Back from a long weekend and it feels like I was gone longer than I was … now I have to figure out what I was doing last week so I can get the week started where I left off.

Other

• WCF Simple Example in Visual Studio 2010 – part 2, Dennis van der Stelt
• Table scans, index scans and index seeks, on my!, Ayende Rahien
• Automated Build ADNUG Presentation, jcteague
• Git/Mercurial: Pushing regularly and Coding: Controlled Technical Debt, Mark Needham
• Murder, Blood and Thread Safe Singletons, Ade Miller
• Using Agatha’s Server-Side Caching, Davy Brion
• Prefer Additional Methods Over Additional Overloads, John Sonmez
• Great Features for MVVM Friendly Objects Part 1 - Introducing Property Change Behaviors, Damon Payne

Code to look at

• Tripous - Forms and Brokers, Theo Bebekis
• C# Generic Type Generator, Alexander Van Berg
• Great Uses of Using Statement in C#, Steven Smith
• Singleton using Lazy, Salvador Gascon
• Write Templates for Visual Studio 2010, Kate Gregory

From CodePlex Feed

• Agile Planner - Digital Table Edition
• Bigfoot Web Development Framework
• Jurassic - A Javascript Compiler for .NET
• ObservableFramework
• Service4u2 - C# JSON MVC Service helper library
• CRM Javascript Audit
• NMoq
• WhiteBoard Chat - an ASP.NET MVC Chat program

Web

• JavaScript tips, Colt Kwong
• June 20th, 2010: The Day Gummy Bear 1.3 was Released and One-Click Install On Tap for Gummy Bear 1.3, Dave Burke … wow that’s cool!
• Moving a Certificate Between Web Servers, Steven Smith
• Do LESS with Less.js, Dion Almaer
• Of .prototype and function(), K Scott Allen
• Using Excel 2010 Sparklines to Analyse Google Analytics, Craig Bailey
• Using Predictive Analytics on Web Data, Vijay Chittoor
• Capturing (and changing) a Web Site with Fiddler, EricLaw
• jQuery Essentials, Salvador Gascon

Database

• SQL SERVER – Free Download – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit and SQL SERVER – TRANSACTION, DML and Schema Locks, Pinal Dave
• SQL Server Error User Group or Role Already Exists in the Current Database, Steven Smith
• Installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer on a Stand-Alone machine, Davide Mauri

PowerShell

• PowerShell Plus 3.5 Beta, Thomas
• Generic retry logic in PowerShell, Pawl Pabich
• PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio, PowerShell Team

Architecture

• Enterprise architecture: do it without the checklists, analyst urges, Joe McKendrick

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/18/2010+, OakLeaf Systems
• A Microsoft Windows Azure primer: the basics, bartvagh
• Adding Users to Your SQL Azure Database, Wayne Walter Berry

Career

• 6 Reasons Why People Are Afraid to Start a Business, Gary Gon
• Lessons Learned from Dad, JD
• Ten days left, Peso
• Motivation and Product Launches, Chris Guillebeau
• 50 Awesome Quotes on Risk Taking, Mitch Ditkoff
• Want a better job?, Brent Ozar
• Is it Time for a Shift in Your Work Strategy?, Celine Roque

Blogging

• 12 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts more Credible, Darren Rowse

Business

• The High Costs of Building the Wrong Product, Scott Sehlhorst
• SDL and HIPAA - Aligning Microsoft SDL Security Practices with the HIPAA Security Rule, Microsoft Downloads
• How to Plan a Product-Launch Event, Peter Vanden Box
• How to Choose the Best SEO Firm for Your Business, Issie Lapowsky

Innovation

• ‘Why’ Are You Innovating?, Roy Luebke
• Why Mobile Innovation Is Blowing Away PCs, Steve Cheney
• Think and Act Like Your Customers, Scott Anthony

Other link blogs

• Daily Cloud Feed - Jun 19, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed - Jun 20, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Dew Drop – June 19, 2010 and Dew Drop – June 20, 2010 and Dew Drop – June 21, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Linkswitch #23, Freelance Switch
• Weekly Link Post 150, Rhonda Tipton
• The Morning Brew #625, Chris Alcock