Other

• Infographic: A Beautiful Cheat Sheet For Two Dozen Espresso-Based Drinks, Kyle VanHemert
• 5 Ways that Google I/O Announcements Will Help the Entrepreneur, mcjmalek
• Sandi Metz’ rules for developers
• Who sends the initial WM_UPDATEUISTATE message?, Raymond Chen
• 10 key questions about software-defined networking, Mary Shacklett

Code to look at

• The RIGHT Way to Write a Custom Exception Class, Doug Seelinger
• Building a Multithreaded-Socket WebServer using C#, Alberto Biafelli

Data Access

• Entity Framework Patterns extension and Unit Test in Visual Studio 2012, n.podbielski

Windows 8

• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 .NET Development Overview – Windows8AppFactor, Bruno Terkaly

Web

• Interface Experiences: Float Right CSS!, Caleb McElrath
• Mozilla delays blocking third-party tracking cookies in Firefox 22, says more work is needed, Ken Yeung
• Website Usability: Are You Making These 10 Web Design Mistakes?, Caimin
• Google Introduces Portable Native Client, Makes It Easier For Developers To Add C And C++ Code To Their Web Apps, Frederic Lardinois

Mobile

• Daily Windows Phone Development News 17 May 2013, GeekChamp

Database

• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #029, Pinal Dave
• sp_spaceused Alternative, Andrew Kelly
• How to Fix Orphaned SQL Users, Tharaka MTR

PowerShell

• Scripting : Toggle proxy server in IE settings with PowerShell, Aymeric Mouillé
• Deploying Database Changes with PowerShell, LessThanDot

Cloud Computing

• SharpBox Cloud Storage Client, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Windows Azure Blob Storage – Dealing With “The specified blob or block content is invalid” Error, Gaurav
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 17, 2013
• Most MSDN Software Licenses can now be used in Azure, Greg Low
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #66), Mark Brown
• CloudStack Storage Configuration Guide, Mike Tutkowski
• Session State Management in Windows Azure Web Roles, Angshuman Nayak
• Keep your Windows Azure applications running with custom health checks, Tom Hollander
• New Features for the Amazon Elastic Transcoder, AWS Blog

Career

• Living Space: Simple Steps to Transform Your Home, JD
• Innovate your process by rearranging the blocks, Paul Sloane
• Bill Gates: Good Feedback Is the Key to Improvement, Jana Kasperkevic
• The Fear of Taxes Shouldn’t Keep You from Earning More, Trent
• Add Awesome Images to Your Presentations, John Papa
• Inspirational Advice From 10 Successful Leaders and Why Entrepreneurs Choose Freedom Over Money, Entrepreneur.com
• How To Use Auto Responder Emails to Boost Your Blogging Efforts, Asher Elran
• HOW TO QUIT YOUR JOB, James Altucher

Business

• Charles Schwab to trim expenses, investments to boost shareholder returns, Mark Calvey
• Tableau Surges In IPO Debut, Northwest Innovation

Innovation

• Improving Returns on your Innovation Investment, Paul Hobcraft

Community

• SQL in the City Event Dates Announced!, Andy Leonard

Other link blogs

• Pie in the Sky (May 17, 2013), Larry Franks
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 17th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 17, 2013 (#1,549), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Using OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Grant for delegated access of Directory via AAD Graph, AAD Graph team
• Move over TortoiseGit, welcome SourceTree, Jeffrey Palermo
• The MOOCs Degree, Lance Fortnow
• Google I/O: Best of Day 2, Preeti Upadhyaya
• Construct 2 Tip #4: Round Tripping With Event Variables, Jim O’Neil
• .NET Security Part 3, Simon Cooper
• Five Apps for disk and file encryption in Windows, Matthew Nawrocki
• New Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial, Steve Danielson
• New Windows Dev Center release, Brian Harry

Code to look at

• Displaying HTML Content in a RichTextBlock, Tess
• [Sample Of May 16th] ASP.NET load globalization res from assembly, philip fu
• Can we implement Inheritance in WCF ServiceContract : WCF Interview Series #2, Dhananjay Kumar
• Build Your Own Scheduler using IObservable, Faisal(mfrony)
• Streamline CSS development with LESS, Tony Patton

Windows 8

• Thoughts on Monetization Windows Store app #4: In-app purchases, WindowsPhoneGeek

Web

• Why Web Apps?, Alfred Thompson
• Implementation of MVC3 Cascading Dropdown using jQuery, Naufel Basheer
• Graceful Handling Of JavaScript Errors, Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
• MVC Basic Site: Step 4 – jqGrid Integration in MVC 4.0 using AJAX, JSON, jQuery, LINQ, and Serialization, Raul Iloc
• How to customize Twitter Bootstrap to fit your web design, Sojaner
• Don't add special bindings for FTP site, omniao
• AngularJS Abstractions: Scope, K Scott Allen

Mobile

• Android to Windows 8: Working with a SQL Database, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Windows Phone is Now Number Three, Paul Thurrott

Database

• Just the SSMS Mama, just the SSMS... (Getting just SQL Server 2012 SQL Server Management Studio), Greg Duncan
• SQL SERVER – Solution to Puzzle – REPLICATE over 8000 Characters, Pinal Dave
• Reflections on SQLBits XI, jamiet
• Improving ETL Processes, Sales and Marketing IT Test Engineering
• Duplicate key row in object 'dbo.bts_LogShippingJobs', Randy Ridgely
• Monitoring SSD Performance, Jeremiah Peschka

Cloud Computing

• CloudStack University, sebastien goasguen
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 16, 2013
• Talk: Architecting for the Cloud at Nashua Cloud .NET User Group, Bill Wilder

Career

• Free Time Management Skills Guide and Chalene Johnson on Personal Development, Productivity, Motivation, and More, JD Meier
• Put yourself in uncomfortable situations, Penelope Trunk
• Get out of your workplace bubble, Terri Griffith
• 5 Lessons in Contentment from Billionaires Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger, Leo Babauta
• The 99% Success Formula, Geoffrey James
• What You Need to Know to Improve Your Public Speaking, Freelance Switch

Business

• Skyword raises $6.7M to expand marketing content biz, Kyle Alspach
• When creativity meets determination, a startup is founded: my interview about Italian ecosystem of innovation, M4rio
• Steve Blank's Essential Entrepreneurial Advice, Steve Blank
• “In The Studio,” VMware's Parth Shah Helps Explain The World Of Enterprise IT, Semil Shah
• Why Raising Capital Is a 4-Step Process, Entrepreneur.com

Innovation

• BEST OF TED: The Surprising Need for Strangeness, Innovation Excellence
• Caution and Innovation: Do They Go Together?, Amanda Ciccatelli

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1358, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 17, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 16th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 16, 2013 (#1,548), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• MVVM Commands, RelayCommands and EventToCommand, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Google's Three-Hour I/O Keynote Boils Down To These Highlights And One Theme: Foundation, Drew Olanoff
• Obtaining Reliable Thread Call Stacks of 64-bit Processes, Sasha Goldshtein
• Google I/O: Here's the best of Day 1, Shana Lynch
• Known Issue and Workaround for TFS 2012 Update 3 RC1, AndreaMS
• Xamarin Evolve 2013 Talk Video - How C# Saved My Marriage, Scott Hanselman
• 5 Takeaways From Google I/O 2013, John Brandon
• Google updates Google TV to Android Jelly Bean and Chrome 26, announces faster update cycle, Harrison Web
• Where Is .NET Headed?, K Scott Allen

Code to look at

• Simple Error Logging Util Class, Pasan Indeewara
• Real Time Commenting Using SignalR and XSLT, Amir Jalilifard

Windows 8

• Windows 8 quick tip : how to take a screen shot of the Windows 8 desktop or an app, Rob Margel
• Windows 8 App Design Template: Health Management and Thoughts on Windows Store app Monetization #3: Using Ads, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Step-by-Step creating an app to find the nearest…, Susan Ibach
• Reverse Geocoding in Windows 8, Deepti Prakash
• Prism for the Windows Runtime - Book Download, Microsoft Downloads

Web

• SSL and .local and the cert issue .. still investigating, Susan Bradley
• IE 10, HTML5 and jQuery - JavaScript runtime error: 'JSON' is undefined, Manish Ahuja
• Eventual consistency in REST APIs, Jimmy Bogard
• Testing WebAPI with Fiddler, Wallym

Mobile

• Why setting a control Height and Width to 0 is not the brightest idea inside a Windows Phone project, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Win a Lumia 920 with Microsoft Action Pack!, Jack_Pilon
• Windows Phone Apps Tips - Image Considerations, Shweta Lodha
• Apple Bagged 57% Of $12.5B In Smartphone Profits In Q1; Android 43% – Samsung 95% Share Of That, “More Than Google”, Ingrid Lunden

Database

• Code Snippets in SQL Server 2012 For Greater Team Productivity, kenobonn
• INSERT SELECT is Broken. Ask Microsoft to Fix It., Adam Machanic
• SQL Server–Storage Spaces/VHDx and 4K Sector Size, psssql
• "The database is slow!" Here's a SQL Server Performance Crib Sheet [well almost book] that might help you..., via Greg Duncan
• The Basics of SQL Server Execution Plans (video), Jeremiah Peschka

Security

• Security lessons from the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Report, Alfonso Barreiro

Cloud Computing

• Http Message Handlers with the new version of Azure Mobile Services client for Windows Store apps, WindowsPhoneGeek
• Amazon DynamoDB - Parallel Scans, 4x Cheaper Reads, Other Good News, AWS Blog
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 15, 2013
• Want Cybersecurity? Get Cloud, Jason Bloomberg
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services - Part 4, Larry Franks
• Google Cloud Platform Opens To General Availability With 3 Million Applications, New Pricing And PHP, Alex Williams
• Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 15th May 2013, drmcghee

Career

• SQLAuthority News – 2500 Blog Posts, 2 Million Views per month, 62 Million Total Views, Pinal Dave
• 12 Ways to Make Bad Decisions, Mitch Ditkoff
• Feeling “Cheap” or “Poor” and The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Grilling Edition, Trent
• Conduct the Perfect Job Interview, Jeff Haden
• fnMentoring: Jacob Mullins, ExitRound, Abby Crowley
• 5 Habits Of The Most Creative People, Drake Baer

Business

• The Startup Life, chapter 5: Harsh critique leads to breakup, new start, Emily Parkhurst

Innovation

• Creating and Sustaining Innovation Energy, Jeffrey Phillips
• Innovate Your Innovation Strategy, Amanda Ciccatelli

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1357, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 16, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 15th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 15, 2013 (#1,547), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• As Google I/O Approaches, Microsoft Hires A High-Profile Team To Attract Outside Developers, Alex Williams
• The importance of profiling your application, pollirrata
• Book Review: The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver, Mark Needham
• Introducing Amazon Cloud Player for Windows Desktop, Paul Thurrott
• Microsoft Application Virtualization Server 5.0 Best Practice Analyzer, Microsoft Downloads
• Getting to simple, Jonathan Edwards
• Would I use RavenDb again?, Jeremy Miller
• KeepTheCash for Win8 or WinPhone Apps–until June 30, jhealy
• Dependency Injection (DI) vs. Inversion of Control (IOC), Shivprasad koirala
• Babel Obfuscator 6.4.0.0 Released, Alberto Ferrazzoli
• Book Review - Programming Massively Parallel Processors (second edition) by Kirk and Hwu, John Michael Hauck

Code to look at

• Ajax DLL, Mehul M Thakkar
• [Sample Of May 13rd] Object persistence in Windows Forms, philip fu
• Method Overloading in WCF: WCF Interview Series #1, Dhananjay Kumar

Windows 8

• Windows 8 SkyDrive app: Frequently asked questions (FAQ), Rob Margel
• How Blend made creating a Windows 8 app in 24 hours easy., Mickey MacDonald
• “Windows changed my life” – How physics student Richard Walters got 500k downloads, Tim Bush
• Thoughts on Windows Store apps Monetization #1: Trials and Trial Conversions, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Surface RT 6 months later, Omar Shahine
• Creating a Dual-Boot System With Windows 8, saraallison

Web

• @model and beyond, Peter van Ooijen
• Latest study finds IE10 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera, Emil Protalinski
• Mailbag - what about .local and SSL, Susan Bradley
• 10 questions to help businesses assess their email systems, Mary Shacklett
• Web-client development with Ember.js and Windows Azure Mobile Services - Part 3, Larry Franks
• How to create a serverfarm-compatible login for an ASP.NET application (plus general advice on how to secure it), Marco Bertschi
• Highlighting Current Page in ASP.NET Master Page, Ravindra T C
• AngularJS Abstractions: Controllers, K Scott Allen

Mobile

• Nokia Confirms The Flagship Lumia 925 For T-Mobile U.S: 4.5″ AMOLED Screen, Metal Edges, Extra Lens & New Camera Software, Natasha Lomas
• TouchDevelop v3.0 beta for Windows Phone 8, Nikolai Tillmann
• Fix Panorama layout when upgrading your project to Windows Phone 8 and Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Authentication Tips and Tricks and Windows Phone 8 navigation part 4–updating the tests, fixing the final issues, via WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• PowerShell script to extract T-SQL task code from SSIS packages, Arvind Shyamsundar
• Building a script to restart REPORTING SERVICES automatically, Maria Esteban
• SQL SERVER – How to use xp_sscanf in Real World Scenario?, Pinal Dave
• New Article on the SQL Server 2012 Backup and Restore PowerShell Cmdlets, AllenMWhite

Security

• Cyber Security Startup Lucent Sky's CLEAR Makes Securing Web Sites A Breeze, Catherine Shu

Cloud Computing

• Q&A with Apprenda on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Trends, SandHill.com
• Using XPath to set environment variables in ServiceDefinition.csdef, Tom Hollander
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 13, 2013
• Preserving date time offsets in Azure Mobile Services, CarlosFigueira
• Cloud-service contracts and data protection: Unintended consequences, Michael Kassner
• Spelunking Azure, What does it Cost?, SQLShep
• Google App Engine: Taking the cloud to the next level, Scott Matteson

Career

• Experienced to the Level of Obsolete, Anita George
• Smile in Each Moment, Leo Babauta
• How to Get on a Hot Streak, Barry Moltz
• Personal Finance “Experiences” for Older Kids, Trent
• Boost Your Confidence in 3 Steps, Laura Garnett
• Richard Branson on Parenting and Work-Life Balance, Entrepreneur.com

Business

• Lucky Sort Acquired By Twitter, Northwest Innovation
• Start-up Mistake You Don't Want to Make, Margaret Heffernan
• 5 Hot Opportunities for Start-ups, Christina DesMarais
• Compared to This, Your Mission Statement Sucks, Jeff Haden
• The Basics of Hiring an Intern for Your Startup, Caitlin Riederer

Innovation

• Download Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine v32, Innovation Excellence
• So how will we Innovate in the Future?, Paul Hobcraft
• Yes, Innovation Is Messy!, Stefan Lindegaard

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1355, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 14, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, May 13th, Rob Caron
• Reading Notes #94, Franky’s Notes

Other

• GeekChamp.com with new Search Engine, search among thousands of articles and development resources, via GeekChamp
• Guest Post: The Visual Studio and TFS 2012 DevOps Story, Sarah Lamb
• Reverse engineering a Windows USB driver, Matt Cutts
• Performance Settings for Team Foundation Server Migrations, Jim Szubryt

Code to look at

• [Sample Of May 12nd] UAC self-elevation, philip fu
• Asynchronous programming in C# 5.0 using sync and await, Assil

Web

• Launching ASP.NET web applications on multiple browsers at the same time from Visual Studio(2012), RKT.Ashoka

Mobile

• Building RSS Feed Reader for Windows Phone: Step by Step, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Samsung To Launch 5G By 2020, Hits Speeds Of 1Gbps In Tests, Catherine Shu

Database

• Relative Constraints and Permissioning in T-SQL, h_wiedey
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle and Answer – REPLICATE over 8000 Characters, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Infrastructure as a Service for SQL Server (IaaS for SQL Server), Deepthi Anantharam
• Cost savings: Embracing the cloud, Katie Hook
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 12, 2013
• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 For .Net – Taking A Second Look At Windows Azure Diagnostics, Gaurav

Career

• Will Your Content Marketing Last The Distance?, Ruchi Pardai
• My April Blogging Income Breakdown, Darren Rowse
• Career Advice for New Grads, Ben Casnocha
• Do You Want Comfort or Growth?, Steve Pavlina
• Freelancing after graduation? Here’s what to expect, Amber Leigh Turner
• Tim Ferriss shares how to master any skill by deconstructing it [Video], Harrison Weber
• Sacrificing the Future to Serve the Present, Trent

Business

• Book Short: Getting to MVP, Matt Blumberg
• You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence, Fred Wilson

Innovation

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Innovation But Forgot to Ask, Mitch Ditkoff

Other link blogs

• Interesting Links 13 May 2013, Alfred Thompson
• Time to catch up with the tech news you may have missed over the weekend, Martin Bryant
• The Morning Brew #1354, Chris Alcock
• Weekly Digest 13, Jakub Chodounsky
• The Daily Six Pack: May 13, 2013, Dirk Strauss

Happy Mothers Day to all mothers out there.

Other

• The NSA Untangles the Web - 651 Pages of NSA Web Searching'ness... and Who needs an App Store when we now have a DevStore! Buy (and Sell) VS Extensions right from within VS and Mission Control to Major...C4F - Coding4Fun Mission Control project, Greg Duncan
• Email, Still A Sonofabitch, Mg Siegler
• Portable Execution (PE) format internals! and Old skool Win32 none .Net Windows application development...., Dave The SharePoint Engineer

Code to look at

• A Simple Scheduler in C#, Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes
• Another Generic State Machine, forester joe
• Counting how many times a letter appears in a string, Mika Wendelius

Data Access

• [Sample Of May 11st] Entity Data Model demo, philip fu

Windows 8

• How to Capture a Screenshot as File in Microsoft Surface?, Kunal Chowdhury

Web

• Typescript Bundler Issue - Not transforming to JavaScript, Derik Whittaker

Mobile

• Working with RSS Feeds on WP8 Development, Deepti Prakash

Database

• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL and CONCAT in SQL Server 2012 onwards, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Daily Cloud Feed – May 11, 2013

Career

• Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Finances, Trent
• How Instagram's Co-Founder Spent His Year After Facebook's $1 Billion Acquisition, Entrepreneur.com
• Telecommuting: The Risks and Rewards, Erik Thauvin

Innovation

• Making New Mistakes, Jeffrey Phillips

Community

• This Week: May 12 – May 18, 2013, Carlos Martinez-Vela

Other

• CodeStock Keynote and Maybe Some Sessions, too, Julie Lerman
• Parsing OData Paths, $select and $expand using the ODataUriParser, Alex James
• 3 Graphs Explain Why There Is A Tech-Talent Shortage And Immigrants Are Needed, Gregory Ferenstein

Code to look at

• Display or format lists/collections/arrays using simple LINQ-style extension methods., Eric Lnch
• LINQ Tutorial for Beginners, d.ban

Web

• Get WebSite root relative path by JavaScript., AkramOnly
• View JSON in Internet Explorer, Coding 101
• Redirecting ASP.NET Legacy URLs to Extensionless with the IIS Rewrite Module, Scott Hansleman
• How to add JavaScript and CSS files to a web page during runtime, sisirp88
• How to Bind Derived Type in MVC View, Abhay

Mobile

• Latest Windows Phone app submission improvements, Rushmi Malaviarachchi
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 May 2013 and Windows Phone 8 navigation Part 3 - assembling the MVVMLight app and HtmlAgilityPack Library, GeekChamp
• Nokia Play To for Windows Phone 8 comes out of beta, lets you push photos, videos, and music to DLNA devices, Emil Protalinski
• Nokia Lumia 928 Preview, Paul Thurrott

Database

• WITH (NOLOCK) example, Amey K Bhatkar
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #028, Pinal Dave

Security

• China accuses U.S. of being “the real hacking empire” after Pentagon report, Threat Blog

Cloud Computing

• Daily Cloud Feed – May 10, 2013
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65), Mark Brown
• Disable MVC 4 SimpleMembership for early development on Azure websites, radv

Career

• How to Be Invisible, mark
• Looking For A Career Change? 6 Reinvention Tips From The Ultimate Multi-Hyphenate, Susan Karlin

Innovation

• Don’t Kill your Organisation! Build a High Performance Innovation Team, Matthew Griffin
• FEI 2013 Boston: The Top New Four Take-Aways from a Conference filled with Innovation Experts and Enthusiasts, CogniStreamer
• Winning hearts and minds for innovation, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• The Daily Six Pack: May 11, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Pie in the Sky (May 10, 2013), Larry Franks
• Dew Drop – May 10, 2013 (#1,545), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• And Data for All... President Obama signs Executive Order to make government-held data more accessible (in machine readable form by default), via Greg Duncan
• VIDEO: The Dependency Inversion Principle in 5 minutes, via DotNetKicks.com

Code to look at

• .NET String Extensions: Split Qualified, via DotNetKicks.com
• TCP Audio Streamer and Player (VoIP), Banjoo
• Designer Debugging in WinRT, Vinoth Sparrow
• Converting SOAP-based WCF Service to RESTful Design, Balimusi

Web

• Publish Individual Files to your Server in Visual Studio 2012.2, Rick Strahl
• Building reactive XAML apps with ASP.NET SignalR and MVVM, via DotNetKicks.com
• Include JavaScript Files with Automatic Versioning, Hernán Hegykozi
• Toastr 1.3.0 Now Available, John Papa
• W3C Transitions Pointer Events to Candidate Recommendation, IE Blog
• Introduction to SiganlR, Rohit Taralekar
• User Proxy settings showing up in Local System Account - Correct way to apply Proxy settings, AxelRMSFT
• Passing Value Between Pages in ASP.NET, Bikash Prakash Dash

Mobile

• Type forwarding and XAML sharing between WP OS 7.1 and 8.0 projects and Developing apps for Windows Phone with HTML5 and Javascript and Developping a Lens app for Windows Phone 8 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 May 2013, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Windows Phone Book: Thinking About the Next Chapter, Apps + Store, Paul Thurrott
• Inside Windows Phone – Windows Phone and HTML5, Matthias Shapiro
• See what happened at the Windows Phone Boston Hackathon, Lyubomira.Minovska

Database

• SQL SERVER – Adding Column Defaulting to Current Datetime in Table, Pinal Dave
• Back Up All Databases Using T-SQL and Stored Procedure with Sorting, Paging, and Filtering, PRANAV SINGH
• sp_Blitz™ v22: Output Results to a Table, Better Comments, and an App, Brent Ozar

Cloud Computing

• SQL Azure - An introduction, Deepthi Anantharam
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 9, 2013

Career

• Before you aim for someone’s job, look at the price they paid to get there, Penelope Trunk
• 29 Ways to Stay Creative, Innovation Excellence
• Protect Yourself From Phishing Scams, Trent
• What to do with your life, Mixergy
• Start By Being a Leader of One, Jessica Stillman

Business

• Foley Hoag to shut down Waltham startup center, Galen Moore
• Web Clipping Service Clipboard Acquired By Salesforce For $12M, Will Be Shuttered On June 30th, Greg Kumparak,Sarah Perez

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1353, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 10, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 9th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 9, 2013 (#1,544), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Merge Files with Git Merge Tool, Jakub Chodounsky
• URL to Browse the Latest Version of Source Code, CodePlex
• Visualizing TFS Source History now with more source, via Greg Duncan
• Ditching two-phased commits, Jimmy Bogard
• Two-Factor Authentication with PhoneFactor, A Review by Robert Morrison, Karen Forster
• Quick Tip: Mount ISO files with Virtual CloneDrive, Greg Shultz
• Just posted Video of Prism for Windows Runtime on Channel 9, bmw1122
• Undocumented Environment Variables, Reiley Yang
• TFS 2012.2 Power Tools update available, Brian Harry
• Putting the Dynamic back into TypeScript, Derik Whittaker
• Virtual Machines Are The New Processes, Sasha Goldshtein

Code to look at

• Anatomy of a UserControl (SliderControl), gggustafson
• Importing Fixed Width Text Files, Dick Kusleika
• Converting Word documents to PDF in ASP.NET, Mattias Malm
• VBScript to check - Am I connected to VPN?, RaisKazi
• Four ways of passing data between layers, Shivprasad koirala

Data Access

• LINQ to SQL cheat sheet, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Dynamically evaluated SQL LINQ queries, Don Kackman

Windows 8

• Proximity Sensors and Bluetooth in Windows Phone 8 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 8 May 2013, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Windows 8 App - Data storage in files using Windows.Storage namespace, Surender Singh

Web

• The mystery of the missing URL validation, tilovell09
• Continuous Testing Feedback with Guard and Spork, Dave Burke
• Using LESS with MVC and Using Fluent Validation with ASP.NET MVC – Part 1: The Basics, via DotNetKicks.com

Mobile

• Daily Windows Phone Development News 8 May 2013, GeekChamp

Database

• SQL SERVER – A New Approach to Scale .NET Applications, Pinal Dave
• SQL Dependency DMV’s, Tamarick Hill
• Indexing Wide Keys in SQL Server, Kendra Little
• SQL Exists Syntax, snorkie

Security

• Sliding Sessions for WIF 4.5
• Fix it for Security Advisory 2847140 is available, MSRCTeam
• Download fix for Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability, Eve Blakemore
• Someone hacked my Mum's computer, clarke ching

Agile

• Gartner Says Smart Organizations Will Embrace Fast and Frequent Project Failure in Their Quest for Agility, JD Meier

Cloud Computing

• Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps - Adding Authentication, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Zip your IIS log files before transferring with Windows Azure Diagnostics, Tom Hollander
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 8, 2013
• AWS Direct Connect Update - Connect in Seattle, Connect to GovCloud and AWS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center, AWS Blog
• Do You Have a Plan for Switching Cloud Providers?, ToddySM
• Paper: Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Management Architecture Guide and Paper: Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide, Kenneth van Surksum
• Resilience by design for cloud services, Microsoft Downloads
• Windows Azure Partner Training Webinars, ChlongX

Career

• Playing to Win or Playing Not to Lose, Trent
• 8 Things Startup Founders Should Know Before Writing a Book, Entrepreneur.com
• A Coder Interview With Dave Auld, DaveAuld
• The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Sunburn Edition, Trent
• Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time, Geoffrey James
• Launch Your Freelance Website in a Day – Using WebStartToday, Freelance Switch

Business

• Microsoft BizSpark Program, Muhamad Umer
• Massachusetts pension pinch: How to miss an epic stock-market rally, Craig Douglas
• The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup, Dharmesh Shah
• How to Find the Perfect New Business Idea, Erica
• 50 Ways to Generate Leads with Social Media, via Aldo Backer

Innovation

• 5 Steps for Turning Your Organization into a Thought Factory, Mike Figliuolo

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1352, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 9, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 8th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 8, 2013 (#1,543), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live” CTP is now available, Brian Harry
• Quick news: A new managed library to help with debugging, Devon Musgrave

Code to look at

• [Sample Of May 7th] Add CheckOut Event to TFS, philip fu
• Constructing the Factory Method Pattern, Keith Barrow

Windows 8

• Iterating WinRT PropertySets in JavaScript and Useful value converters for XAML Developers, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Designing Windows 8 Store Apps, Wriju MSFT
• Designing UX for Shopping apps – Windows 8, Neha Goel

Web

• Json.NET 5.0 Release 5 – DefaultSettings and Extension Data, James Newton-King
• Deep talk on Cultures and languages with Asp.net and Sql, Marla Sukesh
• Creating Twitter STS with ASP.NET MVC and WIF, Dmitry Tretyakov
• JavaScript Modal Popup Window, Mahesh Bailwal
• How to manipulate a GridView cell in ASP.NET, bhaskarareddy
• AngularJS Abstractions: Organizing Modules, K Scott Allen

Mobile

• Making the Windows Phone Toolkit ListPicker ItemsPanel display a WrapPanel, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) on Windows Phone (free solution), Tareq Ateik

Database

• SQL SERVER – RESEED Identity Column in Database Table – Rest Table Identity Value – SQL in Sixty Seconds #051, Pinal Dave
• Merge Statement in SQL Server 2008, Basavaraj P Biradar
• Windows Azure SQL Database Management Pack for System Center 2012, Microsoft Downloads
• Implications of the SQL Server Bulk Logged recovery model on point in time restores, SQL Server Premier Field Engineering
• SQL Server Baseline Collection, LessThanDot

Security

• Watering hole attack on Dept. of Labor site “exploited new IE8 vulnerability” and China is behind “numerous” attacks on U.S. computer systems, says Pentagon, ThreatBlog
• .NET Security Part 2, Simon Cooper

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/6/2013+, Roger Jennings
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 7, 2013
• Amazon S3 - Enterprise Grade, Internet Scale, and Ready for Big Data, AWS Blog
• Windows Azure Cloud Services, Extensions and Service Management API – Fun with Remote Desktop, Gaurav
• Using Windows Firewall to restrict access to Windows Azure instances

Career, Tom Hollander

• How to Suck at Leadership, Holly Green
• Five Very Simple Truths About Saving for Retirement, Trent
• Are You Used to Delivering Working Software on a Daily Basis and Changing the Software in Response to Emerging Requirements?, JD Meier
• Does Your Personality Help You Get Shit Done?, Hacker Chick
• 6 Steps To Healing Yourself, Lissa Rankin

Business

• New Database Reveals Adjacent Hospitals Charging $200,000 Difference For Same Procedure, Gregory Ferenstein
• PayPal’s John Lunn reveals how online retailers are using consumer data to beat high street stores, Nick Summers
• Electronic Health (Medical) Records – Still not good enough, hlthblog
• In-Depth: How To Pick The Right Revenue Model For Your App, Andrew Cohen
• Startups – The Importance of Momentum, Iain Hunter

Innovation

• Innovation’s 4 Business Outcomes, Seth Kahan
• Innovators Get Better With Age, Gijs van Wulfen

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1351 and The Morning Brew #1350, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 8, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 7th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 7, 2013 (#1,542), Alvin Ashcraft