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Technology Related Links for May 4th, 2009

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

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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

Technology Highlights of 2008

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT

What fitting way to end 2008 than a list of my own version of technology-related highlights of 2008.

Dell’s Acquisition of Equallogic – Ok. So technically this happened in November of 2007. But the acquisition wasn’t completed until early this year. After review of the devices, they are definitely a cost-effective NAS solution. What a great way to introduce storage solutions to small businesses.
ASP.NET MVC – Again, this technically happened in 2007, but my first experiences really happened this year. What a great, clean way to build web applications.
Flip MinoHD – When Pure Digital introduced the Flip Ultra, they introduced new competition to the digital media market. Now their pocket-sized camcorder sold over 1 million units during this year. Then, they introduced the device with a 1280x720 resolution.
Silverlight 2.0 – One of the highlights of the year is the performance of Michael Phelps at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Millions around the world watched. In the US, NBC covered the Olympics on both TV and the web. Their web content was delivered using a custom beta (yes, I did say beta) version of Silverlight 2.0. A true success for the dev team at Microsoft.
Android – Rumored for a couple of years, Google released their competitor to the iPhone called Android. Nope, it’s not a phone. Rather, it’s Google’s own mobile operating system. Several manufactures have signed on to build phones to support Android and it is assumed that this will only increase over the next year or two.
Apple iPhone 3G and iPhone App Store – Apple continually releases “cool” technology. This year they’ve released a new version of their iPhone with enterprise technology built-in including Exchange 2007 ActiveSync support. They also made strong improvements in their iPhone App Store. Look for them to continue the coolness into 2009.
Netflix Streaming – Move over Blu-ray. Netflix is taking control of the movie market. Adding to their Roku support, Netflix now offers streaming over several devices including the XBox 360, Tivo HD DVR, and a Blu-ray player from Samsung and one from LG.
The “Netbook” – With Cloud computing becoming increasingly popular, end users needed a device to access web applications from all over. One of the downsides of traditional laptops have been their size and weight. The “netbook” is the answer. Many companies have made top selling devices including Acer (Acer Aspire One) and Dell (Dell Inspiron Mini).
Social Computing Takes Off – Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace continue to grow. LinkedIn added applications. Sites like FriendFeed and TripIt take off. This will more than likely continue through next year and beyond.
Nintendo Wii Fit, etc. – Nintendo is smart. Very smart. Finally someone out there realized that there happens to be a large crowd of mothers that aren’t gamers. So what does Nintendo do? They introduce Wii Fit. They also released Personal Trainer: Cooking to help capture that market.

-- Honorable mentions – XBox 360 Experience, SlingBox improvements, SlySoft Blu-Ray/HD-DVD backup

Preview of 2009

Here are a few things to watch for as they progress in 2009:

Eye.Fi – Need to download photos from your camera and are too lazy to sit behind your PC? Would you like an “endless” SD card? Try this. It’s a wireless memory card.
Plastic Logic – This is neat. An 8 1/2” x 11” tablet that will compete against the Amazon Kindle. It’s lighter. It’s bigger. They’re also rumored to be building a flexible digital screen.
Internet Car Radio – Last.FM. Pandora. Just 2 of the Internet radio sites/applications available. It’s only a matter of time before they come to automobiles. We may be looking at the end of Sirius/XM.

My Personal Technology Interests of 2008

Here are a few of the items that I purchased this past year.

Light-O-Rama – I recently picked up a Light-O-Rama light controller to help me with my Christmas light display. Can’t wait to add onto it for next year.
Keurig Platinum B70 (review) – What a great way to get a single cup of coffee. Especially when everyone in your household enjoys different flavors. The Keurig system also allows for teas, iced beverages, and even the ability to use your own coffee using the My K-Cup filter.
Flip MinoHD – see above

To all, have a safe, and happy new year and we’ll see you in 2009!