Weekly Link Post 139

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

Application Development/Design

• The Dynamic Keyword in C# 4.0 – Good article on the Dynamic keyword.
• That No SQL Thing | NoSQL is not about object databases – A couple of good articles on No SQL.
• VS 2010: Generate From Usage – “One of the very useful new features in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to generate a function declaration when writing the code that calls that function.”
• Facebook API from C# – Getting the list of friends – Interesting.
• Using Delegates in C# – Part 1 | Part 2
• Announcing the Tips and Tricks SWAG Fest Beginning April 12th – Zain is such a nice guy!
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit – Windows phone dev resources.
• Tutorial Videos: Exploring how to use Layer Diagrams in VS2010 | Hello World, I am Win Phone 7
• Visual Studio Tips:  Cut or Delete the Current Line | Closing Just the Selected Files You Want | Using the Miscellaneous Files Project

SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell

• .NET Nugget 23: SQL Server Substring Not Like .NET Substring – “I ran into something this week that was very unexpected: the SQL Server implementation of substring does NOT work like the substring implementation I’m use to in .NET.”
• 7 performance tips for faster SQL queries – “SQL developers on every platform are struggling, seemingly stuck in a DO WHILE loop that makes them repeat the same mistakes again and again.”

Community/Technology Events & Training

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
• TDD and SOLID Coding Dojo April 24th – SHDNUG will be holding its first TDD and SOLID Coding Dojo on Saturday April 24th at the Freeman Branch library (16616 Diana Lane Houston, TX 77062 – (281) 488-1906) from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm in the large meeting room on the first floor.
• State of .NET by Markus Egger on 03/30/2010 – Shawn Weisfeld has posted videos of the State of .NET presentation.

Internet, Software, Technology & Science 

• Add “My Dropbox” to Your Windows 7 Start Menu – This will come in handy since I LOVE Dropbox.
• Odd Cloud on Neptune Seen Splitting Into Two – “A cloudy patch that is typically seen over the south pole of Neptune was spotted in double by astronomers after it briefly split in two, as viewed by ground-based telescopes in 2007.”
• Hot New Stars Take Center Stage in Cosmic Photo – “For hot, young stars, the Orion nebula seems like the place to be, according to a stunning new image taken by a NASA telescope.”

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• 13 small things to simplify your workday – Great tips!
• The 7 Most Motivational Quotes Ever Spoken – Awesome!
• 42 Practical Ways To Improve Yourself – Great list.

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else 

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 03-29 | 04-01 | 04-04
• Movie Trailers:  The A-Team | Resident Evil: Afterlife

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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
• 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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