In the process of rebuilding my desktop.  Got Google Chrome and Live Writer installed this morning in time to do my link blog entry …

Other

• Interview With Ward Cunningham
• How to edit any .NET assembly even if you don't have the source code
• Windows Defender Offline: faq, Rob Margel
• Team Foundation Service Updates – 5/15, Brian Harry
• Metro Accelerator Labs – Speeding Your App Development, Chris Bowen
• Only Good Developers Write Bad Code, Nate Taylor

Code to look at

• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Updates in May, 2012 and [Sample of May 15th] C++ Windows Shell context menu handler, Jialiang Ge
• Send mail using ASP.NET with C# and Open PDF file in new browser tab using ASP.NET with C#, amit_sanandiya from morbi

Data Access

• EF5 Release Candidate Available on NuGet

Web

• 6 Guidelines when Wireframing Web Apps
• 5 Cool Web Services You Probably Never Heard About
• CSS3 tutorials & techniques for creating buttons
• DropDownList and SelectListItem Array Item Updates in MVC, Rick Strahl
• Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3, Logging, and Depency Injection, Bil Simser
• Chrome is better, Dave Winer

Mobile

• PhoneGap Build welcomes Windows Phone 7 and Daily WP7 Development News 15 May 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #8: Alarms and Reminders, Glen Gordon

Database

• NEW SQL Server 2012 resources, Nikosan
• SQL SERVER – SQL in Sixty Seconds – 5 Videos from Joes 2 Pros Series – SQL Exam Prep Series 70-433, Pinal Dave

Architecture

• Book Review (Book 11) - Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform, Buck Woody

Cloud Computing

• Daily Cloud Feed – May 15, 2012
• Domain Verification for the Amazon Simple Email Service and AWS Cloud Storage for the Enterprise, AWS Blog

Career

• Consulting essentials: Managing & Completing Engagements
• Freelancer's Mistakes : Let's work better guys
• Self-Renewal
• How To Make Decisions, JD Meier
• The Secrets to Clay Christensen's Success, Scott Anthony

Business

• Made in New York: Mayor Bloomberg Unveils Map of Tech Startups
• How To Find Startup Ideas
• NetSuite Moves to 'Commerce as a Service'
• Think Twice Before Starting a Company
• CloudTop wins MIT $100K, Kyle Alspach
• 7 Ways Entrepreneurs Will Ride Crowdfunding's Ripple Effect, Entrepreneur.com

Innovation

• The Hierarchy of Innovation
• Live from Front End of Innovation 2012: Scott Mathews on Creating Valuable Innovation Portfolios, Front End of Innovation
• Four Ways to Think Like an Innovator, Geovanny Romero

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1106, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – May 15, 2012 (#1,327), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• The evils of the repository abstraction layer
• Implementing CORS support in WCF, Carlos Figueira
• CQRS Journey - first pseudo-production release, Grigori Melnik
• Six important .NET concepts: Stack, heap, value types, reference types, boxing, and unboxing, Shivprasad koirala
• Understand TFS Licensing, AliasAlias
• Template Method Design Pattern, Nilesh Gule

Code to look at

• Transportable Data Layer - the Lasting Layer, Tim Schwallie
• [Sample of May 13th] Show file upload status in ASP.NET, Jialiang Ge
• Working with Streams: Creating RandomAccessStreamReference from Image downloaded from Web., Shiva-Vitakula
• Outlook Contact Data Sync Iteration 2, Derrick VanArnam
• Editing an MSI Database, Suresh Malluri
• Fast Token Replacement in C#, Bojan Antolovic
• Populating a business logical layer from Stored Procedures, andrewbb
• Math Parser TK.NET, kirnbas
• Finding the assemblies loaded in the current AppDomain, Saikumar Koona

Web

• First draft of HTML img srcset for responsive images
• 10 new HTML5 tags you need to know about
• JS & jQuery data model for ajax forms
• Comparing HTML5 Mobile Web Frameworks
• Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Passport, Jan Van Ryswyck
• How to troubleshoot ASP.NET application hang with memory dump, Henry He
• Additional Considerations When Using ASP.Net MVC Cross-site Request Forgery Prevention, edhintz
• Response buffering & chunking in Web Host scenarios, Kiran Challa

Mobile

• Implement a NavigationService for MVVM in Metro Applications and Daily WP7 Development News 14 May 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• The 3 DBA Mistakes You Don't Know You Are Making
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Express, Microsoft Downloads
• SQL SERVER – Get Schema Name from Object ID using OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME, Pinal Dave

Agile

• HeadsUp Agile is now open source

Architecture

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications : Volume II

Cloud Computing

• On The Issue Of Standardization Around AWS APIs
• Google Prices its Cloud SQL Offering
• Now WordPress sites can run directly off Amazon S3
• Paving the cowpaths to the denial cloud, Phil Wainewright
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 14, 2012
• Guidance for using PHP on Windows Azure published, Daniel Bucherer
• Accessing US Air Carrier Flight Delay DataSets on Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket and “DataHub”, Roger Jinnings
• Data Survey #2: Hadoop, Jian Zhen

Career

• Solitude and Leadership
• Getting Started In The Development Community
• Client: We won't be paying. We didn't use your material.
• The Hidden Cost of Outsourcing Software: Software Intelligence
• When to Quit your Passion and Change Course, Jonathan
• Six Myths of Product Development, raboschs
• If You Could Be Brutally Honest With Your SO, What Would You Say?, Ben Casnocha
• 11 Tips for protecting your data when you travel, Stephen Cobb
• You Earn Passive Income by Being More Generous, Steve Pavlina
• Amazon hiring 1,000 new tech workers for Seattle offices, Emily Parkhurst
• The Indescribable Anger, Erica Douglass
• Freelancer.com CEO: The future is bright for online outsourcing (but not niche sites), Jessica Stillman
• The Elements of Improvement, Esther Derby

Business

• The Founder Welcome EmailWhen to Quit your Passion and Change Course
• How to hire your first customer service representative
• Why Does the U.S. Spend More on Health Care than Other Countries?
• Entrepreneurs: think twice before taking advice from venture capitalists
• First Look: Want To Know Who Got Funded? WhoGotFunded.com Has Got You Covered, Ryan Lawler
• How to Legally Work With an Intern, Freelance Switch

Innovation

• Why Innovation Teams Fail – or Succeed, Braden Kelley
• Innovators: stand on the shoulders of giants, Jeffrey Phillips
• Business Model Innovation, Brendan Coram

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1105, Chris Alcock
• Interesting Links 14 May 2012, Alfred Thompson
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, May 14th, Rob Caron
• Reading Notes #46, Franky’s Notes
• Dew Drop – May 14, 2012 (#1,326), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• The Coming Meltdown in College Education & Why The Economy Won't Get Better Soon
• Improving user satisfaction by tracking user errors
• Doing Your First Mock, Just* Team

Code to look at

• Using TPL to access Async WCF Endpoints in ASP.net MVC, Derik Whittaker
• Complete chat IPv4 / IPv6, deco91
• WPF x FileExplorer x MVVM, Leng Yat Chun

Web

• Top most used CSS and HTML5 Generator
• The rise of write-dominated workloads
• Url-scraping-javascript
• Big Data Architecture at LinkedIn
• ASP.NET Web API: Introducing IApiExplorer/ApiExplorer, Yao
• ASP.NET Web API Updates – May 14, Henrik F Nielsen
• Configuring IIS 7 for ASP.NET Applications Deployment and SQL Server 2008 Integration, Patrick Wanjau

Mobile

• Betting Everything on Mobile

Database

• Article: SQL Server Integration Services – a victim of its own success?, Jen Stirrup
• SQL SERVER – Columnstore Index and sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, Pinal Dave

Security

• The Trouble with Airport Profiling, Schneier

Cloud Computing

• Free PaaS options for deving, experimenting and more
• Amazon CloudFront - Support for Dynamic Content
• Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F#
• Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront, All Things Distributed
• Five Cloud Trends: Delivering Mission-Critical Value Beyond IaaS, PaaS, AaaS, SandHill.com
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 13, 2012
• Essential Windows Azure (Microsoft Cloud) Knowledge : Part 1: Web roles, Worker Roles, BrunoTerkaly
• Tuning Azure Performance, a brief introduction, Hakan Eren

Career

• How to run a flawless technical demo
• That thing we call happiness
• Peter Thiel's infantile culture
• Peter Thiel: high-tech hogwash
• So, you want to be a Programmer
• Bye, Bye Waterfall: 5 Steps to Implement Responsive Web Design
• 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?
• Never Be an Early Adopter (133/365), Trent
• Why Things Don’t Work In Your World, Davy Brion

Business

• Early Startup Time Wasters
• "Everything That Mattered Over the Last Eight Years Won't Matter Anymore"
• Ten Founder Commandments
• The screwy logic of crowdfunding
• Convertible Note Seed Financings: Founders Beware!, Scott Edward Walker

Innovation

• Building a Culture of Continuous Innovation, Braden Kelley
• The Curse of Innovation, Drew Boyd

Community

• May 13-19, 2012, Venture Café

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1104, Chris Alcock

Other

• The Surprising Relationship Between Sleep and Learning
• “Fitting” Performance into the Software Development Lifecycle, Sasha Goldshtein
• Array Visualizer - VS 2010 Debugging array visualizer and WinForm/WPF control you can use too... and .DumpJson() - LINQPad Extension Fun..., Greg Duncan
• Everyman on Future Social, The People Widget, Mobile Preparedness, Likeable Hangars, 145 Inches, Dave Burke

Code to look at

• How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 1/2)
• Integrating With Windows 8 Share Charm - Long Running Shares., Shiva-Vitakula
• Sample C# code to create SHA1 Salted (SSHA) password hashes for OpenLDAP, Alex Tcherniakhovski

Cloud Computing

• Panel: Multicore, Manycore, and Cloud Computing
• How to Install A Hacker News Clone on EC2 in 20 minutes
• Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Summary, Gaurav
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 12, 2012

Career

• Guidelines For Interviewing At A Startup
• 6 Things on Your LinkedIn Profile That Shouldn't Be on Your Resume
• How to be Insanely Productive and Still Keep Smiling
• Kanban: The Secret of High-Performing Teams at Microsoft and Monthly Burn Rate, JD Meier
• Don’t Wait for the Facts to Change, JD
• Ten Pieces of Inspiration #73, Trent
• 3-Step Risk Management for Freelancers, Freelance Switch

Blogging

• 9 Steps to Take When You Loathe Your Own Blog, Ryan Barton

Business

• Cold calling versus Google Adwords
• Validating Your Business Co-Founder
• 99 Places to Pitch your Startup
• Convertible Note Seed Financings: Econ 101 For Founders, Scott Edward Walker
• Marc Andreessen Visits Peter Thiel’s Stanford Class To Talk Startups, How He Invests & The Future, Rip Empson
• Five Ways Native Monetization Is Changing Silicon Valley, Dan Greenberg
• How I Did It: From Defense Contractor to B&B Owner, Entrepreneur.com

Innovation

• Disruptive Technologies
• Creativity’s Mission Impossible, Mike Shipulski

Other

• Automatic programming: write code that writes code
• All known methods of injecting a process to start on boot.
• The Man Who Took on Amazon and Saved a Bookstore
• F-14 Fighter Pilot Turned Software Architect Brian Noyes
• Automating Visual Studio 2010 builds and deployments with Nant.Builder
• Software developers are not carpenters
• 'Big data' community hacking center to open in Cambridge, Kyle Alspach
• The world is changing: the future of IT, Maarten Balliauw

Code to look at

• Logging and Tracing WCF Soap Messages, Md. Rashim uddin
• Set rich text into RichTextBlock control, Rhicky Lhotka

Web

• IndexedDB Shim for Chrome - so that you can code against the latest spec
• Per-controller configuration in WebAPI, Mike Stall
• My First Experience with ASP.NET Web API 101, Sam Gentile

Silverlight

• Microsoft® Silverlight™ Release History, Microsoft Downloads
• [Sample of May 11th] Silverlight DataGrid group header style sample, Jialiang Ge

Mobile

• Daily WP7 Development News 11 May 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• SQLCMD Mode: give it one more chance, Maria Zakourdaev

Security

• FBI Warns Travelers Using Hotel Networks about New Attack

Agile

• Some statistical evidence of benefits of Agile development

Cloud Computing

• Calculating the Cost of Storing PHP Sessions Using Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon and SAP put All-in-One in the cloud
• startups and Windows Azure, Andy Cross
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 11, 2012
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #18), Himanshu_Singh
• Is AWS or Windows Azure the Right Choice? It’s Not That Easy., Richard Seroter
• AWS & Windows Azure - Side by Side Comparison
• Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part I and Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part II, Gaurav

Career

• The Loneliness That Should Worry Us, Ben Casnocha
• Entrepreneurs, The Clock is Ticking on Your Career
• Taking On an Ambitious Project? Be Honest, Margaret Heffernan
• Jobs vs. Passive Income, Steve Pavlina
• Be a Shameless Self-Promoter, Kevin Daum
• Deal With Stress in a Positive Way, Freelance Switch
• Rein in Your Freelancers, Lee Clifford and Julie Schlosser

Business

• 10 Tweets That Are Invaluable Startup Advice - Business Insider
• Designer, Architect, Developer
• Startups: What Really Matters Most

Innovation

• Innovate, Learn, Deliver – Staying ahead in turbulent times, Innovation Excellence
• Turn Employee Creativity Into Corporate Innovation, Zornitsa Ivanova
• Five Factors that drive the need for more innovation, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 11th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 11, 2012 (#1,325), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• 9 reasons to start using C++11
• Software performance matters
• Using MethodRental.SwapMethodBody to do Method Level JIT Compilation, IKVM.Net
• Microsoft IRM support extension for PDF specification, Microsoft Downloads
• Shrinking a VHD in Windows 8 - fast!, Ben Armstrong
• And there were three free RTW'd .Net Decompilers ... dotPeek v1 Released and Web Camps Training Kit Updated, Greg Duncan
• Coming to a Screen Near You—the New MVP Award Web Site!, MVP Award Program
• ‘By Design’? BindingFailure - An assembly failed to load while using XMLSerialization, Ken Cox
• Using NuGet with TFS Build Automation, Jason Prickett

Code to look at

• How to create your own virtual machine, icemanind
• Loading settings from config file, sergaz

Web

• Two Things Everyone Should Know About HTML5
• Work with Spreadsheets and Excel file formats using SaaSpose.Cells API
• Pinterest Style Listing (Only CSS, no JS)
• WebAPI Parameter binding under the hood, Mike Stall
• An Example to Use jQuery Global AJAX Event Handlers, Dr. Song Li
• jQuery Succinctly - Free eBook (reg-ware, PDF and/or Mobi), Greg Duncan
• Output caching in ASP.NET Web API, Filip W

Silverlight

• [Sample of May 10th] Silverlight TreeView supports CRUD and drag&drop, Jialiang Ge

Mobile

• Daily WP7 Development News 10 May 2012 and Memory Profiling - The Heap Summary View, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to Discovering XML Data Type Methods, Pinal Dave

Agile

• Agile scrum project management spreadsheet - Blog - Solid State Group

Cloud Computing

• Google App Engine Blog: Cloud SQL: pick the plan that fits your app
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 10, 2012
• Downloading Windows Azure Publish Settings (Subscription Configuration) file, Avkash Chauhan
• Azure Scale Application - Increase Or Decrease the number of role Instance, Arun Rakwal

Career

• 80% of success is showing up
• Week 4 of the startup life
• Improve Productivity By Being Yourself
• Self-Awareness Matters: Finding Your Filters
• How To Deal With Startup Life
• The Five Steps to Becoming an Expert
• What my dog taught me about freelancing
• Attention to problems matters more than solutions to problems, Penelope Trunk
• Three Little Habits to Find Focus, Leo Babauta
• Ask FreelanceSwitch: Intro to Freelancing and Contracts, FreelanceSwitch

Business

• Rating the Best -- and Worst -- States to Do Business, Entrepreneur.com
• Health Tech Spending and Profitability - Chicken, Egg or Omelet?, HowieT

Innovation

• Experiment All The Time, Saul Kaplan

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1103, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 10th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 10, 2012 (#1,324), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real "Revolution In Education"
• Health Insurers Proceed on IT Aspects of 'Obamacare'
• How To Find Memory Leaks
• Visual Studio 2010 Turbo – Workflow
• Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1, Windows Phone Team
• Sponsored Story: Windows Dedicated Servers vs. Virtual Private Servers, DotNetKicks.com
• Windows Server 2012 odds and ends, Steve Schofield
• Redesigning chkdsk and the new NTFS health model, Steven Sinofsky
• Haskell: Closest Pairs Algorithm, Mark Needham
• Some interesting US Gov Data Sites, Greg Duncan
• Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 Features Listing, termserv
• Everyman on a Post PC Era, Nutty Nook NFC, Business of Sharing, Annoying Websites, Dave Burke

Code to look at

• Scrape webpages with node.js
• Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) Compression for BitArrays, Mehdi Gholam
• C# Application Integration with Facebook & Twitter with oAuth, Umer Aziz Malik

Web

• New Google Analytics Easy Dashboard API
• Asp.Net MVC 3 versus Asp.Net Web Forms Performance., Finbar Ryan
• [Sample of May 7th] ASP.NET AJAX web chat application, Jialiang Ge
• Html.DemoPartial - Side-by-Side Render and Code for Partial Views, Travis Illig

Mobile

• Comparing Titanium and PhoneGap
• Custom Controls in Windows Phone and Daily WP7 Development News 9 May 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Security

• Mass SQL Injections Spike Again

Cloud Computing

• App Engine releases full-text search
• Avoiding cloud lock-in when building apps
• Microsoft licenses the crown jewels to Amazon Web Services, Simon Munro
• part III of III - How to access an Azure OAuth v2 ACS secured service with Java, Michael Butler
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 9, 2012, Cloud Feed
• Windows Azure Libraries for Java 0.2 February 2012 CTP, Microsoft Downloads
• Behind latest systems integration boom: cloud, virtualization and government, Joe McKendrick

Career

• Managing small teams: the tools you should use
• To Be Successful You'll Need to Shake Hands and Kiss Babies
• The Importance Of Networking
• How to Identify Talent (a response to PG's essay)
• Programming Principles Entrepreneurs Should Adopt
• Things I Hated About Your Business Pitch
• Happiness is a Skill, JD

Business

• A Circle of Tech: Collect Payout, Do a Start-Up
• How To Save Yourself The High Cost Of A Wrong Hire, Pamela Hawley
• HIPAA changes could put health IT companies on the hook, Don Seiffert
• 5 Business Laws You’ve Never Heard Of, Jeff Haden

Innovation

• Inside The New York Times' Skunkworks

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1102, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 9th, Rob Caron

Other

• Data Driven: Improving Business and Society Through Data
• Using DebugDiag to capture a dump on First Chance Exception, Kaushal Kumar Panday
• Advanced Systems Format (ASF) Specification, Microsoft Downloads
• Working with NetMon & WireShark Traces, Ambhrin
• How to Stop All Instances of the Incoming E-Mail Service, Roger Cornier
• Update on the VS 11 UI, Brian Harry
• Hosting WCF/Workflow Service in IIS directly from Visual Studio 2010 and start debugging by just hitting F5 on Visual Studio., ArunMalik

Code to look at

• Windows Azure ProcessExplorer Plugin 1.0.3, via Michiel van Buuren on StackOverflow
• WCF - Authentication and Authorization in Enterprise Architecting, Jean Paul V.A
• Creating an FTP Server in C#, Rick Bassham
• Wcf.js: Call WCF web services from Node.js, Yaron Naveh
• How to read a File from Web in ASP.NET, mbsmbs
• Inversion of Control: Overview with Examples, Himanshu Manjarawala
• Roslyn CTP: Three Introductory Projects, Whaeth

Data Access

• EF5 Sample Provider Published, dpblogs
• Cloning the Entity object and all related children using the Entity Framework, Appusamy.subbian

Web

• Working with files in JavaScript, Part 1
• Passing multiple POST parameters to Web API Controller Methods, Rick Strahl
• Basic Routing for HttpHandler, Vitaly Tomilov

Mobile

• Implementing Confirm on exit in Windows Phone and Daily WP7 Development News 8 May 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• MongoDB emerges as a NoSQL leader
• SQL tooling, the ranking
• SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to Basics of a Query Hint, Pinal Dave
• Publish Profile Files in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), jamiet

Security

• Targeted Attack Infiltrates At Least 20 Companies
• An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding
• DHS Warns of Cyberattack on Natural Gas Pipeline Companies

Architecture

• EA Certifications Distilled, Nick Malik

Cloud Computing

• AWS launches managed SQL Server plus Elastic Beanstalk for .Net
• 3 Problems AWS Needs to Address
• Cloud-Oriented Architecture and the Internet of Things, Jason Bloomberg
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 8, 2012
• Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges, Microsoft Downloads
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk, ASW Blog
• BlobShare: Corporate Filesharing with Security and Control, BuckWoody

Career

• Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American
• When Harvard and Stanford teach networking, they look to Heidi Roizen.
• When Designing Experiences for Humans, Consider Common Psychological Behaviors, Futurelab
• 5 Tips on How to Present Like Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur.com
• "Expect nothing. Blame nobody. Do something.", Scott Watermasysk
• 10 Ways to Motivate Anyone, Geil Browning

Business

• Post-Recession Consumer Trends
• Startup Resource Kit Business Letters, Entrepreneur.com
• The $100 Startup Is Live!, Chris Guillebeau

Innovation

• The Enemy of Innovation – Eliminating Variation, Braden Kelley
• Why Do Some Innovations Go Viral and Others Don’t? New Study Explains, Markus Giesler and Mari Anixter
• Innovating the Kimberly-Clark Way, Valerie Russo

Community

• Web Camp in Waltham (May 10th), Jim O’Neil

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1101, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 8th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 8, 2012 (#1,322), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Programmer friendly native code interception with Deviare 2.0
• WCF Data Services, now with more releases!, dpblogs
• Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet, Josh Constine
• Using the MVVM pattern requires a framework, Rocky Lhotka
• WCF Extension Points and how to use them?, ArunMalik
• To be clear, Microsoft Action Pack Subscription (MAPS) is a requirement, not a benefit of Microsoft the Small Business Specialist Community (SBSC), Eric Ligman
• GUID guide, part three, Eric Lippert

Code to look at

• Javascript in PDF, Vitaliy Shibaev
• VB.NET wrappers for much of the Windows API, andrewbb
• How to convert GridView data to Excel, PDF, Word file using C#, Vivek Sharma

Web

• Online Booking Calendar Tutorial for ASP.NET
• Coding the future: HTML5 takes the Internet by storm
• Json.NET 4.5 Release 5 – JsonProperty enhancements, James Newton-King
• A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4 (Part 2 of ?), Michael Crump
• How to Add Content Management to Your Existing ASP.NET Web Site, avsol

Mobile

• Eavesdropper Android app developed
• Make Call Blocker Application on Windows mobile, emranallan

Database

• Did You Know? Turning Off Locking, Kalen Delaney

Security

• Rethinking Your Password Strategies

Cloud Computing

• Cloud API Security Panel at Infosec
• Load Data from the Azure DataMarket to Hadoop on Azure - Small Bites of Big Data, Cindy Gross
• Creating An Incremental SQL Azure Data Source for OakLeaf’s U.S. Air Carrier Flight Delays Dataset, Roger Jennings
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 7, 2012
• HIPAA-Compliant Document Management Solution Expands Into Global Market by Migrating to Windows Azure Cloud Platform, zxue
• part II of III - How to access an Azure OAuth v2 ACS secured service with Java - Creating the SAML self-signed cert, Michael Butler
• AWS Week in Review - April 30, 2012, AWS Blog
• Windows Azure remote access stops working and Windows Azure worker role crashing, ASP.NET Debugging

Career

• Why I Hate Running But Still Do It Anyways
• How dopamine impacts your willingness to work
• Commit to Your Passive Income Goal, Steve Pavlina
• 10 Free Leadership Tools for Work and Life, JD Meier
• The 5 Levels to Communicating More Effectively, JD
• How to Live Well, Leo Babauta
• Crisis Management: Is Your Team Freaking Out?, Damian Bazadona

Business

• What to know before working at a start-up
• Mistakes in tech-startup
• Most Venture Capital Firms Suck
• A Month in the Startup Life (Week 3)
• The Key to Start-ups
• Procter & Gamble Bans Streaming Services
• Lean Startup Machine Lessons
• The Pivot: The Moment Where Startups Change or Die
• Big Data and Insight as a Service, SandHill.com
• The Key to Start-up Success? Be Boring, Erik Sherman

Innovation

• Creating Time to Innovate, Mitch Ditkoff
• Dedication to Innovation, Linda Roach

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1100, Chris Alcock

Other

• Keep it simple and single threaded - Single Writer Principle
• How Tech is Changing College Life
• IQueryable Vs IEnumerable
• Xperf Wait Analysis--Finding Idle Time
• Babel Obfuscator 5.5 Released, Babel Obfuscator
• Design Patterns And Enterprise Patterns,

Code to look at

• WCF Basic Authentication with SQL Membership Provider, DotNetLead-SharePoint
• [Sample of May 6th] Customize Outlook UI with Ribbon XML, Jialiang Ge

Web

• Creating a Simple Event Calendar for ASP.NET
• JavaScript for the C# Guy: The Global Object, Shawn Wildermuth
• Wcf.js: Call WCF web services from Node.js, Yaron Naveh
• ASP.NET MVC4 Web API Stack Diagram – currently in development, Kiran Challa

Mobile

• IsolatedStorageException when opening a file played by a MediaElement and Using Reactive Extensions to smooth compass data in Windows Phone and Ship your next Windows Phone app with GZip: speed requests 50-80%, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Web Installer, Nikosan
• SQL Server interview questions: - What is the stateless and stateful load balancing?, Shivprasad koirala

Architecture

• Logically Distributed, Physically Centralized, Udi Dahan

Cloud Computing

• Design For Failure
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 6, 2012

Career

• Positive Quotes for Work and Life, JD Meier

Business

• How to deal with difficult customers?

Innovation

• Marketing Innovation: The Extreme Consequence Tool, Drew Boyd