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

• J. Eggers has a great series in progress titled Starting with jQuery. Great resource for picking up JQuery.
• Good article from BlackWasp on C# Partial Types.
• Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 36. PDC, BabySmash and Silverlight Charting
• Scott Guthrie has posted his Nov 6th Links. ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF.
• Jason Haley has posted a great article on Extending Reflector.
• Scott Hanselman has posted a article about an official Visual Studio autocomplete for JQuery. ASP.NET and jQuery 
• Craig Shoemaker has posted an in-depth article titled BookRepository: The Mock Data Repository for Testing and Demos. “…developers just need data and shouldn’t be bothered with connection strings and other sorts of database setup. The BookRepository “solution” is a simple mock object and repository class that makes it easy to generate data.”
• Beth Massi informs us of the release of New WPF How Do I Videos.
• Mark Mintoff has posted an article containing some great tips for using Enum TryParse.
• Tutorial Video(s): Embed an Image in an Email with ASP.NET | Becoming a ReSharper Samurai – Part 1 | Syndication in .NET
• Article(s) from Code project:  Weather Using VB.NET and Yahoo RSS
• Snippet(s): DateTime To String
• Tip(s): Invoke a Static Method from the Class View | View the Class Diagram for a class from the Class View | Show project references in the Class View

SQL Server, Compliance & PowerShell

• Chris Shaw has started a SQL Quiz tag post. This is a good place to learn some good pointers. Here are replies from Jason Massie and Brent Ozar.
• Scott Mitchell has posted a great article on 4GuysFromRolla that explains Converting Flat, Comma-Delimited Values Into a Normalized Data Model.
• Simon Sabin talks about scalar functions in his article TSQL Scalar functions are evil.
• Good article on ASP Alliance about Understanding Date and Time Functions and Operations in SQL Server.

 Community & Technology Events

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
• Robert C. Cain has posted links to PDC 2008 Videos. Very nice.

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Brian Harry gives a very detailed Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release.
• The Official Google Blog tells us about the New Google Help Forums.
• ObiShawn give us his take on the Software Tools You Should Be Using and Blogs You Should Be Reading.
• Jesse Liberty lists his favorite utilities. I love seeing what utilities others use.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Nice article on Dumb Little Man listing 21 Ways To Do Everything Better. I really like the section on learning.
• Scott Hanselman has posted some great Tips for Preparing for a Technical Presentation.
• Lifehack lists 9 Wonderful Ways to Get Started in the World of Personal Productivity.
• A friend of mine pointed me to a great blog called The Simple Dollar (Thanks Gabrielle). There were a couple of articles this week that sparked my interest : Focus in a Heavily Distracting Time | The Suitcase Test: The Things You Really Need

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Ran across this touching photo: Puppy Photo of the year.
• Nice dual-monitor wallpaper. 
• Good article in the Houston Chronicle about Former cast members returning for ER sendoff.
• Movie Trailers:  Monsters vs Aliens | Quantum of Solace | Madagascar 2
• Funny Dilberts this week: 11/3 | 11/4 | 11/5

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Great Link Blog Sources

• Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
• Alvin Ashcraft – Daily Links
• Brent Ozar – SQL Server & Cloud Links for the Week
• Steve Pietrek – Links
• Arjan Zuidhof – LinkBlog
• 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.