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

• The PowerShell Guy tells us about a new PowerShell Community Site. [via Jason]
• Jeff Atwood reminds us that programming is supposed to be fun.
• The AjaxNinja website has a post on How to Jump Start Your Programming Career.
• Scott Hanselman tells us about the rule: If your method can’t do what it’s name promises it can, throw. Good information.
• Rick Strahl tells us how to Debug a FoxPro COM Object Under ASP.NET.
• Josh Smith has posted an excellent article on the WPF Thought Process.
• Here is a good article on Set Operations with C# Generics by Gerhard Stephan.
• Jeff Atwood asks Why Does Software Spoil?
• Cassio Alves has posted a great article on his blog about Printing a GridView with Paging.
• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 8.
• Chris Sells demonstrates how to have Fun With the GridView*RowPresenter.
• Kadir Pekel has provided a link to Scott Guthrie’s LINQ to SQL Series.
• Nick Halstead explains to us What De-Motivates Programmers.
• Carl J posts a great list of Free Regular Expression Tools & Resources.
• Snippet(s) that caught my interest on CodeKeep: Get a value from a row/cell in a DataGridview (C#) ~ Generic Logging Class (C#)
• Tip(s) that caught my interest on DNTOD: Verbatim string literals

SQL Server Development

• I ran across some good SQL articles on the Tech Ahead blog. Derived Tables ~ Horizontal/Vertical Data ~ Truncate and Delete
• Tod McKenna has posted a good article on Using .sql Files with SQLEXEC in VFP.

Houston Area Technology Events

• MSDN Event: Visual Studio 2008, “Astoria” and Silverlight – 10/25/07 1:00p – 5:00p

Blogging Tools and Advice

• Elliot Cross has posted an interesting article entitled To WWW or Not and How to Redirect Your Blog.

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Eugueny Kontsevoy tells us about his Life Before Google.  It sounds a lot like my life….
• Wow! Could USB flash drives be the next medium for the music industry. Matchbox 20 must think so.
• This SanDisk Sansa TakeTV 8GB video player looks rather interesting.
• This is a pretty slick looking portable DVD player.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• In celebration of Boss’ Day, the Monster blog has given us a list of articles on How to Deal With Your Boss.
• Internet Duct Tape lists a number of coworker induced workplace failures ways to avoid them in the article Coworkers Considered Harmful. [via Arjan]
• The Ririan Project gives us 15 Ways to Balance Life and Work. I need to consider some of these.
• John Place lists 5 Ways to Boost Self-Esteem.
• Here are 13 Tips to Actually Enjoy Exercising on Lifehack.
• Leo Babauta gives us 2 great articles this week:  A Simple Method to Avoid Being Judgmental ~ 31 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Exercise
• Todd Goldfarb gives pointers on How to Conquer Fear by Separating Unhealthy Types from Healthy Ones.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• The Ririan Project gives us 22 Natural Ways to Prevent Colds.
• Awesome picture of a tornado, rainbow and lightning.
• Here is more news and pictures from the upcoming Star Trek movie. Woo hoo!
• The 25 Greatest Moments from “The Office”. I love these!!!
• If you are a Heroes fan you might be interested in this post on The Tenth Wonder website.
• Funny Dilberts this week:  10/12 ~ 10/14 ~ 10/16 ~ 10/19 ~ 10/21

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Happy Surfing.