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

• BlackWasp has posted a good article on Visual Studio Code Analysis.
• Claudio Lassala has posted a great article on Creating a custom collections.
• Josip Zohil has posted an interesting series titled Improve VFP data retrieval with WCF: Part 1 ~ Part 2
• Shay Friedman gives a detailed overview of The static Keyword.
• Gaurav Taneja tells us what is New in Visual Studio 2008.
• Chris Brandsma has posted an excellent article titled What is Elegant Code to me?. He gives several great tips.
• Geek Daily gives us the warning C# DateTime.MinValue is not the same as SqlDateTime.MinValue. Good to know…
• Tutorial Videos: LINQ to SQL Delay Load Option ~ How Do I – C#
• Article(s) from Code project that Interest me:  none
• Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me:  IsCharNumeric ~ Validate a DateTime string
• Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: Label to a form input field

SQL Server & PowerShell

• Chris Sutton shows us how to do a PowerShell File Search.

 Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

• User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
• Houston .NET Google Group – Google group for Houston based .NET developers

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Craig Bailey has posted a good Outlook Tip. TIP: Dates in Outlook
• Misty Khan has posted a couple of great Outlook tips this week: Mailbox Size ~ Emailing Screen Prints
• The Google Blog talks about the new Offline access to Google Docs.
• Steven Smith provides some good Outlook Performance Tips.

Blogging and Social Networking

• Mads Kristensen has created a new Twitter widget for the BlogEngine.NET framework.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Glen Stansberry from LifeDev has done a guest post on Zen Habits titled 9 Ways to Fight Feature Creep in Our Lives. Very good read.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Great Battlestar Galactica article in the Houston Chronicle: Series explores both inner and outer space.
• Here is some interesting Scrubs news.
• The article The Moon joins the Seven Sisters details a cool astronomical event that is occurring on Tuesday.
• Movie Trailers: The Happening ~ Step Brothers ~ Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? 
• Funny Dilberts this week: 4/1 ~ 4/2 ~ 4/3 ~ 4/6

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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.