Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

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