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.

Application Development/Design

• Scott Guthrie continues his link listing series with May 20th Links.
• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 27.
• Dare Obasanjo has posted an article titled C# 3.0 Implicit Type Declarations: To var or not to var?. This article is very helpful to me since I am starting to work with refactoring tools.
• Igor Ostrovsky has posted a great article listing 7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ. He provides some nice code samples.
• Paul Stovell talks about Strongly Typed Property Names.
• Scott Koon announces the inaugural Technology Round Table Podcast.
• Brendan Enrick has posted a couple of good C# articles: Differences Between Structures and Classes in C# ~ Return Within a C# Using Statement
• Mohammad Azam talks about Updating Only Changed Rows Using GridView Control.
• Jason Allor announces the release of MS Source Analysis for C#.
• Tutorial Video(s): How Do I…? New Entity Framework Videos ~ A New Tutorial Series on Master Pages
• Article(s) from Code project: WPF Data Binding One Step at a Time (Josh Smith)
• Snippet(s): My most used SQL methods ~ Sort list of custom objects ~ CSS Image Replace
• Tip(s): Show Extension Methods in the Object Browser ~ Code snippets for some common operations with exceptions

SQL Server & PowerShell

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• Jeff Smith has a post out on SQLTeam about Implementing Table Interfaces.
• David Vidmar has been nice enough to post a script that creates a country information database. Sweet!!

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

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

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Resharper Horizons announces the Resharper 4 Beta.

Blogging and Social Networking

• Jason Massie provides a list of SQL people that he follows on twitter. Great list!!!
• Interesting post of 101 Everyday Uses for Twitter.
• FriendFeed is growing in popularity in light of Twitter’s downtime. Five Ways To Use the Hide Function ~ Using the Bookmarklet ~ Google of Social Networks

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Ririan Project has an article listing 7 Painless Ways to Stay Healthy In The Office. I believe in all of these; however, on some of them, it is easier said than done.
• Dustin Wax lists what looks like some great books in his post The Lifehack Productivity Bookshelf – Stepcase Lifehack.
• The FruitfulTime blog has an article that tells us to Think Positively to Be Productive.
• Jarkko Laine has posted an excellent article titled Focus Your Big Picture Every Day. I love articles that give me ideas on how to better myself.
• Dustin Wax has posted an article that asks the question Are You a Productive Reader?. I really enjoyed this article. Lots of great ideas.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Good Space.com article titled Jupiter Breaks Out in Spots.
• Now these are some cool looking book cases. Especially if you have enough books to fill them.
• Movie Trailers: Kung Fu Panda ~ Wall-E ~ The Love Guru
• Funny Dilberts this week: 5/19 ~ 5/24 ~ 5/26

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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
• Michael Koby – Daily Links

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Happy Surfing.