I thought it may be helpful to others if I occasionally posted a list of must-read articles that I stumbled across during the week. Since, I am actively using twitter these days I see a lot of information float back and forth about MVC, jQuery, SQL Server and etcetera.  Enjoy!

Programming

• Using IIS Rewriting with MVC Routes to Keep Your Routes Simple – Jon Galloway
• PHP Creator Asks, Is Facebook's HipHop Just a "Nifty Trick"? – Jolie O'Dell – Watch the video on this article. It talks about how the Facebook team optimized their site by converting their PHP code to optimized C++. Also, some interesting discussion about the comments made by Rasmus Lerdorf; the creator of PHP.
• Hanselminutes: Reactive Extensions for .NET with Eric Meijer – via @shanselman
• Debugging ASP.NET generated code – David Ebbo
• JQAPI – Alternate jQuery Documentation – via @usejquery
• JavaScript from Null: Chapter 5 – Events – via @nettuts, @elijahmanor
• 14 Days of jQuery Summary: Days 8-14, jQuery 1.4.1 Released – via @jquery
• Rails 3 Beta is Out – A Retrospective – via @Wycats
• ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips – How do I pass data to a view? via @elijahmanor
• ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips – Can I change the templates? via @elijahmanor
• Getting Started with MongoDB – Using Json.NET and Castle Dynamic proxy – via @OdeToCode

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Developers Training Kit – Free training kits which contains videos, presentations, demos, labs and more
• SharePoint 2010 Better Together with SQL - Top SQL Related Enhancements – Joel Oleson talks about how SQL Server enhancements benefit the new version of SharePoint
• Oracle Database can be hacked remotely – via @MladenPrajdic, @tonybain, @MarlonRibunal
• SQL Server 2008 R2 has an Upcoming Release – via @MicrosoftPress
• SAN Performance Tuning Article – Brent O takes you through the steps of using sqlio to test the performance of a SAN on a new server build.
• Why You Might Want to Buy SQL Server 2008 Now – via @BrentO
• SQL Server Migration CheckList – by Jugal Shah via @mssqltips

Other

• Microsoft Office 2010: RTM's getting closer – Mary Jo Foley
• Greasemonkey comes to Chrome – via @alvinashcraft : The famed greasemonkey scripts are now compatible with Google Chrome
• Google gives up on Internet Explorer 6 – via @EverythingMS

Funny Tweets

• @shanselman - I wonder if some people are *awesome* on Twitter, but when you speak to them in person, after that 141st char, you're like, "What a putz." 
• @haacked @codinghorror besides. You know my immediate answer when someone asks me if MVC is successful. "http://stackoverflow.com bitch!"
• @danecook - Its amazing how in this day & age u can tell how much a person truly cares about u by if they retweet your posts.
     - Retweeted by me and 100+ others :)
• @SQLChicken Lmao! RT @SQLDumbass: Writing a DDL trigger. When anyone drops an index, I insert their name into the national sex offender database.