Weekly Link Post 132
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week. Hope everyone had a Happy Valentine’s Day!
Application Development/Design
- Visual Studio 2010: Test Driven Development – Good TDD tutorial.
- The Weekly Source Code 49 – SmallBasic is Fun, Simple, Powerful Programming for Kids and Adults
- What is a Senior Developer? – Eric Smith explains the characteristics of a Senior Developer.
- Reflection in .NET – Great tutorial on Reflection.
- Char Sequence: Data immutability in Java – “Shared mutable state is one of the murkiest areas of concurrent programming in Java.”
- Visual Studio Tips: Using the New IntelliSense: Keywords
SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell
- Querying the StackOverflow Data Dump – “Every month, StackOverflow dumps out their data to XML. You can import the data dump into SQL Server, and the whole thing is less than 10gb as of this writing.”
- A Simple Refactoring – Avoiding Table Scans – “Refactoring SQL code can be pretty easy. Just like refactoring any other programming language, sometimes you have to look around to find the culprit.”
- Top 10 Reasons Why Access Still Doesn’t Rock – I LOVE Access….NOT!
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
- Presentations – Thomas Larock provides the materials from his DBA Survivor presentation.
- Presentation Materials for my C# 4.0 Dynamic Presentation – Markus Egger has posted his demos from this month’s HDNUG meeting.
- Access Your Dropbox Files in Google Chrome – I’ve started using Dropbox lately and really like it. I will need to check out this extension.
- Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies – Includes some great everyday uses of Wave.
- APOD: 2010 February 14 – Field of Rosette – The Rosette region is about 5,000 light years distant. The entire field can be seen with a small telescope toward the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn).
- Saturn’s Moon Does Harbor an Ocean, New Evidence Suggests – “Evidence from a 2008 plume fly-through by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has turned up short-lived water ions that suggest liquid water does indeed exist inside the moon.”
- Jupiter and Venus to Cross Paths Feb. 16 – “On Feb. 16 there will be a celestial “bait and switch” as Venus replaces Jupiter as the evening star.”
Blogging and Social Networking
- Twitter daily tip news – Great tip of the day twitter accounts. -Thanks @JohnDCook — http://twitter.com/JohnDCook
- Introducing Google Buzz – Buzz is the word of the week!
- Google Buzz Explained – Good in-depth article on Google Buzz.
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- Put Things in Their Place to Get Organized – “The single-most important step you can take when organizing is ensuring you have a place to put everything.”
- Getting Ready for Job Interviews – I picked up several ideas from this article. Great read.
Health, Fitness and Recipes
- Nine Things You Can Do Every Day – Even When You Can’t Do Anything Else – I’m thinking 6, 7 and 10 apply most to me…
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Clash of the Titans Featurette – Meet the Characters – Can’t wait for this movie…
- Movie Trailers: The Last Airbender | Alice in Wonderland
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Great Link Blog Sources
- The Simple Dollar – Weekly Roundup
- Jeremiah Peschka – Links for the Week
- 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
- Jonathan Gardner – Links
- Greg Duncan – A Feed You Should Read
- Johnathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
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