Interesting Finds: August 24, 2008

Interesting Finds: August 24, 2008 - [Final Cut]

Other stuff

Is There Still a Community for Telligent?, Keyvan Nayyeri - I just found Keyvan's blog this past week, so this link is a little old. It is a pretty long discussion of 'Community' specifically around Community Server but more generally around .Net as a whole. It does seem like the community that I follow in the blogs is on a 'down cycle' ... the bummer is right now I'm too busy to do much about it.
Microsoft Licensing Changes: Greedy and Monopolistic?, Brad - an interesting response to Microsoft's licensing changes.
Roland Weigelt’s GhostDoc for Visual Studio, Alvin Ashcraft - a good explanation of GhostDoc and a reminder to get this addin if you don't already have it.
Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle, Michael Arrington - sounds like Amazon is targeting the electronic text book business next.
Open Source Podcast to Stack Wood By, Dave Burke - Dave points to a podcast that sounds interesting - Paul Graham's keynote presentation at OSCON 2005.
SmallestDotNet: On the Size of the .NET Framework, Scott Hanselman - Scott goes over the details of the real sizes of .Net and some tips on how to get only what you need.
Anatomy of a LOB (Or, Mind Mapping a Modern .NET App), Nathan - Nathan shares a mindmap he put together for an LOB application he is looking to (re)write in a SaaS sort of way.
RESTful JSON: Bringing REST and RPC Closer Together, Dare Obasanjo - Dare continues to build on his previous posts about REST.
X509 Certificates for Developers, Michael Stiefel - nice entry on PKI and the big picture of using x509 certificates. Part 1 of a 2 part posting on the subject.

Web stuff

ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field and The Evolution of MVC, Stephen Walther - a couple of good links about extending MVC (adding the ajax Auto-Complete behavior to MVC) and a good history of MVC. No wonder Stephen's books are always 1000's pages long - his daily posts are around 6 pages. I like his writing style of using textual explanations, step-by-step walkthroughs (with code) and visuals to get his point across.

Database stuff

DevLink 2008 Presentation, Joe Webb - points to a zip file of his presentation material about writing better queries. The ppt is 21 slides and the sql file is 500+ lines of sql.
Geek City: Reading the Transaction Log, Kalen Delaney - entry about a recent commentary she wrote and comments about it. She asks the question: How Important do you think it is that Microsoft provide a log reader tool for us?
SQL SERVER - Fix : Error : 40 - could not open a connection to SQL server - Fix Connection Problems of SQL Server, Pinal Dave - some trouble shooting tips for the "Error: 40 - could not open a connection to SQL Server"

Career stuff

Do You Want More Web Work?, Aliza Sherman - Interesting entry on personal experience of being too busy.

Business stuff

Not Getting a Rise out of your Elevator Speech?, Freelance Switch - good entry on some tips to getting a conversation started ... with hopes of turning a short conversation into a more effective and longer one.

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