

• NHibernating a WCF Data Service - Pablo M. Cibraro
• An alternative repository - Michel Grootjans
• Why SQL Server is better than any other RDBMS Applications? - pinal dave

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Using .Net WCF Syndication API to Read a Comments Feed - Gil Fink on .Net

Debugging & Testing

• Unit Testing Secure Controller Actions with Moq - mikeceranski
• Two different ways to create bad logic in unit tests - Roy Osherove
• RESTful WCF Service – How to get browser version at server code - Denis Gladkikh

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• Coding Without A Net - Coding without comments - Jesse Liberty
• Hydrating Objects With Expression Trees - Part I - Paulo Morgado
• Customizing process guidance for Team Foundation Server 2010 - Charles Sterling
• New Scrum Process Template for Team Foundation Server Online Presentation - Charles Sterling
• API Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid Common REST Mistakes - Tomas Vitvar

Visual Studio

• Advanced Code Diff from within Visual Studio - Patrick Smacchia
• Visual Studio Add-in for Windows 7 Taskbar extras - Kate Gregory

Cloud Computing

• Opening a Windows Azure and SQL Azure Introductory Special Account - rj

Others

• jQuery Mobile Announced; Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets - Dion Almae
• Windows Phone Design Day Recordings - Jaime Rodriguez
• Startup - Week 1 Recap - Justin Etheredge
• The Perfect Development Environment - ERIC BIELLER
• 8 eyetracking studies from the web’s biggest blogs

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 8-10, 2010

Web Development

• How WebMatrix, Razor, ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC fit together - David Ebbo
• Microsoft WebMatrix in Context and Deploying Your First Site - Scott Hanselman
• Complete Beginner's Guide to Web Analytics and Measurement - Andrew Maier
• Introduction to WebImage - Matthew M. Osborn
• Determining an ASP.NET Page’s View State Footprint - Scott Mitchell
• ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & JSON - Dane Morgridge

Web Design

• Great Ways to Learn jQuery - Marc Grabanski
• Complete Toolbox: 55 CSS Menu And Button Coding Tutorials - Daniels Mekšs
• Collection of jQuery Image Sliders - Mark Abucayon
• 250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 2) - Jacob Gube
• Useful jQuery Tutorials for June 2010 - Ajaxline
• 18 Brilliant Pure CSS Drawings - Kevin
• Generic Activity Indicator for Ajax Requests - Rey Bango
• Your design sucks - Paul Boag
• Designing A Facebook Fan Page: Showcases, Tutorials, Resources - Julia May

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• An Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight 4 – Part 1 - Mike Taulty
• Three essential plugins for Expression Blend - Avivo
• Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

• Top Ten Questions and Answers on Data - msdn
• Defensive Query Tuning: slides and scripts from my presentation - Alexander Kuznetsov
• Network compression and database mirroring - Simon Sabin
• Using Data Access Application Block (DAAB) - Part 2 - Arshad Ali
• SQL SERVER – The Self Join – Inner Join and Outer Join - Pinaldave
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extending LINQ – Adding Query Operators - Scott Mitchell
• OData Explorer - Gil Fink

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Custom Query Options on the WCF Data Services Client - Marcelo Lopez Ruiz
• Using WIF with Workflow Services - Zulfiqar

Debugging & Testing

• IntelliTrace and unfamiliar code - Cameron Skinner
• Unit Tests and LINQ Queries - K. Scott Allen

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• A Beginner’s Guide to Design Patterns - Nikko Bautista
• Modern programming: A tale of four frameworks - Jim Galasyn
• Named Arguments versus Object Initializers - K. Scott Allen
• Agile in the Enterprise - Mike Cottmeyer
• A short diagramed guide of a few Model-View-* patterns - Greg Duncan

Visual Studio

• TFS Event Handler for Team Foundation Server 2010 - Martin Hinshelwood
• dotCover 1.0 Beta Released - JetBrains

Cloud Computing

• Thinking of Moving to the Cloud? Get Free Compute Time with Windows Azure - Joey deVilla
• Windows Azure Free eBook - DotNut
• Introduction to Data Sync Service for SQL Azure - Wayne Walter Berry
• Does Azure Debugging Cost Too Much? - Jonathan Allen

Others

• Firefox 4 Beta - Mozilla
• How to use the MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7 - Laurent Bugnion
• Don’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data - Rob Tiffany

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 5-7, 2010

Web Development

• Introducing “Razor” – a new view engine for ASP.NET MVC - Scott Gu
• Dynamic Views in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Greg Shackles
• How Can I Determine The Current Controller or Action in an Html Helper - Steve Smith
• Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the "Velocity" Memory Cache in 10 minutes - Scott Hanselman
• Using ViewModel information in an ASP.NET MVC 2 Editor or Display template - Jon Galloway
• How to Make a Tag Cloud in ASP.NET MVC - Lakario
• ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Areas - Brian Mains

Web Design

• 40 Tasty Restaurant Websites to Inspire You - gmuller
• iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS - Graphic Peel
• WTF is HTML5 and why we should all care - Infographic
• Saving Bandwidth and Improving Site Speed Using CSS Sprites - Jacob Gube

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight for Symbian Platform , What about Windows Mobile ??.. - Senthil Kumar
• Prism Training Kit: Beta Version Available - Damian Schenkelman
• Introducing Sterling, the Object-Oriented Database for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 - Jeremy Likness
• Silverlight/WPF: Don’t name elements unless you have to: why x:Naming everything is bad - Pete Brown
• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (5–Authentication) - Mike Taulty
• Adding MVVM Light Toolkit to an Existing Project - Chris Koenig
• Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel using the COM Object - KunalChowdhury
• Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

• SSIS gotcha: Beware of multiple outputs from a synchronous script component - jaminet
• Using TransactionScope with SQLite - Jan Van Ryswyck

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Loading WCF Data Services Ajax Script Library - Gil Fink

Testing

• Unit testing custom StyleCop rules using Typemock Isolator - Dror Helper
• Speed Test: Static vs Instance Methods - Richard Carr

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• Workshop Planning Framework – The Six P’s - J.D. Meier
• Outsourcing Doesn’t Work - Amber
• 10 Things I Learned In Web School - Luke Wroblewski
• The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk. - Jocelyn K. Glei
• Client Rejection – Why No Means Nothing - Chandler Quintin
• Extreme LINQ, building a RayTracer - Coding4Fun
• What is a PM? - J.D. Meier
• .NET Enumerated Types Explained - B. James

Visual Studio

• A cross-platform story – Visual Studio solution in MonoDevelop - Dennis Delimarsky
• VS 2010 Productivity Improvements, Part IV - Somasegar

Cloud Computing

• SQL Azure Partitioning Pattern - J.D. Meier
• Now Available: Microsoft Windows Azure Guide - J.D. Meier
• Archive and Mine Tweets In Azure Blobs with The Archivist Application from MIX Online Labs - rj
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/2/2010+ - rj

Others

• 10 Most Common Health Hazards of Freelancing - Samar Owais
• SharePoint Product Team Shares Their Favorite 2010 Feature - Dux Raymond Sy

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 28-30, 2010

Web Development

• Web Application Extensibility with FubuMVC (Part 2) - Jeremy D. Miller
• Using ASP.NET's ActionResult to Abstract Dependencies - Jeffrey Palermo
• Checking Client Download Success with ASP.NET MVC - OdeToCode
• Default Encoding of Strings in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Steve
• Online Payments Using PayPal- Integration with ASP.NET - BangaruBabu
• Planning your E-Commerce Website - Jacob Gube

Web Design

• The Complete Web Design Style Series (700 Designs in 14 Categories) - apaulandrew
• 40 Creative 404 Error Pages to Inspire You - gmuller
• A Closer Look at Hierarchy in Web Design - Kyala Knight
• Psychological Study of Web Designs - Jenny Warner
• 5 jQuery Calendar Plugins that can be used on Websites - Suprotim Agarwal
• Great jQuery Screencasts to Learn From - Nicole Dominguez
• 9 Principles of Logo Design - Seth DeMaio
• Becoming a Great Web Developer - Marc Grabanski
• jQuery UI 1.9 Milestone 2 – Menu - Jörn Zaeffere
• Quick Tip: You Need to Check out LESS.js - Jeffery Way

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• HTTP duplex messaging improvements in Silverlight 4 - Yavor Georgiev
• Creating A Silverlight Blog That Doesn’t Suck - Jesse Liberty
• Silverlight Cream for June 27, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

• SQL For .Net Developers – Entity Framework 4 Second Cycle Slide Deck - Gil Fink
• SQL SERVER – Default Statistics on Column – Automatic Statistics on Column -pinal dave
• Bulk processing with NHibernate - Jimmy bogard

Web Service & Related Technologies

• WCF Concurrency (Single, Multiple and Reentrant) and Throttling - Shivprasad koirala
• RIA Services and Authentication - Nikhil Kothari

Testing

• Troubleshooting Network Emulation - Nkamkolkar
• 20+ Online Tools for Website Validation and Testing - Siva Kumar

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0: And Much, Much More… - Jennifer Marsma
• Single Assignment & readonly Fields in C# - Sankarsan
• Lazy Initializer : C# 4.0 - Dotnetfunda
• Optimizing Regular Expression Performance, Part I: Working with the Regex Class and Regex Objects - Ron Petrusha
• The Task Parallel Library Series - Data Parallelism - Steve Strong
• Would You Hire Yourself? - Brain

Visual Studio

• Patch for Cut/Copy ‘Insufficient Memory’ issue with VS 2010 - Scott Guthrie
• Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance - CodePlex
• Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2010 - Umair Saeed

Cloud Computing

• Azure and High Scale Compute -wzack
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/25/2010+ - rj

Others

• PowerShell running in Dotnet 4 - Karl Prosse
• Launchlist: A one stop website checklist - launchlist.net