Category Archives: Links
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!
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.
Weekly Link Post 206
Here is the latest installment of links that I have found interesting in the past week.
Application Development/Design
- C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Default Parameters are Compile-Time Substitutions
- Adam Machanic : A Computer Scientist Meets T-SQL
- Use INSERT INTO … SELECT instead of Cursor
- Convert Numbers to Words in VB.NET
- Red Gate SQL Toolbelt Review
- 6 Free E-Books on Learning to Program with Python
- T-SQL Tuesday #21 – A trigger can do that!
- Real World Functional Programming (with F#) now available on MSDN
- A Windows Phone 7 development tutorial round-up
- C#/.NET Little Wonders & Pitfalls: The Complete Collection (so far…)
- VS2010 Tip – How to Launch ILDASM from VS2010 IDE
- Git a Reference
- Free Podcast For Developers
Community/Technology Events & Training
- Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
- Austin Code Camp Sessions
- Upcoming courses at CODE Training
Internet, Software, Technology and Science
Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career
- 5 Powerful Steps That Will Help You to Overcome Your Worries
- Reflections on “Talent is Overrated”
- Top 10 Ways to Survive Your Crappy Job
- 6 Tips for Healthy Eating when Traveling
Photography: Tips and Software
- My Photos Look Different on the Internet! How Can I Fix Them?
- How to Safely Buy a Used Lens
- Photographers – Don’t Be Afraid to Experiment
- 5 Steps to a Digital Landscape
- Lightroom Links
- Two Steps to Stronger Portraits
- 5 Tips That Will Save You Time in Lightroom 3
- Basic Macro Photography Tips
Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else
- Dilbert: 0813 | 0815
- What The Duck: 1281 | 1282
- Trailers: The Avengers | Fright Night | The Change Up
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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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- Weekly Photography Links: 07-29-2012
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Happy Surfing.






