Weekly Link Post 40

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 25.
• Brian Mains has posted a great Introduction to 3-Tier Architecture.
• Scott Guthrie makes the Slides from his Orlando presentation available. Looks like he covered Silverlight a well as ASP.NET MVC.
• Mohammad Azam explores the graphics API in the article Creating Bar Chart Using .NET Graphics API.
• BlackWasp has posted a great article on Creating a Battery Power Status Monitor.
• Scott Guthrie continues his link listing series with April 28th Links.
• Jeff Atwood talks about programming books in the post Programmers Don’t Read Books — But You Should.
• Mohammad Azam announces his new website in the post RefactorCode Released!!! ….. BETA. Looks like a great new learning tool for developers.
• Tim Sneath answers the question: How Do You Convert a String Into an Enum?
• Tutorial Video(s): Introduction to Ruby on Rails
• Article(s) from Code project: A C# IP Address Control ~ A C# Numeric Field Control
• Snippet(s): Find in Generic Lists (C#) ~  Log system information (C#)
• Tip(s): Turn off Session State if you’re not using it ~ Ctrl+Alt+J opens the Object Browser

SQL Server & PowerShell

• Snippet(s):  Calculate Table Row Size in SQL 2005 (SQL) ~ What Version of SQL Server? (SQL)
• Kenneth Downs has posted some great information in the post Denormalization Patterns.
• Kimberly Tripp provides a plethora of resources for accidental DBA’s in her post Catching up on resources - the Accidental DBA workshops!.
• Chris Brandsma goes over the New Date and Time types in SQL Server 2008.
• Joel Bennett reviews the new features in the latest CTP of PowerShell in his post PowerShell 2 CTP2 — Wow!
• Allen White provides some great PowerShell code in the post Create Database from PowerShell.

 Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

• User Group Meetings - This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
• State of .NET - Attend this free event on the state of .NET today. Find out which of the many .NET technologies have gained traction, which ones you can ignore for now, what is new in .NET 3.0 and 3.5, as well as in Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. Speaker:  Marcus Egger.
• ArcReady Event - Architecting for Scalable and Usable Web Applications - Austin, TX 05/06/08, Houston, TX 05/15/08, Dallas, TX 05/20/08
• Austin Code Camp - 05/17/08 8:30AM - 5:00PM — I will be heading to this one EARLY Saturday morning.
• Houston Mobility Metro - 05/20/08
• DevCare Events -  San Antonio, TX 05/21/08, Dallas, TX 05/21/08, Austin, TX 05/23/08

Internet, Software and General Technology

• I heard about a very useful utility called DriverMax on the Mike Tech Show. It will be nice not to have to hunt for drivers.
• Digital Inspiration tells us about a new boomark extension for Del.icio.us.
• Keith Elder informs us that a new version of Witty Twitter is available.
• The Google Docs Blog explains the new CSS support for Google Docs in the post Want your docs to be stylin’?

Blogging and Social Networking

• Scott Kingery posted a link on Twitter to The Twitter Blacklist. Nice.
• WSIF is a nice online application that suggests twitter users to follow.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• The Jott Blog talks about some of the different ways people are using Jott in the post Jott goes healthy.
• The Change Blog gives us 5 Signs of a Stress Ridden Mind and some ways to improve upon them.
• Great article on the Diet Blog listing 11 Practical Changes to Make Your Life Better.
• Here is Lifehacker’s Top 10 Memory Hacks.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Here is a great story of sportsmanship. One of the best that I’ve ever come across.
• Mike McGuff has posted a link to Roger Friedman’s review of Iron Man.
• Here is a good interview with Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark. I used to frequent Fark, not sure why I stopped.
• Nice article about Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse. Hail Joss…
• Here is an awesome baseball save by a pitcher that I found on LifeDev.
• Ain’t It Cool News has posted the trailer for the upcoming series Fear Itself. This looks like a cool series for the Summer.
• Movie Trailers:  Batman:  The Dark Knight ~ The Happening ~ Baby Mama (looks funny)
• Funny Dilberts this week: 5/1 ~ 5/2 ~ 5/3 ~ 5/4

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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
• Scott Koon - Links

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Happy Surfing.