Weekly Link Post 28

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 15 and also posts about the VS Programmer Themes Gallery.
• Scott Guthrie continues his Link Listing Series and tells us about the VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix.
• Buddy Lindsey starts a new series on Web Config Basics.
• I ran across an post from .NET Adventures describing PoshConsole – a PowerShell console written in WPF.
• Jimmy Bogard has posted a great article titled Some C# obscurities where he goes over a few features that revolve around the ? operator.
• Anthony Grace has created an ASP.NET 2.0 Guest Book Application and provides the source code. Sweet.
• I found a couple of good articles on BlackWasp this week: Padding Numbers Using Transact-SQL ~ Capturing the Screen Contents in .NET 2.0
• Rick Strahl has posted a great article on Transparent Labels in WinForms.
• Basil Vandegriend posts on How to Handle Null Values in Code.
• Karl Shifflett lists several forums to Get Answers To Your .NET 3.5 Programming Questions.
• Mohammad Azam has posted a great article on Adding Multiple Rows to the GridView Control.
• Found a good article on DotNet Slackers that explains LINQ to SQL and Visual Studio 2008.
• Tod McKenna explains how to Compare a String to a List of Formats.
• Karl Shifflett gives advice on how to Open XAML Files Faster.
• Here is a post that talks about Using an IDE to write PowerShell Scripts from Scott Hanselman.
• Ken Egozi has posted a warning that Equals != ==.
• Jon von Gillern links us to a good resource for Patterns.
• Scott Hanselman tells us about the new ASP.NET Wiki.
• Article(s) from Code project that Interest me:  
• Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Using the Default SQL Database (C#) ~ RegEx to detect valid email address (C#) 
• Tip(s) from Sara Ford that Interest me:  Ctrl+PgUp/Dn toggle among all the tool windows in a tool window group ~ Use F6 to jump between split panes in the editor
• Tip(s) from DNTOD that Interest me: Using weak references for your custom caching ~  

SQL Server Development

• Kalen Delaney informs of the differences between Statistics vs Indexes.
• Joe Webb shows us about Using CROSS JOIN to generate test data.
• Snippet(s) from CodeKeep that Interest me: Update Table with Join (SQL)

Houston Area & Regional Technology Events

• User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of user group meetings.
• ArcReady Event: Service LifeCycle Management

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Josh Smith has posted Podder v2 Beta.  This is a great WPF podcast player.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Diet blog has posted some interesting articles on training weak links. Upper Body ~ Lower Body
• Gretchen Rubin gives us Thirteen tips for dealing with a really lousy day.
• In a follow-up to last week’s article, Jarkko Laine provides Insanely Interesting Links: Something To Keep You Reading All The Time.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• More Mercury goodness in the article Mercury’s Mysteries, Old and New. 
• Cool article about one of the stars of Terminator: SCC.
• Scott Koon found this great cartoon and posted the link on Twitter. I laughed so hard, I had to include it this week.
• The movie Jumper looks pretty good.
• Funny Dilberts this week:  2/5 ~ 2/6 ~ 2/7 ~ 2/9

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Great Link Blog Sources

• Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
• Steve Pietrek – Links
• Arjan Zuidhof – LinkBlog
• Christopher Steen – Link Listing
• Matt Hinze – Links Today
• Scott Reynolds – Links from the SharpSide
• David Vidmar – Links of the week
• Matt Goyer – Links
• Mike Gunderloy – WWD Coffee Break
• Sam Gentile – New and Notable
• Chihn Do – Finds of the Week
• Craig Bailey – Link Blog
• Alvin Ashcraft – Daily Links
• Scott Koon – Links
• Scott Kingery – Links
• Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
• Matthew Griffin – 5 for Friday
• Sam Buchanan – Links

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Happy Surfing.