October starts tomorrow, always a busy month here in Salem: Haunted Happenings

Other

• The separation of model and inference, John Guiver
• Version history of the CLR 4.0, dougste
• How to Use Managed Code (C#) to Create an FTP Home Directory Provider for the Days of the Week, robmcm
• MSMQ and External Certificates, Tomas Restrepo
• Designing Managed Applications, Dan Rogers
• AutoMapper 2.0 – Nested/Child Containers, Jimmy Bogard

Code to look at

• Regular expression to get all the link tags and there value from a string, Navish Rampal

Database

• Yet another cause of Kerberos authentication failure connecting to SQL Server, Dimitri Furman
• Time for a rethink on SQL CLR?, Tony Davis

Silverlight

• Microsoft® Silverlight™ Release History, Microsoft Downloads

Security

• Top Techniques Used By Cyber Attackers
• Multi Threaded TCP Port Scanner For Linux & Windows, Darknet

Debugging

• New Debugging Book – Windows Debugging Notebook: Essential User Space WinDbg Commands, rafarah

Agile

• On the Psychology of Test Driven Development

Cloud Computing

• Using a Windows Azure startup script to prevent your site from being shutdown, lucascan
• Deploying VM Roles with Affinity Groups (and the pain of VMRole development), EGolpe
• Powerful New Features for AWS CloudFormation, AWS Blog
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 1.5 (September 2011), Microsoft Downloads
• Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 29, 2011
• Cloud Identity Stories for Developers–Application Architecture Scenarios, Alik Levin
• Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview, James Conard
• Getting Started with SQL Azure Development, PubSec

Career

• How to Self-Destruct Completely with Workaholism
• Top IT skills wanted for 2012
• 5 Tips for Staying Productive When Working From Home

Business

• Building great software companies
• When to invoice for web development projects?
• Size of Round Does Not Equal Level of Success
• Elance introduces a suite of productivity applications to promote efficiency
• 10 Awesome MVPs from Lean Startup Machine, Trevor Owens

Innovation

• Avoiding innovation paralysis caused by “aggressive indecision”…., Jim Carroll
• Bridging The Innovation Execution Gap - Next Practices in Innovation Management, Paul Williams

Other link blogs

• The Morning Brew #949, Chris Alcock
• Dew Drop – September 29, 2011, Alvin Ashcraft