Weekly Link Post 37
Posted by Rhonda Tipton on April 13, 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 Guthrie continues his link listing series with April 11th Links. Love those links!
- Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 23.
- Soon Hui tells us why he is a .NET Programmer and Proud of it.
- Justin Etheredge has a great article on Grouping LINQ Aggregates in C#.
- David Hayden posts about the LINQ to SQL Visual LINQ Query Builder. A LINQ to SQL Visual Studio add-in.
- Karl Shifflett has posted a link to a webcast on The Mole Visualizer for WPF.
- Ben Scheirman explains The Importance of Writing the Test First.
- Aaron Sprague has posted some General C# Questions and their answers.
- Josh Smith has posted a great article titled WPF Disciples 3D Blogroll…with Audio!
- Claudio Lassala has posted a great article on TDD titled The whole testing thing…
- Sahil Malik provides some great information in the post What is WCF?
- Joel Cochran has posted a wonderful article titled I am a Professional Geek.
- Mohammad Azam tells us about LEFT JOINS and DefaultIfEmpty Operator in LINQ.
- Scott Hanselman has posted a great article titled How do Extension Methods work and why was a new CLR not required?
- Tutorial Videos: Mark Miller on CodeRush with Refactor (DnrTv)
- Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: Calling a Web Service from SSIS package ~ Useful Generic Array Functions ~ Data Binding an Enum with Descriptions
- Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Insert a value into an identity column ~
- Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: How to change HTML markup produced by ASP.NET controls
SQL Server & PowerShell
- BlackWasp has posted an article on how to Determine the SQL Server Version.
- Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: If Exists Update Else Insert (SQL)
- Kenneth Downs has posted a detailed article on GROUP BY, HAVING, SUM, AVG, and COUNT(*).
Houston Area & Regional Technology Events
- User Group Meetings - This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
- Mohammad Azam has posted a Recap of his presentation at the Houston .NET User Group meeting as well as the Demo Downloads.
Internet, Software and General Technology
- I am reading Lifehacker by Gina Trapani and in the book she mentions Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP. There are a lot of great tools here.
Blogging and Social Networking
- Scott Kingery clues us in on The Ultimate Twitter Client.
- Rachel Clark has posted a great article outlining her Twitter Frustrations.
- Jarkko Laine provides some great blog resources in his post Finding New Blogs.
- Mike McGuff provides us with lots of Twitter goodness in his post It’s Twitter time @you.
- Graham Langdon has a great post on Why Twitter will be bigger than Facebook. I agree 100%. I like Facebook better than MySpace, but I like Twitter better than all Social Networking tools.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- Andrew Tokely has posted a great article on How to Impress at Your Next Interview.
- Great Houston Chronicle article about Working outside the cubicle. Make me want to quit my job and move out of my cubicle.
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Here is some Lost news.
- Interesting article on Space.com about the Missing Link Between Planets and Stars.
- I really need to find a Bull$hit button.
- A cool Torchwood iGoogle theme.
- John Russell Plant has posted some very funny Mac vs PC South Park Style videos.
- Movie Trailers: The Forbidden Kingdom ~ Forgetting Sarah Marshall ~ Pathology (wish it wasn’t limited release)
- Funny Dilberts this week: 4/7 ~ 4/8 ~ 4/10 ~ 4/11
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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 - On Microsoft
- Alvin Ashcraft - Daily Links
- Chris Alcock - Morning Brew
- Matthew Griffin - 5 for Friday
- Darren Stokes - Visual Studio Links
- Chris Love - Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
