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

• Here is a CSS Horizontal Menu tutorial from Tutorial5.
• Wade Wright has posted a great article on GUIDS titled The Gospel of the GUID.
• The Blogging Developer tells us How to Disable Form Submit on Enter Key Press.
• Mads Kristensen has posted a good article on Keeping Web Services Simple.
• Great article by Jeff Prosise titled Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0.
• Adrian Singer has posted an article on Software Projects listing 6 Must-have Pages for websites.
• Matt Hinze has posted code for a snazzy HtmlAgilityPack User Agent.
• Jason Haley provides us with more Reflector goodness with his article Simple Reflector Addin: Count Box Instructions.
• Joydip Kanjilal provides a detailed overview of Working with Web Services in .NET.
• Great tip from Arjan Zuidhof about using SharpDevelop when Visual Studio is not available.  As soon a I read this I downloaded SharpDevelop to my laptop which does not have VS installed.  It is a great alternative.
• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 11.
• Jean-Paul Boodhoo tells us what is on his mind in his post titled Software Developers vs. Software Artists.
• BlackWasp has posted an article on Building a File Path with Path.Combine.
• Articles from The Code Project: Implementing C# Generic Collections using ICollection 
• Snippet(s) that caught my interest on CodeKeep: Sunday of the week (C#) ~ DataGridView With Row Numbers (C#) ~ Cookies Create and Recover (ASP.NET)
• Tip(s) that caught my interest on DNTOD: Disable Submit button after it was clicked ~ Elegant code w/Action delegate and List.ForEach method

SQL Server Development

• Snippet(s) that caught my interest on CodeKeep: Search All Columns Of All Tables (SQL) ~ fnStringListToTable (SQL) ~ JOIN with CASE (SQL)
• BlackWasp has posted a good article on Changing the SQL Server Century Cut-Off Date.
• Kalen Delaney has posted a couple of great articles on playing with metadata for statistics (Part 1, Part 2)
• Here is a great article from OpenWinForms on Adding Row Number to SQL SELECT result.

 Blogging Tools and Advice

• According to Greg Duncan, Windows Live Writer v1 (aka Version 2008) has been released. Looks like I have an upgrade to perform.

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

• User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
• VSLive – Austin – Mon 11/12/07

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Check this out.. the Smallest USB 2.0 4-Port Hub in the world.
• Jeff Atwood has posted some great tips on hyperlinking in his article Don’t Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking.
• Mary Jo Foley provides information on Microsoft’s answer to Google Gears.
• Web Worker Daily clues us in on the cool Morning Coffee plugin for FireFox. It allows you to open several sites at once. Useful if you have specific sites you check daily.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Jarkko Laine asks What is Your Dream Job? This is a great article to make you recall aspects of your childhood. I always wanted to be an Astronomer, but was never good at the math.
• Todd Goldfarb give us 8 Unique Ways to Increase Productivity.
• The Fruitful Time blog gives us 5 tips to be more happy at work.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• I Hate Your Job has a link to a game I can totally relate to – well maybe not totally.
• These are some cool gifts. I wouldn’t mind having a couple of them in for my cubicle.
• Even though I’m not an Apple person, it is neat to see the evolution of the products.
• Good article from The Planetary Society about a new Solar System around a neighboring star.
• Here is a trailer for a very interesting looking movie called The Air that I Breathe.
• Funny Dilberts this week: 11/03 ~ 11/06 ~ 11/07 ~ 11/09 ~ 11/11

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Good Link Blog Sources

• Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
• Steve Pietrek – Links
• Arjan Zuidhof – LinkBlog
• Christopher Steen – Link Listing
• Matt Hinze – Links Today
• Scott Reynolds – Links from the SharpSide
• David Vidmar – Links of the week
• Matt Goyer – Links
• Mike Gunderloy – The Daily Grind
• Sam Gentile – New and Notible

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Happy Surfing.