IDFLinkable 2012-Feb-05

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Random surfing goodness I found worth a deep read lately. Enjoy.

#FLDEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY
Southern Most Developer Group Meeting - Key West via @bytemaster
NHL Pro 12 via NeuralNet
Zombie Apocalype via beatonpath - a product of @billreiss's XNA Winter Games
Disintegration by Agile Graham - youtube
Tampa Makes Kiplinger Top Ten Cities to Start a Business - https://www.kiplinger.com

ON THINGS MICROSOFT
WINDOWS PHONE
More JSON with Windows Phone - Dani Diaz
Understanding the Required Artwork for Your Window Phone Application - Dave Bost
Google offers Pinnable Tile for Windows Phone 7 - https://www.wpcentral.com/google-search-comes-around-offers-pinnable-tile-windows-phone and How They Did It - via Russell Beattie
Windows Phone Ad Control Primer - MSDN Mag 2011-July
Nokia's Plans to Dominate the World - wpcentral
Smoked by Windows Phone Day #1 Recap - windowsteamblog
Shawn Wildermuth's new WP75 Dev book on Kindle for $9.99 - amazon
Nokia 710 - TMobile Home, TMobile Commercial
Touch Fireworks from Kory Blynn in Washington DC - DPE East Region Phone Garage App
Troubleshooting List for Updating Your Windows Phone OS - https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2484484 
NYTimes likes Windows Phone - https://www.nytimes.com
Taptitude Closing in on the $100k mark - https://www.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-game-taptitude-hits-100k-mark 

WEB
Rachel Appel - Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC Views
Jennifer Marsiman's HTML5 in Five Minutes PDF - ddj

WIN8
Visual Studio 2011 Training Kit - microsoft
World without Plugins - Metro Browser - ddj
Building a Win8 RSS Reader - VS Mag
Windows 8 Store for Developers - windowsstore blog 

JUST CAUSE
NASA plus Robot plus Kinect SDK - Oh My! - https://gizmodo.com/5880506/the-two+ton-robot-that-can-leap-over-asteroids
How Kinect Works - https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/microsoft-kinect.htm
How Kinect Works PPT from Gamefest 2011 - https://www.microsoft.com/download
Cramer on MSFT - https://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000068514 
Jan 2012 Tiobe Languages Index - https://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html 
Using PowerCfg to Evaluate System Energy Efficiency - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463250 

THE OTHER GUYS
How to escape from google once and for all - gizmodo
How Apple is Sabotaging and Open Standard for Digital Books - https://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott