Other

• Improving Cold Startup Performance (Prefetch), Sasha Golshtein
• Small Companies Need Team System 2008: The Licensing Discussion, Benjamin Day
• Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers, Jeff Atwood … reminds me of Dave’s book: Why Software Sucks...and What You Can Do About It
• Your company won’t be as competitive staying on Windows XP, Bill Evjen
• Deploying Remote Desktop IP Virtualization Step-by-Step Guide, Microsoft Downloads
• On The Value Of Testing, Alfred Thompson
• 30 free Cheat Sheets (Browser compat, SEO, PHP, CSS, JS, SL, …), Walzenbach
• Best Practices for Individual Contribution, Scott Hanselman
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 9: POCO and Authentication Provider, Brad Abrams
• My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts and Snippets, Shawn Wildermuth
• When Cast doesn’t Cast to T, Bill Wagner

EF4, VS 2010, Windows 7

• Checking out one of the new stored procedure features in EF4, Julia Lerman
• 10-4 Episode 28: An Introduction to the Historical Debugger, Brian Keller
• Our Next Engineering Milestone: RTM, e7blog
• Visual Studio 2010: Delegates, Generic IEnumerable, Bruno Terkaly

Code to look at

• Design and Implementation of a High-performance TCP/IP Communications Library, owen654321

Silverlight

• What’s New In Silverlight 3 - Multi-Select List Box, Jesse Liberty

Database

• A window into the world of DBAs, BobCram
• Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services, Marco Russo
• Rant: Overselling your ability on a Job Interview, Jonathan Kehayias

PowerShell

• Dynamic binary modules, PowerShell Team

Security

• GFI LANguard 9 Review – Network Security Scanner & Vulnerability Management Tool, Darknet

Agile

• Position Statement for Panel on Agile People Issues, johanna

Cloud Computing

• Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse, AWS Blog
• Azure ROI Calculator, David Pallmann

Business

• Keeping Focused, Jeff Cornwall

Career

• How To Achieve Life Balance and How To Do The Utterly Impossible, Eric Hamm
• Freelancers Versus Employees: What to Expect, Thursday Bram
• We're moving to California, Paul Robichaux
• A Radical Start, red@work
• Scheduling My Time, Dawn Foster
• How to Strategize Your Trade Show Trip for Success, Nancy Nally
• Mentors are the Short Cuts, JD

Innovation

• Has innovation really changed much with the meltdown?, Jim Carroll
• Innovate Your Way out of a Recession, Braden Kelley

Community

• I declare the inaugural Atlanta Tester Dinner a success, Adam Goucher
• Ann Arbor Give Camp 2009, PSteele
• Thanks for CloudCampPDX!, Jason Mauer

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #395 and The Morning Bewq #396, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – July 22, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 345, Sam Gentile