Wow, last day of the year …

Other

• Twitter founder Jack Dorsey on design
• 5 ways to get insane productivity boosts for coders
• 2011: The Year In Tech
• Herb Sutter : Welcome to the Jungle
• How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test?, Gautam Goenka
• Rangers Flash - December 2011, Willy-P Schaub
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit December 2011 Release (Think "MVC3 VB and OData HOL Love" version), Greg Duncan

Code to look at

• A Lightweight Indexed File for Storing Persistent Data and Objects, Richard Chambers

Web

• Photoshop Tutorials To Design A Website
• Top 6 Alternatives On How To Get Around Blocked Sites
• How To Become A Competent Web Designer in 2012
• Best Mashups of 2011
• ASP.NET MVC: Helper method to display date ranges, Gunnar Peipman

Mobile

• 2011: the technology year in review
• The curious case of slowing US growth for Android
• Here's how Android can beat the iPhone … I thought it already beat the iPhone?
• Android Dominates 2011 in USA: Android 46.9% Apple 28.7% RIM 16.6% Win 5.2%
• Waiting for Your Windows Phone Beta App, Andy Pennell
• Mobile Morning Coffee (12/30/11), untether.tv

Security

• Researchers: Stuxnet weapon has at least 4 cousins

Cloud Computing

• A newbie's guide to scaling AWS
• The pros and cons of cloud hosting
• Windows Azure error: An unsupported response was received. The response header 'MSDeploy.Response' was '' but 'v1' was expected., Gunnar Peipman
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/30/2011+, Roger Jennings
• Welcome to the Federation... SQL Azure Database Federation that is... (Or "Sharding for the New Year"), Greg Duncan
• Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 30, 2011

Career

• 2011, The Year in Ideas
• The Reason We Live With Mediocrity.. Ostrich-ing
• My First Week as a Junior Software Developer
• My 2011 in review.
• Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders
• Progress and the intentional selection of less, Garr
• Ask FreelanceSwitch: Hiring a Sales Person and Starting Out, FreelanceSwitch
• Ten Pieces of Inspiration #53, Trent

Business

• 7 Noticeable Startup Acquisitions In 2011
• The Lean Startup Frenzy
• Cambridge startup incubator Cogo Labs comes out of stealth, Kyle Alspach
• Year 1 Of The American Institute for Innovation Excellence - A Year In Review, Paul Williams

Other link blogs

• Top 9 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, December 30th, Rob Caron