Other

• "Security Questions" in a Facebook Age., OoTheNigerian
• A Very Short Introduction to MapReduce and Hadoop, Reuven Lerner
• The Price of Abstraction, metamatix.org
• Serving small static files: which server to use?, nbonvin
• The "Built In Boston" Initiative, Kevin McCarthy
• How Inflation affects your income, investments, and savings, datavis
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: A broken home (controller), Ayende Rahien
• Windows 7 App Pick: LogMeIn Hamachi, Paul Thurrott
• The Visual Studio Patch Place, Greg Duncan
• Dinner With My Family #13: Fajitas Bonitas, Trent
• Lessons from Fortune Brainstorm Green, Josh Henretig
• How do I get started with Team Foundation Server?, Rachel Collier

Code to look at

• Operator Overloading in C# .NET and Method's Call Interseption, Code Project

Web

• Javascript hack weekend: Unique projects to inspire awesome hacks, nowjs.com
• ASP.NET MVC: Using NonActionAttribute to restrict access to public methods of controller, Gunnar Peipman
• Credential Caching in FTP 7.0 and FTP 7.5, robmcm
• New YetAnotherForum.NET and Gallery Server Pro Bits, Dave Burke

Mobile

• Tombstoning and MVVM, Jesse Liberty

Database

• Avoid using varchar or char data type, QingsongYao
• SQL SERVER – Add New Column With Default Value, Pinal Dave
• Active Request, Sleeping Session (A Month of Activity Monitoring, Part 8 of 30),  Adam Machanic

Security

• Toolza : SQL Injection Tool, SecTyp

Cloud Computing

• Test-Driving IBM’s SmartCloud Enterprise Infrastructure as a Service, OakLeaf Systems
• How-To’s And Scenarios Indexes For Windows Azure, Visual Studio Tools For Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Service Bus, And ACS, Alik Levin
• Daily Cloud Feed - Apr 8, 2011
• Migrating My WordPress Blog to SQL Azure, Steve Yi
• Amazon EC2 sucks at launching Windows instances, Dave Winer
• Windows Azure and SQL Azure Use Cases, Bill Zack
• Cloud Standards and Cloud Certifications, James Saull

Career

• Recommendations for Assembling a Successful Team of Freelancers, Ray Grainer
• On continually improving, Shu Uesugi
• Getting Comfortable With Contracts, Mike Monteiro
• Ask FreelanceSwitch: Marketing and Style, Freelance Switch

Business

• From Pitch to Lawsuit in Five Days, taxisurfer
• Hiring to Get Started, Behind Companies

Other link blogs

• This Week’s Link List (April 8, 2011), Brian Swan
• Dew Drop – April 8, 2011, Alvin Ashcraft