Other stuff

• How Not To Develop Software, Alfred Thompson
• House of Cards Design Anti-pattern, Peter Ritchie
• Why Concurrency Is Hard (Or: TimedLock Can Get You in Trouble), Sasha Goldshtein
• Difference among Int32.Parse(), Convert.ToInt32(), and Int32.TryParse(), alfxp
• An open letter to Microsoft: Listen to the real world please, James Luetkehoelter
• Reflector’s Review’s Review, Jonathan de Halleux
• Does the “LINQ to Objects” provider have built-in performance optimization?, C# FAQ
• Slides from .NET DevNet Talk on Parallel Extensions, Mike Taulty
• Manually Cloning LINQ to XML Trees, Eric White
• Hashing Algorithm Roundup, Beau Monday

Code to look at

• File Uploader in ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC, Mohammad Jahedur Rahman
• C# Multi-key Generic Dictionary, Aron Weiler

Web stuff

• ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate and Controls Collection Cannot Be Modified Issue with ASP.NET MVC RC1, Phil Haack
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available, Scott Guthrie
• FireScope - HTML and CSS reference add-on for Firebug, Lazycoder
• IE8 Security Part VII: ClickJacking Defenses, IEBlog
• Xccessors: Cross browser JavaScript get/setters, Dion Almaer

Database stuff

• Versioning the Database, Buck Woody
• SQL SERVER - Generate A Single Random Number for Range of Rows of Any Table - Very interesting Question from Reader, Pinal Dave

Debugging stuff

• How to disable optimizations during debugging, Kirill Osenkov
• Tales from High Memory Scenarios: Part 2, Sasha Goldshtein

PowerShell stuff

• Rename-Drive : Renaming Drives with PowerShell & WMI, PowerShell Team

Agile stuff

• The power of Agile (or not), Clarke Ching

Cloud Computing stuff

• Why It's Hard for Enterprises to Save Money with Cloud Platforms, David Chappell
• Oracle puts a price on single-tenancy, Phil Wainewright
• Interesting Take On Private Cloud Concept - Not Sure If I Agree, Chris Kinsman
• New CloudFront Pricing Tiers for our High Volume Users, AWS Blog

Career stuff

• Ways to distinguish yourself #201 - Tell the right story to the right people., Rajesh Setty
• Leadership 101: Open That Door!, Jim Holmes
• How to increase chances of being allowed to research, Tim Stall
• How to Turn Productivity into a Habit, Celine Roque

Community stuff

• John Resig on jQuery at Boston .NET User Group 2/11, Chris Bowen
• Central Ohio Day of .NET Call For Speakers, Jim Holmes

Other link blogs

• Flagged Links #32, Jason Bock
• Visual Studio Links #104, Darren Stokes
• LINKBLOG for January 27, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• AWS Links - Tuesday, January 27, 2009, AWS Blog
• The Morning Brew #274, Chris Alcock
• Link Listing - January 27, 2009, Christopher Steen
• Dew Drop - January 28, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft