Weekly Link Post 141

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

Application Development/Design

• Moving to Visual Studio 2010 free e-book – Free draft preview is available.
• Precision and accuracy of DateTime – “The DateTime struct represents dates as a 64 bit number that measures the number of “ticks” since a particular start date. Ten million ticks equals one second….”
• Optional Parameters – “One of the new features in C# 4.0 is optional parameters, which is the ability to define a function parameter with a default value.”
• AutoMapper source moved to GitHub – “After putting it through the paces, I’m ready to (finally) announce that the AutoMapper source code has moved to GitHub.”
• My Favorite New Features in Visual Studio 2010 – “This article explores some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010.”
• What an IronPython user should know about Python 3 – Cameron Laird talks about Python 3.
• Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense Improvements – “Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense offers several improvements over previous versions.”
• Tutorial Videos: SketchFlow in 90 seconds
• Visual Studio Tips: Recent Files | Smart vs. Block vs. None: The Indenting Smackdown
• Snippets: Converting List of strings to string

SQL Server, Compliance and PowerShell

• SELECT TOP Shortcut in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) – Great time-saving tip.

Community/Technology Events & Training

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.

Internet, Software, Technology & Science

• Growing Family of Stars Photographed – “A growing family of stars can be seen sprouting in the colorful Rosette nebula in a new image taken by the Herschel Space Observatory.”
• Introducing Google Docs drawings – Cool! Now there is a drawing tool for Google Docs.
• Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks April 22 – “Anyone who enjoys watching the sky for “shooting stars” will have an opportunity to observe an old and reliable meteor display over the next several days: the April Lyrids.”

 Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Productivity is about finding space – So true.
• 10 Online Tools for Superb Productivity – Nice list.
• Twelve Cool Tools for Writers and Others – Twelve helpful tools and resources. Whether you’re a writer, a blogger, or a freelancer who owns a website–you’re likely to find something on this list for you.”
• Five Things You Can Do to Boost Your Career – “Here are five things you can do today to position yourself as an ‘overnight success’ in the next year or two.”

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Geek Out!: The New Doctor Who – Dr. Who rocks! Even though I have not gotten used to the new Doctor.
• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 04-18
• Movie Trailers:  The A Team | Predators

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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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