Emad's Blog

Presidential inauguration will be streamed using Microsoft Silverlight: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jan09/01-16PICMSSilverlightPR.mspx

Why Oslo is important: http://dvanderboom.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/why-oslo-is-important/

Firebug 1.3 released: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Top 25 most dangerous programming mistakes: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001210.html

100 Interview Questions for software developers: http://www.noop.nl/2009/01/100-interview-questions-for-software-developers.html  – These are more like conversation starters.

Microsoft’s Marketing strategy during the economic tough times: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/marketing/can_microsoft_sell_value_in_tough_times.html

VSeWSS 1.3 CTP for VS2008: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=428&DownloadID=15946

Innovation and entrepreneurship course from MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-351Spring-2008/CourseHome/index.htm

Building and deploying ASP.NET applications within MOSS 2007 using VS2008 and VSeWSS 1.2 : http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/06/07/updated-building-a-simple-asp-net-page-based-sharepoint-application-in-visual-studio-with-the-visual-studio-extensions-for-wss-1-2-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx

Create a SharePoint Slipstream with latest updates: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/08/how-to-create-a-sharepoint-slipstream-using-the-latest-updates.aspx

Tips for a technical presentation: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TipsForPreparingForATechnicalPresentation.aspx

PDC 2008 sessions videos: https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx

Creative Thinking techniques: http://www.creativethinking.net/WP03_Techniques.htm

Creative Thinking exercises: http://www.creativethinking.net/WP04_Exercises.htm

Collection of cheat sheets: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/

More Cheat sheets for developers: http://refcardz.dzone.com/home?page=1

Free E-book about Entity Framework: http://weblogs.asp.net/zeeshanhirani/archive/2008/12/05/my-christmas-present-to-the-entity-framework-community.aspx

Collection of free technical e-books :http://www.freetechbooks.com/  (Note: this is a repository of links to e-books offered and hosted by many different web sites)

.NET technical forecast for 2009: http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/01/02/NETTechnicalForecast2009.aspx

8 bug trends for the future: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2009/01/02/eight-big-trends.aspx

Key software trends: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/09/17/key-software-trends.aspx

Remove unnecessary SharePoint lists and libraries from search to improve relevancy : http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=8d9e2a99%2Df288%2D47c2%2D916b%2D2f32864f7b82&ID=152

Using SQL 2008 with SharePoint 2007: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc990273.aspx 

Database maintenance for SharePoint 2007 : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262731.aspx

Application architecture Guide v2.0 Final release: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=20586

What Makes A Good Software Tester?  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd252951.aspx

Best Practices For Windows Workflow Foundation Applications: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd252947.aspx

Beware of "too much" logging, it can cause its own problems: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001192.html

Free e-book (17 pages) about getting results in software development: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/12/10/the-zen-of-results-free-e-book.aspx

Example architecture of a SharePoint site with a single server: http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM103360091033

Beware of the defaults in a SharePoint installation, "defaults have faults" : http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d%2D183c%2D4fc2%2D8320%2Dba5369008acb&ID=143

Another related article explaining some of the defaults: http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/11/default-install-configuration.aspx

Best practices for SharePoint capacity management: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335963.aspx

SharePoint Designer references and tutorials: http://www.shareesblog.com/?p=242