Other

• Writing Your Own WebSocket Server
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion, James Michael Hare
• CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available, Rocky Lhotka

Code to look at

• Generic Architecture For Rapid Software Development Project Cycle - Part 1, Md. Marufuzzaman
• LINQtoXML, kskrishnas
• SqlBulkCopy for Generic List (useful for Entity Framework & NHibernate), Jarod Ferguson
• JSON-Enabled WCF Services (Part II), Sergery Piskov

Web

• PUT or POST: The REST of the Story
• What Does It Take to Be a User Experience Designer?

Silverlight

• Notification Control in Silverlight, Jawahar Suresh Babu

Mobile

• Why the mobile "write once, run everywhere" mentality is misguided and Understanding the Required Artwork for your Windows Phone App and Daily WP7 Development News 26 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Mango Tip: Awesome Marketplace Screenshots and PhoneGap fully supports Windows Phone, jerry-nixon
• Top 10 sharks using Expression Design, Free Blend & XAML, Surf4Fun
• MetroSky - End to end Windows Phone 7 SkyDrive sample code and app, Greg Duncan

Database

• Why NoSQL Does Not Mean NoDBA
• T-SQL stored procedure for finding/replacing strings in a text file. Really?, Linchi Shea
• Bad Habits to Kick : Thinking a WHILE loop isn't a CURSOR, Aaron Bertrand
• Understanding Database Choice, Jeremiah Peschka

Agile

• Test Driven Development Really Works - The Hiltmon
• Rotating the ScrumMaster Role, Mike Cohn

Cloud Computing

• Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on Azure, Mary Jo Foley
• Thinktecture IdentityServer Azure Edition RC, leastprivilege.com
• New Tagging for Auto Scaling Groups, AWS Blog
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 1/26/2012+, Roger Jennings
• Real World Windows Azure Guidance: Troubleshooting Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure Applications, Avkash Chauhan
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 26, 2012
• Windows Azure InfoKit for Public Sector January 2012 Update, zxue
• Windows Azure Service Bus Demo from Brian Loesgen, Peter Laudati
• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh, Gregory Leake
• New Management API for Windows Azure Traffic Manager, Michael Washam

Career

• My Summer with the App Engine Team
• 10 Simple Steps To Making A Kick Ass Explanation Video For Free
• The 10 Keys To Selling Anything, James Altucher
• Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable
• Why Choosing a Niche is Pretty Dumb (and Why You Should Create One Instead), Jonathan
• Creative Thinking Technique #2, Mitch Ditkoff
• Mentors: A Young Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon, Entrepreneur.com
• Make Time for YOU – Part Two and 5 Pros and Cons of Freelance Job Marketplaces, Freelance Switch

Business

• A Tale of a Miserable Product Launch
• An incubator for grownups...
• First look at 37s big rewrite
• The best and brightest from 500 Startups' third demo day
• A new business strategy for startups
• 4 Essential Steps to Managing Growth, Matthew Swyers

Innovation

• Social Bankruptcy, Steve Pavlina
• Plus 2 Visibility – Effective Intrapreneur Habit #5, Steve Todd
• I'll Never Fall in Love (with ideas) Again, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1031, Chris Alcock
• Top 9 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 26th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 26, 2012 (#1,251), Alvin Ashcraft

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

Other

• Basecamp: Starting Over
• [How to] Burn ISO files.
• Rethinking Compiler Design
• We Need A Wider Conversation on CS Education, Alfred Thompson
• Building a large text file editor – Part I, Costin Boldisor
• Ask Ayende: Handling filtering, Ayende @ Rahien
• Tool for restructuring UI Map of Coded UI Test, Gautam Goenka
• Inside the ConcurrentCollections: ConcurrentQueue, Simon Cooper
• Using hg bisect to hunt down bugs, Patrick Steele
• Can desktop software be Lean?, benc
• Adding form to Function-a glance at how WPF works, Laura ADM
• Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3, Laurent Bugnion
• Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 – Simplified Configuration Feature, Melissa Amanna
• See the WPF Visual Tree with the VS 2010 WPF Visualizer, Gil Yoder
• Why Microsoft is scrapping the MIX conference, Tim Anderson
• Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the Cloud - My Experience So Far, Buck Woody

Code to look at

• Zipping using System.IO.Compression, Gary Noter
• Introduction to jQuery in ASP.net Applications, Ayobami Adewole
• Retrieving TreeView nodes as IEnumerable, Ieppie
• Use Xaml.XamlServices to Serialize or Deserialize DependencyObject, Jack Stone
• Using the XmlReader class with C#, Cyotek

Web

• Web design shift: read "Responsive Web Design"
• Web UI regression testing using CFSelenium, MXUnit, and ImageMagick
• Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery
• Improve performance, safety and security in Internet Explorer, Rob Margel
• Using HTML5 Fractions in Exported Excel Tables, Michael

Silverlight

• Missing Silverlight Resources and ASP.Net security, Derik Whittaker

Mobile

• How to use GZip compression for Windows Phone 7 and Daily WP7 Development News 24 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Fixing the [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly., Michael Crump
• Winning on the Marketplace: Trial mode–the art of the upsell, Paul Laberge
• Apps on my Windows Phone–January 2012, Ian Moulster

Database

• Performance impact: SQL2008 R2 audit and trace, Linchi Shea
• How It Works: sys.dm_tran_session_transactions, psssql

Security

• Facebook scam: the hours I spend…, David Harley

Agile

• Working with Agile in a Distributed Team Environment, sajoshi

Cloud Computing

• Next Iteration Of PaaS: Will Amazon Join That Race?
• Cloud9 IDE supports deploying to Azure
• Cloud Hiring Reaches New Heights
• Cloud Pushes Further Into Financial Services
• Devops for Everyone - Beanstalk's hosted deployments now can run SSH commands
• Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway, All Things Distributed
• The AWS Storage Gateway - Integrate Your Existing On-Premises Applications with AWS Cloud Storage and Launch Relational Database Service Instances in the Virtual Private Cloud, AWS Blog
• Massively Scalable Azure, jerry-nixon
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 24, 2012
• Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production, Gregory Leake
• Simple Static Web Hosting: EC2 vs. S3, James Saull

Career

• Starting a Freelance Business in 2012: Planning Ahead and When One Client Becomes Your Job, Freelance Switch
• We Are Hiring!, Jeffrey Richter
• Meeting in the Middle: Networking With the Opposite Sex, Entrepreneur.com

Business

• Honest Start-up tips from a CEO
• Lean Startup - concept validation (Unbounce vs Launch Rock)
• Working at a Startup: What I've Learned Over the Last 6 Months
• Free is Bad for Business..
• Steve Blank's New Book - The Startup Owner's Manual
• 8 Startup Tips From Mark Zuckerberg
• Mixergy - Chad Etzel (Notifo) on Startups and Failing
• Coding Start-Ups Compete for Booming Market
• The Management Team
• Getting Acquired and Then Getting Shut Down
• Blog: The community around Mass Innovation Nights, Bobbie Carlton

Innovation

• Book Review: Where Good Ideas Come From, Rosa Say
• Disruptive Moments Sometimes Require Letting Go, Paul Hobcraft

Community

• First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond, dsyme

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1029, Chris Alcock
• Top 11 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 24th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop–January 24, 2012 – (#1,249), Alvin Ashcraft

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

Other

• Importing / Exporting Templates and Patterns in ReSharper 6.1, Hadi Hariri
• NuGet Project Uncovered: An Introduction to the Series, Jason Jarrett

Code to look at

• A Restaurant and Waiter helper app in WPF and Windows Mobile, Ali Dameshmandi
• Binding Helpers: Separation of UI, view-model and data-model in WinForms, Bob Janova

Web

• New Class: Building a search Engine
• ASP.NET Response.Redirect
• Things every Web Developer wishes Web Designers knew
• Will HTML5 be the death of PDF magazines?, thebeebs
• Fix: the value ‚x‘ is not valid for Foo in ASP.NET MVC, Code Inside Team
• Json.NET 4.0 Release 6 – Serialization Performance, James Newton-King
• The Web Workshop: Client-Side Dev Training, Shawn Wildermuth

Silverlight

• Expression Blend: I made a copy of a UserControl and now it throws an error, Surf4Fun

Mobile

• Solve Windows Phone 7 and Zune devices connection problems, Rob Margel
• [Windows Phone 7.5] Run multiple instances of the emulator and Beta-testing on Windows Phone - some curious facts, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• Data Compression in SQL Server 2008 - Guest Post by Joydeep Das

Security

• SQL Injection - Hacking for noobs

Cloud Computing

• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 22, 2012

Career

• Six Lessons in Entrepreneurship
• Public speaking for normal people
• Avoiding Body Shop IT Positions (by Kforce?)
• Scaling the Team, Matt Blumberg
• Buddha Quotes, JD
• Key to productivity: Choose phone calls carefully, Penelope Trunk
• Are we not competitive or not stupid enough to be slaves?, Vlad Mazek

Business

• The Startup Strategy Matrix
• John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website
• Ways To Find Network Marketing Business Opportunities
• Guest Post: Inside a startup, ceibner

Innovation

• Do We Need an Innovation Profession?, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1027, Chris Alcock
• Interesting Links 23 January 2012, Alfred Thompson

Other

• Unity Interception with WCF, SeenDaBean
• Await, SynchronizationContext, and Console Apps: Part 2, Stephen Toub
• Interesting Opportunity for Academic App developers to win some great prizes, Lee Scott
• A tool to find duplicate copies in a build, Buck Hodges
• Get your WiX fix now on WiXToolset.org, Greg Duncan
• Check out this plug-in for Expression Encoder, Surf4Fun

Data Access

• Entity Framework Code First: Let's Try It, Nadege Deroussen

From CodePlex Feed

• Windows phone manager tool

Web

• One Man's HTML5 Developer Workflow
• How to stop a page from refreshing via jQuery?
• Review – Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML 5 and Node, Glenn Block
• ASP .NET Plotter (jQuery and HTML5), Akram El Assas

Silverlight

• HTML5 CSS3 Javascript vs XAML .net and Silverlight, marlongrech
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 15-January-2012 to 21-January-2012, Kunal Chowdhury

Cloud Computing

• Microsoft Private Cloud Certification…Conquer the Cloud & Become indispensable, Neveen Nassif
• FREE Private Cloud Training, Neveen Nassif
• The golden recipé for a successful Software-as-a-Service/Cloud Business, dszabo
• Windows Azure blob download - Adding code that'll run before, during, and after, SeenDaBean
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 21, 2012
• Introducing Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics” from SQL Azure Labs, Roger Jennings

Career

• Six creative professionals and their workspaces
• Things to Know Before Starting a Business
• The 15% Tax Rate, Fred
• Review: Savvy Saving and Ten Pieces of Inspiration #56, Trent

Business

• Startup Lessons Learned (so far)
• Create a startup webpage in less than 1 hour

Innovation

• Guiding Principles of Learned Innovation, Greg Satell

Community

• This Week: January 22-28, 2012, Venture Cafe

I just signed up for Boston’s Startup Weekend.  Haven’t been to one before so it should prove to be an interesting experience.

Other

• China's Homegrown Supercomputers
• A reflection on Stanford's AI-class, DB-class
• The Secret Document That Transformed China
• Cufflinks double as USB drive, Wi-Fi hotspot
• [Infographics] Geek or Nerd, which one are you?
• Amazon Kindle Fire – 2 Months Later, Andrew Connell
• Implementing a SynchronizationContext.SendAsync method, Stephen Toub
• Herding Code 132: Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows developers, Scott Koon
• Visual Studio 11 ALM Advances, Somasegar
• Engineering Windows 8 for mobile networks, Steven Sinofsky

Code to look at

• Detecting if an application is running as an elevated process, and spawning a new process using elevated permissions, Cyotek
• Service-Based Architecture for the DataWindow, rikbrooks

Web

• Modern Web Development - Part 2, Shawn Wildermuth
• IE10 Compat Inspector, IEBlog
• JScript Debugger– “Unable to attach the process. Another debugger might be attached to the process” – while application is running from Visual Studio. [ Solution ], Abhijit Jana
• Text Parts Come to Sueetie Blogs, Dave Burke
• Rachel Appel's New Web Dev Column, Michael Desmond
• IIS 7x Different ways in which Kernel Mode Cache would be flushed.aspx, jaskis

Mobile

• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• Should NoSQL startups be afraid of DynamoDB?

Architecture

• Costa Concordia: The Goals of Software Architecture, Surf4Fun

Cloud Computing

• The Rise of Cloud Computing Ecosystems
• Common Crawl dataset to move to AWS Public Data Sets
• Cloud Computing Changing Paradigm
• Amazon brings single sign-on to AWS management
• SaaS Metrics - A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 1/20/2012+, Roger Jennings
• Hybrid Cloud - a sample-scenario and architecture, mszCool
• January and February Azure Cloud Events in Boston Area, Bill Wilder
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 20, 2012
• AWS Toolkits for Eclipse and Visual Studio Now Support DynamoDB, AWS Blog
• Bug-Out Bags and Cloud Architecture Considerations, Buck Woody

Career

• Things I wish I had written, Penelope Trunk
• A Mess On The Ladder Of Success
• Thirtysomething Entrepreneurship
• Dear entrepreneur, what do you focus on? Please, focus on the process
• How to Deal with Crappy People
• When Talent Can Easily Find New Opportunity, How Do You Retain Talent?, Ben Casnocha
• Startup Weekend: Entrepreneurship’s Democratizer, Ted Zoller
• Problem Solving Leadership Workshop (Revisited), Gerald Weinberg
• Design for Yourself: Pros and Cons, Freelance Switch

Business

• The best VC pickup line I've ever heard
• Things You Ought to Know If You Do Not Know Anything About Hiring A Developer
• Android Is No. 1, But Google Says It Still Makes Little Money
• The Best Marketing Advice for Entrepreneurs
• Creating a $300/month Online Business in 2 Days
• 10 Strange Businesses You Didn't Know Existed
• Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK, Guy Kawasaki
• Startup Branding: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs, Dharmesh Shah
• Start a Company ... & Stay Married, Khary Cuffe

Innovation

• Things to worry about
• Innovation & Microsoft - Part 1, LJrdn

Community

• Chocolate & Wine Tasting tickets are going fast, Destination Salem
• Philly.NET Code Camp April 14, 2012 – Call For Speakers Now Open, Peter Laudati

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – January 20, 2012 (#1,247), Alvin Ashcraft
• The Morning Brew #1026, Chris Alcock

Other

• Overview of .NET Framework
• Windows 8 adventures: error handling and the async pattern, luisabreu
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: From start to finishing–tracing a request, Ayende @ Rahien
• (WF4 - Link) For your reading pleasure – PeteGoo, tilovell09
• Moving up in the world, from VirtualPC to Hyper-V? Here's how to keep your VM's happy. and A "Get right to work introduction to Lucene.Net", Greg Duncan
• Fun fact: C# methods whose bodies span over multiple source files, Jb Evain
• Connect Visual Studio to TFS, Rita Zhang
• [Visual Studio Extension Of The Day] Architecture Layers Patterns, Hosam Kamel
• C#, Async, Limits, oh my!, Peter Ritchie
• TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools, James Kovacs
• How do I start a .NET WCF Windows Service automatically soon after the setup installation is complete, Abey Thomas

Code to look at

• How to load a remote assembly using Assembly.Load, Jon Gallant
• XamlResource - Access xaml resources in a strongly typed way, Nicolas Dorier
• How to Build Flexible and Reusable WCF Services, Xomega Team

Data Access

• Announcing OData T4 for C#, Preview 1, dpblogs

Web

• Annotated ECMAScript 5.1 specification in HTML
• Tracking API usage with Google Analytics, Maarten Balliauw
• SkyDrive API Link Round-Up, Greg Duncan

Database

• Availability, Data Locality, and Peer-to-Peer Replication, Jeremiah Peschka

Security

• How to host a Silverlight Application using JavaScript?, Kunal Chowdhury

Mobile

• Publish 4 Original & Unique Windows Phone Apps & Get a Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone!*, Paul Lo
• Tips and tricks when using PhotoCamera in WP 7.5 Mango and Daily WP7 Development News 19 Jan 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek
• PhoneGap now fully supports Windows Phone, Vart Vande Ghinste

Security

• Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.5.10 – Forensics Framework To Manage Cases & Case Items, Darknet

Cloud Computing

• James Hamilton Reviews Amazon DynamoDB: NoSQL in the Cloud
• Getting Started with Windows Azure, Scott Guthrie
• Identity Federation to the AWS Management Console, AWS Blog
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 19, 2012
• Developer Community Suite (Azure, WP7 & ASP.NET) for Windows Phone, ErikReitan
• Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent, Shawn Cicoria
• Free Private Cloud Training: Are you ready for the Microsoft Private Cloud?, Rob
• Web Cast - Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure, Bruno Terkaly

Career

• The commoditisation of the entrepreneur
• The World is Small and Life is Long
• Who Are You Talking To?, Tom Searcy
• Productivity is a Remarkably Good Thing, JD
• 2012 Begins, Patrick Steele
• 16 Cool Coworking Spaces, Christina DesMarais
• Improving Recruiting and Hiring Process: Thought-Provoking Infographic, George Lenard
• The Smartest Dumb Thing I Ever Did, Jeff Haden
• An Academic Confession, Chris Guillebeau

Business

• What to Do If Your Business Gets Hacked
• Fund Raising is a Necessary Evil, A Rite of Passage
• End of the line for Code Quarterly
• Chicago gets 50,000 square foot coworking space
• How to Find a Developer in Chicago, Zack Gilbert
• Twitter buys Summify, will shut it down, Steven Brown
• Microsoft financials: Windows under stress, Server and Office making up, Tim Anderson
• Zillow, Redfin Sued Over GPS Patent, Northwest Innovation
• What's Hot in Venture Capital in 2012, Entrepreneur.com
• Is Private Equity Right For Your Business?, Ed Powers

Innovation

• Why Most Innovations Fail?, Sanjay Dalal
• TEACH, CONSULT, INNOVATE, SLEEP, AND REPEAT., technori
• The #mHealth Innovator, LeAnna Carey
• Is an Innovation Culture a Fools Errand?, Jeffrey Phillips

Community

• Hang out with others who geek out on technology, find your local user group!, Susan Ibach

Other link blogs

• Technology Short Take #20, Scott Lowe
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 19th, Rob Caron

Other

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The DateTime TryParse() and ParseExact() Methods and C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Stopwatch Ticks are not TimeSpan Ticks, James Michael Hare
• Ask Ayende: Life without repositories, are they worth living?, Ayende @ Rahien
• WCF Extensibility – Configuring the Endpoint for WCF RIA Services, Carlos Figueira
• Windows 7 64bit replacing notepad with Notepad++ (launcher), Jani Makinen
• Can you move a Virtual Machine from VirtualPC to Hyper-V?, Stephen Kaufman
• Episode 24 of Visual Studio Toolbox (Visual Studio Achievements) is now live, Robert Green
• One Dev's Top VS Extensions List (In case you're looking for recommended VS extensions for some reason... ;) and Comfortably numb... MVVM'ing Enums in ComboBox, Greg Duncan
• Don’t brag about your Visual Studio achievements! (yet?), Maarten Balliauw
• An introduction to NDepend, Nathan Gloyn
• Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0, Microsoft Downloads

Code to look at

• A Coder Interview With Julie Lerman, The Code Project

Web

• How many visitors do you need for your A/B test?
• Command & Conquer in HTML 5
• 30+ Most Useful Web Development Frameworks
• The Expert Javascript Programmer
• JavaScript Programming Patterns
• HTTP is not a transport protocol, HTTP is not RPC, Glenn Block
• Message Editing Now Supported on the Sueetie Wall, Dave Burke
• Converting Array or List of data to String => made easy! (C#, MVC3, LINQ), wgross

Mobile

• Daily Mobile Minute #90: How to lose customers and alienate early adopters
• Windows Phone Mango Sample: The ApplicationBar’s Secret Blend? and How to get the Tapped Item in a MultiselectList control and Daily WP7 Development News 18 Jan 2012 and Windows Phone EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 14, WindowsPhoneGeek
• A framework for building of WP7 application, Llya Builuk
• USC: Totally cool index of How-To for Windows Phone 7, Surf4Fun
• New Videos Uploaded, Jesse Liberty
• Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API, Silverlight Team

Cloud Computing

• Cloud: Missing Key to Unification
• What DynamoDB tells us about the future of cloud computing, simmon munro
• The State of NoSQL in 2012, Practical Cloud Computing
• The Which, the When, and the How of Windows Azure Services: Devices, Jonathan Bozenblit
• Windows Azure application VM and (virtual) IP Address, Avkash Chauhan
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 18, 2012
• Amazon DynamoDB - Internet-Scale Data Storage the NoSQL Way, AWS Blog
• Designing For Failure, Michael Stiefel
• Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications, All Things Distributed

Career

• How to Build and Sell a Product While You Still Have a Fulltime Job
• Show HN: Interview coaching for engineers
• Daily motivation: 50 Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Earlier
• Training Yourself To See New Strategic Options, Kaihan Krippendorff
• 6 Tips to Avoid IRS Audits for Freelancers, Freelance Switch

Business

• Advice for Lean Startup Machine Participants
• Client Acquisition - You're Doing It Wrong
• Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Seeking Venture Capital

Innovation

• Innovating in Traditional Industries
• Thoughts on Innovation "Best Practices", Paul Williams
• Effective Intrapreneur Habit #3 – Collaboration, Steve Todd
• Innovation Doesn’t Matter, James Gardner
• Why New Innovation and Revenue Growth Strategies Fail and Economic gloom smothering innovation, survey finds, Innovation in the News
• Avoiding Innovation Arrogance, Dennis Stauffer

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1025, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 18th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 18, 2012 (#1,245), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• C# to take a breaking change in version 5
• Northwind Starter Kit Review: If you won’t respect the database, there will be pain, Ayende @ Rahien
• January 17th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio, Jason Zander
• Free ly: Using Expression Design with Expression Blend an XAML, Surf4Fun
• 2 more Videos on using the PerfView performance tool., Vance Morrison
• Inside Red Gate - Experimental Results, Simon Cooper
• Where is my exception handler code in the function disassembly?, CrDev
• Making testing in Visual Studio demon hot... New RedGate ".NET Demon" Visual Studio Extension beta, Greg Duncan
• Getting Started with Windows 8 Metro Style Application, Kunal Chowdhury

Code to look at

• Silverlight Extended Canvas Control to Crop Images, Onat Yigit Mercan
• Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF : 1 of 2, Sacha Barber
• Migrating ASMX Services To WCF services, Sarafian

Web

• World IPv6 switch-over event scheduled for June 6
• 7 rules of unobstrusive javascript
• Useful Tools to Speed up your CSS and HTML Coding Time
• Very handy utility – hurl.it, Eric Nelson
• Adventures in HTML5: Debug Hero game featuring CSS Sprites and jQuery Animation, David Pallmann
• How to use Pex and Moles to generate unit tests for a project having external dependency(WCF Proxy) using Visual Studio 2010 SP1, Atul.Verma
• Chrome flunks the National Vulnerability Database analysis, Surf4Fun
• 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides, Jon Galloway

Mobile

• JQuery Rewritten, Ground-Up, for Mobile HTML5 on iOS and Android devices
• 4 Management Lessons From The Overhaul Of Android's UI
• Flippin’ User Controls with Virtual Backsides …, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Windows Phone Tutorial: Calling Navigate From The View Model, Jesse Liberty
• Looking to Save Time Developing your Phone Apps?, Natasha Zaza
• Going with the flow… Using Metro to control the experience, Paul Laberge

Database

• SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Book Review, Brent Ozar

Security

• Hackers steal $6.7 million in bank cyber heist

Debugging

• Windbg loops around First chance and Second chance exceptions, CrDev

Agile

• Agile Productivity, Mike Griffiths

Cloud Computing

• A CodeMash Session List with Node.js and Windows Azure, Drewby
• How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure, Aaronontheweb
• Windows Azure Simplified Subscription Sign Up Experience - How Easy Is It?, Thiago Almeida
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 17, 2012
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 1/17/2012+, Roger Jennings
• Managing Blob Snapshots in Windows Azure Storage, Shay Yannay
• New Article: Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure Service Bus Queues - Compared and Contrasted, Valery Mizonov
• Avoid timeout when uploading large blobs to Azure, Emil Gustafsson

Career

• Larry Smith TEDxUW - Why you will fail to have a great career
• Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo
• Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley
• "No" is the New "Yes": Four Practices to Reprioritize Your Life
• Refactoring Code: When is it appropriate to rewrite code as a Freelancer?
• The problem with "It's not what you know, it's who you know.", Tim Stall
• Reevaluating Who Cares, Asher Luzzatto
• Learning to Sit Alone, in a Quiet Empty Room, Leo Babauta
• Pre-Order The Start-Up of You, Ben Casnocha
• Why Having a Mentor is Important for Freelancers, FreelanceSwitch.com
• Daily Routine of a 4 Hour Programmer, Jay Janarthanan
• 7 Must-Have Qualities to Look for in Employees and Why You’re Not Happy, Jeff Haden
• How Much Time Should You Spend Getting Organized?, Jessica Stillman

Business

• Contradictory Startup Advice...and How to Navigate It
• Why do you need a CEO?
• TechStars Startup Reality Show * Episodes 1 – 5
• Individuals Don't Build Great Companies, Teams Do
• The Wolf From Pulp Fiction is the Ideal Startup Founder
• What I've Learned from Failed Startups
• Money Ball for Medicine – Business Models for Healthcare, Dave Chase
• Cheap But Effective Digital Office Solutions for Starting Your Small Business, FreelanceSwitch
• 8 Models of Business Models and Why They're Important and 3 Things You Can Do With a Business Model, Innovation in the News

Innovation

• Contract employees: A potentially valuable source of ideas, Innovation Weblog
• The Winning Attitude Tipping Point, Holly Green
• Manufacturing Bright Ideas, Robert Tucker

Community

• Hang out with others who geek out on technology, find your local user group!, Susan Ibach

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1024, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 17th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – January 17, 2012 (#1,244), Alvin Ashcraft