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Sites and Groups

Site Name Description
User Interface Design Patterns This website seeks to better the situation for the UI designer, who struggles with the same problems as many other UI designers have struggled with before him.
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interactio Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design is an intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language.
Convert VB.NET to C# .NET code converter
Convert C# to VB.NET .NET code converter
OLAP PivotTable Extensions OLAP PivotTable Extensions is an Excel 2007 add-in which extends the functionality of PivotTables on Analysis Services cubes. The Excel 2007 API has certain PivotTable functionality which is not exposed in the UI. OLAP PivotTable Extensions provides an interface for some of this functionality.
Job Trends from Indeed Provides a chart on the relative and absolute growth of various languages.
SQL Server Date Formats A "summary of the different date formats that come standard in SQL Server as part of the CONVERT function. Following the standard date formats are some extended date formats that are often asked by SQL Server developers."
Top-10 .NET Sites From the site:

Here's a list of our favorite sites for developers, in no particular order. If you feel that your site belongs in the "Top 10," please send a short e-mail with your reasons to dotnet@devx.com.
SQL-Server-Performance.com ... to provide a detail knowledge base for DBA's and developers on optimising the performance of SQL Server databases....
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials HTML, XML, Browser Scripting, Server Scripting, .NET (dotnet) tutorials
MIT OpenCourseWare Free Online Course Materials
SQL Server Magazine A guide to building SQL Server-based applications
Builder AU By developers, for developers, covering a wide range of technologies and languages.
Database Journal Daily Database News, Information and Tutorials for the Database Professional
Oracle Technology Network Downloads, Discussions, and Documentation for Developers and DBAs
Visual Studio Magazine Enterprise solutions for .Net development
TIOBE Programming Community Index Shows the current popularity of various programming languages.
MathTools Provides listing and links to code resources, and in its own terms, "Link Exchange for the Technical Computing Community".
Using class modules to create your own object Tutorial on basics of creating and using a class module in Access.
DW Mapping and Transformation from TDWI Software for data mapping and transformation
Open Source ETL from Manageability.org Open Source ETL (Extraction, Transform, Load) Written in Java
Visual Importer Enterprise 7.4.0 ETL Tool
Cross-Cultural Usability Presentation An edited version of a presentation on cross cultural usability, with a focus on Hofsteder's patterns, presented at the NY Chapter of the Usability Professional Association (UPA), by Aaron Marcus of AM+A.
WDG HTML Validator Validates HTML. Less detailed than W3C site, but can do entire website.
Dr. Dobb's Journal High-quality generalist progrma journal.
krugle krugle's (Google's) vision: "Krugle answers the need for a single place to find relevant code and critical technical information. By making it easy for anyone to find, elevate and communicate, Krugle fills a critical gap in todays technology rich environment."
codefetch "Codefetch's mission is to connect programmers and authors so that programmers get the information they need, and the work of authors is supported and encouraged."
Koders Koders.com is a search engine for open source code, with an "easy-to-use interface to search for source code examples and discover new open source projects which can be leveraged in their applications."
W3C Markup Validation Service Validates XML/XHTML code
Code: VBA, PHP, X/HTML, CSS My own site, that has code downloads, site/group links, and book recommendations.