Weekly Link Post 131

Posted by Rhonda

Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week. Way to go Saints!

Application Development/Design

ASP.NET: ListBox Tooltip – Great article on the Tooltip option of the ListBox control.
Immutable Data Structures in Concurrent Java Applications – You can minimize synchronization and the headaches that go with it using immutable data structures.
Setting up a new MacBook Pro for Development – Ben Scheirman tells us how his MBP is setup. I find it interesting to see what tools others use for development.
My 2010 Book Wishlist – James Sugrue provides his reading list for 2010. Looks like some pretty good books.
Book Review:Coders at work – Good review of a book I’m reading now.
General Tips & Tricks – Great tips!
Playing WAV Files – A commonly used standard for high quality sound reproduction is the Waveform Audio File Format, with sound data usually stored in WAV files. The .NET framework provides the SoundPlayer class to allow simple playback of such files.
Visual Studio 2010: Test Driven Development – Good TDD tutorial.
Tutorial Videos: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Custom Type Resolvers
Visual Studio Tips: Guidelines, a hidden feature for the VS Editor | Setting a Breakpoint in the Call Stack Window | Create a floating DataTip | Setting a Tracepoint in source code
Snippets: Enumerate all controls and sub-controls in a windows form | Finding a Node in an XML String | Get URL Parameters using LINQ | C# Quadratic Formula Solver

SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell

More Free SQL Server DBA Training Videos Online – The SQLBits conference in Great Britain videotapes their sessions and makes them available for public viewing. This weekend, they announced that last fall’s sessions are online now – and it’s all free!
SSIS: Make your output files dynamic – I wanted to build a little more flexibility into my packages. Wouldn’t it be great if we could simply modify a stored procedure to include additional columns, and these changes would be reflected in the output files, with no further work required? Here’s an outline of my first steps towards achieving this.
SQL Server Table Variables – A table variable provides functionality similar to a standard variable and a local temporary table combined.

Community/Technology Events & Training

Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Thanks iPhone Dev Camp Houston! – Ben Scheirman has posted materials from his presentation at iPhone DevCamp.
Data Design – Buck Woody has posted the links used in his Data Design presentation.

Internet, Software and General Technology

Search Wikipedia in Google Chrome the Easy Way – Do you need a quick and easy way to access Wikipedia while browsing throughout the day? If so then you will want to take a look at the Wiki Lookup extension for Google Chrome.
How Android differs from Windows Mobile – Great comparison!

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Working With Recruiters – Brent Ozar has posted a good article on the subject of recruiters.
Becoming Friends with Your Nemesis: Time – With the right approach, we can stop seeing time as our enemy and start to enjoy getting things done easily and effectively.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

Icy Saturn Moon Burps Up Heat and Ice – The icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus appears to occasionally belch up blobs of warm ice, findings that help explain the mysterious heat seen there, scientists now suggest.
‘Lost’ recap: What’s Your Worldview? - This was forwarded to me by a co-worker. You are advised not to read this if you have not seen the Lost season premier.
Our best look yet at Pluto – Here’s what astronomers say about the new set of Pluto images: Hubble’s view isn’t sharp enough to see craters or mountains, if they exist on the surface, but Hubble reveals a complex-looking and variegated world with white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain.
Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 02-01
Movie Trailers: The Last Airbender