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Technology Related Links for May 6th, 2009

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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Series Post #7

Daily Quote - Great quote: "The mind can only absorb what the seat can endure" ~ @mrrodd (Posted by Dan Wahlin)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

CLR Inside Out - Understanding the CLR Binder (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community – Mary Jo Foley

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Top 5 Programmer Mistakes – Bill Tudor (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ELMAH and Exception Driven Development FTW – Scott Hanselman

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

A Fast and Easy Way to Take an ASP.NET Application Offline - Rafay Ali (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ControllerActionInvoker and CreateActionResult - Implicit Action Results – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Dynamic Data Preview 4 – Scott Hunter
Iterating on an ASP.NET MVC Model Binder - K. Scott Allen
MonoDevelop Developin ASP.NET MVC Applications on the Mac - Miguel de Icaza

Books

Cloud Computing

3 perspectives on cloud management - Jennifer Kavur (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
AppZero strives for portability in the cloud - David Worthington (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Cloud computing as a business continuity plan - Mark Clarke (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Citrix Announces Citrix C3 Lab Built on Amazon Web Services to Connect Cloud Computing to the Corporate Datacenter (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Do You Want a "Cloud Desktop?" Gladinet's Release Candidate is Here - Sarah Perez (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
SoftLayer Launches CloudLayer Suite - Rich Miller (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Steering Clear of a Cloud Boondoggle - Jim Damoulakis (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Web Design and Layout

18 Seriously Helpful Cheat Sheets for Easier Coding – Henry Jones (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Code Your Own Online “Paint Shop” App: New Plus Tutorial – NetTuts (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

15+ Excellent jQuery Plugins To Enhance HTML Forms - jQuery
20 New examples of advanced jQuery UI’s in action. - (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Ask JW: How do I Make AJAX Requests With jQuery? – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery) – Soh Tanaka (Suggested by jQuery)
Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips - Jon Hobbs-Smith (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery UI DatePicker instead of AJAX Control Toolkit CalendarExtender in ASP.NET - Arnold Matusz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Pimp Up List Sorting Using JQuery - AzamSharp
Plugin: jQuery plugin jPlayer (Suggested by jQuery)
Useful Ajax Tutorials and Demo for web developer - raj

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

IE Testing VPC Images Updated – Pete LePage (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
PowerShell to the clipboard – Buck Woody (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Windows XP Mode Beta
Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features – Channel 9

Podcasts and Videos

10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing – Channel 9
Software Engineering Radio: elease It with Michael Nygard (Suggested by Devpodcasts)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

How to Zoom In and Out with a Mouse Wheel in Silverlight - Silver Enlightenment (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
New York Times Silverlight Kit – MSDN (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
Open source codecs for Silverlight 3 - Atsushi Eno (Suggested by Miguel de Icaza)

Social Networking

Harvest Reports Consuming Space - Community Server Forums (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)

Technology Announcements and News

Is Dell cooking up an Android-powered netbook? - Engadget
Kindle DX: Amazon's 9.7" Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)
Web learning startup takes top spot in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup - Mass High Tech Staff (Suggested by Microsoft Press)

Miscellaneous

NINE Questions with Kathleen Sanders – Chris Williams

Other Resources

Dew Drop - May 6, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

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)

---Events This Week (and next) – G. Andrew Duthie
---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 .NET ugMix – May 7th, 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 for May 4th, 2009

Anonymous — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Series Post #5

Quote of the day - "Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen." (Posted by Elijah Manor)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Are Helper Classes Evil? - Nick Malik (Suggested by Brad Wilson)
Choosing the Right Scrum Management Tool - Tommy Norman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
NHibernate Filters - Oren Eini
NHibernate Search – Oren Eini
Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer: On Programming Language Theory and Practice – Charles (Suggested by Channel 9)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid
ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking - Adrian Grigore (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Custom Error Pages in ASP.NET – Bean Software
Hierarchical GridView With Clickable Rows - Srikanth Reddy
Letting ASP.NET Handle Image File Extensions in IIS 6 - Jason Gaylord
Leverage ASP.NET Control Adapters for a (slightly) Better UX - Jess Chadwick (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
REST Based WCF Service in ASP.NET 3.5 - Kalyan Bandarupalli
Yet Another Forum v1.9.3 Released (Suggested by Dave Burke)

Cloud Computing

Azure Developer Challenge – Steven Martin (Suggested by MicrosoftPress)
Google Aims to Woo the Enterprise With Its Cloud - Stacey Higginbotham (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Internal clouds: The storm is coming, corporate IT be prepared - NetApp (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Resources for learning programming in The Cloud - Joe Stagner
The Real Meaning of Cloud Security Revealed - F5 DevCentral (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Web Design and Layout

13 Great Free Text Editors For Programmers & Web Developers - Anoop Engineer (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
40 Outstanding CSS Techniques And Tutorials - Ar-bent-ing (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

12 jquery tooltip for web developer - raj (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
25 Open Source JavaScript Libraries And Frameworks - Open Source Release Feed (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
How to build a personal mashup page with jQuery - The EZPZ Way
jLinq (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet Wallpaper - G. MeanTime (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images - Code Zest (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Simulate Gravity with jQuery - Gaya Kessler (Suggested by jQuery)
yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams - Tobin Harris (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

Mobile Devices

5 Tips for Making Great iPhone Photos – Chase Jarvis (Suggested by Dana Coffey)

Podcasts and Videos

ASP.NET QA Podcast (Suggested by Phil Haack)
Executive Strategies for Agile Transition - Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider (Suggested by devpodcasts)
John Rose: Static Managed Runtimes and Dynamic Byte Codes – Going Deep on Channel 9 (Suggested by devpodcasts)
WebDropDown Multi-Select - Selections Handled on the Client - Craig Shoemaker on Infragistics Community
WebDropDown Multi-Select - Selections Handled on the Server - Craig Shoemaker on Infragistics Community
Will Windows 7 be pure win or utter fail? – CNET UK (Suggested by devpodcasts)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF - Frank LaVigne (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight DataGrid Control - Mahesh Chand (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight Game Gallery – Joe Stagner
The first version of the WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit is available - Adam Kinney (Suggested by Scott Cate)

Social Networking

Here's a Reason to Rethink Community Building - Judy Shapiro (Suggested by George Dearing)

Technology Announcements and News

10 Most Anticipated Ultraportables and Netbooks of 2009 - PCWorld on MSN
FCC gives go-ahead for DirecTV transfer to Liberty Media - Scott M. Fulton
New Amazon Device Debuts Wednesday
Verizon to Offer Free Wi-Fi to Broadband Subscribers
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters - LA Times (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Miscellaneous

Tutorials for Visual Effects & Motion Graphics – Video Copilot (Suggested by Tim Heuer)

Other Resources

Get to know… Steve Andrews – NINE Questions with Chris Williams
Dew Drop – May 4, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

--Events This Week (and next) – G. Andrew Duthie
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

MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, PA on November 14th, 2008

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Microsoft and .NET Valley would like to invite you to come to the MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 14th, 2008. The event will be held at Scranton University in Room 405 of the DeNaples Student Center and will begin at 9am. A schedule of events can be found below.

To register for the event, you can use the link on the hompage of dotnetvalley.com or go direct to the MSDN registration page here.

Event Schedule

8:30 to 9:00 – Breakfast and Registration

9:00 to 10:30 – Windows Presentation Foundation Demystified

Today’s applications need to do more than simply work. They need to draw in the user, and provide a differentiated experience. This means moving beyond battleship gray forms, boxy UIs, and providing a positive user experience. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides powerful capabilities to develop a compelling user interface, the kind that makes an application stand out. In this session, we’ll examine the core concepts of WPF such as layout panels, data binding, styles and control templates, and we’ll use them to develop an application UI from the ground up.

10:30 to 12:00 – Implementing RESTful services with WCF 3.5

This session will focus on the new capabilities in WCF 3.5 for implementing REST architectures. We’ll examine the new webHttpBinding and see how to build services as resource endpoints, as well as how to map HTTP verbs onto WCF services. We’ll also see how to specify the format of data exchanged with the service and consume these services is Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight.

12:00 to 1:00 – Lunch

1:00 to 2:30 – Exploring the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Abstraction in software development can improve flexibility, independence, and the ability to compose higher-level concepts. The ADO.NET Entity Framework, now shipping as part of Visual Studio 2008 & .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, helps you create models of your data that enable a familiar object-oriented programming experience. Entities map flexibly to data sources while providing insulation from schema changes at the same time. LINQ makes an appearance as well, using the familiar syntax we’ve seen with LINQ to Objects, SQL, and XML to query entities.

2:30 to 3:15 – A Developer’s Guide to Internet Explorer 8

The next version of Internet Explorer 8 is now in beta. This session will examine all the new consumer features, but also cover additional points that are specific to you as a developer. We’ll see how accelerators and web slices can be a differentiator for your company, see the new wave of compatibility features and options, and unearth the tools available for developers designed to aid in the confusion that is web development.

3:15 to 4:00 – UI, UX, U Confused?

One thing not missing from Microsoft’s development offerings is a choice of options. In this session, we’ll compare and contrast the various .NET technologies available for building client experiences (Windows Forms, WPF, XBAP, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Windows Mobile) to give you some insight in to making the best choices for reaching your applications’ target audience.

4:00 – Wrap Up and Raffle