Other

• Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part II–getting lost in the architecture, Ayende @ Rahien
• Use it or lose it! [New Delay.FxCop code analysis rule helps identify unused resources in a .NET assembly], David Anson
• Reactive Extensions v1.0 Stable and v1.1 Experimental available now!, Rx Team
• Eduasync part 14: Data passing in coroutines, Jon Skeet

Code to look at

• AD, SQL Server, GMail synchronizer tool, Code Project

Web

• New IE10 Platform Preview 2 for download: CSS3 Floats, Drag & Drop, File Reader API, Web Workers, and more, Nick Trogh
• Hanselminutes Podcast 272 - Basics of Web Security with Barry Dorrans, Scott Hanselman
• Site-ready HTML5: Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers, IE Blog

Database

• Statistics on system tables and query performance, Dimitri Furman
• Emulating Records and Collections via CLR UDT, Bill Ramos

Cloud Computing

• AWS Lowers its Pricing Again! – No Inbound Data Transfer Fees and Lower Outbound Data Transfer for All Services including Amazon CloudFront and Configuration Persistence and Support for URL Swapping with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Blog
• The cloud is slow....too slow for mass adoption?, Doug Barney
• UK Windows Azure Bootcamp: Session 1, Compute and Storage and Windows Azure Bootcamps Labs: SQL Azure Labs 1 to 3 and Windows Azure Bootcamp Labs Screencasts: Labs 1 to 4, Planky
• Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers., Werner Vogels
• Windows Azure Web Role Error: "Faulting application WaHostBootstrapper.exe", Avkash Chauhan
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jun 29, 2011
• Windows Azure: startup reflections video, 6 months in..., Andy Milligan
• Azure and HPC Server: You can now run MPI Workloads in Azure, pbutlerm
• Tips and Tools for a Better Azure Deployment Lifecycle, Andy

Career

• Harvard Classics Bookshelf
• Toss Your Expectations Into the Ocean, Leo Babauta
• How to Reinvent Your Career, Penelope Trunk
• Feeling Challenged, Can You Maintain Steam?, Freelance Switch

Business

• 2011 Startup Lessons Learned Conference Roundup: Videos, Slides, Blogs, Sean Murphy
• Selling to Middle America, Brad Hargreaves
• Joe Stump presentation: Starting your Startup
• How to Survive a Tax Audit, Entrepreneur.com

Innovation

• Full Recap of TEDxBoston 2011, Gregory Gomer
• Don’t Innovate Out of Order, Jeffrey Phillips
• Design Thinking, Muggles, and Magic, Idris Mootee
• Are non-core contributions welcome in your team?, Georgina Laidlaw

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #884, Chris Alcock
• Weekly Link Post 199, Rhonda Tipton