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
- Marco Russo has given us an early Christmas present with a link to a Free Introducing LINQ book. There are 2 other books as well.
- Scott Hanselman lists several videos in his post How-To: New ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Video Screencasts.
- Kathleen Dollard has an article in VSM titled Exploring C# 3.0. This article give a good overview of the new features.
- Joydip Kanjilal has posted a great article on Working with Delegates in C#.
- Rob Howard shares his Arizona .NET User Group presentation materials.
- Scott Guthrie continues his Link Listing Series. Love those links!
- Mohammad Azam has posted a video titled GridView Edit, Update, Cancel and Delete.
- Snippet(s) from CodeKeep: Iterates contents of a MultiDictionary (C#)
- Tip(s) from Sara Ford: How to customize the # of items in the recent files lists ~ Insert a code snippet around a block of code
- Tip(s) from DNTOD: Visual Studio Bookmarks
SQL Server Development
- SQL Team has posted an in depth article titled Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Database Backups.
- The Database Programmer has a continuing series on Database Skills and will be updating this Complete Contents Post weekly.
Houston Area & Regional Technology Events
- User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
Blogging Tools and Advice
- Ben Cook has an interesting take on blogging in his article South Park: Lessons on Blogging.
Internet, Software and General Technology
- Dustin Campbell lets us know Launchy 2.0 has been released and lists out the changes.
- FireFox Personas are pretty cool. I am using the Golden Gate persona at the moment.
- Greg Duncan gives us a good overview of LINQPad – A Free Interactive LINQ to SQL Utility.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- Gina Trapani has posted a couple of excellent articles on Lifehacker: Practicing Simplified GTD ~ Firefox Extension: RTM in Gmail.
- Freelance Switch has posted 10 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Home Office Cheaply. I an kind of an organization freak, so I really liked this list.
- Dumb Little Man tells us how to Create our own Personal Development Plan.
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Here are some trailers to movies I am looking forward to: Cloverfield ~ Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ~ Run Fat Boy Run
- Funny Dilberts this week: 12/20 ~ 12/21 ~ 12/22
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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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HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
Happy Surfing.
