Weekly Link Post 125

Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and got everything they wanted.

Application Development/Design

• I Don’t Git GitHub Yet, But I Hope I Will – “Lately, the newer “git” and the popular GitHub project hosting site appear to be coming on strong…”
• Article(s) from Code project:  A web based FTP client
• Forum Thread(s):
• Snippet(s): SelectRows C# Extension Method on DataTable | C# Code Snippet: List.ForEach method

SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell

• DATEDIFF with the Week Part – Good example of using the Week portion of DateDiff.
• SQL University: The Basics of Storage – Great post! “At their simplest, SQL Server databases consist of two things: a data file and a log file. The data file holds our tables, stored procedures, views, and so forth.”
• Powershell Script Task for SSIS – Good post on a Powershell Script Task.
• Forum Thread(s):

Community/Technology Events & Training

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.

Internet, Software and General Technology

• Windows 7 Makes Life Easier – Good praise for Windows 7.
• Evernote for iPhone Update Adds Offline Notebooks, Better Search Functions – Evernote rocks!
• How To Add Your Windows Live SkyDrive To Explorer – Looks like a pretty cool utility. Makes it easier to work with Skydrive.
• How To Fix the 10 Biggest Windows Annoyances – Another great How-To Geek post.
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2009 – I totally agree with #1 and #3.

Blogging and Social Networking

• Blogging – Lessons Learned – Michael Ceranski shares the lessons learned from his first year of blogging.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity – “If some programmers are 10x more productive than others, why aren’t they paid 10x as much?”
• Is Netflix Worth It? – Good question.
• Top 10 End-of-Year Office Upgrades (You Can Probably Write Off) – Nice!

Health, Fitness and Recipes

• Ten Tips for an Emergency Energy Boost – “There are many things we should on a regular basis to keep our energy levels high, like exercising and getting enough sleep.”
• Tips to get you through the holidays! – Great tips!

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Fluffy Mystery at Edge of Solar System Solved – “Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn’t be there, astronomers say.”
• Movie Trailers: Cop Out | The Karate Kid (nooooo!)

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Great Link Blog Sources

• The Simple Dollar – Weekly Roundup
• Rick Minerich – F# Discoveries This Week
• John Clayton – Weekly Web Nuggets
• Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
• Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
• Steve Pietrek – Links
• Arjan Zuidhof – LinkBlog
• Mike Gunderloy – Double-Shot
• David Vidmar – Links of the week
• Sam Gentile – New and Notable
• Craig Bailey – On Microsoft
• Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
• Greg Duncan – A Feed You Should Read

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Happy Surfing.

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