Category Archives: Links

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

Application Development/Design

• Expression Tree Basics
• Learning in spiral
• Marquee a Text in C#.NET Window Application Form
• Bill Wagner Offers C# Puzzles
• Visual Studio QuickWatch
• C#: DateTime to Midnight datetime
• C#: DateFormat separator issue with ToString() method
• C#: Convert a string having comma separated integers to an array of integers

Community/Technology Events & Training

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.  
• C#/.NET Little Wonders and Little Pitfalls at the St. Louis Day of .NET

Internet, Software, Technology and Science

• VirtualBoxes – Free VirtualBox® Images
• 5 tips that you might not know about Notepad++

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Switching Jobs / Switching Careers
• How I’m Using Evernote
• 7 Steps That May Dramatically Boost Your Happiness
• 7 Ways To Get Over Fear and Make Big Life Changes
• Review: Rework

Photography: Tips and Software

• Weekly Photography Links: 08-05-2011
• 10 Photographers 10 Stories
• Photojojo Lenses Offer Your Phone Telephoto Zoom, Fisheye, and Wide Angle Capability
• How to Shoot Portraits with Inexpensive Equipment
• Car Show Tips, Tools & Techniques, part I
• Basic Macro Photography Tips
• Do You Have A Photography Bucket List?
• 7 Quick Tips for Better Beach Photography

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else 

• Trailers: Killer Elite | The Avengers

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• 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

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

Application Development/Design

• SQL – Pivot with Grand Total Column and Row
• Static VS Dynamic Resources in WPF
• 7 Chrome Tips Developers & Designers May Not Know
• Google Code Finally Adds Git Support
• Statistical System functions in TSQL
• Internals of Array
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Default Parameters are Compile-Time Substitutions

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

• I’m Kind of Digging Google+
• How To Download/Backup Your Gmail, Google+, Calendar, and Docs Data
• Jupiter’s southern belt is coming back

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Increase Productivity, Escape to a Quiet Place
• 7 Books That Changed The Way I See the World.

Photography: Tips and Software

• Life in a day
• 60 Google+ Photographers to Inspire You
• Trying to Find Something to Photograph
• How A Typical DSLR Shutter Works
• Exposing For Monochrome
• More on Storytelling With Your Camera

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 0730
• Trailers: Life in a Day | Killer Elite

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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
• Notes From A Tool User – Links
• Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week
• Weekly Photography Links: 07-29-2012

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

Application Development/Design

• Delegate :C# ( Digging , Explain , Use it)
• Why Functional Programming Matters in Fsharp
• Dreaming In JavaScript
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: The Default is to Hide, Not Override
• Custom String Formatter
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Nullable Math Doesn’t Always Add Up
• My ruby posts
• MERGE statement – a new tsql feature of SQL Server 2008
• Use Your Browser’s Developer Tools to Learn New HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Techniques

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

• Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer’s Boot Time
• 12 Excellent Google+ Extensions For Google Chrome
• Virtualboxes.org Helps You Discover Your New Favorite Linux Flavor with Tons of Virtualbox Images
• A fourth moon for Pluto

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Job Seekers Are Changing Careers, Looking for Dream Jobs
• 6 Tips on Coping with "Horrible Bosses"
• The 5 Fundamental Rules Of Working From Home
• Happiness Booster: Take Time for Projects
• How to Write Better and Faster
• Finding Your Voice
• How to minimize the impact of 5 common distractions
• 9 Immediate Tips To Stay Focused on Your Goals

Photography: Tips and Software

• Creating Sharper, More Vibrant Images
• Create Instagram Style Photo Effects with GIMP or Photoshop
• Digital Infrared Photography
• Depth of Field Demystified
• A Week of Wildlife Photography
• Turn a Necktie Into a Camera Strap
• Tabletop Photography Walkthrough or How to Create an Eye-Catching Product Shot
• Vision Mongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography
• Life, Photography & Amazing Moments
• 37 Websites Every Photographer Should be Reading
• RAW vs. JPG Photo File Format

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 0722
• Trailers:  Happy Feet 2
• Lionsgate Sets April 13, 2012 Bow For ‘The Cabin In The Woods’

 

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• Scott’s Wonderful Twitter Favorites – Link Roundup 2
• 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

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

Application Development/Design

• Steve Smith on Design Patterns in .NET Part 3
• How to log the current call stack in .NET
• Intro to F# Programming – F# tutorial
• Exception Handling Best Practices
• A Jump Start for Learning Python
• T-SQL Tuesday #20 – T-SQL Best Practices
• Why every programmer should learn Python or Ruby
• C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Nullable Math Doesn’t Always Add Up
• Programming: the benefits of taking a break
• TSQL Enhancement in SQL Server Denali – Stored Procedure Execution With Result Sets

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

• 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• 5 Ways To Make Your Weight Loss Journey Suck A Little Less
• 7 Reasons You Haven’t Found Your Passion Yet
• 5 Simple Tips for Boosting Productivity

Photography: Tips and Software

• Want Time-lapse? Better Get an Intervalometer
• Nikon Announces Low Cost 40mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro
• 500px Mini Review
• How to Photograph Star Trails: The Ultimate Guide
• Beginner Photoshop: Black and White and Red Photo Effect in Ten Seconds
• New Instagram Book Now Available
• Photography in Harsh Mid-Day Light
• Exposure vs. Brightness vs. Fill Light
• 20 Things I Learned About Photography

 

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny:  0711 | 0712 | 0716 | 0717
• What The Duck: 1272 | 610 Saturday | 1271
• Trailers:  Cowboys & Aliens Featurette – Western Meets Sci-Fi | Contagion
• Top 10 Most Bitchin’ Witches
• Top 9 Sexiest Zombie Hunters
• Top 9 Sexiest Werewolves

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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
• Notes From A Tool User – Links
• Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week

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

Application Development/Design

• A powerful pile of PowerShell ebooks (all free too)
• Showing slowest parts of SQL query
• How to merge (combine) date intervals in T-SQL
• When an Estimate is a Promise
• SQL Functions -  STUFF() and REPLACE() | PATINDEX()

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

• Dropbox vs. the Alternatives: Which Online Syncing Service Is Right for You?
• Stellarium – Get Planetarium On Your Computer With Realistic Sky In 3D

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• How to Write a Great To-Do List (And Why You Need To)
• 7 Benefits of Exercise (and Why Weight Loss Isn’t One of Them)
• 10 Things That Hold You Back from Outrageous Success
• Something That Has Improved My Sanity: Keeping a Journal
• Jason Fried, Co-founder of 37signals, on How to Get Creative

Photography: Tips and Software

• 8 Photo Projects in Your Own Backyard
• Does good weather make bad photos?
• The Importance of ‘Enough’ Depth of Field in Wildlife Photography
• How to Photograph the Blue Hours With Amazing Results
• Change Up Your Photography
• 42 Heaven Resources for Photoshop Lovers
• Want to be a better photographer? Become a better writer

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny:  07-07
• Trailers: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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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
• Notes From A Tool User – Links
• Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week

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

Application Development/Design

• SQL Server Stored Procedure Tutorial
• Nine Reason Developers Should Learn SQL
• Function to split a list into a table in T-SQL
• Coding: Tools/Techniques influence the way we work
• Visual Studio Toolbox with Robert Green
• Database Normalization
• Copy a Table with data in SQL Server
• Podcast: Introduction to HTML5
• Sort C# Code Structure In Visual Studio 2010 With CodeSorter
• My ASP.NET news sources – Jon Galloway
• Remove HTML tags from strings using the SQL Server CLR
• Table Value Constructors in SQL Server 2008
• The Many Functions of WebMatrix
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Collection Class
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Empty(), DefaultIfEmpty(), and Count()
• Dynamic Loading of objects using XML
• Rails and .NET: different mindset
• Resources I’m using to learn Rails

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

• Console Is Multi-Tabbed And Customizable Alternative To Windows 7 CMD
• Cassini finally catches Helene
• Update: Phobos and Jupiter and its moons!

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Four Steps to Change Your Life – With Books
• 5 Ridiculously Easy Ways To Unblock Writer’s Block
• 3 Reasons Why You MUST Move Out of Your Comfort Zone
• What Yoga Can Teach Us About Productivity
• Want To Feel Happier by the End of the Day?
• 7 Stupid Mistakes Most People Make When Trying to Follow Their Passion

Photography: Tips and Software

• Macro Photography: Choosing Your Subject
• Do You Read These 8 Cool Photoshop Blogs for Tutorials?
• What is a Histogram, and How Can I Use it to Improve My Photos?
• Lighting Tips For Photography
• “Vision” a Free Ebook For The Entire Photo Community
• Shutter Priority Mode: A Beginner’s Guide
• How to Tell a Story with Your Photographs

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 06-05 | 06-20 | 06-22
• Trailers: 

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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
• Notes From A Tool User – Links
• Jonathan Giles – Java Desktop Links of the Week

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

Application Development/Design

• SQL Server Stored Procedure Tutorial
• Function to split a list into a table in T-SQL
• Coding: Tools/Techniques influence the way we work
• Visual Studio Toolbox with Robert Green
• Copy a Table with data in SQL Server
• Podcast: Introduction to HTML5
• My ASP.NET news sources – Jon Galloway
• Remove HTML tags from strings using the SQL Server CLR
• Table Value Constructors in SQL Server 2008
• The Many Functions of WebMatrix
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Collection Class
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Empty(), DefaultIfEmpty(), and Count()
• Rails and .NET: different mindset
• Resources I’m using to learn Rails

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

• Console Is Multi-Tabbed And Customizable Alternative To Windows 7 CMD
• Cassini finally catches Helene
• Update: Phobos and Jupiter and its moons!

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career

• Four Steps to Change Your Life – With Books
• 5 Ridiculously Easy Ways To Unblock Writer’s Block
• 3 Reasons Why You MUST Move Out of Your Comfort Zone
• What Yoga Can Teach Us About Productivity
• Want To Feel Happier by the End of the Day?
• 7 Stupid Mistakes Most People Make When Trying to Follow Their Passion

Photography: Tips and Software

• Macro Photography: Choosing Your Subject
• Do You Read These 8 Cool Photoshop Blogs for Tutorials?
• What is a Histogram, and How Can I Use it to Improve My Photos?
• Lighting Tips For Photography
• “Vision” a Free Ebook For The Entire Photo Community
• Shutter Priority Mode: A Beginner’s Guide
• How to Tell a Story with Your Photographs

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 06-20 | 06-22
• Trailers: Apollo 18 | Immortals

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

Application Development/Design

• Top 10 Keys to Deploying SQL Server on VMware
• Mac and iOS Development Toolbox
• Steve Smith on Design Patterns in .NET Part 2
• 10 Ruby One Liners to Impress Your Friends
• SQL Server Database Comparison Tool
• Empty(), DefaultIfEmpty(), and Count()
• C# and VB.NET – Differing namespace conventions
• A C# WPF .NET 4.0 NumberBox UserControl
• When to use Function and When to use Stored Procedure

Community/Technology Events & Training

• Houston Area User Group Meetings – This is my monthly listing of Houston area user group meetings.
• Rails Intrigue Video at NHDNUG

Internet, Software, Technology and Science

• What’s up in the solar system in June 2011
• Create Your Own Bookmarklet Or Combine Several Bookmarks In One
• Fotobook App For iPhone Lets You View And Save Facebook Photos

Self-Improvement, Productivity and Career 

• 7 Ways to Make Commuting Suck Less
• Why Savings in the Short Term and Other Investments for the Long Term?
• 10 Practical Ways to Live a Happier Life Today
• The Simplest Way To improve Your Creativity, Health, And Relationships
• 11 Gadgets to Organize Your Workspace

Photography: Tips and Software

• Five Mistakes Lazy Photographers Make
• The Best Way to Learn Photography
• 5 Top Tips for Lightroom Develop Presets
• Finding the Right Creative Exposure
• Dealing with Bright Skies

Sports, Entertainment and Everything Else 

• Dilbert comics I Found Funny: 05-31 | 06-05
• Trailers: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | Girl With The Dragon Tatoo

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