Web Development
- SOA Is Dead; Long Live… Well, Services 😉 (Gunther Lenz)
 - Working with ASP.NET MVC Part 3 – URL Routing (Justin)
 - Javascript: Add a Month to a Date and Javascript Dates – Be Aware of Mutability (Mark Needham)
 - Live Framework SDK – Inviting Others (Mike Taulty)
 - Windows Azure – Sending SMTP Emails! (David L.)
 - DimeCasts.NET #75 – Introduction to S#arp Architecture (Kyle Baley) – Link of the Day
 
.NET / Visual Studio
- Parallelising Loops in .NET 4 (Daniel Moth)
 - The DLR Is the Language of Languages (Kevin Hazzard)
 - Setting Up Profiles in StructureMap 2.5 (Derik Whittaker)
 - Auto-Wiring in StructureMap 2.5+ and A Challenge to the VB.NET Community at Large on OSS (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Processes in .NET Part 3 – Interfacing with Simple Console Programs by Example, Tesseract OCR (Rick Minerich)
 - The Visual Studio 10 CTP VPC Expired! What Should I Do? (VSX Team)
 - New Black Book (Josh Poley)
 - IoC Libraries Compared (Chris Brandsma)
 - IronPython Nightly Builds and Nightly Builds Technical Info (Harry Pierson)
 - The Most Important Feature of .NET 4.0 (Kathleen Dollard)
 - You Don’t Have to Use Query Expressions to Use LINQ (Jon Skeet)
 
Silverlight / WPF
- Live Framework SDK – Adding a Silverlight MEWA (Mike Taulty)
 - Tip: Getting Hierarchical Entities via ADO.NET Data Services from Silverlight (John Papa)
 - PhotoSuru, An Innovative Photo-Viewing WPF Application (Adam Kinney)
 - Subscribe to the Expression Newsletter (Pete Brown)
 - Published the Source Code for Silverlight 2 Runtime & SDK Controls (Seema, Andre Michaud, & Jon Sheller)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Rules Engine (Martin Fowler)
 - Architecture by Baseball: Moneyball (Larry Clarkin)
 - Pex – Software Cracker? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - Karvonite – Agile Persistence Framework – Release: January (CTP 2009) (MSDN Code Gallery)
 
.NET Community / Events
- New York Microsoft Cloud Computing User Group Meeting (William Zack)
 - Developer Dinner: Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond (Pete Brown)
 - Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services WebCast (1/8/2009) (John Papa) – Buy John’s book!
 - MSDN Developer Conference Is Coming to DC/Reston, VA (Zhiming Xue)
 - CLR Team Blog Now Live (Justin Van Patten)
 - Recap of Microsoft CES Announcements (Paul Thurrott)
 
Database
- The SQL Server Memory Leak Confusion (Denis Gobo)
 
Miscellaneous
- Predictions for 2009 (Stephen Forte)
 - Your Products Aren’t "I"s (Thomas Williams)
 - R.I.P. Dr. Dobb’s (Eric Sink)
 - 10 Killer WordPress Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
 - Windows 7 Beta – Go Get It! (Yochay Kiriaty)
 - Microsoft Research Songsmith (MS Research)
 - New Program Allows Everyone to Design Video Games (Mike Snider)
 - Six Vista Annoyances Fixed in Windows 7 (Ed Bott)
 - Xbox: The Next Phase Begins (Stephen Chapman)
 - Halo Wars Coming Febrary 28th (Larry Hyrb)
 - Device Stage in Windows 7 (Steve Clayton)
 - Dictionary Attacks 101 (Jeff Atwood)
 
More Link Collections
- Visual Studio Links #96 (Darren Stokes)
 - Interesting Finds: January 7, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
 - CloudNews for January 7th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
 - Silverlight Cream for January 07, 2009 — #478 (Dave Campbell)
 - LINKBLOG for January 7, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
 - The Morning Brew #260 (Chris Alcock)
 - Silverlight News for January 08, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
 - Link Listing – January 8, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
 
Book of the Day
jQuery in Action: Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz, John Resig: Books