Other

• How I am Declaring My Independence from Technology Today, Micro Persuasion
• Good reads…, chrisdonnan.com
• Where do developers care for Software Quality?, Patrick Smacchia

Code to look at

• The forceful implementation of features, GD_Patrick
• Simple ‘In-Progress’ Message for time taking tasks in ASP.Net Pages, Kiran Kumar Veerabatheni

Web

• First Sueetie Smart Placeholder Control Surfaces, Dave Burke
• Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF), Stephen Walther

Agile

• Technical Debt - Definition and Resources, Brad Appleton

Community

• Revive your User Group, part II, Joe Webb

Other link blogs

• Everyman Links for July 3, 2009, Dave Burke
• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 6/29/2009+, OakLeaf Systems
• Weekly Link Post 100, Rhonda Tipton

Happy 4th of July!  Sunny already in Boston.

Other

• The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image, Jean-Paul Boodhoo
• dotNetDave - dotNetTips.Utility 3.5 Released, H. Steele Price, IV

Code to look at

• Simple .NET Profanity Filter, James Newton-King
• Implementing sort in a generic collection, edlias
• How to get the EventArgs as a CommandParameter using the AttachedCommandBehaviour, marlongrech
• How to perform WPF Data Binding using LINQ to XML and How to perform WPF Data Binding using LINQ to XML – Part 2, Balamurali Balaji

Web

• Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce Vendors Left Hanging, Robin Wauters
• Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only, Dave Burke

Database

• SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices, Pinal Dave

Debugging

• VS Debugging - Why did VS stop breaking on Exceptions?, Julie Lerman
• 10 Common Mistakes in Memory Analysis (Part 4), Dmitry Vostokov

SOA

• SOA Patterns With BizTalk Server 2009 (and Biztalk ESB Toolkit), HernanDL

Cloud Computing

• Meffifying Windows Azure, Glenn Block

Career

• Why a manager may not want you to learn, Tim Stall
• Turning Down Special Requests, Jaclyn
• How to Become More Successful, Steve Pavlina
• Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee, JD
• How to Stop Acting Like Such a Big Baby, Jonathan Mead

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• Dew Droplet – July 1-3, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft

Happy Birthday to Sam Gentile

Other

• How to display ads on your project from The Lounge - #045, Sara Ford
• Clipboard.Clear … oops, Tim Anderson
• 3 Options for Sharing Your Project Research, Thursday Bram
• Exception Handling Proxy - eating your own dog food and Updated Proxy Generator, Michele Leroux Bustamante
• Oh, You Wanted "Awesome" Edition, Jeff Atwood
• Comparing Text and Binary Serialization in WCF, Tomas Restrepo
• My Lenovo Choice - ThinkPad W700 vs. ThinkPad W500 Review, Scott Hanselman
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – The Rational Guide to Building Technical User Communities (Rational Guides), Pinal Dave

Windows 7, VS 2010, .NET 4.0

• The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7., Leon Bambrick
• VS 10 beta 1 extensibility model (Part 1) and VS 10 beta 1 extensibility model (Part 2), Pablo Baliano
• Upgraded to Windows 7 RC – how I kept from reinstalling everything, and what didn’t work, Jeffrey Palermo
• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems, K. Scott Allen
• VS2010 Beta1 "Delete existing objects before creating" flag for DB Deployment, WebDevTools
• A closer look at Sandboxing in (ASP.NET) V4, leastprivilege.com

Code to look at

• AttachedPropertyEvent pattern, Jan-Erik Romoeren, Bjorn Asplund
• Serializing and Deserializing Objects…to and from…XML, Steve Wellens
• Binary to Open XML Translator, and Freeform Shapes in the Office Drawing Format, Eric White
• Writing a complex custom configuration section, aftabahmed.nt
• Samples for the Undo Framework, Kirill Osenkov
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI., Brian Lagunas

Web

• GChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, canvas-rendered, pie, line, and area charts, Dion Almaer
• Optimize your Pages using CSS Sprites, emiaj
• HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC – Be Careful, David Hayden
• Plugging Away in Web Velocity, James Robertson

Database

• PowerShell and SQL Server: Script all Tables, Buck Woody
• Book: Refactoring SQL Applications - Stephane Faroult, Greg Low

Security

• June ThreatSense Report, David Harley
• The Middler – User Session Cloning & MITM Tool, Darknet

Cloud Computing

• The Cloud as a Platform for Platforms, AWS Evangelist
• Google App Engine Stalled Out For About 6 Hours Today, MG Siegler
• On-Demand/SaaS Reality: SaaS Buyer and #039;s Guide - Choosing the Right Vendor

Career

• Go, Go, Go! Setting the Rules for “Rush” Projects, Freelance Switch
• What's Keeping Me Up at Night During This Job Search?, Jane Allerton
• Enlist A Global Work Force Of Freelancers, Rich Whittle
• Empower your People, Paul Sloane
• Dice Reports Murky Waters For Tech Jobs, Leena Rao
• Why I Don’t Hide That I Work At Home, Nancy Nally
• How to Manage Virtual Teams from MIT SMR, binnur
• Agents of Change / When you’ve lost the room, Adam Goucher

Business

• Web Work 101: Jumping Into Your Web Business, Amber Riviere

Community

• I’ll be presenting at the Jacksonville Code Camp in Jacksonville, FL (August 29th, 2009), Andrew Connell

Other link blogs

• Summary 11.06.2009 – 02.07.2009, Bogdan Brinzarea
• LINKBLOG for July 2, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009, Jason Gaylord
• The Morning Brew #382, Chris Alcock

Other

• Book Review: The Economics of Iterative Software Development, Jim Holmes
• Book Review and Essay: Create Your Own Economy and Internet Info Culture, Ben Casnocha
• Why have we not seen TPC-C and TPC-E benchmarks using SSD storage?, jchang
• Changing Windows Service Runtime Behavior with Typemock Isolator, Travis Illig
• Good Books, David Chappell
• Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity Provisioning Guide, Microsoft Downloads
• How to subscribe to the list of CodePlex projects using a specific tag - #044, Sara Ford
• CLR Inside Out - Building Tuple, CLR Team

VS 2010, WF 4.0

• MEF and VS10 beta 1, Pablo Galiano
• WF 4.0 Diff, Salvador Gascon

Code to look at

• Fast Asynchronous Delegates in .NET, Vitaliy Liptchinsky
• Adapter Design Pattern How to use in Asp.net using C#, Salmanzz

Web

• Mouse Gestures Firefox Extension Makes Quick Work of Common Tasks, Samuel Dean
• Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know, K. Scott Allen
• IE Compatibility List Pruning, IE Blog
• JQuery: Playing with Select (DropDownList/ComboBox), Chris Brandsma
• GeoMaker - geo locations as microformats or a map from texts or URLs, Chris Heilmann
• More than you ever want to see about encoding, Dion Almaer

Database

• Encryption and Backup Files, Johnm
• SQL Server Best Practices: Auto-Shrink Should Be Off, Buck Woody
• Why is IntelliSense not working?, Aaron Bertrand

WCF

• Workaround for WCF Bug When Using a Certificate Reference, Michele Leroux Bustamante

Agile

• CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both!, Chad Albrecht

Architecture

• The architect profession according to Forrester, pdestoop
• Do we need cloud oriented architecture?, Joe McKendrick

SOA

• RequestStreamMap, Martin Fowler

Cloud Computing

• 7 July release of the new .NET Services CTP, pdestoop

Career

• June Tech Job Cuts Down from May, Erik Sherman
• P&P : Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, pdestoop
• How Well Do You Listen and Respond?, Dawn Foster
• New “Vocations” Blog Provides Insight Into “Life, Work, and Meaning” From Interviews With People In Wide Variety of Positions, George Lenard
• Why I Blog, Todd Biske

Business

• Website Maintenance Musts and  Don't Just Hope for Traffic--Find It, Entrepreneur.com

Community

• Videos from the Norwegian Developer's Conference, Scott Hanselman
• ASP.NET MVC Extensibility at Tampa MVC Developer Group, David Hayden
• ASP.NET MVC Talk in Reading UK July 3rd, Scott Guthrie

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for July 1, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• New and Notable 337, Sam Gentile
• The Technology Post for July 1st, 2009, Jason Gaylord
• The Morning Brew #381, Chris Alcock

Dropping ‘stuff’ from the headings … and starting to revisit why I blog and what I get out of it.  Thinking about ways to filter these links better. 

Other

• The Four Pillars of Maintainable Software, rsriley
• All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions, Jeff Atwood
• Working at 37signals, JZ
• Some Cool Mono Announcements, Miguel de Icaza
• Running development from a RAM disk – options and products, Jeffrey Palermo
• Asynchronous methods, C# iterators, and Tasks, toub
• LINQ: Quickly Create Dictionaries with ToDictionary, Patrick Steele
• iPhone OS 3.1 Beta And SDK Already Rolling Out To Developers, MG Siegler
• Web Platform Installer 1.0, Microsoft Downloads
• Easing the Pain of Moving to a New Windows PC, Meryl Evans
• 304 Your images from a database, Jeff Putz
• File upload/download and remote program execution using WS-Management – a practical solution, William Vambenepe

Windows 7/.Net 4.0

• Partial Trust ASP.NET in 4.0, leastprivelge.com
• Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress”, Jason Gaylord

Code to look at

• Active Record Pattern Wrapper Using LINQ-to-SQL, Dogu Tumerdem

Web

• LABjs: Simple abstraction for loading dependencies correctly, Dion Almaer
• 11 Handy Tools for Website Analysis, Chad Albrecht
• Firefox 3.5 Released, Simon Mackie
• Tip#85: Did you know… You can now do Multiple Selection of controls in your Designer with VS 2008 SP1?, WebDevTools

Database

• Don't destory your certificate if you dabble with SQL 2008 Encryption, Simon Sabin
• Looking for security vulnerabilities in database code, Kimberly Tripp
• SQL SERVER – Difference between Line Feed (\n) and Carriage Return (\r) – T-SQL New Line Char, Pinal Dave

Agile

• Five Reasons to Hire a Coach for Agile Teams, Esther Derby
• Agile Maturity Model – What’s Next?, Scott Sehlhorst
• Agile Self-Organizing Teams and Resources on Self-Organizing Teams for Agility, Brad Appleton

SOA

• SOA Retrospective, Richard Veryard
• Gartner: companies gear up SOA for upcoming economic recovery, Joe McKendrick

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell, pdestoop
• Michele’s Norwegian Developers Conference Slides, Nicholas Allen
• Pod-Scale vs Warehouse-Scale Computing, philw
• [VIDEO] Identity & Cloud Services, V Bertocci

Career

• Getting Back in the Interviewing Groove, Jane Allerton
• Member Exclusive: Post The Purpose And Success Criteria For A Project Meeting., David Allen
• Embracing Information Overload, Dawn Foster
• Working For Yourself Means Freedom — But It Doesn’t Come Free, Rich Whittle
• You can take the boy off the farm…, Joe Webb
• Acceptance Test Engineering Guide Beta 2 Now Available, JD Meier
• The Split Personality of the Tester/Developer, Alex Mueller
• Vital Behaviors, JD

Business

• The 10 Worst Partners For Your Start-Up, Entrepreneur.com
• Intense Ambiguity, Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation

• Increasing the stakes - why innovation is gaining more traction, Jim Carroll
• Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad and Using Design to Drive Innovation and How to Measure Innovation and Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed, Innovation in the News
• Innovation: The right tools for the job, Innovation Weblog
• Driving Growth Through Innovation, James Todhunter

Community

• Ottawa IT Community Awards Night Tonight, John Bristowe
• CodeCampSA (Adelaide) is on again this year, Greg Low
• Meet the Parallel development team July 1st 9am PST, Charles Sterling

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – June 30, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 336, Sam Gentile
• LINKBLOG for June 30, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Technology Post for June 30th, 2009, Jason Gaylord
• The Morning Brew #380, Chris Alcock

Other stuff

• Don’t Create Aggregate Roots, Udi Dahan
• Windows Mobile vs. iPhone, Chad Albrecht
• 23 features of an enterprise data access layer, Tim Stall
• The void is invariant, Eric Lippert
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You, Scott Hanselman
• New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework, Kirill Osenkov
• Domain Driven Design Quickly, Ade Miller

.Net 4.0 stuff

• ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls, Mike Ormond

Code to look at

• How to Customize the New AjaxControlToolkit Tools, Joshua Blackstone
• API Hooking(LoadLibrary), Allah Rahim K J

Web stuff

• MySpace open sources advanced browser performance tool for IE, Dion Almaer
• Prepare a JSON web service and access it with JQuery, Sohel_Rana
• I made you a token… but I eated it: or how to debug authentication issues in ASP.NET with SecurityTokenVisualizerControl, V Bertocci

Agile stuff

• PMBOK, Agile & TOC: The Kaizen Culture, Chad Albrecht

Architecture stuff

• Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries, Martin Fowler

Cloud Computing stuff

• Teaching unconferences to newbies, Cloud Camp style, Robert Scoble
• Azure worker role development tips, Jamie Thomson
• Biztalk ESB Toolkit - Useful links, Hernan de Lahitte
• Watch a "How Do I Video?" on Getting Started with .NET Services, MSDN
• Is Azure ready for production usage?, Dennis van der Stelt

Career stuff

• Using Spaces to Manage Information Overload, Charles Hamilton
• 5 Tips to Become a High-Achiever, Entrepreneur.com
• There is No Shortage of Time, JD

Innovation stuff

• InnoCentive’s Chief Innovation Evangelist, Stephen Shapiro
• Innovating outside the lines, Jeffrey Phillips
• Business innovators move faster and further and Six Myths of Innovation, Innovation in the News
• Should innovation be restricted to products?, Jennifer

Community stuff

• CloudCamp (CloudCamp Boston – July 29th, 2009)
• New Sessions at The Ajax Experience 2009, tberardi (Boston September 14-16)
• 5th Annual Jacksonville Code Camp – Saturday, August 29th (open call for speakers), Andrew Connell
• New England Code Camp 12 – Save the Date!, Chris Bowen … I’ll be at this one!

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #378 and The Morning Brew #379, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – June 29, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009, Jason Gaylord
• LINKBLOG for June 29, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof

Other stuff

• C# on the IPhone, twagner
• Paraffin3.1: New and Improved!, John Robbins
• Creating WinPE with Integration Services for Hyper-V, Scott Forsyth
• Running Things between multiple machines while maintaining the database, Jean-Paul Boodhoo
• Elegant Code Project Structure Purse Fight, Chris Brandsma
• Mono, Miguel de Icaza
• Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application, Rick Strahl
• A better way to test email sending functionality is to use your own SMTP Server, Vaibhav Gadodia

Windows 7/.Net 4.0 stuff

• Workflow 4.0 Is Disappointing, Kathleen
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Now Available!, Jeff Alexander

Code to look at

• Usage of IsolatedStorage made Easy, Amit K Rana
• How to use Rijndael to encrypt any file easily?, qxcjust
• Uploading a file to a Windows machine via WMI/WS-Management, William Vambenepe

Web stuff

• Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines, K. Scott Allen
• VS2010 Beta1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO options, WebDevTools

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER – Maximum Number of Index per Table, Pinal Dave

Agile stuff

• CONWIP systems, Corey Ladas

Cloud Computing stuff

• David Linthicums Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide, Brenda Michelson
• Cloud Computing Design Patterns, Robert Nadler

Career stuff

• Are You Too Glued to Your Computer, Too?, Pamela Poole
• Competing Strengths in The Battle of the Learner and Over-Achiever, Rosa Say
• Organizational Chaos Followup, Jesse Liberty
• How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself, Tim Ferriss

Business stuff

• Nordic Track Book Club Review: New Rules of Marketing & PR, David Burke

Community stuff

• NDC09 Trip Report, Phil Haack

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for June 28, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• Links of the week #82 - “Back From Holidays in Croatia” Edition, David Vidmar
• Links (6/28/2009), Steve Pietrek

Other stuff

• Review: "Programming Clojure", by Stu Halloway, Ted Neward
• Fighting Fabricated Complexity, Patrick Smacchia

VS 2010 stuff

• New Features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 (VSTS2010) Web Tests, Ben Day

Web stuff

• New Gallery Server Pro Recent Photos View, Dave Burke

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Management Studio New Features, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Another great document on Cloud Computing, Jack van Hoof
• Scaling to the Stars, AWS Blog

Career stuff

• 4 Reasons It Pays to Track Your Time, Amber Riviere

Business stuff

• The Top 100 Networked Venture Capitalists, Erick Schonfeld

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – June 27-28, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft

Other stuff

• File Server Migration Toolkit and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Scalability with Intel Processor and Solid-State Drive Technologies and Microsoft Sync Framework, Microsoft Downloads
• Windows Live Writer – Good or Bad?, Andrew Kelly
• WMI Performance, PowerShell Team

Windows 7 stuff

• Windows 7 Upgrade Test Matrix, Microsoft Downloads
• The Windows 7 Early Bird Discount, John Bristowe

Code to look at

• WCF Large File Download Upload Service, Harish Bhattbhatt
• Implementing Message Queue Using Counting Semaphores, souviksoftware
• Introduction to ResEdit, resedit

Web stuff

• Is It Too Late To Change JSON?, Phil Haack
• A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state, Tess
• Fully configured ASP.NET Membership Website Template, Stephen Inglish
• CAT.NET V1 CTP 64 bit, Microsoft Download
• 10 Useful Firefox Add-ons for Almost Everybody, Meryl Evans

Database stuff

• Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server, Microsoft Downloads
• Scripting Schema and Data With SSMS in SQL 2008, Paul Randal … something I’m always looking to do for builds …

Architecture stuff

• Should some requirements be called out as “architectural” requirements?, Nick Malik

SOA stuff

• SOA services still too constrained by applications they represent and Six ways to make SOA services more reusable, Joe McKendrick

Cloud Computing stuff

• Azure Developer Challange Grand Prize Winners, David Pallmann
• On-Demand/SaaS Reality: SaaS: It and #039;s the Business Model, Stupid, Anders Trolle-Schultz
• SaaS, PaaS... why not SOAaaS (SOA as a Service)?, Ramesh Loganathan

Career stuff

• Find Your Purpose and Find the Right Person in a Down Economy, Entrepreneur.com
• Cisco’s Take on Telecommuting and Productivity, Dawn Foster

Business stuff

• What to Do When You Lose a Steady Client, Freelance Switch

Innovation stuff

• Innovation Blogs - We’re #15, Stephen Shapiro
• The ACORD Information Model, Conrad Chaung
• Smartphones Get Killer App, Michael Hickins
• Why do Fast Followers often beat the First Mover innovators?, Don Dodge

Community stuff

• Speaking on Azure Design Patterns at So Cal Code Camp, David Pallmann
• Revive your User Group, Joe

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – June 26, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for June 26, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Technology Post for June 26th, 2009, Jason Gaylord
• New and Notable 335, Sam Gentile

Other stuff

• The iPhone Software Revolution, Jeff Atwood
• Patterns of software engineering workflow (part 1), Corey Ladas (via Chad Albrecht)
• Using WCF 4.0 XAML Services in the real world: Activating WCF Services from a central repository, Jesus Rodriguez
• Live Mesh as an application platform, Daniel Cazzulino
• WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Beta, Nicholas Allen
• Mmm, Curry, Eric Lippert
• TechNet Magazine Online: July Edition Available Now, Jeff Alexander
• Expression Design Resources, Mike Ormond
• The HaaHa Show visits .NET Rocks, Scott Hanselman
• Don’t dispose of objects that you don’t own, phillips.joshua
• IKVM.Reflection.Emit Update, IKVM.Net
• Web-based mapping tool gets government data via API from OGDI: http://visualfusion.cloudapp.net, Federal Developer

Web stuff

• Declaring Security, IE Blog
• JSON Hijacking, Phil Haack
• The Weekly Source Code 43 - ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner, Scott Hanselman

Database stuff

• The Fall and Rise of Log Shipping, Tony Davis
• Use PowerShell to Backup All User Databases, Buck Woody
• The Hidden Costs of INSERT EXEC, Adam Machanic
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of Logon Trigger On All Servers – Solution, Pinal Dave
• Scalar UDFs wrapped in CHECK constraints are very slow and may fail for multirow updates, Alexander Kuznetsov
• Customizing the TCP Port for the Dedicated Administration Console (DAC), Jonathan Kehayias

Security stuff

• [VIDEO] Putting authentication in its place: claim-based identity, services and Geneva, V Bertocci

Agile stuff

• PMBOK, Agile & TOC: Planning the Project – Part 2, Estimates, Chad Albrecht
• Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries, Martin Fowler

Cloud Computing stuff

• Hidden Challenges of Virtualization - Part 4, Scott Key
• Azure Cloud Value Proposition on a Tight IT Budget, Joe Homnick

Career stuff

• First Ask Why, JJ Hunter
• The natural evolution from side project to full-time business, Matt
• 3 Ways Managers Create Energetic Workplaces, Rosa Say
• How to Eliminate Compulsive Internet Fiddling and How to Make Efficiency Infectious When Working With a Team, Celine Roque
• Recipe for A Great Remote Worker, Georgina Laidlaw
• All the Advice on Happiness You’ll Ever Need in One Post, Zen Habits
• How Wise Are You Being With Your Work Time?, Jean-Paul Boodhoo

Business stuff

• How to Find Your Perfect Client, Freelance Switch
• Summertime Steps To Success, Rich Whittle

Innovation stuff

• In Search of Innovation, Paul Sloane
• Operational Excellence - once an enemy, now a friend to innovation?, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – June 25, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for June 25, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009, Jason Gaylord
• Links (6/25/2009), Steve Pietrek
• The Morning Brew #376, Chris Alcock