Other

• Parallel Computing Platform Developer Lab, Daniel Moth
• Just because it’s virtual doesn’t mean it isn’t real… Using Visual Studio Lab Management to help virtualize your ALM, Greg Duncan
• Making WPF Binding Errors Exceptions, Jason Bock
• What do you think of the EntLib 5.0 configuration tool?, Tom Hollander
• I'm back, Zsozso
• Map / Reduce – A visual explanation, Ayende Rahien

Code to look at

• ParallelWork: Feature rich multithreaded fluent task execution library for WPF, Omar Al Zabir

Web

• Single Page Interface Pattern and Advanced jQuery techniques, Salvador Gascon
• MvcFutures, Tony Rasa
• Asp.Net MVC 2 Areas, Chris Brandsma

Database

• Database Design - Surrogate keys: Part 1 of many (Rules for Surrogate Keys, E. F. Codd and C J Date research and problems they solve), Tony Rogerson
• SQL Server : login vs account, Salvador Gascon
• Today’s letter is M. M is for Modeling… “The Busy Developer's Guide to SQL Server Modeling”, Greg Duncan
• SQLAuthority News – Interesting Whitepaper – We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure Deployment Stuck in Initializing, Busy, Stopping, Salvador Gascon
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/12/2010+, OakLeaf Systems
• ALTER’ing SQL Azure for MIX, Jeff Currier

Career

• Wonder Around to Build Your Curiosity, JD
• Why some smart people don’t take action?, Rajesh Setty

Innovation

• Chance to win a $3,690 Front End of Innovation Ticket, Blogging Innovation

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – March 13, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 13, 2010, Cloud Feed

Other

• SharpSvn: A Primer, merill
• You can’t learn the basics from the pros, Ayende Rahien
• Martin Fowler on the ethics of software development – QCon report, Tim Anderson
• Quirks in .NET – Part 3 Marshalling Numbers, thycotic
• SQL Style Extensions for C#, Leon Bambrick
• My Experience with a Virtual Assistant using TimeSvr, Joe Webb
• Getting an Assembly From the GAC, Jim Holmes
• Positioning the Parallel Stacks window, The Moth

Visual Studio 2010

• Visual Studio Addin failed to load, Patrick Smacchia

Data Access

• Installing all the bits to demo Entity Framework 4 on the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and Recent resources on Entity Framework 4 and Hex Dump using LINQ (in 7 Lines of Code), Eric Nelson
• Joins in LINQ to SQL, Raj Kaimal
• Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation to create OData feeds, Stephen Forte

Web

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released!, Phil Haack
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – From Blocking to Async, Matthew Podwysocki
• Binding a select in a client template, Bertrand Le Roy
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released, Scott Hanselman
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released for Visual Studio 2008, Nicholas Allen
• Site Activity Feed Now in the Sueetie Syndication Lineup, Dave Burke

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4: Implicit Themes and a Sneak Peek, Brian Lagunas

Database

• Who’s Your Target Audience?, Brent Ozar

Security

• MSDN Webcast: Security Talk - Protecting Your Data from the Application to the Database, MSDN
• Win32.Parite.B Unpacking and Anatomy Reversing and Network Analysis, evilcry

Architecture

• Clarifying the Ambiguous Term Solution Architecture, Sondre Bjellas

Cloud Computing

• 15 Azure-Related Sessions Scheduled for TechEd 2010, OakLeaf Systems
• IBM Will Announce Its Public Cloud Initiative on Tuesday, Erik Scherman
• Cloud computing enables and forces us to do proper engineering, Pawel Pabich
• Should You Do Business in the Cloud?, Entrepreneur.com
• Are you in Chicago? DPM and I will be April 8-9 with Iron Mountain, Jason Buffington
• Understanding the AppFabric – Implementing the Publish & Listen, Bruno Terkaly

Career

• Thinking the Unthinkable, Holly Green
• How to Provide Constructive Criticism, Stephen Marsh
• Telecommuting Means Billions in Savings, Thursday Bram

Business

• Tips On Streamlining Accounts Payable, Christine Lagorio

Innovation

• An Innovation Manifesto, Tim Kastelle
• 10 Good Reads on Innovation #13, Stefan Lindegaard
• What's Stopping Innovation?, Scott Anthony
• Innovation a Top 3 Priority - What about Metrics?, Yann Cramer

Community

• Register for Cloud Computing Bootcamp: Free Technical Training on Developing for Windows Azure, MSDN
• Half Day Agile Seminar in Sydney, Australia, Stephen Forte
• Top Innovation Conferences of 2010, Blogging Innovation

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #558, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – March 12, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 12, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Everyman on What Clients Want, Foursquare Analytics, a Smarter Landing Page, Dave Burke

Other

• No silver domain modeling bullets, bogardj
• Survey: How do you manage the source code for your personal projects?, Linchi Shea
• How to merge your referenced assemblies into the output assembly for improved usability, Daniel Cazzulino
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Two, Eric Lippert
• TFS2008: Get the current TFS Data Warehouse update interval, Ben Day
• Introducing the Visual Studio Extension of the week and Visual Studio Color Theme Editor – Extension #01, Sara Ford
• How can I get objects and property values from expression trees?, Alexandra Rusina

Code to look at

• How to read the Google calendar in C#, Pubudu Kasakara
• Building Better Buttons in Expression Blend, Alan Beasley

From CodePlex Feed

• ASP.NET Wiki Control
• MvcPager
• Pex Custom Arithmetic Solver

Data Access

• Telerik Releases a new Visual Entity Designer, Stephen Forte
• If timestamp is deprecated, why do none of the current db tools support rowversion? and Two Introductory VS2010 Entity Framework Videos on Pluralsight on Demand, Julie Lerman

Web

• ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM, Microsoft Downloads
• YQL Geo library – all your geo needs in pure JavaScript, Chris Heilmann
• Perseids, John Hughes, And G.I. Joe Are Trending Topics On Wikipedia, Erick Schonfield
• WebForms vs MVC (again), karl
• ASP.NET MVC Migration Tool, Nicholas Allen
• Sueetie Aggregate Blog Post List Now Supports RSS, Dave Burke
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released, Scott Guthrie

Silverlight

• WCF Ria Services For Real, Jesse Liberty

Database

• Dear ISV: You’re Keeping Me Awake Nights with Your VARCHAR() Dates, Merrill Aldrich
• Tuning SQL Server Transactions – and Meetings, Brent Ozar
• The Root of all Evil, Gail
• ORMs – A Developer’s Dream, A DBA’s Nightmare?, Mike Ormond
• System Variables, Stored Procedures or Functions for Meta Data, Buck Woody
• The Busy Developer's Guide to SQL Server Modeling, Shawn Wildermuth
• SQL SERVER – Checklist for Analyzing Slow-Running Queries, Pinal Dave

Agile

• User Story Role in TFS, Chad

Cloud Computing

• Good Book: Development with the Force.com Platform, David Chappell
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director for the European Environment Agency, Windows Azure
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/11/2010+ and 15 Azure-Related Sessions Scheduled for TechEd 2010, OakLeaf Systems
• Register for Cloud Computing Bootcamp: Free Technical Training on Developing for Windows Azure, MSDN
• Cloud computing enables and forces us to do proper engineering, Pawel Pabich
• Azure Guidance – Scenario – Part II, eugeniop

Career

• Use Storytelling Techniques in Personal Branding: Narrative, Georgina Laidlaw
• Live video chat: How to find the hidden job market, Penelope Trunk
• The Power of Your Little Black Book, Amber Singleton Riviere
• Use 3 Stories to Drive Your Week, JD
• Take A Lesson In Entrepreneurship, Angela Shupe
• Roundup: Social Media Monitoring Tools, Doriano Carta
• Positive Steps for Managing Conflict, Entrepreneur.com

Business

• Meet Carol Roth: The Best Business Advice You Never Asked For, Barry Moltz
• How to Set Up Accounts Payable, Christine Lagorio
• Business Goals and Requirements, Scott Sehlhorst
• How Much Money Should You Raise?, Nitasha Tiku

Innovation

• NO CHARGE: Open Innovation Session for Company, Consulting Firm and Event Organizer, Stefan Lindegaard

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – March 11, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 11, 2010, Cloud Feed

Found this list this morning in Jeffrey Phillips’s post: The Importance of Innovation Skills and Best Practices

1. Set the ground rules. There are a consistent set of rules for brainstorming, including "encourage wild ideas", "Go for quantity not quality", "Don't judge while ideating", etc.
2. Clearly define the opportunity or challenge. Make the issue smaller or simpler if necessary.
3. Define the scope - what should be considered and what should be ignored. We should have placed "all health care systems in the world" out of bounds from the start.
4. Allow people to ask clarifying questions before we start brainstorming. Once we start generating ideas, limit the questions, which often change scope.
5. Pick a scribe to capture ideas so the facilitator doesn't have to write down ideas and manage the group
6. Encourage the reticent and moderate the talkers. Any group, and ours was no exception, has people who are happy to toss ideas out all day long, and those who won't speak at all. We need to hear from everyone, and perhaps a bit less from some people (me included).
7. Keep the team on task and on target. When the "evaluate all health care systems in the world" statement was made, we should have been reminded that that was out of bounds, and we needed to refocus on what we could solve.
8. Stretch the group when necessary. The facilitator can/should occasionally ask questions that shift the group's thinking or introduces a new perspective.

Other

• Mini Book Review of IronRuby Unleashed by Shay Friedman, Eric Nelson
• Getting WCF 4 Release Candidate Documentation, Nicholas Allen
• Creating a Lazy Enumeration of Directory Descendants in C#, Craig Andera
• Could Not Load Type Microsoft.Build.Framework.BuildEventContext and Fix: SqlDeploy Task Fails with NullReferenceException at ExtractPassword, Steven Smith
• Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections, bogardj
• Programming Practices: Part 2 – Thoughts on TDD, Brian Harry
• Neat Samples: MEF in F# Scripts, Jomo Fisher
• Estimate Histograms in TFS, Chadd

Visual Studio 2010

• A Brief Discussion On Visual Studio 2010 Top Features, Kunal Chowdhury

From CodePlex Feed

• ASP.NET jQuery MessageBox
• Javascript Lib
• jqGrid ASP.Net MVC Control
• Encrypted Notes
• SilverlightImageUpload

Web

• Calling All Designers: Weebly Gives Users More Variety With New Theme Community, Jason Kincaid
• Javascript: Function scoping, Mark Needham
• We moved your ASP.NET website cheese, in a good way, Scott Hanselman
• Multiple Blog Support Now on Display at Sueetie.com, Dave Burke
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing Callbacks, Matthew Podwysocki
• One Year of Production ASP.NET MVC, Chris Missal
• The new ASP.NET website, Jon Galloway

Database

• Building Scalable Databases: Are Relational Databases Compatible with Large Scale Websites?, Dare Obasanjo
• Did you know you can shrink a transaction log even when log shipping?, Simon Sabin
• SQL SERVER – Force Index Scan on Table – Use No Index to Retrieve the Data – Query Hint, Pinal Dave

PowerShell

• Create Outlook Appointments from PowerShell, Buck Woody
• Making your PowerShell ISE cool with SQL Ice – SQLIse now available as part of the SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) v2.1 release, Greg Duncan
• Start-PowerShellPoint, John Robbins

Agile

• Does an organisation need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum?, Mark Needham

Architecture

• How the Program Management Office Views Enterprise Architecture…, Nick Malik

Cloud Computing

• Google Apps Marketplace Discover, Deploy, and Manage Apps for Business, Don Dodge
• Announcing upcoming commercial availability of Windows Azure platform AppFabric, .Net Services Team
• Software 2020: Success Strategies for the Next Decade: Marc Benioff on a Cloud-Driven Future, Maryann Jones Thompson
• Windows Azure platform AppFabric Labs SDK V1.0, Microsoft Downloads
• CA Acquires Cloud Monitoring Company Nimsoft For $350 Million, Leena Rao
• Understanding Cloud Computing and Cloud-Based Security, SOA Magazine
• Azure Guidance – Scenario background – Part I, eugeniop
• Cloud meet reality, Susan Bradley
• “NoSQL in the Cloud” panel discussion today (3/11/2010), Ben Day

Business

• Optimism Down Among Small Business Owners and Virgin Media Launches Community For Young Entrepreneurs, Angela Shupe
• Introverts as Entrepreneurs, Howard Greenstein

Innovation

• How you frame your challenges changes everything, LiteMind
• The Top 10 Predictors of Future Innovation Success, Innovation Weblog
• Evaluating Solver Proposals, Manal Khan
• Project Management for Innovation Professionals..., Paul Williams
• The Importance of Innovation Skills and Best Practices, Jeffrey Phillips
• Differences, Similarities in Open Innovation for Small and Large Companies, Stefan Lindegaard

Community

• New e learning course on Business Intelligence, Simon Sabin
• pluralsight office hours 3/11/2010 with dan sullivan, meagon-marshall
• The PASS Summit Location Survey Results, Brent Ozar
• Free Webcasts – IE8 Add On Features & Azure Design Patterns, Bruno Terkaly

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – March 10, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 10, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Daily Review #52, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #557, Chris Alcock

Found this link tonight and don’t want to loose it: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB2006191

It is the updated ASP.NET scripts for use with SQL Azure … though Session is not supported – so not in those scripts.

So Monday didn’t work too well last month … this time we’ll try a Tuesday.

Same as always, we meet up stairs at the bar beside the pool tables – then grab a table if we need to.  Its at Boston Beer Works on Canal Street close to the TD Garden.  If you don’t know me – here’s a picture of me.  I’ll be the one at the bar reading MSDN magazine or some Windows Azure book and drinking a coke.

What:   Boston Geek Dinner
When:  Tuesday, March 23, 2010 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where:

Boston Beer Works
112 Canal Street
Boston, MA 02114 USA

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me through this blog by leaving a comment.

There is also an email list that a reminder will go out to about 10 days out from the event – if you are not on that email list and want to be added, please let me know.

Other

• Fusion-IO ioDrive Review, Brent Ozar
• Programming Practices: Part 1 – Watching from a distance, Brian Harry
• Good post on C#/VB co-evolution, Rocky Lhotka
• Reducing Connaissance (Interconnectedness) and Increasing Robustness using LINQ, Eric White
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One, Eric Lippert
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive), Scott Mitchell
• Flattening a Jagged Array with LINQ, Patrick Steele
• Neat Samples: Extend your F# program with MEF, Jomo Fisher
• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO, Bertrand Le Roy

Code to look at

• Recursion, Stacks and Queues, logicchild

From CodePlex Feed

• Forensic Suite
• Programming Patterns by example
• ScrumTFS
• .NET Excel Wrapper - Read, Write, Edit & Automate Excel Files in .NET with ease: First Release

Web

• Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article), Jeffrey Palermo
• Viewing all Server Variables for a Site, Scott Forsyth
• Working with the HTML5 Community, IE Blog
• Using Lucene – External Indexes, Ayende Rahien

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4 and MEF, Salvador Gascon
• Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again :-) ), Mike Taulty

Database

• Consolidation Strategy References, Buck Woody

Debugging

• Debugging .NET Applications with WinDbg, Salvador Gascon

Agile

• Nine Questions to Assess Team Structure, Mike Cohn
• Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex, Sara Ford
• Pair Programming: Some thoughts, Mark Needham
• Quick Agile Links #10, Mark Levison

Architecture

• March Architect Innovation Cafe Webcasts-Register Today!, jbarnes

Cloud Computing

• Microsoft publishes a (beta) Infrastructure Planning and Design guide for dynamic data centers, Alessandro Perilli
• Real World Windows Azure: Ben Riga at Channel 9, Windows Azure
• Four pillars of the transition to SaaS, Phil Wainewright
• Announcing availability of Billing Preview for Windows Azure platform AppFabric, .Net Services Team
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/9/2010+, OakLeaf Systems
• AWS Import/Export - Support for Raw Drives and Bigger Devices, AWS Blog

Career

• How to Give Yourself a Raise Without Losing Business, Skellie
• Use Storytelling Techniques in Personal Branding: Characterization, Georgina Laidlaw
• Work is a Rubber Ball that Bounces Back, JD
• The biggest triumph is getting out of bed, Penelope Trunk
• Our Latest Book: How to Write Great Copy for the Web, Freelance Switch
• 5 Keys To Creating A Resume They’ll Remember, George Lenard

Business

• New Flat-Fee PR Service for Tech Start-Ups, Nadine Heintz

Innovation

• Learning innovation skills and best practices and 10 Ways to Achieve Growth Through Innovation: Accenture study, Innovation in the News
• The Performance Paradox, Stephen Shapiro

Community

• pluralsight and InnerWorkings, meagon-marshall
• IASA New England March 2010 - SOA Lessons Learned and Visual Studio 2010's Capabilities with Coding JavaScript and Other Technologies, NERD

Other link blogs

• Virtualization Short Take #36, slowe
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 9, 2010, Cloud Feed
• The Morning Brew #556, Chris Alcock

Other

• Identity and Access Control Guide, Nicholas Allen
• Analysing and measuring the performance of a .NET application (survey results), Laila
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models, derick.bailey
• Fix: Can’t Change or Remove Visual Studio 2008 from DVD, Steven Smith
• Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API, Daniel Cazzulino
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part II: Semantic Changes and +=/-=, Chris Burrows
• Getting real: Book review, Mark Needham
• Implementing the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) at a Large Insurance Company, MSDN
• State Pattern Misuse, Greg Young
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity, Scott Hanselman

Visual Studio 2010

• How to Create a Powershell 2.0 Module and Cmdlet with Visual Studio 2010 (Screencast included), Saveen Reddy

Code to look at

• Monitoring access to your shared files on network, Abdollah Zawari
• Using Copy-On-Write In Multithreaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead, Davy Brion
• Many to one local IPC using WCF and NetNamedPipeBinding, Lance Roberts

From CodePlex Feed

• Reflection Studio
• .NET Extensions - Extension Methods Library: Release 2010.05
• Code Snippet With Syntaxhighlighter Support for Windows Live Writer: Version 5.0.2

Web

• JavaScript TreeView v1.0, Navnath R Kale

Silverlight

• Silverlight DataGrid – Populate Dynamic Columns from a Child Collection, Brian Lagunas
• Expression Blend Pro Tip How to Add Your Own Sample Data Lists, Barry Gervin

Database

• Correlated Sub-Query vs. Case Statement, Andy L J
• Truncate Log File in SQL Server 2005, Assil
• Script Data in SQL Server 2008, ejohnson2010
• T-SQL Tuesday - Query Cost, Rob Farley
• Troubleshooting Application Timeouts in SQL Server, Tara Kizer
• SQL SERVER – Improve Performance by Reducing IO – Creating Covered Index, Pinal Dave
• T-SQL Tuesday #004: Why Doesn't TDE Encrypt My FILESTREAM Data?, Mike C
• Survey: T-SQL Source Control?, Andy Leonard

Agile

• New Tools for Prioritizing Backlogs Available, Mike Cohn

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure Development Deep Dive: Working With Configuration, Steven Nagy
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/8/2010+, OakLeaf Systems
• Cloud Cover Episode 3 - Worker Role Endpoints, bartvagh
• MSDN Simulcast Event: Take Your Applications Sky-High with Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform, MSDN
• Yet another Windows Azure billing blog post…., Stephen Forte

Career

• An Interview With Yourself, Chris Guillebeau
• 5 Tips for Getting a Better Night’s Sleep, Karen Leland
• Attracting Talent, summarized, Eric Lippert
• Certified Business Analyst Helps Business Owners Succeed, Angela Shupe

Innovation

• Learning innovation skills and best practices, Jeffrey Phillips
• 10 Things That Are True About the Future, Jim Carroll
• When Innovation Just Happens..., Paul Williams
• Why Smaller Companies Should Embrace Open Innovation, Stefan Lindegaard

Community

• I am speaking at the Lubbock .Net User Group on March 29th, Jeffrey Palermo
• The Roadshow Begins!, Chris Bowen
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 8, 2010, Cloud Feed

Other link blogs

• VIDEO: Our new office, pre-construction. Lease signed, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #555, Chris Alcock

Other

• Ubiquitous and unambiguous ?, pvanooijen
• A Feed You Should Read #25 – MSMVPs.com, Greg Duncan
• Run Your Tests With Any NUnit Version, Alois Kraus
• Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog and Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel, Glenn Block

Visual Studio 2010

• TFS 2010 Iteration Backlog Workbook and Macro Execution Warnings, Ben Day
• Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes), Scott Guthrie

Code to look at

• Using Reflection to create a factory class for dynamic method invocation using templates, caloia

From CodePlex Feed

• Algorithminator
• Dynamic Reference Manager
• Silverlight 4 and WCF multi layer
• Neural Cryptography in F#
• Blacklist of Providers: 1.0-Milestone 1

Silverlight

• My "What's New in Silvelright 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall, Shawn Wildermuth

Database

• Geek City: More About Nonclustered Index Keys, Kalen Delaney

Architecture

• Patterns & Practices: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, bartvagth

Cloud Computing

• Using the “Windows Identity Foundation and Windows Azure passive federation” lab with the February2010 Windows Azure Tools, V Bertocci

Career

• When Your Boss Doesn't Want you to Succeed, Phil Factor
• My First Week as a Developer Evangelist, Sara Ford
• Less is More, Slower is Better, JD
• 11 Steps to Fight the 'God Complex', Glen Stansberry

Business

• Why Grow? and Other Wisdom from 37Signals, Tim Ferriss

Innovation

• What is Innovation? and Good Reads and Discussions on Innovation #12, Stefan Lindegaard
• Having Fun with Innovation, Blogging Innovation
• Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating, Mitch Ditkoff

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – March 7, 2010 and Dew Drop – March 8, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 406, Sam Gentile
• Links of the week #110, David Vidmar
• Daily Cloud Feed - Mar 7, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Weekly Link Post 135, Rhonda Tipton
• The Morning Brew #554, Chris Alcock