Other

• NHibernate 2.1 Changes Overview, Patrick Smacchia
• Quickstart tutorial into Enterprise Library logging, Dennis van der Stelt
• A new option for Project Management in Outlook, Dwayne Melancon
• Would you still write unit tests even if you couldn?t automatically re-run them tomorrow?, Tim Stall
• Hanselminutes Podcast 171 - The Return of Uncle Bob, Scott Hanselman
• How many times can you load an assembly into the same AppDomain?, Pawel Pabich
• Instantiating types with no public constructors, Kirill Osenkov
• Control vs. Velocity and Braindump on the Event Aggregator Pattern, Jeremy D Miller
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Value Calculator, Pinal Dave
• Claims Authorization in WIF Beta 2 – ASP.NET and WCF Integration, leastprivilege.com

Windows 7, VS 2010

• When will you get Windows 7 RTM?, Brandon LeBlanc
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - May Preview, Bruno Terkaly

Code to look at

• Building a Business Object Base Class and Formatting Text Files and Populating a TreeView Control from XML, Deborah Kurata

Web

• Wouldn’t it be Swell to be able to drag and drop between Web and desktop, Dion Almaer
• Introducing CodePaste.NET, Rick Strahl
• Update on the Compatibility View List in Internet Explorer 8, IE Blog

Mobile

• Apple App Store Vs. Android Vs. BlackBerry Vs. Ovi Vs…., Michael Hickins
• Notes from Mobile Camp Atlanta, July 2009, Glen Gordon

Database

• Read and Recommended - Resource Governor Whitepaper, Paul Randal
• When (data) length matters… SQL Server LEN vs DATALENGTH, Greg Duncan
• Hole in your Backup Sequence?, Merrillaldrich
• Performance impact: Linked server security configuration and how it can hurt you, Linchi Shea

Agile

• Why Scrum Coaching is Critical in Implementing VSTS and TFS, Joe Homnick
• What metrics should you track?, Wayne Allen

SOA

• SOA, cloud: it's the architecture that matters, Joe McKendrick

Cloud Computing

• July CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released, WindowsAzure
• Cloud Watching: Scale does not guarantee Performance, Business-Driven Architecture
• Sybase Mobilizes Enterprise Cloud Computing, Michael Hickins

Business

• Help Shape Business Ideas With the Idea Anglers, Scott Blitstein
• 32 Ways to Use Facebook for Business, Meryl Evans

Career

• The Essential Motivation Handbook, Zen Habits
• The Making of a Software Developer, Bill Wagner
• Manage Your Day In 18 Minutes, Jaclyn Wells
• Leadership is Why and When, Rosa Say
• How to Treat your Blog like a Business, Darren Rowse
• 10 Questions to Ask Yourself as the Recovery Begins...., Jim Carroll
• Bantam Live: A Social Project Management Dashboard, Thursday Bram
• How To Prioritize with Criteria and Weight, JD
• Virtual Camaraderie - A Persistent Video "Portal" for the Remote Worker, Scott Hanselman

Innovation

• Financial "Innovation", Jennifer
• Know Your Innovation Course, Innovation in the News
• Why management by consensus is killing innovation, Innovation Weblog

Community

• Slides for a talk on Performance, vancem

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – July 21, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft