Articles I read in 2013

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• When in doubt, turn on Tracing
• Eight Reasons C# is the Best Language for Mobile Development
• C# Named Top Programming Language of 2012
• 6 ways to monetize a user-based business model
• HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog
• Paging with ASP.NET MVC
• 5 Essential Principles For Growing Your Small Business
• Creating PDF Documents with ASP.NET and iTextSharp
• Improvements to Parallelism in .Net Framework 4.5
• Task Parallel Library and async-await Functionality - Patterns of Usage in Easy Samples
• Using Caller Info Attributes in .NET 4.5
• SOAP on Android
• Top Azure Tips and Best Practices
• IDisposable, Done Right
• The 4 UX Principles Microsoft Forgot That Doomed Windows 8
• Hidden Segments
• EC2 Instances: EBS-Backed Versus Instance Store
• Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Table-Valued Parameters in .NET
• Internet 2012 in numbers
• Fun with ACID
• 20 Awesome Homepage Examples to Inspire Your Next Redesign
• Rumination on the concept of “best practice”
• Handling Errors in SQL Server 2012
• CQRS
• BlackBerry 10: What You Need to Know
• 15 Examples of Brilliant Homepage Design
• Adding Functionality to an Object
• Write once, run everywhere: Codename One brings its mobile app development kit out of beta
• Windows Azure Store: New add-ons and expanded availability
• Why this app maker targeted Windows Phone first, and what happened after that
• The Framework Superclass Anti-Pattern
• Things I learnt reading C# specifications (#1)
• The Case for Vertical Sharding
• YAML and Remote Code Execution
• Are Java's Days Numbered?
• Importing and Exporting Virtual Machine Settings
• Entrepreneurs Embrace The New Reality: No One Funds Ideas On Napkins
• Google as a New Innovation Model (Or Not the 20% Time)
• Analyze your Web Server Data and be empowered with LogParser and Log Parser Lizard GUI
• Exploring the Varbinary Type
• SOA Pattern (#1): Service Façade
• SOA Façade Pattern
• Software architecture with nail guns
• Android tablets: It's the BROWSER
• When open-source eats itself, we win
• Oracle’s MySQL misses the NoSQL mark
• Stairway to SQL Server Indexes: Level 15, Indexing Best Practices
• SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure – Clean Cache and Clean Buffer
• The Science of Productivity: A Proven Way to Get More Done (in Less Time)
• Understanding The Open Web Stack
• How to Call Web Service in Android Using SOAP
• Interview With Demis Bellot, Project Lead of ServiceStack - Part 1
• Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Machine Learning, But Were Too Afraid To Ask (Part One)
• Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Machine Learning, But Were Too Afraid To Ask (Part Two)
• Interview With Demis Bellot, Project Lead of ServiceStack - Part 2
• AsyncTask and AsyncTaskLoader
• Protecting an Application's Unauthorized Copy
• Filtered Indexes - Simple Partitioning without Enterprise Edition?
• How To Design For Android Devices
• How content delivery networks (CDNs) work
• Google Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh
• A Look Into AngularJS – The "Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework"
• Standardize SQL Server Installations with Configuration Files
• Remove Old Kernels in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric ocelot)
• Meet AppMachine, perhaps the most powerful “create your own mobile app” product we’ve seen
• Rethink the software development process, the human factor.
• Top 5 Sales Negotiation Tips
• Amazon Architecture
• An introduction to Firefox OS for mobile developers: Q&A with Andreas Gal, Mozilla
• Xamarin vs Titanium vs FireMonkey: should cross-platform tools abstract the GUI?|
• PhoneGap From Scratch: Introduction
• PhoneGap From Scratch: Device APIs
• PhoneGap From Scratch: App Template
• PhoneGap From Scratch: Twitter & Maps
• PhoneGap From Scratch: Camera API & App Exporting
• Data Design for Adding Functionality to a Class
• Moving Your Applications to Windows Azure
• Best Practices in Asynchronous Programming
• SQL Server Statistics Questions We Were Too Shy to Ask
• TortoiseSVN pre-commit hook in C# - Save yourself some troubles!
• The Art of Projections in a Dotcom 2.0 World
• Behind the app: Repeat timer pro
• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update
• Bureaucracy-Free Software Development
• Real-World Scenarios for Node.js in Windows Azure
• MongoDB is Fantastic for Logging
• Do Not Pass This Way Again
• Windows Azure Updates: Android Support, SQL Reporting Services, Active Directory, More…
• Dictionary + Locking versus ConcurrentDictionary
• An Orders of Magnitude Problem (T-SQL Tuning)
• Introduction to CQRS
• Tips to improve Entity Framework Performance
• Android vs. iOS: User Differences Every Developer Should Know
• Where and When Did the Symbols “+” and “–” Originate?
• Top 20 exciting features of SQL Server 2012 – Part 1
• Top 20 exciting features of SQL Server 2012 – Part 2
• By the numbers: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2
• Threading in Python
• Forms With AngularJS
• Database Deployment Challenges
• Use of Identity Property to Resolve Concurrency Issues
• An Incremental Database Development and Deployment Framework
• Dart - Is it the Future of the Web?
• The Repository Pattern
• Would push notifications for HTML5 apps kill native apps?
• MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown
• Beyond Threads and Callbacks - Application Architecture Pros and Cons
• Website Performance with ASP.NET - Part1 - Measuring
• Website Performance with ASP.NET - Part2 - Reduce Time to First Byte
• Website Performance with ASP.NET - Part3 - Make Fewer HTTP Requests
• NuGet Package of the Week #13 - Portable HttpClient makes portable libraries more useful
• Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud
• Understanding Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) 4.5
• Understanding Javascript Prototypes
• How People Really Use Mobile
• Strategy, State and Role Patterns in .NET
• Making $30,000 a month on Windows 8 apps
• 9 Steps to SEO Utopia: The Web Developer’s SEO Edition
• What does the langversion switch do?
• Quick and Dirty Guide to Linux File Permissions
• SharePoint Apps and Windows Azure
• AGILE architecture vs. agile ARCHITECTURE
• Architecture Anti Pattern
• Has in-person communication become the unwilling victim of technology?
• Top 10 Reasons I Like Postgres Over SQL Server
• How I Improved the Speed of My Mobile App by Over 1000%
• Important attributes in a page Meta element for SEO
• Why security belongs to developers first
• Uploading Files Asynchronously using ASP.NET Web API
• The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Arduino
• Avoiding "the stupid hour"
• Never Mind the Controller, Here is the Orchestrator
• Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• ADFS 2.0 By Example - Part1: ADFS as IP-STS and R-STS
• 10 Windows Phone 8 Features That Would Make Android Even Sweeter
• Is Amazon Good or Evil?
• RSS vs Atom, you know, “for dummies”
• HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 1
• Python Descriptors
• ASP.NET Web API: CORS support and Attribute Based Routing Improvements
• Code Contracts
• Power Your Modern Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services
• Things you still cant do with ASP.NET modules on IIS
• Death of Custom Software Development
• Power Your Modern Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services
• Part 1: How to solve the transactional issues of isolation levels
• ADFS 2.0 By Example - Part2: ADFS and ACS
• Understanding .NET Garbage Collection
• What to Do when the Customer is Delaying Your Project
• Top 10 HTML 5 Interview Questions
• Adding Functionality to an Object: Loading the Right Classes
• CDNs fail, but your scripts don't have to - fallback from CDN to local jQuery
• An Introduction to the SQLCMD Mode in SSMS (SQL Spackle)
• Java Reflection: Generics
• Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups
• NuGet Package of the Week #9 - ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world
• Which Open Source Software License Should I Use?
• Four ways of passing data between layers
• Guide to Windows Azure Certifications
• Multiple Views and DisplayMode Providers in ASP.NET MVC 4
• Extending Visual Studio Part 1 - Creating Code Snippets
• Google App Engine Datastore doubts
• Why refactoring code is almost always better than rewriting it
• AggregateOrientedDatabase
• Operations in the New Aggregation Framework
• NoSQL, huh, what is it good for?…
• Five Sure-Fire Ways to Sabotage a Release
• Web Design Trends in 2012
• A Check and Foreign Key Constraint Improves Query Performance
• Some "Laws" of Software Development
• Three Things To Know About Windows Blue
• Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
• The mystery of the inserted method
• The HTML5 Vs. Native Apps Battle Broken Down
• Would you use PhoneGap again?
• 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Testing a Business Idea
• Using Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in ASP.NET Web API
• Mint 15: Today's best Linux desktop (Review)
• Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus
• VisionMobile - Developer Nation
• JavaScript is Web Assembly Language and that's OK.
• Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?
• 5 Ways to Shortcut the 10,000 Hour Rule
• The CORRECT Way to Code a Custom Exception Class
• Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch: does it have a future?
• Commands, RelayCommands and EventToCommand
• Still Time to Become a Data Scientist?
• WordPress is 10 years old today: Here’s how it’s changed the Web
• First look: Android Studio eclipses Eclipse
• Strategies for choosing test devices
• Xamarin platform setup gotchas 
• How Hackers Stole $45 Million in Two Days [INFOGRAPHIC]
• 35 Scientific Concepts That Will Help You Understand The World
• 27 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
• What the meaning of is is
• Windows Azure: Announcing New Dev/Test Offering, BizTalk Services, SSL Support with Web Sites, AD Improvements, Per Minute Billing
• Windows Azure: Announcing Major Improvements for Dev/Test in the Cloud
• Template Websites Vs a Freelance Web Designer?
• (Almost) Everything You Need to Know About SQL Server 2014
• Mozilla is planning a major design overhaul with the release of Firefox 25 in October: Here’s a quick peek
• The Top 10 Things to Know When Running SQL Server Workloads on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Manage the availability of virtual machines
• About Affinity Groups for Virtual Network
• Connect virtual machines in a Windows Azure cloud service
• Data Series: Exploring Windows Azure Drives, Disks, and Images
• SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn: High Availability database for cloud data centers
• AlwaysOn Availability Groups (SQL Server)
• Construction destruction
• 20 Important African Startups to Watch
• Four Pricing Principles to Never Forget
• High Scalability - High Scalability - The 10 Deadly Sins Against Scalability
• No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson's Law to Kick Procrastination's Ass
• 8 months in Microsoft, I learned these
• 10 Weird Finance Facts
• 19 Tiny Lifestyle Changes You Can Make To Get Healthier
• Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus
• Windows Server and System Center 'Blue': What's inside?
• 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I’d Known at 20
• HTML5 Datalists: What They Are and When to Use Them
• String concatenation behind the scenes, part one
• Which Microsoft apps are supported (and not) on Windows Azure?
• Will Windows 8.1 kick Windows 8 'Modern' developers to the curb?
• Effective Dating Series Part I - The Problem
• A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember
• AngularJS for jQuery Developers
• String concatenation behind the scenes, part two
• ASP.NET MVC Areas–A Better Way To Structure The Application
• Painless management of a logging table in SQL Server
• Asp.Net MVC 3 Areas and _ViewStart.cshtml Scope
• Big Data for SQL folks: The Technologies (Part I)
• Couchbase 2.1 Improves Open Source NoSQL Database Health
• Microsoft-Oracle deal: What you need to know
• Microsoft consolidates its startup outreach programs
• The Big Comparison Of Google Reader RSS Feed Alternatives
• Dev/Test in the Cloud
• Python: Common Newbie Mistakes, Part 1
• Python: Common Newbie Mistakes, Part 2
• Unit testing is out, Vertical Slice Testing is in
• My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why
• HTML5 vs Native Mobile App Development: Which option is best?
• Mir To Ship As Default Display Server in Ubuntu 13.10
• An Introduction to Windows Azure BLOB Storage
• PHP exploding on Google App Engine: ‘It’s amazing, and we didn’t anticipate this’
• What Kind Of Lead Developer Are You ?
• RSS: let's not do the same mistakes
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Authorization and Security
• A Foolproof Tool for Motivating Your Team (and Yourself)
• Using WebSocket in .NET 4.5 (Part 1)
• Using WebSocket in .NET 4.5 (Part 2)
• Using WebSocket in .NET 4.5 (Part 3)
• Using WebSocket in .NET 4.5 (Part 4)
• How to choose a No SQL Database
• Getting Tangled in the Cloud
• Dropbox Announces Sync API for Third-Party Developers
• Analyzing web application performance
• Titanium: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The History of App Pricing [Chart]
• A quick look at Dropbox’s new Datastore API
• 7 Common SEO Myths to Throw Out the Window Immediately
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense?
• Microsoft Announces HTTP 2.0 Server
• The Freelancer’s Guide To Recurring Revenue
• Windows Azure: General Availability of SQL Server Always On Support and Notification Hubs, AutoScale Improvements + More
• Has Agile Software Development Gone Mainstream?
• Presentation Preparation: How To Be Above Average
• 6 technologies you should learn this year
• How far the once mighty SourceForge has fallen…
• 10 things that great entrepreneurs do
• Twitter hashtags predict rising tension in Egypt
• Am I really a developer or just a good googler?
• Six Essential Language Agnostic Programming Books
• MSDN Subscribers Are Throwing Away Thousands of Dollars by Not Using Azure
• Reddit: Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made Scaling to 1 Billion Pageviews a Month
• Amazon Releases Its Own Chaos Gorilla
• App Store Infographic exposes Scary Truth
• The 30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorize
• Retiring the Microsoft Master certifications and training
• The Magic of using Asynchronous Methods in ASP.NET 4.5 plus an important gotcha
• Google goes back to the future with SQL F1 database
• Get out of the way, we are coding, Part I
• Get out of the way, we are coding, Part II 
• Enterprise Architects are more than “problem solvers”
• Dependency Injection and events
• DI and events: Constructor Subscription
• Inversion Of Control, Single Responsibility Principle and Nikola’s laws of dependency injection
• Windows Azure: New Distributed, Dedicated, High Performance Cache Service + More Cool Improvements
• Expanding Windows Azure MSDN Benefit
• Don’t Launch Your Product
• DI and events: Third-party Connect
• A Hazard of Using the SQL Update Statement
• Glimpse Heads-Up Display released
• Coding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs
• Coding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs, Part 2
• Verbatim identifiers
• DI and events: Reactive Extensions
• Open-Source PostgreSQL 9.3 Wraps Up Data
• DI and events: Composition
• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC
• Ubuntu Touch: First look at the Linux smartphone OS
• What not to do in ASP.NET, and what to do instead
• Methodology Agnostic
• Windows 8.1 priced at $119, Microsoft brings back 'full version' for everyone
• DevOps really does speed things up, study shows
• Principles of API Design: The One, The Many, The Null, and The Nothing
• User Stories - Epics and Themes
• User Stories, Epics and Themes
• Advantages of the “As a user, I want” user story template
• Invest Model For User Stories
• User Stories
• Non-functional Requirements as User Stories
• Nonfunctional Requirements « Scaled Agile Framework
• Layered Architecture for .NET
• 10 Reasons Web Developers Should Learn AngularJS
• Breaking the Daily Scrum Time Box
• Hadoop and HDInsight: Big Data in Windows Azure
• Personas
• Writing Contracts for Agile Development
• Why Your Software Development Process Is Broken
• Assigning Story Points at the Right Time--Or Not at All
• So, what have YOU been learning lately?
• Is Design Dead?
• Finally, SharePoint 2013 Unleashed Hits The Shelves!
• The Second Coming of Java: A Relic Returns to Rule Web
• Windows Azure: New Virtual Machine, Active Directory, Multi-Factor Auth, Storage, Web Site and Billing Improvements
• Challenge: Spot the bug
• Cloud Platform Blog: App Engine 1.8.5 released – featuring Search API and PHP updates:
• Solr: The Most Important Open Source Project You’ve Never Heard Of
• How Google could have made the Web secure and failed -- again
• Microsoft’s F# Gains Momentum
• What’s new for developers in SharePoint 2013
• Android: Fast Communication with .NET Using Protocol Buffers
• Microsoft ups app-roaming limits for Windows 8 to 81 devices
• Generating Random Numbers in SQL Server Without Collisions
• Gold in the data, but a shortage of miners
• Enterprise Developers Stuck on .NET 4.0
• The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer
• Couchbase Brings Open-Source NoSQL Database to the Mobile Form Factor
• The Habits of the World's Smartest People (Infographic)
• DI in .NET receives a Jolt Productivity Award
• Large Object Heap Compaction: Should You Use it?
• OWIN Middleware in the IIS integrated pipeline & StageMarkers
• Python Extension Programming with C
• Top 5 .NET Memory Management Fundamentals 
• What are the guidelines for splitting large user stories into smaller ones?
• Kanban - Isn’t It Just Common Sense?
• Capture Knowledge and Make Decisions Transparent in a Design Thinking Process
• Your story cards are limiting your agility
• The Essence Pattern in C#
• Ask HS: Is Microsoft the Right Technology for a Scalable Web-based System?
• Microsoft Discounts Cloud Services Challengin Amazon
• Microsoft to launch new remote desktop apps for iOS, Android
• Four Dangerous Navigation Approaches that Can Increase Cognitive Strain
• New features and tutorials for Compute Engine Load Balancing
• Real-Time Web Protocol PubSubHubbub Explained
• Top 4 Challenges for Agile Planning
• Unit of Work Design Pattern
• The new Cloud Console: designed for developers
• SharePoint 2013 REST Service Integration versus Client Object Model
• Sending a SMS Message from an Android Application
• Checking Types in Javascript
• Unlocking Big Data
• 15 tools that the most successful entrepreneurs use [Infographic]
• 10 ways to make your .NET projects play nice with others
• Enable and monitor ASP.NET App Suspend on Windows Server 2012 R2
• Stop wasting billions of dollars using the wrong software languages
• Building SharePoint 2013 Apps - Architecture, Authentication & Connectivity API
• 8 SaaS apps that are changing the way we do business
• Introducing Web Development and Tooling TV
• Microsoft's Scroogled campaign is successfully driving people away from Google [Update]
• Easy ASP.NET Web API DTOs with F# CLIMutable records
• App Engine 1.8.6 released
• What comes next after Windows 8.1?
• Scientists Used Facebook For The Largest Ever Study Of Language And Personality — And The Results Are Groundbreaking
• Visual Studio 2013 available for download
• Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 8.1
• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013
• Exception Handling in ASP.NET MVC
• Total Eclipse of the Apps Script
• Microsoft Introduces Remote Desktop App, Access Your Windows Machines From Anywhere
• If you spend nights in front of a computer screen, F.lux is the best thing you’ll ever come across
• Using Ninject.Extensions.Interception Part 1 : The Basics
• Using Ninject.Extensions.Interception Part 2 : Working With Interceptors
• Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014
• Ubuntu 13.10 Launched With Friends Scope, Dash Filters and More
• 10 Things Super Successful People Do During Lunch
• Windows Azure: Announcing Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 + Some Nice Price Cuts
• IE10 and IE11 and Windows 8.1 and __doPostBack
• Root Cause Analysis of the Failure of Root Cause Analysis
• Interview With Google's Ilya Grigorik On His New Book: High Performance Browser Networking
• Cut Your Meeting Time by 90%
• How to give your Web apps a real speed boost
• EF6 RTM Available
• Infographic – Developer Economics Q3 2013 – State of the Developer Nation
• Windows Azure: Backup Services Release, Hyper-V Recovery Manager, VM Enhancements, Enhanced Enterprise Management Support
• Windows Azure: Announcing release of Windows Azure SDK 2.2 (with lots of goodies)
• Sizing your Rabbits
• 3 Ways To Monitor Your Web Server For Free
• Programming CSS: Bundling and Minification
• Message Queuing Options for .NET
• Rebus transport: MSMQ vs. RabbitMQ
• Disk Is Cheap! ORLY?
• OpenID for ASP.NET MVC, A Quick Setup
• OpenID and OAuth using DotNetOpenAuth in ASP.NET MVC
• Introduction to Personas
• What lies are you going to tell yourself now, dude?
• High Scalability - Design Decisions for Scaling Your High Traffic Feeds
• Etsy Activity Feeds Architecture
• Activity Streams: What are the scaling issues to keep in mind while developing a social network feed?
• Google Cloud SQL is now accessible from just about any application, anywhere 
• Two Dozen Insanely Essential Programmer Utilities* | Jesse Liberty
• Sublime Text–My New Love | Jesse Liberty
• 6 dirty secrets of the IT industry
• Building Performance Metrics into ASP.NET MVC Applications
• MVC 4: facebook twitter login with oAuth
• Building Scalable Applications in .NET: Introducing the FatDB Distributed Computing Platform
• Windows Azure: Import/Export Hard Drives, VM ACLs, Web Sockets, Remote Debugging, Continuous Delivery, New Relic, Billing Alerts and More
• Filtering on a tinyint with Entity Framework
• How Asana Breaks the Rules About Per-Seat Pricing
• App Engine 1.8.7 and a platform that is great for game developers
• Discussing MasterCard’s OpenAPI platform with business leader Dave Butler
• Conditions of satisfaction | Agile Software Development
• Coding Horror: New Programming Jargon
• Advice to the New CEO
• What’s the Problem with Mobile HTML5?
• What to Use on the Microsoft Stack
• Perpetuating terrible JavaScript practices
• Microsoft and Xamarin Partner Globally to Help You Build Great Apps
• How Long Do Hard Drives Last?
• Launching a startup? Read this advice from successful entrepreneurs and leaders
• re: Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
• Google Developers Blog: Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps
• What’s new in SharePoint Online–top 10
• Portable Class Libraries just got REALLY useful with new licensing changes
• Hey, Arduino Fans! 1Sheeld Lets Your Smartphone Act As Many Different Arduino Shields
• Aspect-oriented Programming and Code Contracts in ASP.NET MVC
• How to Be Sure You’ve Thought of Everything
• Introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio
• What it takes to run Stack Overflow
• New trends in the global mobile game industry [Infographic]
• Implementing Health Monitoring in ASP.NET MVC Applications
• Cloud Insecurity
• Best practices for building cross-platform mobile apps
• Contrasting Backbone and Angular
• A Look at the Razor View Engine in ASP.NET MVC
• The difference between benchmarks & performance tests
• Is Your Application Ready?
• Bring Your Apps into the Classroom, with Google Play for Education
• Lessons Learned from Six Years of Agile Database Development
• Standing on Principle
• Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available with expanded OS support, transparent maintenance, and lower prices
• Designing A Website For 2014
• The new Persistent Disk - faster, cheaper and more predictable for Google Compute Engine
• 50 Amazing Facts About Mobile
• Programming CSS: Do More with 'LESS'
• Immutable Collections performance
• Immutable collections ready for prime time
• SaltStack for Google Compute Engine
• Working with 154 million records on Azure Table Storage – the story of “Have I been pwned?”
• Immutable collections performance, take II
• Node.js Is Big, And Still Getting Bigger
• SafeList, SafeDictionary–fast immutable structures
• Scalr and Google Compute Engine
• Personal branding: Engage your connections
• Top 10 Predictions for Technology in 2014
• Does everyone hate MongoDB?
• SQL Makes a Comeback through NewSQL
• ASP.NET Web API 2 is out! Overview of features
• IHttpActionResult - new way of creating responses in ASP.NET Web API 2
• Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated
• What might a new Windows Start Menu look like?
• Windows Azure: New Scheduler Service, Read-Access Geo Redundant Storage, and Monitoring Updates
• Top Ten Gifts For the ScrumMaster In Your Life
• Too big for Google – when Analytics fails you
• Enterprise Architecture as Story
• Using Node.js PayPal Doubles RPS, Lowers Latency, with Fewer Developers, but Where Do the Improvements Really Come From?
• A first look at Opserver, Stack Exchange's monitoring solution
• Micro optimising web content for unexpected, wild success
• 10 Body Language Tips Every Speaker Must Know (Infographic)
• 10 Charts from 2013 That Changed the Way We Think
• The cost of select count(*) from tbl
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Automating everything with the Windows Azure Management Libraries and .NET
• Original Sin?
• Comparison of Template and Strategy Design Patterns
• Don’t Take Partial Credit for Semi-Finished Stories
• Data Science Laboratory System – Graph Databases
• Microsoft to discontinue Forefront Unified Access Gateway
• Giving Clarity to LINQ Queries by Extending Expressions
• Evolutionary Database Design
• Mobile app developers' interest in HTML5 is slipping
• Microsoft: Bing is not a bottomless money pit (any more)
• Um, no
• Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) - Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web's Social Glue
• IT Aphorisms
• Pluralsight and the Crystal Microphone
• Introduction to Nido Framework .NET/ C#
• Performance counters sucks
• When Winning Feels Like Losing
• How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
• A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun
• Are You Destined for Success?
• How to become a World Memory Champion in ten steps