Other

• PortableApps Suite Out in New Beta, Samuel Dean
• Improving Cold Startup Performance (Rebasing, Compression), Sasha Goldshtein
• Sysinternals ProcMon v2.5 Released, Greg Duncan
• If you wished a language supported the preprocessor, you know, you can fix that, Raymond Chen
• MonoDevelop Refactoring, Miguel de Icaza
• India Becomes R&D Hot Spot as High-Tech Firms Cut Costs, Microsoft Research
• What Is New in Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Downloads
• Support more than 64 cores from .NET code?, The Moth
• An F# HelloWorld Style Crawler / Scraper (if you may), Adnan Masood
• When Win7 ships you'll need to buy all new software, Susan Bradley
• Windows 7 - "XP Mode" Walkthrough, Shawn Wildermuth

.Net 4.0

• .NET Framework 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, WCF Enhancements, Bruno Terkaly

Database

• Flow control in T-SQL Scripts, merrillaldrich
• Great Blogs From Microsoft SQL Server Teams, Kevin Kline
• The effects of DISTINCT in a SQL query, Joe Webb

PowerShell

• PowerShell : Display a GUID as string by default, The PowerShell Guy

Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing, Adnan Masood

Career

• The 3-Month Checkup: What Is New and Improved in My Job Search?, Jane Allerton
• Received a Pink Slip, Now What?, Barry Moltz
• Proven Practices for Individual Contributors, JD
• Turn a Hotel Room into a Web Working Office, Thursday Bram
• What It Is Like to be A Student?, Alfred Thompson

Innovation

• Are we thinking fast enough?, Jim Carroll
• A Look Beneath the Silver Lining, Boris Pluskowski
• Book Review - "The Silver Lining" by Scott Anthony and Innovation Conversations with Scott Anthony, Branden Kelley

Community

• Meetup in NYC, next Thurs, Dave Winer
• C# SIG Meeting – 07/21/2009 – Recap, Rhonda Tipton

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – July 24, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft