Other

• Verizon 4G network zips, but all that data will cost you, Edward Baig
• JPEG 101: A Crash Course Guide on JPEG, Catalin Rosu
• 250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities, openculture.com
• Stanford CS Book: Mining of Massive Datasets [pdf], Anan Rajaraman, Jeffrey D Ullman
• Get the Batch File’s Path in a Batch File, Steven Smith
• Article on the Access Control service on MSDN Magazine, newsqlservicesteam
• Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 and Team Foundation Server® 2010 RTM virtual machine for Windows Virtual PC and Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 and Team Foundation Server® 2010 RTM virtual machine for Microsoft® Virtual PC 2007 SP1, Microsoft Downloads

Code to look at

• C# .NET Autoupdate Application Launcher, Jonathan Franks

Silverlight

• Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 3), Mike Taulty

Mobile

• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide – Code Samples, Microsoft Downloads
• Resizing Images in Windows Phone 7, Mike Ormond

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 System Views Map and SQL Server Compact 4.0 CTP2 for Windows Desktop, Microsoft Downloads

SOA

• The SOA Magazine Issue XLV, December 2010 (Editor, Thomas Erl)

Cloud Computing

• How to Build ROI from Cloud Computing, Mark Skilton
• USDA Moving 120,000 Workers to Microsoft Cloud Services, Chloe Albanesius
• Build and Promote your Cloud Applications and Services with the Windows Azure Marketplace, Windows Azure

Security

• SQL Injection Myths & Fallacies: Best practices of defense, ontwik

Business

• Indian Technology's Fourth Wave, Vivek Wadhwa
• Boston in the mix for U.S. high-tech employment rankings, Mass High Tech Newspaper

Innovation

• Idea Management Systems must be Flexible, Customizable and Connected with Social Media, CogniStreamer
• Innovation 101 – Develop Talent, Saul Kaplan

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – December 8, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• The Morning Brew #747, Chris Alcock