Days always seem to go better when I get up around 5:30am … wonder why?

Other

• p&p Goes Mobile with Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure, Mike Ormond
• Natural selection in IT, bogardj
• WTF you got against Silverlight?!, Hadi Hariri
• Three languages, tons of technologies, continual additions, all source: The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework (think “An Official Boat Load of Code Samples!”) (Added bonus “How can I on earth write a managed shell extension” with .Net 4 sample) and “Application Prototyping with SketchFlow” Refcardz, Greg Duncan
• Security Compliance Manager, Microsoft Downloads
• Marissa Mayer On Google Instant, SEO, Ad Sales & Power Steering (TCTV), Evelyn Rusli
• Why Google Instant May Make You Click On More Ads, Alexia Tsotsis
• Clean paths with WCF Hosted Workflows and Do you Prefer SOAP or REST?, Scott Seely
• Maintainability, Code Size & Code Complexity, Ayende Rahien
• Common mistakes made when measuring the speed of code, Gunnar Peipman
• An intro on types: primitive types exist!, luisabreu
• Using DebuggerDisplay Attribute, Kate Gregory

Code to look at

• Tweaked Events, jpbochi
• Truncating a text string in ASP.NET to fit within a given pixel width, Waleed Eissa
• Dynamic Loading of Assemblies at Runtime through .NET Reflection, Member 7117674
• Advanced command line parser class for .NET, Elia Sarti
• Hash-container and Red-Black tree face-off (STL Benchmark), Wong Shao Voon

Data Access

• Blog - How do you do an outer join with DataTables in .NET 2.0?, PCHenry.com

Web

• Use JQuery and CSS slide show pictures, LLewisLiu
• jQuery UI Tabs: Changing selected tab, Mark Needham
• Real World Monitoring and Tuning ASP.NET Caching, Steven Smith
• Certificate Authority Trust Model, Jeffrey Muir

Silverlight

• The Great Silverlight Competency Test – 2 and Great SL Competency Test Part 2 (Answer), Jesse Liberty

Database

• Great article on costs of query plans and Worst use of a cursor, Simon Sabin

Security

• DllHijackAuditor – Free Audit Tool For DLL Hijack Vulnerability, Darknet

Agile

• Sprint Backlog – Don’t Solve Half of the Problem, Scott Sehlhorst

Cloud Computing

• Handy tool which checks if you have left Windows Azure applications running and simplifies “killing” them, Eric Nelson
• ITIL & the Private Cloud, Jas Dhalliwal
• Securing Your Connection String in Windows Azure: Part 2, Wayne Walter Berry
• SQL Azure–what it is and what it isn’t, John Paul Cook
• New Amazon EC2 Micro Instances - New, Low Cost Option for Low Throughput Applications, AWS Blog
• Benchmarking of EC2's new Cluster Compute Instance Type, CloudHarmony
• ARCast.TV - David Aiken on Azure Architecture Patterns, bartvagh

Career

• How to Re-Ignite Your Blogging Fire When You’re Feeling Burnt Out, Darren Rowse
• Benefits of Business Networking, Freelance Switch
• How to Get the Most Out of a Conference, Lou Dobois
• Leverage Virtual Workers for your Start-Up, Howard Greenstein

Business

• Cambridge technology incubator shuts down, Boston Business Journal

Innovation

• Innovation and Porter's Five Forces and What if Innovation was Free?, Jeffrey Phillips
• Yesterday’s king of burgers?, Gabor George Burt
• What is Innovation?, Dr. Phil Samuel
• Measuring Success, Mike Myatt

Other link blogs

• Link dump for September 8th, Jeff Schoolcraft
• The Morning Brew #682, Chris Alcock
• Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 8, 2010, Cloud Feed