New release of Windows Azure Tools and SDK out … I had a feeling they might release new stuff around TechEd.

TechEd

• Microsoft TechEd 2010 is OData enabled, Greg Duncan
• Microsoft TechEd 2010 Day 1 Keynote: Cloud Computing, jminatel
• TechEd 2010 Agile Pre-Con (PRC07) Session Recap and Materials, Stephen Forte
• Windows Azure News at TechEd 2010, Windows Azure
• SQL Azure at TechEd 2010, davidrob
• SQL Azure Roadmap gets a little clearer – announcements from Tech Ed, Eric Nelson

Other

• Pluralcast 17 : M, the Modeling Language, David Starr
• USB devices and Hyper-V – remote client yes, host no, Tim Anderson
• Building a Requirements Foundation with Customer Interviews, Esther
• Expression Studio 4 launch–Blend, Web, Encoder, Design, Tim Heuer
• Expression Studio Ultimate, Microsoft Downloads
• My favorite Expression 4 features, Somasegar
• Links to New Platform Bits and Announcing: VS2010 Productivity Power Tools and Modeling Feature Packs, Jason Zander
• ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1, Ken Cox
• Copy Code in HTML format with Visual Studio 2010, Kirill Osenkov
• New Pex release 0.92: Rex and Silverlight, Peli
• Workflow Tracking Profile Editor, Dennis van der Stelt
• VS 2010 and Expression Tree Visualization, Patrick Smacchia

Code to look at

• RIA Services Samples Project on CodePlex, Nikhil Kothari
• Writing to an XML File With Attributes, Deborah Kurata

From CodePlex Feed

• Hotel Management System
• ScrewTurn ASP.NET Proxy Membership Provider
• SimpleBlog.NET MVC
• DebugWriterTextBox
• AmazonPriceTicker

Web

• 5 Secrets to Selecting Highly-Effective SEO Keywords, Michael Mothner
• SEO-Tools-Backlink-Checkers-to-Check-Links-to-Any-Site, Brian Payne
• Update to the Critical Path Training SharePoint Site Collection Keep Alive Utility, Andrew Connell
• IE Diagnostics, IE Blog

Database

• Connect Spotlight: Rename Instance Name, Lara Rubbelke
• My favourite feature of SQL 2008 R2, Rob Farley
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack, Microsoft Downloads
• SQL SERVER – Merge Operations – Insert, Update, Delete in Single Execution, Pinal Dave

Debugging

• Debugging .NET 2.0 Assembly from unmanaged Code in VS2010?, Rick Strahl

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2 (June 2010) and Q&A: Will my favourite ORM Foo work with SQL Azure?, Eric Nelson
• Announcing the June 2010 Release of the Windows Azure Tools + SDK and Debug your Windows Azure Cloud Services using IntelliTrace, cctblog
• June 2010 Release of the Windows Azure Tools + SDK, jnak
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – June Update, David Aiken
• NASA JPL, robots and the AWS cloud and AWS Events for June and July of 2010 and Amazon CloudFront: HTTPS Access, Another Edge Location, Price Reduction, AWS Blog
• Stanford Students Take to the Cloud, MSR
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples, Microsoft Downloads
• Peering into the cloud with IntelliTrace, Somesegar
• Updated IP addresses for AppFabric Data Centers, AppFabric Team

Career

• Expanding our horizons, Scott Kirsner
• Simplicity Quotes, JD
• Random Episode 11: The Future of Digg, New Favorites, and More, Tim Ferriss

Business

• 8 Mistakes That Devastate Business Owners, Entrepreneur.com
• A Predictable Pattern of Success?, Barry Moltz

Innovation

• The roles have shifted: creatives take the lead, Jeffrey Phillips

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – June 7, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Weekly Link Post 148, Rhonda Tipton
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jun 7, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Link dump for June 7th, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #616, Chris Alcock