Other

• Refactor Your Build Scripts and Which One Do You Prefer?, Davy Brion
• Query transformations are syntactic, Eric Lippert
• UMass report details local IT economy, Boston Business Journal
• Introducing Siege, mbratton
• Targeting VS 2008 with the Visual Studio 2010 SDK, Aaron Marten
• Preliminary Review of Advanced .NET Debugging, Dmitry Vostokov

Visual Studio 2010

• Shipping a great release, Brian Harry
• “Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4” gets some VB love…, Greg Duncan

Code to look at

• How to invoke Visual Studio from the Windows Explorer Shell, maxilboia

Data Access

• Building a recommendation engine in NHibernate, Ayende Rahien

From CodePlex Feed

• Script Engine by C# and regular expression
• nopCommerce. Open Source online shop e-commerce solution.: nopCommerce 1.40
• SysAdmin: SysAdmin Extended Edition 3.2.0
• Team Foundation Server Administration Tool: 2.0 CTP

Web

• How To Add 20 Best Features Of Other Browsers to Firefox, bspcn
• A Quick Start Lesson to the ASP.NET ImageMap Control, All-In-One Code Framework
• Localizing ASP.NET MVC Validation, Phil Haack

Database

• SQL Server Best Practices: Use Roles When You Can, Buck Woody
• New Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard CTP, Stephen Forte

PowerShell

• Free (reg-ware) PowerShell v1 eBook (593 pages) – “SAPIEN’s Windows Powershell V1.0: TFM”, Greg Duncan

Agile

• The Benefits of Feature Teams, Mike Cohn
• Quick Agile Links #4, Mark Levison
• Agile talent management software – Your survival plan?, Michael Specht

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure and the many faces of cloud, Phil Wainewright
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/7/2009+, OakLeaf Systems
• Gear6 Web Cache Server for the Cloud and AWS Price Reductions and Free Inbound Data Transfer, AWS Evangelist
• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : Invalid object name ’sys.configurations’. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 208), Pinal Dave

Career

• 20 Key Questions on Motivation and Habits, Answered, Leo Babauta
• 12 Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Surprise You, Rich Whittle
• Surviving An Unhappy Workplace, Jaclyn Wells
• Teaching Web Working: 5 Tips, Thursday Bram
• Job Opening on my Team, Harry Pierson
• Reduce your Leadership to a Part-time Gig in 2010, Rosa Say

Business

• Guarantees, SLAs, and Hollow Promises, Nate

Innovation

• Book Short: Innovation and Discipline, Matt
• Innovation and the "chip away" theory, Jeffrey Phillips
• What I’m Looking Forward to in 2010, Simon Mackie
• Great Lessons From Orlando: The Open Innovation Summit, Stefan Lindegaard

Community

• New England Data Camp v2.0 (SQL Saturday #34) - January 30, Waltham MA - Registration and Call for Speakers Open, Adam Machanic

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – Experimental Edition – December 7, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 395, Sam Gentile
• Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 7, 2009, Cloud Feed
• The Morning Brew #493, Chris Alcock