Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

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

• Emerging Innovation
• Inside Windows 7: Animation Manager Deep Dive and Tutorial – Channel 9
• Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform Overview – Channel 9

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

• Dew Drop May 8, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft
• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 5/4/2009+

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