Dropping ‘stuff’ from the headings … and starting to revisit why I blog and what I get out of it.  Thinking about ways to filter these links better. 

Other

• The Four Pillars of Maintainable Software, rsriley
• All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions, Jeff Atwood
• Working at 37signals, JZ
• Some Cool Mono Announcements, Miguel de Icaza
• Running development from a RAM disk – options and products, Jeffrey Palermo
• Asynchronous methods, C# iterators, and Tasks, toub
• LINQ: Quickly Create Dictionaries with ToDictionary, Patrick Steele
• iPhone OS 3.1 Beta And SDK Already Rolling Out To Developers, MG Siegler
• Web Platform Installer 1.0, Microsoft Downloads
• Easing the Pain of Moving to a New Windows PC, Meryl Evans
• 304 Your images from a database, Jeff Putz
• File upload/download and remote program execution using WS-Management – a practical solution, William Vambenepe

Windows 7/.Net 4.0

• Partial Trust ASP.NET in 4.0, leastprivelge.com
• Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress”, Jason Gaylord

Code to look at

• Active Record Pattern Wrapper Using LINQ-to-SQL, Dogu Tumerdem

Web

• LABjs: Simple abstraction for loading dependencies correctly, Dion Almaer
• 11 Handy Tools for Website Analysis, Chad Albrecht
• Firefox 3.5 Released, Simon Mackie
• Tip#85: Did you know… You can now do Multiple Selection of controls in your Designer with VS 2008 SP1?, WebDevTools

Database

• Don't destory your certificate if you dabble with SQL 2008 Encryption, Simon Sabin
• Looking for security vulnerabilities in database code, Kimberly Tripp
• SQL SERVER – Difference between Line Feed (\n) and Carriage Return (\r) – T-SQL New Line Char, Pinal Dave

Agile

• Five Reasons to Hire a Coach for Agile Teams, Esther Derby
• Agile Maturity Model – What’s Next?, Scott Sehlhorst
• Agile Self-Organizing Teams and Resources on Self-Organizing Teams for Agility, Brad Appleton

SOA

• SOA Retrospective, Richard Veryard
• Gartner: companies gear up SOA for upcoming economic recovery, Joe McKendrick

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell, pdestoop
• Michele’s Norwegian Developers Conference Slides, Nicholas Allen
• Pod-Scale vs Warehouse-Scale Computing, philw
• [VIDEO] Identity & Cloud Services, V Bertocci

Career

• Getting Back in the Interviewing Groove, Jane Allerton
• Member Exclusive: Post The Purpose And Success Criteria For A Project Meeting., David Allen
• Embracing Information Overload, Dawn Foster
• Working For Yourself Means Freedom — But It Doesn’t Come Free, Rich Whittle
• You can take the boy off the farm…, Joe Webb
• Acceptance Test Engineering Guide Beta 2 Now Available, JD Meier
• The Split Personality of the Tester/Developer, Alex Mueller
• Vital Behaviors, JD

Business

• The 10 Worst Partners For Your Start-Up, Entrepreneur.com
• Intense Ambiguity, Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation

• Increasing the stakes - why innovation is gaining more traction, Jim Carroll
• Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad and Using Design to Drive Innovation and How to Measure Innovation and Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed, Innovation in the News
• Innovation: The right tools for the job, Innovation Weblog
• Driving Growth Through Innovation, James Todhunter

Community

• Ottawa IT Community Awards Night Tonight, John Bristowe
• CodeCampSA (Adelaide) is on again this year, Greg Low
• Meet the Parallel development team July 1st 9am PST, Charles Sterling

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – June 30, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 336, Sam Gentile
• LINKBLOG for June 30, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Technology Post for June 30th, 2009, Jason Gaylord
• The Morning Brew #380, Chris Alcock