Weekly Link Post 12
Posted by Rhonda Tipton on October 21, 2007
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.
