Other

• Windows 7 Backup, Raj Kaimal
• Book Club: Design Sense (Michael Feathers), Mark Needham
• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles, Mark Russinovich
• Overlooked Core Product Key Rule, Patrick Hynds
• Binary Encoding Exercise, Nicholas Allen
• Hands On with Microsoft Security Essentials – terrible name, but product looks good, Tim Anderson
• TechDays: Anthony Vranic on Optimizing Your Application for the Windows 7 User Experience, Joey deVilla

Code to look at

• Using IHttpAsyncHandler and XMLHttpRequest to “push” messages to the client, Boek, Karel

Web

• Google Wave Starts Rolling, Picks Up Over 100,000 New Riders, MG Siegler
• Replace jQuery Validation Message Formatting with ASP.NET AJAX String.format(), Travis Illig
• A new JavaScript CDN from Microsoft, Lazycoder
• Death to .NET Events, K. Scott Allen

Silverlight

• Fix for the Silverlight 3 Stock Trader Reference Implementation, Gill Cleeren

Database

• Great new Whitepaper on High Availability, Buck Woody

Security

• W32/Rustock.F, a quite unknown Rustock.C dropper, Pincopall
• Tool for visualizing encrypted and/or packed data with special focus on PE-files ..., chrisu

Agile

• Are you smart enough to do without TDD, Daniel Cazzulino
• Agile Database Techniques using Visual Studio Team System Database Edition, Charles Sterling
• Successive Method Calls With MoQ, Phil Haack

Architecture

• [Article] EDA: SOA through the looking glass, Udi Dahan

Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing Picks for Business Analysts, Brenda Michelson
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/28/2009+, OakLeaf Systems
• Bioinformatics, Genomes, EC2, and Hadoop, AWS Blog

Career

• 3 Interviewing Lessons Learned While Out on the Job Search, Jane Allerton

Business

• Grow Your Business With Intention, Entrepreneur.com

Innovation

• One way to cultivate open innovation in small businesses, Innovation Weblog
• Managing Innovation is about Managing Change, Braden Kelley
• Engineers And Innovation: A Few Lessons, Stefan Lindegaard

Community

• Head of the Charles Regatta, NERD
• Running an Event on the Cheap, Jim Holmes
• Visual Studio Team System Events (Both VSTS 2008 and 2010), Charles Sterling

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – September 29, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for Sep 29, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• The Morning Brew #444, Chris Alcock