Other

• Show HN: Weekend Project - SSD Price Tracking
• Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way, Ayende @ Rahien
• Await, SynchronizationContext, and Console Apps: Part 3, Stephen Toub
• Blog - Having Problems Updating NuGet VS Extension?, PCHenry.com
• I'm from the Cloud and I'm here to help... No really, trust me... Looking at Microsoft Codename "Trust Services", Greg Duncan
• What’s new in WCF 4.5? Changed default for ASP.NET compatibility mode, Ido Flatow

Code to look at

• WPF/MVVM Quick Start Tutorial, Barry Lapthorn
• MEF Generics, Dean Oliver

Web

• Read It Later Will Change The Way We Bookmark
• How To Improve Your Web Design Right Now
• 8 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of January 2012
• MVC HtmlHelper: Text Posting Dropdown List, Russell Aboobacker
• Web Performance Blog, Christy Henriksson
• LogParser – Converting IIS logs to local date and time and filtering by date range, Merrill Fernando
• Maintain Http Session State in WCF REST Services with HttpWebRequest, Dr. Song Li
• Custom Asp.Net Model Binders series, part 3: Subclassing your models, Artem Smirnov
• Image Handling In ASP.NET, raju melveetilpurayil

Mobile

• Windows Phone 8 To Use NT Kernel
• Get Your Windows Phone Applications in the Marketplace Faster and Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2, WindowsPhoneGeek
• WP7: CLR Managed Object overhead, Abhinaba Basu
• Windows Phone 8 “Apollo”: Windows 8 kernel, more form factors, Tim Anderson
• Daddy, tell me a story of how VB, WP7, Azure and my photos can be combined in the cloud to create a video story..., Greg Duncan
• Windows Phone 8 Apollo Features Leak, Jordan Crook

Database

• Step-by-step procedure for Installing SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core : PART 2, Chaitanya Medikonduri
• Versioning databases: the baseline (part 2 of 5 on db versioning)

Security

• Half of fortune 500 firms infected with DNS changer
• Hackers outwit online banking identity security systems

Agile

• Your Brain on Scrum

Cloud Computing

• Fish Eat Fish: 5 Lessons Learnt in Building an App Engine Game Server
• Come for the PaaS Functional Model, stay for the Cloud Operational Model, William Vambenepe
• Amazon CloudFront: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Making Plans, AWS Blog
• Beginning Azure - Part 2 Initializing Storage And the WCF Role. and Beginning Azure - Part 1 Introduction and Architecture, Dave Crook
• Daily Cloud Feed - Feb 2, 2012
• Need to Change Your Go-To-Market for SaaS? Here’s How One ISV Did It with Windows Azure, Yvonne Muench

Career

• How to Make The Most of Your Least Productive Time
• Groundhog Day: 3 Reasons I'm Investing in Myself
• Seven Secrets of Self-Made MulitMillionaires
• How to Ace that Google Dev Interview
• Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do, Coding Horror

Business

• Bloomberg Open Sources Its Market Data Distribution Technology
• The Basics Of Hiring Interns For Your Startup
• Anti-Patterns for Technical Leaders
• The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day, Alexia Tsotsis
• The Accidental Business Consultant, or Not, Karl Walinskas
• Digital access and healthcare: What’s holding us back?, Microsoft In Health
• Microsoft exec: Business reasons should dictate move to the cloud, Margie Manning
• Startup MyCare gets $1M in seed funding, Rodney Brown
• Job Creation, JD Meier

Innovation

• Making Innovation Sustainable – Part 1 of 4, Braden Kelley

Community

• Startup Weekend Boston, NERD

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1036, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – February 2, 2012 (#1,257), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Design from the beginning; don't tack it on later
• Dynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C#, Rick Strahl
• Software engineering—what’s missing?, ericbrec
• Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback, Tapas
• Get the Gang of Four in your Visual Studio... At least as UML Toolbox items... and Debugger Canvas v1.1 now available..., Greg Duncan
• Ngen or not? The rules haven't changed very much since 2004, Rico Mariani

Code to look at

• How to Get Elevated Process Path in .Net

DataAccess

• Yet Another Podcast #58–Julie Lerman and EF/CF, Jesse Liberty
• Render Exceptions in an Entity Framework application, Harry von Borstel

Web

• Microsoft: The Web is better without plug-ins
• Bootstrap, From Twitter 2.0
• A Comprehensive Overview of Landing Page Optimization
• How To Create A Simple Modal Box With JQuery
• CSS3 & jQuery folder tabs
• Ok. Let’s Start from the Beginning., Tommy Lee
• One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell, Scott Hanselman
• HTML5 WebCamp Training VIDEO Available, Doris Chen
• MVC3 @Html.CheckBoxList() custom extension, Mikhail T.

Mobile

• Codeproject Windows Phone Application, Lakamraju Raghuram
• Windows Phone links for the week, Paul Laberge
• Daily WP7 Development News 31 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Top 10 Mango Features Article, Shawn Wildermuth
• Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone Beta, jhealy

Database

• Announcing the SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book, Roger Doherty

Agile

• Creating a Core Diagram for Agile Business, Nick Malik
• Announcing an Online Agile Estimating and Planning Course, Mike Cohn

Cloud Computing

• New Elastic MapReduce Features: Metrics, Updates, VPC, and Cluster Compute Support (Guest Post), Adam Gray
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 31, 2012
• Amazon Sees Surge In S3 Storage Usage, Northwest Innovation

Career

• Want to Speak at TED? Now You Can Audition
• 10 Must Read Blogs For Entrepreneurs In 2012
• 5 Entrepreneurial Productivity Mistakes
• Web Developer Salaries Around The GLOBE
• The Lean Startup - LSE talk by Eric Ries
• 20 Best Online To Do List Apps for Freelancers and How to Choose a Good Bank as a Freelancer, Freelance Switch
• 3 Design Essentials For Early Adopters, Seth Priebatsch

Business

• Some reality check about getting rich through a startup
• 5 startup idea's that I'm sick of hearing about
• Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies
• Extreme Startups (Toronto) Launches $7M Accelerator fund from Top Canadian VCs
• Help There's a patent on my idea. What now?
• Designing your Beta
• Don't Talk With Your Mouth Full: Ten Lessons from Lean Startup
• Trend: The Future of Healthcare in 20 seconds!, Jim Carroll
• 3 magical VC pitch questions (guest post), David Beisel
• IE 6 and the Dark Side of Success, Paul Thurrott

Innovation

• The Brainstorming Process Is B.S. But Can We Rework It?
• Learning Cultures and Innovation, Bradley Bendle
• How the Mind Creates Ideas and Innovate Without Mercy Is the Lesson of RIM's BlackBerry and Making The Tough Decisions in Innovation Management, Innovation in the News

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1034, Chris Alcock
• Monthly Summary - January 2012, Knal Chowhury
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 31st, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 31, 2012 (#1,255), Alvin Ashcraft

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I keep that site sync’d with this site (ifreader is actually running in Windows Azure and SQL Azure instead of my normal ISP).

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Other

• What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?
• Ask Ayende: What about the QA env?, Ayende @ Rahien
• WCF Extensibility – IExtension and IExtensibleObject, Carlos Figueira
• DataContext in WPF, kishore Gaddam
• Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C#, CSharpFAQ
• Office 15 Technical Preview - Open Specification Update, Michael Bowman
• Implementing ICorDebugManagedCallback2, Andrew Richards
• Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications, Michael Crump
• Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two, Eric Lippert
• IL fun fact: not is not !, Jb Evain

Code to look at

• Getting started with a Mocking Framework
• How to compress/decompress directories using GZipStream, msmits
• ASP.NET MVC, SignalR and Knockout based Real time UI syncing - For Co Working UIs and Continuous Clients, Anoop Madhusudanan
• Analyzing a .NET executable or DLL without .NET installed, Michael Haephrati
• MVVMLight Hello World in 10 Minutes., Barry Lapthorn
• Creating a Bilingual ASP.NET MVC 3 Application – Part 2, Keith Barrow

Web

• Learning HTML5 & CSS3, thebeebs
• Modern Web Development - Part 3, Shawn Wildermuth
• ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, MultiSelect and jQuery, Rick Anderson
• Working with Inline Web Workers, Gil Fink
• Export HTML Table Data to CSV File Using ASP.NET and jQuery, Dan Randolph

Silverlight

• Silverlight 5 is released!, Laurent Bugnion … just added his blog to my list, so this might be old news

Mobile

• Getting latest Tweets in Windows Phone apps using Twitter REST API and JSON.NET and  7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Envy and Daily WP7 Development News 30 Jan 2012 and 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Windows Phone 7 gets some Amazon love... (err... um... as in a Open Source AWS SDK, built by Microsoft) and Using the Windows 7 USB Download tool (the ISO to USB drive utility) for any ISO file., Greg Duncan
• Windows Phone links for the week, Paul Laberge

Database

• Pattern Matching Queries in Large Graph Databases
• Great Videos on SQL Server, Kevin Ashby

Cloud Computing

• Amazon S3 Growth for 2011 - Now 762 Billion Objects
• Why we picked Amazon AWS over Rackspace and dedicated hosting
• The Enterprise Cloud Is, Well, Cloudy
• AWS Trusted Advisor and Third-Party Software Support
• Cloud computing fueling global economic growth
• Deploying Umbraco to Windows Azure, ukadc
• Regarding Cloud Security and Data Sovereignty, TheRockyH
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 30, 2012
• Lynn quickly walks us through using Amazon AWS EC2 as a "second laptop", Greg Duncan
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #4), Himanshu Singh
• Presentation: When Worlds Collide: HTML5 Meets the Cloud, David Pallmann

Career

• Don't "Good to Great" Your Development Team
• This is why you hire a "good" designer.
• A Note To The Ambitious
• 5 signs you might actually be an extravert
• Career Choice: Corporate vs. Startup
• Three Lessons a Serial Tech Entrepreneur Learned from Bill Gates, Entrepreneur.com
• How Self Made Millionaires Succeed–Are You Making One of These Mistakes?, Jaime Tardy
• Finding Balance Between Family and Business and Avoid the Backward Start-up, Jeff Cornwall
• Book Review (Book 8) - The Elements of Persuasion, Buck Woody
• Top 10 Free Time Tracking Apps for Freelancers, Freelance Switch
• Intentions, Decisions, and Outcomes, Chris Guillebeau

Business

• How to build your startup without learning code
• Why We Raised A $5M Seed Round
• 3 Lessons Learned So Far Building A Company
• Understanding Twitter, Fred Wilson

Innovation

• 26 Reasons Why Most Brainstorming Sessions Are a Big Disappointment, Mitch Ditkoff
• Innovating with Rudyard Kipling, Sam Pakenham-Walsh
• Bridge Building – Effective Intrapreneur Habit # 6, Steve Todd

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1033, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 30th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 30, 2012 (#1,254), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 1 - Working With Configuration Scripts, robmcm

Web

• 001 JSJ Asynchronous Programming
• The dirty secret of browser security
• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet
• Basics of HTML5, A Starter. Learn within few hours.

Mobile

• Emotional Intelligence of a Smartphone
• Phone7.Fx

Cloud Computing

• ECM / CMS Systems on Windows Azure, hanuk
• Creating your own Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure by using your own Windows Azure Subscription account, Avkash Chauhan
• Links to My Cloud Computing Articles at Red Gate Software’s ACloudyPlace Blog, Roger Jennings
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 28, 2012

Career

• I Don’t Know Anything, James Altucher
• Let’s Get Personalized: Moving Beyond Recommendations, Hank Nothhaft
• Ten Pieces of Inspiration #57, Trent

Business

• How not to run a pay-for web site
• YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals
• My Startup Failed, But It's OK
• 101 Top Startup Blogs
• (Founder Stories) SoftTech VC’s Clavier: How To Avoid The Series A Crunch, Josh Zelman
• Capital: The Real Reason Women Get Less of It, Geri Stengel
• Turning a Layoff Into a Sweet Startup, Entrepreneur.com
• To Pivot or Not to Pivot, Ashkan Karbastrooshan

Innovation

• An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates
• Successful Innovation Doesn’t Sprout from Focus Groups, Natalie Reed
• Creative Thinking Technique #3, Mitch Ditkoff
• Why It’s Tough To Decide, Mike Shipulski

Other

• The Rise of the Front End Developers
• The Faculty Project - Top University Education, For Free
• Search vs Social, Fred Wilson
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 2, P/Invoke – Unmanaged to Managed, Sasha Goldshtein
• Top Developer Resources?, Ted Neward
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs of Software Development, Scott Hanselman
• Choosing an Exception Type When Unit Testing Error Handling, Travis Illig
• NuGet Project Uncovered: Stimpack, Jason Jarrett
• C++/CLI Cheat Sheet, Sebastian Krysmanski
• Monitoring Client-Outbound WCF Calls, rickrain

Code to look at

• Integrating Crash Reporting into Your Application - A Beginners Tutorial, zexspectrum
• LINQ - Pros, Cons, Harish Palaniappan
• Developing Factorial Application Using Test Driven Development, Bayram Ucuncu

Web

• Getting Started With Html5
• 3 Things Web Guy Hasn't Told You About Your Site
• Creating Files through BlobBuilder, IE Blog
• Announcing The Edge, a Series on the Applications You Love and Introducing Sueetie Taxonomies, Dave Burke

Mobile

• Why Your Startup Shouldn't Build A Mobile App Yet
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Playing A Sound, Simplified, Jesse Liberty

Debugging

• Stop 0x19 in a Large Pool Allocation, NTDebug

Cloud Computing

• Managing Amazon EC2 - SSH login and protecting your instances
• Going beyond demo-ware with "Real World Windows Azure Guidance" from MSDN and David Pallmann takes us on a fresh look at the Windows Azure development, Greg Duncan
• Windows Azure Troubleshooting - Taking specific Windows Azure Instance offline and Setting Windows Amazon S3 (s3n://) as data source directly at Hadoop on Azure (hadooponazure.com) portal, Avkash Chauhan
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 27, 2012
• Why you can't afford to resist the cloud, Phil Wainewright
• Found: Windows Azure Document Treasure Trove!, Peter Laudati

Career

• Entrepreneur Guide To Reinvention
• Salary Negotiations, Don't be Tough, be Honest
• Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
• Books That Have Shaped How I Think [Tim O'Reilly]
• How to Become an Expert: Creative Problem Solving
• Career vNext, Steve Marx … another star is spinning out of Microsoft

Business

• Perfecting the Pitch
• Startup Weekend: Lessons and Tools
• This Tech Bubble Is Different
• How I Produced a Prototype in 14 Days
• Harvard Introduces venture fund with New Enterprise Associates
• Startup Payscale - real time market compensation data
• How Y Combinator and 500 Startups Are Different
• Welcome to DreamSpark, Lee Stott
• Startup Weekend & Tech Cocktail Compete To Recruit Startups For Startup America, Sarah Perez
• How do Boston startups compare on AngelList? Not stellar, Kyle Alspach

Innovation

• How to Build An Innovation Leader, Robert Brands
• Ten Simple Mindset Shifts for 2012, Mitch Ditkoff

Other link blogs

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, January 27th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 27, 2012 (#1,252), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Writing Your Own WebSocket Server
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion, James Michael Hare
• CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available, Rocky Lhotka

Code to look at

• Generic Architecture For Rapid Software Development Project Cycle - Part 1, Md. Marufuzzaman
• LINQtoXML, kskrishnas
• SqlBulkCopy for Generic List (useful for Entity Framework & NHibernate), Jarod Ferguson
• JSON-Enabled WCF Services (Part II), Sergery Piskov

Web

• PUT or POST: The REST of the Story
• What Does It Take to Be a User Experience Designer?

Silverlight

• Notification Control in Silverlight, Jawahar Suresh Babu

Mobile

• Why the mobile "write once, run everywhere" mentality is misguided and Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App and Daily WP7 Development News 26 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Mango Tip: Awesome Marketplace Screenshots and PhoneGap fully supports Windows Phone, jerry-nixon
• Top 10 sharks using Expression Design, Free Blend & XAML, Surf4Fun
• MetroSky - End to end Windows Phone 7 SkyDrive sample code and app, Greg Duncan

Database

• Why NoSQL Does Not Mean NoDBA
• T-SQL stored procedure for finding/replacing strings in a text file. Really?, Linchi Shea
• Bad Habits to Kick : Thinking a WHILE loop isn't a CURSOR, Aaron Bertrand
• Understanding Database Choice, Jeremiah Peschka

Agile

• Test Driven Development Really Works - The Hiltmon
• Rotating the ScrumMaster Role, Mike Cohn

Cloud Computing

• Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on Azure, Mary Jo Foley
• Thinktecture IdentityServer Azure Edition RC, leastprivilege.com
• New Tagging for Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Blog
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 1/26/2012+, Roger Jennings
• Real World Windows Azure Guidance: Troubleshooting Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure Applications, Avkash Chauhan
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 26, 2012
• Windows Azure InfoKit for Public Sector January 2012 Update, zxue
• Windows Azure Service Bus Demo from Brian Loesgen, Peter Laudati
• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh, Gregory Leake
• New Management API for Windows Azure Traffic Manager, Michael Washam

Career

• My Summer with the App Engine Team
• 10 Simple Steps To Making A Kick Ass Explanation Video For Free
• The 10 Keys To Selling Anything, James Altucher
• Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable
• Why Choosing a Niche is Pretty Dumb (and Why You Should Create One Instead), Jonathan
• Creative Thinking Technique #2, Mitch Ditkoff
• Mentors: A Young Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon, Entrepreneur.com
• Make Time for YOU – Part Two and 5 Pros and Cons of Freelance Job Marketplaces, Freelance Switch

Business

• A Tale of a Miserable Product Launch
• An incubator for grownups...
• First look at 37s big rewrite
• The best and brightest from 500 Startups' third demo day
• A new business strategy for startups
• 4 Essential Steps to Managing Growth, Matthew Swyers

Innovation

• Social Bankruptcy, Steve Pavlina
• Plus 2 Visibility – Effective Intrapreneur Habit #5, Steve Todd
• I'll Never Fall in Love (with ideas) Again, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1031, Chris Alcock
• Top 9 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 26th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 26, 2012 (#1,251), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Tim Berners-Lee Confirms The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented: France
• Versioning your WCF Web APIs
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Conclusion, Ayende @ Rahien
• When are servers not servers? and Is Programming Less Exciting Today?, Ted Neward
• Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care and CodeMash 2012 Sessions, Steven Smith

Code to look at

• Crawl Websites With C# and XPath
• Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF
• Passing native pointers across C++/CLI assembly boundaries, Sebastian Krysmanski

Data Access

• Exception from DbContext API: EntityConnection can only be constructed with a closed DbConnection, Diego Vega
• Episode 25 of Visual Studio Toolbox (Entity Framework Part 2) is now live, Robert Green
• Some gotchas when using ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework Code First., Michael Aspengren

Web

• 10 Designs Inspired by Microsoft's Metro UI | Fuel Your Creativity
• 24 ways: Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck
• Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views and WebGrid extensions on NuGet, ukadc
• Asynchronous File Upload, Ali Al Omairi
• ASP.NET performance: is it all about the database?, Michaela Murray

Silverlight

• Silverlight 5, Steven Smith

Mobile

• "New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database" for Windows Phone 7.1(5), Greg Duncan
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Agile

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2, Johanna

Cloud Computing

• AWS HowTo: Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce with DynamoDB
• How much overcapacity are you running with today? I bet SQL Azure Federations can trim that!, Cihan Biyikoglu
• MSDN Subscribers Receive Up to $3,700 in Annual Windows Azure Benefits, Bruce Kyle
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 25, 2012
• Cloud Configuration Management: Where the Rubber Hits the Clouds, Jason Bloomberg
• Cannot create database ‘DevelopmentStorageDb20110816′ for the Windows Azure Storage Emulator, Wade Wegner
• Deploying “Cloud Numerics” Sample Applications to Windows Azure HPC Clusters, Roger Jennings
• Windows Azure Service Bus Queues vs. Windows Azure Queues, Peter Laudati
• Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts, Brian Swan

Career

• [FLOWCHART] Should you start freelancing?
• U.S. Dept of Labor Predicts Decline in Programming Jobs
• An Introvert's Guide to Networking
• Productivity Papers: Work Like an Expert, Become One
• About Steve, Steven Smith
• Fix Your First Impression, Wendy Lea

Business

• The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1), Rob
• Hiring for Lean Startups: The First Few Hires
• 500 Startups Demo Day Winter 2011 – Live
• A new take on the series A
• Lessons Learned as Chargify Turns 3
• Why You Shouldn't Give A Crap About Early Startup Competition
• How to Win at Startup Weekend
• Interesting but without point?, Andreas Baum
• That VC Is NOT Your Friend, Steve Blank
• New TechStars Boston class includes teams from all over, Kyle Alspach

Innovation

• Fundamental Requirements for Innovation Success, Paul Williams
• What is the definition of innovation? and Innovation Contradictions, Jeffrey Phillips
• Don’t Suffocate The Innovation Economy, Dean DeBiase

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1030, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 25th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 25, 2012 (#1,250), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Basecamp: Starting Over
• [How to] Burn ISO files.
• Rethinking Compiler Design
• We Need A Wider Conversation on CS Education, Alfred Thompson
• Building a large text file editor – Part I, Costin Boldisor
• Ask Ayende: Handling filtering, Ayende @ Rahien
• Tool for restructuring UI Map of Coded UI Test, Gautam Goenka
• Inside the ConcurrentCollections: ConcurrentQueue, Simon Cooper
• Using hg bisect to hunt down bugs, Patrick Steele
• Can desktop software be Lean?, benc
• Adding form to Function-a glance at how WPF works, Laura ADM
• Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3, Laurent Bugnion
• Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 – Simplified Configuration Feature, Melissa Amanna
• See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer, Gil Yoder
• Why Microsoft is scrapping the MIX conference, Tim Anderson
• Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the Cloud - My Experience So Far, Buck Woody

Code to look at

• Zipping using System.IO.Compression, Gary Noter
• Introduction to jQuery in ASP.net Applications, Ayobami Adewole
• Retrieving TreeView nodes as IEnumerable, Ieppie
• Use Xaml.XamlServices to Serialize or Deserialize DependencyObject, Jack Stone
• Using the XmlReader class with C#, Cyotek

Web

• Web design shift: read "Responsive Web Design"
• Web UI regression testing using CFSelenium, MXUnit, and ImageMagick
• Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery
• Improve performance, safety and security in Internet Explorer, Rob Margel
• Using HTML5 Fractions in Exported Excel Tables, Michael

Silverlight

• Missing Silverlight Resources and ASP.Net security, Derik Whittaker

Mobile

• How to use GZip compression for Windows Phone 7 and Daily WP7 Development News 24 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Fixing the [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly., Michael Crump
• Winning on the Marketplace: Trial mode–the art of the upsell, Paul Laberge
• Apps on my Windows Phone–January 2012, Ian Moulster

Database

• Performance impact: SQL2008 R2 audit and trace, Linchi Shea
• How It Works: sys.dm_tran_session_transactions, psssql

Security

• Facebook scam: the hours I spend…, David Harley

Agile

• Working with Agile in a Distributed Team Environment, sajoshi

Cloud Computing

• Next Iteration Of PaaS: Will Amazon Join That Race?
• Cloud9 IDE supports deploying to Azure
• Cloud Hiring Reaches New Heights
• Cloud Pushes Further Into Financial Services
• Devops for Everyone - Beanstalk's hosted deployments now can run SSH commands
• Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway, All Things Distributed
• The AWS Storage Gateway - Integrate Your Existing On-Premises Applications with AWS Cloud Storage and Launch Relational Database Service Instances in the Virtual Private Cloud, AWS Blog
• Massively Scalable Azure, jerry-nixon
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 24, 2012
• Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production, Gregory Leake
• Simple Static Web Hosting: EC2 vs. S3, James Saull

Career

• Starting a Freelance Business in 2012: Planning Ahead and When One Client Becomes Your Job, Freelance Switch
• We Are Hiring!, Jeffrey Richter
• Meeting in the Middle: Networking With the Opposite Sex, Entrepreneur.com

Business

• Honest Start-up tips from a CEO
• Lean Startup - concept validation (Unbounce vs Launch Rock)
• Working at a Startup: What I've Learned Over the Last 6 Months
• Free is Bad for Business..
• Steve Blank's New Book - The Startup Owner's Manual
• 8 Startup Tips From Mark Zuckerberg
• Mixergy - Chad Etzel (Notifo) on Startups and Failing
• Coding Start-Ups Compete for Booming Market
• The Management Team
• Getting Acquired and Then Getting Shut Down
• Blog: The community around Mass Innovation Nights, Bobbie Carlton

Innovation

• Book Review: Where Good Ideas Come From, Rosa Say
• Disruptive Moments Sometimes Require Letting Go, Paul Hobcraft

Community

• First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond, dsyme

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1029, Chris Alcock
• Top 11 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 24th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop–January 24, 2012 – (#1,249), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• via Email: Hillel Coren - 20 minute crash course reviewing the essentials of computer programming
• Industry trends in prototyping
• Parser Combinators: How to Parse (nearly) Anything
• America's Coolest Coffeehouses
• New book: XAML Developer Reference, Kim Spilker
• Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 1, P/Invoke – Managed to Unmanaged, Sasha Golshtein
• On Russinovich's "The Case of My Mom's Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation", Elyasse Elyacoubi
• "Outlook is slow..." Here's some information on how to troubleshoot why., Greg Duncan
• Advanced APM Consumption in Async Methods, Stephen Toub
• C# + ReSharper = Awesome: Tip #8 – Extract Class From Parameters, Alvin Ashcraft
• Thinking in boxes, marlongrech
• Removing Regions Using Project Roslyn, Jason Bock

Code to look at

• How to write unit tests for JSON, XML and SOAP endpoints of WCF Service
• Model view controller to write easily maintainable and extendable application, malakar.anil
• How to Mock a WCF Service, Amit Accenture
• Using Async for File Access (Alan Berman)
• (5) Interesting uses of Linq.Expression, Felice Pollano
• Export to Excel from GridView in C#, Sarvesh Kumar Gupta

Data Access

• ASP.NET MVC-3.0/ JqGrid/ Unit Of Work/ Repository/ EF 4.1 CRUD Application (N Layered), aamir sajjad
• What do you want to see in Entity Framework?, Julie Lerman

Web

• Skip Intro - CSS3 is the new Flash, Scott Hanselman

Mobile

• 8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Initializing the database and Daily WP7 Development News 23 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• Reducing the number of queue readers via MAX_QUEUE_READERS parameter might take long time to take effect if there are many messages in the queue, Nacho Alonso Portillo
• Fan-out Querying for Federations in SQL Azure (Part 2): Scalable Fan-out Queries with TOP, ORDER BY, DISTINCT and Other Powerful Aggregates, MapReduce Style!, Cihan Biyikoglu
• How It Works: sys.dm_io_pending_io_requests, psssql
• Bad Habits to Kick : Using AS instead of = for column aliases, Aaron Bertrand

Cloud Computing

• PaaS to Take Over the World in 2012? A recap of groundwork laid in 2011.
• AzureWatch vs. Azure Fabric Controller., Kurt Claeys
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 23, 2012
• Cloud Computing – The Democratization of IT (Part 1), Linda Bernardi
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #3), Himanshu_Singh

Career

• How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious
• The Jammed Career Escalator
• Hobby to Livelihood: So You Want to Become a Web Developer
• 10 Benefits of getting up early even if you don't want to code
• Staying Creative | Working Weekends
• Tips for speaking at tech conferences
• Wintellect is Hiring!!, John Robbins
• Silicon Valley techies earn $100,000-plus, Patrick Hoge
• Why Working Anywhere from Anywhere is a Myth, Dane Carlson
• Independent work: Another cause of inequality?, Jessica Stillman

Business

• Some companies are best off without VC
• Failure Is An Option
• Michael Birch Interview - The Process of Selling your Startup
• Survival of the self-promoters
• The Developer Divide: When Great Companies Can't Hire
• Kill your startup while looking smart: failing by half measures
• The Psychology of Influence in Online Startups
• How I named my startup
• The startup skill set

Innovation

• How Business Defines Innovation?, Sanjay Dalal
• A.G. Lafley vs. Steve Jobs, Scott Anthony

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1028, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 23rd, Rob Caron
• Reading Notes #30, Franky’s Notes
• Dew Drop – January 23, 2012 (#1,248), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Importing / Exporting Templates and Patterns in ReSharper 6.1, Hadi Hariri
• NuGet Project Uncovered: An Introduction to the Series, Jason Jarrett

Code to look at

• A Restaurant and Waiter helper app in WPF and Windows Mobile, Ali Dameshmandi
• Binding Helpers: Separation of UI, view-model and data-model in WinForms, Bob Janova

Web

• New Class: Building a search Engine
• ASP.NET Response.Redirect
• Things every Web Developer wishes Web Designers knew
• Will HTML5 be the death of PDF magazines?, thebeebs
• Fix: the value ‚x‘ is not valid for Foo in ASP.NET MVC, Code Inside Team
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 6 – Serialization Performance, James Newton-King
• The Web Workshop: Client-Side Dev Training, Shawn Wildermuth

Silverlight

• Expression Blend: I made a copy of a UserControl and now it throws an error, Surf4Fun

Mobile

• Solve Windows Phone 7 and Zune devices connection problems, Rob Margel
• [Windows Phone 7.5] Run multiple instances of the emulator and Beta-testing on Windows Phone - some curious facts, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• Data Compression in SQL Server 2008 - Guest Post by Joydeep Das

Security

• SQL Injection - Hacking for noobs

Cloud Computing

• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 22, 2012

Career

• Six Lessons in Entrepreneurship
• Public speaking for normal people
• Avoiding Body Shop IT Positions (by Kforce?)
• Scaling the Team, Matt Blumberg
• Buddha Quotes, JD
• Key to productivity: Choose phone calls carefully, Penelope Trunk
• Are we not competitive or not stupid enough to be slaves?, Vlad Mazek

Business

• The Startup Strategy Matrix
• John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website
• Ways To Find Network Marketing Business Opportunities
• Guest Post: Inside a startup, ceibner

Innovation

• Do We Need an Innovation Profession?, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1027, Chris Alcock
• Interesting Links 23 January 2012, Alfred Thompson