Interesting Finds: March 1, 2008

Other link blogs
37Signals - [Sunspots] The skillful edition
Matt - 8 Links Today (2008-02-29)
Christopher Steen - Link Listing - March 1, 2008
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for February 29, 2008

Web stuff
Tom - ASP.NET Tips: Add trace statements
Dion Almaer - Firefox 3 Performance Numbers
Will66 - Freeze Panes like Excel
Dion Esposito - Latest and upcoming book(s)

Other stuff
Scott Reynolds - Code Snippet: MeasureString
CnnMoney.com - Fed officials: Housing crisis critical
David M Kean - FxCop 1.35 now available (again) for download
Dennis van der Stelt - Getting data from Excel the fast way, using LINQ
Udi Dahan - How to create fully encapsulated Domain Models
Daniel Cazzulino - Integrating SMS-based data entry with geographical visualization: a TED demo
Windows SDK Team - Integrating Windows SDK and VS with new SDK Configuration tool
JD Meier - Patterns and Practices for Visual Studio Team System
VSX Team - PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 released
Sasha Goldshtein - Screencast: What's New in Visual Studio 2008? and TechEd 2008 (Israel): Next Generation Production Debugging
dougste - Should I Authenticode sign my .NET assembly?
Steve Eichert - The community around Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is beginning to take shape
Martin Maly - Variations on Trees
The VB Team - VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 1: XML Transformations using XML Literals (Doug Rothaus)

Career stuff
Michael Specht - Concerned about layoffs? … I would add an additional one - "Don't overact", usually change is good in hindsight … but that is just my opinion.
Entrepreneur.com - Sharing the Cost of Business
Jeffrey Phillips - Workplace Frustrations

Database stuff
Joe Webb - Does order matter in a JOIN clause?
Linchi Shea - Drive letters should go
Andras - SQL Server 2008 CTP6 takes a day off … what type of logic checks to see if it is a leap day? Shouldn't services just start regardless of the date?

Conference stuff
Stephen Forte - Microsoft Developer Conference - Albany, NY - March 12 2008
Steve Eichert - Planned Agility at Philly ALT.NET

PowerShell stuff
The PowerShell guy - New PowerShell book featuring PowerTab chapter : Pro Windows PowerShell
Greg Duncan - PowerShell v1 Remoting via Windows Remote Shell (WinRS)
PowerShell Team - Remoting Using PowerShell V1

posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 8:03 AM