Weekly Link Post 142

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

Application Development/Design

• How to determine a prime number in Java – “In this tutorial, you will learn how to find whether a number is prime in simple cases.”
• C#: Java-ish Enums – “Essentially we have the need for some of the things that a Java Enum would give us but which a C# one doesn’t!”
• Extract constants from strings and numbers with Eclipse refactorings – “It’s almost always a good idea to replace magic numbers and string literals with constants. That’s all good, but it can take a bit of time to refactor these to constants, especially strings or parts of strings.”
• My Visual Studio 2010 Dark Theme – Very nice!
• My Dot Net Developer’s tools list, and more… – Great list of tools.
• Dumping .NET classes to debug output – “Class to convert .NET classes into readable debug output with less effort.”
• Tutorial Videos: Git 101
• Visual Studio Tips: Inserting Code Snippets | Searching Breakpoints | Using the Code Snippets Manager | Adding comments to a DataTip | Set or Remove a Breakpoint | Create New Code Snippets from Existing Ones
• Snippets: FILETIME to DateTime

Community/Technology Events & Training

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

Photography: Tips and Software

• Top 15 Tips to My Macro Photography – Greg Smith shares what gear he uses for macro photography.

Internet, Software, Technology & Science

• Hubble Telescope at 20: Images now on Google Earth – Cool!
• 10 Hubble Space Telescope Targets You Can Find Too – “Hubble objects that can be seen from Earth – either with the unaided eye or employing a small telescope.”
• Space Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad for Final Planned Flight – Kinda sad…
• Facebook Docs – Another shot across the bow at Google – More competition for Google.

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• The Act of Reading | The Act of Writing – Informative posts.
• 6 Reasons to Focus on Liking Yourself, and How to Do It – Great article!!

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 04-19 | 04-20 | 04-22 | 04-24 | 04-25
• Movie Trailers:  Iron Man 2 Music Video | Eclipse

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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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