Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Series Post #13

Daily Quote - RT @MikeG1: http://www.google.com/appsstatus# is handy, except....they should host it somewhere else. (Posted by Scott Hanselman)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# 4 language spec (Suggested by Scott Koon)
• Edit Microsoft Word Document From Your Application - Rudra Sankar (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• .Net Services White Papers Updated – Nicholas Allen (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• EF4: What is and is not supported - Julie Lerman
• NH Prof: Persistence Format – Oren Eini
• Out of process session state vs. explicit state management – Oren Eini
• PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know – John Robbins (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• The fallacy of the always-valid entity – Jeffrey Palermo
• The Stripper Pattern – Oren Eini

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Nerd Dinner with Cliff Notes - Keith Burnell
• ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing - Juliën Hanssens
• Creating Dynamic ASP.NET SiteMap using LINQ - Malcolm Sheridan
• Emulating the UpdatePanel in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 with AjaxHelper – Dan Wahlin
• Six Common Mistakes DotNet Guys Always Do - Rakesh Sharma
• SqlDataSource Insert Edit Delete record in GridView using ItemTemplate
• Twitter from ASP.NET (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Using ASP.NET Routing Without ASP.NET MVC - Scott Mitchell (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Cloud Computing

• Azure .NET Services – A Twitter Service Bus
• New “GenealogyCloud” Brings Cloud Computing to the Family Tree (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• PHP SDK for Windows Azure – Ryan Dunn (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Desktop and Server Technology

• An annoying IE position: Relative and OverFlow-Y Bug – Rick Strahl
• Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File – David Penton
• PowerShell Snap-in: Configuring SSL with the IIS PowerShell Snap-in - (Suggested by Drew Miller)
• Google Docs Gets Full Find & Replace, Drawing Tools – Kevin Purdy (Suggested by Don Makoviney)
• IE: The tastiest dog food yet - IEBlog
• The SQL Server Driver for PHP is now available via the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta! – Joe Stagner
• Thirty "Nice-To-Have" Firefox 3.0 Add-ons - Rakesh Sharma
• Useful IO profiles for simulating various workloads - Tony Voellm (Suggested by Jason Massie)
• Website Design Tips For Beginners
• Why Do Computers Suck at Math? – Jeff Atwood

Web Design and Layout

• 5 Tips to improve the Performance of your Website (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• 30 Excellent Creative Pagination
• 30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners - Jeffrey Way (Suggested by Nettuts)
• 50 Incredible Tutorials from the Tuts+ Network (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• How to Know What Text and Images People Copy from Your Site - Guy Kawasaki
• List of Really Useful Website Design Showcases – W3Avenue
• Photoshop Tutorial: The Best Way to Convert Colored Photos to Black and White
• Styling Your Lists – DevSnippets Library
• Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.1 – Margin and Padding
• Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.2 – Background
• Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.3 - Font

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• Seven new AJAX Videos on www.asp.net/learn – Joe Stagner
• 7 Most Desirable Collection Of powerful Ajax - raj
• 8 jQuery and Ajax based tag clouds for web developer – raj
• 10 beautiful Sliding Panel with jQuery Tutorials - raj
• 10 jQuery Datagrid Plugins – PHP Team (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• 13 useful Mootools plugin and tutorial – raj
• 15 Ajax Calendar collection - raj
• 25 useful jQuery plug-in and tutorial – raj
• 27+ Handy Javascript Techniques for Web Designer
• AJAX Scripts Collection 2008-2009 - Martin Ivanov
• jQuery Dropdown Search Panel - Gilbert Pellegrom
• jQuery Selectors - (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Mootools - Get Class of an Instance
• New release of the Ajax Control Toolkit - Bertrand Le Roy
• Plugin: jQuery - expose 1.0.1
• Plugin: jQuery - Horizontal Accordion (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Simple Guide: How To Get Started With jQuery - Jon Phillips (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Mobile Devices

• Windows Mobile 6.5 team lacked time to polish UI; confirm no Silverlight

Podcasts and Videos

• 10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF – Channel 9
• 165. Creativity – Boagworld (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Herding Code 47: Joe Brinkman on Webforms vs ASP.NET MVC (Suggested by Joe Brinkman)
• Kenn Scribner on REST - .NET Rocks (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Moving into the role of Scrum Master - Jill Tubaugh (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• pixels2soundBytes Show #11 - Jay Fields (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• StackOverflow.com Podcast #53 – Jeff Atwood (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Examining Various Silverlight Containers - Brian Mains
• Flash - Imagin - Flash Galley – Love Ajax
• ViewModel + .NET RIA Services Part 2: Testability, Server Mocking and Dependencies - Nikhil Kothari

Social Networking

• 27 Twitter Tools To Help You Find And Manage Followers - Dainis Graveris
• 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter - Ken Denmead (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• How to protect your Community Server site from spammers - Blake Niemyjski (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Industry-specific guides to Twitter (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Kindle Publishing Now Open To All Blogs – TechCrunch

Technology Announcements and News

• Industry Analyst Report Finds Application Development on Force.com Cloud Computing Platform 4.9 Times Faster Than on JAVA or .NET
• Introduction to .NET Charts for Reporting in ActiveReports -  ActiveReports Blog

Technology Deals

• Development Deals and Discounts of Summer’09 - Martin Ivanov

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Server Explorer in Visual Studio Disappeared (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)

Miscellaneous

• Impress Your Clients, Boss and Colleagues: How To Improve Your Business Writing - Guy Kawasaki

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 14, 2009 - Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 320 – Sam Gentile

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

• None

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State) – Want something listed? Post your comments.

• ---May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati 
• Phoenix, Az - Free WPF Training Event – June 5th-6th, 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
• Downers Grove, IL - MSDN Events Unleashed – May 20th, 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
• Franklin, TN - Microsoft ArcReady – June 12th, 2009
• Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
• Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
• Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC -  June 6, 2009