Author Archives: Rhonda
Weekly Link Post 215
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting lately.
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- DEVELOPMENT | C# + ReSharper = Awesome: Tip #3 – Convert Into LINQ Expression
- DEVELOPMENT | C# + ReSharper = Awesome: Tip #2 – Create Field
- DEVELOPMENT | C# + ReSharper = Awesome: Tip #1 – To Automatic Property
- DEVELOPMENT | A Coder Interview With Phil Haack
- DEVELOPMENT | CSS3 Animations
- TECHNOLOGY | How Can I Post to Facebook, Twitter, and/or Google+ at the Same Time?
- TECHNOLOGY | Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition
- TECHNOLOGY | Cool Camera: Real-Time Photo Booth-Like Effects For Android
- TECHNOLOGY | Google+ Pages: What’s the Hype?
- TECHNOLOGY | SkyDrive For iPhone
- PRODUCTIVITY | 10 Reasons Why Working at the Library is Better than the Coffee Shop
- ENTERTAIN | George Takei Is the Broker of Star Peace
- ENTERTAIN | Dilbert comic strip for 12/12/2011
- ENTERTAIN | Dilbert comic strip for 12/16/2011
>>> Houston Area User Group Meetings <<<
- LINKSOURCE – Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- LINKSOURCE – Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- LINKSOURCE – Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
- LINKSOURCE – David Vidmar – Links of the week
- LINKSOURCE – Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
- LINKSOURCE – Notes From A Tool User – Links
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Happy surfing!
Weekly Link Post 214
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting lately.
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- DEVELOPMENT – Getting Started with Scratch – A Programmer’s Guide
- DEVELOPMENT – Using a bar code scanner in .NET
- DEVELOPMENT – C# Fundamentals: Returning Zero or One Item As IEnumerable
- DEVELOPMENT – The Ultimate jQuery List
- DEVELOPMENT – 31 Days of Mango | Now In eBook Format!
- DEVELOPMENT – 31 Days of Mango
- DATABASE – Querying SQL Server Agent Job Information
- TECHNOLOGY – Instagram Is Coming to Android
- PRODUCTIVITY – Senior Mountain Biker Spins Through Texas Parks
- PRODUCTIVITY – How to Build a Resume (that doesn’t suck)
- ENTERTAIN – The Cabin in the Woods
>>> Houston Area User Group Meetings <<<
- LINKSOURCE – Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- LINKSOURCE – Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- LINKSOURCE – Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
- LINKSOURCE – David Vidmar – Links of the week
- LINKSOURCE – Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
- LINKSOURCE – Notes From A Tool User – Links
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Happy surfing!
Great Series — 31 Days of Mango
Jeff Blankenburg does it again with another great 31 day series of tutorials. This time it’s Windows Phone Mango.
photo via Jeff Blankenburg
31 Days of Mango in eBook Form
In the past, Jeff has done awesome work with his other 31-Day series – such as 31 Days of Silverlight and 31 Days of Windows Phone 7. I recommend any of his 31-Day series posts as well as his blog in general. Jeff always seems to come up with really helpful tips and tutorials.
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Happy learning!
Weekly Link Post 213
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting lately.
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App & SQL Development/Design
- What is Functional Programming?
- 5 WordPress Plugins to Highlight Your Code
- Quick Tip: How to Keep the Count with CSS
- Firebug Guide for Web Designers
- F# Programming – Wikibooks
- PHP String trimming Functions
- C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a "Safer" Task Dispose()
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection
- Optimized Enum.ToString()
- TSQL to generate date lookup table data
- Dr Neil Roodyn on Developing for the Kinect
- jQuery Basics: An Introduction to jQuery
- A Few of My Favorite HTML5 and CSS3 Online Tools
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Internet, Software, Technology and Science
- 5 Gmail Hidden Features
- DIY USB Altoids Charger Powers Your Gadgets on the Go
- Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better
- 20 Cool and Fresh Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- 10 Ways to Overcome Cabin Fever\
- Eating for Energy
- Capturing Your Creativity
- The 10 Reasons Why You Want to Be More Productive
- The Art of Nurturing Your Writing Ideas
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
Great Link Blog Sources
- The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Haircut Edition
- Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- David Vidmar – Links of the week
- Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
- Notes From A Tool User – Links
- Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
Weekly Link Post 212
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past two weeks.
App & SQL Development/Design
- Taking a look at the HTML5 video use in the Bing video homepage
- Views In SQL Server
- Sending emails with Java
- 30 free programming eBooks
- C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a "Safer" Task Dispose()
- The Weekly Source Code 59 – An Open Source Treasure: Irony .NET Language Implementation Kit
- Beginner CoffeeScript
- I Love C# Extension Methods
- TSQL Challenge 62 – Break a long sentence in groups of 5 words
- My 3 Favorite Connection String Tips
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Internet, Software, Technology and Science
- 5 Powerful Text Editors for Windows
- 3 Easy Tips to Fix Ugly Edges When Removing Backgrounds
- SnagIt Live Writer Plug-in Updated
- 5 New Features of iOS 5 That Can Save Time and Boost Productivity
- To-Do Manager Astrid Comes to the iPhone, Offers Cross-Platform Shared Tasks
- iOS Notifications, Tire Repair, and the Firefox Search Box
- iPhone 4S Impressions
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- 6 Ways To Go Beyond The Resume
- How to Write Like a Professional
- 8 Tips to Stop Procrastinating
- Tired of Being Tired
- Six Ways to Become More Self-Motivated
- 29 Ways To Stay Creative
Photography: Tips and Software
- Worlds Captured in Drops of Water
- 5 Cheap Must-Have Photographic Accessories in our Toolkit
- 10 Easy Strategies for Better Portrait Shoots
- 5 Common Photography Questions from Beginners (and Their Answers)
- Are You Growing As A Photographer?
- ND Filters: Everything You Need to Know
- ND Filters – What’s All The Fuss?
- Night Photography: A Guide on How to Shoot Long Exposures
- Personalized Gifts, Photo Gifts, Birthday Gifts, Gift Ideas
- 94 Photography Links That Rock
- Comparing Two Black and White Conversion Methods
- My 18 Favorite Portrait Photos & How I Created Them
- More Than a Story About Paper Wasps
- Take a Listen
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Dilbert: 1023 | 1024
- What The Duck: 1290 | 1289
- Trailers: The Woman in Black | Sherlock Holmes 2 | The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Bionic Buffy Mashup
- “The Hunger Games” Character Posters Revealed
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Great Link Blog Sources
- Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- David Vidmar – Links of the week
- Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
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- Notes From A Tool User – Links
- Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
Weekly Link Post 211
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week.
App & SQL Development/Design
- Hipster programming languages
- C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a "Safer" Task Dispose()
- Common Table Expressions(CTE) in SQL SERVER 2008
- Searching SQL Server Stored Procedure and Trigger Text
- 3 Tips to Improve Your Connection Strings
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Internet, Software, Technology and Science
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- How Steve Jobs Changed My Productivity
- 7 Steps to Leaving Your Corporate Job
- Top 10 Note Taking Apps for Freelancers
- Tips for Presenters
- The Steve Jobs Story
- 7 Common Habits of Unhappy People
- 20 Useful Tools and Resources for New Freelance Writers & Others
Photography: Tips and Software
- 3 Easy Lightroom Adjustments to Add Drama to a Landscape
- Designing A Photograph – Mood
- 5 Tips to Expand your Photography Business Skills
- 10 Cool Places to Learn the Art of Photoshop
- 6 Sets of Settings to Save in Photoshop
- This Is The Best Timelapse Video You Will Ever See… This Month | Fstoppers
- Flickr Finds – Great Photographers & Photographs Lurking Online
- How to Create Simple Seamless Background Product Shots
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Dilbert: 0930 | 1002 | 1006
- Trailers: The Thing | The Avengers
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Great Link Blog Sources
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- The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup
- Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- David Vidmar – Links of the week
- Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
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- Notes From A Tool User – Links
- Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
Weekly Link Post 210
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week.
App & SQL Development/Design
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: String Padding and Trimming – Not Just for Spaces!
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Remove() and Replace() Methods
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Split() and Join() methods
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: An Oft Overlooked String Constructor
- Windows 8 – the Developer’s Take
- PowerShell for the Easily Frustrated N00b, or, “A Simple and Useful Command” | SQL Awesomesauce
- Learning Android
- 10 Attractive android tutorials for developers
- Tips and Tricks to Make SQL Server Management Studio Awesome
- The .NET Dictionary
- String Function – FORMAT() – A Quick Introduction
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Internet, Software, Technology and Science
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
Photography: Tips and Software
- What You Need to Know About Shooting Stock Photography
- Night Photography: A Guide on How to Shoot Long Exposures
- Make Your Own Picture Frames for $5 Each
- Landscape Photography in Infrared
- Amazing Photography Links, Tuts and Images You May Have Missed
- 5 Things Every Photographer Should Be Doing Online
- Scenic Outlook – Choosing Your Horizon
- 5 Ways to Dip your Toe into the Business of Photography
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Dilbert: 0913 | 0915 | 0921
- What The Duck: 1285
- Trailers: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
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Great Link Blog Sources
- The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup
- Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- David Vidmar – Links of the week
- Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
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- Notes From A Tool User – Links
- Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
Weekly Link Post 209
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week.
App & SQL Development/Design
- The Rise of F#
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Split() and Join() methods
- Thumbnail using C# .NET
- Writing Maintainable Code
- From Developer to Administrator
- 7 books for a .NET Summer reading list (2011 version)
- .NET String Resources
- Great Tools for Formatting T-SQL
- The PowerShell Magazine launches…
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Internet, Software, Technology and Science
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
Photography: Tips and Software
- Photoshop World Vegas – 2011 – Wrap Up
- Weekly Photography Links: 09-10-2011
- How to use a grey card
- 55 Fantastic Photography Articles, Tutorials, Photos and Links
- 10 Things I Learnt from Daily Shooting
- Why Do Today’s Photographers Fear The Shadows?
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
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Great Link Blog Sources
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- The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup
- Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- David Vidmar – Links of the week
- Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
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- Notes From A Tool User – Links
- Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
Weekly Link Post 208
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week.
Application Development/Design
- Creating a Database Project with Visual Studio
- 10 Most Useful Properties in ASP.NET
- Data Binding Enums in WPF
- Using the Java Native Interface in C#
- C#/.NET Little Wonders & Pitfalls: The Complete Collection (so far…)
- JQuery for Beginners
- Getting creative with Computed Columns in SQL Server
- Moving Beyond Enumerations
- Daily Coding Online Tools
- Export Excel File for C#
- Indexing for Deletes
- Organizing Code Files
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
Internet, Software, Technology and Science
- Facebook to Add Instagram-style Filters
- Desktop Fun: Photographer’s Desktop Customization Set
- Setting an iPad as an extra monitor
- How to Use Event Viewer to Find Your PC’s Boot Time
- 10 Amazing Google Labs Experiments
- What’s up in the solar system in September 2011
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- 3 Clear Reasons to Change Careers
- 7 Simple Steps to Becoming Well-Read
- Improve Every Moment
- The Best Places to Take a Fall Vacation on the Cheap
Photography: Tips and Software
- At One With
- 8 New COOLPIX Cameras, We Pick Our Favorites
- How a Wide-Angle Lens Can Add Intimacy To Your People Photos
- How to Photograph Newborns
- The Most Interesting Photography Links of the Week
- 3 Great Photography Posts I Found This Morning
- Photographers – What Happens After You Press The Shutter?
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Trailers: Hunger Games
- Dilbert: 0831 | 0826 | 0901
- Zombie Attack Engagement Photos
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Great Link Blog Sources
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- The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup
- Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- David Vidmar – Links of the week
- Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
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- Notes From A Tool User – Links
- Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
Weekly Link Post 207
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week.
Application Development/Design
- A little PowerShell a day to keep the scripting doctor away… "PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast"
- Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part I
- Code Metrics: Working with Columns
- Real World .NET 4 and C#
- August ’11 TFS Power Tools are available!
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ReferenceEquals() method
- CREATE/RESTORE Database wizard – Change the default database file path
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
- devLINK 2011 Recap – Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Internet, Software, Technology and Science
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- Productivity Tools
- How To Break Your Daily Caffeine Habit And Use Coffee Strategically
- What Not to Say to a Depressed Mate
- 7 Simple Steps to Resolve Any Problem
Photography: Tips and Software
- Small Camera Bags for Travel
- Saving the World One Pixel at a Time
- Weekly Photography Links: 08-19-2011 | Pixiq
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
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Great Link Blog Sources
- The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup
- Jason Haley – Interesting Finds
- Alvin Ashcraft – Morning Dew
- David Vidmar – Links of the week
- Chris Alcock – Morning Brew
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- Notes From A Tool User – Links
- Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
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Happy Surfing.
