Weekly Link Post 41

This is is my weekly link post.  It is here that I note the web sites and posts that I have run across that interest me - whether it be related to work or play.

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

Application Development/Design

• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 26.
• Ben Martens has a wonderful Brain Teaser category on his blog.
• Found an article on et curry.com that list several Tips on ASP.NET Validation Controls.
• Harry Pierson has posted a great article on Deserializing XML with IronPython.
• Here is a great GridViewGuy article from Mohammad Azam on Url Rewriting Using RewritePath.
• I ran across a great article on dictonary collections titled C# Snippet Tutorial - Dictionary Collections.
• Scott Hanselman had posted a very informative article titled TypeConverters: There’s not enough TypeDescripter.GetConverter in the world.
• Mohammad Azam has posted about Two New Features added to his great new site RefactorCode.
• Dan Wahlin taks about Using LINQ to Perform “WHERE IN (Value1, Value2)” Queries.
• Scott Hanselman introduces us to an add-in for Visual Studio called RockScroll. It basically extends the scrollbar in VS to show a syntax highlighted thumbnail view of your source. Sweet.
• Tutorial Video(s): Real-World AJAX with ASP.NET
• Article(s) from Code project:  —–
• Snippet(s):  LINQ to text file ~ LINQ to search for a directory ~ Parse CSV file to list ~ Get Visual Studio 2008 installation path
• Tip(s): Send an e-mail any time an unhandled exception occurs

SQL Server & PowerShell

• Snippet(s):  —–
• Very detailed article from Simple-Talk on SSIS Package Componentization.
• Kimberly Tripp has posted an article asking the question: When did you last backup your home/personal/less-critical system… is it really less-critical?

 Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

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

• Tim Heuer gives us some details on the Foxit PDF Previewer Security Update.
• Keith Elder talks about the new Skins support in Witty Twitter.
• The Google Reader Blog has posted information on some new sharing features for the Google Reader Shared Items page.

Blogging and Social Networking

• Max Pool talks about how Twitter can be A Possible Support Circle.
• Dwight Silverman has posted a great article in the Houston Chronicle about how a local woman’s Comcast woes were solved via Twitter.
• Kevin Miller provides some great ideas on Creating a Twitter Integration.
• There were several “my take on Twitter” posts.  It is interesting to see other’s take on Twitter.  Rick Strahl ~ Claudio Lassala ~ Andrew MacNeill

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Evernote posted the question How do you use Evernote? on Twitter and posted the results on their blog. I have picked up more ways to use Evernote by reading the replies.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Good article on the TV Show Medium titled The messages in Medium.
• Ran across the Season 3 Promo for Heroes.  Can’t wait for the new season… 
• The Tenth Wonder has posted an article on the next season of Heroes titled Jack Coleman drops a few Season 3 hints.
• Awesome!! I am a huge X-Files fan. The trailer to the latest X-Files movie will debut tomorrow 5/12. Woo hoo!!
• A mini-series remake of The Andromeda Strain will be airing on A&E starting Memorial Day.
• Movie Trailers:  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ~  Hancock ~ The Promotion
• Funny Dilberts this week: 5/7 ~ 5/8 ~ 5/9 ~ 5/11

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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
• Mike Gunderloy - Double-Shot
• 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.