Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

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

• Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net - Michael C. Neel
• Multithreading: creating threads - Luis Abreu
• What Should Microsoft do for .NET Open Source? – Rob Conery

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

• IE8 in Windows 7 RC: Reliability and Telemetry - IEBlog
• Introducing ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts – Joe Stagner
• In the Trenches with Microsoft Office Project 2007 - Microsoft Press
• Same Old Microsoft - Peter Laudati

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