Interesting Finds: August 23, 2008

Interesting Finds: August 23, 2008 - [Rough Cut]

Other stuff
Greg Duncan - My favorite kind of Friday, one where we get a new Sysinternals Utility - Desktops v1.0 and FreeImage 3.11 released - C# wrapper added
Steven A Lowe - Dashboards Are For Driving
Kathleen Dollard - Interfacing with Insanity
CoolBusinessIdeas - Hotspots On Chrysler
Sara Ford - Did you know… How to show or hide the “No Debugging Information” warning? - #297
Jean-Paul Boodhoo - Building A Solid Core Contest - Announcing the winners
Rico Mariani - Hard and Soft Mode Debugging or The Woes of Soft Mode
Michael Kleef - How to get USB booting working
Jason Bock - A Subtle DIfference in Catch Blocks
The Moth - Quick Quiz on Tasks
Windows SDK - Bug Notification: VS2008 SP1 Breaks WinSDK Configuration Tool
Nick Butler - Thread synchronization: Wait and Pulse demystified
Tomas Restrepo - Console 2.00.140

Web stuff
Mike Ormond - More on Dynamically Loading ListView Templates
Xiangyang Liu - Building and deploying your web application the easy way
Phil Haack - Dealing With Denial of Service Attacks
Scott Forsyth - IIS, Windows Authentication and the Double Hop issue
Brad Abrams - Book Plug: Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5
Stephen Walther - ASP.NET MVC Tip #36 – Create a Popup Calendar Helper

Reflector stuff
Aaron Skonnard - Thanks Lutz Roeder! ... I like Aaron's reaction to the news. Some of us take things for granted and forget that Lutz did all the hard work for us for years (plus support) for free... so I agree we should give him a big thanks for what he has accomplished ... of course now we are addicts and need to know that we can still get our Reflector fix :)

Database stuff
MS SQL ISV - How to create an autonomous transaction in SQL Server 2008
Tibor Karaszi - Updates of Ola Hallengren's maint procedures

Architecture stuff
pdestoop - Architect Journal 16: IDENTITY AND ACCESS

Cloud Computing stuff
Brad Neuberg - Gears 0.4 + Mashup of Gears and Google App Engine
Mike Gunderloy - SpiderOak: Another Take on Online Backups
Erick Schonfeld - Google Offers A Geolocation API For Gears (But It Only Works On Windows Mobile)
Jeff - Amazon Sends Death Blow to I.T. Data Center
Omar Shahine - Wells Fargo launches Secure Online Storage with Two-Factor Authentication ... Wells Fargo? Storage?
Evangelos Simoudis - On-Demand/SaaS Reality: Offering Services Around SaaS Solutions
Aliza Sherman - The Risks vs. Rewards of Cloud Computing
David Chappell - Responses to A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms