Other stuff

• Bizs Turn To Independent Contractors, Rich
• Welcome to the January 2009 "Oslo" SDK!, Chris Sells
• GA/EP Material, Jason Bock
• Important Team System Web Access update, Brian Harry
• Benchmarking: designing an API with unusual goals, Jon Skeet
• Be careful about exception after resource allocation, Junfeng Zhang
• Scott Guthrie: Silverlight plans go beyond Ajax and Flash, Emil Protalinski
• AlphaFS – Some Max_Path, Transactional NTFS, hard links, and more .Net System.IO.File/Path/Directory Help (alpha), Greg Duncan
• C# compiler warning CS0420: byrefs to volatiles, Joe Duffy
• Fixed ADPlus That Works with Windows 7 (and Probably S2K8 R2), John Robbins
• Properties vs. Attributes, Eric Lippert
• hushchamber.com, Jeff Schoolcraft
• User Stories and Use Cases, Scott Sehlhorst
• Introduction to Functional Programming using F# - Part 1 and Introduction to Functional Programming using F# - Part 2, M Sheik Uduman Ali

Code to look at

• Silverlight 2.0 Syntax Highlighting Textbox, Alexei Prokudin

Web stuff

• Chrome and Firefox Face Clickjacking Exploit, Darknet
• QUOTE: So, I'm going to give up and use tables., Ryan
• Birth of a Security Feature: ClickJacking Defense, IE Blog

Database stuff

• SQL Server 2008 Change Data Capture: Msg 22830, Level 16, State 1, Jonathan Kehayias
• Business Intelligence: Using SQL 2008 Reporting Services and SQL Report Builder 2.0 with Log Parser, Saveen Reddy
• SQL 2005 Encryption with Certificates, DBA Duck
• Did You Know? A New SQL Server 2008 Books Online Update is Available, Kalen Delaney
• Restoring SQL Server 2005 backups to a new server: dealing with existing users/schemas, Jeff Schoolcraft
• Tips on Moving SQL Server Logins Between Servers, Greg Low

Security stuff

• Download the New Security Development Lifecycle Threat Modeling Tool v3, MSDN

PowerShell stuff

• PowerShell Snippet for Combining Directory Paths, Jim Holmes

Architecture stuff

• A first look at TOGAF 9.0, Nick Malik

SOA stuff

• Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Part 5 - Itinerary Based Routing, Sam Gentile
• Soft talk: What is service oriented communications, and why will it matter?, Joe McKendrick

Cloud Computing stuff

• Azure Local Storage – 1000 Characters and Duplicate Context Keys, Scott Watermasysk

Career stuff

• Project Management, Collaboration, and How Our Brains Work, Aliza Sherman
• StatShot: Tech Job Cuts Inching Closer to 200,000, pdestoop
• The Language of the Web Worker, Dawn Foster
• A WebWorkerDaily Manifesto, Simon Mackie
• Don’t Waste the one thing you can’t get back, Jean-Paul Boodhoo
• Questions and Answers on The Top 10 Leadership Lessons, JD Meier

Business stuff

• Better Reading Material for your Customers, Jaclyn
• Online Community Manager: What Does It Take to be Successful?, Dawn Foster
• 10 Tax Deductions Freelancers Can Make, Freelance Switch
• New Era for Internet-based Businesses? and Tips for Pursuing an Entrepreneurial Career, Jeff Cornwall

Community stuff

• Virtual Goodness with the Linked .NET User Group this Thursday, Andrew Coates
• Practical Silverlight and XAMLFest and Code Camps coming this spring, Jason Mauer
• European Virtual ALT.NET Meeting Rescheduled, Jan Van Ryswyck

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - February 2, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for February 2, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Morning Brew #278, Chris Alcock