Happy New Year! 

Other

• Is DaaS the New Information Goldmine?, Entrepreneur.com
• The Morning Brew - Review of the Year 2009, Chris Alcock
• Waving goodbye to the old, embracing the new, Arjan Zuidhof … Arjan’s got a link problem too, believe me I know how you feel.
• OOP: Behavioural and Structural constraints, Mark Needham
• A hardware/temp monitor utility even your [insert name here] could use – CPUID’s HWMonitor and Local file system browsing, WebBrowser control, Windows 7 and in-place navigation? Don’t. Use Windows API Code Pack / Explorer Browser control instead, Greg Duncan
• An IoC-Agnostic Prism Bootstrapper, Ward Bell
• How to capture an idea, Tyler Cowen
• Micro optimization decision process, Ayende Rahien

Code to look at

• Wake the PC from standby or hibernation, Daniele Di Sarli  … now if I could just get it to have the coffee ready for me too.

Web

• ASP.NET MVC extensibility, Salvador Gascon

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4 Screencasts - the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Mike Taulty

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 12/31/2009+, OakLeaf Systems
• Simple 5 steps to run your first Azure program, Shivprasad Koirala
• Windows Azure Platform Training Course, MSDN
• Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 31, 2009, Cloud Feed

Career

• Looking Back at 2009 and Forward at 2010, Brent Ozar
• 2009 Year in Review, Nicholas Allen
• What Are Your 2010 Predictions for the Job Market?, Norma
• Tips from 2009 for a prosperous 2010, Phil Wainewright
• Recovering from the depths of developer burn out - Some tips from the field, Greg Duncan
• Looking Ahead to 2010 – New Year’s Resolutions, Andrew Connell
• Look back on 2009 and plans for the new year, Gail
• It’s time to look ahead to 2010, Bill Wagner
• How To Change a Habit and Make It Stick, JD
• WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 1, Simon Mackie
• Closing out 2009 – Goals in Review, Jonathan Kehayias

Innovation

• Value added innovation, Jeffrey Phillips

Community

• Agile 2010, Nashville August 9-13, Ade Miller
• Year in Review: My Series on Building Developer Communities, Andy Leonard

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – December 31, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for Dec 31, 2009, Arjan Zuidhof