Other

• What processor should I buy? Intel's crazy pricing makes my head hurt, Peter Bright
• 40% off Pragmatic Programmers books this week
• Abstraction At The Core of Computer Science, Alfred Thompson
• Rx and Schedulers, Mike Taulty
• Visual Studio Command Prompt Here, Tap My Mind
• WCF Extensibility – QueryStringConverter, Carlos Figueira

Database

• SQL SERVER – The SQL Hands-On Guide for Beginners – Book Available for SQL Server Certification, Pinal Dave

Web

• Testing Out Embedding Of JSFiddle, Derick Bailey

PowerShell

• PowerShell and SQL Server Compact 4.0: A Happy Mix, Jeremiah Clark

Agile

• Scrumtastic, Bryan Group

Cloud Computing

• Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud?, Ofir Nachmani
• Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare, Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc
• "The Cloud", or "The Could"
• Scalable architecture on Amazon AWS cloud
• Hands-on lab: Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications, Vittorio Bertocci
• How "not" to update SQL Azure, Richard Mitchell
• Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook, Neil Mackenzie
• AWS Summer Startups: M-Dot, AWS Blog
• Two New SQL Azure Articles Now Available on TechNet Wiki, Windows Azure Team
• #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 5th August 2011, drmcghee
• Amazon Outage – Works As Designed, Simon Munro

Career

• How to succeed as a freelance developer, Chris Eidhof
• Being honest vs Making excuses, Corey Haines
• Embrace detail, and ignore detail at the same time, Bill Wagner
• Beat the Home Office Blues, Marla Tabaka

Business

• Founders reveal how they made their first sale -Part 2, Aditya Shukla

Community

• NRW Conf 2011 Community Conference, Daniel Fisher
• New Boston User Group – New England Mobile .NET Developers, Chris Bowen

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #912 and Afternoon Tea - Monday 8th August, Chris Alcock
• Weekly Link Post 205, Rhonda Tipton
• Dew Drop – August 8, 2011, Alvin Ashcraft