Other

• Focusing on Data – Try #3, Sam Gentile
• Response: "Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease" by Ted Neward, Jeffrey Palermo
• Software Externalities, Phil Haack
• Haacked, but not content; agile still treats the disease, Ted Neward
• Agile Helps But It Has Not Really Solved Anything, Neil Roodyn
• RunAs Radio podcasts you might want to listen to, Dana Epp
• Parallelizing a loop with tasks, avoiding the pitfall, The Moth
• Visual Studio 2010 Linker performance improvements, Matt Pietrek
• WCF Case Studies Year 2, Nicholas Allen
• Refactoring Dinner: Interfaces instead of Inheritance, Sharon Cichelli
• My Tools of the Trade, Jeff Schoolcraft
• Who’s Got .NET Framework 3.5?, Joey deVilla
• BlogML 2.1 Released, Keyvan Nayyeri
• Introducing the Reactive Framework Part I, Matthew Podwysocki
• Slides for Patterns & Practices Talk: Desiging for Performance, vancem
• The State of Solid State Hard Drives, Jeff Atwood

Code to look at

• Create INSERT batch files easily with ScriptBuilder, gkushner
• DNJ : the .Net Framework for JQuery and JQueryUI, Alaa-eddine Kaddouri
• WinForms User Controls 101, Deborah Kurata
• WeakReferences, GCHandles and WeakArrays, Paulo Zemek

Web

• xVal, Salvador Gascon
• ASP.NET MVC2 Preview 2: Areas and Routes, K. Scott Allen
• New in the Sueetie Wiki: Installing Gummy Bear and New in the Sueetie Wiki: Theming Gummy Bear and Other New Sueetie Wiki Docs of Note for October 14, 2009, Dave Burke
• ASP.NET 4.0 Web Form routing, Fredrik Normen

Database

• Planning Database Servers, Paul Nielsen
• Pre and Post Deployment Events, Data Dude

Cloud Computing

• Selecting the Right Platform for SaaS, philw

Career

• Do Life and Laundry Get in the Way of Your Job Search?, Jane Allerton
• Are Freelancers a Commodity or a Profession?, Rita Lewis
• How 12 Experts Make Money Through Their Blogs (And How You Can Learn Their Secrets), Jade Craven
• So, You Want To Be A Microsoft MVP?, John Bristowe

Business

• Best Practices: Software Sales: Eight Signals that Your Pipeline is Bogus, David Taber

Innovation

• The purpose of qualitative research in innovation, Innovation Weblog
• Open Innovation and Intrapreneurship For Small and Medium Sized Companies and Which Innovation Efforts Will Pay?, Innovation in the News

Community

• Northeast MSDN Roadshow - “Don’t Fear the Coder” Tour, Chris Bowen
• NoVa CodeCamp 2009.02 Wrap up, Jeff Schoolcraft

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – October 13, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for October 13, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof
• Daily Review #1, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #454, Chris Alcock