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
- Ian Suttle tells us how to Create Your Own Visual Studio 2005 Item Templates.
- Stefano Mapelli provides some good information and links for VS 2005 C# Code Snippets. [via Steve]
- Shahed Khan explains how to Handle 404 Smartly in ASP.NET.
- Jason Haley has posted a couple of great articles on Reflector: Short-cut Listing for Reflector ~ Wrapping Reflector. Very cool!
- Jon Galloway hes created a great post on Creating Zip archives in .NET.
- Scott Guthrie continues his Link Listing Series. Love those links!
- Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 9.
- Tod McKenna tells us about Using MSBuid for his projects.
- The BlackWasp website has posted an article on Marking C# Code As Obsolete.
- Chris Brandsma has posted a great article on Software Development Essential Practices.
- Joydip Kanjilal has created a very detailed article about Working with Collections in C#.
- Articles from The Code Project: Thumbnail Images in GridView using C# ~ Automating MS Excel Documents ~ HOWTO: Install SQL Sample Databases
- Snippet(s) that caught my interest on CodeKeep: Creating a custom css button (CSS) ~ isValidDateTime (C#)
- Tip(s) that caught my interest on DNTOD: How to call a surrogate for Dispose() on StringBuilder objects
SQL Server Development
- Lionel Clarke has posted a good SQL Puzzle on the Simple-Talk website.
- The BlackWasp website has posted an article on Moving SQL Server Database Files.
- Joe Webb explains The undocumented sp_MSforeachtable procedure. This should come in very handy. [via Greg Duncan]
- Jeff Smith has written a great article for SQL Team on Aggregating Correlated Sub-Queries.
Houston Area & Regional Technology Events
- User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
- VSLive – Austin – Mon 11/12/07
Blogging Tools and Advice
- Jeff Attwood tells us How To Achieve Ultimate Blog Success In One Easy Step.
- Mike Stall has created a pretty snazzy plugin for Live Writer called Paste-From-Console. [via Jason]
- Claudio Lassala provides some great reasons to blog away.
- Aaron Lerch tells us about a DotNetKicks Counter Plugin for Windows Live Writer.
Internet, Software and General Technology
- Here is a list of really Cool Firefox Wallpapers.
- Google News has developed a widget for Facebook integration.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- The Ririan Project gives us 8 Little-Known Ways to Think More Effectively. I would love to be able read faster and still have decent retention.
- Sahil Malik provides a cool Outlook Productivity Tip. I am all for productivity.
- Steve Pavlina has posted a wonderful article on How to Wake Up Feeling Totally Alert. He always has very insightful posts. I highly recommend his blog.
- Zen Habits has a guest post from John Wesley on 5 Tips to Maximize Your Ability to Concentrate.
- Todd Goldfarb gives us a 14 Step Guide to Finding the Perfect Career.
- Louise Fletcher provides some sound advice in her post Choose the Job, Don’t Let the Job Choose You. [via Jason].
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- /Film has posted two new “I am Legend” movie trailers. Looks like a cool movie for Will Smith.
- If you like the movie Office Space, you may want to check out the Office Space Box of Flair.
- Now this is interesting. A t-shirt that detects Wi-Fi.
- Funny Dilberts this week: 10/25 ~ 10/26
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Happy Surfing.
