This is is my weekly 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/Design

• CSS Globe provides us with a couple of great articles this week: 8 Premium One Line Css Tips ~ Creating and Styling Resizable Buttons
• Scott Guthrie continues his link listing series with March 14th Links. Love those links!
• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 19.
• Craig Bailey gives us a tip on How to uninstall IE8. This is useful if you had problems with the beta.
• Dustin Campbell continues his great Why I Love F# series with A Refactoring Tale.
• Philippe Leybaert provides an if … else if … else if … else … : an alternative. Interesting, I never thought of doing it this way.
• Matt Hamilton has a great blog post titled Back to Basics – Reading a .CSV File. There is always a need to import text files.
• Stylized Web has a great article on the Most used CSS tricks.
• Tutorial Videos: LINQ To SQL Inner and Left Joins 
• Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: Exploring Lamda Expression in C# ~ Add VS Command Prompt (VSCP) to your IDE as a tool?
• Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Get / Set property – string (C#) ~ Write to the event log (C#) ~ Custom AdRoatator (C#)
• Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me: Stop the output window from showing during a build ~ Assign a priority to your Task List User Tasks ~ Use the Task List to create Tasks that are separate from your code
• Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me:

SQL Server Development

• Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: MSSQL 2005 Begin Transaction (SQL)
• Alex Kozak has posted an excellent article on Simple-Talk titled The ‘Last Seven Days’ puzzle. It goes into great detail on the different ways to determine the last 7days.
• Joe Webb provides links to lists of predefined formatting strings.
• Kenneth Downs has posted a great article on joins titled The JOIN is the Cornerstone of Powerful Queries.

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

• User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
• Heroes Happen Here – VS 2008/SQL 2008/Server 2008 Launch Event – 3/20
• Jeffrey Palermo announces the Austin Code Camp ‘08 call for speakers and attendees.

Internet, Software, Blogging and General Technology

• The Google OS Blog has posted an article on Adding Page Numbers to Google Documents.
• The PowerShell Team provides links to PowerShell Plus.
• Bill Evjen has listed some great Visual Studio 2008 Plug Ins.

Blogging and Social Networking

• Keith Elder gives a ton of great information on Twitter in his article Twitter – How To Explain It, Why Those of You Not Using it Should, How It Has Changed.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Matthew Moore gives us an interesting 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity.
• Leo Babuta from Zen Habits has a guest post on Unclutterer that gives pointers for Creating a Minimalist Workspace. I need to setup myself an inbox for people to put stuff instead of cluttering up my desk.
• I ran across a great article on Lifehack titled There’s More to Productivity Than Time Management.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Mike McGuff posts  a link to the trailer for Lost Boys: The Tribe. I love the original Lost Boys.
• Great article on Stargate: Enduring Legacy: The History of ‘Stargate’
• The Best Article Everyday lists 10 things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy. Pretty cool article.
• Sweet picture of a Shuttle Launch.
• Funny Dilberts this week: 3/16

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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
• David Vidmar – Links of the week
• Matt Goyer – Links
• Sam Gentile – New and Notable
• Chihn Do – Finds of the Week
• Craig Bailey – Link Blog
• Alvin Ashcraft – Daily Links
• Scott Koon – Links
• Scott Kingery – Links
• Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
• Matthew Griffin – 5 for Friday
• Sam Buchanan – Links
• Tim Boland – Daily Finds
• Darren Stokes – Visual Studio Links

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Happy Surfing.