Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Series Post #11

Below is my first pass at the links of the day. I have others that I’ll add to a later post or to tomorrow’s post. But wanted to get some of the earlier posts in your hands.

Daily Quote - Great quote:  "LOL no waterfall isn't "better". Agile/scrum/tdd/any dogmatic practice won't cure our problems" (Posted by Amanda Laucher)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• About Axum – K. Scott Allen
• Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Eric Lippert (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Value Class Pattern - Microformats

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC - Localization Helpers - Matt Hawley (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC Validation using IDataErrorInfo with DefaultModelBinder – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• IgnoreRoute in ASP.NET Routing is Order Dependent – Steve Smith
• Integrating ActiveReports into ASP.NET MVC – Billy McCafferty (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Using DayPilot with ASP.NET MVC – Craig Stuntz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• Book Review - Magento Beginners Guide (Suggested by Packt Publishing)
• PHP and script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces – Packt Publishing

Cloud Computing

• Cisco Unified Service Delivery: The Pathway to Cloud Services (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• Microsoft unveils Open Government Data Initiative (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

• 10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers You Might Not Know Of (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• A Simple foaf+ssl Identity Provider (IdP) (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Web Design and Layout

• Why Does Clean Markup Matter in Web Design? – Webdesigner Depot (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• 20+ Wicked Proof of Concepts for Better use of jQuery/CSS (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Build an Auto-Scrolling Slideshow That Works With and Without JavaScript - Jenna Smith (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Google Charting (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Masonry (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Tooltip for any event – CursorMessage (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery URL Parser - Mark Perkins (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Replacing images at time intervals - jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Slider for Dynamic Applications using script.aculo.us (part 1) – Packt Publishing

Podcasts and Videos

• Diving into PHP: Day 15 – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by Nettuts)
• Website Scalability (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Localization in WPF - Fabrice Marguerie (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Silverlight 3 RIA Services: DataForm, Validation – Peter Bromberg

Technology Announcements and News

• Leaked Windows 7 box art is indeed real
• Microsoft Surface Service Pack 1 Officially Released Today!

Miscellaneous

• Script I whipped up to fix my mysql charset issues – Jeff Schoolcraft

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 12, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

• --- NotAtTechEd
• Tample, FL - Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

• ---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 Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
• Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
• Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
• Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 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