Other

• SSD Vendors Set To Trigger Price War
• Visual Studio Achievements, bringing gamification to the IDE - Now with Azure Support, Lee Scott
• Adventures getting MSBuild, TFS and SQL Server Data Tools to work together, Joel Bennett
• Privacy Awareness Week 2012, sassoong
• Dispose Pattern and “Set large fields to null”, PeterRitchie
• Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 11 now available for .NET 4 and Silverlight 5 [Greg], BCL Team
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Enumerable.Range() Static Method, James Michael Hare
• Meeting Developers Where They Are, S.Somasegar

Code to look at

• Stock Quote Add-In For Excel 2007, Jürgen Bäurle
• SqlDataReader To LINQ, Akram El Assas
• WPF Folder Browser, Erik Rude
• PDF Writer, Navraj

Web

• JQuery Plugin Boilerplate
• The Developer's Guide to Design, Part 2 | 21times
• Jakob Nielsen, Responsive Web Design, and Compromise
• ASP.NET Web API Updates – April 27, Henrik Nielsen
• New in the all new Basecamp: Move items between projects, Jason F
• Accessing a ASP.NET Rest Service from ASP.NET MVC, johnvpetersen

Mobile

• Using a Sterling-database in Windows Phone as alternative to SQL CE and Daily WP7 Development News 26 April 2012, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• Things Every DBA Should Know (But Most Don’t), Brent Ozar
• What Counts For A DBA: Foresight, drsql

Security

• Security firm claims Mac security is "10 years behind" Microsoft

Cloud Computing

• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 26, 2012
• CloudDrive: Possible Data Loss when calling Create() or CreateIfNotExist() on existing drives and CloudDrive::Mount() API takes a long time when the drive has millions of files, Windows Azure Storage
• Launch Cluster Compute instances inside the Virtual Private Cloud and The AWS Report - Episode 2 - Saad Ladki of the Elastic Beanstalk Team and Multi-Tiered Storage: Drobo + SSD + The AWS Storage Gateway, AWS Blog
• Load Testing in cloud using Visual Studio, Vignesh C
• Networking in the Cloud–Understanding Windows Azure Traffic Manager, BrunoTerkaly

Career

• Starting New Projects
• Don't have a list of tasks to do today that will still be there tomorrow.
• Top five regrets of the dying
• DRY Career Advice
• Overstepping self-imposed limitations, Gabor George Burt
• OakLeaf Systems Website Privacy Statement and OakLeaf Systems Website Terms of Service, Roger Jennings
• Become an Authority: 6 Steps, Tom Searcy

Business

• Instagram founders talk: 1 year ago
• Entrepreneurs: Don't Freak Out -- You're Not Alone
• How Mobile, Cloud, Are Transforming Healthcare
• Hiring a developer? You're doing it wrong
• Matthew Prince on how he founded CloudFlare -- challenges, controversies ..

Innovation

• The List of Lists, Mitch Ditkoff
• System Innovation – Forum For The Future, Innovation Excellence

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1094, Chris Alcock
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 26th, RobCaron
• Dew Drop – April 26, 2012 (#1,314), Alvin Ashcraft