Other

• Why Windows 8 is a Catastrophe
• The Three Ways: The Principles Underpinning DevOps
• Why big companies buy, sell your data
• Third-party compilers locked out of Windows Runtime development
• Event: Welcome to Visual Studio 2012! Putting the ‘team’ into Team Foundation Server, Sarah Lamb
• Windows 8 DevCamp: Presentation, Resources Available, Doris Chen
• Visual Studio 2012 RTM will not install on pre-release versions of Windows 8, Heath Stewart
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Interlocked Read() and Exchange(), James Michael Hare
• Understanding Windows 8 Client Hyper-V, Yash Tolia
• .NET 4.5 : Operation could destabilize the runtime (yikes!), Andreas Håkansson
• Dual-boot Windows 7 and Windows 8, Greg Shultz
• OData 101: Building our first OData-based Windows Store app (Part 2), dpblogs
• New Visual Studio 2012 Debugging Features for the Windows 8 App Lifecycle Model, Visual Studio Blog

Code to look at

• TCP/IP sockets in C#.NET 4
• Reading OpenDocument spreadsheets using C#, Gunnar Peipman
• System Validation aka Business Rule, Girish Jain
• Plugging custom OAuth/OpenID providers, pranav rastogi

Web

• Introduction to jQuery UI Training Course (w/ 19 free videos)

Silverlight

• Its 2012 and Microsoft is still using Silverlight

Mobile

• Why Facebook Ditched the Mobile Web & Went Native With its New iOS App

Database

• DBAs and SQL Server Logs
• SQL Server 2012 High Availability
• SQL SERVER – DELETE, TRUNCATE and RESEED Identity, Pinal Dave
• Finding the Correct Version of the AdventureWorks SQL Server Sample Database, Samuel Lester

Cloud Computing

• Rackspace ate my homework pt.2 - You must backup our Backups | Gingerlime
• Windows Azure Curriculum Pack Update, Lee Stott
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 23, 2012
• The AWS Report - Anders Samuelsson, AWS IAM and Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server Agent, AWS Blog
• Directions on Microsoft Publishes Report: What Windows Azure Means to Software ISVs, Himanshu_Singh
• Deploying certificates with Windows Azure Virtual Machines and PowerShell, Michael Washam
• Custom Serialization, Jagan Peri

Career

• Networking means making real friends., Penelope Trunk
• How to Give a Killer Concept Presentation, Freelance Switch

Business

• TechStars Boston announces startups accepted into its fall 2012 class
• Thoughts on Process
• Ask an Alum: The Elusive Job Hunt, Boston Startup School
• How Not to Get Burned in a Handshake Deal, Harvey Mackay
• To Create True Innovation, Consider Who You Want Your Customers To Become, Drake Baer
• Top 50 Books for Entrepreneurs, Dane Carlson

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1175, Chris Alcock
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-24, Dan Rigby
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, August 23rd, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – August 23, 2012 (#1,387), Alvin Ashcraft