Other

• Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs, Matthew.Podwysocki
• Optimize Your PC With TuneUp Utilities 2010, Meryl Evans
• Digg CEO Adelson: “I Don’t Think People Expect To Pay For News Any More”, Jason Kincaid
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 9 (Michael Feathers) and Two controllers, type conformance and the Liskov Substitution Principle, Mark Needham
• Reducing friction as a standard operating method, Ayende Rahien
• TFS 2010 Power Tools Coming Soon, Brian Harry
• Using SecAnnotate to Analyze Your Assemblies for Transparency Violations – An Example, Shawfa

PDC

• CLR-Related PDC 2009 Sessions, CLR Team
• PDC day one: Windows in the cloud, Tim Anderson
• PDC 2009 Day 1: Concurrency Fuzzing & Data Races, PDC 2009 Day 1: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes, PDC 2009 Day 1: Data-Intensive Computing on Windows HPC Server with the DryadLINQ Framework, What Gets Me Through the PDC: Conference Gear and PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests , Sasha Goldshtein
• PDC09 Day 1 Impressions, Mike Snell

Web

• DevConnections Slides and Samples Posted, Rick Strahl

Database

• SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table – A Puzzle to Find Index Size for Each Index on Table, Pinal Dave
• Insecure Metadata, Ben Nevarez
• Lesson learned by Trial and Error, Peso

Cloud Computing

• Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 Samples (codename "Dublin" and codename "Velocity"), Microsoft Downloads
• "Cloud Cloud Cloud, if you're not in it, you're out!"... or something, Frans Bouma
• Is Windows Azure the Right Technology for the Future?, Keyvan Nayyeri
• Clouds Need Integration Management Tools, Erik Sherman

Career

• Starting at Microsoft, Jeff Putz
• Balance Connection and Conviction to Reduce Anxiety and Lead Effectively, JD
• FreelancerPro Interview: The Foundations of Freelancing, FreelanceSwitch
• Warning: Watching This Video May Lead to Work! [But It'll Also Improve Your Blog], Darren Rowse
• The Hard Truth: A Realist Take on Freelancing, Darrell Etherington

Innovation

• The importance of storytelling in creative leadership: An interview with Michael Margolis, Innovation Weblog
• Report: The future of education, Jim Carroll
• 3M's Innovation Challenges, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• Daily Cloud Feed - Nov 17, 2009, Cloud Feed
• Daily Review #28, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #479, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – November 18, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for Nov 18, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof