Weekly Link Post 159

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

Application Development/Design 

• Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010 – “Today’s blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio.”
• Linq – Sum – “In this blog post I will demonstrate basic usage cases for the Linq Sum function.”
• Null and blank values – “What’s the best way of writing robust code so that a variable can be checked for null and blank?”
• Using C#-style Events In Ruby – “I thought it would be fun to write something that allows me to define and use events in Ruby in a way that is very similar to how it works in C#. It actually is pretty easy to do this and i think it shows some of the power and flexibility of the Ruby language.”
• Howto Install and Run the Android Emulator – “I thought I would give a quick and easy guide for folks to follow, that might be interested in getting started with Android Development and running the Android Emulator.”
• Search and Navigation Tips/Tricks with Visual Studio – “Today’s blog post continues on from the Debugging Tips post I did last week, and covers some useful searching and navigation tips/tricks you can take advantage of within Visual Studio.”
• Divide a List into Equal Parts – “A recent post in the forums asked how to divide a generic list of items into separate lists of equal length.”

Database Development 

• Interesting T-SQL problems – “With this blog post I am hoping to start a new series of blogs devoted to the interesting T-SQL problems I encounter in forums during the week.”

Community/Technology Events & Training

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
• Material from SHDNUG talk – Claudio Lassala shares his presentation materials. Good thing since I have class on Wed and Thu nights this semester.

Photography: Tips and Software 

• Use These Simple Techniques to Change the Composition of Your Photographs – “A lot of the time, people miss a well composed shot simply because they didn’t take the time to seek out a slightly better alternative.”
• Greenland – Beautiful photos. My favorite is the one with the brightly colored houses.
• Getting Your Work Online With a Photography Portfolio – “An internet-based photography portfolio if designed well can really bring a touch of class to your work and allow people to view it at their leisure.”
• Nikon D7000 to be the D90′s spiritual (and actual) successor? – “With the Nikon D3100 now official and out in the open, it’s time to tilt the rumor mills back towards a successor to the company’s much-loved D90.”
• 15 Must Have Photography Accessories Under $25* – “Photography can be an expensive hobby. Cameras cost a bundle and lenses for DSLRs often cost a lot more than the camera body.”

Internet, Software, Technology & Science 

• New Fireball on Jupiter Spotted By Skywatchers – “Amateur skywatchers have spotted what appeared to be a new fireball from yet another apparent impact on Jupiter – the third in 13 months for the gas giant.”
• Evernote: A Surprising Center for Collaboration – “…the web-based notebook tool’s evolution has made it far more useful as a base for collaboration…”
• Google Earth for Android Lets You Deep Sea Dive – “Google Earth for Android update with pinch to zoom, rotate, 3D topography, and a fancy new way to canvas the ocean floor.”
• 5 Intriguing Earth-Sized Planets – “The announcement today of a newfound group of alien planets orbiting a distant star has added another candidate for the growing list of potential Earth-sized worlds beyond our own solar system.”
• Watch Netflix On Your iPhone or iPhone Touch Without a Jailbreak or Hack – “To watch streaming Netflix content on your iPhone in the past you needed to jailbreak and hack it, but no longer. Today we look at the new official Netflix app that will now stream content to your iPhone or iPod Touch.”

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career 

• Five Thoughts about Making College Great – “…you end up finding your own path in life and it’s not a path dictated by your college major.”
• Speed-reading – “Here are some things that might help you read and learn faster.”
• Finding, Losing, and Reigniting Your Passion – Great post!
• Evernote As Your Resume Database – “The beauty here is that Evernote is not your resume, it is a personal, resume database.”

Social Networking and Blogging

• Social Bookmarking – The land time forgot – “In an online world filled with likes & retweets the lowly bookmark is in a state of severe neglect.”

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else 

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 08-24 | 08-26