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Technology Related Links for May 8th, 2009

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

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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 Links for May 7th, 2009

Anonymous — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Series Post #8

Daily Spoof – CannonPI featuring Microsoft Employees

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

.NET MF moves to Developer Division – Colin Miller (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
.NET’s Most Influential People in 2009 – Jay Kimble (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Dependency Injection with the Spring Framework - Tutorial - Lars Vogel
Multithreading: immutability – Luis Abreu

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC "Models": The lonesome folder! - Hadi Hariri (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications – David Fowler
Dynamic Data Preview 4 Released - Scott Hunter
How to create a syndication feed for your website – Scott Mitchell
Using Behaviour-Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC – Part 1 – Tim Ross (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Cloud Computing

A couple of reasons I won't be moving my databases to the cloud anytime soon – Denis Gobo

Web Design and Layout

35 Examples Of Masterful Lighting Effects In Web Design – Angela Rohner
Creating a stylish Minimal Contact form – devSnippet
Create Vista Like Button With Photoshop - Flashtoons

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

10 Transition Effects: The art of Showing/Hiding Content – devSnippent (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
15 Excellent jQuery Navigation Techniques and Solutions – Henry Jones (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
Acid.JS Library 3.0 Has Been Released With 6 New Additions - Martin Ivanov
Function’less event handlers in jQuery - James Padolsey (Suggested by jQuery)
Guestbook.XML – The New AJAX Guestbook – Martin Ivanov
How to check if checkbox is checked using jQuery – jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
How to realize a calendar with Mootools (STEP I) – moonKiki
jQuery 1.3.2 Cheat Sheet (Suggested by jQuery)
jQuery Magic – Why I Love Enclosures – Yet Another WebDev Blog (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Plugin – GridView for jQuery – Geek Daily (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Using jQuery in SharePoint to Display Notifications for Open Tasks - Jan Tielens (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

How To Get your Windows 7 Release Candidate Product Key (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Microsoft Open Government Data Initiative to Help Foster Transparency and Collaboration – Microsoft (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Microsoft Student Partners Opportunity
PowerShell Plus command completion makes life so easy. – Joe Brinkman
Running SharePoint on Windows 7 - Gunnar Peipman (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
Switching my Windows 7 Boot Disk from D to C with BCDBoot rather than BCDEdit – Scott Hanselman

Mobile Devices

Facebook for your Windows Mobile 6 phone - Peter Laudati

Podcasts and Videos

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Technology Announcements and News

Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook? - ZDNet
Why IT Should Start Throwing Data Away - PCWorld

Miscellaneous

8 Essential Applications – Corey Schuman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Other Resources

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 6th, 2009

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

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

[Hong Kong] MIX07 on 2007.06.05 (Tue)

martinpoon — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT

MIX is Microsoft’s conference for Web designers, developers and decision-makers who make their living at the forefront of the consumer Web. Join the conversation with Microsoft and others on how to harness the latest technologies, unlock new revenue opportunities, reduce development costs and improve customer experience. MIX is for cutting-edge Web professionals designing and building next-generation experiences. Come and join MIX07, and get a first look at Microsoft Expression Studio, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Microsoft Silverlight, and more... Windows Vista Gadgets Contest will also be launched at MIX07!

Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Time: 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Venue: Hong Knog Convention & Exhibition Centre, Wanchai

===== For more information

~ Microsoft - MIX 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/hk/msdn/mix07

~ Microsoft Expression

http://www.microsoft.com/expression

~ MSDN Silverlight Dev Center

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/silverlight

~ Hong Kong Gadget Gallery

http://www.microsoft.com/hk/windows/downloads/hkgadgets.mspx