Weekly Link Post 34
Posted by Rhonda Tipton on March 23, 2008
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
- Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 20 and The Weekly Source Code 21.
- Josh Smith continues his WPF Podcatcher series on Code project with Part III - The Podcast Management Conundrum.
- Bill Wagner shares his Podcast Roll. Lots of interesting stuff here.
- Mohammad Azam has posted a really great article titled Designing Application Using Test Driven Development. Looks like a great starting point for someone learning TDD.
- Jeff Nuckolls provides a Step-by-step Introduction to LINQ to SQL.
- Scott Hanselman has posted some great articles this week including: Getting LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities to use NOLOCK ~ IronPython and the DLR march on
- David Hayden recommends the Visual Studio 2008 Add-In Sticky Notes and also lists a few other developer tools.
- Dan Wahlin recommends a really sweet utility in his post Want to Learn How to Use LINQ? Check out LINQPad!
- Jesse Liberty provides everything needed for Getting Started with Silverlight 2.
- Good article on DevTopics that gives us 13 Tips to Comment Your Code.
- Rudi Grobler recommends some WPF Snippets for us to add to Visual Studio.
- Tutorial Videos: LINQ TO SQL Grouping
- Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: Part III - The Podcast Management Conundrum
- Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Export list of Windows Services via WMI Query (C#) ~ Simple Lambda example (C#)
- Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me: Create and view Todo’s in the Task List
- Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: Add Windows Explorer to your Visual Studio tools menu
SQL Server Development
- 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.
Internet, Software and General Technology
- Misty Khan has provided us with some great Outlook information this week in her articles: How To create a Distribution List ~ Could a Plug In Increase Your Outlook Efficiency?
- Web Worker Daily tells us about a new FireFox plugin that incorporates GTD in the post Firefox + Gmail = GTD.
Blogging and Social Networking
- Scott Hanselman has a great post about Twitter titled Twitter: The Uselessfulness of Micro-blogging.
- Ben Cook gives us 7 Steps to Successful Networking.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- Joel Cochran has blogged about The Birth of the Cubicle. I “live” in a cubicle everyday and there are definitely pros and cons. Much more of the ladder.
- Here is a post on Lifehack that lists 30 Tips to Rejuvenate Your Creativity.
- Erica Douglass provides some great points in her post How I Tripled My Blog’s Traffic in Two Months.
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Here is an article that lists The Worst Foods in America.
- The Planetary Society has a great post about Arthur C Clarke: 1917-2008.
- Movie Trailers: Pathology ~ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ~ Star Trek
- The Best Article Every day lists 20+ Excellent Resources for High-Res Desktop Wallpapers.
- Funny Dilberts this week: 3/17
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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.






















March 23, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Really impressive & useful list of links.
-mikeray
http://mikeray.blogspot.com/
http://tobermory-idoffer.blogspot.com/
March 23, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Thanks Mike.
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