Looks like I may be rebuilding my machine soon … getting the Black Screen of Death when I login as an admin user (which isn’t very often) – besides that its about that time of year anyway.  Might take the chance and up the primary hard drive to a bigger and better SSD (current one is around 90 GB) – can’t really justify getting a new machine this year (probably next year).

Ran out of decaf this morning, so I’m having the first fully caffeinated cup of coffee this morning for the month of July … should be bouncing off the walls soon – lol.  If I go off topic and dump some of my thoughts along with the links – you know why … this is Jason on Sumatra :)

Other

• ExecutiveBrief Software Development Trends Survey Indicates Promising Business Environment for 2010, bartvagh
• Building a Simple Recursive Descent Parser, Eric White
• Trade Contact Information Instantly With Bump, Charles Hamilton
• Nuts & Bolts: Potpourri, Mark
• CreateDelegate – An Exercise in Using Expressions, Jan Van Ryswyck
• Nine UML’s from a Niner on Nine - Nine using UML with Visual Studio 2010 videos on Channel 9, Greg Duncan
• Continuous Delivery is Now Out, Martin Fowler
• How to Consume MSDeploy Staged Web Site Output in a Wix Installer, Travis Illig
• Team Foundation Installation Guide, Microsoft Downloads
• Dealing with Images with Bad Metadata - Corrupted Color Profiles in WPF, Scott Hanselman
• The value of naming things, Mark Needham
• My New Laptop, Sasha Goldshtein

Code to look at

• Using the Connection Manager, Paul Heil
• RTF Document Constructor Library, kpebedko
• Comparing .NET XML Serializers: Part One, Ivan Krivyakov

Data Access

• Using an NHibernate Formula to aid searching, Kyle Baley

Web

• VS2010 deploy web project with nightly build, fritz-onion
• Announcing the New Sueetie Content Management System, David Burke
• DOM Traversal, IE Blog

Silverlight

• Silverlight Queues: Design, Ayende Rahien

Database

• Creating a unique constraint on a column that allows nulls, Simon Sabin
• Inside the Optimiser: Constructing a Plan – Part 3 and Inside the Optimiser: Constructing a Plan – Part 4, Paul White NZ
• SSAS Backup and other useful PowerShell scripts, Davide Mauri
• SQLAuthority News – A Monthly Round Up of SQLAuthority Blog Posts, Pinal Dave
• SQL Cop (FxCop for Sql Server), Salvador Gascon

Security

• How to Protect Remote Employees' PCs from Security Threats, Entrepreneur.com

Cloud Computing

• I Miss You SQL Server Agent: Part 1, Wayne Walter Berry
• Rob Sanders’ Working with Entity Framework v4 and SQL Azure: Parts 1 through 4, OakLeaf Systems
• WebVelocity 1.1: In the Cloud, James Robertson

Career

• Ask FreelanceSwitch #16: Workload Management, Freelance Video Jobs, Travis King
• Tips for Handling Information Overload, Dawn Foster
• Support Your Supporters, Jason Finnerty
• Inspiration vs. Expectation, Steve Pavlina

Business

• Blog Content Strategy 101, Georgina Laidlaw
• Green Tips: Eco-friendly Office Furniture, Trenton DuVal … sort of off topic – but since they are mentioned in the entry … I love Herman Miller’s office furniture – I splurged on a desk and chair for the home office about 4 years ago and haven’t regretted it.  I couldn’t imagine working from home all day in that old chair I had … I’m sure the chiropractor would be getting that extra money if I hadn’t spent it on the chair :)
• Every Tool You Need For Hiring, Tiffany Black
• Agile Marketing, Part II, Matt Blumberg

Innovation

• Managing for Innovation, Jeffrey Phillips

Community

• Upcoming Entity Framework Events, Julie Lerman
• Microsoft "Daily Build" Nerd Dinner - August 4th in Seattle, Redmond, Scott Hanselman … wish I was there.

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – July 30, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jul 30, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Link dump for July 30th, Jeff Schoolcraft