This is is my weekly speed link post. It is here that I note the web sites that I have run across that interest me – whether it be related to work or play.
Application Development
- Scott Guthrie continues his Link Listing Series. Love those links!
- Jeff Smith has a great post on the Little-Known T-SQL Function: NULLIF().
- Eric Wendelin tells us How to suck at software development. I am likely guilty of at least 1 of these (maybe more), but I am trying to change…I promise.
- Wow! This post from Rick Strahl goes into a lot of detail. Should make for great reference material once I am able to start working with LINQ.
- Real World Software Development has posted a good listing of reasons to switch sides and be a Tester instead of a Developer.
- Hans-Eric Grönlund continues his series on Tools of the Effective Developer with Personal Logs and Programming By Intention.
- Bill Graziano has posted a list of the Top 10 SQL Server Blogs at Microsoft. That should narrow it down for me. I never know where to go as far as MS Blogs.
- Rudi Grobler has provided a list of Select Top syntax from several flavors of SQL.
- Bryan Stamour gives us some Simple Tips for Better Code Commenting.
- Jonas Stawski has posted a great article on the Simple-Talk website on Take Row-Level Control of Your GridView.
- The Code Project has posted an extensive list of DateTime formats for .NET.
- Here is a ton of ASP.NET tutorials from the GridViewGuy. Woo hoo!!!
- Scott Hanselman tells us about his First Three Weeks as a Microsoft Employee. It is very interesting to hear what goes on “behind closed doors”.
- Chinh Do has posted a follow up to his StringBuilder is not always faster article from last week.
- I ran across a detailed Introduction to Web Services in C# on the Dream in code website.
- Snippet(s) that caught my interest on CodeKeep: Create a comma delimited list (C#) ~ Executing File Directory (C#)
- Tip(s) that caught my eye on DNTOD: Return read-only collection/control its modification ~ Validate integer value before casting it to an Enum type ~ Using the #pragma warning directive
Houston Area Technology Events
- SQL Server 2005 High Availability Hands-On Lab: lab that provides an introduction and opportunity for you to try out the SQL Server 2005 High Availability Enterprise features.
- Business Intelligence Hands-On Lab: learn how you can implement a Business Intelligence solution using Microsoft SQL Server 2005, PerformancePoint 2007, and the Office suite of products.
- User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
Internet and General Technology
- Erik Gyepes has posted a list of Firefox keyboard shortcuts. They have made my browser time a little more productive.
- Web Worker Daily clues us in on How to Get More Out of MS Internet Explorer.
- This is a PC World article that contains some extremely cool astronomy photos found in Google Sky.
- Learn how to Map a FTP to a Drive in Windows in an article from CyberNet.
- Dumb Little Man has found a huge repository of Keyboard Shortcuts.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- This is a good list on Zen Habits. I am always looking for ways to simplify things a little.
- In my continuing quest to be a more well-rounded individual, I have started listening to a podcast named The Word Nerds. In each episode, some aspect of language is explained in great detail with good life examples.
- John Place has posted an article on 13 Simple Ways to Be Happier. Most of them really make sense.
- Lifehacker has a great article on Covering your Butt at Work Through Notes. I am a firm believer in taking notes and logging your work each day.
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Gateworld has posted a great interview with Jewel Staite. She played in the series Firefly and movie Serenity and is now to be on Stargate Atlantis.
- Mars is approaching the best viewing position it will provide to us until the year 2014. Time to get the good ole Skywatcher telescope out.
- This post is funny, but true.
- Now this is the way to work.
- Just about every work place has one of these and these.
- I want to thank Leon Bambrick for mentioning my Weekly Link Post in his post on the best Link Blogs.
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Happy Surfing.
