Other stuff

• Excel Financial functions for .NET, implemented with F# and WiX 3 is now officially in “Beta”, Greg Duncan
• IFileSystem Dependency Inversion Part 1 and IFileSystem Dependency Inversion Part 2, Steven Smith
• Our Hacker Odyssey, Jeff Atwood
• New in Backpack: Page notifications and up-front share settings, Ryan
• Exception Filter, Junfeng Zhang
• Who Scraped Over My Disk?, Alois Kraus
• Tool List 2008, Chris Brandsma
• Framework Design Guidelines: Naming New Versions of Existing APIs, Brad Abrams
• Infrastructure: Roads and The Smart Grid, Alex Tabarrok
• Ingo Wegener (1950-2008), Lance

Web stuff

• ASP.NET MVC Northwind Demo Using the Spark View Engine, Phil Haack
• Really Simple Testing for JavaScript, Bertrand Le Roy
• You Leaked on my JavaScript!, Dion Almaer

Database stuff

• Defensive database programming: fun with UPDATE., Alexander Kuznetsov
• Performance impact: file fragmentation and SAN – Part II, Linchi Shea
• SQL SERVER - Find Table Rowcount Without Using T-SQL and Without Opening Table, Pinal Dave
• Keywords, Brackets, Identifiers and Ridiculous., Rodney

PowerShell stuff

• Grant NTFS security to a remote folder using WMI, Powershell., Steve Schofield
• PowerShell WMI Based Audit Script, Thomas
• Automate Daily Tasks with PowerShell, Alex Mueller

Security stuff

• Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) 1.0, Darknet

Agile stuff

• The Problem With "Release Early, Release Often", Travis Illig

Career stuff

• To Everything There Is A Season, Bil Simser
• Don’t Fear Failure, Learn From It, Angela
• Personal News Update, Joel Bennett
• Don't Throw Talent Overboard, Know It All
• Taskwriter is a cool tool for GTD, Dwayne Melancon
• 3 Key Web Working Tools for Students, Darrell Etherington
• 11 Ways to Cure Someday Syndrome, Zen Habits
• How to talk to different generational workers, Toby Ward

Business stuff

• Amazon DevPay Graduates to General Availability, AWS Blog
• 17 Tips for Getting Through a Business Downturn, Freelance Switch

Innovation stuff

• Special report now available: Innovation Strategies for the Global Recession, Innovation Weblog
• Innovation in Practice: One Year Later, Drew Boyd
• Communicating your innovation goals, Jeffrey Phillips

Community stuff

• Team Test Special Interest group December 15th in Redmond, Charles Sterling

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for December 8, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Morning Brew #240, Chris Alcock