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