Happy 4th of July!  Sunny already in Boston.

Other

• The fallacy of the standardized developer machine/image, Jean-Paul Boodhoo
• dotNetDave - dotNetTips.Utility 3.5 Released, H. Steele Price, IV

Code to look at

• Simple .NET Profanity Filter, James Newton-King
• Implementing sort in a generic collection, edlias
• How to get the EventArgs as a CommandParameter using the AttachedCommandBehaviour, marlongrech
• How to perform WPF Data Binding using LINQ to XML and How to perform WPF Data Binding using LINQ to XML – Part 2, Balamurali Balaji

Web

• Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce Vendors Left Hanging, Robin Wauters
• Restricting BlogEngine.NET Comments to Sueetie Registered Users Only, Dave Burke

Database

• SQL SERVER – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices, Pinal Dave

Debugging

• VS Debugging - Why did VS stop breaking on Exceptions?, Julie Lerman
• 10 Common Mistakes in Memory Analysis (Part 4), Dmitry Vostokov

SOA

• SOA Patterns With BizTalk Server 2009 (and Biztalk ESB Toolkit), HernanDL

Cloud Computing

• Meffifying Windows Azure, Glenn Block

Career

• Why a manager may not want you to learn, Tim Stall
• Turning Down Special Requests, Jaclyn
• How to Become More Successful, Steve Pavlina
• Lessons Learned from Bruce Lee, JD
• How to Stop Acting Like Such a Big Baby, Jonathan Mead

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for July 3, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• Dew Droplet – July 1-3, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft