Other

• .NET Reflector Support: Can I edit assemblies I've opened in .NET Reflector? and .NET Reflector Support: Why doesn't the analyzer work for enum values?, Bart Read
• Quit Living in the Past - Practices Evolve, Scott C Reynolds
• SourceSafe Still? TFS2010 may be the TFS tipping point for you… and Getting started with Lucene.Net, the DimeCast version, Greg Duncan
• Contract First Development through Schema, Nicholas Allen
• Two free security tools from Microsoft SDL team and Seven steps for manually integrating SDL into your team project, Brian Harry
• October's Toolbox Column Now Online, Scott Mitchell
• Unit Tests and Debug.Assert(), Patrick Steele
• Generic collections - relegate to an appendix?, Jon Skeet
• Get ready to “go live” with Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2!, Brian Keller
• Five Myths about Managed Code, CLR Team
• Making your application sparkle with Windows 7, Somasegar
• Delegate Mapper, Greg Young

Code to look at

• Visual Studio IDE like Dock Container - Second Version, cromul
• Microsoft VEMap Using Pure Javascript, Abhishek Sur

Web

• New Elastic MapReduce Goodies: Apache Hive, Karmasphere Studio for Hadoop, Cloudera's Hadoop Distribution, AWS Blog
• Convert a Relative Path to Absolute Path with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX, Travis Illig
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 and AJAX Toolkit release, Salvador Gascon
• Enterprise Library Validation example for ASP.NET MVC 2, Brad Wilson
• Tip#98: Did you know… The default Application Pool Identity in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) changed from NetworkService to AppPoolIdentity?, WebDevTools
• Sueetie News for October 2, 2009, Dave Burke
• Lookbehind in Regex searches, Rick Strahl

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Pinal Dave
• New at SQLMag – TraceAnalyzer, Kevin Kline

Cloud Computing

• Blind to the elephant in the cloud, Phil Wainewright
• Biggest cloud of all: Amazon EC2 makes about $220 million a year, Joe McKendrick
• Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free!, AWS Blog

Career

• Talking Shop With Fellow Freelancers, Freelance Switch
• Online Writing Tips: Interviewing for the Web 101, Darrell Etherington
• 5 Tips for Adding a New Member to Your Web Working Team, Thursday Bram
• Call for October 'Innovation Perspectives', Branden Kelley
• Choosing a career path; which way do I go?, Joe Webb
• Do you sign the default contract?, Ayende Rahien
• Building Internal Community, Rick Mahn
• 10 Years at patterns & practices and I’ll Be Back, JD Meier

Innovation

• Innovation Velocity, Simon Evans and Victor Newman
• Innovation Maturity - A Primer..., Paul Williams
• Why I'm Following the Disruption, Scott Anthony

Community

• New England Code Camp 12 Update, Chris Bowen

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – October 2, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• My Weekly Bookmarks for October 2nd, Brent Ozar
• Everyman Links for October 2, 2009, Dave Burke