Inspirational

• The Real Gladiators of the World
• Confidence Quotes
• Six Guiding Strategies to Build Up Your Self-Confidence
• Four Basic Insights on Confidence
• Four Sources of Strength

Daily Finds Link

• Interesting Finds: September 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 19, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Today’s Links (9/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Afternoon Tea – Monday 19th September and The Morning Brew #941 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 09/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #712 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for September 12-18, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Link dump for September 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

Carrier

• How Freelancers are Like Terrorists, Andrew Johnson
• Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant, Edward Case
• 5 Reasons for Freelancers to Use LinkedIn, Freelance Switch
• Mindset – Innovation’s Third Way, Dennis Stauffer
• 10 Famous and Noteworthy College Commencement Speeches
• Tech hiring is tough on veteran workers
• A jobless future?
• Linkswitch #86, Conference Pricing, Secret Formula, Inner Calling, Freelance Switch
• Downgraded to Testing, Gerald Weinberg
• Who inspires you?, Matt Heinz
• Ten Pieces of Inspiration #37, Trent
• 10 Most Hated Jobs (top 5 are surprising), cnbc.com
• Why Novice Programmers Can’t Program (and how to fix it)
• How I learned to program
• The gig economy, economist.com
• The rise of the generalist
• Me 2.0 (and how I got there), Alex Barnett
• Steve Case, Martha Stewart and Tony Hsieh Trade Views on Entrepreneurship

Cloud Computing
• New Azure Powershell Cmdlets now available., EGolpe
• Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 16, 2011
• Whats new in Windows Azure SDK 1.5 – Each instance in any role gets its own IP address to match compute emulator close the cloud environment, Avkash Chauhan
• Windows Azure ACS Resources For Under Fire Scenarios, Alik Levin
• Now Available: The Service Bus September 2011 Release, Clemens Vasters
• Pie in the Sky (September 16, 2011), Brian Swan
• Windows Azure Queues: Improved Leases, Progress Tracking, and Scheduling of Future Work
• Windows Azure Tables: Introducing Upsert and Query Projection
• Windows Azure Blobs: Improved HTTP Headers for Resume on Download and a Change in If-Match Conditions, Windows Azure Storage

BI 

• Tech #8 : Business Intelligence Software’s {Part-II}-Information Builder
• Tech #7 : Business Intelligence Software’s {Part-II}-IBM COGNOS
• Kinect for BI?
• MicroStrategy BI Forum Monterrey
• MSBI # 39 – PowerPivot #1 – Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot (Features,Architecture,Self-Service BI,Reference)

DataBase

• The Big Picture – EDW/DW architecture BISQL # 53 : SQL Server Denali Feature # 3 – AlwaysOn (Concept ,Introduction and Architecture)
• BISQL # 51 : SQL Server Denali Feature # 2 – Sequence number –All Explanation !!
• BISQL # 50 : SQL Server Denali Feature # 1- FileTables # 2 – Demo and Scripting Through !!
• BISQL # 49 : SQL Server Denali Feature # 1–FileTables #1 – Introduction & Theory
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – IIF() – A Quick Introduction
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Logical Function – CHOOSE() – A Quick Introduction
• SQL SERVER – DBA Quiz 2011 – All was well few moments before all went wrong – Reasons and Resolutions (Pinal Dave)
• Use common table expressions to simplify your updates in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• New Release of SQL Azure (Shaun Xu)
• Earlier(), AddColumns() and row context (Chris Webb)
• SQL Azure Q2 2011 Service Release Now Deployed (Part I of II) and What’s New in SQL Azure Management Portal? (Part II of II) (Gregory Leake)
• Handling Flat File Headers and Errors in SSIS (Mike Davis)
• SQL Server: Display Query Execution Plans–Different ways (Suprotim Agarwal)
• BISQL # 54 – SQL Server Execution Plan #1 – All Basics and Introduction to SQL Server Execution Plan !!

SSIS

• Using Checksum in SSIS for Delta Loads
• MSBI # 38 – SSIS # 16 – Data Flow Task # 2 – Introduction{Part – I}
• How to Execute SSIS Package part#3
• How to execute SSIS Package part#2
• How to execute SSIS package
• How to enable Checkpoints in SSIS Package.
• MSBI # 40 – SSIS # 17 – Data Flow Task # 3 – All Source and Destination Overview {Part – II}

SSAS

• SSAS Database – single user mode | Microsoft Connect
• Crazy Named-Query Dimension in SSAS
• Analysis Services: What are the best practices for grouping measures

SSRS

• How to set SSRS parameters with non-empty available values for a dimension using MDX
• Adding Conditional Formatting to a Portfolio Milestone Report
• SQL Server Codename "Denali" CTP3 Resources
• Reporting on Portfolio Milestones with Excel

Silverlight

• Silverlight 5 in Action Book Update, and Announcing the Next Big Book
• How to use PInvoke in Silverlight 5 (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Toolkit DateTime Converters (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Multi Column and Linked Text (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
• Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part III) (Pam Keesey)
• 2000 WPF Things #385 – You Can Nest Panel Controls (Sean Sexton)
• Improvements in Music & Video hub integration (Matt Lacey)

SharePoint

• jQuery, SharePoint Picture Libraries, and automatic thumbnails (Bil Simser)
• Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 1 and Silverlight and Sharepoint working together: the Silverlight SharePoint Web Parts – part 2 (Walter Ferrari)
• DB2 Stored Procedures and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Dmitry Kaloshin)

DotNet

• C# Volatile Fields (Richard Carr)
• New from Amazon, AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (Think "If you do AWS from VS, get this ASAP…") (Greg Duncan)
• The Rise of F# (Phillip Trelford)
• Sync Framework v4 is now Open Source, and ready to Connect any Device to SQL Server and SQL Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• 7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version) (Simone Chiaretta)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus (Michael Dunn)
• RavenDB: Multi Maps / Reduce indexes (Oren Eini)
• Writing a Custom ConfigurationSection to handle a Collection (Abhishek Sur)
• Code Issues specific to partial methods (Alex Skorkin)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Entity Refresh and NHibernate Pitfalls: Lazy Properties and Closed Sessions (Ricardo Peres)
• Configure MySql .Net Connector with Entity Framework (Paul Petrov)
• Matrix Multiplication with C++ AMP and Scheduling thread tiles with C++ AMP and tile_static, tile_barrier, and tiled matrix multiplication with C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• NH Mapping by code VS the Untouchable DB (Felice Pollano)
• ApplicationException – Should you derive from it? (Tatworth)

MVC
• ASP.NET MVC 4 page at ASP.NET Site
• ASP.NET # MVC # 16 – Html.TextBox and Html.TextBoxFor Helper Methods
• ASP.NET # MVC # 15 – Html Helper Class , Html Helper Method , Strongly Typed HTML Helpers.
• ASP.NET # MVC # 14 – How Asp.net MVC controller works (Internally in dot net framework) or how controller class is implemented??
• ASP.NET # MVC # 13 – Open window or Modal Pop-Up and fill the contents of it from the controller method.
• ASP.NET # MVC # 12 – Render Partial Views (.ascx) on parent View(.aspx) asynchronously , using Ajax with example.
• ASP.NET # MVC # 11 – Update a particular div asynchronously using Ajax.BeginForm mehod with example
• ASP.NET # MVC # 10– Client Side and Server Side validation for a Strongly typed view using Data Annotation (Model Validation)
• Tutorial ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Features
• Phil Haack’s blog post on ASP.NET MVC 4 Release
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap

Windows 8 / BUILD

• Microsoft BUILD – Keynote summary (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The BUILD Report #1: Sinofsky keynote (Ward Bell)
• Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance (Jeff Wilcox)
• Bullet Points from Build–Day 1 and my thoughts (Michael Crump)
• Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware (Grant & Jeff)
• Channel 9 Events / BUILD2011 RSS Feed Tip, Building your perfect, custom, filtered BUILD RSS feed (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Server: Screenshots + What’s new (Owen Williams)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview
• Windows 8 Developer Preview Screenshot Gallery (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows 8 Developer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts (Ron Fosner)
• Xbox LIVE and Windows 8 (Larry Hryb)
• Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI and Mike Angiulo Unboxes the Build Hardware With Us (Larry Larsen)
• //build conference in Anaheim: Keynote notes #bldwin (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows 8 Forces Some Compromises After All (Ina Fried)
• Windows 8 and Build Day 1 Keynote Thoughts (Jeremy Likness)
• BUILD Keynote Day 1 – Windows 8 Experience (Brent Schooley)
• The Windows 8 Developer Ecosystem (Chris Eargle)
• Microsoft demos Windows 8 apps for Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging, and Photos (damaster)
• BUILD apps that use C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)
• Getting Hands On With Virtual Machine of Windows 8! (Matt Griffin)
• Windows 8–First thoughts
• Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual machine (Peter Kuhn)
• PreEmptive Provides More Application Intelligence to HTML5 Developers #bldwin (Josette Rigsby)

Interesting Finds
• windows 8 developer preview
• Rename Your Files and Folders with ReNamer
• MVVM Light V4 beta1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• jQuery 1.6.4 Released (John Resig)
• Project Silk – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• Windows 8 to be Unveiled Tuesday 13th Sept, Watch it Live (Mike Halsey)
• Google & the Future of JavaScript (Alex Russell)

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