94 and sunny today but hurricane Earl coming this weekend to the Boston area … bummer dude.

Starting the day with reading some good fundamentals stuff … today’s scripture is going to be from Jeff Richter’s CLR via C#

Other

• Think Twice Before You Map Entities To DTOs, Davy Brion
• How to Buy Your First Mac, Brent Ozar
• America's Fastest-Growing IT Services Company, Inc.com … a Boston area company
• Parameters: by value or by reference? Say what?, luisabreu
• Using AppDomains to make Non-Threadsafe code Threadsafe, Jeffrey Ricther
• Multi-tenancy: why you should care, Phil Wainewright
• Parallel Programming with Microsoft .Net Now Available!, Ade Miller
• How to debug SharePoint with .NET Reflector Pro, Laila
• Don't let this get away, Jon Skeet

Code to look at

• Unlimited Query string - ASP.NET, sambasivam elayaraja
• Handling Cookies with Redirects and HttpWebRequest and Avoid the Undocumented and Unsupported Functions, Joel Ivory Johnson
• Multiple file uploads with progress bar using classic ASP.NET and C#, zzzzz12345

From CodePlex Feed

• Extensions.js

Web

• Tags Everywhere! Sueetie Media Gallery Tagging Now Online, Dave Burke
• Adding Twitter authentication support to ASP.NET application, DigiMortal
• 25 Websites to Download Free Stock Photo for Your Projects, bspcn

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4 service release (September 2010), Tim Heuer
• Microsoft® Silverlight™ 4 Software Development Kit, Microsoft Downloads
• Great SL Competency Test Part 1 (Answer), Jesse Liberty

Mobile

• patterns & practices Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide, Mike Ormond

Database

• Building a Data Warehouse Part IV: Extraction, Transformation, and Load, Stephen Forte
• Be careful to grant dbCreator server role to the user, Uri Dimant

Cloud Computing

• Database Copy Command & Handling Asynchronous Execution in T-SQL in SQL Azure, cihangir
• Windows Azure SDK, Microsoft Downloads
• Amazon EC2 Price Reduction, AWS Blog

Career

• How to Improve Meeting When You Are Not in Charge, Esther
• 10 Requirements for Working with Clients in Other Countries, Freelance Switch
• The Truth About Real Estate, Jason Fried
• Top 10 Reasons For Entrepreneurial Success, Rich Whittle
• Stepping Fully Into My Purpose, Jonathan
• Knowing when to ask, Derick Bailey

Business

• Serial Entrepreneurs Share Their Words of Wisdom, Inc.com

Innovation

• Book Review: Intangible Capital, Jeffrey Phillips
• How Do You Get People to Buy into an Idea? Build a Prototype, Innovation in the News

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – September 1, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Link dump for September 1st, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #677, Chris Alcock

Other

• Race Conditions Don’t Exist, Udi Dahan
• Super Simple CQRS Example, Greg Young
• TeamCity 5.1.4, JetBrains
• Some .Net 4 System.IO.Path static methods you might not know about…, Greg Duncan
• Paraffin 3.5 – Now with Better Minor Upgrade Support and Zen of Paraffin, John Robbins
• .NET Reflector Support: How can I decompile the implementation of an entire class or struct?, Bart Read
• Applying Interface Segregation to Configuration Files, Steven Smith

Code to look at

• How to create an ASP.NET gridview AJAX-enabled and connected with WCF SOAP and REST webservices, Livio Francescucci
• WCF by Example - Chapter VI - WPF Client – Baseline, Enrique Albert
• Design Patterns - nuff said !, himanshuleo
• XML Literals: Reading an XML File II and XML Literals: Reading an XML File with a Namespace, Debora Kurata
• .NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension), Shivprasad Koirala
• C# Command Line Argument Parser, Jake Ginnivan

Web

• Troubleshooting IIS 7 network performance issues and TCP Chimney Offload, Receive Side Scaling, and Network Direct Memory Access, Steve Schofield
• New Sueetie Tag Control Sets the Stage for Tags Everywhere, Dave Burke
• Why Rails and Django are successful., Lazycoder

Database

• Building a Data Warehouse Part II: Building a new schema and Building a Data Warehouse Part III: Location of your data warehouse, Stephen Forte
• When does SQL Server decimal NOT convert to .Net decimal?, Mladen Prajdic
• Come and gone, Gail
• Inside the Optimizer: Plan Costing, Paul White NZ

Security

• Windows PowerShell DNS Server Blackhole Tool – Blacklist Domains, Darknet

Architecture

• The Design of the MSDN Hub Pages, JD Meier

Cloud Computing

• Introductory Special to the Windows Azure Platform, bartvagh
• Azure Development Fabric with HTTPS, Jeffrey Muir
• Open Letter Asks: Consider a Move to the Cloud with Microsoft and Windows Azure, Windows Azure
• VMworld 2010 Keynote, Day 2, Scott Lowe
• SQL Server to SQL Azure Synchronization using Sync Framework 2.1, Wayne Walter Berry
• New CloudFront Feature: Invalidation and FindTheBest - AWS in Action, AWS Blog

Career

• What My Law Career Taught Me about Freelance Writing, Barbara Diggs
• The first step is to start, Jason Z
• The New World of Work: Hyper-Connectivity and Work/Life Blur, Buck Woody
• Why Does the Fire Have to Die?, glen
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Remote Relationship Building 101, Georgina Laidlaw
• How to Become a Servant Leader, Josh Sipiro
• Dimdim 6.0: Enhanced Screensharing, 4-Way Video Chat, Simon Mackie
• Legal Agreements: Do You CYA?, Jason Finnerty
• Problem Solving Skills Different Than Intelligence, Idris Mootee

Business

• How to Manage Your Company's Brand, Brenda Porter-Rockwell

Innovation

• Innovation does not start with idea generation, Jeffrey Phillips
• Best Selling Books on Innovation & Leadership, Sanjay Dalal
• An Innovation Lesson from Dr. Seuss, Scott Anthony

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – August 31, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for August 31, 2010, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Morning Brew #676, Chris Alcock
• Daily Cloud Feed - Aug 31, 2010, Cloud Feed

Late night … waiting for the coffee to kick in this morning.

Other

• Education, drusellers
• I find you “Ultra!” - Ultra Find VS2010 Add-in (Think “Find in Files++”), Greg Duncan
• In The Search For More Revenue, Skype Connect Launches To Enterprise Customers, Leena Rao
• Pluralcast 23 : Visual Studio LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer, David Starr
• BDDCasts – Upgrading URLAgg to Rails 3 and Format Changes, Jeff Schoolcraft

Code to look at

• Audit Trail – Tracing Data Changes in Database, footcha2
• Web Server Information using .NET, Nineth Sense
• Create RESTful WCF Service API : Step By Step Guide, ashtosh k shukla

Web

• The LAB: Innovating Website Design with Attribute Dependency (August 2010), Drew Boyd
• The-Future-of-Content-Management-Systems, Gary Klingsheim
• Avoid Hidden Controls - ASP.NET, sambasivam elayaraja
• Google Chrome Shows Off What HTML5 Can Do With Arcade Fire Video, Erick Schonfeld
• Performance: Profiling how different web sites use browser subsystems, IE Blog
• Sueetie CMS Pages Are Now Searchable, Dave Burke
• IIS 7 performance tuning tricks, Salvador Gascon
• Consuming StackOverflow with WebMatrix and OData, Drewby
• Planning common membership provider for different authentication providers, DigiMortal

Database

• Building a Data Warehouse Part I: When to build your data warehouse, Stephen Forte

Agile

• A brief report on working smarter with Agile software development, bartvagh
• SQLAuthority News – A Monthly Round Up of SQLAuthority Blog Posts – August 2010, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• The Cost of a Row, Wayne Walter Berry
• Microsoft Government Cloud Application Center Connects Customers with Windows Azure Partner Solutions and Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Sinclair Schuller, Chief Executive Officer at Apprenda, Windows Azure
• Appian Anywhere: Authority to Operate, AWS Blog
• Will SQL Azure make Normalization popular again?, Davide Mauri
• Cloud Computing and Your Privacy, Microsoft Downloads

Career

• 4 Ways Leaders Can Overcome the Fear of Conflict, Mike Figliuolo
• 30 Days of Productivity and Getting Results the Agile Way, JD Meier
• Busting 3 Common Productivity Myths, Celine Roque
• Three Simple Steps to Improve Your Writing, Sharon J Cichelli
• How to express your true self at work, Penelope Trunk
• Know When to Stop Talking, Freelance Switch

Business

• Business Planning That Makes Sense For You, Marla Tabaka
• How to Evaluate Your Company’s Financial Position, Darren Dahl
• 10 Ways to Get More Sales From Existing Customers, Donna Fenn

Innovation

• Innovation Metrics – Part 1, Boris Pluskowski
• Do We Get Less Creative As We Age?, Stephen Shapiro
• Four Ways We Kill Innovation, Rebel Brown

Community

• Design Camp Boston – November 6th, Chris Bowen

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – August 30, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Aug 29, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Link dump for August 28th and Link dump for August 29th, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #675, Chris Alcock

First class meeting is tonight, looking forward to a new mix of students learning .NET.

Other

• Validating Code Rules in Visual Studio, Patrick Smacchia
• Windows 7- Virtual Desktops… the way to go (Part 2), Jas Dhalliwal
• Writing the perfect question and Code and data, Jon Skeet
• Case Studies in Good and Bad Tech Support, Kent
• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Use Wireless Hosted Networking to Share An Internet Connection Wirelessly, Paul Thurrott
• AMD Bulldozer Comments, jchang
• Patch for VS 2010 Find and Replace Dialog Growing, Scott Guthrie
• DirectCompute Lectures, Daniel Moth

Web

• August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Scott Guthrie
• View Source Tutorial: Content Site Using HTML5 Canvas + CSS3, Brad Neuberg

Database

• More info on Red Gate SQL Storage Compress 5.0, Aaron Bertrand

Cloud Computing

• Managing Service Levels in the Cloud, SaaS Week

Career

• Linkswitch #33: Photo Manipulation, Investing, WordPress SEO, Freelance Switch
• How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Get Organized, Jesse Liberty
• Day 29 – Find Your Arena for Your Best Results and Day 30 – Take Agile Results to the Next Level, JD
• Effective Pitch Helps you Stand Out, Jeff Cornwall

Business

• Founder Institute: How To Launch In 10 Steps With Less Than $2,000, Evelyn Rusli
• Bubble Blinders: The Untold Story of the Search Business Model, Ali Partovi
• Behind The Bidding War: The Real Reasons Why HP And Dell are So Desperate For 3Par, Steve Cheney

Other link blogs

• Daily Cloud Feed - Aug 28, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Weekly Link Post 159, Rhonda Tipton

Other

• Engineering BI (Or “On my PASS seminar”, prelude), Davide Mauri
• Book review: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture and Visual Studio: Microsoft should simplify producing quality software, Gunnar Peipman

Code to look at

• Divide a List into Equal Parts and Iterate Through the Properties of a Class, Deborah Kurata
• Getting elevated privileges on demand using C#, Alexander M Batishchev

Web

• Managing business object locks on application level, Gunnar Peipman
• Automated UI tests with Watin in ASP NET MVC, Robert Corvus
• GridView with Sort Arrows and Showing Header When Empty, Scott Hunter

Database

• OUTPUT Clause Saves The Day, Johnm

Agile

• Why Agile In The Enterprise Generally Doesn’t Work, Davy Brion

Cloud Computing

• Threat Modeling the Cloud, David Pallmann

Career

• Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age, Vivek Wadhwa
• International Freelancers Day: A Free Online Conference for Freelancers, Ed Gandia
• Day 28 – Find Your One Thing, JD
• What Works about Rework, Kevin Roberts

Innovation

• Beyond Social CRM – The Open Innovation Revolution, Hutch Carpenter
• The Four Drivers For Innovation, Dr. Lauchlan A K Mackinnon

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – August 28, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft

1 room painted and 1 to go, looking forward to the final result.

Got my EF 4 book delivered yesterday … or at least I think that’s what is in this package (can’t start it anytime soon so I haven’t even opened it yet). 

Other

• Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 and Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web, Scott Hanselman
• Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins), Coding Horror
• Lessons from Google Wave and REST vs. SOAP: Fighting Complexity of our own Choosing, Dar Obasanjo
• 3 Collaboration Tools Startups Pick for the Long Haul, Thursday Bram
• Windows Live Sync To Upgrade Storage To 5GB And Become Windows Live Mesh, Erick Schonfeld
• Compiler|Interpreter Warnings Are Important Learning Opportunities, Davy Brion
• Understanding Your Parallel Application with the Profiler and Scenario Markers, Ade Miller
• My new Kindle 3 review–comparing against Kindle 2, Tim Heuer

Code to look at

• Autmoated Versioning of Your Visual Studio build, suranjithe
• WebService Routing (Soap Router), Ravi Karia
• ASP.NET MVC – AuthorizeWithExemptionsAttribute, Maxim Novak
• Some Time on Reflection, Logic Child
• First Guide to MEF and Silverlight (Part–III), Kunal Chowdury
• Experimenting with enterprise level bus messaging, Sacha Barber

Web

• Find Info On Webkit Spec Extensions, Brad Neuberg
• Easy way to Implement Ajax using Jquery in Asp.net, Vishnu KB
• File uploads and MVC Controllers, Jason Grundy
• Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions, Scott Mitchell
• More on SVG, IE Blog
• Building my new blog with Orchard – Part 1, Bertrand Le Roy
• On the Road to iTextFileResult: Getting the Results from System.Web.MVC.WebFormViewEngine, Jay Kimble

Database

• SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Cloud security 101: Start cramming now, bartvagh

Career

• Interviewing Your Next Boss, Esther
• We’re Not Paid To Write Code, Phil Haack
• A Day in the Life of a Community Manager, Dawn Foster
• 10 Things Employees Want Most, Issie Lapowsky
• Working from Home: Both Awesome and Terrible!, Imran Ali
• Day 27 – Do Something Great, JD

Business

• How to Network to Increase Sales and How to Get Customer Referrals, Inc.com
• A Surprising Way to Re-energize Your Business, John Warrillow
• 5 Easy Ways to Kick-start Your Business Planning, Entrepreneur.com
• How to Find New Customers, Jason Finnerty
• Is Your Service Language Calibrated?, Paul Williams

Community

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Training and Upcoming speaking engagement: ASP.NET MVC 2, Silverlight Security at New England Code Camp 14, Robert Hurlbut

Other link blogs

• Daily Cloud Feed - Aug 26, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed - Aug 27, 2010, Cloud Feed

It’s Friday already? I think I need a redo on this week, it when too fast.

Besides having lots of projects around the house this weekend, I’m going to try and get a wrapper working for DotNetOpenAuth that will allow alternate view engines to use it … this will allow me to complete the NerdDinner view conversion.

Other

• The New World of Work: Unique Tasks, Buck Woody
• Programmer Superstitions, Jesse Liberty
• Underemployed Developers: Meet Project Phoenix, Bent Ozar
• The Downside Of Providing An API Through Extension Methods and First Experiences With RSpec/BDD, Davy Brion
• C#/.NET Five Little Wonders That Make Code Better (1 of 3), James Michael Hare
• Must I release everything when using Windsor?, Krzysztof Kozmic
• Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution, Sasha Goldshtein

Code to look at

• INI Reader / Writer Class for C#, VB.NET, and VBScript, Ludvik Jerabek
• Dynamic Decorator Pattern, Gary H Guo
• Reflection Studio - Part 1 - Introduction: Architecture and Design, chameau

Web

• 14 Resources for Free Fonts and Premium Fonts, Ken Shi
• Switching from Selenium 1.x to WebDriver/Selenium 2 and HtmlUnit, Ben Adderson
• Script Junkie, Somasegar
• PersistedSelection in Data Controls in .NET 4, Scott Hunter

Database

• Computed Columns - Index and Performance, Pinal Dave
• Sorting, Row Goals, and the TOP 100 Problem, Paul White NZ
• First Look : Red Gate SQL Storage Compress 5.0, Aaron Bertrand

Security

• DLL loading vulnerability, David Harley
• Cryptography if P = NP, Lance

Cloud Computing

• Creating a Bing Map Tile Server from Windows Azure, Wayne Walter Berry
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Juan Carlos Robles Navarro, Senior Software Engineer at AXA Seguros, Windows Azure
• Happy 4th Birthday Amazon EC2, AWS Blog
• Messenger Connect Beta .Net Library, Azzurro
• Using the ‘TrustServerCertificate’ Property with SQL Azure and Entity Framework, Wade Wegner

Career

• The Downside Of Working At Home, Chris Sells … yeah, get out and socialize,  good.
• On Switching Productivity Platforms, Glen
• Advice from the Winners of The Money Book, Amanda Hackwith

Business

• Sprout Social Debuts Social Media Management Platform For Businesses, Leena Rao
• Announcing My New Startup Project: The Most Ambitious Yet, Dharmesh Shah
• Why I'm Not Hiring, Clint Greenleaf

Innovation

• The Innovation gap between Executives and their teams, Jeffrey Phillips
• Does Your Innovation Pass the Deprivation Test?, Scott Anthony
• Do You Have the Courage to Fail?, Holly G Green
• Profit From Growth Markets, Not Core Markets, Adam Hartung

Community

• Beantown .NET User Group Meeting on 9/2/2010 – Chris Bowen on Windows Phone 7, Ben Day

Other link blogs

• Link dump for August 26th, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #674, Chris Alcock

We had a good geek dinner last night.  There were some interesting conversations on Azure, Sql Azure, MVC, Silverlight sprinkled with discussions between Ben and Adam about cocktails and high end foodie stuff.

Today is all about MVC view engines and getting a article draft complete.

Other

• Slides from BPC10 – Best Practices for Composite Applications, Kirk Allen Evans
• Strong naming an assembly without having the actual source code, marlongrech
• Open Source? There’s an annual award for that… “Welcome to the 2010 Open Source Awards”, Greg Duncan
• Behind the scenes at mvcConf: How we ran a free virtual conference, Jon Galloway
• Profilers, in-process side-by-side CLR instances, and a free test harness and SigParse uploaded to MSDN Code Gallery, Dave Br
• .NET Reflector Support: How do I integrate .NET Reflector with the Windows Explorer shell?, Bart Read
• Coding: Mutating parameters, Mark Needham

Code to look at

• Automatic ResX comment checking with MSBuild integration, Olivier Gaudefroy
• Implementing Typed Configuration, Sarafian
• Lazy(Of T) class in .Net Framework4.0, venugopalm
• Introducing Code Contracts - Part 2, Pete O’Hanlon

From CodePlex Feed

• C4F – Seismometer
• Entity Framework - Extended Entity Filter
• MVC Sample Project Demonstrating multiple techniques
• Windows Azure Storage Helper

Web

• 27 Billion Queries Served: OpenDNS Sees Record Traffic, John Biggs
• Fix: LinkButton Doesn’t Looked Disabled in ASP.NET 4, Ken Cox
• A quick primer on .NET web frameworks, Chad Myers
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Buffering, Matthew Podwysocki
• Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta2 (x86), Microsoft Downloads
• Automatically prepopulate fields for Insert in .NET 4, Scott Hunter

Database

• Don’t index on dates, Simon Sabin
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer, Aaron Bertrand
• SQL Server puzzle: Why are the SQL Agent jobs executing twice?, Linchi Shea
• SQL SERVER – Adding Column is Expensive – Limitation of the Views Part 2, Pinal Dave

Silverlight

• Dynamically Loading Silverlight Video Players using MEF, defwebserver, hisowa
• Code Sample Will Auto-Update Silverlight Out-of-Browser App, Markus Egger

Debugging

• Help! !clrstack is not showing any method names, Tess Ferrandez
• WinAppDbg – Python Instrumentation Scripting/Debugging Tool For Windows, Darknet

Cloud Computing

• Backing Up Your SQL Azure Database Using Database Copy, Wayne Walter Berry
• MomentumSI Partners on Private / Hybrid Cloud, Jeff

Career

• 4 Reasons to Track Time on Projects, Ed Gandia
• Mind Your OWN Business, Paul Williams
• Ever thought of being a writer?, Ted Neward
• What does a Technical Evangelist do?, Drewby
• Day 26 – Solve Problems with Skill, JD

Business

• 8 Questions You’ll Get When Selling Your Business, John Warrillow
• Startup Business Checklist 2010, Steven Smith
• Expense Tracking Tips, Jason Finnerty

Innovation

• Every Innovation Effort Needs a Klinger, Jeffrey Phillips
• Perception Matters, Mike Myatt
• ARCast.TV - David Chappell on Effective IT Innovation, bartvagh

Community

• The patterns & practices symposium Redmond 2010, gmelnik

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – August 25, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Link dump for August 25th, Jeff Schoolcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Aug 25, 2010, Cloud Feed
• The Morning Brew #673, Chris Alcock

This is a link for me to find the htmlecode.html page on my site that I put together a long time ago at: http://jasonhaley.com/files/htmlencode.html

I will encode/decode Html, Url, and Xml.  Helps to find a way to escape encodings.

Reminder: Geek Dinner tonight @ Boston Beer Works 6:30PM – 8:30PM.

Other

• Testing that EventHandlers were wired up correctly with NUnit and Rhino Mocks, Derik Whittaker
• System.Core in VS2010 Projects, Steven Smith
• Something I learned in the past two weeks, Vlad Mazek
• C# 4.0 Named Arguments – example usage, Marcin Obel
• “Getting Started with UML” DZone Refcard, Greg Duncan
• What Makes Entrepreneurs Tick, Jeff Cornwall … a little long (~10min), but worth it.
• WCF, NSubstitute, and Autofac, Jason Bock

Code to look at

• True inheritence with plain-old JavaScript, Kenneth Kasajian

From CodePlex Feed

• C# File Uploader with Progress Bar
• T4 Toolbox Example Templates for Business Classes and Repository

Data Access

• Fed Up With System.Data.Metadata.Edm.ObjectItemAssemblyLoader, Ken Cox

Database

• SSMS Tools Pack 1.9 is out!, Mladen Prajdic
• Script to list synonym contents, John Paul Cook
• Visual Studio Rangers publish guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Database projects, Richard Hundhausen
• SQL SERVER – Deos Order of Column in WHERE clause Matter?, Pinal Dave

Silverlight

• An easier way to unit test INotifyPropertyChanged in Silverlight/WPF, Ben Day
• First Guide to MEF and Silverlight (Part–II), Kunal Chowdhury

Debugging

• PSSCor2: Object Inspection Commands, Part 2 and Inspecting Local Root Lifetime, Sasha Goldshtein

Agile

• Foundation Series: Inside A Scrum Sprint, Scott Sehlhorst
• Read and Recommended: A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum, Stephen Forte

Cloud Computing

• Cloud computing offers speedy path to business innovation, report says, Innovation in the News
• Hybrid Azure applications using OData, Maarten Balliaw
• Using SQL Server Migration Assistant to Move Access Tables to SQL Azure and SQL Azure Service Update 4, Wayne Walter Berry
• Updated: AWS Security Whitepaper, AWS Blog
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/24/2010+, OakLeaf Systems
• SQL Azure Adds Support for Database Copy, Wade Wegner

Career

• The New World of Work: Swarms, Buck Woody
• How to Summit Life’s Everyday Mountains, Scott Dinsmore
• 5 Tips to Prevent Bad Debt and Freelance Podcasts, Jason Finnerty
• The Appreciation Gap, Esther
• Pragmatic Brainstorming for Productivity, Georgina Laidlaw
• 6 Tools for Monitoring Your Reputation, Inc.com
• Review: Power, Leigh Buchanan
• Meet Your Mentor, Entrepreneur.com
• Day 24 – Bounce Back with Skill and Day 25 – Fix Time, Flex Scope, JD
• 3 Steps to Make Your Vision Work for You, Marla Tabaka
• 30 Days of Inspiration Recap, Steve Pavlina

Business

• Who's Talking about Your Company Online?, April Joyner
• Going From Personal Projects to Collaboration With Chris Brogan, Thursday Bram

Innovation

• Duke study shows older workers are more likely to innovate than their under-35 counterparts and Book Review: The Open Innovation Revolution and How to tap into employee ideas? Try innovation communities, Innovation in the News
• Effective Mind: A promising new brainstorming program, Innovation Weblog
• Don't Be Fooled By The Mythology Of Innovation, C. Engdahl

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – August 24, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft’
• Link dump for August 24th, Jeff Schoolcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Aug 24, 2010, Cloud Feed
• The Morning Brew #672, Chris Alcock