Other

• Learning How to Code Is A Waste Of Time
• Windows 8 adventures: using the Flyout control, luisabreu
• WCF Extensibility – Transport Channels – Duplex Channels, Carlos Figueira
• Free Tool for XAML: XamlPadX 4.0, Surf4Fun
• Changing the default Framework from Client Profile to Full in five minutes and five steps (aka Editing a Project Template to change its default Framework), Greg Duncan

Code to look at

• 4 real time use of Partial classes and partial methods, Shivprasad koirala
• Calling WCF service exposed with different bindings in JQuery, Kausik Nag
• BinaryFormatter or Manual serializing?, kosmoh

Web

• How Google ported Angry Birds to Chrome/HTML5
• A Really Empty ASP.NET MVC 3 Project Template, Phil Haack
• How Sueetie Supports Multiple Walls, Dave Burke
• Learning Bootstrap modals, Dave Winer

Silverlight

• Silverlight Treeview Control with CRUD, Amit Dey
• WP7 Tips: How to Unpin an Application from the Start Screen?, Kunal Chowdhury
• Silverlight Reporting example project from Pete Brown updated for Silverlight 5, Greg Duncan

Mobile

• Windows Phone backers declare mobile war
• Windows Phone Mango Sample: 3 Solutions to Formatting Problems and Daily WP7 Development News 10 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• My app has principles – understanding the Metro design principles, Paul Laberge
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #5: Live Tiles and Deep Linking, Glen Gordon
• Tombstone territory: Preparing the App.XAML.CS for Tombstoning, Surf4Fun

Database

• T-SQL Tuesday #26 : Second Chances, Aaron Bertrand
• Indexing - take the hint and leave it to the experts, fatherjack
• Efficient paging using SQL script, kami5

Cloud Computing

• Improve Performance By Using Batch Gets on Google App Engine
• Accessing Federations in SQL Azure using Entity Framework, Cihan Biyikoglu
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 10, 2012
• Microsoft Codename "Cloud Numerics" (SQL Azure Labs), Ferglo
• SQL Azure Federations and the Entity Framework, dpblogs
• Accessing Windows Azure blob Storage as Network Drive, Avkash Chauhan

Career

• The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++
• Top 10 Ways to Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin, JD
• No more Google Adsense ads on my website – at least for now, Tushar Mehta
• I Am Not a Web Designer, Freelance Switch

Business

• Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups
• Startups: The Essential To-Do List
• Insights from Customer Discovery Interviews #leanstartup
• Hiring Your Startup's First Employee | How To
• America's labor market is hollowing out
• How to Work (Smarter) At Your Startup

Innovation

• How IDEO's employee profiling system helps drive innovation, Innovation in the News

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1019, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – January 10, 2012 (#1,238), Alvin Ashcraft