.Net User Group Downtown Seattle?

I've now been in Seattle for 2.5 years and find myself in the same situation as I did 4.5 years ago (.Net User Group Downtown Boston?) ... here in the Seattle area the majority of the .Net community is out in Redmond (instead of Waltham).  The main user group is .Net Developers Association - which gets some great speakers and has regular meetings on the Microsoft Campus but driving out the Redmond rarely fits my schedule.  Unfortunately the guys that got the downtown Boston group going 4.5 years ago aren't around Seattle to help: Sam is in Jersey and Robert is still in the Boston area ... so I'm looking for other people in the downtown Seattle area who are interested starting a .Net user group downtown Seattle ... anyone interested?

As with any user group, I'm looking for people interested in being part of the leadership, people who just want to attend and corporations who are interested in sponsoring events, if you fit into any of these - please leave me a comment.

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Code to look at

• Tamper-proof and Obfuscate your Configuration Files, Sunny Ahuwanya

Web stuff

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• Extending WebKit’s Web Inspector a la Firebug and 2008: Awesome JavaScript, Dion Almaer

Database stuff

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Career stuff

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• 10 Tips for Staying Motivated All Year Long: Tip No. 1, Travis Wright
• 2008 Goals Recap, Steven Smith
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Business stuff

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Innovation stuff

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Community stuff

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Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for January 4, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• Dew Drop - January 4, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• Links of the week #66, David Vidmar
• Weekly Link Post 75, Rhonda Tipton
• Links (1/4/2009), Steve Pietrek
• The Morning Brew #257, Chris Alcock

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Interesting Finds: January 4, 2009

Other stuff

• Sueetie Blog Support. Engage!, Dave Burke
• 2008 Retrospective, Travis Illig
• Hands On Labs - Validation Application Block (4.1) - December 2008, Microsoft Downloads
• Phishing attacks know no boundaries... or limits, Ted Neward

Code to look at

• How to store and fetch binary data into a file stream column, Mika Wendelius

Database stuff

• Biggest secret feature of Management Studio, Simon Sabin

PowerShell stuff

• Diagnosing Here-Strings With PowerShell_ISE, PowerShell Team
• Modules in PowerShell V2, Thomas

Business stuff

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Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - January 3, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft

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Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009

Other stuff

• Obligatory Year End Review, Nicholas Allen
• Manifest View support for DLLs, Kenny Kerr
• Drive v1.0.4 with SubForms Support now Available, Dave Burke
• Live Framework SDK - Having a Single MeshObject and Software Transactional Memory (STM) Team Blog, Mike Taulty
• Rails for .NET Developers and the Alt.Net Podcast, James Avery
• Disable that annoying beep on Thinkpads when resuming from Sleep, John Lam ... sweet, I need to do this to my work laptop ...
• Back to Basics: Explore the Edge Cases or Date Math will Get You, Scott Hanselman
• Lucene.Net – Custom Synonym Analyzer and Lucene.Net - Text Analysis, Andrew Smith
• Single Instance WPF Application in .NET 3.x, Chris Pietschmann

Code to look at

• Showing separate Tooltip for each item in a ListBox - .NET 2.0 (C# code), Geek13

Web stuff

• Custom paging for Gridview, DataGrid, DataList and Repeater Control in ASP.Net with C#, Kuber Singh Manral
• Client-side Scripting 101 Part 1: The Reasons, Jay Kimble

Silverlight stuff

• Hosting Silverlight content on a CDN, Tim Heuer

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER - Time Delay While Running T-SQL Query - WAITFOR Introduction, Pinal Dave

PowerShell stuff

• A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions and How and Why to Use Splatting (passing [switch] parameters) and Get-Verb, PowerShell Team

Cloud Computing stuff

• Bits For Sale - The New Amazon S3 Requester Pays Model, AWS Blog

Career stuff

• Collaborating with Other Writers, Johanna
• 4 Online Freelancing Jobs You Should Approach with Caution, Celine Roque
• Six Reasons Your Web Startup Will Fail (But Don’t Let Them Stop You)., Robin Wauters
• My 2009 Resolutions, Keyvan Nayyeri
• 2008 Goals in Review, TechToolBlog

Business stuff

• Five Tech Trends to Watch in 2009, Nathan Eddy
• Setting Your Rates: Another Approach, Mike Gunderloy
• JournalSpace Drama: All Data Lost Without Backup, Company Deadpooled, Robin Wauters

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for January 2, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• Dew Drop - January 2, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft

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Interesting Finds: January 2, 2009

Other stuff

• Exceptions Dialog explained (or what does 'User-Unhandled' mean), Greg Gm
• LogParser Revisited, Brett
• How do I write a program that can be run either as a console or a GUI application?, Raymond Chen
• Testing Graph Algorithms With Optimal Solutions, Jonathan de Halleux
• Protection for the Data Journey, Johnm
• Sueetie Wiki Now Ready for Pickup: Some Assembly Required, Dave Burke
• Introducing Expression Blend to Silverlight 2 Developers, MSDN

Code to look at

• FDump - Dumping File Sectors Directly from Disk using Logical Offsets, Armen Hakobyan
• LogViewer - A simple Log listening utility, ashu fouzdar

Web stuff

• Tip #40: Did you know…How to scope master pages?, WebDev Tools
• AJAX enabled collapsible form section, Samir Bellouti

Silverlight stuff

• Silverlight 2.0 Compression Rate, Hannes Preishuber

Database stuff

• Reproducing deadlocks involving only one table, Alexander Kuznetsov
• SQL SERVER - 2008 - 2005 - Find Longest Running Query - TSQL, Pinal Dave

PowerShell stuff

• PowerShell: One Year Later, John Robbins

Architecture stuff

• Grady Booch on the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0, JD Meier

Cloud Computing stuff

• Windows Azure Storage - Queues [0]! and Windows Azure Logs! and The Enterprise of the Future, David Lem

Career stuff

• My 2009 Resolutions, PowerShell Team
• Things I’ve Learned and Loved in 2008, Tim Ferriss
• 2008 In Review, James Avery
• Lessons Learned in 2008 and Eight Big Trends, JD Meier
• Top 10 New Year's Resolutions, AWS Blog

Business stuff

• Multiple Streams of Income for Digital Nomads, Freelance Switch
• If You Are Really, Really Desperate For Cash, These Guys Will Give You $3k, Robin Wauters

Community stuff

• ALT.NET Seattle 2009 is happening., Glenn Block

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for December 31, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• Dew Drop - January 1, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• The Morning Brew #256, Chris Alcock

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Interesting Finds: January 1, 2009

Happy New Year!

Other stuff

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• The Morning Brew #255 - 2008 In Review, Chris Alcock
• A year in review, The 31 best blog posts on SQLBlog for 2008, Denis Gobo
• A Gift of Script for 2009: Who is Active, Redux, Adam Machanic
• Turning Data Into Code With Expressions, trasa
• Performance Toolkit Presentation, dougste
• My Best Blog Posts in 2008, Keyvan Nayyeri
• 2008 – The Year in Review, Craig Andera

Code to look at

• Extending EDM Entities using Extension Methods, Michael

Web stuff

• JavaScript and jQuery: Web Apps as Highly Interactive as Desktop Apps, Riccardo Govoni

Silverlight stuff

• Tour around Silverlight Contrib, Justin Angel

Career stuff

• Maintaining Privacy as an Online Freelancer, Celine Roque

Other link blogs

• 2008 year-end link clearance, Raymond Chen
• Visual Studio Links #94, Darren Stokes

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Interesting Finds: December 31, 2008

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• Dynamically Add/Edit Environment variables of Remote process, Sarath
• Deadlock avoidance when using redirected StandardInput, StandardOutput and StandardError with System.Diagnostics.Process, Greg Duncan
• Writing a DisjointSet in C# with the help of Code Contracts and Pex., Johanathan de Halleux
• Interoperability between a Java Virtual Machine and the CLR, Member 3363765
• Not Your Typical Top Ten Of 2008 Post, Phil Haack
• MSchema: An Example - Part 3, Shawn Wildermuth
• Failover Cluster Step-by-Step Guide - Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster, Microsoft Downloads
• How to create and run Compact Framework unit tests with VS2008 and TestDriven.NET, Daniel Cazzulino
• Creating a windows service in .Net, Greg Robinson
• Reflections on coding style, Kirill Osenkov

Web stuff

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• Some notes about ASP.NET MVC RC & the MVC Design Gallery, Robert Muehsig
• UniversalComet: Make any web page a Comet end point and Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard, Dion Almaer

Database stuff

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• Did You Know? You, too, can be a Geek!, Kalen Delaney

PowerShell stuff

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• Regular Expressions and PowerShell Part 2, The PowerShell Guy

Security stuff

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• Free Download: Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista, Michael Howard

Cloud Computing stuff

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Career stuff

• What Motivates You at Work?, Christine
• 3 Free Resources for Freelance Writers, Darrel Etherington
• Stakeholders in a Barrel, Scott Sehlhorst

Business stuff

• Does Your Web Business Include Recurring Revenues?, Aliza Sherman

Innovation stuff

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• What Is Your Ramp-Up Potential?, Gabor George Burt

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - December 30, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for December 30, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Morning Brew #254, Chris Alcock

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Interesting Finds: December 30, 2008

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• I'm sorry, what did you say?, Michael
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• Online Courses, Wes
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• The Injected Context, Jarod Ferguson
• MSchema: An Example - Part 2, Shawn Wildermuth

Code to look at

• Cross Domain/Platform Authentication and Data Transfer, Tomz_KV
• Call tree for C# programs, Louis T Klauder Jr

Web stuff

• Creating buttons or tabs using CSS and XHTML, Michael
• Why are scripts slow to load in Firefox when using Visual Studio’s built-in development Web server (a.k.a. Cassini)?, Bertrand Le Roy

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER - 2008 - Certification Path Complete Download PDF, Pinal Dave
• Season's Greetings!, Kalen Delaney
• SQL Server Management Studio 2008 suggests missing indexes with actual execution plan, Mladen Prajdic
• Performance impact: file fragmentation and SAN – Part V, Linchi Shea
• SQL Server full text indexing of HTML content, Ryan Rinaldi
• A response to Linchi Shea's excellent posts on fragmentation, James Luetkehoelter

Debugging stuff

• Crash2Hang and What Happened to Debugging Books?, Dmitry Vostokov

PowerShell stuff

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• Regular Expressions and PowerShell Part 1, The PowerShell Guy

Architecture stuff

• Building Super-Scalable Web Systems with REST, Udi Dahan

Career stuff

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• Reboot, Wes
• Setting Up a Killer Demo, Buck Woody
• I Love To Code, Phil Haack
• Ending the Year Right, Mike Gunderloy
• Full-time versus Consulting, Michael
• Getting Through Freelance Rejection, Freelance Switch
• Recognition, Confidence and Credibility, Adam Goucher

Business stuff

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• 69 Questions to Ask to Review Your Blog, Darren Rowse

Innovation stuff

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• New continuous innovation model helps organizations understand how to make innovation sustainable and Selling top management on innovation: Are you ready to handle objections?, Innovation Weblog
• We just aren't very creative, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for December 29, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• Visual Studio Links #93, Darren Stokes
• Dew Drop - December 29, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• The Morning Brew #253, Chris Alcock

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Interesting Finds: December 29, 2008

Other stuff

• New Sueetie Wiki Setup Doc Roundup, Dave Burke
• Tired Of Working With Big Visual Studio Solutions? and Junior Vs Senior Developers? and What Would You Choose For New .NET Web Development?, Davy Brion
• CPOW errata and code samples, Joe Duffy
• File and Directory Path help from the man who brought us NDepend, Greg Duncan
• MSchema: An Example - Part 1, Shawn Wildermuth
• Programming: Love It or Leave It, Jeff Attwood
• Book Review: Pragmatic Thinking & Learning, Jim Holmes
• Software Modeling, Alfred Thompson

Code to look at

• Exploring a Model-View-ViewModel Application; WPF Password Manager, Cipher Text, Karl Shifflett

Web stuff

• Default script and style language, Mads Kristensen
• My Interview on High on Coding About ASP.NET MVC, Keyvan Nayyeri
• Fight 404 errors with ASP.NET Routing, avsol
• Tip #38: Did you know... How to use Failed Request Tracing to trace Rewrite Rules?, WebDevTools
• How to setup and use FTP User Isolation with Active Directory by Steve Schofield, Steve Schofield
• Understanding the jQuery Object returned from a jQuery Selector Query, Rick Strahl
• Eeking out performance in script loading, Dion Almaer

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER - Fix : Msg 15151, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 Cannot drop the login ‘test’, because it does not exist or you do not have permission, Pinal Dave
• Database Comparator, Amir Mehrabi J.

PowerShell stuff

• find-to-set-alias.ps1, Brad Wilson

Cloud Computing stuff

• Windows Azure - Final Updates to PhotoStore App!, David Lem

Career stuff

• Welcoming 2009, Rajesh Setty
• Why Aren’t You More Successful?, Stephen Shapiro

Innovation stuff

• Blue Ocean Strategy Path 4: Look Across Complementary Products and Service Offerings, Gabor George Burt

Other link blogs

• Weekly Link Post 74, Rhonda Tipton
• Links (12/28/2008), Steve Pietrek
• Dew Drop - Weekend Edition - December 27-28, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• Links for 2008-12-28 [del.icio.us], afongen
• Links for 2008-12-28 [del.icio.us], Jeff Schoolcraft
• Links of the Week #65, David Vidmar
• The Morning Brew #252, Chris Alcock

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Interesting Finds: December 28, 2008

Other stuff

• More Reasons to Love CodeMash: Cool Community Things, Jim Holmes
• The Myth of the Open Source Business Model, Dare Obasanjo
• I won't take electricity for granted anymore - Power's out and it's cold outside, Greg Hughes
• My Bests of 2008, Keyvan Nayyeri
• Thinking only of the Junior Developer, Chris Brandsma
• Getting To My Sample Code!, David Lem
• Project Gummy Bear feeds Sueetie Progress, Dave Burke

Code to look at

• Using ternary DAGs for spelling correction, Peter Kankowski

Web stuff

• New site theme on www.iislogs.com, lessons learned from deployment., Steve Schofield
• Bootstrapping thumbnails for photo apps, Dave Winer

Security stuff

• Federating with Live ID (using the Access Control Service), leastprivilege.com

Cloud Computing stuff

• ASP.NET Podcast Show #133 - Windows Azure Table Storage - video and Some interesting things I am finding about Windows Azure and ASP.NET Providers with Windows Azure, Wallace McClure

Career stuff

• Balancing Part Time Freelancing with a Full Time Job, Freelance Switch

Business stuff

• Get Inspiration from Blog Comments When Writing your Next Post, Darren Rowse

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for December 27, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• My Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2008, Rhonda Tipton

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Interesting Finds: December 27, 2008

Other stuff

• Updated Visual Studio Team System 2008 Trial VPC images available, Jeff Beehler
• Future of Testing from James Whittaker, Nihit Kaul
• My Software Is Being Pirated, Jeff Atwood
• Online Video Streaming – Not quite there yet, Rich Strahl

Code to look at

• How to Show Messenger-Like Popups Using AJAX, Kevin Lussier, Sriram 2014345

Web stuff

• Using JsonResult in ASP.NET MVC AJAX, Keyvan Nayyeri
• Use AppCMD to change Request Filtering extensions, Steve Schofield

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER - Add Any User to SysAdmin Role - Add Users to System Roles, Pinal Dave
• GUID versus Number as Primary Key? Why not use "Numerical GUID"?, Jerry Wang

Cloud Computing stuff

• Windows Azure - End to End App Dev Journal, David Lem

Career stuff

• It Was A Pretty Good Year, Davy Brion

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - December 26, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft

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Interesting Finds: December 26, 2008

Other stuff

• Display Tokens & Geneva, leastprivilege.com
• Testing REST Services, Nicholas Allen

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER - Fix : Error : Msg 15151, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Cannot alter the login ’sa’, because it does not exist or you do not have permission, Pinal Dave

PowerShell stuff

• Enums, Enum values and PowerShell, Thomas

Security stuff

• Become a Security Expert with this Industry-Leading Process, Microsoft Architecture Center

Cloud Computing stuff

• Microsoft's Cloud Tax, George Reese

Career stuff

• How to Press the Reset Button On Your Life, Zen Habits
• Making A List And Checking It Twice: An End-Of-Year Checklist, Rich

Business stuff

• What’s A Micro Biz?, Rich

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - Xmas Edition - December 24-25, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft

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Interesting Finds: December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas!

Other stuff

• Using the EntLib Validation Block with WPF Part 1: Attribute Based Validation, Ade Miller
• Spork – Zork via “M” and Visual Studio Team System & TFS VPCs Updated – Now all the updates, Power Tools, SP’s, 12/31/2009 expiration AND Hyper-V versions!, Greg Duncan
• Dress The Part: Creating Simple, Attractive Logos for Non-Designers, Darrel Etherington
• Reference and Value Types in C#, logic child
• The Myth of Urban Loneliness, Ben Casnocha
• How to Automatically Delete Autorun Virus from Flashdrive & Immunize it??, Mickeel
• Using ExportProvider to customize container behavior Part I, Glenn Block

Code to look at

• Displaying Attachments with Data View Web part Part 2, Drasko Popovic
• A Tool to Strip Zips of Unwanted Files before Submitting to CodeProject - Version 2, Henry Minute
• Using SqlBulkCopy with ASP.Net 2.0, Amandeep Singh Bhullar

Web stuff

• Use Appcmd to set IIS compression level, Steve Schofield

PowerShell stuff

• PowerShell v2 Pipelining in 73 (make that 53) Characters and Resolve-ShortcutFile and Get-CommandPlugin and Get-MarkupTag and Merry Christmas From PowerShell: The CodeDownloader Module, PowerShell Team

Cloud Computing stuff

• 100% on Amazon Web Services: Soocial.com, AWS Blog
• ASP.NET Podcast Show #132 - Windows Azure Blob Storage - video, Wallace McClure
• Windows into Azure, the Azure Storage Viewer, Greg Duncan

Business stuff

• Top 5 Mistakes in Forming Your Corporation, Entrepreneur.com

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Interesting Finds: December 24, 2008

Other stuff

• Why Do So Many Programmers Use One Character Index Variables, Alfred Thompson
• AWS Links - Wednesday, December 23, 2008, AWS Blog
• .NET Framework Universe 4, Papenoo pa
• Purge Subversion Files, Jean-Paul Boodhoo
• Google Stops Research Datasets Program, Philipp Lenssen
• Updated: Yule Log Visualization for Windows Media Player 11/Vista/XP, Sean Alexander
• About Scrum – The Online Resource About Project Management, Keyvan Nayyeri
• LINQ: Enabling or Entangling?, Kevin Kline
• LINQ to SQL: Does it have much of a future?, Greg Low
• Why we have CORPROF_E_UNSUPPORTED_CALL_SEQUENCE, David Broman
• Gotta Love A Clean Development Environment, Davy Brion
• The Visual Studio Install Process for the Whole Enchilada, David Starr

Web stuff

• Filter Your RSS Feeds with Yahoo Pipes, Dawn Foster
• Dynamic Image Generator -Part 3 - Button Generator, Michael
• UA Profiler Improves, Dion Almaer

Database stuff

• Security Warning for sp_replwritetovarbin, Buck Woody
• More updates for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3, Aaron Bertrand
• SQL SERVER - DISABLE and ENABLE user SA, Pinal Dave

Debugging stuff

• Smalltalk Daily 12/23/08: A Debugging Example, James Roberston
• How to Use and Understand the Windows console debugger, logic child
• OllyDbg 2.0 beta, Peter Kankowski
• Debug It! and Debugged!, Dmitry Vostokov

Career stuff

• 10 New Year's Resolutions, Entrepreneur.com
• Holiday Job-Hunting, Keith Ferrazzi

Business stuff

• This Festivus, an Airing of My Top 5 Grievances About Work, Christine
• Microsoft Embraces Web With Hosted Services, Elizabeth Montalbano
• The American Dream: Not Just For Dreamers Anymore, Rich

Innovation stuff

• Innovating in the Great Disruption, Scott Anthony
• Unique innovation strategy: Swap employees to spur learning, innovation, Innovation Weblog

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for December 23, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• Dew Drop - December 23, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• The Morning Brew #251, Chris Alcock
• Visual Studio Links #92, Darren Stokes

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Interesting Finds: December 23, 2008

Other stuff

• Limited Time Free Book Offer, Nicholas Allen
• Refining Dynamic, Jason Bock
• Convert XElement to XmlNode (and Convert XmlNode to XElement), Eric White
• Saving the Find Results, Darren Stokes
• Crashing your Process with Timers, Tomas Restrepo
• Parsing relative and absolute dates with MGrammar, Chris Sells
• The Unrealistic Deadline Anti-Pattern, Davy Brion

Code to look at

• Learn How to Find GPS Location on Any SmartPhone, and Then Make it Relevant, Acoustic
• Conservative Garbage Collector for C, Yasin Hinislioglu

Web stuff

• DevDinnerOnDemand: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC, Federal Dev
• jQuery 1.3 beta: Sizzling and feature testing, Dion Almaer
• ASP.NET Membership Provider, D Carver
• Tip #36: Did you know... How to manage pilot or beta program for your site using Application Request Routing in IIS7.0?, WebDev Tools
• Book review: “Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks” by Wroblewski, Dietrich Kappe
• Up with Markdown as an Authoring format (or sample code for an IIS7 Markdown Handler), Saveen Reddy

Silverlight stuff

• Switching XAP Files on the Client Side, Brant Likes

Database stuff

• Performance impact: file fragmentation and SAN – Part IV, Linchi Shea
• Microsoft Warns of Serious MS-SQL 2000 & 2005 Vulnerability, Darknet

Debugging stuff

• Getting good dumps when an exception is thrown, Rich Byers

PowerShell stuff

• PowerShell and Clustering in Server 2008 R2, Thomas
• Advanced Functions and Test-LeapYear.ps1, PowerShell Team

Career stuff

• What Will It Take to Be a Web Worker in 2009?, Celine Roque
• Michael Lewis and This American Life on Financial Meltdown, Ben Casnocha
• Where Is Your Community?, Dawn Foster
• 20 Amazing and Essential Non-fiction Books to Enrich Your Library, Zen Habits

Business stuff

• Business and IT Strategy Briefing Datasheet, Microsoft Downloads
• Logo-Concepts, Sharon Housley
• How to Secure an Advertiser for Your Blog, Darren Rowse

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - December 22, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• Visual Studio Links #91, Darren Stokes
• LINKBLOG for December 22, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Morning Brew #250, Chris Alcock
• Flagged Links #23, Jason Bock

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Interesting Finds: December 22, 2008

Other stuff

• TFS Branching Guide 2.0 published, Jeff Beehler
• DynamicProxies, C# 4.0 Keywords, and Cecil: A Vision, Jason Bock
• Testing out the latest Windows Live Writer, Robert Scoble
• If you could recommend only one book (on graphic design), Presentation Zen
• Paraffin 3.0 – Now with Full WiX 3.0 Support, John Robbins
• Series of Static Analysis Posts, Mark Curphey
• Merry Christmas: StickyNotes Professional Edition is OUT!!, Pablo Galiano
• Addressing the Crisis in Computer Science Certification, cstephenson

Code to look at

• Cross-platform C++ template solution for drawing GPS data for a third-party GIS, Boris Kolesnikov

Reflector stuff

• 5.0.0.0 Release of FileGenerator, Jason Bock

Web stuff

• jQuery Gestures, Dion Almaer

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER - Find Next Running Time of Scheduled Job Using T-SQL, Pinal Dave

Security stuff

• DNSChanger 2.0, xmachine
• MultiInjector v0.3 Released - Automatic SQL Injection and Defacement Tool, Darknet

Cloud Computing stuff

• Microsoft Cloud Data Options, Scott Watermasysk

Career stuff

• Staying Positive in a Negative Workplace, Rosa Say
• Office Zen: Audio Tips on Focusing on One Task at a Time, Zen Habits
• Why Projects Don’t Need Specialists, johanna

Business stuff

• Obama Taps New SBA Head, Rich

Community stuff

• Community Megaphone - To discover or promote MS Technology Community Events, Julia Lerman

Other link blogs

• Flagged Links #22, Jason Bock
• LINKBLOG for December 21, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• Weekly Link Post 73, Rhonda Tipton
• Links (12/21/2008), Steve Pietrek
• The Morning Brew #249, Chris Alcock
• Links for 2008-12-21 [del.icio.us], afongen

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Interesting Finds: December 21, 2008

Other stuff

• Serve Customized .ISO files from ASP.NET, festive_ken
• The Sueetie idea is Sweet! The “…candy store for .NET Open Source Online Community Development” and “Data Structures and Algorithms” free eBook updated and Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance v2 Released, Greg Duncan
• Migrating a Versionable ASMX Web Service to WCF, Jan Van Ryswyck
• C# Style Attributes in Script#/Javascript, Jay Kimble
• Sueetie: The First 48 Hours and the Next Two Weeks, Dave Burke
• How to Recognise Code Constructs (from quite a long way away), Robert Pickering
• The Resolvable, Davy Brion

Code to look at

• Persistent String Parser, John Simmons

Web stuff

• Step-by-Step SQL Mirroring the ASPState Database, T MacKachlan

Database stuff

• Geek City: Splitting a page into multiple pages, Kalen Delaney
• SQLAuthority News - SQL Server Related Downloads from Microsoft, Pinal Dave
• For better precision cast decimals before calculations, Alexander Kuznetsov

PowerShell stuff

• PowerShell Scripts Blog now features on PowerShell.com, Thomas

Architecture stuff

• Featured in the Microsoft Architecture Journal, Udi Dahan

Business stuff

• Fear Kills Businesses, Dead, Brian Solis
• Managing Cash Effectively with Pools of Funds, Jeff Cornwall

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - Weekend Edition - December 20-21, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft

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Interesting Finds: December 20, 2008

Other stuff

• The Anti-Architect, Bill Simser
• Cleaning up the VS Environment when things go wrong, Darren Stokes
• Free eBook - Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples, Alvin Ashcraft
• Top Ten of 2008, Mark Levison
• I (Heart) WinDev: WPF Application Quality Guide v0.4, John Bristowe
• Burden Butcher Offers Project Management for Freelancers, Mike Gunderloy

Web stuff

• A Little Holiday Love From The ASP.NET MVC Team, Phil Haack

Database stuff

• Great new book for beginners: T-SQL Fundamentals, Alexander Kuznetsov

PowerShell stuff

• Step up your FOREACH Game, PowerShell Team

Cloud Computing stuff

• Windows Azure Storage - Exploring Blobs!, David Lem
• New Blog on Cloud Computing, jeff

SOA stuff

• SOAPatterns.org - A Community Site Dedicated to SOA Patterns (by Thomas Erl), The SOA Magazine

Career stuff

• 5 Ways to Keep Your Competitive Edge, Celine Roque
• Planning for Next Year: Your Professional Development Plan, Freelance Switch

Innovation stuff

• Is IDEO Still the King of Innovation?, Thiago

Community stuff

• 2008 Winter Northeast Roadshow - Resources and Summary, Chris Bowen

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - December 19, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for December 19, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• Visual Studio Links #90, Darren Stokes

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Interesting Finds: December 19, 2008

Other stuff

• Updating Exception Handling in FileGenerator, Jason Bock
• Did you know… How to optimize Visual Studio for multi-monitors? - #381 and Did you know that today’s tip on msinfo32.exe ends the series? -#382, Sara Ford
• Steve Dunn's Code Formatter for Windows Live Writer Breaks New Live Writer Version, Thomas
• The Death of System.DateTime?, Omer van Kloeten
• Why there is no spell checking in Design view?, Mikhail Arkhipov
• Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables (Beth Massi), VB Team
• Mono brings Plastic's Windows.Forms UI to Linux and MacOS, Miguel de Icaza
• This could be big. Sueetie is online!, Dave Burke
• String Extraction, Rick Strahl

Code to look at

• (Very) Tentative Steps with the Live Framework SDK, Mike Taulty

Web stuff

• HTML to JavaScript HTML DOM Converter and MSBuild Script to Compress All JavaScript Files in a Project, Omer van Kloeten

Silverlight stuff

• How to Implement MergedDictionaries for the ResourceDictionary in Silverlight 2, Juergen Baeurle

Database stuff

• SQL Server Management Studio Startup Options, Buck Woody

PowerShell stuff

• get-hash, Tomas Restrepo

Debugging stuff

• Debugging WPF Data Binding, Ade Miller

Career stuff

• 5 Key Characteristics Of Successful Entrepreneur, Rich
• Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive, Jeff Atwood

Business stuff

• The benefits of a monthly recurring revenue model in tough economic times, Jason
• Thriving in the Downturn: 11 Benefits of a Recession, SandHill.com
• A Good Time to Pull the Trigger?, Jeff Cornwall
• Self-Employed People Finding It Harder To Get Mortgages, Rich

Innovation stuff

• The InnoCentive Insider: Making the Connection, Connie French

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - December 18, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• Visual Studio Links #89, Darren Stokes
• Links (12/18/2008), Steve Pietrek
• The Morning Brew #248, Chris Alcock

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Interesting Finds: December 18, 2008

Snowing in Seattle ...

Other stuff

• Opinionated Code, Jason Bock
• More free, full and complete, eBooks from Microsoft (Limited time only), Greg Duncan
• Object oriented programming vs. class oriented programming, Lazycoder
• Did you know… There is an Open Source command in Visual Studio? - #380, Sara Ford
• AcademicRotation, Martin Fowler
• Using XAML serialization in WCF 4.0, Jesus Rodriguez
• Rich UI Apps Should Not Be Considered Harmful, Dion Almaer
• 10 rules for making good design, Presentation Zen

Web stuff

• Oxite: Putting Your Design Front and Center, Joshua Allen
• Performance optimization of ASP.NET applications on client-side, postmodernist
• (Re) Introducing AJAX For ASP.NET w/ Prototype, thund3rstruck
• BlogEngine.NET Christmas update, Mads Kristensen
• DLINK: automatic link annotation and FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension, Dion Almaer

Database stuff

• More info on SQL Server 2005 SP3 + Cumulative Updates, Aaron Bertrand
• LINQ to SQL - Enabling Fulltext searching, Simon Sabin

PowerShell stuff

• Online Syntax Highlighting for Powershell, Thomas
• PowerShell find-to-set-alias, Harry Pierson
• PowerShell For Developers - Presentation, Joel Bennett

Security stuff

• sqlmap 0.6.3 Released - Automatic SQL Injection Tool, Darknet

Cloud Computing stuff

• Amazon SimpleDB - Now With Select, AWS Blog

Career stuff

• Personal Development Books, JD Meier
• 9 Tips for Brand New Freelancers, Freelance Switch

Business sutff

• Recession Cost-Cutting No-Nos, Entrepreneur.com

Innovation stuff

• Are You on the "Buy" Side or "Sell" Side of Innovation?, Dominic Basulto
• Continuous Innovation..., Paul Williams

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – December 17, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• AWS Links - Wednesday, December 17, 2008, AWS Blog
• LINKBLOG for December 17, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Morning Brew #247, Chris Alcock

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Interesting Finds: December 17, 2008

Other stuff

• Use the Sysinternals Utilities? The EULA bug dialog you? Then try this…, Greg Duncan
• An Open-Source .NET Decompiler, Jason Bock
• Windows Live Writer and Messenger – Working on Server 2008!, Thomas
• Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know, Stephen Walther
• Storing Configuration Settings Behind a WCF Service, Travis Illig
• Measure Performance With Stopwatch, Alois Kraus
• ASP.NET MVC Samples, Oxite, and Community, Scott Hanselman
• Configurable PrincipalPermission attribute, Lars Wilhelmsen

Code to look at

• Data Access Layer Auto Generation Library, Anoop Unnikrishnan
• Ajax Photo Album Project, Ekaterina Kostrioukova

Web stuff

• Interfaces in JavaScript and JavaScript Raster Bar Effect, Dion Almaer
• jQuery in ASP.NET Talk at PDC and jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX Demo Code, Stephen Walther
• Tip #35: Did you know…How to add Intellisense from script libraries for JS files?, WebDevTools

Database stuff

• How to track database growth across multiple SQL Server instances, Tara Kizer
• The phases of database design, Dr Sql

PowerShell stuff

• PowerShell - Managing Feature Delegation in IIS7, JohanS
• PowerShell V2 CTP3 teaser : list PST files on a list of computers using background jobs, The PowerShell Guy
• Custom IComparers in PowerShell (and Add-Type for v1), Joel Bennett

Cloud Computing stuff

• Notes from building EC2 Images, Adam Goucher
• 5 simple steps to get going with Windows Azure development, pdestoop

Career stuff

• What To Do Next -- For Your Company and Your Career, Know It All
• Me on Happiness, Ben Casnocha
• Beat the Holiday or Financial Blues: 9 Tips for Making Yourself Happier in the Next 30 Minutes, Zen Habits

Business stuff

• The Lounge - One Year Later, James Avery
• Broken Business Models, Richard Veryard

Innovation stuff

• Innovation strategies for the recession: Redouble your focus on customer needs, Innovation Weblog
• The Great Disruption, Scott Anthony
• Millenial Generation and Innovation, Thiago
• Thought Leadership… The Key To Innovation, The Innovation Insider

Community stuff

• SOA Conference in the Seattle Area, Buck Woody

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for December 16, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• Dew Drop - December 16, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• The Morning Brew #246, Chris Alcock
• Flagged Links #21, Jason Bock

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Interesting Finds: December 16, 2008 ... Part 2

Had to take off early yesterday morning ...

Other stuff

• What is IUpdatable? Why should I care?, Andrew Conrad
• Final Release of InfoCardSelector on Codeplex, LeastPrivilege.com
• Decompiler CodeCamp and The Thing About ExpressionVisitor, JB Evain ... that would have be cool to go to
• Did you know… You can go directly to the installed code samples from within Visual Studio? - #379, Sara Ford
• Slideshare Add-in for PowerPoint 2007, Mike Ormond
• Service Extension Model, Nicholas Allen
• Five Minute Guide to Live Framework – What is it and why should you care in eight pages…, Greg Duncan

Code to look at

• Asynchonous data loading and data binding with Windows Forms, Ashu Fouzdar

Web stuff

• Webvaluer: Imperfect Site Valuations, but Still Interesting, Samuel Dean

Architecture stuff

• Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Final Release, JD Meier

SOA stuff

• ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP now available for BizTalk Server 2009, Hernan DL

Cloud Computing stuff

• Windows Azure - What Happens in the Data Center?, David Lem

Career stuff

• Top ten sites where developers hang out, Tim Anderson

Innovation stuff

• Innovation Via Biomimicry – What You Said, James Todhunter

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #245, Chris Alcock
• Flagged Links #20, Jason Bock

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Interesting Finds: December 16, 2008

Other stuff

• What's a Manager to Do?, Esther Derby
• Zapproved Opens Doors to Help You With Approvals, Aliza Sherman
• ANTS Profiler 4, Exchange Server Archiver, and testing at Red Gate, Robert Chipperfield
• BizTalk 2009 thoughts..., Scott Colestock
• Debugging UI, Aaron Lerch
• Cecil.Decompiler, Jb Evain
• Loops, Conversions and Lambdas, Patrick Steele
• Removing the .SVC Extension from WCF REST URLs, Rick Strahl

Web stuff

• The Cloud Player: Web-based iTunes using jQuery, Ben Galbraith
• Redirect Routes and other Fun With Routing And Lambdas, Phil Haack

Database stuff

• Some interesting affects of Table Partitioning, ktegels
• Did You Know? There is no such thing as A SQL Server, Kalen Delaney
• SQL SERVER - Find Collation of Database and Table Column Using T-SQL, Pinal Dave

PowerShell stuff

• Powershell How-To - Part 1, Rajib Bahar
• .NET and PowerShell, Thomas
• Mount-SpecialFolders.ps1, PowerShell Team

Agile stuff

• How my team does agile, Tom Hollander

Career stuff

• Two Resources for Web Workers: Finding Jobs and Professional Development, Darrell Etherington

Business stuff

• Increase Your Christmas Earnings with the Amazon Associates Program, Darren Rowse

Innovation stuff

• Innovation Articles I am Reading, Stephen Shapiro
• Hard Times Can Dri