Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Series Post #12

The asp.netPRO 2009 Readers' Choice Award Winners haveen been announced.

Daily Quote - "$(document).ready() is the new Page_Load" (Posted by Scott Koon)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• ARCast.TV - Kevin Hazzard on Dynamic Languages - G. Andrew Duthie
• Sneak Preview: Persistence Ignorance and POCO in Entity Framework 4.0 - ADO.NET Team
• The Road to 4 – WCF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP - Cliff Simpkins (Suggested by Kevin Dente)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Comparing Kanban To Scrum - Mike Bria (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Debug Diag script for troubleshooting .NET 2.0 Memory leaks - Tess Ferrandez
• Managed Services Engine – Have you used it? – Guy Barrette
• My Upcoming Internal REST Presentation - Solomon Duskis (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• The DZone interviews Hamilton Verissimo on MEF – Brad Abrams
• The Open Closed Principle - Zakir Hoosen (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• Different Action Results with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Donut Hole Caching in ASP.NET MVC – Phil Haack
• Implementing Hover Delay on the GridView Rows - Samir Nigam
• The ASP.NET Capsule #5: Adding Captcha to your web forms - Jose R. Guay Paz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• The ASP.NET Capsule #6: Free Products from Telerik - Jose R. Guay Paz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• What ASP.NET developers should know about jQuery - (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• Book Review: Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Rails for .NET Developers -
• Windows Internals, Fifth Edition - Microsoft Press
• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource Kit – Microsoft Press

Cloud Computing

• Azure Configuration Options - Brent Stineman (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Pogoplug: Make your hard drive a cloud drive - Foundry Group (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• The Obama Team’s Cloudy Ambitions - Rich Miller (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
• Using AWS S3 to Power Your Digital World - Jarel Remick (Suggested by Nettuts)
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/11/2009+ (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Apple OS X 10.5.7 released, updating to ensue - Joshua Topolsky (Suggested by Tom Druby)
• Event Tracing for Windows and Network Monitor (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Internet Explorer 8: Nine Things You Didn't Know You Could Do (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Microsoft Amalga - Javier Lozano
• Read data on Mirror to prevent production database stress (Suggested by Denis Gobo)
• SQLAuthority News – Release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Announced – Pinal Dave
• SQL SERVER – How to Drop Primary Key Contraint - Pinal Dave
• TechEd Day 1 via the BizTalk Blog - Bil Simser
• The Web Browser Address Bar is the New Command Line – Jeff Atwood
• Windows 7 Removes the Need for QuickTime – Keith Elder
• Windows Server 2008 FTP Service - Andreas Kraus

Web Design and Layout

• Cookies and security - Nicholas C. Zakas (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Microdata – Sam Ruby (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Using Verbs As Nouns in User Interfaces | UX Roles in Organizations - Janet Six (Suggested by Brian Henderson)
• What You Can't Do with HTML5 Microdata – Jeni Tennison (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• Create a Fancy F.A.Q. Page with JQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin: Ajax Fancy Captcha (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• JQuery 10 Quick Win Plugins – The Bee Space (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Dropdown Search Panel - Gilbert Pellegrom (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery: Essential Controls List - (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Sortable Plug-in and unwanted Clicks – Rick Strahl
• Why these jQuery worst practices aren’t. – Scott Koon

Podcasts and Videos

• Hanselman Discusses CodeRush - Mehul Harry
• Luca Bolognese: C# and VB.NET Co-Evolution - The Twain Shall Meet – Channel 9
• Mocking - VISUG session (screencast) - (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Professional ASP.NET DevExpress Controls - Mehul Harry

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Build a Silverlight Web Chatroom with Multiple Rooms and Private Chat - Part 2 - Junnark Vicencio
• Flash vs. Silverlight: What Suits Your Needs Best? - Muhammad Usama Alam
• Flash vs Silverlight: Image Slide Show using Perspective 3D (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• Logging Navigation in the Silverlight 3 Beta – David Poll (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview – Brad Abrams
• .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview is Live! - Mohnani Deepesh (Suggested by Tim Heuer)
• New York Times Dropping WPF/Silverlight for Adobe AIR - Jonathan Allen

Social Networking

• CCOs Move Up in World, Peg Social Media Their Top '09 Ally (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Facebook: Your Facebook fix on Windows Mobile – Guy Barrette
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn SuperGuide -Tutorials, Tips and Tools - Robin Broitman (Suggested by Guy Kawasaki)
• Twitter: Twitter Bible: All You Need To Know About Twitter - C.G. Lynch (Suggested by Guy Kawasaki)

Technology Announcements and News

• DotNetNuke Beta Testing Program - CE 5.1.0 (Suggested by Caleb Jenkins)
• Google Calendar Adds Tasks – Google (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 expected as soon as next week – Mary Jo Foley
• YUI Compressor for Visual Studio – EtienneT (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Miscellaneous

• Power to the People (or, it’s About the Consumer, Stupid) (Suggested by Paul Mooney)
• Second Light explained: MS Surface on steroids – Computing News (Suggested by Brian Henderson)
• Surviving the Downturn: Panel discussion now online from Tech Ed 09 – Jeffrey Palermo

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 13, 2009 - Alvin Ashcraft
• URLAgg

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

• ---May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati 
• Phoenix, AZ – Best of MIX – May 18th, 2009
• 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