Weekly Link Post 114

Posted by Rhonda

Application Development/Design

Forced Coding – Some good advice to help get out of a coding block…
CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2008 on CodePlex – David Hayden lets us know that CopySourceAsHtml has moved to Codeplex.
Closures in C# – Good post from David Morton.
Developers – Must Learn – Booting Windows 7 from a VHD – “For the past few months I’ve been sharpening my Windows 7 skills and discovered what many systems people already know; ‘you can easily setup and boot Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 VHD.’ ..”
Delegates | Lambda Expressions: An Introduction | Lambda Expressions: Finding an Item in a Generic List – Some great posts from Deborah Kurata.
Tutorial Video(s): Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures
Article(s) from Code project: TextFieldWriter | Top Ten Free Extensions for Visual Studio 2008

SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell

T-SQL To find Out If An Index Is Clustered Or Non Clustered – Good, “to-the-point” post on Clustered & Non-Clustered indexes.

Community/Technology Events & Training

Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Material from Presentation at the HDNUG – Claudio Lassala provides his demos from his Clean Code presentation.
Beyond Silverlight with WPF (LIDNUG) – Mike Taulty gives a recap and provides his presentation materials.

Internet, Software and General Technology

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

The Work of Worry – “…it takes about as much work to do or fix the thing we’re worried about as it does to worry about it.”
Speeding Up Without Multitasking – “Part of speeding up is to make conscious decisions about what work to do when.”
Learn one thing a day – “…a useful way of ensuring that we are always improving is to ask the question ‘Am I better than yesterday?’ at the end of each day.”
How to Get a Better Job - Great post from Brent Ozar on how to get a better job.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

The real justification for human spaceflight?
Dilberts I found funny – 10-05
Moon of Jupiter Could Support Life – “Jupiter’s moon Europa is flowing with a buried liquid water ocean that contains much more oxygen than previously thought – enough to possibly support life, scientists say.” >> Pretty cool.
Movie Trailers: New Moon | The Stepfather