I hope the weather forecasters are off today … suppose to get 2 feet of snow.

Other

• Wherefore Thou Shalt Fail at Software Requirements, Erik Dietrich
• Avoiding C++ types in your P/invokes, Yi Zhang
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Explicit Interface Implementation, James Michael Hare
• Questions: Understanding the Dropbox API., Dave Winer
• Hyper-V for Developers Part 2, Ken Kilty
• Intro to MVVM in four easy episodes...., Greg Duncan
• Implementing IDisposable, Emil Gustafsson

Code to look at

• C#.NET – Removing Duplicate Records From DataTable, Noor Ahmad Feroozi
• A curry of Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP), Inversion of Control (IoC), Dependency Injection (DI) and IoC Container, Hasibul Haque

Web

• More about modules: augmentation, Luis Abreu
• Authenticating a Web service with Active Directory group, Thando Khumalo
• Really Simple XSS & a Solution, CdnSecurityEngineer
• Smooth Scroll To The Top of The Page – jQuery, Noor Ahmad Feroozi

Mobile

• Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 Feb 2013, WindowsPhoneGeek

Database

• SQL SERVER – Backup and Restore Database Using Command Prompt – SQLCMD, Pinal Dave
• Activity Monitor in SQL Server 2012 SP1, Vladimir Svidersky
• Obtaining rowcounts when using Composable DML [T-SQL], jamiet

Security

• Multitenant STS and Token Validation, Vittorio Bertocci

Cloud Computing

• Talk: How is Architecting for the Cloud Different?, Bill Wilder
• Daily Cloud Feed – Feb 7, 2013
• Tricks for Deleting Windows Azure Virtual Machines via the REST API, Stephen W. Thomas
• AWS CloudFormation Tagging of Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS, AWS Blog
• Windows Azure SQL Database Management with PowerShell, Craig_Kitterman

Innovation

• NEW FROM IDEA CHAMPIONS: The Innovation Accelerator, Mitch Ditkoff

Career

• You May Feel Inadequate, But…, Chris Guillebeau
• Reputation in the workplace, Michael Specht
• Learn how to learn, creatively with the free MIT Learning Creative Learning course, Greg Duncan
• The High Cost of Low-Interest Debt, Trent
• Be Willing To Become The Beginner Again, Jean-Paul Boodhoo

Business

• How to Train Your Brain to Stay Positive, Entrepreneur.com

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #1291, Chris Alcock
• The Daily Six Pack: February 8, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 7th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – February 7, 2013 (#1,495), Alvin Ashcraft