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.NET / Visual Studio
- String interning and String.Empty (Eric Lippert)
 - IronPython Post 2.6 Roadmap (Harry Pierson)
 - ScottGu, DotNed, loads of new stuff and intellisense (Peter Van Ooijen)
 - Dump Environment Folder Paths (Kirill Osenkov)
 - Generically Constraining F# – Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
 - CSLA .NET version 3.7.1 available (Rockford Lhotka)
 
Web Development
- Playing with JQuery Validation library (Chris Brandsma)
 - Forms Authentication – Managing Users (Dave M. Bush)
 - PROBLEM: CSS Styles No Longer Apply For Anonymous Users (Scott Mitchell)
 - Running Oxite blog engine on Windows Azure (Sergejus Barinovas)
 
Design / Methodology / Testing
- It’s Not About The Duct Tape It’s About The People (And More) (Alan Skorkin)
 - Scenario Driven Tests (Oren Eini)
 - Beating the duct programmer with generic domains, subdomains, and core domains (Ian Cooper)
 - Ideas for Coding Kaizen (Jeremy Jarrell)
 - Unit Test Definition 2.0 (Roy Osherove)
 - How to keep your mouth shut (Scott Berkun)
 - ANOTHER release! HUGE Performance boost, Smart Lorem Ipsum, z-Ordering shortcuts… (Peldi Guilizzoni)
 
Silverlight / WPF
- Helpful extension methods for Show / Hide animations in Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
 - An early look at the new Project Rosetta tutorial site (Adam Kinney)
 - “Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation” (WPF) Cheatsheet/Refcard from DZone (Greg Duncan)
 - Random Gradient Wallpaper Generator (Kirill Osenkov)
 - Niagara’s Validation DSL – First Pass and Choosing a Data Access Layer for Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
 - Silverlight is slowly becoming the real WPF/Everywhere (András Velvárt)
 
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Steven Borg on All Things Team System (Carl Franklin)
 - ARCast.TV – Clemens Vasters on Architecture Implications of the Internet Service Bus (Bob Familiar)
 - E2E: Erik Meijer and Wes Dyer – Reactive Framework (Rx) Under the Hood 1 of 2 and E2E: Erik Meijer and Wes Dyer – Reactive Framework (Rx) Under the Hood 2 of 2 (Charles Torre)
 - Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 and Scott Guthrie: ASP.NET MVC 2 (Matthijs Hoekstra)
 - UK Silverlight Apps: Trader Media Group & Autotrader (Mike Taulty)
 - PDC09 Workshop: Getting the Most out of Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Robert Hess)
 - Tool Shed Tooltip #27 – Expression Blend 3 – Behaviors (Russell Fustino)
 - Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 1 and Windows 7 Sensor and Location – Developing Drivers Part 2 (Yochay Kiriaty)
 - Thirsty Developer 74 – A Roundtable in the Cloud with David Chappell and Cumulux (Dave Bost)
 - The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One and The Visual Studio Documentary: Part Two (Tina)
 - Episode 85 – PowerScripting Podcast – Lee Holmes on PowerShell v2 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
 
Community / Events
- Events this Week – September 28th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
 - MVPs Headline At SQLBits! (Jas Dhaliwal)
 - MassTransit at Skills Matter (Mike Hadlow)
 - Looking for Seattle-area participants for CodePlex Usability Study (Sara Ford)
 - Concept Camp 2009 Review (Sara J. Chipps)
 
Database
- SQL Server All, Some and Any Operators (Richard Carr)
 - SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries (Pinal Dave)
 - Review of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)
 - LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL (Peter Kellner)
 
Miscellaneous
- Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch (Mary-Jo Foley)
 - Microsoft Releases Free "Security Essentials" AntiSpyware & AntiVirus Software Starting Tomorrow and Microsoft’s TechNet Release 77 Windows 7 Tips (Blake Handler)
 - PowerShelling in your application (Coding4Fun)
 - Windows 7 in action: A smarter way to manage windows (Ed Bott)
 - Writing WMI providers FAQ series – 2 – When a provider doesn’t support enumeration what will be the impact for the WMI consumer? (Kapil Mathur)
 - De-clutter Google Reader with Absolutely Customisable (Nik Fletcher)
 - Trusted Documents (Maithili Dandige) – Info from the Office 2010 team.
 - Orphans at the Bookstore (Lee Dumond)
 
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: September 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
 - The Morning Brew #442 and The Morning Brew #443 (Chris Alcock)
 - Tech Tweets for 28-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
 - Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q3 2009) (Jurgen Appelo)
 - CloudNews for 28th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
 - Double Shot #549 and Double Shot #550 (Mike Gunderloy)
 
Book of the Day
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 ISBN: 1430219483  | 
Coders at Work (9781430219484): Peter Seibel: Books
The Art of Unit Testing: with Examples in .NET (9781933988276): Roy Osherove: Books
Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (9780470384619): Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie: Books