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.
I am doing this early this week due to the threat of Hurricane Ike. Good luck to everyone in the path of Ike. Everyone else have a great weekend.
Application Development/Design
- Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 33.
- BlackWasp has a detailed post on Creating a Windows Service.
- John Papa provides a great tip in the post LINQ to XML Tip – Checking for Values.
- Kevin Babcock has posted 2 great articles on VS code snippets. Using Code Snippets | Creating Your Own Code Snippets
- Good article on Reading XML with jQuery.
- Steve Harman has posted a great article explaining Multi-Targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects. "VS2008 and VS2005 can be made to play nice together"
- Tutorial Video(s): App.Config & Creating Custom Configuration Sections | Understanding REST | Extreme WCF
- Article(s) from Code project: Inversion of control & Dependency injection | XML Explorer | Better LINQ with better example
SQL Server, Compliance & PowerShell
- Scott Bateman provides a follow-up to his previous Non-Numeric Characters in SQL post.
- Snippet(s): List table name
Community & Technology Events
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
- ArcReady & MSDN Unleashed – 9/24/08 – @ Microsoft Houston
- Sarah Dutkiewicz provides a recap and presentation materials from her Intro to New Data Types in SQL 2008 presentation.
Internet, Software and General Technology
- Eamon Barker lists the Development Tools that he uses on a Daily Basis.
- Dan Rigsby tells us about MSDN Social Bookmarks. A site where users can add bookmarks, tag them in various ways, share them with others, etc.
- Scott Hanselman talks about the new browsers and threads in his post Microsoft IE8 and Google Chrome – Processes are the New Threads. "I happened to install Google Chrome (Alpha) the same day I installed Internet Explorer 8 (Beta). I noticed immediately, as I’m sure many of you have, that both browsers isolate tabs in different processes."
Blogging and Social Networking
- Mashable lists the Top 10 Web Applications for FriendFeed.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- Steve Pavlina is giving us an opportunity to read a Free Sample Chapter of Personal Development for Smart People. Can’t wait for the whole book…
- Great article on Zen Habits: Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani: Her Top 3 Productivity Tips and Much More.
- Jamie Nischan talks about the FitBit. Looks like a really cool device. "If the FitBit is successful I can only imagine what will come in the near future."
- Robert Scoble talks about some Useful travel web sites.
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Cool 20 Greatest Sci-Fi TV Show list from Entertainment Weekly.
- Lifehacker talks about a pretty cool hurricane resource called Stormpulse.
- Ran across a great article on the new J.J. Abrams series Fringe.
- Movie Trailers: Quantum of Solace
- Funny Dilberts this week: 9/8 | 9/10 | 9/12
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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
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Happy Surfing.
