Chris Bowen announced the draft New England Code Camp 15 – The Schedule!.  Unfortunately I have other commitments this weekend and won’t be able to make it.

Other

• How do you make an SSD even faster?, Ed Bott
• Visual Basic and C# at the Crossroads, Michael Desmond
• Async Code Samples - Control Flow and Await, Bill Wagner
• Back to basics: Usage of static members, Patrick Smacchia
• Why Not C#, Alfred Thompson
• NTrace v2 now available (think Managed VS2010/.Net 4 Event Tracing for Windows), Greg Duncan

Web

• Tiggr: A Tool for Building Interactive Html Prototypes, UX Movement
• JQuery 1.6 released
• Wordpress auto sign-on with IIS7 and a plugin, Maarten Balliauw
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, Scott Gu
• ASP.NET MVC Server Explorer: Part 3 - Plug-in Architecture, Code Project

Silverlight

• Silverlight/WCF RIA Validation: Metadata Class, Deborah Kurata

Mobile

• TFS Phone Explorer, gdavi

Database

• Short Series on SQL Server Encryption, Greg Low

Cloud Computing

• AWS Identity and Access Management now Generally Available, AWS Blog
• Rackspace to shut down Slicehost, TNW
• Cloud turns software release cycle on its head, Juice DB
• Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter, Jim O’Neil  … I just registered for this – really look good!
• Windows HPC2008R2 SP2 Azure Burst Beta Documentation Available, hpcdev
• Cloud Elasticity - A Real-World Example, bartr
• A dive in Windows Azure with Mark Russinovich, Claudio Criscione

Career

• Constant Change and Success, Jim Estill
• Stop letting where you live dictate how you live, Micah
• 3 stages of increasing creativity in the workplace, The Atman Group
• Jason Fried: How to Hire an Assistant, Jason Fried
• 4 Reasons to Keep a Work Diary, Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer
• Getting things done daily, Hadi Hariri
• Richard Branson on Self-Motivation
• How to Speak at a Barcamp and Love it!, Freelance Switch

Business

• What are examples of good startup term sheets?, Quora
• How to Hire an Employee, Erica Douglass
• Interviewing Geoffrey Moore: How to Find Your Economic Sweet Spot, Curt Finch

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #844, Chris Alcock
• Weekly Link Post 192, Rhonda Tipton