Other

• Peeking into NuGet packages with dotPeek, Maarten.Balliauw
• Optimizing CSV Backup Performance, Elden Christensen
• 11 Tips for Ensuring Your Big Data Initiative Succeeds, SandHill.com
• Practical Naming Standards for C#, The Schray
• Intellisense for custom XML in Visual Studio, LessThanDot
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) ISOs available, Brian Harry

Code to look at

• [Sample Of May 6th] Get link info of a TFS work item, philip fu
• The Visitor Pattern Explained and Unit of Work Design Pattern, Sebastian Krysmanski
• Interoperability feature in .NET Framework and how to communicate with a COM component from .NET, jeneesh k.
• Case Sensitive Search in SQL Server, via DotNetKicks.com

Windows 8

• Calling ViewModel methods in response to Page navigation events using MVVM Light in WinRT and When does a Windows Store app get resized and RSA cryptography between a WinRT and a .Net app and Modern UI(Metro) Charts for Windows 8, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Six months in, Windows 8 is selling at the same rate that Windows 7 did, Emil Protalinski
• Good Windows 8 sales, Rocky Lhotka

Web

• ASP.NET WEB API Basics (MVC 4), PratapReddyP
• Building for Web scale is a different skill, Jeff Putz
• ASP.NET hosts six community created SPA templates now, Xinyang Qiu
• ASP.NET DatePicker User Control (Hijri / Gregorian) shows month and year as dropdowns, Yahya Mohammed Ammouri
• An Editor Pattern for Knckout.js Using TypeScript Inheritance, Steve Michelotti
• 10 Ways to Make Agile Design More Effective, JD Meier
• DNS Marketshare - Alexa 10,000 + Fortune 500 - May 2013, Jason Read
• Attacking Web Applications, Sasha Goldshtein
• My Blog: Creating a Custom Brand and Orchard Theme, Andrew Connell

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Sharding or No Sharding of Database – Working on my Weekend Project, Pinal Dave
• Firewall settings for SQL Server, Sahil Malik
• SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 problem with streamIDs always being nothing, still you can print programmatically, Preetam U Ramdhave
• Create Calendar by T-SQL, grandtree

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure for IT Professionals Jump Start, An Online Session You Don't Wanna Miss!, Tareq Ateik
• SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Best Practices for GA, Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed
• AWS Offers General Availability For Node.js, The Popular Development Platform, Alex Williams
• Windows Azure SQL Data Sync – Optimizing The Initial Sync Process For Large Data Sets and Windows Azure SQL Data Sync – The Maximum Limit For Index or Statistics Key Column List is 16, Alexandre Brisebois
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 6, 2013
• AWS SDK for Node.js - Now Generally Available, AWS Blog
• Creating a “Flat File” Shared Database with Amazon S3 and Node.js, Richard Seroter
• If you’re working with Java on Windows Azure, this update is for you!, M. Sawicki
• Code Project’s Azure Cloud Challenge- Discover the Cloud, PubSec

Career

• The realities of mobility and hitting the road, Tony McSherry
• The Year-Long Plot, Trent
• What Do You Know?, JD
• Cure Your Work Addiction. Here's How, Lewis Schiff
• 4 Leadership Lessons From Professional Pilots, Minda Zetlin
• Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Travel, Chris Guillebeau
• 3 Ways Meditation Can Make You a Better Leader, Entrepreneur.com
• What I've Been Doing, K. Scott Allen

Business

• A Few Thoughts on Content Creation, Monetization, and Strategy, Tim Ferriss

Innovation

• Download Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine v31, Innovation Excellence
• How Cooking Lunch Can Be a Business Model Innovation, Tim Kastelle
• Lessons from the Puzzle of Innovation, Jamil Khatib
• When Brainstorming Works, Jeffrey Baumgartner

Other link blogs

• The Daily Six Pack: May 7, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Interesting Links 6 May 2013, Alfred Thompson
• Reading Notes #93, Franky’s Notes
• Dew Drop – May 6, 2013 (#1,541), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Dresner’s Point: Make Sure Your Business Intelligence Solution isn’t Flying Blind, SandHill.com
• Raven’s Storage: Memtables are tough, Ayende Rahien
• There Is In Fact A Tech-Talent Shortage And There Always Will Be, Gregory Ferenstein

Code to look at

• [Sample Of May 5th] Drag-and-drop operations in Windows Forms, philip fu

Windows 8

• Windows 8: How to launch an app using NFC tags, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Acer Aspire R7: A Notebook designed for touch…., Jeff Alexander
• Windows Store Apps – Best Practice: Pre-Store Submission, SanjayJain369

Web

• Linux Apache malware: Why it matters to you and your business, Stephen Cobb
• How to Create SSL Secure Server (HTTPS) in Local IIS?, Bikash Prakash Dash
• The future is now – OWIN and multi-hosting ASP.NET web applications, Filip W

Mobile

• Taking a look at the various API levels available for Android, Michael Crump
• Microsoft mum as Windows 8 developers decry low ad-fill rates in apps distributed through the Windows Store and Implementing advertising in Windows Phone app using Nokia NAX and Company Hub App for Business on Windows Phone 8, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Creating a Virtual Windows Phone 8 Development Environment, Dylan Roy

Database

• SQL Server Functions that helps to convert date and time values to and from string literals and other date and time formats., Shemeer NS

PowerShell

• Finding Event Subscriptions in TFS 2012 Using PowerShell, Marcelo E Silva

Cloud Computing

• SQL SERVER – Azure SQL Databases Backup Made Easy with SQLBackupAndFTP, Pinal Dave
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 5, 2013
• Windows Azure Developer Camps, Randy Patterson
• Uptime Report for my Live OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project: April 2013 = 100.00%, Roger Jennings

Career

• The Weird Winds of Change, Erik Dietrich
• Inspiring a Vision, JD Meier

Business

• LinkedIn’s Talent Solution service is perhaps the professional social network’s best kept secret, Ken Yeung
• How Eventbrite built a company culture that scales, by co-founder Julia Hartz [Video], Martin Bryant

Innovation

• Innovation Sighting: Attribute Dependency in Signage, Drew Boyd

Other link blogs

• Weekly Digest 12, Jakub Chodounsky
• The Daily Six Pack: May 6, 2013, Dirk Strauss

Other

• CLRMD: .NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection, Doug Stewart
• Microsoft Secret Stuff, JD Meier

Code to look at

• [Sample Of May 4th] Support multi-touch in WPF, philip fu

Web

• Quick to build a testing web site to access SQL Server, Bran Chen
• IE10 on Windows 7 - the wizard cannot configure Remote Desktop Connection settings., Susan Bradley

Mobile

• Windows Phone 8, Personalize your lock screen, jibran jamshad
• New Angry Birds for Windows Phone Free Until May 15, Phaul Thurrott

Database

• SQL SERVER – sys.dm_xe_map_values – Reasons for Statement Recompilation, Pinal Dave
• SSRS Production Deployment: Part 2, Ivan Krivyakov
• SQLBits XI : Bad Habits & Best Practices in T-SQL, AaronBertrand

Cloud Computing

• Keeping diagnostics in sync across Windows Azure instances, Tom Hollander
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 4, 2013

Career

• Seven traits of effective programmers, Justin James
• Ten Pieces of Inspiration #124, Trent
• 10 ways to stay happy as an entrepreneur, Boris

Business

• LinkedIn is 10 years old today: Here’s the story of how it changed the way we work, Ken Yeung
• The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs, Innovation Excellence
• When Friends and Family Become Financiers, Entrepreneur.com
• How To Go From $0 To $1,000,000 In Two Years, James Altucher

Community

• This Week: Cinco de Mayo – May 11th, 2013, Venture Cafe
• Carolina Code Camp links, Jeff Sanders

Other

• And it does Windows too... Using Process Monitor to solve [nearly] any problem... and TFS Web Licensing for Greg's (i.e. dumm... well you get it...), Greg Duncan
• What version of CLR is used in an executable and How to find the .NET versions installed, ManojGeorge
• Using Process Monitor to solve any problem, including DebugDiag, Benjamin Perkins

Code to look at

• Resources Files (.resx vs .resources), charan anasam
• WCF: Dual Layer Encryption (Message + Transport), Saurabh Somani
• SSRS Production Deployment, Part 1, Ivan Krivyakov

Web

• How to create SSL secure server (HTTPS) in local IIS ?, Bikash Prakash Dash
• Basic Understanding On ASP.NET MVC 4, Pijush kumar Joardar
• To observe or not to observe? That is the question…, William Forney
• Construct 2 Tip #3: (Uniquely) Leveraging Sprite Animations, Jim O’Neil

Mobile

• Company Hub App for Business on Windows Phone 8, Tareq Ateik
• Microsoft says Windows Phone 8 increased app downloads by 100% and paid app revenue to developers by 140%, Emil Protalinski
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 May 2013, GeekChamp

Database

• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #027, Pinal Dave
• SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (May 2013) Available, Adam Mahood
• TSQL Recursive Split Function, Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Agile

• How do you estimate on an Agile project?, Martin Fowler

Cloud Computing

• Daily Cloud Feed – May 3, 2013
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #64), Craig_Kitterman
• This week at Microsoft: Azure, Outlook.com, and Windows 8, Alex Wilhelm
• Recurring HTTP 500/502 Errors with a Shared Windows Azure Website, Roger Jennings

Career

• Creating Career Opportunities, JD Meier
• You’ve Got to Remove the Emotion, Trent
• 3 Steps to Finding Your Secret Sauce, Kendra Little

Business

• Amid Mobile Effort, LinkedIn Falls Short, Entrepreneur.com

Innovation

• Building Up Innovation Capital, Rowan Gibson

Other link blogs

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 3rd, Rob Caron
• Technology Short Take #32, Scott Lowe
• Dew Drop – May 3, 2013 (#1,540), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Raven’s Storage: Understanding the SST file format, Ayende Rahien
• Command line tricks and (More) Command line tricks, Sahil Malik
• .NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection, Immo Landwerth
• What is Two-Factor Authentication?, Kunal Chowdhury
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Three Tech.Pro Tutorials, James Michael Hare
• Using PowerShell to configure live migration networks in a Hyper-V cluster, Benjamin Armstrong
• New England GiveCamp 2013 – Recap, Jim O’Neil
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Data-Tier Application Framework (May 2013), Microsoft Downloads
• Your best friend for authoring ETW strongly typed events, HernanDL
• Scott Hanselman: Ah, the thankless life of the Build Master, Devon Musgrave
• Developing A Custom VMConnect Application, Taylor Brown
• .NET Security Part 1,  Simon Cooper

Code to look at

• [Sample Of May 2nd] Create low-integrity process, philip fu
• DO NOT set DataMember.Order property to Int32.MaxValue when using DataContractSerializer, SGuy Ge
• File download from GridView rows in ASP.NET 4.0, Tadit Dash

Windows 8

• Is Windows 8 a success?, Rocky Lhotka
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-03, Dan Rigby
• DatePicker calendar custom control for WinRT Xaml, Sebastien Pertus

Web

• Adding Custom FTP Providers with the IIS Configuration Editor - Part 2, robmcm
• Code Camper Jump-Start SPA Now Open Source, John Papa
• IE native JavaScript methods performance, Rupesh Kumar Tiwari
• ASP.NET Website and C# with Multi-Language, chien.vh
• Top 10 HTML 5 Interview Questions, Imran Abdul Ghani

Mobile

• Windows Phone apps: A choice between (Metro) style and substance and Understanding XAML Namescopes and Video: Windows Phone Data Binding and the Magic of XAML, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Pentagon Clears BlackBerry, Samsung Devices For Defense Dept Use, Catherine Shu
• An overview of HTML 5, PhoneGap, and mobile apps, Dan Bricklin
• Why is the Facebook Beta App for Windows Phone 8 Identical to the Android and iOS Apps?, Paul Thurott
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 2 May 2013, GeekChamp

Database

• Know thy indexes, Sahil Malik
• SQL SERVER – DELETE From SELECT Statement – Using JOIN in DELETE Statement – Multiple Tables in DELETE Statement, Pinal Dave

Security

• The stealthiness of Linux/Cdorked: a clarification, Stephen Cobb
• More than 90% of passwords are vulnerable to hacks, warns Deloitte – even “strong” ones, ThreatBlog
• Securing Active Directory: An Overview of Best Practices, Microsoft Downloads

Agile

• Answering Questions about Disciplined Agile Delivery, Scott Ambler

Cloud Computing

• Daily Cloud Feed – May 2, 2013
• Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr embarking on cloud-powered cross-country road trip, Josh Ong
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide, Microsoft Downloads
• Microsoft working on DaaS solution hosted on Azure, Kenneth van Surksum
• Cloud Produces $1 Billion for Microsoft, MSPowerUtilities
• Five tools to help sync more than one cloud storage service, Jack Wallen
• The New AWS Support API, AWS Blog
• New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available, Clint_Edmonson
• Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 2nd May 2013, drmcghee
• Windows Azure Mobile Services - Accessing a Stored Procedure from a different Schema, via WindowsPhoneGeek

Career

• Find the Zen of Work, Leo Babauta
• The Problem of Security and Negative Motivation, Trent
• The Modern Workplace: Introverts Need Not Apply, Karl Stark and Bill Stewart
• Pricing for Non-Profit Organizations, Gerald Weinberg
• Write a Note and Shoot Yourself Today, Brent Ozar

Business

• 3 Simple Tips for Naming Your Company, Jana Kasperkevic
• How to Protect Your Personal Finances From Business Risks, Entrepreneur.com

Innovation

• Peter Thiel vs. Marc Andreessen: Is Innovation on the Decline?, Julie Strickland
• Breaking out of the m (old) for disruptive innovation, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1349, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 3, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 2nd, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 2, 2013 (#1,539), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Utilize Roslyn to create the next level plugin capability, Filip Ekberg
• Git 101 - Beginners guide to groking [command line] Git, Greg Duncan
• Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 and Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 SDK, Microsoft Downloads
• Tool Release : TFS WorkItem Tracker, Aymeric Mouillé
• Windows Server 2012 Book: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform., Eduardo Technical Evangelist Ortega

Code to look at

• Communication with Cross Domain IFrame - A Cross Browser Solution, Tadit Dash
• WPF DataGrid Custommization using Style and Template, Hiren Khirsaria
• REST with WCF and Entity Framework with JSON Serialization, AmitGajjar
• Visual Studio Visualizer: Part 2 - Entity Framework, Frederico Regateiro

Windows 8

• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-02, Dan Rigby
• Surface Pro Driver Pack now available, Greg Duncan
• Finding a Profitable Niche in the App Store, SteveX

Web

• Working with AMD modules in Knockout.js, Knock Me Out
• Please update to the latest version of Web Essentials 2012 after installing VS2012 Update 2, Xinyang Qiu
• Using ASP.Net WebAPI with Web Forms, mako_123
• JavaScript oAuth, Ricardo Lynch
• AngularJS Abstractions: Modules, K Scott Allen
• How to make visible date in chrome native datepicker while it binds from Model in MVC4, abhishek_jmk

Mobile

• Caliburn Micro and Windows Phone - handle the Application Bar and Icons in the Icon Explorer project now available as FREE app bar icons (48x48 and 76x76) and Add multiple feeds to the Windows Phone RSS reader app template and Using the background task completed event and SignalDataChanged to communicate with the app, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Windows Phone Book: First Draft of People + Me Chapter is Complete, Paul Thurrott

Database

• Tracking down Deadlocks in SQL Database, Chris Skorlinski

Cloud Computing

• How Do You Choose Your Cloud Provider?, ToddySM
• Clash of the Clouds Followup, Bill Wilder
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 1, 2013
• Amazon CloudFront / Route 53 - New Edge Location in Seoul, Korea, AWS Blog
• Microsoft WebMatrix 3 Web Development Tool Comes With Deeper Windows Azure Integration And Support For GitHub, Alex Williams
• Windows Azure Training and SDK, Bryan Group
• Episode 64 of Visual Studio Toolbox: New Tools for Azure Storage and Diagnostics, Robert Green
• Practical Azure #14: Windows Azure Virtual Machines (Part 1), Jim O’Neil

Career

• Jedi Mind Tricks: How to Get Loved Ones to Lose Weight, Tim Ferriss
• A Big Difference Between Personal Finance and Business Finance and The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Rainy Afternoon Edition, Trent
• Why I started Founders Network, Kevin Holmes
• A Coder Interview With Oren Eini, Ayende Rahien
• Where to Work in Chicago When You Can’t Afford a Co-Working Space, Lindsay Saewitz
• How Your Own Expertise Is Holding You Back, Mark McNeilly

Business

• What Your Job Descriptions Are Saying to Developers About Your Company, Erik Dietrich
• Salesforce announces summer launch for Communities, its service to unite customer and business conversations, Ken Yeung
• Small Businesses Are Growing, But Hiring Remains Weak, Jana Kasperkevic

Innovation

• Want a Brainstorming Breakthrough? Get the Right Question!, Mitch Ditkoff
• Apple’s Innovation Problem, Greg Satell

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1348, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 2, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 1st, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – May 1, 2013 (#1,538), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• More on Types, Ted Neward
• Being a Responsible Programmer, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Visual Studio 2012 New Features of the IDE, RKT.Ashoka
• Does the CLR release memory when no longer needed?, ClavinH
• Windows 8 now up to 3.84% market share but the Windows platform loses overall as all other versions decline, Emil Protalinski
• How to batch clean up the Visual Studio solution folder? (bin, obj etc.), Kunal Chowdhury
• Compare Files with Git Diff Tool, Jakub Chodounsky
• You know what I find really annoying?, Vlad Mazek

Code to look at

• [Sample Of Apr 30th] Shut down a computer using .NET, philip fu
• How to Hosting Windows Form in Windows User Control, AYDIN EBRAHIMI HOMAY
• Installing a DLL into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), GraemeKMiller
• A single-file function parser to use with WPF, Silverlight, and SQL Server CLR, don!marco

From CodePlex Feed

• MSBuild Extension Pack: April 2013

Windows 8

• Windows 8 App Design Template: E-Commerce Electronics and Using resources in background tasks (it`s OK, but not with WinJS) and Assert.ThrowsException the async way, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-01, Dan Rigby
• Resources for Developing Windows Store apps, zxue

Web

• Inheritance issue with Typescript (JavaScript) and MVC Bundling Ordering, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• IE10 doubles market share thanks to Windows 7 debut, pushing IE9 below 20% as Firefox gains and Chrome loses, Emil Protalinski
• Seeking Feedback on Alternative Formats for ASP.NET MVC and Deployment Content Maps, Tom Dykstra
• JavaScript : Validating Letters and Numbers, Imran Abdul Ghani
• Angular Abstractions: The Application, K Scott Allen
• A WebAPI Basic Authentication MessageHandler, Rick Strahl

Mobile

• Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit: Services and Subway Icon Set, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• How Did I Fix My Nokia Lumia 920 Gear and Blank Screen Issue, zxue

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Learn Fundamentals of MySQL Online – Pluralsight Course, Pinal Dave
• PowerShell script to extract T-SQL code from RDL files, Arvind Shyamsundar
• 5 Things About Fillfactor, Kendra Little

Security

• Mysterious Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication, Aleksandr Matrosov
• Wireless carriers put customers at risk by failing to patch Android, says civil liberties group, ThreatBlog
• The Importance of Backups, Schneier

Agile

• Time to embrace Agile and beyond, Jason Bloomberg

Cloud Computing

• Windows AzureConf 2013 (Sessions Now On Demand), Tareq Ateik
• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET Just Released, zxue
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 30, 2013
• Introducing the Event-Driven Message Programming Model for the Windows Azure Service Bus, Fabric Controller
• Windows Azure Sample Invoices and Windows Azure SDK for .NET - 2.0, Microsoft Downloads
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/29/2013+, Roger Jennings
• Recurring HTTP 500/502 Errors with a Shared Windows Azure Website, Roger Jennings
• Introducing Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .Net, Gaurav Mantri
• Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET, Scott Guthrie
• Amazon Web Services creates cloud certification program for IT professionals, Josh Ong
• Windows Azure, Remote PowerShell and the Case of the Unknown Certificate Authority, Ian Philpot

Career

• My week of quantified self: day two, HowieT
• Innovation Quotes, JD Meier

Business

• Why You Shouldn't Raise VC Money, Mark Peter Davis
• How Stagnation -- and Pivoting -- Can Crush a Startup, Entrepreneur.com
• Expert Tips to Improve your Pitch, mcjmalek
• Fred Wilson On Pitching A VC: Leave The Backstory At Home, Drew Olanoff

Innovation

• Imperfect Innovation, Jeffrey Phillips

Community

• May 2013 Technical Calendar, Jim O’Neil

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1347, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: May 1, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Dew Drop – April 30, 2013 (#1,537), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Raven.Storage just passed its first “test”, Ayende Rahien
• Arduino Fun – Door Entry Alarm, Abhinaba Basu
• Workflow Services Versioning, Microsoft Malaysia
• So You Don't Want to be a Programmer After All, Coding Horror
• Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), Microsoft Downloads
• How can I figure out if my ADFS 2.0 works?, Code Inside Team
• Updated TFS 2010 MSSCCI Provider, Brian Harry

Code to look at

• Factory class with Open Closed Principle, Manish K. Agarwal
• Capture object state with visualizers, Praveen PR
• How to disassemble flat file trailer without tag identifiers in body part, Wen-Jun Zhang

Data Access

• [Sample Of Apr 29th] How to create DataTable manually with specific schema definitions, philip fu

Windows 8

• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-30, Dan Rigby
• Restore previous versions of your files easily in Windows 8, Neha Goel

Web

• A View Engine for ASP.NET MVC Feature-Based Organized, via DotNetKicks.com
• ASP.net Razor @Helpers passing in another @Helper trick!, BenScharbach
• HTML5 Gaming: benchmarking your sprites animations to target all devices & browsers and Knockout JS Click binding and the this context, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• How to implement ASP.NET Membership into a new database, chien.vh
• Intermitent HTTP 401 error message in a SSRS load balancing deployment., Beatriz Sanagustín

Mobile

• 1 million downloads on Windows Phone app: Tips and Advices and Google Analytics SDK for Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps and Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 April 2013, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• Trial experience for apps, first steps, Steven Charles White

Database

• SQL SERVER – UPDATE From SELECT Statement – Using JOIN in UPDATE Statement – Multiple Tables in Update Statement, Pinal Dave
• SQL Server 2012 FileTable, My first experience, Dan Kearney

Security

• More Links on the Boston Terrorist Attacks, Schneier

Agile

• Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 1, Johanna Rothman

Architecture

• The “Right” Representation of the EA Value Cycle, Nick Malik

Cloud Computing

• Fun With Windows Azure AD: Calling REST Services from a Windows Phone 8 App, Vittorio Bertocci
• Moving an app to Windows Azure Web Sites, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• AppFabric Cache–How to check if a region exists, Shinva
• The New AWS Security Blog, AWS Blog
• Copy files >2GB to your cloud VM, Paul Lou
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 29, 2013
• Windows Azure Training Kit April 2013 Released, LessThanDot
• Script to automatically configuring Remote PowerShell for Windows Azure Virtual Machines on your machine, Fabric Controller
• Microsoft’s Azure passes $1B in annual revenue, as subscriptions grow 48% in 6 months, Alex Wilhelm
• How to monitor Application Request Routing via PowerShell, pulvirenti.carmelo
• Windows Azure, PubSec

Career

• Entrepreneurship Changes You--and Not Always for the Better, Meg Cadoux Hirshberg
• The Importance of Quick and Dirty and Why More Is Not Always Better, Jason Fried
• Yet Another Podcast #97–Chris Sells and the last 20 years, Jesse Liberty
• The Habits of Self-Made Billionaires (Infographic), Entrepreneur.com

Business

• The Bootstrapper's Bargain, Jeff Haden
• Business Strategy for Enterprise Cloud Startups, ToddySM
• Don’t Write Business Plans, Dane Carlson
• TechStars Boston Alum Placester Raises $2.5 Million For Its Professional Website Builder For Realtors, Sarah Perez

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1346, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: April 30, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 29th, Rob Caron
• Reading Notes #92, Franky’s Notes
• Dew Drop – April 29, 2013 (#1,536), Alvin Ashcraft

Other

• Adding Bluetooth support to a NETMF board (.NET Microframework), Laurelle
• Journalists can’t help but chase sensational stories. Media manipulator Ryan Holiday explains why, Nick Summers
• Raven’s Storage: Building a Sorted String Table, Ayende Rahien
• NuGet 2.5 Released, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• The Problem Is the Solution, Know It All
• A/B Testing: Reporting, Mark Needham

Windows 8

• Develop High Performance Windows 8 Application with HTML5 and JavaScript: Best Practices and JavaScript Namespaces and Modules, via WindowsPhoneGeek
• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Programmatically download a File in WinRT apps, Kunal Chowdhury

Web

• Free Video: SPA Primer with Durandal, Knockout and Breeze, John Papa
• Debugging jQuery in ASP.NET, Sourabh Mishra Delhi
• ASP.NET Web API and greedy query string parameter binding, Filip W

Mobile

• 8 Great Reasons to Design for Windows Phone 8, Sarah Lamb
• Free mobile messaging apps will be the death of SMS. Eventually. Just not yet., Robin Wauters
• Make your Windows Phone App Come Alive with Live Tiles, Sweekriti Satpathy
• Additional Windows Phone 8 Application Bar icons!, Kristina Rothe

Database

• SQL SERVER – Disable All the Foreign Key Constraint in Database – Enable All the Foreign Key Constraint in Database, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Azure Table Storage, Domain Persistence and Concerns and Your Azure Web Role and Full IIS – Culture Changes, M Sheik Uduman Ali
• Weekly Digest 11, Jakub Chodounsky
• Windows Azure goes to next level: General Availability of Infrastructure Services, Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed
• Building a live blog app in Windows Azure, Jeff Putz
• Setting up software based Site-to-Site VPN for Windows Azure with Windows Server 2012 Routing and Remote Access, Fabric Controller
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 28, 2013
• Windows Azure Developer Challenge, Doug Stewart

Career

• The Narrative of Mediocrity, Erik Dietrich
• Five Free Tools I Use to Organize My Life, Trent

Innovation

• Webinar Archive: How Frugal Innovation is Revitalizing Western Economies, Valerie M. Russo
• Iterations: How Six Technology Investors Size Up The Google Glass Opportunity, Semil Shah

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1345, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: April 29, 2013, Dirk Strauss

Other

• Queries, Patterns, and Search – food for thought, Udi Dahan
• The New Design, Shawn Wildermuth
• Economies Of Scale As A Service, Jon Evans
• What They Didn’t Teach Me in Engineering School, Mike Shipulski

Code to look at

• Template pattern concept with example., Amey K Bhatkar
• Scraping Dynamic WebSite data using Watin, shah vatsal

Web

• HTML5 Form Validation and Alternative Inputs and Customize HTML5 Form Validation with JavaScript and CSS, Giuseppe Luciano
• Getting Web Platform installer working with SQL Express, Charles Sterling

Mobile

• Windows Phone Book: People + Me 0.5, Paul Thurrott

Database

• Using comma separated value parameter strings in SQL IN clauses, OriginalGriff
• SQLAuthority News – Download PowerPivot or PowerView enabled Workbook Optimizer – Download SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop, Pinal Dave
• Problems using BETWEEN, John Paul Cook
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 27, 2013

Cloud Computing

• Migrating from VPS to Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Tareq Ateik

Career

• The Allowance Lessons, Trent
• 6 Apps to Help Unclutter Your Life, Entrepreneur.com
• How I Use Agile Results, JD Meier
• Agile Lessons from Writing - Intro (1 of N), Clarke Ching
• How Can You Instantly Boost Your Creativity and Flow More Ideas?, JD

Innovation

• How to Deliver Innovative Change for Your Patients, Valerie M Russo
• Love is the answer – how innovation and love play the same game, Juan Cano-Arribi

Community

• This Week: April 28 – May 4, 2013, Venture Cafe