Weekly Link Post 129
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week.
Application Development/Design
- Net Remoting Made Easy – Good explanation of Remoting.
- 66+ Free Cheat Sheets – “69 and still counting fabulous free cheat sheets for almost any coding and programming language!” — Very nice!
- 3 ways to serialize Java Enums – “This article shows you best practice for serializing Java enums to database (via Hibernate, JPA) or file.”
- Reflector Pro moves into beta! – “Reflector Pro’s builds are getting pretty stable now. So we’ve decided to call this one a beta!”
- Tips and Tricks for the Visual Studio .NET IDE – Good tips.
- Fabulous Adventures In Coding : Continuing to an outer loop – Great post on loops.
- Android Development – Android, Part I: Welcome To Android – First part of a tutorial on Android Development.
- Develop Web Apps in F# with WebSharper – WebSharper is used for writing web apps in F# that are easily compiled into JavaScript.
- How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages – Via @jzy and @shanselman
- Tutorial Videos: Exploring Operator Overloading in C#
- Visual Studio Tips: How to customize what files to search with Find in Files | Using the Call Hierarchy (C# Only) | How to use Reference Highlighting
- Snippets: Replacing characters with escape sequences | state abbreviations list (dictionary) | Get the Namespace, Class Name, and Method Name of the Currently Executing Method Via Reflection
SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell
- Powershell Tools – Great post on Powershell Tools such as PowerGUI, Powershell Analyzer and PowerTab.
- Using .Net libraries in Powershell – “One of the great things about Powershell is its ability to take advantage of the .Net platform.”
- Extract Stored Procedure Comments with TSQL – Cool script for pulling comments out of an stored proc.
- Laying out SQL Code – “It is important to ensure that SQL code is laid out the best way for the team that has to use and maintain it.”
- Snippets: Search Stored Procedure for String
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings. Houston iPhone DevCamp – January 30-31 in the space next door to The Coffee Groundz.
Internet, Software and General Technology
- Learning Windows 7: Desktop Themes and Backgrounds – Good tutorial for dealing with the Windows 7 desktop.
- Try Android 2.1 on Windows – Something else to play with
- Create Notes Inside (and Outside) of Firefox – This is a pretty useful plugin.
- PDFmyURL Generates PDFs from Any Web Address – This sounds like it could be useful.
- Get Easy Access to Your Google Bookmarks in Chrome – The BoogleMarks extension provides an easy way to access, add to, and manage your Google Bookmarks account in Chrome.
- 24 Free iPhone Apps for Job Hunting – Pretty good list.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- Barnes & Noble Saves Students Money with New Textbook Rental Service – Very nice!
- Textbook Price Comparison Helps You Find the Cheapest Textbooks – Looks like a great service!
- Stop Following ‘The Rules’ Of Your Life And Bring Back The Joy – “I realized a few days back that I have to think pretty darn hard about when the last time I experienced true, unbridled joy was. Pretty sad, huh?”
- Top 10 Tools for Better Reading, Online and Off – Great article about streamlining your reading.
- How to Get Your “Space” Organized – “By breaking the job into small pieces, you’re less likely to be overwhelmed and before you know it, your office will be organized.”
- Make Time to Get and Stay Organized – “What’s the best time to get organized? The ideal answer is, ‘all the time.’ ”
- Solving Equations with Wolfram|Alpha – This could come in handy for when I have to take Calc.
Health, Fitness and Recipes
- Recipes: Chicken Enchilada Chili
- 5 Exercises Geeks Should NOT Be Doing – “As geeks we have to be mindful of our posture and the implications it will have on our workouts.”
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Byway 9 – Nice Wallpaper
- 100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know – Really, really awesome!
- Hubble 3D Trailer – Saw this trailer when we went to see Avatar. Very cool!
- Desktop Fun: Underwater Theme Wallpapers – Nice wallpaper.
- Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 01-18
- Movie Trailers: Shutter Island | MacGruber | The Crazies
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Great Link Blog Sources
- The Simple Dollar – Weekly Roundup
- 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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