Weekly Link Post 150

Posted by Rhonda

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

Application Development/Design

Try Erlang – Nice little tutorial.
Awesome jQuery Tips & Tricks – Good list of tips.
Five Great Features in Visual Studio 2010 – “By taking advantage of these new features you can become more productive in a short amount of time.”
List(T).ForEach or foreach, it doesn’t matter…or does it? – “When you use a List, it doesn’t matter if you use the ForEach method of the generic list or use a normal foreach or does it? Sometimes it makes a difference!”
Null Or Empty Coalescing | Checking For Empty Enumerations – Good posts about checking for empty enumeration and coalescing values.
Tutorial Videos: Video: 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 minutes!
Visual Studio Tips: Dock a Tool Window Back To Its Previous Location | Changing Auto-Hide Behavior for Tool Windows

Community/Technology Events & Training

Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Virtual Brown Bag 6/17/2010 – JB’s recap.

Photography: Tips and Software

10 Must Have Apps for iPhone Photography – Great list of apps.
7 Tips for Shooting with Normal Primes – “Prime lenses are easy to fall in love with, partly because of their simple nature due to the fixed focal length.”
Scott Bourne’s Fast Photo Tips – Week 3 – “Here’s the third installment of my fast photo tips.”

Internet, Software, Technology & Science

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

Multitasking kills your Productivity – “Programmers love multitasking: Surfing the web while a time-consuming test suite is running. As usual there is a video encoding running too. And some number crunching program which will tell you the question to the answer when it’s done. This is great, right?”
10 Ways to Fit Reading Into a Busy Schedule – “If you believe regular reading would make an important addition to your daily routines but don’t have the time, this post is for you.”

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else