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.NET Development
PodCast: Live/Canadian Vista Launch Events! - .NET Rocks
Things I wish I’d known before I installed VS 2005 SP1 – Jon Galloway

.NET Development – Web
GridView Update All Rows At Once – Azam Sharp
Maintain scroll position after postbacks – Mads Kristensen
Remove nulls from a DataTable – Mads Kristensen
List time zones in ASP.NET – Mads Kristensen
Expanding Urls with RegEx in .NET – Rick Strahl
How to Run a Root Site w/Local Web Server w/ VS 2005 SP1 – Scott Guthrie

SQL Server Development
Understanding SQL Server’s sysobjects table – Arthur Fuller
Write PIVOT queries in SQL Server 2005 – Tim Chapman
Creative Ways to Use the TOP Clause – Gregory Larsen

Other Development
Expression Web is Awesome – ASPNET Resources
50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006 – Smashing Magazine
Python Quick Reference

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
Carnival of the agilists – Kevin Rutherford

Productivity, Career & Personal Development
8 Tools For 8 Hours Of Energy-Boosting Sleep – Ririan Project
Be a Continuous Learner – Evan Hoff

Digital Photography
Shimmery – Houston PhotoBloggers
Cool Photo (kind of erie) – Andrew Knapp
16 Tips Digital Photography Tips for Christmas – DPS

Health & Fitness
Mountain-biking group makes gains – Steve Sievert
Using a heart rate monitor to improve fitness – Active.com
10 tips to maintain your weight over the holidays – Active.com
What you need to know about restaurant dining – Active.com
Filtering the news about coffee – Active.com

Entertainment
LOST to Return Early? - Fangasm
YouParkLikeAnAsshole.com
Why Paget Brewster Simply Had to Join Criminal Minds – TV Guide
Stargate SG-1 Films Given Shooting Dates – Slice of SciFi
TRAILER: Black Christmas - TheMovieBox
TRAILER: The Reaping – TheMovieBox
Dilbert – 12/18 – 12/19

Sports
Cycling: Leipheimer adjusts to new role – Dale Robertson
Baseball: Astros bring back versatile Bruntlett – MLB.com

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.NET Development
Let Windows place your temp files
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Released

General Technology
Freeing up drive space on Windows XP

Digital Photography
Christmas Mirror
Blue Mountains, NSW
An Address of Healing

Health & Fitness
Cycling: Tips for indoor training
Maxed out! When exercisers go overboard

Entertainment
Interview with David Denman (The Office)
Top 10 Movie Trailers of 2006
Dexter’s No. 1 Gal — Julie Benz — Previews a Killer Finale
Third Stargate series in development
Dilbert — 12/16

Sports
Cycling: Lemond reflects on career
Living her dream: Adventure cyclist Julie Gildred
Baseball: Quintero not your average catcher

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.NET Development
What should Lambda Expressions in VB Look Like?

.NET Development – Web
Working with Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0
Get the HTTP status code from a URL
Output Caching in ASP.NET 2.0
Passing Parameters from Child to Parent Window

SQL Server Development
SQL Server datetime rounding made easy

Other Development
C# godfather Anders Hejlsberg on dynamic languages

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
Extreme Programming does not mean lack of worklife balance
Inside the Secret Fears of Agilists

General Technology
PODCAST: HanselMinutes – Pro Audio Basics

Productivity, Career & Personal Development
11 Effective Ways to Become a Keyboard Athlete

Digital Photography
The Rules of Photography
Pink rose after rain
Country Life

Entertainment
Eddie Van Halen/Asks David Lee Roth to rejoin VH
Open the door on the mysteries of The Lost Room
Interview with Julie Benz (Dexter)
Dilbert – 12/12 – 12/13

Sports
Astros acquire Jennings from Rockies

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.NET Development
PODCAST: .NET Rocks – Ted Neward on Interoperability
.NET Tip: Comparing Strings Safely
Inheritance and Polymorphism
Snippet: Convert String To Array (C#)

.NET Development (Web)
Getting tripped by Absolute Positioning in custom Controls
Asynchronous pages in ASP.NET 2.0
Using the Ping class

Visual FoxPro Development
Sample Standard Deviation (and SQL)

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
3 Agile discussion groups
VIDEO: Implementing Continuous Integration
Too many bugs making it to production?
Design Pattern Series
The Software Complexity Triangle

Community
HDNUG – Casino Party – 12/14/06
Houston MSDN Event – 12/14/2006
…..(also in Dallas, TX 12/12/06 and Little Rock, AR 11/28/06)

Blogging
RSS Feed and Blog Etiquette

General Technology
2006 Web Technology Trends
How to recover disappearing table text in Word
Concatenate date cells with text cells in Excel

Astronomy & Earth Science
Antarctica Erupts!

Entertainment
TV Guide Goes Inside Sci Fi’s Magical, Mysterious Lost Room
Dilbert – 12/12

Sports
Football – Young has final say

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.NET Development
Programmatically Checking and Setting File Types
C# String Comparison Functions
Events and Delegates in Depth

.NET Development (Web)
Column Value Using CheckBox in GridView Autopostback = true

SQL Server Development
Top 10 SQL Server backup and recovery tips

Visual FoxPro Development
Rick reveals more on the Sedna Data Explorer

Other Development
IronPython and Dynamic Languages in ASP.NET
How to Create Great HTML Emails with CSS

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
Code Ownership – “It can’t be that hard. Go figure it out.”
Design Patterns – The BRIDGE

Community
HASSUG – December Meeting – 12/12/06
HDNUG – Casino Party – 12/14/06
Houston MSDN Event – 12/14/2006
…..(also in Dallas, TX 12/12/06 and Little Rock, AR 11/28/06)

Blogging
8 Signs it Might Be Time to Take a Break from Blogging
Name Dropper WordPress Plugin

Digital Photography
PIC – Yellow and Red
PIC – Do you mind?
More Camera, More Style, Modest Price

Astronomy & Earth Science
Week-Long Meteor Shower to Dazzle
Scientists Spot ‘Tsunami’ on the Sun
Discovery Shuttle’s Night Launch ‘Outstanding,’ NASA Says

Entertainment
Dilbert – 12/08
‘Firefly’ fans resurrect canceled convention

Sports
Baseball – Pettitte bids Houston adieu
Baseball – Springer leaves ‘Stros for rival Cards
Baseball – Astros sign Backe to one-year deal
Cycling – Hoping to get ‘back in the game’ with Basso

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.NET Development
PODCAST: .NET Rocks – Venkat Subramaniam & Andrew Hunt Talk Agile
PODCAST: HanselMinutes – Life Hacks with Gina Trapani
PODCAST: DnrTv – Carl Franklin/Sockets in VB.NET Part 1

.NET Development (Web)
ASP.NET Datepicker and Calendar Control
Remove HTML comments at runtime
Displaying Hierarchical Data in DropDownList
Upload an Excel File and Display In a Grid

SQL Server Development
Returning the 1st Day of the Month of a Given Date value in SQL
Row-By-Row Processing Without Cursor
Murach’s SQL Server 2005 for Developers

Other Development
Escaping Tables With CSS

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
Noah, I want you to build an Ark
On Writing Maintainable Code
Model View Presenter

Productivity, Career & Personal Development
6 Ways To Boost Your Mental Acuity At Work
Blast Away Bad Mood With These 11 Fast Fixes

Astronomy & Earth Science
Detailed Look at the Next Mars Lander
Mars Surveyor Discovers Liquid Water Activity

Health & Fitness
Debate Grows Over Food Health Claims
Team Craddock makes cycling a family affair

Entertainment
Heroes episodes now available streaming online at NBC.com!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Back: The Complete Joss Whedon Q&A
PODCAST: Heros – Chapter 09 – “Fallout”

Sports
Pettitte will pitch in 2007
Bagwell plans for life after baseball

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.NET Development
Using Reflection to dynamically expose Business Logic thru a Webservice
Searching in .Net (don’t search manually, let .Net do it for you)
VS 2005 automatically removes deleted solution items

.NET Development (Web)
Asp.Net Regular Expression API
Use sitemap standards to help search engines
Dealing with ASP.NET’s view state
Troubleshooting Tips for ASP.Net developers
Why App_Code is better

Other Development
Justify Your Choice of Ruby on Rails

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
Utilize a common definition for project start date
Scrum in a Nutshell or 5 minutes to learn scrum

Community
Houston MSDN Event – 12/14/2006
…..(also in Dallas, TX 12/12/06 and Little Rock, AR 11/28/06)

Blogging
Updated: Blog Code Formatting Tool

General Technology
Gmail Storage – Pic (Humorous)
Close Tab Quickly with a Shortcut Key in Firefox
Select Specific Tab with Keyboard Hotkey in Firefox

Productivity, Career & Personal Development
But a perfect developer needs
Step Away From That Computer!
Tips for a Technical Presentation

Digital Photography
Mechanical Boy @ Scout Bar
The sky

Astronomy & Earth Science
Space Shuttle Launch Visible Across Eastern U.S. Thursday

Entertainment
The cheerleader saves herself (Heroes)
‘Heroes’: America just can’t get enough…
Is the sun Going Down on Day Break?
Dilbert: 12/04 – 12/05
BugBash Cartoon

Sports
Texans edge Raiders despite minus-5 passing yards
Houston Dynamo announce 2007 home opener
Astros up in the air about Backe

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.NET Development
Refactor the code before you write it
C# 3.0 Tutorials and Examples
attribute on Enumerators
Making equals(Object) type-safe

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
Agile Product Management
Introduction to Design Patterns
Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Composed Method Pattern

General Technology
250 Free Office Templates and Documents

Digital Photography
Water Lilly
Tallebudgera Creek Inlet

Astronomy & Earth Science
Possible black hole sighted
Nasa / building telescope on the Moon

Health & Fitness
Sick Workers at Work Worry Employers

Entertainment
PODCAST: Heroes – Chapter 08 – “Six Months Ago”
Heroes Pregame: Fallout
“Minds,” “Jericho” drive CBS in ratings
Dilbert -12/3

Sports
Astros don’t offer arbitration to four

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.NET Development
What ADO.NET Teaches Us about Custom Objects
PODCAST: .NET Rocks – TechEd Europe Interviews
Common Type System: Reference vs Value Types
Arithmetic Rounding in .Net
Table of Cool .NET Tools
Use “Find As You Type” Search in VS 2005
Format a String as Currency in C#
Get IP Address from DNS Hostname in C#

.NET Development (Web)
TIP/TRICK SqlDataSource Parameter Names
Creating CSS Friendly Websites with ASP.NET 2.0
AJAX DataGrid: An ASP.NET User Control
ASP.NET Tip: Creating Paging for a Repeater Control
Tip: Use the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters/CSS friendly HTML output
Express Yourself With Custom Expression Builders
Building Style Sheets Using Visual Studio 2005
Taking Your ASP.NET Application Offline for Deployment

SQL Server Development
Ten Ways To Lose Your DBA Job

Visual FoxPro Development
Debug Environment
Need to Diagram your FoxPro programs?

Other Development
Ruby on Rails for .NET developers

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
Inside the Secret Fears of Adamant Anti-Agilists
Practices of an Agile Developer
Prototype Design Pattern: Powerful way to copy objects
Jeff Perrin’s Snapshot Pattern
Using source control tools on huge projects
Testing: Not a Phase, but a Way of Life

General Technology
Determining whether USB 2.0 is on your Windows XP machine
10 seamless extensions that make Firefox 2 even better
Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts to Quick Launch Web Sites

Productivity, Career & Personal Development
Why Conferences Matter, and How To Pitch To Your Boss
Numenta: Solving Obvious Problems

Digital Photography
Busy Airport
Stubborn Path
Tell a Story
5 Things You Must Know Before Buying a Digital Camera
Show and Tell
Space Shuttle photos
..(taken from International Space Station)

Astronomy & Earth Science
Astronomers Discuss Moon Opportunities
Giant Planet Embedded in Star’s Magnetosphere
New Horizons Gets First Glimpse of Pluto
NASA: Space Shuttle Discovery Set for Dec. 7 Launch

Health & Fitness
Cycling: Now is time to start training for spring

Entertainment
The Office: Rainn Wilson and Angela Kinsey Interview
TRAILER: Night at the Museum
TRAILER: The Host (Korean monster movie)

Sports
Pettitte may decide future by Christmas

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.NET Development
Save an Image to SQL Server
ASP.Net Page Life Cycle
ASP.NET: Post Data Programmatically with “Webscraping”
Understanding ASP.NET Web Parts
Combine accessors in C#
www.dotnetrocks.com gets a facelift
An HttpModule that moves ViewState to the bottom
Converting VS 2003 User Control Projects to VS 2005
Migrating applications from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0

SQL Server Development
Automating Common SQL Server Tasks using DMO
Study: Oracle DB software has more flaws than SQL Server
Understand the effects of NULLs on inner and outer JOINs
Check If Temporary Table Exists

Other Development
Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don’t work
Python Tutorial Index Page
Quick Fix For IE7 Display Issues

Methodologies, Metrics & Design Patterns
The Sound of One Agile Hand Clapping
Data and Object Factory
Microsoft Patterns and Practices
Evaluating a major/minor release (developer metrics)

Blogging
Blogosphere: It’s getting crowded

General Technology
Cool Way to experience different tools
101 Things you do NOT want your SysAdmin to say
Spiderman 3 Computer Case

Productivity, Career & Personal Development
Dealing With Close-Mindedness

Digital Photography
Beach Rocks
Hill Farm
Breathe From Coma

Astronomy & Earth Science
The sky is falling
Space Station Science Overdrive

Health & Fitness
10 Foods that Are Health Horrors
Best Snacks, Worst Snacks
Aching Back? Sitting Up Straight Could Be The Culprit

Entertainment
Interview with Jack Coleman (Heroes)
Bones: More of Your Questions Answered
Atlantis cast member to depart

Sports
Candace Parker Named Lady Vol Athlete of the Week
McGwire goes on Hall ballot along with Gwynn and Ripken

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