Rhonda Tipton's WebLog

Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week.

Application Development/Design

• Myths about code comments – “Comments don’t make code more readable. They are ways to compensate for code not being readable.”
• Language Envy – C# needs Ranges – Great argument for ranges in C#.
• Visual Studio 2010 New Features in Debugging – Good post on VS 2010 Debugging.
• I Use Dead Programming Languages – “For a ‘dead’ language, Java isn’t doing too badly.”
• What is Reactive Programming? – “I thought I’d take a stab at an explanation of what reactive programming means to me. Let me take you to the future.”
• Tip: File / Open / URL – Great tip!
• Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Range – Useful post on dealing with business days.
• Tutorial Videos: How Do I: Create and Use Classes in JavaScript? 
• Visual Studio Tips: Pin a project to the Recent Projects list on the Start Page | Zoom in or out of text in the Editor using the mouse wheel | Insert a blank line above or below the current line

SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell

• SQL Server WHILE Loops – Good intro to SQL While Loops.
• SQL – Useful Functions – Useful overview of SQL’s built-in functions.

 Community/Technology Events & Training

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings. 
• CODE Magazine Special for PyCon 2010 Attendees – Looks like a decent deal.
• A Bunch of Reasons to Love Ruby – Ben Scheirman has posted the slides from his HDLUG Presentation.
• Dallas CSharp SIG Presentation Code And Slides – Latish Sehgal posts his presentation materials.
• How to Organize a Programming Language Club – This is a great “Unofficial How to Organize a Programming Language Club Handbook.”

Internet, Software and General Technology

• How To Remove Antivirus Live and Other Rogue/Fake Antivirus Malware – This would have come in handy 2 weeks ago.
• Nexus One vs Droid vs iPhone – Pretty good comparison.
• Make Your Windows 7 PC Not Shutdown when You Accidentally Hit the Power Button – Nice tip!
• My Favorite iPhone Apps | My Favorite WordPress Plugins Lately – Brent Ozar lists his favorite iPhone Apps and WordPress plugins.
• 10 Must Have iPhone Applications – Jonathan Gardner lists his favorite iPhone apps.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• 5 Great Productivity Goals For 2010 – Five career-related resolutions for 2010
• New Year’s Resolutions for Software Developers – “This article is a list of possible New Year’s resolutions for you, as a developer, to consider.”
• Why People Hate Productivity – “The problem happens when we get hyper-focused on producing. We start to think we’re inadequate unless we’re being ‘productive’ or ‘getting things done.’”
• Use Better Tools to Be a Better Student in 2010 – Great article on note-taking. I really need to become more proficient at taking notes.

Health, Fitness and Recipes

• New Physical Activity Data in Wolfram|Alpha – Nice activity stats resource.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Sheldon’s rock-climbing adventures – Great Big Bang Theory picture to use as a wallpaper
• Warner Bros. is Run by Idiots – I completely agree with Michael on this.
• Recreating Galileo’s Discovery: 400 Years Later – Wolfram|Alpha provides copious amounts of data on the history of Jupiter.
• New Sky-mapping Telescope Takes First Photo – “A sea of stars takes center stage in the very first photo released from NASA’s newest space telescope built to map the entire sky.”
• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 01-06 | 01-07 | 01-08
• Movie Trailers:  A Team | The Sorcerer’s Apprentice | Date Night–

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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