Happy Birthday to Sam Gentile

Other

• How to display ads on your project from The Lounge - #045, Sara Ford
• Clipboard.Clear … oops, Tim Anderson
• 3 Options for Sharing Your Project Research, Thursday Bram
• Exception Handling Proxy - eating your own dog food and Updated Proxy Generator, Michele Leroux Bustamante
• Oh, You Wanted "Awesome" Edition, Jeff Atwood
• Comparing Text and Binary Serialization in WCF, Tomas Restrepo
• My Lenovo Choice - ThinkPad W700 vs. ThinkPad W500 Review, Scott Hanselman
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – The Rational Guide to Building Technical User Communities (Rational Guides), Pinal Dave

Windows 7, VS 2010, .NET 4.0

• The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7., Leon Bambrick
• VS 10 beta 1 extensibility model (Part 1) and VS 10 beta 1 extensibility model (Part 2), Pablo Baliano
• Upgraded to Windows 7 RC – how I kept from reinstalling everything, and what didn’t work, Jeffrey Palermo
• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems, K. Scott Allen
• VS2010 Beta1 "Delete existing objects before creating" flag for DB Deployment, WebDevTools
• A closer look at Sandboxing in (ASP.NET) V4, leastprivilege.com

Code to look at

• AttachedPropertyEvent pattern, Jan-Erik Romoeren, Bjorn Asplund
• Serializing and Deserializing Objects…to and from…XML, Steve Wellens
• Binary to Open XML Translator, and Freeform Shapes in the Office Drawing Format, Eric White
• Writing a complex custom configuration section, aftabahmed.nt
• Samples for the Undo Framework, Kirill Osenkov
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI., Brian Lagunas

Web

• GChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, canvas-rendered, pie, line, and area charts, Dion Almaer
• Optimize your Pages using CSS Sprites, emiaj
• HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC – Be Careful, David Hayden
• Plugging Away in Web Velocity, James Robertson

Database

• PowerShell and SQL Server: Script all Tables, Buck Woody
• Book: Refactoring SQL Applications - Stephane Faroult, Greg Low

Security

• June ThreatSense Report, David Harley
• The Middler – User Session Cloning & MITM Tool, Darknet

Cloud Computing

• The Cloud as a Platform for Platforms, AWS Evangelist
• Google App Engine Stalled Out For About 6 Hours Today, MG Siegler
• On-Demand/SaaS Reality: SaaS Buyer and #039;s Guide - Choosing the Right Vendor

Career

• Go, Go, Go! Setting the Rules for “Rush” Projects, Freelance Switch
• What's Keeping Me Up at Night During This Job Search?, Jane Allerton
• Enlist A Global Work Force Of Freelancers, Rich Whittle
• Empower your People, Paul Sloane
• Dice Reports Murky Waters For Tech Jobs, Leena Rao
• Why I Don’t Hide That I Work At Home, Nancy Nally
• How to Manage Virtual Teams from MIT SMR, binnur
• Agents of Change / When you’ve lost the room, Adam Goucher

Business

• Web Work 101: Jumping Into Your Web Business, Amber Riviere

Community

• I’ll be presenting at the Jacksonville Code Camp in Jacksonville, FL (August 29th, 2009), Andrew Connell

Other link blogs

• Summary 11.06.2009 – 02.07.2009, Bogdan Brinzarea
• LINKBLOG for July 2, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009, Jason Gaylord
• The Morning Brew #382, Chris Alcock