Other

• Microsoft Reports Pre-Windows 7 Declines For Revenues And Profits. No More Excuses., Erick Schonfeld
• The new rules for the next economy .... and the role of IT, Jim Carroll
• Value objects: Immutability and Equality, Mark Needham
• Extreme Computing Opens Up Unlimited Possibilities, MSR
• Protect your files and PC with Windows 7 Backup, chfok
• Iterating atomically, Jon Skeet
• Peril of FileMode.OpenOrCreate, Nat Luengnaruemitchai … hmm I need to check my code for this one …
• ServiceModel: Assembly Size in .NET 4.0 and Why this Lack of Pureness Again?, Matevz Gacnik

Visual Studio 2010, .Net 4

• VS2010 Beta 2 : Pin to Source for debugging – COOL! But with a caveat, Julie Lerman
• VS 2010 Beta 2 Concurrency Visualizer Profiling In Depth First Look, John Robbins
• WCF Samples for .Net 4 Beta 2, Nicholas Allen

Data Access

• Fluent LINQ to SQL, Salvador Gascon

From CodePlex Feed

• Lingua.NET
• AsmHighlighter - x86 ASM Syntax Highlighting AddIn for Visual Studio: AsmHighlighter 1.2

Web

• Gummy Bear +48 Hours and Gummy Bear +48 Hours +YetAnotherForum.NET, Dave Burke
• Rich Tooltips With jQuery, Scott Mitchell
• Efficient JSON with Json.NET – Reducing Serialized JSON Size, James Newton-King

Security

• "Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives, Schneier

Debugging

• Special Command—Using # to Find Patterns of Assembly Instructions, Roberto Farah

PowerShell

• PowerShell goodness for TFS - PsTFS v1.0.0 Released, Greg Duncan
• Organizing Your PowerShell Scripts and Functions, Joel Bennett

Agile

• Agile for one: The Personal Story 'Wall' In Action,  Leon Bambrick

Cloud Computing

• Designing a High Performance Windows Azure Service!, DavidL
• Daily Cloud Feed - Oct 23, 2009, Cloud Feed

Career

• The Box: A Simple Way to Stay Organized and Productive, Amber Riviere
• How many years of experience do you have?, Mike Brown

Innovation

• Book Review and Innovation Summary - "When Growth Stalls", Braden Kelley
• Creating an Improved Environment for Innovation, Robert F Brands
• R&D for the rest of us, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – October 23, 2009, Alvin Aschcraft
• New and Notable 383, Sam Gentile
• My Weekly Bookmarks for October 23rd, Brent Ozar