Articles I read in 2013

A new year, a new list...

2012's list can be found here
2011's list can be found here
2010's list can be found here
2009's list can be found here
2008's list can be found here 
2007's list can be found here

• 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

Articles I read in 2012

So it's a new year!! 2012 was a year full of excitement for software lovers. The cloud service providers are competing for the good of the developers and businesses. Mobile technologies continue to emerge and steadily taking more market share from PCs. Also Microsoft released a series of new products.
In this list of articles I read in 2012, you might notice that not all articles are purely technical as I'm trying to find a way in the startup world.

2011's list can be found here
2010's list can be found here
2009's list can be found here
2008's list can be found here 
2007's list can be found here

• Hacking Google for Fun and Profit
• My Career Advice: Make Yourself Redundant
• Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t
• 10 reasons why this is a great time to be a developer
• SQL Server 2012 FileTable – Part 1
• Asynchronous scalable web applications with real-time persistent long-running connections with SignalR
• The Future of CouchDB
• How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award
• SharePoint for Internet Sites Licensing
• HTML5 vs Native: The Mobile App Debate
• Microsoft Previews Windows Azure Application Integration Services
• 5 incredible ways mobile design will change in the next 5 years
• Performance and Design Guidelines for Data Access Layers
• The Coding Zone
• 4 Tips to Keep Your Website Ahead of the Curve in 2012
• 8 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Things Done
• Tech Giants Join Forces To Fight Amazon's Cloud 
•  Some Key Social Media Trends To Look For In 2012
•  "No" is the New "Yes": Four Practices to Reprioritize Your Life
•  Windows Server now runs for free in Amazon's cloud
•  5 things you didn’t know you could do with a SMS in Brazil
•  10 Reasons Why Windows Phone 7 is Better Than Android
•  The Fastest Webserver?
•  Working with Object Context in the ADO.NET Entity Framework
•  20/20: Top 20 Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years
• Foreign Keys in the Entity Framework
• Beyond the desktop: Ubuntu Linux's new Head-Up Display
• Introduction to Lucene.Net
• How I select Open Source projects
• HTML5 Drag and Drop Upload and File API Tutorial
• Successful Strategies for a Multi-tenant Architecture
• Twist in ISNULL function
• nude.js: Nudity Detection with JavaScript
• Implementing a Multi-Tenancy Architecture, Tier by Tier
• Talk to Me: Voice and SMS in the Cloud
• Announcing SDL for Agile Development Methodologies
• Unfortunate Python
• What’s Wrong with the SharePoint Community?
• Multi-tenancy for Cloud Architectures: Benefits and Challenges
• Tips to optimize your SQL statements
• How To Build a Modern Website in 2011
• Best Time to Start a Company
• Introduction to Claims-based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 in plain English
• And the most in-demand tech skills of 2012 are …
• Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option
• Platform unification: How Microsoft can win the developer war
• Stop paying your jQuery tax
• Use Dynamic SQL to Improve Query Performance
• Ubuntu in your pocket
• ASP.NET Web API (Part 1)
• What not to ask technical people in interviews
• WhySQL?
• Windows Azure Table Storage vs. Windows SQL Azure
• Things You Should Never Do, Part I
• Sticky HTTP Session Routing in Windows Azure
• Amazon Takes Another Pass at NoSQL with DynamoDB
• Did I mention #MongoDb is fast?!?! Way to go @mongodb
• Some Initial Insert Test Benchmarks on SQL Server 2008 R2
• Round Two of Insert Benchmark Tests
• Benchmarking hardware setup
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 1: the baseline)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 2: optimizing log block IO size and how log IO works)
• Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 3: separating data and log files)
• Michael Stal on Architecture Refactoring
• Coming Soon: TFS Express
• Why HTML5 is not the choice for enterprise mobility
• ReaderWriterLock FTW!
• Generic repositories – A silly abstraction layer
• How to do cheap backups
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