Other

• Auto-Vectorizer in Visual Studio 11 – Overview
• Tricks With the Floating-Point Format
• Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012, Microsoft Download
• And there were three... Three'ish Windows 8 Editions (and "Windows 8" is the official name too) Yes, only three, well four actually, Win8 SKU's..., Greg Duncan
• Creating a great tile experience (part 1), Windows 8 Team
• Routing Integration - WCF feature, Thrivikram Hathwar
• Win 8 Page Navigation, Jesse Liberty
• Obfuscation is not a panacea, Simon Cooper
• Filtering collections from XAML using CollectionViewSource, DotNetKicks.com

Code to look at

• neography/neo4j/Lucene: Getting a list of all the nodes indexed, Mark Needham
• AJAX based CRUD tables using ASP.NET MVC 3 and jTable jQuery plug-in, Halil ibrahim Kalkan
• Dynamic Method Dispatcher, SAKryukov
• Rule Based Validation for ASP.NET, Jani Giannoudis
• Run process in background and decouple UI, manuj84

Web

• JQuery - wrap text around a curve or a line
• Using Custom Attributes in HTML5
• New in the all new Basecamp: To-dos on the calendar
• Responsive CSS3/HTML5/JS Forum Reply Box
• Blind spots in Usage file and Web Analytics Reports, bspender
• Everyman on More Than a Game, A Real Head Turner, Surrounded by Notifications, Happy Cows, Dave Burke
• How WebAPI does Parameter Binding, Mike Stall
• Outside-the-Box Pizza, Part 4: Social Integration with Twitter, David Pallmann
• ASP.NET Underground tour (part 1), cpsglauco

Mobile

• Using Databases On WP7 Tutorial
• Microsoft cancels WP7 dev unlock
• Dear Windows Phone: Get Your Shit Together
• WP7 Layout Jitters and the SystemTray and Writing a WP7 website scraper application and Porting a Silverlight Windows Phone app to WinRT in 9hours and Windows Phone - JumpList using LongListSelector, WindowsPhoneGeek
• How to Save Email Address in WP7 using the SaveEmailAddressTask?, Kunal Chowdhury

Database

• An Introduction to NoSQL Patterns
• SQL SERVER – Cheatsheet – Released for SQL Server 2012 Edition, Pinal Dave
• Column Store Indexes in SQL Server 2012 - An Insight., DotNetKicks.com

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script for Deploying All Assemblies in a Folder to the GAC, Damon

Security

• HTTP attacks are real and dangerous

SOA

• The SOA Magazine Issue XLIV, October 2010 (Editor, Thomas Erl)

Cloud Computing

• Announcing Windows Azure Media Services
• A hidden limitation on AWS micro instances?
• Python wrapper for Windows Azure storage and Amazon SimpleDB - Technical Overview, Sriram Krishnan
• How to Build a Real-Time Chat Service with Socket.IO, Express, and the Azure SDK–Part 1, Aaronontheweb
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 16, 2012
• IT Showcase on: Windows Azure, Microsoft Downloads
• Getting Diagnostics Data From Windows Azure, Ryan Dunn
• CRM Online + Windows Azure = Many Possibilities, PubSec
• Integration Patterns utilizing the Windows Azure Service Bus–Part II, Stephen Kaufman

Career

• Choosing Between Making Money and Doing What You Love
• Why you suck at estimating -- a lesson in psychology
• U.S. standard of living has fallen over 57% over a span of 40 years
• Putting out fires at 37signals: The on-call programmer
• Why Everyone Else is More Popular Than You Are
• The Power of Appreciation, Mitch Ditkoff
• 7 Signs You’re Not Entrepreneur Material, Jeff Haden

Blogging

• Why Blog? Here's Why!, Mitch Ditkoff

Business

• Is Too Much Choice a Problem for Consumers?
• On Selling Your Company
• How We Bootstrapped a Startup Idea to MVP in 100 Days
• Can you build a startup on .Net?
• What do middle managers do?, Esther Derby

Innovation

• Disruptive Innovation Explained, Innovation Excellence
• Can Innovation Skills Be Learned?, Tony Wagner

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1086, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 16th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop Day Off – April 16, 2012, Alvin Ashcraft