Today is CodeMastery day!  Now I need to go dig the car out so I can get there…

Other

• Ruby for Windows with debug support, Marcin Obel
• Tips for Automation Success: Making Tests Repeatable and Consecutive, Brent Strange
• "Parallelism in .NET" Series by Reed Copsey, Jr., igoro
• F# and the Dynamic Lookup Operator ala C#, Matthew.Podwysocki
• Optimisations in LINQ to Objects, Jon Skeet
• Vote for future Entity Framework and Data Services Features, Eric Nelson
• Iron Python 2.6.1 RC Now Available and IronRuby 1.0 Release Candidate 2, Charlie Calvert
• Moving iTunes libraries from one hard drive to another, Tim Jarrett

Visual Studio 2010

• Help for (Visual Studio) Help in VS 2010 (and VS2010 SP1) and VS 2010 RC now available for download to the general public (no MSDN Subscription required), Greg Duncan
• A TFS 2010 Upgrade success story, Brian Harry
• RIA Services in VS2010 Beta 2 and a Debug problem caused by Intellitrace and Installing Visual Studio 2010 RC from a Virtual DVD? and Beware Self-Tracking Entities Conflict with Entity Framework CTP & VS2010 RC, Julia Lerman
• Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 RC Ready for General Download, Jason Zander
• Don’t install Visual Studio 2010 RC just yet, Brian Lagunas
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC, Microsoft Downloads
• Architecture Model Projects from Beta 2 not working in Release Candidate (Fix), Charles Sterling
• Installing ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 on Visual Studio 2010 RC, Phil Haach
• Getting Windows Azure development working with the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate, Eric Nelson

Code to look at

• TDD approach to ASP.NET WebForm development, Max Civino

Web

• Using real data to judge a design is crucial, Matt
• Resolving ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Installation Errors, Jason Gaylord

Silverlight

• WCF and netTCP Binding in Silverlight 4, mtaulty

Database

• Start a SQL Server Agent Job using the SQL Server PowerShell Provider, Buck Woody
• SQL SERVER – ALTER DATABASE dbname SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE, Pinal Dave

Cloud Computing

• Brad Smith on the Cloud in the 21st century, Eric Nelson
• New AWS Feature: Consolidated Billing, AWS Blog
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 2/10/2010+, OakLeaf Systems
• Visual Studio 2010 RC Rocks – Getting Started with Cloud Computing – 3 Steps to the Clouds (Azure), BrunoTerkaly
• Visual Model of Cloud Computing, JD Meier
• SQL Azure North Central US datacenter is online, davidrob
• 7 simple steps to run your first Azure Queue program, Shivprasad koirala, Shah Chintan

Career

• Bad Freelancing Opportunities, FreelanceSwitch.com
• Stillness is a Powerful Action, Leo Babauta
• 10,000 Times the Productivity, JD

Business

• Let Customers Go Without Ruining Your Reputation and Make Your First Million, Entrepreneur.com
• New Bizop Classified Ads This Week, Dane Carlson

Innovation

• P&G Launches eStore to Test Marketing Concepts, MarketingVOX
• Technology Does Not Equal Innovation, Jeffrrey Phillips

Community

• Roanoke Code Camp is 13 Mar 2010!, Andy Leonard
• C4C 2010 | Current list of charities, Doug Butscher

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – February 10, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Quick Links Week #8, Mark Levison
• New and Notable 402, Sam Gentile
• Daily Cloud Feed - Feb 10, 2010, Cloud Feed
• The Morning Brew #537, Chris Alcock