Links You Should’ve Clicked Last Week – Monday, September 14, 2009
- by Scott Whigham on September 14, 2009 6:25 AMLast week, I started a new recurring them - Links You Should've Clicked Last Week. This week I'm still playing catch-up with the hundreds of links that I've collected over the past few months. Some of the links below are from last week while others are months old. Who cares - they are good links worth checking out!
Database Related
- Codd's 12 rules - what are the rules that you have to follow if you want to be considered a relational database?
- Did You Know IN Can Do This? - I didn't know this and thought it was awesomely creative
- Understanding How Restore and Recovery of Backups Work in SQL Server
- Dear Vendor - an open letter from Mike Hillwig to all vendors using his SQL Server
Programming Related
- How to Become a Good C# Programmer (Part 1 of a 10 part series)
- Unusual software bugs - I found this page after reading an article that talked about a heisenbug (which I'd never heard of yet the author assumed everyone knew what this was).
- Why Should I Learn a Functional Language? - Not technically the title of the post (the actual title is "Why F#?") but, to me, this was a great section.
- How to validate an email address - Too many programmers get this wrong - joe_hominy+techurbia@gmail.com is a valid email but all too often is rejected...
Sysadmin Related
- Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 2 released
- Microsoft Forefront codename "Stirling" VHDs
- Forefront Codename Stirling Datasheet
- Microsoft outlines five ways Exchange 2010 will be faster, more scalable
Misc
- Reputation Design Patterns from Yahoo! Developer Network - a fascinating group of patterns for anyone interesting in building social sites
- Steve Jobs calls the Pope
- Madison, Wisconsin names the lawn flamingo its official bird
- Salesforce.com - how bad can their management be? On revenues of $1.19 billion, they have a net income of $63 million...
LearnItFirst Related
I don't plan on adding much LearnItFirst material here but, since these pages were added this week, I'll add them here:
- Training PDFs - these new PDFs match LearnItFirst's video training courses
- Free SQL Server training videos
I never would have thought how much information you could find out there about this! Thanks for making this simple to understand
Very interesting way to market on facebook. I also found a way to automate a couple very powerful methods of getting users. You can capture ID by groups or pages or wall posts with this program. Then once you have the IDs you can do a friend request to your user ID or sudo profile. This by passes the captcha codes too. There is also a cool chat program that you can setup scripts and keyword to work with. This program, when I use it I can see a spike in my site traffic. It is amazing...
In fact, some of the Swiss luxury watch, in appearance and identity numbers are there, and done a lot of anti-counterfeiting
measures,. For example, Rolex has 5 numbers, they are: (1) case models, (2) Watch production sequence number
movement and on the number, (4) the movement and on the production sequence number, (5) the band number. In addition to the
band number in the band discount out surface, the rest are hidden, not to remove the watch strap or open the rear door in order to
see it.
This is fantastic! How did you learn this stuff when you were a newcomer to it?