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Technology Related Links for May 12th

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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Series Post #11

Below is my first pass at the links of the day. I have others that I’ll add to a later post or to tomorrow’s post. But wanted to get some of the earlier posts in your hands.

Daily Quote - Great quote: "LOL no waterfall isn't "better". Agile/scrum/tdd/any dogmatic practice won't cure our problems" (Posted by Amanda Laucher)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

About Axum – K. Scott Allen
Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Eric Lippert (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Value Class Pattern - Microformats

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC - Localization Helpers - Matt Hawley (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC Validation using IDataErrorInfo with DefaultModelBinder – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
IgnoreRoute in ASP.NET Routing is Order Dependent – Steve Smith
Integrating ActiveReports into ASP.NET MVC – Billy McCafferty (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Using DayPilot with ASP.NET MVC – Craig Stuntz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

Book Review - Magento Beginners Guide (Suggested by Packt Publishing)
PHP and script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces – Packt Publishing

Cloud Computing

Cisco Unified Service Delivery: The Pathway to Cloud Services (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Microsoft unveils Open Government Data Initiative (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers You Might Not Know Of (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
A Simple foaf+ssl Identity Provider (IdP) (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Web Design and Layout

Why Does Clean Markup Matter in Web Design? – Webdesigner Depot (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

20+ Wicked Proof of Concepts for Better use of jQuery/CSS (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Build an Auto-Scrolling Slideshow That Works With and Without JavaScript - Jenna Smith (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Google Charting (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Masonry (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Tooltip for any event – CursorMessage (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery URL Parser - Mark Perkins (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Replacing images at time intervals - jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Slider for Dynamic Applications using script.aculo.us (part 1) – Packt Publishing

Podcasts and Videos

Diving into PHP: Day 15 – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by Nettuts)
Website Scalability (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Localization in WPF - Fabrice Marguerie (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Silverlight 3 RIA Services: DataForm, Validation – Peter Bromberg

Technology Announcements and News

Miscellaneous

Script I whipped up to fix my mysql charset issues – Jeff Schoolcraft

Other Resources

Dew Drop - May 12, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

--- NotAtTechEd
Tample, FL - Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

---May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6, 2009

Technology Related Links for May 8th, 2009

Anonymous — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Series Post #9

Daily Quote - The Rule of Software Development... "Fast, good, cheap: pick any two." (Posted by Elijah Manor)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

Microsoft Axum – A .NET language for safe, scalable and productive parallel programming through isolation, actors and message-passing – Greg Duncan (Suggested by Jon Galloway)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Making the untestable testable with Anonymous Methods and Dependency Injection - Karl Seguin (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
NUnit 2.5 had been Released - Mark Levison (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Pseudocode or Code? – Jeff Atwood
The BIG Merge – Oren Eini
The S#arp framework: the SharpModelBinder - Luis Abreu (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

Databind a Combobox to an Enum Property – Version 2.0 – Marcus Wyatt (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
I’m a Web Developer At Heart – Phil Haack
Modifying the default unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC project to use Moq - Kevin Hoffman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Using complex types to make calling services less… complex – Dave Ward (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

ASP.NET MVC book: Chapter 1: Plumbing – Jeff Putz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Technical Book Club: Code Complete – Software Construction: Building Software - Software for Students (Suggested by MSPress)
Technical Book Club: How to Participate – Software for Students (Suggested by MSPress)

Cloud Computing

Eight Best Practices for Building Scalable Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
How much Azure juice am I drinking? (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
Spending on Cloud Computing Going Up, Up, Up - Ann All (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Web Design and Layout

3 CSS Coding Tips That Will Save You Hundreds of Wasted Hours (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
10 Great CSS Selectors you must know - Rakesh Sharma (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Make your forms beautiful with CSS – Dave Harfield (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

3 ways to define a JavaScript class - Stoyan Stefanov (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
15+ Excellent jQuery Plugins To Enhance HTML Forms (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
15 Exceptional JQuery Resources And Tutorials - Patrick Lin and Karthik Viswanathan (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Ask JW: How do I Make AJAX Requests With jQuery? – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by jQuery)
Create A Tabbed Content Rotator Using jQuery - Raymond Selda
How to implement a Post-to-Wall Facebook-like using PHP and jQuery - Antonio Lupetti (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
How to: jQuery Driven Social Bookmark Counters – Tripwire Magazine
How to Make AJAX Requests With Raw Javascript - NetTuts
jQuery Edge: Versatile .index() – Brandon Aaron (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Plugin: jquery-jsonp - (Suggested by jQuery)
Plugin: jQuery – Galleriffic (Suggested by jQuery)
Preventing Form Caching With Javascript And jQuery - Ben Nadel (Suggested by jQuery)
Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery – Quark Ruby (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks - Samuel Dean (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Add Windows GridView control in WPF dynamically in C# - Raveen Rasaiyah (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Matchingo - A Silverlight Memory Game (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Social Networking

12 Rules For Bringing 'Social' To Your Business - Dion Hinchcliffe (Suggested by George Dearing)
Twitter: bDule by Sobees (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)

Technology Announcements and News

Should You Freelance in a Recession? – Freelance Folder (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
The Steve Ballmer Memo: Microsoft cuts 3000 jobs – Davey Winder

Other Resources

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

LAST CALL: Las Vegas, NV – Open Force ‘09 – Due May 8th, 2009
Tample, FL - Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

---Announcing the Summer 2009 MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow Series
---West Michigan Tech Events (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
---May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6, 2009

Technology Related Links – Post #1

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I’m going to try to put together a list of links I grab and post them to intermittent blog posts. I’d like to do a post like this once a day or at the very least once a week, but let’s see where things go. :) Anyway, here’s the first batch of links summarized by technology. Some of these may be a couple of weeks old, so please bare with me as the first list is quite lengthy. I’ll also add in recently released books, software releases and updates, and upcoming technology events.

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ASP.NET – jQuery Enhancements

Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid

ASP.NET – MVC

6 Tips for ASP.NET MVC Model Binding – K. Scott Allen (OdeToCode)
File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC v1.0 - Justin Etheredge
HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders - Robert Muehsig
IRouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC – Keyvan Nayyeri
Making a Thin Contact Form – Chris Love
Returning PDFs from an ASP.NET MVC action - Louis DeJardin

Books – Hot off the Press

Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery - Richard York (Wrox)
Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 - Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie (Wrox)

Cloud Computing

SalesForce.com Adds .NET Offering – Steve Smith

CSS

From Table Hell to Div Hell - Geir Wavik
The Mystery of CSS Sprites - Smashing Editorial

Image Editing

Become an Illustrator Master - StayUpdate
Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files – Jason Fitzpatrick
Ultimate Collection of Useful Photoshop Plug-Ins - Vailancio Rodrigues

JavaScript/jQuery

18 jQuery scripts and tutorials to improve your portfolio - Mirko
5 easy tips on how to improve code performance with huge data sets in jQuery – jQuery HowTo
Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery - Alen Grakalic
Glimmer jQuery Library – MIX Labs
Google AJAX APIs - Google
jsPDF generates PDF documents using pure JavaScript – James Hall
Plugin – FullCalendar – Adam Shaw
Plugin – ImageSwitch - Hieu Pham
Plugin – OpenID - Jarrett Vance
Plugin – Page Peel 1.2 - John McMullen
Twitter JSON/JSONP API – jQuery HowTo

JSON

JSON Serialization of a DataReader – Rick Strahl

.NET Interop

Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET - Jeff Moser

OCR/ICR

Tessnet2 a .NET 2.0 Open Source OCR assembly using Tesseract engine - Rémi Thomas
Windows Image Acquisition – Scott Hanselman

Silverlight

A comprehensive list of Silverlight Controls for developers – Tim Heuer

Social Networking

5 Free Online Twitter Background Generators - SingleFunction

Software

.NET Reflector v5.1.4.0 - RedGate
Cosmos – C# Bootable OS – A Codeplex Project
2007 Office System Service Pack 2 - Microsoft
Windows Live Writer 2009 Release Candidate – Microsoft

TDD

TDD Tests are not Unit Tests – Stephen Walther

Upcoming Technology Events

Boston, MA – No Excuses Boston Geek Dinner – April 30th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009

Free eBook for myITforum’ers: "Silverlight 2 First Look"

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Due to popular demand, the author and the Microsoft press team have provided this eBook in PDF format. It contains the first three chapters of Laurence Moroney’s book "Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0" .

You can grab the free eBook from here:

http://myitforum.com/cs2/files/folders/proddocs/entry120377.aspx