Links You Should’ve Clicked Last Week: Monday, September 21, 2009
- by Scott Whigham on September 21, 2009 10:16 AMI had trouble just picking a few this week - I still have a backlog of 100+ links plus this week I added another 30+!
Database Related
- How can SQL Server help my evaluate and manage indexes? - lots of great DMVs for monitoring index usage stats
- How to update or slipstream an installation of SQL Server 2008 - Make a single install DVD that has SQL Server 2008 and SP1!
- How SQL decides how much procedure cache and how much buffer cache to use - from the wonderful Denny Cherry
- A Tool For Querying Multiple Databases - For .NET folks too
Programming Related
- Why Developers Get Fired - and you thought it was generally for either suffering from the God syndrome or creating unmaintainable code
- Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) - Parallel LINQ queries in .NET 4 Beta
- Trollim - "Programmers of similar skill sets and coding languages compete against each other either by one to one or many to many coding challenges (Battles)."
- elmah - Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET
- Coders at Work - Haven't read it yet but I loved it's predecessor, Founders at Work
Sysadmin Related
- Wolfram Alpha Tips for webmasters and sysadmins
- Running Windows PowerShell Scripts
- Securing IIS7: Using UrlScan to scan incoming requests
- Using the Logparser Utility to Analyze Exchange/IIS Logs
Misc
- Google Wave: What It Is and Why You Need to Pay Attention
- Wiki-OS - "I want to be able to develop .NET and Silverlight apps and test them without the fuss of installing .NET and Silverlight on my machine"
- List of common misconceptions - "Contrary to the common myth, the Coriolis effect does not determine the direction that water rotates in a bathtub drain or a flushing toilet."
- TiddlyWiki - A single HTML file that can be used like your own personal wiki (very awesome!)
- Tactical Bacon - Tac Bac for short - for those times when you just need some canned bacon
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 Windows Server training videos
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