Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

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

• In The Brain of Mike Hadlow - Rhino Mocks and Automocking – Alvin Ashcraft
• Learning the Observer Pattern – Show #108 – Dime Casts
• Programming Windows 7 Multi Touch - Part 2 - Channel 9
• Release It with Michael Nygard
• Stack Overflow: Podcast #52
• Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun – Show #444 - .NET Rocks!
• The History of Microsoft – 1988 - Channel 9

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• NBC Olympics Wins an Emmy with Silverlight – Team Silverlight
• Silverlight RIA calling Stored Procedures that don’t return tables - Tom

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

• Dew Drop - May 7, 2009 - Alvin Ashcraft
• Edge of Links no.25 - Thema: CSS for Professionals

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