276 unread entries this morning.  Weather around Boston this morning: 27 degrees and mostly clear.

Other

• Amazon Launches Kindle Software Development Kit, Northwest Innovation
• Fix for Gradual Debugger Slowdown, Nicholas Allen
• Constructor over-injection smell – follow up, Jeffrey Palermo
• Have 1.9 million apps open, but now have to reboot? Cache My Work [so they re-open after your reboot], Greg Duncan
• What’s the difference between a destructor and a finalizer?, Eric Lippert
• A Chat with Don Syme, MSR
• Flag Parameters are Evil! (Or at least unclear), Jim Holmes
• 18 Questions to ask yourself when choosing continuous integration and build automation tools, Roy Osherove
• Advanced StructureMap: Diagnosing problems, bogardj
• Rejecting Dependency Injection Inversion, Ayende Rahien

Code to look at

• Embedding IronPython in a C# Application, James Wucher
• VS SDK/VS Package Find Item in Solution Explorer Window, Roman_K
• Multicasting Messages with AppFabric – Publish / Subscribe Sample Application – Part 2 of X, Bruno Terkaly

Data Access

• Core NHibernate Course in London, 24th February, Ayende Rahien
• Bulk INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE in LINQ To SQL, Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi
• Writing Entity References using LINQ to XML, Eric White

Web

• ASP.NET: Aligning Text, Deborah Kurata
• Server-side resizing with WPF: now with JPG, Bertrand Le Roy
• Sueetie.com now comes in Peppermint!, Dave Burke

Silverlight

• Aspen – A sample app using Silverlight 4 and .Net 4.0 – part 5 of X – New Repository implementation, Frederik Normen
• Writing a Profiler for Silverlight 4, David Broman

Database

• RedGate SQL Search, Dave Sussman
• SQL Server – Find the most expensive operations in Execution plans, Mladen Prajdic
• SQL SERVER – Execution Plan – Estimated I/O Cost – Estimated CPU Cost – No Unit, Pinal Dave

Security

• ATM Skimmer, Schneier
• Burp Suite v1.3 Released – Integrated Platform For Attacking Web Applications, Darknet

Agile

• My 3 part series on Agile Program Management on Port 25, Sara Ford

Cloud Computing

• VMware releases Python and Java open source SDKs for its vCloud APIs and Is over-capacity inevitable in cloud computing?, Alessandro Perilli
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Anthony Du Preez, Founder of Tradeslot and Adslot, Windows Azure
• Windows Azure WCF Add Service Reference Patch and Windows 7, jnak … finally!
• ARCast.TV special on designing multi tenant applications for Windows Azure, Glen Gordon

Career

• Book Week: The Politics of Writing Books, Brent Ozar
• Yawn … Don’t Let Boring Work Get You Down, Dawn Foster
• Now Hiring! Open Innovation Managers at Hershey and Intuit, Stefan Lindegaard
• Keeping Employees Informed - A Step-by-Step Guide, Holly Green

Business

• 6 Easy Ways to Market Your Business, Amber Singleton Riviere

Innovation

• What good innovators know, Jeffrey Phillips
• What do world class innovators do that others don't do?, Jim Carroll
• Brainstorming Is More Than Ideation, Mitch Ditkoff
• What is Design Thinking?, Venessa Miemis

Community

• Complimentary Web Seminar: The Search for Meaning in Fuzzy Data: Can Advanced Statistical Techniques Be Applied to Qualitative Research?, Melissa
• Resources and Screencasts from the Northeast MSDN Roadshow “Don’t Fear the Coder” Tour, Chris Bowen
• Architecture Analysis Webcast 9am Friday, Jeffrey Palermo

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – January 21, 2009, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 21, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Links (1/21/2010), Steve Pietrek
• Community Links LVIII, Charlie Calvert
• The Morning Brew #523, Chris Alcock