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 Guthrie continues his link listing series with March 28th Links. Love those links!
• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 22.
• K. Scott Allen has a great post on LINQ joins titled Inner, Outer, Let’s All Join Together With LINQ.
• John W Powell has posted an excellent list of 10 Tips to Boost Your Productivity with C# and Visual Studio 2008.
• Keyvan Nayyeri has posted a detailed article on the PasswordStrength control titled PasswordStrength in ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.
• BlackWasp has a detailed article on Detecting File Changes with FileSystemWatcher.
• Christopher Bennage has a great blog post on The Roots of Best Practices.
• Tutorial Videos: LINQ to SQL: Accessing Relational Data
• Article(s) from Code project that Interest me:  None
• Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me:  ExecuteCMD (C#) ~ .NET Event Techniques ~ Convert generic list int array to string ~ TimeFormatter
• Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me: Create Shortcuts in your Task List ~ View an error’s help documentation
• Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: None

SQL Server & PowerShell

• Kenneth Downs has posted the following articles:  Of Tables and Contraints ~ How the SQL UNION Affects Table Design
• Chris Sutton has posted a good explanation of the PowerShell del command.
• Joe Webb has recorded a Real world DBA podcast on the subject of Join Orders. I can’t wait to give it a listen.
• Denis Gobo tells us How To Use COALESCE And NULLIF To Prevent Updating Columns.

 Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

• User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Here is a great Mike Tech Show podcast on the subject of Organizing your Digital Information.  All of his podcasts are great, but this one provided lots of tools.

Blogging and Social Networking

• Scott Kingery has a wonderful tool called Twitter Link Monitor that pulls anything out of your Twitter feed that contains a URL.
• Robert Scoble tells us The Secret to Twitter. I follow people because they have something in common with me (Live in same area, likes Sci-Fi, etc) or I am trying to learn from them (Developers).
• Alan Le posted a link on Twitter for Quotably – Follow Twitter Conversations. Cool idea.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Keith Elder has posted an awesome article titled What Software Developers Can Learn from Forrest Gump. This is one of the best articles I have ever read on the subject of technical communication. 
• There is a great article series in the New York Times that gives some great in site on how to eat smarter at work. Smart Eating at Work: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Part 3
• Here is a great post from Dumb Little Man on how to Work Smarter for Better Time Management. I love the idea of scheduling everything.
• Peter of the I Will Change Your Life blog walks us through his idea of The Perfect Day. His day sounds great to me.
• Sarah Dutkiewicz has posted an enlightening article titled The Passion versus The Job. At the moment, I find myself in between. I love development, but dislike where I work
• Both Rick Strahl and Steven Smith blog about the great topic of knowledge (intrinsic and extrinsic).

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• The Best Article Every Day gives us the Top 10 Most Annoying “Lost” Moments.
• Good question/answer on if Fox will give Dollhouse a chance.
• Movie Trailers:  Iron Man ~ The Strangers
• Funny Dilberts this week: 3/28 ~ 3/29 ~ 3/30

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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
• 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.