Other

• Refactoring Day 15 : Remove Duplication and Refactoring Day 16 : Encapsulate Conditional, schambers
• The theft of ideas and content, Joe Webb
• CodePlex Editor Role, Harry Pierson
• Should I use MEF for my general IoC needs?, Glenn Block
• Demeter Transmogrifiers To The Rescue, Phil Haack
• ORM Comparison, Salvador Gascon
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0RC, James Gregory
• Getting stuck in the weeds, bogardj
• A GC API that would be convenient, Patrick Smacchia

.Net 4

• Named and optional parameters in C# 4.0 and Dynamic Typing in C# 4.0, Farooq Kaiser

Web

• Form validation with ASP.NET MVC using the IErrorDataInfo interface and Entity Framework with ASP.NET MVC and Handling Unknown Actions in ASP.NET MVC, Farooq Kaiser
• PocketSOAP v1.5.5, Simon Fell
• Announcing Sueetie Themes, Dave Burke
• Firefox and IE deal with no-cache differently, Sriram Krishnan

Database

• Geek City: ALTERing a Partition Function, Kalen Delaney
• Performance impact: tempdb and update statistics, Linchi Shea
• SQL SERVER – Measure CPU Pressure – CPU Business, Pinal Dave

Security

• Twitter Being Used As Botnet Command Channel, Darknet

Agile

• The Scrum Methodology and The Future of Agile Software Testing with xUnit And Beyond, Adam Goucher

Career

• The Best Advice I Ever Got, Adam Goucher
• The Passionate Programmer, John Bristowe

Innovation

• 10 Innovation Lessons I've Learned, Breden Kelley

Community

• Back from DevLink 2009!, Shawn Wildermuth
• Survive the Technology Avalanche - 2009 EU Tour, Michele Bustamante

Other link blogs

• LINKBLOG for August 16, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• Links of the week #87 - “Snow Patrol” Edition, David Vidmar
• New and Notable 357, Sam Gentile
• Links (8/16/2009), Steve Pietrek
• The Morning Brew #413, Chris Alcock