Other

• MonoTouch: Mono on iPhone closed preview, Miguel de Icaza
• Release: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Alessandro Perilli
• Step-By-Step: Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine, Scott Hanselman
• Reporting Code Diff, Patrick Smacchia

Code to look at

• Singleton pattern in a multiple worker thread Application Pool, Wawrzyniec Wawro

Web

• Debugging Client-Side JavaScript Using Firebug's Console, Simon Pickersgill
• Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86), Microsoft Downloads
• Internet Explorer 8 – Developer Tools - Debugging HTML and CSS, Bruno Terkaly
• 10 Useful Thunderbird Add-ons for Almost Everybody, Meryl Evans
• ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Sample Code and Demo, Jim Duffy
• Put Your Views (and Pages) On a Diet and Default Templated Views, Phil Haack

Silverlight

• Building Silverlight 2 and 3 applications with Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight 3 Bouncing plane gratuitous demo and FloatableWindow source on CodePlex, Tim Heuer

Database

• Free SQL Server Training Events, Brent Ozar
• Performance impact: Can SELECT (NOLOCK) block INSERTs?, Linchi Shea
• Uniquely Identifying XML Nodes with DENSE_RANK, Adam Mechanic
• The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit, Buck Woody
• Plan Caching Whitepaper for SQL Server 2008, Greg Low
• SQL SERVER – Forgot the Password of Username SA, Pinal Dave
• The Query Optimizer and Contradiction Detection, Ben Nevarez

Security

• Building in Surveillance, Schneier
• ThreatSense.Net® Report for July, David Harley

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/3/2009+, OakLeaf Systems
• Windows Azure - Links and Resources and Compressed GZip content from Windows Azure blob storage, Sriram Krishnan … these are both old but look interesting
• Migrating from “USA - Northwest”, Windows Azure
• Peering into the SQL Azure documentation, Jamie Thomson

Career

• How To Be Endlessly Motivated, Eric Hamm
• How to Network With Busy People – Part 6, Steve Pavlina
• Career or Job?, Vlad Mazek
• Dialogue, Debate and Discussion, JD
• Your Life, Simplified, Zen Habits
• Learn New Skills for a Tough Job Market, MSDN
• Trust and the test of relationships, Dwayne Melancon
• How to Network With Busy People – Part 7, Steve Pavlina

Business

• What They Don’t Teach You In Biz School About Being An Entrepreneur, Rich Whittle
• Building Startup Sales Teams: Tips For Founders, Dharmesh Shah

Innovation

• Innovation by Collaboration, Branden Kelley
• The Cycle of Innovation (Step 4 - Tactical Processes), Paul Williams
• 35 Creative Thinking Techniques, Mitch Ditkoff

Community

• Developer Day, NERD
• August PADNUG Meeting - Windows Workflow Foundation 4, Rich Claussen
• Lansing Day of .NET 2009, Patrick Steele

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – August 3, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• Interesting Links August 3rd 2009, Alfred Thompson
• LINKBLOG for August 3, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• Links of the week #85 - “Off by one” Edition, David Vidmar
• Summary 18.07.2009 – 04.08.2009, Bogdan Brinzarea
• The Morning Brew #404, Chris Alcock