Weekly Link Post 136

Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week. The list is light this week as I am on vacation and attending SxSW Interactive in Austin.

Application Development/Design

• 15 Google Chrome Extensions For Web Designers And Developers – “Chrome does not offer many extensions but still there are lots of extensions, those can be very handy for designers and developers.”
• Visual Studio Color Theme Editor – Sara Ford’s VS extension of the week.
• Hello World! – A Friendly Intro to Programming… – Great review!
• Visual Studio Tips: Printing in Different Fonts and Colors

SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell

• SQL Server CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY – “The difference between join and APPLY operator becomes evident when you have a table-valued expression on the right side and you want this table-valued expression to be evaluated for each row from the left table expression.”

Community/Technology Events & Training

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
• Adv WPF Videos – Jonathan Birkholz has posted videos from the recent Adv WPF Workshop that was held at EPS in Houston.
• State of .NET Events coming to Dallas and Houston – “Free afternoon event presents an unbiased look at the current and future development with .NET.”

Internet, Software, Technology & Science 

• Evernote Tips: Remember all the interesting… | Share your conference notes
• Google Wave Extensions Gallery: A Single Place to Find Great Wave Extensions – Good article pointing to Wave extensions.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• 5 Tips to get the most out of your coding time – “These are a few tips I use now to keep me focused and get the most out of my work hours.”

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else 

• Top 25 SFX Movies – Serenity is #5 – Awesome!
• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 3-08 | 03-13 | 03-14
• Movie Trailers:  The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

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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
• 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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