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

• Steve McConnell has answered 5 Questions on Agile Development.
• Scott Guthrie continues his Link Listing Series. Love those links!
• Scott Hanselman has been nice enough to post a screencast from last weekend’s ALT.NET conference.
• evolt.org has posted a useful article on Ten CSS Tricks You May Not Know.
• Phil Haack has posted an article about coding practices. Very true.
• Here is a great post on Enhancing Enums from Cassio Alves.
• David Vidmar gives his informative take on What’s New in Visual Studio 2008.
• Good post by JP Boodhoo about Dropping the temporary lists and leverage yield.
• Here is a good article from David Hayden on Creating a Custom Membership Provider for ASP.NET Website Security.
• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 7.
• Sanjeev Sharma has given us the Top 5 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files. Good to know!
• Ben Rady at Object Mentor has posted a very nice Statement of Values.
• Shahed Khan has posted a couple of articles this week that caught my attention: Databinding using ObservableCollection ~ WPF Databinding Resources and Links.
• Evan Hoff has posted some great examples of Operator Overloads and Value Objects.
• Jeffrey Palermo has posted an excellent article on Linq to XML- Querying an RSS Feed.
• The BlackWasp website continues their C# OOP Tutorial with an article on C# Constructors and Destructors.
• A couple of good articles from The Code Project: Retrieving SQLConnection Statistics
• Snippet(s) that caught my interest on CodeKeep: From DataSet to Excel (C#) ~ Link Button in Gridview (C#) ~ Using Stream Reader/Stream Writer (C#) ~ Membership & Roles (ASP.NET)
• Tip(s) that caught my interest on DNTOD: How to resolve relative url’s without ResolveUrl

SQL Server Development

• Jeff Smith warns us about Mixing Inner and Outer Joins.
• The Simple-Talk website has published an article by Alex Kozak on Finding Missing Date Ranges in TSQL.
• Jeff Atwood has posted some great information in his article: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins.

Houston Area Technology Events

• User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
• Software Engineering Conference – 10/19 & 10/20

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Beautiful! A PowerShell Editor – PowerGUI 1.0.
• I was watching a DNRTV with Scott Hanselman on Debugging and he mentioned a helpful tool called Strings. I have needed a tool like this in the past, now I know where to go. I also found an online Strings Utility.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• We the Change give us the 6 Top Personal Development Activities. I agree with spending vacation time in a place like Sedona…I love that place.
• The Positivity Blog has posted a great list of Stephen King´s Top 7 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer.
• The I Hate Your Job website has posted 5 Gut Feelings: Job Interview Warning Signs.
• Web Worker Daily gives us 24 Things You Can Do With an Index Card.
• The PickTheBrain website has listed 7 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Failure. I need to take some of this advice myself.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• This picture makes a great panoramic wallpaper.
• A couple of stories on the new Star Trek movie (story 1| story 2). I admit, I’m a trekkie.
• Awesome Motion Gallery with images from all over the world.
• For fans of The Office, here is the DunderMifflinInfinity website.
• Funny Dilberts this week: 10/10 ~ 10/12 ~ 10/14

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Happy Surfing.