Other

• Debunking the duct tape programmer, Jeffrey Palermo
• TDD: It makes you question what you're doing and The Duct Tape Programmer: Some thoughts, Mark Needham
• Boston ranks as 9th-largest economy in U.S., Boston Business Journal
• Tired of entering your login info every time you open a CodePlex hosted Solution in Visual Studio?, Greg Duncan
• Pondering Axum + F#, Matthew Podwysocki
• Hanselminutes Podcast 181 - Monomania - Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware, Scott Hanselman

Code to look at

• Using ASP.NET MVC and the OpenXML API to Stream Excel Files, caloia
• Extending the ObservableCollection to add navigation methods such as MoveFirst, MoveNext, MoveLast, and MovePrevious., Brian Lagunas
• The beauty of 2 state enums, Morten Lyhr

Data Access

• Databasing framework with LINQ support., Paulo Zemek
• DAL: Using a Data Provider Factory, Deborah Kurata

Web

• 7 Tips for Loading JavaScript Rich Web 2.0-like Sites Significantly Faster, Omar Al Zabir
• Html Encoding Code Blocks With ASP.NET 4, Phil Haack

Silverlight

• ColorPicker Control for WPF/Silverlight, Kirill Osenkov

Debugging

• Dictionary of Debugging: Kernel Space, Dmitry Vostokov

Architecture

• Architecture is about appropriate context, Todd Biske

SOA

• The SOA Magazine Issue XXXII, September 2009 (Editor, Thomas Erl), The SOA Magazine

Career

• Long-term Projects: Moving Past the Distractions, Thursday Bram
• The Slow Secret: How to Make Lasting Changes in Your Life, Leo Babauta

Business

• (Cornell Study) What Entrepreneurs Want From VCs: Independence And Faster Feedback, Erick Schonfeld
• Errors and Omissions Insurance: Do Freelancers Need It?, Thursday Bram

Innovation

• Making Innovation Happen in the Downturn, Stefan Lindegaard
• Innovation Perspectives - An Innovation Progression, Mark Roser
• Innovation Fallacies, Jeffrey Phillips

Community

• Cloud Security summit offered free on September 30th, Greg Hughes

Other link blogs

• Bookmarks for September 25th, Brent Ozar
• Dew Drop – September 25, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 374, Sam Gentile