Happy Friday! … 11 degrees outside this morning in the Boston Area.  259 unread entries this morning.

Other

• Releasing Moonlight 2, Roadmap to Moonlight 3 and 4, Miguel de Icaza
• The Forgotten Layer of the Test Automation Pyramid, Mike Cohn
• Using PowerShell to clean and zip a Solution folder, Greg Duncan
• Changed and rewritten items: Effective C# 2nd edition, Bill Wagner
• CodePaste is the bee’s knees, my new favorite way to share code., Glenn Block
• Looking for last-minute gift idea? Buy The Art of Community book by Jono Bacon, Sara Ford
• Advanced StructureMap: connecting implementations to open generic types, bogardj
• How to write MEF in 2 hours or less, Ayende Rahien
• Astoria Data Services V2 Support in Telerik Data Services Wizard, Stephen Forte

Visual Studio 2010

• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update, Scott Guthrie
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta period extended, Somasegar
• Update on Debugger Perf and VS 2010 & .NET 4 Public Release Candidate Planned, Brian Harry

Code to look at

• C# Delegates, Anonymous Methods, and Lambda Expressions – O My!, Josh Fischer
• Web-Cam SecureChat, Paulo Zemek
• The Observer Design Pattern, Anides

From CodePlex Feed

• Action Model
• Code Contracts Extensions
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Additions: Version 0.2.3.0
• GMap.NET - Great Maps for Windows Forms & Presentation: 1.4.9.0 beta
• Jonathan George's Code Samples: Resource Versioning Module

Web

• ASP.NET MVC 2 RC, Microsoft Downloads
• ASP.NET MVC 2 RC Released, Phil Haack
• Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine and A Bit About Spark, Mike Ormond

Silverlight

• Extending the SMF for the HVP, Jesse Liberty

Database

• Pro SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting, Brent Ozar
• The Top 20 Questions in Database Design, Buck Woody
• Be careful with constraints calling UDFs, Tibor Karaszi
• Reporting Services Licensing, Joe Webb

Cloud Computing

• IBM Acquisition of Lombardi Influenced by Cloud Strategy, Erik Sherman

Career

• Annual Review: 2009 Travel Roundup, Chris Guillebeau

Blogging

• 13 Types of Posts that Always Get Lots of Comments, Darren Rowse

Business

• Speaking of Business Models, Jeff Cornwall

Innovation

• The difference between innovation, invention and entrepreneurs, Jeffrey Phillips
• You Must Innovate Across Silos to Succeed, Branden Kelley

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – December 17, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 17, 2009, Cloud Feed
• Links (12/17/2009), Steve Pietrek
• The Morning Brew #501, Chris Alcock … wow 5000+ subscribers, that’s awesome