Other

• Tim Berners-Lee Confirms The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented: France
• Versioning your WCF Web APIs
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Conclusion, Ayende @ Rahien
• When are servers not servers? and Is Programming Less Exciting Today?, Ted Neward
• Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care and CodeMash 2012 Sessions, Steven Smith

Code to look at

• Crawl Websites With C# and XPath
• Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF
• Passing native pointers across C++/CLI assembly boundaries, Sebastian Krysmanski

Data Access

• Exception from DbContext API: EntityConnection can only be constructed with a closed DbConnection, Diego Vega
• Episode 25 of Visual Studio Toolbox (Entity Framework Part 2) is now live, Robert Green
• Some gotchas when using ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework Code First., Michael Aspengren

Web

• 10 Designs Inspired by Microsoft's Metro UI | Fuel Your Creativity
• 24 ways: Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck
• Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views and WebGrid extensions on NuGet, ukadc
• Asynchronous File Upload, Ali Al Omairi
• ASP.NET performance: is it all about the database?, Michaela Murray

Silverlight

• Silverlight 5, Steven Smith

Mobile

• "New and Improved T4 Template for OData Client and Local Database" for Windows Phone 7.1(5), Greg Duncan
• Daily WP7 Development News 25 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Agile

• Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2, Johanna

Cloud Computing

• AWS HowTo: Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce with DynamoDB
• How much overcapacity are you running with today? I bet SQL Azure Federations can trim that!, Cihan Biyikoglu
• MSDN Subscribers Receive Up to $3,700 in Annual Windows Azure Benefits, Bruce Kyle
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 25, 2012
• Cloud Configuration Management: Where the Rubber Hits the Clouds, Jason Bloomberg
• Cannot create database ‘DevelopmentStorageDb20110816′ for the Windows Azure Storage Emulator, Wade Wegner
• Deploying “Cloud Numerics” Sample Applications to Windows Azure HPC Clusters, Roger Jennings
• Windows Azure Service Bus Queues vs. Windows Azure Queues, Peter Laudati
• Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts, Brian Swan

Career

• [FLOWCHART] Should you start freelancing?
• U.S. Dept of Labor Predicts Decline in Programming Jobs
• An Introvert's Guide to Networking
• Productivity Papers: Work Like an Expert, Become One
• About Steve, Steven Smith
• Fix Your First Impression, Wendy Lea

Business

• The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1), Rob
• Hiring for Lean Startups: The First Few Hires
• 500 Startups Demo Day Winter 2011 – Live
• A new take on the series A
• Lessons Learned as Chargify Turns 3
• Why You Shouldn't Give A Crap About Early Startup Competition
• How to Win at Startup Weekend
• Interesting but without point?, Andreas Baum
• That VC Is NOT Your Friend, Steve Blank
• New TechStars Boston class includes teams from all over, Kyle Alspach

Innovation

• Fundamental Requirements for Innovation Success, Paul Williams
• What is the definition of innovation? and Innovation Contradictions, Jeffrey Phillips
• Don’t Suffocate The Innovation Economy, Dean DeBiase

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1030, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 25th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 25, 2012 (#1,250), Alvin Ashcraft