Cloud
- Windows Azure Storage Queues VS Windows Azure Service Bus Queues by Alexandre Brisebois
A good comparison between the two options in Windows Azure regarding queuing technologies - Common Scenarios with Windows Azure Mobile Services by Chris Risner
A great collection of links on anything Azure Mobile Services from official resources to “how to” articles - Windows Azure: Backup Services Release, Hyper-V Recovery Manager, VM Enhancements, Enhanced Enterprise Management Support by Scott Gutherie
More Azure goodness the same day as the SDK release. - Windows Azure: New Virtual Machine, Active Directory, Multi-Factor Auth, Storage, Web Site and Spending Limit Improvements by Scott Guthrie
Still more Azure announcements and improvements - Windows Azure: Announcing release of Windows Azure SDK 2.2 (with lots of goodies) by Scott Guthrie
Another release of the Windows Azure SDK. I personally can’t wait to work with the Managed Libraries for .NET - Iterating quickly at a Hackathon with Azure Mobile Services and Dynamic Schema by Scott Hanselman
Fast prototyping using Azure Mobile Service and dynamic schema in the SQL back store database
Programming
- Using Windows 8 WinRT APIs in .NET Desktop Applications by Andrei Marukovich
Good to know that it is possible to use the news Windows 8 API from a normal desktop application - Introducing ScriptCS — C# on a diet by Glenn Block
A presentation on ScriptCS, a command line tool that use Roslyn (C# compiler as a service) to write C# code like a scripting language - Coding for Domain-Driven Design: Tips for Data-Focused Devs by Julie Lerman
A three parts series on how to apply DDD on complex application traditionally built using a data-centric approach with Entity Framework - Using a Visual JavaScript Code Editor With Visual Studio LightSwitch by Michael Washington
We don’t even need to learn JavaScript with this. - Hosting A JavaScript Engine In .NET by Scott Allen
Could be useful if we need to use scripts in our application - The Magic of using Asynchronous Methods in ASP.NET 4.5 plus an important gotcha by Scott Hanselman
Some good advices on using async and await in .NET 4.5
Tools
- PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio Beta v0.5 by Adam Driscoll
A great Visual Studio add in to write your PowerShell scripts with Intellisense and debugging support - A lighter, brighter GitHub for Windows by Markus Olsson
Details about the new version of the GitHub for Windows tool. - Microsoft’s PCL Reference Assemblies by Miguel de Icaza
Microsoft finally remove the restriction on the Portable Class Library so we can use them on other platform than Windows. - Announcing the Release of Visual Studio 2013 and Great Improvements to ASP.NET and Entity Framework by Scott Guthrie
The Visual Studio 2013 release announcement from Scott Guthrie with a new version of Entity Framework and the One ASP.NET vision.
Methodologies
- ATDD From the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg
A detailed article with examples on how to adopt Acceptance Test Driven Development
Miscellaneous
- Improving the state of the art in API documentation sites by Daniel Cazzulino
Details on the motivation behind NuDoq: a website for API documentation of popular projects with packages on NuGet - 5 reasons to become a consultant by Paul Ballard
I totally agree with that. Number 1 and 2 were my personal incentive to go freelancer. - DualShot from the launch to 100 000 downloads in 20 days by Sébastien Lachance
Interesting article about the first month of a Windows Phone application after publishing with download statistics.
