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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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Weekly Link Post 33

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on March 16, 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

CSS Globe provides us with a couple of great articles this week: 8 Premium One Line Css Tips ~ Creating and Styling Resizable Buttons
Scott Guthrie continues his link listing series with March 14th Links. Love those links!
Scott Hanselman continues his great link series with The Weekly Source Code 19.
Craig Bailey gives us a tip on How to uninstall IE8. This is useful if you had problems with the beta.
Dustin Campbell continues his great Why I Love F# series with A Refactoring Tale.
Philippe Leybaert provides an if … else if … else if … else … : an alternative. Interesting, I never thought of doing it this way.
Matt Hamilton has a great blog post titled Back to Basics - Reading a .CSV File. There is always a need to import text files.
Stylized Web has a great article on the Most used CSS tricks.
Tutorial Videos: LINQ To SQL Inner and Left Joins
Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: Exploring Lamda Expression in C# ~ Add VS Command Prompt (VSCP) to your IDE as a tool?
Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Get / Set property - string (C#) ~ Write to the event log (C#) ~ Custom AdRoatator (C#)
Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me: Stop the output window from showing during a build ~ Assign a priority to your Task List User Tasks ~ Use the Task List to create Tasks that are separate from your code
Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me:

SQL Server Development

Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: MSSQL 2005 Begin Transaction (SQL)
Alex Kozak has posted an excellent article on Simple-Talk titled The ‘Last Seven Days’ puzzle. It goes into great detail on the different ways to determine the last 7days.
Joe Webb provides links to lists of predefined formatting strings.
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.
Heroes Happen Here - VS 2008/SQL 2008/Server 2008 Launch Event - 3/20
Jeffrey Palermo announces the Austin Code Camp ‘08 call for speakers and attendees.

Internet, Software, Blogging and General Technology

The Google OS Blog has posted an article on Adding Page Numbers to Google Documents.
The PowerShell Team provides links to PowerShell Plus.
Bill Evjen has listed some great Visual Studio 2008 Plug Ins.

Blogging and Social Networking

Keith Elder gives a ton of great information on Twitter in his article Twitter - How To Explain It, Why Those of You Not Using it Should, How It Has Changed.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Matthew Moore gives us an interesting 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity.
Leo Babuta from Zen Habits has a guest post on Unclutterer that gives pointers for Creating a Minimalist Workspace. I need to setup myself an inbox for people to put stuff instead of cluttering up my desk.
I ran across a great article on Lifehack titled There’s More to Productivity Than Time Management.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

Mike McGuff posts a link to the trailer for Lost Boys: The Tribe. I love the original Lost Boys.
Great article on Stargate: Enduring Legacy: The History of ‘Stargate’
The Best Article Everyday lists 10 things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy. Pretty cool article.
Sweet picture of a Shuttle Launch.
Funny Dilberts this week: 3/16

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Weekly Link Post 32

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on March 9, 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 18.
Matt Berseth has posted a great article on Tag Cloud Filters w/ASP.NET 3.5’s LinqDataSource & ListView Controls.
Dustin Campbell continues his excellent series called Why I Love F#.
David Vidmar shares some awesome Delicious API interaction code in his article Simplifying My Life - Links of the Week.
Builder AU informs of the testing options offered in VS2008.
Here are some C# Code Samples for the Live Search API.
Dennis Van Der Stelt has posted a great article on Getting data from Excel the fast way, using LINQ.
Rick Strahl warns of an Odd string.Replace Chaining Behavior.
Jeff Veatch has posted a couple fo good LINQ articles: Filter Collections on the fly, using LINQ ~ Programmatically designating a LINQ “orderby”
Josh Smith continues his WPF Podcatcher series on Code Project with Part II - Structural Skinning.
BlackWasp has posted a great article titled A Generic Searchable Range Collection.
The MIX08 Sessions page has a very cool interface that make it easy to download the content.
Jeff Atwood points out a scary situation in his article A Question of Programming Ethics.
Julie Lerman lets us know about DataDevelper.NET - A resource for developers interested in Data Access.
Andrew MacNeill talks about Working with VFPX and CodePlex Source Control.
Tutorial Videos: Introduction to LINQ ~ Databinding in WPF ~ ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel ~ ASP.NET ListView Control
Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: Get a table with all dates in a month
Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: None
Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me: Press Ctrl+/ to reach the Visual Studio command line
Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: None

SQL Server Development

Pinal Dave shows us How to Retrieve TOP and BOTTOM Rows Together using T-SQL.
SQL Team has posted an article on Using the TIME data type in SQL Server 2008.

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

User Group Meetings - This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
Heroes Happen Here - VS 2008/SQL 2008/Server 2008 Launch Event - 3/20

Internet, Software, Blogging and General Technology

Misty Khan shows How to Convert Your Archive Folders to Quarterly Archive Folders in Outlook.
Internet Explorer 8 is now in Beta 1. I installed it on a WinXP VPC and started working with it.
Scott Hanselman has posted a great article titled ZEB (Zero Email Bounce) and a new Outlook Rule.
Josh Smith has released version 2 of Podder. This is an excellent WPF application for listening to your favorite podcasts.
Gina Trapani gives us the Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks. I carry 2-3 thumb drives with me and this article gives me some great ideas.
Misty Khan answers the question Should You Upgrade to Outlook 2007? I went from Outlook 2000 to 2007 and I am still trying to work through the differences. My husband uses 2003 and has no plans to move to 2007 anytime soon.
Google announces the release of Google Calendar Sync, a tool that syncs calendars between Outlook and Google Calendar.

Blogging/Social Networks Tools and Advice

Dwight Silverman gives a great example of What Twitter’s Good For.
Brendan Tomkins introduces us to the Ten Types of Twitter Users.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Diet Blog has posted some good ideas in the article 10 Easy Food Swaps to Lose Pounds Without Trying.
I was listening to DNR Episode 320 with John Bristowe when he mentioned a web series called Ignite Your Career. The series looks like it includes some great information.
Gretchen Rubin gives us 20 very easy tips for lowering your daily stress level. This is a good list. I actually do a couple of the items listed and picked up some new ideas too.
Jarkko Laine provides some ideas for How To Triple Your Week Without Anyone Noticing.
Oleg Dulin tells us about his Interview Experience at Google.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

Movie Trailers: The Alphabet Killer ~ Shutter (nice and creepy, just the way I like ‘em) ~ The Spiderwick Chronicles
Great article in the Houston Chronicle about Future-Based shows called For shows like Lost, time is of the essence.
Smashing Magazine has pulled together a really great list of Incredible Free Icon Sets.
Good article on Space.com titled Nearest Star System Might Harbor Earth Twin. We may not be alone after all.
Funny Dilberts this week: 3/4 ~ 3/6

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Weekly Link Post 31

Posted by Rhonda Tipton on March 2, 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 17.
Matt Berseth has posted some nice looking LinkedIn Style Themes.
Dustin Campbell continues his great Why I Love F# series.
Amirthalingam Prasanna has posted an article on Simple-Talk titled .NET Collection Management with C# 3.0.
Jon Skeet tells us about Visual LINQ.
Jeff Atwood has a great article titled UsWare vs. ThemWare.
Bill Wagner has posted a couple of great articles for VSM on C#’s Query Syntax ~ Inside Functional Programming.
Sam Gentile provides us with his Inessential List of Tools.
BlackWasp has posted a good article on how to Convert String Arrays to Comma-Separated Strings.
David Vidmar has posted some great tips in his article Interesting LINQ bits.
Charlie Calvert provides us a helpful list of Links to LINQ.
Scott Guthrie posted some helpful articles this week: First Look at Silverlight 2 ~ 1st Look at Expression Blend with Silverlight 2
Nannette Thacker has started a multi part series on Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters. Good example of a tiered architecture.
Andrew MacNeill talks about the VFPX & FoxPro Community.
Tutorial Videos: DNRTV-PowerGUI
Article(s) from Code project that Interest me: None
Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Remove 1 or multiple items from a listbox gracefully (C#) ~ Read back a collection of objects from a XML string (C#) ~ Save a collection of objects to XML as a string (C#) ~ Using Reflection to loop thru properties of a given object (C#)
Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me: Create temp or “throw away” projects ~ VS 2K8 Supports multi-targeting of the .NET Framework
Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: Correct event invocation

SQL Server Development

Pinal Dave provides some interesting observations in his article SQL SERVER - SELECT 1 vs SELECT *.
Dare Obasanjo tells us When Not to Normalize your SQL Database. Some great points here.
Code for Eternity tells us how to Find the Second Highest Column Value in a Table.
Joe Webb answers the question Does order matter in a JOIN clause?. I thought the order would matter, but this article shows differently.

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

User Group Meetings - This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
Heroes Happen Here - VS 2008/SQL 2008/Server 2008 Launch Event - 3/20

Internet, Software, Blogging and General Technology

Greg Duncan tells us about a New SysInternals Utility.
Web Worker Daily tells us about the new Google Sites in their article Google Sites Finally Launches.
A co-worker brought the tool NanoScan to my attention this week. I like the idea of instant when it comes to virus scanning.
Aneef Fashir has posted an article praising the new MSDN Reader. The reader looks pretty sweet.
Web Worker Daily has posted a detailed article on Switching to Google Apps Without Tears.
Greg Duncan informs us that PowerGUI is now officially RTM. I watched a DNRTV on this app and it looks like a great way to learn the Powershell scripting syntax.
Misty Khan has posted several tips this week: How to Create a .pst File ~ How to Track Your OutTwit in a Separate .pst File ~ How to Rename a .pst File (W/o Corrupting the File)

Blogging Tools and Advice

Quick Online Tips gives us the 10 Best Twitter Tools for WordPress Blogs.
Ben Cook tells us how to go about Using a WordPress Page as your home page.
Lifehack has posted a detailed article on blogging titled The Newbie Guide to Blogging.
Coding4Fun tells us about a Siverlight Twitter Client.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Rocky VanBrimmer has an interesting guest post on Arrow-Tips that asks the question Do You Really Want to Connect on LinkedIn?. I never really thought about my invitations until I read this.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

Funny video of Jonathan Coulton performing his song “Still Alive” in Rock Band with Veronica Belmont, Leo Laporte, and Merlin Mann.
For you readers out there, Freshome has posted 30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs. Some of them are very creative.
Ran across this great Astronomy article from Francis Reddy titled The Internet as a Telescope.
Found an article in Wired Magazine with some interesting cubicle decorations. Some very creative ideas here — I really like the one with the bed under the desk.
Good interview with the Terminator:SCC Producers.
The Best Article Every Day give us 20 Beautiful HDR Pictures Will Blow Your Mind. Some of these make really nice wallpaper.
Funny Dilberts this week: 2/29

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