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
- Buddy Lindsey, Jr. has posted a great overview of interfaces in an article titled Real World Interfaces in C#.
- Bart De Smet has an interesting post titled LINQ to Active Directory is here.
- Jeff Atwood tells us about The Two Types of Programmers.
- David Vidmar shares the solution to a VS 2008 error in his article Visual Studio 2008: Visual Studio has encountered an unexpected error.
- BlackWasp has posted a great article on Creating Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs).
- Laurent Kempe has found a Nice feature of Visual Studio 2005/2008. I am always finding things that I did not know about in VS.
- Adrian Roman provides a great example of Querying XML in C# with LINQ to XML.
- Lance’s Whiteboard gives us the Degrees of optimism in projects. I am currently at the reformed pessimist level.
- The ASP Alliance has posted a good Overview of ASP.NET Configuration Files.
- Article(s) from Code Project: Exporting from DataSet to Excel ~ DAL Class and Transact-SQL generator for C#
- Snippet(s) from CodeKeep: Prevent multiple clicks of a submit button (ASP.NET) ~ DataTable – Creating and Using – Labels (C#)
- Tip(s) from Sara Ford: What does that Automatic Delimiter Highlighting option do?
SQL Server Development
- Lionel Clark has posted a new SQL Puzzle on Simple-Talk.
- SQL Team has posted a great article titled SQL Server Indexes: The Basics. It gives a great comparison of Clustered and Non-Clustered indexes.
- Simple-Talk has posted an article on TSQL Regular Expression Workbench.
- Here is an article on SearchSQLServer by Denny Cherry on Tricks to increase SQL Server query performance.
- Snippet(s) from CodeKeep: Kill All Processes for a Passed DB Name (SQL)
Houston Area & Regional Technology Events
- User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
Internet, Software and General Technology
- Codswallop has given us 70+ Excel Tips and Shortcuts to help you make Excel Magic.
- There is a pretty useful tip from Tech-Recipes on How to Delete Duplicated Contacts in Outlook.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- Freelance Switch has posted an article listing 8 Things You Can Do to Get Work through Linkedin.
- RL Bates clues us in on Pedometers and Physical Activity. I have a pedometer that I need to start wearing again.
- TheJobBored tells us whether to Job Search During the Holidays or not.
- Here is a list of Five Hints to Reclaim Time for Yourself from Lifehack.
- Zen Habits gives us 8 Fantabulous Ways to Make the Most of Your Laziest Days.
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Photopreneur has posted a great list of 60 Sources of Inspiration for Photography.
- Here is a very amusing cartoon from ContractWorker. I have seen different variations of this and they are all amusing.
- TheJobBored has a funny post on the 5 things to say when you get caught sleeping at your desk. I might actually use one of these…
- Here are a couple of good articles on the Venus Express: 1 | 2.
- Funny Dilberts this week: 11/26 ~ 11/30
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Great 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
- Mike Gunderloy – WWD Coffee Break
- Sam Gentile – New and Notable
- Chihn Do – Finds of the Week
- Craig Bailey – Link Blog
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Happy Surfing.
