Other stuff

• Ultimate Developer Rig 2009, Steven Smith
• WiX (as seen in VS2010) Documentation CTP – What is WiX, how to use it, and how to extend it. and LINQPad and the Entity Framework and BITS PowerShell Cmdlets coming in Windows 7 – Making BITS file transfers just a Add-FileTransfer away, Greg Duncan
• Photosynth and the inauguration, adam
• 47 useful Windows Vista Command-Line Utilities., rspercy58
• Moving on up to Microsoft, Vlad Mazek
• All Technology Has Downsides, Chris Sells
• Disk Defragmentation – Background and Engineering the Windows 7 Improvements, e7blog
• 3,600 Microsoft Shoes Waiting to Drop, Mini-Microsoft
• PLINQ, The Moth
• A Scripter at Heart, Jeff Atwood

Code to look at

• Simple C# library for graph plotting, zimstep

Web stuff

• jData: pseudo-globalStorage for browsers and RockstarApps’ Web Optimization plugins for Eclipse and Aptana, Dion Almaer
• Routing for Web Forms in ASP.NET 4.0, Phil Haack
• The Friend of a Friend Plug-In for Graffiti, Keyvan Nayyeri

Database stuff

• Defensive database programming: SET vs. SELECT., Alexander Kuznetsov
• Stored Procedure Patterns, Tony Rasa
• TechEd US - Full Text Indexing - SQL Server 2008, Greg Low

Debugging stuff

• How to simulate a process hang?, Dmitry Vostokov

Security stuff

• List of Famous Hackers in Computer History Both White Hat and Black Hat, Darknet
• Why are web sites still storing passwords? Monster, USAJobs blunder highlights the risks, Tim Anderson

Career stuff

• Goals for 2009, Steven Smith
• Leadership 101: Don't Sweat The Small Stuff (And It's NOT All Small Stuff), Jim Holmes
• Looking for a job? 4 Tips on how not to be stupid and lazy, Mike Figliuolo

Business stuff

• How to Manage your Business in a Recession, Adam Goucher
• Selling Advertising in a Downturn (Guest blog by Erik Geurtz), Scott Switzer

Community stuff

• New England Data Camp v1.0 : Resource Governor slide deck & demo files, Aaron Bertrand

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for January 25, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• New and Notable 283, Sam Gentile
• Links of the week #69, David Vidmar
• Weekly Link Post 78, Rhonda Tipton
• Links (1/25/2009), Steve Pietrek
• The Morning Brew #272, Chris Alcock
• Flagged Links #31, Jason Bock