Other

• One-Way (Or Fire And Forget) Requests With Agatha, Davy Brion
• Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway, Jeff Atwood
• Predictions for 2010: Eight IT Predictions for 2010, Jake Sorofman
• An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft’s Newest Data Visualization Tool, Leena Rao
• jQuery Wins .net Magazine’s Open Source Application of the Year, Rey Bango
• Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Implementation Guide, Microsoft Downloads
• Effective C#, 2nd Edition: What Content got dropped, and why?, Bill Wagner
• Building Hello MEF – Part II – Metadata and why being Lazy is a good thing. and Building Hello MEF – Part II – Metadata and why being Lazy is a good thing., Glenn Block

.Net 4.0, Visual Studio 2010

• Some of my Recent Entity Framework 4 content and An Easier way to call Model Defined Functions in EF4, Julia Lerman
• Improvements in Intellisense post Beta 2, Brian Harry
• Fix for possible NGen service deadlocks during product installation is coming in the .NET Framework 4, Aaron Stebner

Code to look at

• Program Update DLL, Twaitsey
• BSDG – Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting Presentation Sample Code, Brian Lagunas
• Parsing the Entity Framework EDMX file, Dave Elliott

From CodePlex Feed

• HealthVault Imaging Sample Application
• DDDSample.Net: 0.5
• jQuery Web Controls ASP.Net: jQueryWebControls 1.0
• Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool: PAL v2.0 Alpha 3
• URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy: Url Rewriter 3.5

Data Access

• Visual NHibernate, Salvador Gascon

Web

• Simplify ASP.Net, Salvador Gascon

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4 Videos, Salvador Gascon
• Silverlight: ComboBox SelectedItem, Deborah Kurata

Database

• Knowing the Relative Value of Databases, Brent Ozar
• Performance impact: UNION ALL views, ANSI_PADDING, and bad query plans, Linchi Shea

Agile

• Agile Design: Intentional Yet Emergent, Mike Cohn

Cloud Computing

• Gartner AADI Next Week: SOA, Clouds, and Event Clouds, Brenda Michelson
• Azure: There is not enough space on the disk, Tom
• Where SOA and cloud computing intersect: the loosely coupled business, Joe McKendrick
• Bing Outage is Ding on Microsoft Azure, Erik Sherman

Career

• ProBlogging – 10 Things I Wish I Knew when I Started, Darren Rowse
• What Disaster School Taught Me About Freelancing, Freelance Switch
• How to Get Millions of Video Viewers: Cali Lewis, GeekBrief.TV and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, Barry Moltz
• Stay Focused and Avoid Distractions: The Next 3 Things, Dawn Foster
• My New Year’s Productivity Resolutions: A Work-in-progress, Darrell Etherington
• 5 Fast Motivators, Georgina Laidlaw
• 12 Steps to Grow Diversity in Your Personal Network, Mike Brown
• The Greatest Strength, Patrick Hynds

Innovation

• Article - "The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast", Jim Carroll

Community

• Web Innovators Group 24 (WebInno24), NERD

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – December 4, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 4, 2009, Cloud Feed