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Weekly Link Post 41

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on May 11, 2008

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

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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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Weekly Link Post 40

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on May 4, 2008

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

Application Development/Design

Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 25.
Brian Mains has posted a great Introduction to 3-Tier Architecture.
Scott Guthrie makes the Slides from his Orlando presentation available. Looks like he covered Silverlight a well as ASP.NET MVC.
Mohammad Azam explores the graphics API in the article Creating Bar Chart Using .NET Graphics API.
BlackWasp has posted a great article on Creating a Battery Power Status Monitor.
Scott Guthrie continues his link listing series with April 28th Links.
Jeff Atwood talks about programming books in the post Programmers Don’t Read Books — But You Should.
Mohammad Azam announces his new website in the post RefactorCode Released!!! ….. BETA. Looks like a great new learning tool for developers.
Tim Sneath answers the question: How Do You Convert a String Into an Enum?
Tutorial Video(s): Introduction to Ruby on Rails
Article(s) from Code project: A C# IP Address Control ~ A C# Numeric Field Control
Snippet(s): Find in Generic Lists (C#) ~ Log system information (C#)
Tip(s): Turn off Session State if you’re not using it ~ Ctrl+Alt+J opens the Object Browser

SQL Server & PowerShell

Snippet(s): Calculate Table Row Size in SQL 2005 (SQL) ~ What Version of SQL Server? (SQL)
Kenneth Downs has posted some great information in the post Denormalization Patterns.
Kimberly Tripp provides a plethora of resources for accidental DBA’s in her post Catching up on resources - the Accidental DBA workshops!.
Chris Brandsma goes over the New Date and Time types in SQL Server 2008.
Joel Bennett reviews the new features in the latest CTP of PowerShell in his post PowerShell 2 CTP2 — Wow!
Allen White provides some great PowerShell code in the post Create Database from PowerShell.

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

User Group Meetings - This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
State of .NET - Attend this free event on the state of .NET today. Find out which of the many .NET technologies have gained traction, which ones you can ignore for now, what is new in .NET 3.0 and 3.5, as well as in Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. Speaker: Marcus Egger.
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

I heard about a very useful utility called DriverMax on the Mike Tech Show. It will be nice not to have to hunt for drivers.
Digital Inspiration tells us about a new boomark extension for Del.icio.us.
Keith Elder informs us that a new version of Witty Twitter is available.
The Google Docs Blog explains the new CSS support for Google Docs in the post Want your docs to be stylin’?

Blogging and Social Networking

Scott Kingery posted a link on Twitter to The Twitter Blacklist. Nice.
WSIF is a nice online application that suggests twitter users to follow.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

The Jott Blog talks about some of the different ways people are using Jott in the post Jott goes healthy.
The Change Blog gives us 5 Signs of a Stress Ridden Mind and some ways to improve upon them.
Great article on the Diet Blog listing 11 Practical Changes to Make Your Life Better.
Here is Lifehacker’s Top 10 Memory Hacks.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

Here is a great story of sportsmanship. One of the best that I’ve ever come across.
Mike McGuff has posted a link to Roger Friedman’s review of Iron Man.
Here is a good interview with Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark. I used to frequent Fark, not sure why I stopped.
Nice article about Joss Whedon’s new show Dollhouse. Hail Joss…
Here is an awesome baseball save by a pitcher that I found on LifeDev.
Ain’t It Cool News has posted the trailer for the upcoming series Fear Itself. This looks like a cool series for the Summer.
Movie Trailers: Batman: The Dark Knight ~ The Happening ~ Baby Mama (looks funny)
Funny Dilberts this week: 5/1 ~ 5/2 ~ 5/3 ~ 5/4

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Weekly Link Post 39

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on April 27, 2008

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

Application Development/Design

Scott Hanselman provides us with a list of his best blog posts in the article Greatest Hits.
Shahar Abramovich demonstrates how to perform LINQ to XML in 3 Easy Steps.
Kevin Ragsdale shows us how to access Google Docs with Visual FoxPro.
Chris Spagnuolo has posted a great video that shows the difference between the Waterfall and Agile methodologies. A Tale of Two Teams
Scott Hanselman talks about and gives some great information on ALT.NET in the post ALT.NET Geek Code: Should you care about these ALT.NET guys?.
Claudio Lassala looks at LINQ in the post Putting LINQ queries together, one piece at a time. He provides some great code samples.
Mohammad Azam has posted a great article titled Creating Better FindControl Method.
Adrian Aisemberg explores the Global Assembly Cache in the post Enumerating the GAC using ‘foreach’.
Tutorial Video(s): CSS Support in Visual Studio 2008
Article(s) from Code project: —
Snippet(s): —
Tip(s): Run external tools within Visual Studio ~ Redirect debug messages to the output window

SQL Server & PowerShell

Snippet(s): Disable and renable all database constraints (SQL)
Pinal Dave compares the performance of Left Join and Not in. SQL Server - Better Performance - LEFT JOIN or NOT IN?
Joe Webb provides information on A Great New SQL Server Resource.
Adam Machanic provides a great SQL brain teaser in the post SQL Server Query Processing Puzzle: LIKE vs ?.
Article(s) from Code project: A SQL Management Console for MSSQL

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

User Group Meetings - This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
State of .NET - Attend this free event on the state of .NET today. Find out which of the many .NET technologies have gained traction, which ones you can ignore for now, what is new in .NET 3.0 and 3.5, as well as in Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. Speaker: Marcus Egger.
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

Misty Khan has posted a great article on Outlook Plugins.
A new version of the great Twitter client Twhirl has just been released.
Slandr is a great mobile Twitter interface.
Digsby is a great IM Aggregation client. It works for IM as well as Social Networks such as Twitter.
Nikhil Kothari talks about the announcement of Live Mesh and provides several resource links.

Blogging and Social Networking

Now I can follow two of my favorite TV Show Podcasts on Twitter. The SkyNext Podcast (Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles) and The Heroes Podcast.
Travis Illig provides some great pointers for making Twhirl a more productive interface in the post Getting The Most From Twhirl.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

LifeDev has created a Links area on their blog.
Here is an article that asks the question Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way?.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

I love Robby Russell’s blog because he posts some really funny and interesting videos and pictures. This one of a Korean Baby singing Hey Jude had me in stitches.
The Yellow Dog Blog posted a hilarious video titled An Engineer’s Guide to Cats.
During our Quarterly Department meeting this week, the Network Engineering team showed this Stephen Colbert explains AT&T video. I found it funny enough to pass on.
Mike McGuff posted a link to a video of a Cat Playing a Theremin. I found it rather amusing.
The Daily WTF posted a funny “Tales from the Interview” titled How can you expect this.
Movie Trailers: Iron Man ~ The Fall ~ Quarantine
Funny Dilberts this week: —

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Weekly Link Post 38

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on April 20, 2008

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

Application Development/Design

Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 24.
Hock Blogs provides us with some cool ASP.NET Ajax and LINQ Cheatsheets!.
David Hayden provides a link to 50 CSS Tips and Tools for Customizing Your Website. Lots of CSS to learn.
David Vidmar shows us how to print a PDF in his article Printing PDF Documents in C#.
Rick Strahl provides an in-depth article on Dynamic Queries and LINQ Expressions.
Amit Raz has posted a great list of Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know.
BlackWasp provides some great examples of C# Value Types and Reference Types.
Tutorial Video(s): Dynamically Add Controls to a Web Page ~ Dynamically Change CSS Using the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel
Article(s) from Code project: LINQ to CSV library
Snippet(s): Web.Config Database Connection Strings (ASP.NET) ~ Screen Scrape - C# (ASP.NET)
Tip(s): Customize the color scheme in the Output Window ~ How to debug Windows Service startup

SQL Server & PowerShell

Kenneth Downs posts Part 2 of his series on Joins.
Kimberly Tripp has started a great series on Indexes in SQL Server 2005/2008 - Best Practices, Part 1

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

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

Internet, Software and General Technology

Here is an interesting article on InfoQ detailing a cool VS Addin for Code Project Integration.

Blogging and Social Networking

Ade Miller gives some of his thoughts on Twitter.
The Ten Commandments of Twitter. I was not aware this existed.
ReadWriteWeb has posted a review of a new Twitter tool in the article TwitLinks: The Techmeme of Twitter?.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Dumb Little Man tells us The Causes of Stress and How to Overcome Them.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

My cousin sent me a link to this nice slideshow of America’s National Parks.
Here is an article that provides some good tips for buying a home in a down market.
Since I have always had a love for Astronomy, I have added a new page to my blog called Sky Watch where I will post links to Moon phases, meteor showers, etc.
Movie Trailers: Deception ~ Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
Funny Dilberts this week: 4/14 ~ 4/15 ~ 4/16 ~ 4/17 ~ 4/20

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Weekly Link Post 37

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on April 13, 2008

This is is my weekly link post. It is here that I note the web sites 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 April 11th Links. Love those links!
Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 23.
Soon Hui tells us why he is a .NET Programmer and Proud of it.
Justin Etheredge has a great article on Grouping LINQ Aggregates in C#.
David Hayden posts about the LINQ to SQL Visual LINQ Query Builder. A LINQ to SQL Visual Studio add-in.
Karl Shifflett has posted a link to a webcast on The Mole Visualizer for WPF.
Ben Scheirman explains The Importance of Writing the Test First.
Aaron Sprague has posted some General C# Questions and their answers.
Josh Smith has posted a great article titled WPF Disciples 3D Blogroll…with Audio!
Claudio Lassala has posted a great article on TDD titled The whole testing thing…
Sahil Malik provides some great information in the post What is WCF?
Joel Cochran has posted a wonderful article titled I am a Professional Geek.
Mohammad Azam tells us about LEFT JOINS and DefaultIfEmpty Operator in LINQ.
Scott Hanselman has posted a great article titled How do Extension Methods work and why was a new CLR not required?
Tutorial Videos: Mark Miller on CodeRush with Refactor (DnrTv)
Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: Calling a Web Service from SSIS package ~ Useful Generic Array Functions ~ Data Binding an Enum with Descriptions
Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Insert a value into an identity column ~
Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: How to change HTML markup produced by ASP.NET controls

SQL Server & PowerShell

BlackWasp has posted an article on how to Determine the SQL Server Version.
Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: If Exists Update Else Insert (SQL)
Kenneth Downs has posted a detailed article on GROUP BY, HAVING, SUM, AVG, and COUNT(*).

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

User Group Meetings - This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
Mohammad Azam has posted a Recap of his presentation at the Houston .NET User Group meeting as well as the Demo Downloads.

Internet, Software and General Technology

I am reading Lifehacker by Gina Trapani and in the book she mentions Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP. There are a lot of great tools here.

Blogging and Social Networking

Scott Kingery clues us in on The Ultimate Twitter Client.
Rachel Clark has posted a great article outlining her Twitter Frustrations.
Jarkko Laine provides some great blog resources in his post Finding New Blogs.
Mike McGuff provides us with lots of Twitter goodness in his post It’s Twitter time @you.
Graham Langdon has a great post on Why Twitter will be bigger than Facebook. I agree 100%. I like Facebook better than MySpace, but I like Twitter better than all Social Networking tools.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Andrew Tokely has posted a great article on How to Impress at Your Next Interview.
Great Houston Chronicle article about Working outside the cubicle. Make me want to quit my job and move out of my cubicle.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

Here is some Lost news.
Interesting article on Space.com about the Missing Link Between Planets and Stars.
I really need to find a Bull$hit button.
A cool Torchwood iGoogle theme.
John Russell Plant has posted some very funny Mac vs PC South Park Style videos.
Movie Trailers: The Forbidden Kingdom ~ Forgetting Sarah Marshall ~ Pathology (wish it wasn’t limited release)
Funny Dilberts this week: 4/7 ~ 4/8 ~ 4/10 ~ 4/11

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Weekly Link Post 36

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on April 6, 2008

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

Application Development/Design

BlackWasp has posted a good article on Visual Studio Code Analysis.
Claudio Lassala has posted a great article on Creating a custom collections.
Josip Zohil has posted an interesting series titled Improve VFP data retrieval with WCF: Part 1 ~ Part 2
Shay Friedman gives a detailed overview of The static Keyword.
Gaurav Taneja tells us what is New in Visual Studio 2008.
Chris Brandsma has posted an excellent article titled What is Elegant Code to me?. He gives several great tips.
Geek Daily gives us the warning C# DateTime.MinValue is not the same as SqlDateTime.MinValue. Good to know…
Tutorial Videos: LINQ to SQL Delay Load Option ~ How Do I - C#
Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: none
Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: IsCharNumeric ~ Validate a DateTime string
Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: Label to a form input field

SQL Server & PowerShell

Chris Sutton shows us how to do a PowerShell File Search.

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

User Group Meetings - This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
Houston .NET Google Group - Google group for Houston based .NET developers

Internet, Software and General Technology

Craig Bailey has posted a good Outlook Tip. TIP: Dates in Outlook
Misty Khan has posted a couple of great Outlook tips this week: Mailbox Size ~ Emailing Screen Prints
The Google Blog talks about the new Offline access to Google Docs.
Steven Smith provides some good Outlook Performance Tips.

Blogging and Social Networking

Mads Kristensen has created a new Twitter widget for the BlogEngine.NET framework.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Glen Stansberry from LifeDev has done a guest post on Zen Habits titled 9 Ways to Fight Feature Creep in Our Lives. Very good read.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

Great Battlestar Galactica article in the Houston Chronicle: Series explores both inner and outer space.
Here is some interesting Scrubs news.
The article The Moon joins the Seven Sisters details a cool astronomical event that is occurring on Tuesday.
Movie Trailers: The Happening ~ Step Brothers ~ Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?
Funny Dilberts this week: 4/1 ~ 4/2 ~ 4/3 ~ 4/6

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Weekly Link Post 35

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on March 30, 2008

This is is my weekly link post. It is here that I note the web sites 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 March 28th Links. Love those links!
Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 22.
K. Scott Allen has a great post on LINQ joins titled Inner, Outer, Let’s All Join Together With LINQ.
John W Powell has posted an excellent list of 10 Tips to Boost Your Productivity with C# and Visual Studio 2008.
Keyvan Nayyeri has posted a detailed article on the PasswordStrength control titled PasswordStrength in ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.
BlackWasp has a detailed article on Detecting File Changes with FileSystemWatcher.
Christopher Bennage has a great blog post on The Roots of Best Practices.
Tutorial Videos: LINQ to SQL: Accessing Relational Data
Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: None
Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: ExecuteCMD (C#) ~ .NET Event Techniques ~ Convert generic list int array to string ~ TimeFormatter
Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me: Create Shortcuts in your Task List ~ View an error’s help documentation
Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: None

SQL Server & PowerShell

Kenneth Downs has posted the following articles: Of Tables and Contraints ~ How the SQL UNION Affects Table Design
Chris Sutton has posted a good explanation of the PowerShell del command.
Joe Webb has recorded a Real world DBA podcast on the subject of Join Orders. I can’t wait to give it a listen.
Denis Gobo tells us How To Use COALESCE And NULLIF To Prevent Updating Columns.

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

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

Internet, Software and General Technology

Here is a great Mike Tech Show podcast on the subject of Organizing your Digital Information. All of his podcasts are great, but this one provided lots of tools.

Blogging and Social Networking

Scott Kingery has a wonderful tool called Twitter Link Monitor that pulls anything out of your Twitter feed that contains a URL.
Robert Scoble tells us The Secret to Twitter. I follow people because they have something in common with me (Live in same area, likes Sci-Fi, etc) or I am trying to learn from them (Developers).
Alan Le posted a link on Twitter for Quotably - Follow Twitter Conversations. Cool idea.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Keith Elder has posted an awesome article titled What Software Developers Can Learn from Forrest Gump. This is one of the best articles I have ever read on the subject of technical communication.
There is a great article series in the New York Times that gives some great in site on how to eat smarter at work. Smart Eating at Work: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Part 3
Here is a great post from Dumb Little Man on how to Work Smarter for Better Time Management. I love the idea of scheduling everything.
Peter of the I Will Change Your Life blog walks us through his idea of The Perfect Day. His day sounds great to me.
Sarah Dutkiewicz has posted an enlightening article titled The Passion versus The Job. At the moment, I find myself in between. I love development, but dislike where I work
Both Rick Strahl and Steven Smith blog about the great topic of knowledge (intrinsic and extrinsic).

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

The Best Article Every Day gives us the Top 10 Most Annoying “Lost” Moments.
Good question/answer on if Fox will give Dollhouse a chance.
Movie Trailers: Iron Man ~ The Strangers
Funny Dilberts this week: 3/28 ~ 3/29 ~ 3/30

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Weekly Link Post 34

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on March 23, 2008

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

Application Development/Design

Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 20 and The Weekly Source Code 21.
Josh Smith continues his WPF Podcatcher series on Code project with Part III - The Podcast Management Conundrum.
Bill Wagner shares his Podcast Roll. Lots of interesting stuff here.
Mohammad Azam has posted a really great article titled Designing Application Using Test Driven Development. Looks like a great starting point for someone learning TDD.
Jeff Nuckolls provides a Step-by-step Introduction to LINQ to SQL.
Scott Hanselman has posted some great articles this week including: Getting LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities to use NOLOCK ~ IronPython and the DLR march on
David Hayden recommends the Visual Studio 2008 Add-In Sticky Notes and also lists a few other developer tools.
Dan Wahlin recommends a really sweet utility in his post Want to Learn How to Use LINQ? Check out LINQPad!
Jesse Liberty provides everything needed for Getting Started with Silverlight 2.
Good article on DevTopics that gives us 13 Tips to Comment Your Code.
Rudi Grobler recommends some WPF Snippets for us to add to Visual Studio.
Tutorial Videos: LINQ TO SQL Grouping
Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: Part III - The Podcast Management Conundrum
Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Export list of Windows Services via WMI Query (C#) ~ Simple Lambda example (C#)
Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me: Create and view Todo’s in the Task List
Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: Add Windows Explorer to your Visual Studio tools menu

SQL Server Development

Kenneth Downs has posted a great article on joins titled The JOIN is the Cornerstone of Powerful Queries.

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

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

Internet, Software and General Technology

Misty Khan has provided us with some great Outlook information this week in her articles: How To create a Distribution List ~ Could a Plug In Increase Your Outlook Efficiency?
Web Worker Daily tells us about a new FireFox plugin that incorporates GTD in the post Firefox + Gmail = GTD.

Blogging and Social Networking

Scott Hanselman has a great post about Twitter titled Twitter: The Uselessfulness of Micro-blogging.
Ben Cook gives us 7 Steps to Successful Networking.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Joel Cochran has blogged about The Birth of the Cubicle. I “live” in a cubicle everyday and there are definitely pros and cons. Much more of the ladder.
Here is a post on Lifehack that lists 30 Tips to Rejuvenate Your Creativity.
Erica Douglass provides some great points in her post How I Tripled My Blog’s Traffic in Two Months.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

Here is an article that lists The Worst Foods in America.
The Planetary Society has a great post about Arthur C Clarke: 1917-2008.
Movie Trailers: Pathology ~ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ~ Star Trek
The Best Article Every day lists 20+ Excellent Resources for High-Res Desktop Wallpapers.
Funny Dilberts this week: 3/17

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