Other

• Replication and the latency-consistency tradeoff
• Why I’m Still Excited about Computer Science, Alfred Thompson
• WCF Extensibility – Transport Channels – Request channels, part 2, Carlos Figueira
• SDP December 2011: Improving the Performance of .NET Applications, Sasha Goldshtein
• NuGet Nuggets - Mister Goodcat's List of Little Know NuGet Features, Greg Duncan
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 8: Pay Attention to Your Tests’ Setup!, Jim Holmes
• Mark It Down: June 6, 2012, MG Siegler
• C# Fundamentals: Returning Zero or One Item As IEnumerable<T>, James Michael Hare
• You probably don't need a Twitter client, just learn the hotkeys in New Twitter, Scott Hanselman
• Beginning LightSwitch Part 2: Feel the Love - Defining Data Relationships, Beth Massi

Code to look at

• HTML Parsers: The Journey to a More Semantic yet Forgiving Web, danielthesolver

Data Access

• Data Access Performance Comparison in .NET

Web

• 5 Reasons Why (Web) Startups Should Use OAuth
• CSS3 Transitions and Animations, Mike Taulty
• Announcement of improvements to the SkyDrive API, Lee Stott
• WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2, Microsoft Downloads
• Introducing CSSCop - FxCop for stylesheets, .Net Slave
• A Key Code Checker for DOM Keyboard Events, Rick Strahl

Mobile

• It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App
• Daily Mobile Minute #69: QR codes are only half mobile, Rob Woodbridge
• A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips, Colin Eberhardt
• Bug Tales: WP7 Secondary Live Tiles, bwmartens
• Mobile Morning Coffee (12/08/11), UNTETHER.tv

Database

• What’s in Enterprise only? (Log manager uses locked pages for log cache buffers), Nacho Alonso Portillo
• SQL SERVER – Bad Practice of Using Keywords as an Object Name – Avoid Using Keywords as an Object, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• FirstCloudApp in Production, Ganesan Senthilvel
• The SQL Azure Team Unveils a New Server Management UI, Roger Jennings
• Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 8, 2011
• Messaging with queue in Azure Service being RESTful, Franky’s Notes
• Cross-Post: Automated Build and Deployment with Windows Azure SDK 1.6, Himanshu Singh

Career

• Abandon Your Big Idea. But Don't Give Up Your Big Ambition.
• To Grow, Leave What You Know Behind
• The Way I Work: Amos Winbush III, CyberSynchs, April Joyner
• International Clientele Can Throw a Wrench in Your Holiday Plans, Freelance Switch

Business

• Three Startup Lessons from xkcd & SMBC
• Why Our Startup Decided Not To Target the Newspaper Industry
• The stress of a start-up
• Social Networking for Business, Sanjay Dalal

Innovation

• 40 Reasons Why We Struggle with Innovation, Gijs van Wulfen
• Designing the Future: How Innovation will Follow the Footsteps of Procurement, ShandHill.com
• Innovation Takes Time and Patience..., Paul Williams
• The Brain and Why Innovation Happens Differently for Everyone, Mark Miller

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #999, Chris Alcock