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.

Hope everyone made it through Hurricane Gustav.  Have a great week.

Application Development/Design

• Ryan Farley talks about Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage. Great article. “We need to authenticate to access these pages. We can do that by reusing the authentication cookie from the site that we receive when we log in with a browser.”
• Ran across a great post on Less Than Dot titled Let Resharper do the heavy lifting for you. “Reshaper is a cool tool that can save you plenty of time.”
• Dan Rigsby continues his series on Working with Dates & Times in .Net 3.5: TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo in .Net
• Chris Love shares his wish list for the next Visual Studio. “with anything you live with there are many things I want to see in the next version.”
• Greg Duncan tells us about a LINQ to Twitter provider. Cool stuff.
• Great MSDN article on Creating and Customizing TFS Reports.
• For anyone trying to learn JQuery, here is a jQuery Resource List.  Looks like an abundant amount of information on the subject.
• Article(s) from Code project: Printing Reports in .NET | Use LINQ to Create Music Playlists
• Tutorial Video(s): Dates & Times in .NET 3.5 | Testing w/ Team Foundation Server | Use ASP.NET to Send Email from a Site | Return Default Values Instead of NULL from a TSQL Query   
• Snippet(s): Run an executable Runas
• Tip(s): There is a QuickWatch window

SQL Server, Compliance & PowerShell

• Jason Massie links us to some great SQL Server Videos.
• Mladen Prajdić has published a great article on SQLTeam titled Scheduling Jobs in SQL Server Express. “See how to build a simple job scheduler that can schedule jobs once or daily…”
• Great article on Simple-Talk on SQL Server 2008 Table-valued parameters.  “Table-valued types and parameters are among the many exciting new features of the recently released SQL Server 2008.”
• Joe Webb explains The undocumented sp_MSforeachdb procedure. “…undocumented implies unsupported and that there is no guarantees about whether the procedure will exist in future versions of the product.”
• Brent Ozar talks about SQL Server Data Mining in the cloud!  “I am reeeeeally impressed.  Wiping the drool off my keyboard.”
• BlackWasp has posted a good article on how to Get the Current SQL Server Date and Time.

 Community & Technology Events

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
• 2008 Houston TechFest – 9/13/08 – Located at the University of Houston (Main Campus)
• J Sawyer talks about the upcoming ArcReady & MSDN Unleashed events.

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Dan Rigsby shows us how to Remotely Log Off Remote Desktop Users.
• Lester Lobo has updated XamlPadX. Looks like a great tool.

Blogging and Social Networking

• Dana Coffey tells us How she uses Social Networking.
• Merlin Mann explains the need for a “Pause” button in the post Social Networks: The Case for a “Pause” Button.
• Joe Webb talks about blogging and Twitter in the post Blogging and my new Twitter site.
• Dana Coffey has started a series called Amazing Female Bloggers: Part 1 | Part 2 

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Greg Duncan links us to a great article containing Layoff tips – 20 tips, for when you may need them most.
• Lifehacker has posted a great article reviewing Evernote titled Expand Your Brain with Evernote. 
• Great article from Cali and Jodi talking about Work-Life Balance. “It’s one thing to enforce better treatment of employees. It’s another to give those same employers the tools they need to live up to the change.”

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Ran across this cool looking wallpaper. Love the colors.
• Funny video about the ever-changing world of requirements.
• Mike McGuff has posted a hilarious video for the Chuck George action figure. I remember Chuck George, so this really makes me laugh. 
• Movie Trailers:  Fast & Furious | Max Payne | Passengers
• Funny Dilberts this week:  8/31

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Great Link Blog Sources

• Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
• Alvin Ashcraft – Daily Links
• Steve Pietrek – Links
• Arjan Zuidhof – LinkBlog
• Christopher Steen – Link Listing
• Mike Gunderloy – Double-Shot
• David Vidmar – Links of the week
• Sam Gentile – New and Notable
• Craig Bailey – On Microsoft
• Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
• Darren Stokes – Visual Studio Links
• Chris Love – Links of the Week
• Michael Koby – Daily Links

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Happy Surfing.