The next Boston code camp date has been announced - Boston Code Camp 19 – March 9, 2012

Other

• Visio Standard shapes for modeling, John Paul Cook
• Microsoft Message Analyzer better in Beta 2 (Gantt viewer, Quick filter, Parsing REST Protocols and more), Greg Duncan
• p&p Semantic Logging Block CTP Now Available!, Drew Oakley
• Tweaking Async IO in WPF, Ian Griffith
• Professional Team Foundation Server 2012, Brian Harry
• Optimize your delegate usage, Filip Ekberg

Code to look at

• Asychronous Web Service Call, Pathak Ashwin

Data Access

• Code First Approach using Entity Framework 4.1, Inversion of Control, Unity Framework, Repository & Unit of Work Pattern and MVC3 Razor View, Member 7869570

Windows 8

• Visual Studio and the Surface Pro: Great News and Not So Great News, John Robbins
• The Microsoft Surface Pro 128GB is now back in stock, but shipping time is 2 to 3 weeks, Alex Wilhelm
• Authenticating with TFS Connect and TFS Dashboard, Nisha Singh
• PDF View Components for Windows Store apps (WinRT) (XAML/C#), paulwhit
• Coming from WPF or Silverlight: What is the WinRT UI framework about?, PhilipSch
• Wrox Video Walktrhough: Creating a Windows 8 Application - Beginning Windows 8 Application Development, jminatel
• Template of the week: Windows 8 Location/Finder App, Susan Ibach
• An overview of UI Controls from Win RT XAML Toolkit, via WindowsPhoneGeek

Mobile

• Windows Phone 8 – Adding Charting Capabilities to Conference Buddy, Michael Crump
• Our view on the mobile market, Bill Wagner
• Getting Started With Windows Phone 8 HTML5 Apps, MatthiasShapiro
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Feb 2013, WindowsPhoneGeek

Web

• HTML5 Quick Start Web Application, Sandeep Mewara
• Displaying multiple nested modal popups as "Windows Modal Forms", Girish Nama

Security

• Facebook Says It Was The Target Of A "Sophisticated" Attack, Christina Chaey
• HTML5 Apps 70-480, palermo4

Cloud Computing

• Uploading Large Files in Windows Azure Blob Storage Using Shared Access Signature, HTML, and JavaScript, Gaurav
• Practical Azure #11: Worker Roles, Jim O’Neil
• Daily Cloud Feed – Feb 15, 2013
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #55), Craig Kitterman
• Amazon AWS: EC2 FTP server using S3 as the backend, John Duquette
• Hosting non-.NET language application on Azure using ProgramEntryPoint, Albert (Gong) Cheng
• Windows Azure IaaS Cmdlets Source Code is Now Available, Michael Washam

Career

• Where Is Your Future Pointing?, Trent
• The 7 Habits of Calmness, Leo Babauta
• 8 Ways to Be a Courageous Leader, Steve Tobak

Business

• Want to Attract and Retain the Best People? Try Offering Unlimited Vacation!, Paul Sloane
• “If You’re Not A Millionaire, You’re Poor” – with Tim Sykes, Andrew Warner

Other link blogs

• The Daily Six Pack: February 16, 2013, Dirk Strauss
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, February 15th, Rob Caron
• Dew Drop – February 15, 2013 (#1,499), Alvin Ashcraft