After reading VMware, Salesforce Decline on Concern Growth, Mergers May Slow this morning, I get the feeling the big cloud guys are not making as much market as they thought they would this year … of course the “May Slow” in the title may nullify the rest of the title – could have been “Stocks Drop, Maybe this Time for a Real Reason”

Other

• 40 percent plan to delay retirement, Boston Business News
• Running On Empty, Alfred Thompson
• New background on Unpacks - A little about how it came about… and WoVS Quick Add Reference VS Extension helps you say goodbye to the Add Reference Dialog, Greg Duncan
• Mono 2.8 is out, Miguel de Icaza
• Adobe Flash, The Spy in Your Computer – Part 2, Randy Abrams

Code to look at

• Blendable MVVM ViewModelLocator using MEF, Jan Brandsma
• An implementation of a Command pattern in C#, Dave Midgley
• Binary serialization to isolated storage in Silverlight - BinaryFormatter vs. sharpSerializer, Pawel idzikowski
• HowTo: Logging with Log4Net, Code Inside Team

Web

• Announcing NuPack, ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, and WebMatrix Beta 2, Scott Guthrie
• Introducing NuPack Package Manager and ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta Released, Phil Haack
• ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax Beta 2, Microsoft Downloads
• Introducing NuPack Package Management for .NET - Another piece of the Web Stack, Scott Hanselman
• A third option for using jQuery templates, Lazycoder
• Web Pages Beta 2–Request Validation, Scott Hunter
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Service Location, Part 5: IDependencyResolver and Unobtrusive Ajax in ASP.NET MVC 3, Brad Wilson

Mobile

• Developing for Windows Phone 7 Slides, Mike Ormond

Database

• How to Benefit from Unit Testing T-SQL: Reusing Manual Tests as Parts of Unit Tests, Alexander Kuznetsov
• SQL SERVER – SQL Quiz – The View, The Table and The Clustered Index Confusion, Pinal Dave

Security

• OWASP ZAP – Zed Attack Proxy – Web Application Penetration Testing, Darknet

Cloud Computing

• White Paper: SQL Azure: Connection Management in SQL Azure and Video: SQL Server to SQL Azure Synchronization using Sync Framework 2.1, Steve Yi
• Need Help Getting Your Windows Azure Project Off The Ground? Make Your Case and Get Free Support and Services from Microsoft and Avanade!, Windows Azure
• Stacks On! OpenStack and the Cloud!, David L

Career

• So I Got Promoted, Now What? Get To Know Your Peers, Joe Webb
• The Trouble With Experts, Mitch Ditkoff
• People and Leadership, Mike Myatt
• Start your presentation with PUNCH, Garr

Business

• Eventbrite Sells $20 Million In Tickets To Investors For Its Series D Financing, Erick Schonfeld
• The Best of the Business Blogs, September 2010, Freelance Switch
• Microsoft Acquires .NET Application Monitoring Startup AVIcode, Leena Rao
• How to Build an Incredibly Lazy (and Successful) Business, Jonathan

Community

• Upcoming Developer Events for October - November, 2010, Chris Bowen
• StartUp Scramble, NERD

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – October 6, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• The Morning Brew #702, Chris Alcock