Other

• Mercurial, Git and Scala, Brad Appleton
• Open Source Icons, Jamie
• 10 Tips on how to think like a designer, Presentation Zen
• The benefits of XCopy deployment, Patrick Smacchia
• Trying to delete a file but it’s “Locked” or “In Use?” – Free LockHunter to the rescue (beta), Greg Duncan
• Improved type safety when dealing with generic types, generic methods and reflection, Daniel Cazzulino
• Improvements to Interop Marshaling in V4: IL Stubs Everywhere, CLR Team
• Why doesn't String.Format throw a FormatException if you pass too many parameters?, Raymond Chen
• Quick look at STM.NET performance, Pawel Pabich
• Silverlight 3 “toast” notifications, Tim Heuer
• Rough Notes on Unity, Mike Taulty
• The Case of the Temporary Registry Profiles, Mark Russinovich

Windows 7

• Windows 7 tip: use Group by to merge and manage library views, Tim Anderson
• Windows API Code Pack V1 Released, Nicholas Allen
• Problem upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 if you have .NET Framework 4 beta 1 installed, Aaron Stebner
• Windows 7 Setup Hung? Here’s a Tip, SteveX
• Troubleshooting Windows 7 SDK Download/Install, Microsoft Windows SDK
• Windows 7 bios problems blocking virtualization, John Paul Cook

Entity Framework

• EF4 – New Properties for Entity Properties?, Julia Lerman

Code to look at

• RunSharp - Reflection.Emit Has Never Been Easier, Stefan Simek
• Turn On your PC/Computer programmatically / Automatically –Wake On LAN ( WOL ) over Internet- Wake On WAN ( WOW), Arunava Bhowmick

Database

• Lies damned lies and statistics - Part II, Elisabeth Redei
• Book Review: SQL in a Nutshell, Jonathan Kehayias
• SQL Server 2008 R2: Think Virtualization, Brent Ozar

Debugging

• What we do with a bug report?, e7blog
• Why do I see ExecutionEngineException, StackOverflowException and OutOfMemoryException on the heap when debugging .net applications?, Tess

Security

• Windows Firewall with Advanced Security: Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying Windows Firewall and IPsec Policies, Microsoft Downloads

Agile

• Refactoring for Agility, Brad Appleton

Cloud Computing

• ScaleOut Software Releases Tools, Northwest Innovation
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/10/2009+, OakLeaf Systems
• Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?, Joe McKendrick

Career

• The Power of Taking Extra Time to Create Content, Darren Rowse
• What Happened to the American Dream?, Barry Moltz
• Here I go again! Programming Entity Framework 2nd Edition (for EF4), Julia Lerman
• Choose The Right Goals, Davy Brion
• What I hate about the 4-hour work week …, Michael Cage
• How to Network With Busy People – Part 12, Steve Pavlina

Business

• Burning Cash Is For Toasting Marshmallows [cartoon], Dharmesh Shah
• You Call Them Business Partners But Your Contract Says Otherwise, Mike Figliuolo

Innovation

• Creativity in business: An interview with Paul Scheele, Innovation Weblog
• The Input Needed for Open Innovation, Stefan Lindegaard
• Creating Innovation Metrics, Braden Kelley

Community

• Building Partnerships and Creating Community, cstephenson

Other link blogs

• Summary 07.08.2009 – 08.08.2009 and Summary 09.08.2009 – 11.08.2009, Bogdan Brizarea
• Dew Drop – August 10, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for August 10, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• New and Notable 353, Sam Gentile
• The Morning Brew #409, Chris Alcock