Reminder to the self employed out there: estimated taxes are due this week.

Other

• My First Real Clash with Mythical Man-Month
• How 'systems thinking' is making the cloud transparent
• Interesting Links 11 June 2012, Alfred Thompson
• SQL SERVER – Developer Training Resources and Summary Roundup, Pinal Dave
• Pinning sites in Windows 8 – add two meta tags to make it high quality, Eric Nelson

Code to look at

• A multi-selection Drop Down List using a generic Abstract PopUp class, Original Griff
• CSV parsing/UTF-8 encoding, Mark Needham
• Recursively remove .svn folders, DillonRaney
• Double check pattern, jgauffin

Web

• The Top Javascript MVC Frameworks Reviewed
• APIfy: Turn an HTML site into a JSON API
• Displaying detailed error messages in IIS, benjaminperkins

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4 based Platformer level designer using Azure, Surf4Fun

Mobile

• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #8 Designing Panoramas and How to create a Spinner Control and Windows Phone Application Life Cycle and Fast Application Switching, WindowsPhoneGeek

PowerShell

• PowerShell: Script to set holiday status to busy (or OOF, free, etc.), Dave Barrett
• Using PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 to find the Process Id (PID) of an Application Pool, benjaminperkins

Security

• Storing Passwords Securely (via @davidrobert63)
• Security vulnerability in MySQL ubuntu
• Storing password securely - hashses, salts and bit stretching put into context
• Protect Your Biz From Cyber Attacks, Angela Shupe

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure Service Management API Cheat Sheet with PowerShell, Michael Washam
• Azure Virtual Bridge, Roman Kiss
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 10, 2012
• Affinity Groups in Windows Azure, Neil Mackenzie
• Linux on Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service: Big Whoop, Scott Merrill

Career

• Where to draw the line in adding functionalities to the product
• Tasks a virtual assistant can do for an online entrepreneur
• 6 years on Facebook: a product designer's retrospective
• You Can't Engineer Around Taxes
• Introducing the Week Chart
• How to outsource boring parts of your personal and business life
• How to Become a Leader within Your Freelancing Industry, FreelanceSwitch

Business

• Structuring your startup
• Reflections on the first month of my startup
• I am a developer, yet I outsource the development of my startup
• 45 lessons learned from my participation to an Accelerator: StartupSauna
• Shark Tank vs. KickStarter: How One Startup Used Both to Launch, Entrepreneur.com
• What Do You Look For?, Fred Wilson

Innovation

• Graduate Certificate in Innovation, Drew Boyd

Community

• This Week: June 10-16, 2012, Venture Cafe

Other link blogs

• Reading Notes #50, Frank’s Notes
• The Morning Brew #1121, Chris Alcock