Weekly Link Post 10
This is is my weekly speed 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
- Hans-Eric Grönlund continues his series on Tools of the Effective Developer with Customer View and Fail Fast.
- Announcement from Scott Guthrie about Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries.
- Here is a C# Tutorial with lots (and lots and lots) of code samples. (found via MHinze)
- Jon Galloway has a post about Setting the DefaultButton for a Login Control. He provides a good gotcha and solution.
- Arjan Zuidhof has posted a great list of recommended reading.
- Ken McNamee talks about the app_offline feature in ASP.NET 2.0. I have found this feature quite handy.
- Jeff Atwood continues his search of the ultimate programming font.
- AjaxNinja provides detailed instruction on How to drop all tables/views/stored procedures from a SQL 2005 DB on a Shared Host.
- The BlackWasp website gives us yet another way to reverse a sting. Should come in handy for future interviews.
- Adam Wolkov has posted a detailed tutorial on Regular Expressions.
- Steven Smith has a great post on Nice Products for Developers. I wish my company would provide all of that CD training.
- Jean-Paul Boodhoo gives us his recommended Directory Structure For Projects.
- Charlie Calvert has posted a great explanation of Anonymous Types in C# 3.0.
- Ben Scheirman tells an interesting tale of bad development decisions and squirrel burgers (ick!).
- Brian Noyes has posted a good article on Exposing WPF Windows or Windows Forms as WCF Services.
- A couple of good article from The Code Project: ASP.NET and Generics ~ Displaying Image in Gridview from a DB
- Snippet(s) that caught my interest on CodeKeep: Validation using errorprovider (C#) ~ SQL ExecuteNonQuery takes SqlParameter[] (C#) ~ Write (Serialize) XML (C#) ~ Adding and removing items between ListBoxes (C#)
- Tip(s) that caught my interest on DNTOD: How to maintain the position of the scrollbar on postbacks
Houston Area Technology Events
- User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
Blogging Tools and Advice
- The .Net Adventures Blog has a great post on 10 awesome Windows Live Writer plugins for developers and bloggers.
Internet and General Technology
- Adam Pash has posted a great Gmail Tip on LifeHacker.
- Mary Jo Foley of All About Microsoft tells us about Microsoft’s answer to Google Apps.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- The Dumb Little Man website has a good article on How to Work 9 to 5 and Enjoy It.
- Very cool post from Scott Hanselman on Getting Organized using Outlook.
- LifeHack has posted an article explaining how not to overspend time on a task. I need to heed some of the advice myself.
- David Vidmar has found an interesting solution to what to do about Note Taking and To-do Lists. I like Todoist myself.
- The Ririan Project give us 22 Research-Proven Tips for Better Memory. I could use a couple of those.
- Reg Braithwaite gives advice on how to take control of your interview.
- Jarkko Laine has posted a great article about how you don’t have to be a rock star to be insanely interesting.
- Gretchen Rubin tells us what a Visit to Google Taught Her About Happiness.
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- A Second Earth in the Making? Sounds interesting.
- Here is a Best Cancelled TV Show tag list on Amazon.
- Who said UML can’t be funny? Check out these UML Jokes.
- Funny Recruiting Video
- I was sitting in front of the TV watching as Craig Biggio got the final hit of his career (#3060). This picture was taken by a fan who was lucky enough to be at the sold out game.
- Funny Dilberts this week: 10/4 ~ 10/5 ~ 10/7
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Happy Surfing.
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