Other

• Is Software Craftsmanship too gender specific?, Mark Nijhof
• Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML: Book Review, Mark Needham
• Throwing computers at health care, Nicholas Carr
• Windows 7 for Dev’s – One getting started page to rule them all?, Greg Duncan
• DOWNLOADS: Spruce up Your Holidays with Windows 7, Sean Alexander
• File Management API (Windows 7 x64) and File Management API (Windows 7 x86), Microsoft Downloads
• Data and Modeling Talks from PDC 2009, Chris Sells
• December's Toolbox Column Now Online, Scott Mitchell
• TFS 2010 Power Tools are Available, Brian Harry
• Hanselminutes Podcast 186: .NET Debugging 101 with Tess Ferrandez and Hanselminutes Podcast 187: Software Tester James Bach and The Voyage of a Buccaneer-Scholar and Hanselminutes Podcast 188: ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta with Phil Haack, Scott Hanselman
• Software Development – Old School V. New School, Alfred Thompson

.Net 4.0

• Parallel Extensions Articles, Microsoft Downloads

Code to look at

• Fast polymorphic math parser, Tomek Kawecki

From CodePlex Feed

• NJection - A .NET Code Injection Library
• XEntity
• .NET XMLBuilder: XMLBuilder 1.0.0

Data Access

• Migrating to Fluent NHibernate, bogardj

Web

• Deliver better video with IIS Smooth Streaming, Mike Ormond
• jQuery (jTemplates) Grid, Alexandru Cibotari
• Google Analytics unblocks the Web w/ Async support, Dion Almaer

Silverlight

• My Take on Brad Abrams' PDC RIA Services Talk., Shawn Wildermuth
• Sharing Silverlight Assemblies with .NET Apps, CLR Team

Database

• Follow Up on Failed Connections and Threadpool waits, Jonathan Kehayias
• SQL SERVER – Validate an XML document in TSQL using XSD by Jacob Sebastian, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Using OpenAccess and Telerik Reporting with SQL Azure, Stephen Forte
• IBM Continues To Show that It Gets the Cloud, Erik Sherman
• Introducing Windows Azure Diagnostics, Windows Azure
• How to: Add an HTTPS Endpoint to a Windows Azure Cloud Service, jnak

Career

• New To Networking? No Problem, Entrepreneur.com
• Start Now to Wrap Up 2009 and Prepare for 2010, Dawn Foster
• Doubling Your Rate: A Thought Experiment, Jason Cohen

Business

• 7 Things You Should Know Before Starting a Business, Inc.com
• Splitting Work and Personal Expenses, Thursday Bram

Innovation

• Why brainstorming doesn't work and Learn the five secrets of innovation, Innovation in the News
• Why Starbucks' Via Might Not Be Doomed, Scott Anthony
• Barriers to innovation: The 'factory' mentality, Innovation Weblog
• Do you have a relevant message?, Braden Kelley

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – December 1, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 394, Sam Gentile
• Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 1, 2009, Cloud Feed
• Daily Review #42, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #489, Chris Alcock