Calculating your own taxes

You ever tried to calculate your own Federal taxes? For being W2?

Everything you need to know is probably in this document... Publication 15

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15.pdf

MSDN on c# binding

A whole boatload of C# binding information can be found over here, at MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752039.aspx

SQL Server 2008 R2 Query Execution Plan icons

Okay, this page is cool. All the SQL Server 2008 R2 Query Execution Plan icons on one page, with links back  to MSDN pages about each icon/topic.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175913.aspx

Lady Gaga breaks Amazon

What a great title. He's got some good points, too.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/18366/lady_gaga_breaks_amazon_com_and_what_you_should_learn_from_it

MS-PL License

I recently found this new license type for writing software. As I read it, nothing says you can't just make your source code "email me for the source."

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html

While I don't know that I want 10,000 hits requesting my source code for any of my projects, it could be a good way to do things. Alternately, if you have an email auto-responder through your web host, you could just setup one of those to auto-respond to any requests with a zip file of the code.

Indexing article on sqlservercentral

 Good intro article on Indexes and indexing.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Indexing/71726/

Connection strings

Something I found useful this week...

http://www.connectionstrings.com/sql-server-2005#p2