Interesting Finds: July 22, 2008

Other stuff
Ade Miller - No Slow Unit Tests with xUnit.net
Junfeng Zhang - Managed ThreadPool vs Win32 ThreadPool (pre-Vista)
Mark Russinovich - Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory
Dan Hounshell - I like VisualSVN
Owen654321 - Design and Implementation of an Attribute-Driven, Caching Data Abstraction Layer
Timmy Kokke - Using converters to aggregate a list in ListView
Jim Holmes - Paying off Technical Debt Versus Completing Features
Sara Ford - Did you know… You can use IntelliSense to verify your breakpoint name in the New Breakpoint window - #264
David Cumps - Design Patterns - Template Method Pattern
Nicholas Allen - Standards Guide

Web stuff
Tom - ASP.NET Tips: Loading a DLL out of the bin directory
Ben Galbraith - Increase DOM Node Insertion Performance
Brad Abrams - DropThings: Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved
Bertrand Le Roy - ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 available
Damon Payne - Does Silverlight cross domain security make sense?
Scott Hanselman - The Weekly Source Code 30 - Spark and NHaml - Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines
Mads Kristensen - New BlogEngine.NET release coming up
Stephen Walther - ASP.NET MVC Tip #22 -- Return a View without Creating a Controller Action

Database stuff
Tony Davis - The myth of over-normalization
Elliot Matthew - Compare To Backup in SQL Compare

PowerShell stuff
Jeff Alexander - Screencast: Using Windows PowerShell

SOA stuff
Adnan Masood - Buidling REST based services using WCF 3.5 - Webcast

Cloud Computing stuff
Dara Obasanjo - Software as a Service: When Your Business Model Becomes a Paradox and Some Thoughts on Amazon S3's Recent Outage
Tim Anderson - Amazon S3 was not built on spare capacity
Mike Gunderloy - S3 Outage: the Aftermath
Evangelos Simoudis - On-Demand/SaaS Reality: In SaaS, It’s About the “Sales Velocity”
Joe Stagner - Risks with Cloud Computing.
Phil Wainewright - Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud
Erick Schonfeld - Bezos Says He Wants S3 Uptime to Be Nothing Less Than Perfection. (Yeah, Work On That).

Career stuff
Jenny - Choosing great leaders
Jeffrey Phillips - The timeframe for culture change
Anthony Bourdain - Wrong Again!
Ben Casnocha - Can Making Money Be the Main Driver for Entrepreneurs?
Freelance Switch - Effective Prioritizing for Freelancers

Business stuff
Anand Iyer - The Startup Meme - Phase 1, The Prototype
The Entrepreneurial Mind - Your Business Should Match Your Lifestyle
Darren Rowse - AdSense Announce Changes to Ad Ecosystem.
Be Excellent - New Study Articulates Advantages of Business Coaching

Innovation stuff
Jeffrey Phillips - Sponsors are critical to innovation success

Other link blogs
Darren Stokes - Visual Studio Links #55
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - July 20, 2008
Sam Gentile - New and Notable 255
Harry Pierson - Five Minutes Past Noon Coffee 170
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #141
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #253

posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:56 AM