Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Series Post #16

Daily Quote - "Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor." by Barry Boehm (Posted by Elijah Manor)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• API - Windows 7 Managed Code APIs - Yochay Kiriaty (Suggested by Peter Laudati)
• General - Creating a folder inside the ZIP file with System.IO.Packaging - Al Pascual
• General - “foreach” vs “ForEach” - Eric Lippert (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• General - Multithreading: more on ManualResetEvent – Luis Abreu
• General - Why Isn't My Encryption.. Encrypting? – Jeff Atwood

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Testing - FireFox+Firebug vs IE8 Developer Toolbar (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Testing - Free Typemock licenses – Welcome the ASP.NET Unit Testing Bundle - Roy Osherove
• Testing - New ASP testing bundle being launched - John Mandia (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Testing - Time-Tested Testing Tips - Part 1 – Brendan Enrick
• Testing - Unit Testing JavaScript with FireUnit – Stephen Walther

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - Creating 3DBarChart using ASP.NET 2.0 - Ravikumar Commuri
• ASP.NET - Reasons ASP.NET Webforms doesn’t works (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - Code and Slides for Best of Mix 09 Presentation - Dan Wahlin
• ASP.NET MVC - For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Phil Haack
• ASP.NET MVC - Gravatar Helpers (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET Starter Kits - TheBeerHouse : CMS & E-commerce Starter Kit 2.0 - MVC - Wrox

Books

• Release - ASP.NET MVC QUICKLY from Packt Publishing! – Joe Stagner
• Release - MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-652): Configuring Windows Server Virtualization – Microsoft Press
• Release - Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0: Learn Programming Now! - Microsoft Press

Desktop and Server Technology

• Firefox - 10 Best Firefox Extensions, 2009 Edition #1: turn Firefox into Firefox.next NOW. (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• IE - Making the Web Bigger Part 1: Improvements to Zoom
• Surface - Surface Development Part 2: Surface Controls – Jennifer Marsman
• Windows - Microsoft confirms server vulnerability warning – ZDNet (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Windows - Windows 7 adds native Virtual WiFi technology from Microsoft Research (Suggested by Bill Evjen)
• Windows - Windows 7 Tricks and Keyboard Shortcuts - Scott Dorman (Suggested by Kevin Dente)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS - List of Really Useful Tools for CSS Developers - W3Avenue (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Design - 55+ Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Design – Color Scheme Designer - NetTuts
• General - 8 Online Text Editors To Consider For Your Projects - Sebastian Bratu (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• General - Top 10 Mistakes Made By Web Developers – Pete LePage
• UML – Create UML diagrams Online using yUML (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• UML - “Practical UML™: A Hands-On Introduction for Developers” from the Embarcadero Developer Network (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• General - JavaScript stack overflow error (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• General - jQLang - An Extension To The HTML hreflang Attribute (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery -  7 JQuery and CSS based Accordion Menus
• jQuery - Create a Fun Tweet Counter With jQuery - NetTuts
• jQuery - Floating SlideIn Menu with Anchor Link using jQuery – Vivekanand (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - How to Build a Star Ratings jQuery Plugin (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery Plugin – Sparlines (Suggested by Rick Strahl)
• jQuery Plugin – Sports Bracket (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery Plugin - jquery week-calendar (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Mobile Devices

• iPhone - Source Reveals Specs And Release Date of Next iPhone! (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Windows Mobile - Microsoft My Phone Beta Released (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)

Podcasts and Videos

• API - Sensor and Location .NET Library for Windows 7 – Channel 9
• General - I. M. Wright podcast: “Crash dummies: Resilience” (Suggested by Microsoft Press)
• JavaScript - JSConf audio podcasts (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• RIA - .NET RIA Services at TechEd 2009 – Brad Abrams
• SharePoint - TDD with SharePoint – the best movie ever - Roy Osherove
• Silverlight - Partner-TV: Silverlight 3 – Brian Henderson
• SQL - Peter DaBetta and Adam Machanic on creating good SQL databases - .NET Rocks (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Testing - In The Brain of David Ross: NBehave and Behavior Driven Development (Suggested by Alvin Ashcraft)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Silverlight - .NET RIA Services Update with new Silverlight project template – Tim Heuer
• Silverlight - Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight – Charles Petzold (Suggested by Michael Neel)

Social Networking

• Community Server - Exciting announcement at Telligent - Rob Howard
• Facebook - Facebook Launches OpenID Support - Users Can Now Login With Gmail Accounts (Suggested by Kevin Dente)
• Twitter - 5 Ways to Share Images on Twitter

Technology Deals

• Refurb S2009W 20" monitor only $99 after coupon at http://bit.ly/10ogtk. Enter code at checkout: DQT6XTJ?V18X04 - exp 5/22. (Suggested by Dell Outlet)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Removing Slowness from Visual Studio 2010 (Dev10) – Gary Short (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
• Visual Studio 2010 Screenshots – Denis Gobo

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• CodeIt.Right version 1.6.09139 - now fully compatible with VS2010 Beta 1! - (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)
• GPS system 'close to breakdown' (Suggested by Kevin Dente)
• In Mac vs. PC Battle, Microsoft Winning in Value Perception – Advertising Age (Suggested by Erik Porter)
• Microsoft and Open Source – Harry Pierson (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
• ThoughtWorking: Why The Next Five Years Will Be About Languages – Ted Neward (Suggested by Amanda Laucher)

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 19, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

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Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State) – Want something listed? Post your comments. Also, what’s the best way for me to list these events? By date order or by state, then city, then date?

• 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
• Dallas, TX - Dallas TechFest - June 19, 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
• Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
• New York, NY - Web2NewYork - May, 19th 2009
• Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 2009
• Philadelphia, PA - Intro to ASP.NET Model View Controller – May 20th, 2009
• Philadelphia, PA - Higher Education Web Symposium - July 14, 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