Items of Interest: 2006.04.26

Posted on April 26, 2006 at 18:34

Things I found interesting on April 26, 2006:

Great Blog Traits: Consistency – Scrivs tries to pin down the first thing he looks for on a new site to include in his network
Signal Vs. Noise Jobs Board – $250 to post a job on this new site by 37Signals (whatever they touch turns to gold, remember?)
MonthlyDollar – Once again: whoever thinks up the idea first will make some money (via eHub)
How to Get up Right Away when your Alarm goes Off – Something I definitely need to figure out (I am avergaing about 2.3 snoozes per day right now), from Steve Pavlina
Switch from Windows XP to Mac OSX with Ease – Julia Geng gives some advice for those who would like to make the switch and need someone to hold their hand through the process
Understanding and Using Exceptions – Karl Seguin gives a very thorough (and long) review of the proper way to catch and handle exceptions in .net/C#
450+ Free & Useful Open Source Applications – From eConsultant
NUnit Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005 – Handy reference from Scott Bellware (if you are into that whole unit testing thing, that is)
Paging Done RIGHT (in SQL Server 2000 & 2005) – Scott Guthrie readdresses the subject of the most efficient way to handle large-scale paging with Stored Procedures in SQL Server

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