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Joel Bennett - A cry for help with NHibernate …
Tony Davis - Anxiety, Dissent and the Entity Framework
Jonathan de Halleux - Pex 0.6 Released
Greg Duncan - SQL Server 2008 RTM’s (and is now available on MSDN Subscribers Download) and SQL Server 2008 RTM Requires/Installs .Net 3.5 SP1 & Wait for VS2008 SP1 before you install SQL2K8 on your Dev machines
V.Gnanasekaran - Rating of Open Source AOP Frameworks in .Net
Mads Kristensen - Cool projects that don’t exist - part 2
Phil Haack - Hey Ma, I’m On TV!
Ayende Rahien - Reviewing Litware HR and Multi Tenancy - The Physical Data Model and Multi Tenancy - Extensible Data Model
Sara Ford - Top 5 Myths and Facts about CodePlex and Did you know… you can copy the exception details with one click from the exception assistant? - #276

Web stuff
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Stephen Walther - ASP.NET MVC Tip #30 – Create Custom Route Constraints
nullEX_ - nxAjax - An Ajax Library
Brett - IIS.net : Learn IIS7: Using URL Rewrite Module: Installing and Configuring IIS 7.0

Database stuff
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Debugging stuff
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Qwertie - Make the debugger show the contents of your custom IList class
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Architecture stuff
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SOA stuff
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Cloud Computing stuff
Mike Gunderloy - When the Cloud Fails

Career stuff
Scott Sehlhorst - Get an Edge With Visual Communication
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Entrepreneur.com - Unleash the Successful Speaker Inside You

Blogging stuff
Dave Burke - Preparatory BlogEngine.NET 1.4 to 1.4.5 Upgrade Notes

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Steve Pietrek - Links (8/6/2008)
Chris Alcock - The Morning Brew #153
Mike Gunderloy - Double Shot #264
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - August 7, 2008
Darren Stokes - Visual Studio Links #62